SB 828: School finance: education omnibus trailer bill.

(1)Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that offer a full range of services for eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age. The act requires families to meet certain requirements in various areas to be eligible for federal and state subsidized child development services. Existing law also provides for income eligibility standards for families to receive child care and development services. Existing law provides that income eligible, for purposes of the act, means that a familys adjusted monthly income is at or below 70% of the state median income, adjusted for family size, and adjusted annually. Notwithstanding this provision, existing law sets the income eligibility limits for the 201415 fiscal year at 70% of the state median income that was in use for the 200708 fiscal year, adjusted for family size.

This bill would require, if only one parent has signed an application for enrollment in child care services and the information provided on the application indicates that there is a 2nd parent who has not signed the application, the parent who has signed the application to self-certify the presence or absence of the 2nd parent under penalty of perjury. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would prohibit requiring the parent who has signed the application to submit additional information documenting the presence or absence of the 2nd parent. The bill would also set the income eligibility limits for the 201617 fiscal year at 70% of the state median income that was in use for the 200708 fiscal year, adjusted for family size.

(2)The Child Care and Development Services Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement a plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates for child care services, as provided. Existing law provides that the standard reimbursement rate for a 250-day year is $9,572.50 per unit of average daily enrollment, and the full-day state preschool reimbursement rate for a 250-day year is $9,632.50 per unit of average daily enrollment.

This bill would make those rates effective only until December 31, 2016, and, commencing January 1, 2017, would increase those rates to $10,529.75 and $10,595.75, respectively.

(3)Existing law requires the cost of child care services provided to recipients of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under specified law to be governed by regional market rates. Existing law requires the regional market rate ceiling to be established at 104.5% of the greater of 2 figures.

This bill would make those provisions operative only until December 31, 2016. The bill, commencing January 1, 2017, and until June 30, 2018, would require the regional market rate ceiling to be established at the 75th percentile of the 2014 regional market rate survey for that region or at the regional market rate ceiling for that region as it existed on December 31, 2016, whichever is greater. The bill, commencing July 1, 2018, would require the regional market rate ceilings to be established at the 75th percentile of the 2014 regional market rate survey for that region.

(4)Existing law prohibits reimbursement to license-exempt child care providers that exceeds 65% of the family child care home rate, as specified.

This bill would make that provision operative until December 31, 2016, and, commencing January 1, 2017, would prohibit reimbursement to license-exempt child care providers that exceeds 70% of the family child care home rate, as specified.

(5)Existing law requires the State Department of Education to implement the regional market rate schedules based upon the 85th percentile of county aggregates, as determined by the regional market rate survey conducted in 2009, and, commencing January 1, 2015, requires the regional market rate schedule developed pursuant to that provision to be reduced by 10.11%. Existing law requires the department, if a market rate ceiling for a county is less than the ceiling provided for that county before January 1, 2015, to use the ceiling from the regional market rate survey conducted in 2005, and requires, commencing October 1, 2015, the regional market rate ceilings for all counties to be increased by 4.5%.

This bill would delete those provisions and would instead require the department to implement the regional market rate schedules based upon county aggregates, as specified in a certain provision and the annual Budget Act.

(6)Existing law establishes the K12 High-Speed Network (K12 HSN) to, among other things, provide high-speed, high-bandwidth Internet connectivity to the public school system. Existing law provides for the administration of the K12 HSN by a Lead Education Agency selected by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and requires the Lead Education Agency to develop an annual budget request for K12 HSN for submission to the State Department of Education and the Department of Finance to be included in the annual Budget Act.

This bill would require the Superintendent to apportion ³/₄ of the total amount appropriated in a given fiscal year by August 31 and to apportion up to ¹/₄ of the total amount appropriated by January 31.

(7)Existing law requires, for the 199091 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts, community college districts, and direct elementary and secondary level instructional services provided by the state be distributed in accordance with certain calculations governing the proration of those moneys among the 3 segments of public education. Existing law makes that provision inapplicable to the 199293 to 201516 fiscal years, inclusive.

This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 201617 fiscal year.

(8)Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution sets forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts for each fiscal year.

This bill would appropriate $218,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation to school districts and community college districts for the purpose of offsetting the 200910 outstanding balance of the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts, as specified.

(9)Existing law establishes the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and assigns numerous duties to that office with respect to the funding and governance of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Existing law also establishes certain block grants that may be apportioned to local educational agencies for specified purposes.

This bill would appropriate $200,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation by the Superintendent to establish the College Readiness Block Grant program. The bill would specify that the College Readiness Block Grant would be established to provide Californias high school pupils, particularly unduplicated pupils, additional supports to increase the number who enroll at institutions of higher education and complete an undergraduate degree within 4 years.

(10)Existing law establishes the Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program, administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as specified, to provide supplemental funding to county offices of education, or a consortium of county offices of education, to coordinate and ensure that local educational agencies within its jurisdiction are providing services to foster youth pupils pursuant to a foster youth services coordinating plan. Existing law authorizes a county office of education, or consortium of county offices of education, to apply to the Superintendent for grant funding, to the extent funds are available, to operate an education-based foster youth services coordinating program to provide educational support for pupils in foster care. Existing law requires the Superintendent, on or before October 31, 2015, to develop an allocation formula to determine the allocation amounts for which each county office of education or consortium of county offices of education is eligible and, within 30 days, to submit the allocation formula to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance for review and to the Department of Finance for approval, as specified.

This bill would, commencing with the 201617 fiscal year, instead require the Superintendent to provide a base grant of $75,000 to each participating county office of education or consortia of county offices of education that served at least one foster youth pupil in the prior fiscal year. After providing base grants, the bill would require the Superintendent to allocate the remaining funding to participating county offices of education or consortium of county offices of education based on the following criteria: 70% of the allocation is based on the number of pupils in foster care in the county and 30% of the allocation is based on the number of school districts in the county.

(11)Existing law establishes minimum requirements for the issuance of a preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Among other requirements, existing law requires satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation accredited by the Committee on Accreditation, but specifies that the program shall not include more than 2 years of full-time study, except for certain programs, including for integrated programs of subject matter and professional preparation. Existing law requires an integrated program of professional preparation to enable candidates for teaching credentials to engage in professional preparation, concurrently with subject matter preparation, while completing baccalaureate degrees at regionally accredited postsecondary institutions and to provide opportunities for candidates to complete intensive field experiences in public elementary and secondary schools early in the undergraduate sequence.

Existing law requires that an integrated program of professional preparation offered by the California State University be designed to concurrently lead to a preliminary multiple subject or single subject teaching credential and a baccalaureate degree.

This bill would require those intensive field experiences to include student teaching. The bill would authorize a postsecondary educational institution to offer a 4-year or 5-year integrated program of professional preparation that allows a student to earn a baccalaureate degree and a preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, including student teaching requirements, concurrently and within 4 or 5 years of study. The bill would, contingent upon appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act or another statute, require the commission to develop and implement a program to award grants of up to $250,000 each to postsecondary educational institutions for the development of transition plans to guide the creation of 4-year integrated programs of professional preparation, as provided.

The bill would instead require that an integrated program of professional preparation offered by the California State University be designed to concurrently lead to a preliminary multiple subject or single subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, and a baccalaureate degree.

The bill would also, for the 201617 fiscal year, appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for allocation to a local educational agency to establish the California Center on Teaching Careers, as specified, for the purpose of recruiting qualified and capable individuals into the teaching profession.

(12)The Wildman-Keeley-Solis Exemplary Teacher Training Act of 1997 establishes the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the purpose of recruiting paraprofessionals to participate in a program designed to encourage them to enroll in teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as teachers in the public schools. The act requires, among other things, that the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in consultation with certain other educational entities, select, pursuant to specified criteria, 24 or more school districts or county offices of education representing rural, urban, and suburban areas that apply to participate in the program. The act requires a school district or county office of education to require a person participating in the program to commit to fulfilling certain specified obligations relating to obtaining a teaching credential and employment as a teacher in the school district or county office of education. The act requires a school district or county office of education to require a program participant to obtain a certificate of clearance from the commission and provide verification of a specified level of academic achievement prior to participating in the program. The act expresses the intent of the Legislature that, in each fiscal year, funding for the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program be allocated to the commission for grants to school districts and county offices of education, limits grants to $3,500 per program participant per year, and makes funding for the grants contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.

This bill would substantially revise those provisions to instead establish the California Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program for the purpose of recruiting classified school employees to participate in a program designed to encourage them to enroll in teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as teachers in the public schools and would expand the program to authorize charter schools to participate. Subject to an appropriation for these purposes, the bill would require the commission, among other things, to solicit applications for funding, adopt selection criteria, contract with an independent evaluator to conduct an evaluation of the program, and to make a specified report to the Legislature, as specified.

The bill would, for the 201617 fiscal year, appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the California Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program to be available for the 201617, 201718, 201819, 201920, and 202021 fiscal years. The bill would require the commission to allocate grants, not to exceed $4,000 per participant per year, for up to 1,000 new participants per year.

(13)Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by no later than July 1, 2017, to provide the Legislature with an evaluation of kindergarten program implementation in the state, including part-day and full-day kindergarten programs. Existing law requires the evaluation to include, among other things, recommendations for best practices for providing full-day kindergarten programs.

This bill would require the evaluation to also include an estimate of the average costs, including fixed and marginal costs, associated with full-day and part-day kindergarten programs and options for incentivizing full-day kindergarten, including providing differentiated funding rates for full-day and part-day kindergarten.

(14)Existing law provides for the State Department of Education, in cooperation with school districts and county superintendents of schools, to provide information and limited financial assistance to encourage school breakfast program startup and expansion into all qualified schools, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to award grants of up to $15,000 per schoolsite on a competitive basis to school districts, county superintendents of schools, or entities approved by the department for nonrecurring expenses incurred in initiating or expanding a school breakfast program, as prescribed.

This bill would authorize the use of grants awarded under these provisions to implement school breakfast programs that serve breakfast after the start of the schoolday. The bill would also appropriate $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for grants awarded pursuant to the provisions of existing law described above, to be available for the 201718 and 201819 fiscal years. The bill would specify that up to $1,000,000 of these funds would be prioritized annually for school districts or county superintendents of schools to start or expand programs serving school breakfasts after the start of the schoolday in school districts where at least 60% of enrolled pupils are needy children, as defined.

(15)Existing law, on or before July 1, 2014, requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to update its local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires a local control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, for all pupils and certain subgroups of pupils, including, among others, pupils who are English learners or foster youth.

Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, requires a charter school petition to contain those same elements. Existing law requires, on or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter, a charter school to annually update the goals and annual actions to achieve those goals, as specified, including a requirement that the charter school consult with teachers, principals, administrators, other school personnel, parents, and pupils in developing the annual update. The act requires each chartering authority to, among other things, ensure that each charter school under its authority complies with all reports required of charter schools by law, including the annual update referenced above, and requires each charter school to annually prepare and submit specified reports to its chartering authority and the county superintendent of schools, including the update referenced above.

This bill would specifically reference those charter school petition and update requirements as a local control and accountability plan and an update to a local control and accountability plan, respectively. The bill would also require a charter schools local control and accountability plan, in addition to the update, to be developed in consultation with teachers, principals, administrators, other school personnel, parents, and pupils. The bill would also require a charter school to prepare and submit the local control and accountability plan with its update and would require the chartering authority to ensure compliance with these actions. To the extent this would impose additional duties on local educational agency officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill would also, for the 201617 fiscal year, appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to support charter school startup grants in an amount not to exceed $575,000 per eligible applicant operating a classroom-based charter school and $375,000 per eligible applicant operating a nonclassroom-based charter school, as specified.

(16)Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for purposes of advising and assisting school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving the goals set forth in a local control and accountability plan.

This bill would require the collaborative, commencing with the 201617 fiscal year, to establish, using a specified amount of moneys appropriated by the bill, a statewide process to provide specified professional development training to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for the purpose of successfully utilizing the evaluation rubrics adopted by the state board.

The bill would require the collaborative to submit an implementation plan to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the Director of Finance, and the Legislative Analysts Office within 30 days of the state boards adoption of the evaluation rubrics, as specified. The bill also would require the collaborative, during the 201718 fiscal year, to conduct a survey of school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools on how they used the evaluation rubrics. The bill would authorize the collaborative to contract with one or more entities to develop, administer, monitor, and analyze the survey.

The bill would require the collaborative, during the 201617 and 201718 fiscal years, to implement a pilot program that will inform its long-term efforts to advise and assist school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in improving pupil outcomes. The bill would require the collaborative, after consulting with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to assist school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in the pilot program, as provided, but participation in the pilot program by a local educational agency would be voluntary. The bill would require the governing board of the collaborative to submit to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the Director of Finance, and the Legislative Analysts Office an implementation plan for the pilot program on or before August 15, 2016, as specified, and a report about lessons learned from the pilot program and its implications for the ongoing work of the collaborative on or before November 1, 2018.

The bill would appropriate $24,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the Superintendent to the Riverside County Office of Education to support the collaborative for purposes of these provisions.

(17)Existing law authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to direct the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to advise and assist a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school in specified circumstances.

This bill would instead authorize the collaborative, after consulting with the Superintendent, to accept a request or referral to advise or assist a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school in those circumstances.

(18)Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and authorizes local educational agencies throughout the state to operate schools and provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include specified areas of study, including, among others, mathematics.

This bill would establish the Mathematics Readiness Challenge program to be administered by the State Department of Education. The bill would require that the program adhere to the minimum criteria, standards, and requirements set forth in a specified federal statute.

The bill would provide that the department would make awards to eligible partnerships selected by a 3-person committee consisting of one representative each from the department, the California State University, and the California Mathematics Project to award grants of $1,280,000 each to 5 eligible partnerships, as specified. The bill would specify the funding source for the grants and would require the grants to be used for professional development for teachers, paraprofessionals, and principals for these purposes and for the development and provision of assistance necessary for the professional development of those individuals, consistent with federal law. The bill would also require the Trustees of the California State University, on or before November 30, 2018, to report to the Director of Finance and the Legislature any policy changes made based on evidence collected through the program.

(19)Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or a county office of education to offer independent study to meet the educational needs of pupils in accordance with prescribed criteria. Existing law requires a written agreement for each independent study pupil, not to exceed one school year, signed by prescribed individuals, and maintained on file, which is authorized to include maintaining it electronically.

This bill would authorize supplemental agreements, assignment records, work samples, and attendance records assessing time value of work or evidence that an instructional activity occurred to also be maintained as an electronic file, as specified.

(20)Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index (API), as specified, to measure the performance of schools and school districts. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, for the 201314 and 201415 school years only, to not provide an API score to a school or school district due to a determination by the Superintendent that a transition to new standards-based assessments would compromise comparability of results across schools or school districts.

This bill would extend that authorization to the 201516 school year as well.

(21)Existing law prohibits the state reimbursement of a nonpublic, nonsectarian agency for special education and related services, administration, or supervision provided by an individual who is or was an employee of a contracting local educational entity within the last 365 days, with specified exceptions.

This bill would repeal that prohibition.

(22)Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, commencing with the 200405 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to make certain calculations for, and the State Department of Education to apportion certain amounts to, special education local plan areas, as provided, with respect to children and youth residing in foster family homes, foster family agencies, group homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and community care facilities.

This bill would, notwithstanding certain provisions, require the Superintendent to use the rate classification levels as they exist on December 31, 2016, and the capacity of each group home licensed by the State Department of Social Services located in each special education local plan area on December 31, 2016, for purposes of the 201617 fiscal year funding for group homes.

(23)Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, under the administration of the State Department of Education, as a state education, economic, and workforce development initiative with the goal of providing pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, with the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to employment and postsecondary education. Existing law appropriates funds for the grant program, including $300,000,000 for the 201617 school year, and designates certain percentages of those appropriations to different applicant tiers based on their average daily attendance.

This bill would authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in collaboration with the executive director of the State Board of Education, to adjust that allocation formula. The bill would also authorize the Superintendent to annually review grant recipients expenditures on career technical education programs for purposes of determining if grant recipients have met the dollar-for-dollar match requirement of the program and to reduce the following years grant allocation if the grant recipient failed to meet that requirement, as provided.

(24)Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act, among other things, states the intent of the Legislature to provide a system of assessments of pupils that has the primary purposes of assisting teachers, administrators, and pupils and their parents; improving teaching and learning; and promoting high-quality teaching and learning using a variety of assessment approaches and item types.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature for the State Department of Education to minimize the impact to teachers and administrators and state resources by ensuring, where feasible, that future California computer-based assessments utilize the assessment delivery system infrastructure and hosting platform outlined in the Smarter Balanced Technical Hosting Solution project, as approved by the Department of Technology for the statewide pupil assessment system.

(25)This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would govern the use of funds distributed from the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund to the State Department of Education for purposes of supporting programs aimed at improving outcomes for public school pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, by reducing truancy and supporting pupils who are at risk of dropping out of school or are victims of crime.

(26)This bill would appropriate $945,589,000 from the General Fund for allocation to school districts and county superintendents of schools, and $105,501,000 from the General Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts, as specified. The bill would require the funds to first satisfy any outstanding claims pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution for reimbursement of state-mandated local program costs for any fiscal year, but would authorize the governing boards of school districts and community college districts to expend these one-time funds for any purpose, as determined by the governing board.

(27)Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, governs drinking water quality and requires the State Water Resources Control Board to ensure that all public water systems are operated in compliance with the act. The act, among other things, requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water, as specified.

Existing law requires a school district to provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times in school food service areas unless the governing board of a school district adopts a resolution stating that it is unable to comply with this requirement and demonstrates the reasons why it is unable to comply due to fiscal constraints or health and safety concerns.

This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board to establish a grant program, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to award grants to local educational agencies for the purposes of improving access to, and the quality of, drinking water in public schools serving kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and preschools and child day care facilities located on public school property. The bill would require the state board to give priority to projects for schools within, or serving pupils from, small disadvantaged communities, as defined, and to projects that have a high effectiveness in increasing access to safe drinking water at schools. The bill would require the state board to develop procedures and guidelines for the submission of grant applications and criteria for the evaluation of those applications, as specified.

Existing law requires the Department of General Services to approve certain contracts entered into by a state agency, including contracts for the construction, alteration, improvement, repair, or maintenance of property, or for the performance of work or services by the state agency for, or in cooperation with, any person or public body.

This bill would exempt from a contract entered into under the authority of the above-described grant program from that requirement.

This bill would appropriate $9,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Water Resources Control Board for allocation for purposes of the above-described grant program.

(28)This bill would require an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance to be appropriated, on or before June 30, 2017, from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the event that the amount by which specified revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs are less than the estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2016. The bill would also require the Director of Finance to reduce the General Fund appropriation for these programs by the amount that these revenues exceed the estimated amount. The bill would also require, on or before June 30, 2016, up to $27,429,000 to be appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Education only to the extent that the amount by which property tax revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs are less than the estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2015.

(29)This bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate these funds to the Los Angeles County Office of Education to contract with the Special Olympics Northern and Southern California for the purposes of expanding the Special Olympics Unified Strategy for Schools to additional schools throughout the state.

(30)This bill would appropriate $18,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate the funds to local educational agencies as grants for dropout and truancy prevention programs pursuant to legislation enacted in the 201516 Regular Session.

(31)This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to the Orange County Department of Education to allocate, in consultation with the Superintendent and the executive director of the State Board of Education, those funds to local educational agencies for the purpose of directly funding services or practices aligned to the Multitiered System of Support framework developed under the Scale Up MTSS Statewide project, as specified.

(32)This bill would appropriate $6,636,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for transfer by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund for certain purposes, including $5,808,000 for the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team for California School Information Services (CSIS), pursuant to the memorandum of understanding with the State Department of Education, in support of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) and $828,000 for local educational agencies that did not participate in the former state reporting program administered by CSIS and for the support of data submission to CALPADS.

(33)This bill would appropriate $3,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the K12 High-Speed Network for operational activities authorized pursuant to Item 6100-182-0001 of the Budget Act of 2016.

(34)This bill would appropriate $3,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund for the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate those funds to a county office of education, as determined by the State Department of Education, to initiate the procurement of a replacement system for the Standardized Account Code Structure system.

(35)The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act requires the governing board of each school district maintaining an elementary or secondary school to develop and cause to be implemented for each school in the school district a school accountability report card that includes assessments of various school conditions. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop and recommend for adoption by the State Board of Education a standardized template intended to simplify the process for completing the school accountability report card and make the school accountability report card more meaningful to the public. Existing law requires the department to annually post the completed and viewable template on the Internet, and requires the template to be designed to allow schools or districts to download the template from the Internet.

Existing law also requires the state board, on or before October 1, 2016, to adopt evaluation rubrics to, among other things, assist a school district, county office of education, or charter school in evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and areas that require improvement.

This bill would, commencing with the 201617 fiscal year, annually appropriate $500,000 through the 201819 fiscal year to the department for allocation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the support and development of the evaluation rubrics and the Web site application system for the school accountability report card. The bill would require the department, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the state board, to contract with the San Joaquin County Office of Education for those purposes, as specified.

(36)Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified.

This bill would, for the 201617 fiscal year, appropriate $2,941,980,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation pursuant to the local control funding formula. The bill also would require the Superintendent, commencing with the 201617 fiscal year, to add $3,500,000 to the local control funding formula allocation for the San Francisco Unified School District, to be made available to contract with the Exploratorium in San Francisco for purposes of supporting professional development and leadership training for education professionals, expanding access to quality STEM learning opportunities, and supporting statewide implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards.

(37)Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program and, for the 201617 fiscal year, appropriates $300,000,000 for that program. Existing law provides that the $300,000,000 shall be applied to the minimum funding guarantee for the 201617 fiscal year.

This bill would instead provide that $7,838,000 of that $300,000,000 shall be applied to the minimum funding guarantee for the 201516 fiscal year.

(38)This bill would make conforming and clarifying changes, delete obsolete provisions, correct cross-references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.

(39)Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

(40)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

(41)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.