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AB 842: Paradise Unified School District: school construction funding.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2025-03-05

Current Status:

Failed

(2026-02-02: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

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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.

This bill would appropriate $21,500,000 from the General Fund to the Paradise Unified School District for the purpose of completing construction of schools damaged by the Camp Fire of 2018.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Paradise Unified School District.

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.

Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to offer instruction in, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in, specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the state board, concurrently with, but not before, the next revision of textbooks or curriculum frameworks in the social sciences, health, and mathematics curricula, to ensure that these academic areas integrate components of, among other things, financial literacy. Notwithstanding that requirement on the state board, existing law requires the commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised after January 1, 2017, to consider including age-appropriate information for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, regarding certain topics on financial literacy.This bill would require the commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised after January 1, 2026, to also consider including age-appropriate information and content for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, on the importance of estate planning and the use of trusts.

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