Bill Text: CA AB1866 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Pupil attendance: California Longitudinal Pupil
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2014-09-30 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB1866 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1866-Enrolled.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1866 ENROLLED
BILL TEXT
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 25, 2014
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 27, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 21, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 18, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 25, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 27, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 23, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bocanegra
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Buchanan, Hall, and Holden)
(Coauthor: Senator Monning)
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
An act to amend Section 60901 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil attendance.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1866, Bocanegra. Pupil attendance: California Longitudinal
Pupil Achievement Data System.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil
Achievement Data System, as provided. Existing law requires the State
Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of
Finance and the Legislative Analyst's Office, and contingent upon the
receipt of federal funds, to prepare the system to include data on
pupil attendance, as specified. Existing law requires the system to
support local educational agencies in their efforts to identify and
support pupils at risk of dropping out and that it be capable of
issuing periodic reports to local educational agencies that include
district, school, class, and individual pupil reports on the rates of
absence and chronic absentees.
This bill would, subject to available state, federal, or private
funding, require the State Department of Education to enhance the
system, as provided. The bill would require the periodic reports to
local educational agencies to include reports on the rates of
absence, rates of chronic absenteeism and the number of chronic
absentees, rates of truancy and the number of truants, rates of
habitual truancy and the number of habitual truants, and rates of
chronic truancy and the number of chronic truants. The bill would
delete class information from the periodic reports. The bill would
establish a definition for "rates of absence."
(2) Existing law, once the system is prepared to accept data on a
quarterly rate of pupil attendance, authorizes a local educational
agency to submit data to the State Department of Education on a
quarterly rate of pupil attendance, and other indicators as
identified by the department.
This bill would, once the system is enhanced to accept data on
pupil attendance, authorize a local educational agency to submit the
specified data to the system at any time throughout the year that
meets its needs, but would require a local educational agency to, at
a minimum, submit and certify the specified data, and other
indicators identified by the department, to the system at the end of
the school year or on dates to be determined by the department. The
bill would authorize a local educational agency to receive reports
with the specified data disaggregated as provided. By imposing
additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
(3) This bill would also make conforming and nonsubstantive
changes.
(4) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 60901 of the Education Code is amended to read:
60901. (a) Subject to available state, federal, or private
funding provided for this purpose, the department, in consultation
with the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst's Office,
shall enhance the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data
System established pursuant to Section 60900 to include data on pupil
attendance, as described in subdivision (b). The enhancement shall
include all of the following:
(1) The addition of fields to facilitate the transfer of data.
(2) System development activities including any business rules and
definitions that would be needed to improve the quality and
consistency of the data.
(3) Processes for the transfer of data from local educational
agencies.
(4) Consultation with organizations representing school, school
district, and county office of education administrators, classified
and certified staff, and parents in order to develop the criteria and
frequency of reports on pupil attendance data and other indicators
as may be submitted by local educational agencies.
(b) The system shall support local educational agencies in their
efforts to identify and support pupils at risk of dropping out and
shall be capable of issuing to local educational agencies periodic
reports that include, but may not be limited to, district, school,
and individual pupil reports for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1
to 12, inclusive, regarding:
(1) Rates of absence.
(2) Rates of chronic absenteeism and the number of chronic
absentees.
(3) Rates of truancy and the number of truants, as defined in
Section 48260.
(4) Rates of habitual truancy and the number of habitual truants,
as defined in Section 48262.
(5) Rates of chronic truancy and the number of chronic truants, as
defined in Section 48263.6.
(c) (1) For purposes of this section, subdivision (d) of Section
52060, and subdivision (d) of Section 52066, "chronic absentee" means
a pupil who is absent on 10 percent or more of the schooldays in the
school year when the total number of days a pupil is absent is
divided by the total number of days the pupil is enrolled and school
was actually taught in the regular day schools of the district,
exclusive of Saturdays and Sundays.
(2) For purposes of this section, "rates of absence" means the
following, to be calculated as of the date that a local educational
agency submits the reports required pursuant to subdivision (e), with
respect to each individualized pupil record:
(A) The number of schooldays enrolled.
(B) The number of schooldays on which the pupil had an unexcused
absence of more than 30 minutes but less than a full day.
(C) The number of schooldays on which the pupil had a full day of
unexcused absence.
(D) The number of schooldays on which the pupil had a full day of
excused absence.
(E) The number of schooldays on which the pupil was absent for a
full day due to being suspended pursuant to Article 1 (commencing
with Section 48900) of Chapter 6 of Part 27, excluding the number of
days on which the pupil was assigned to a supervised suspension
classroom pursuant to Section 48911.1. The number of schooldays on
which a pupil was absent due to being suspended shall not be
considered an excused or unexcused absence pursuant to this
subdivision. The sum of the number of days absent pursuant to this
subparagraph and subparagraphs (C) and (D) shall equal the total
unduplicated number of schooldays on which the pupil had a full day
of absence.
(F) Data to determine whether the pupil has been designated a
habitual truant, as defined in Section 48262.
(3) Once available, the data listed in subdivision (b) shall be
incorporated into the annual report on dropouts required pursuant to
Section 48070.6 and the annual report on elementary school truancy
and chronic absenteeism, if that report has been established.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to support the development
and use of early warning systems to enable local school districts
and schools to identify individual pupils who are at risk of academic
failure or dropping out of school. It is the intent of the
Legislature that school districts and schools will fully utilize
these early warning systems to improve the provision of intervention,
prevention, communication, and education services to pupils and
their families rather than to punish pupils or families. It is
further the intent of the Legislature that this section shall not
encourage additional referrals to law enforcement, complaints,
petitions, prosecutions, or other serious sanctions against pupils,
without first exhausting available resources. The systems shall
encompass the following characteristics:
(1) The utilization of highly predictive indicators, including
attendance, course grades or completion, performance on assessments
of pupil achievement, suspensions, and expulsions.
(2) A thorough validation process to ensure the predictive
reliability of the systems.
(3) Periodic reports that inform principals, teachers, and parents
in a manner that enables timely identification and support of
individual pupils who are at risk of academic failure or dropping
out.
(e) (1) Once the system established pursuant to Section 60900 is
enhanced to accept data on pupil attendance, a local educational
agency may submit the data specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision
(c) to the system at any time throughout the year that meets its
needs, but a local educational agency shall, at a minimum, submit and
certify the data specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c), and
other indicators as identified by the department, to the system at
the end of the school year or on dates to be determined by the
department. The report shall include the numbers and rates specified
in subdivision (b).
(2) A local educational agency may receive reports that reflect
the numbers and rates specified in subdivision (b). A local
educational agency shall be able to view the submitted data in a
format disaggregated by subgroups, including race or ethnicity,
gender, disability status, English learner status, foster youth
status, and free or reduced-price meal status.
(f) The implementation of the amendments made to this section
during the 2013-14 Regular Session shall not subject the department
to a loss of funding pursuant to the conditions specified in
Provision 18 of Item 6110-001-0890 of the 2014 Budget Act.
SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.
