Bill Text: CA SB452 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 452 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: School intervention: parent empowerment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB452 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB452-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 452	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff
    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Anderson,   Berryhill,   Emmerson, 
Fuller,   Gaines,   Knight,   Nielsen,
  Walters,   and Wyland   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 53300 of the Education Code, relating to
school intervention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 452, as amended, Huff. School intervention: parent empowerment.

   Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one
of several specified interventions for a school not identified as a
persistently lowest-achieving school that, after one full school
year,  is subject to corrective action, as specified, and 
fails to meet specified criteria and has a specified percentage of
parents and legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the
local educational agency to implement at least one of 5 specified
interventions. Existing law requires a local educational agency to
implement the intervention option requested by the petition unless
the agency makes a specified finding in a regularly scheduled public
hearing.
   This bill would delete the provision excluding schools identified
as persistently lowest-achieving schools, and would also make the
provisions applicable to schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive,
of the Academic Performance Index. The bill would make technical
changes by updating cross-references. By imposing additional duties
on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
   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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 53300 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   53300.  For any school that, after one full school year, is
subject to corrective action pursuant to Section 6316(b)(7) of the
federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301
et seq.) and continues to fail to make adequate yearly progress, and
has an Academic Performance Index (API) score of less than 800, or
any school ranked in any of deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the API and
where at least one-half of the parents or legal guardians of pupils
attending the school, or a combination of at least one-half of the
parents or legal guardians of pupils attending the school and the
elementary or middle schools that normally matriculate into a middle
or high school, as applicable, sign a petition requesting the local
educational agency to implement one or more of the four interventions
identified pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of
subdivision (a) of Section 53202 or the federally mandated
alternative governance arrangement pursuant to Section 6316(b)(8)(B)
(v) of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C.
Sec. 6301 et seq.), the local educational agency shall implement the
option requested by the parents unless, in a regularly scheduled
public hearing, the local educational agency makes a finding in
writing stating the reason it cannot implement the  specific
recommended   requested  option  ,  and
instead designates in writing which of the other options described in
this section it will implement in the subsequent school year  ,
 consistent with requirements specified in federal regulations
and guidelines for schools subject to restructuring under Section
6316(b)(8) of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20
U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.) and regulations and guidelines for the four
interventions.
  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.