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

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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-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 452	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 452, as introduced, 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, 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  not identified as a persistently
lowest-achieving school under Section 53201 which,  
that,  after one full school year, is subject to corrective
action pursuant to  paragraph (7) of  Section
 1116(b)   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  1116(b)(8)(B)(v)   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 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  1116(b)(8)   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.