Bill Text: CA AB1164 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Teachers: recruitment and retention: computer science.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-08-23 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. [AB1164 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1164-Amended.html
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August 23, 2018 |
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July 06, 2017 |
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May 26, 2017 |
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April 18, 2017 |
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March 27, 2017 |
| Assembly Bill | No. 1164 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Thurmond |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
(1)Existing law, unless the school district is granted an exemption, limits the amount of the combined assigned or unassigned ending fund balance contained in a school district’s annual budget in any fiscal year immediately after a fiscal year in which a transfer is made into the Public School System Stabilization Account, and establishes a formula for calculating the maximum amount allowable for school districts with less than 400,000 units of average daily attendance, and a formula for school districts with more than 400,000 units of average daily attendance, as specified.
This bill would instead make that limitation applicable in a fiscal year immediately after a fiscal year in which the amount of moneys in the Public School System
Stabilization Account are equal to or exceed 3% of the combined total of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and allocated local proceeds of taxes, as specified, for that fiscal year. The bill would instead provide that the school district’s budget shall not contain a combined assigned or unassigned ending general fund balance, as defined, in excess of 10% of those funds. The bill would exclude from the requirements of those provisions basic aid school districts, as defined, and small school districts, as defined. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to notify school districts and county offices of education whenever the conditions specified above are met. The bill would also require the Superintendent to notify school districts and county offices of education when those conditions no longer
exist.
(2)Existing law requires, if the average daily attendance of the schools and classes maintained by a county superintendent of schools is 250 pupils or more, each person who, after being employed for 2 complete consecutive school years by a county superintendent of schools in a teaching position in schools or classes maintained by the county superintendent of schools requiring certification qualifications, is reelected for the next succeeding school year to a teaching position to be classified as a permanent employee of the county superintendent of schools. Existing law requires an employee of a school district with an average daily attendance of 250 pupils or more who, after having been employed by the school district for 2 complete consecutive school years in a position or positions requiring certification qualifications, is reelected for the next succeeding school year to a position requiring certification qualifications, at the
commencement of the succeeding school year, to be classified as a permanent employee of the school district. Existing law establishes the California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers to assist teachers by setting forth performance goals, providing multiple observations of the teacher during periods of classroom instruction, and encouraging a cooperative relationship between the consulting teacher and the principal with respect to a process of peer assistance and review.
This bill would instead authorize a county superintendent of schools and the governing board of a school district to offer an employee in a position or positions requiring certification qualifications a 3rd complete consecutive school year as a probationary employee if certain requirements are met. The bill would require the governing board of a school district and a county superintendent of schools that decides to offer a 3rd complete consecutive school year of
probationary employment to refer the probationary employee to a California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers. The bill would require each governing board of a school district and each county superintendent of schools to annually report to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing on the number of probationary employees offered a 3rd year of probationary employment and the number of 3rd year probationary employees dismissed during the school year, and would require the commission to annually compile and submit this information in a single report to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, the Governor, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office by August 1. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would provide that, to the extent these provisions conflict with any provision of a collective bargaining agreement entered into before January 1, 2018, by a public school
employer and an exclusive bargaining representative, these provisions shall not apply until the expiration or renewal of that collective bargaining agreement.
(3)Existing law establishes separate procedures for the dismissal of probationary certificated employees whose probationary period commenced before the 1983–84 fiscal year. Existing law requires, among other things, that a determination not to reemploy a probationary certificated employee whose probationary period commenced before the 1983–84 fiscal year for the ensuing school year be for cause only.
This bill would apply these provisions governing the dismissal of probationary certificated employees whose probationary period commenced before the 1983–84 fiscal year to 3rd year probationary employees of a school district or county superintendent of schools. The bill would authorize, notwithstanding this
provision, a county superintendent of schools or the governing board of a school district with an average daily attendance of 250 pupils or more who employs a 3rd year probationary employee to establish, upon mutual agreement of the public school employer and an exclusive bargaining representative, an alternative process through which a 3rd year probationary employee may challenge his or her nonreelection to certificated employment, as specified.
(4)This bill would also make conforming changes and various nonsubstantive changes.
(5)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 the statutory provisions noted above.
