Bill Text: CA AB173 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Low-performing schools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB173 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB173-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 173	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Price

                        JANUARY 29, 2009

   An act relating to education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 173, as introduced, Price. Low-performing schools.
   Existing law contains provisions intended to identify and assist
low-performing schools and school districts.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to create, and to appropriate funds for, a commission
tasked with identifying the necessary and appropriate steps toward
creation of a measure of pupil learning over time, expectations for
pupil performance based upon that measure, and nuanced eligibility
criteria for schools and school districts to enter into program
improvement, as specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to create a commission that will identify the necessary
and appropriate steps toward creation of all of the following:
   (1) A measure of pupil learning over time that unifies the
Academic Performance Index (API) and federal adequate yearly progress
data and calculations, and allows the state to qualify for
flexibility under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (20
U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.).
   (2) Expectations for pupil performance based upon the measure
created pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (3) Eligibility criteria for schools and school districts to enter
into program improvement that are nuanced enough to distinguish
among schools and school districts based upon specified pupil
performance problems.
   (b) It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to appropriate funds for the commission described in
subdivision (a).