Bill Text: CA AB1946 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School finance: necessary small high schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1946 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1946-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1946 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 1, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Chesbro
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
An act to amend Section 42285 of the Education Code, relating to
school finance.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1946, as amended, Chesbro. School finance: necessary small high
schools.
Existing law establishes a public school financing system that
requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school
districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local
control funding formula. As part of the local control funding
formula, existing law requires a school district or charter school to
receive state-aid funding of no less than the sum of certain amounts
received in the 2012-13 fiscal year, including, among other amounts,
the 2012-13 fiscal year funding allowance provided for qualifying
necessary small elementary schools and necessary small high schools.
Existing law defines a necessary small high school as either (1) a
high school with an average daily attendance of less than 287 pupils
that meets specified conditions, or (2) a high school maintained by a
school district for the exclusive purpose of educating juvenile hall
pupils or pupils with exceptional needs.
This bill would add to the definition of a necessary small high
school a high school maintained by a unified school district as the
only comprehensive high school if the high school
has an average daily attendance of less fewer
than 300 286 pupils and the
school district has 50 or fewer pupils
pupils, as measured by enrollment, per square mile
of school district territory.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 42285 of the Education Code is amended to read:
42285. (a) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high
school is a high school with an average daily attendance of
less fewer than 287 pupils that comes within any
of the following conditions:
(1) The projection of its future enrollment on the basis of the
enrollment of the elementary schools in the school district shows
that within eight years the enrollment in high school in grades 9 to
12, inclusive, will exceed 286 pupils.
(2) Any one of the following combinations of distance and units of
average daily attendance applies:
(A) The high school had an average daily attendance of
less fewer than 96 pupils in grades 9 to 12,
inclusive, during the preceding fiscal year and is more than 15 miles
by well-traveled road from the nearest other public high school and
either 90 percent of the pupils would be required to travel 20 miles
or 25 percent of the pupils would be required to travel 30 miles one
way from a point on a well-traveled road nearest their homes to the
nearest other public high school.
(B) The high school had an average daily attendance of 96 pupils
or more and less fewer than 144 pupils
in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during the preceding fiscal year and is
more than 10 miles by well-traveled road from the nearest other
public high school and either 90 percent of the pupils would be
required to travel 18 miles or 25 percent of the pupils would be
required to travel 25 miles one way from a point on a well-traveled
road nearest their homes to the nearest other public high school.
(C) The high school had an average daily attendance of 144 pupils
or more and less fewer than 192 pupils
in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during the preceding fiscal year and is
more than 71/2 miles by well-traveled road from the nearest other
public high school and either 90 percent of the pupils would be
required to travel 15 miles or 25 percent of the pupils would be
required to travel 20 miles one way from a point on a well-traveled
road nearest their homes to the nearest other public high school.
(D) The high school had an average daily attendance of 192 pupils
or more and less fewer than 287 pupils
in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during the preceding fiscal year and is
more than 5 miles by well-traveled road from the nearest other
public high school and either 90 percent of the pupils would be
required to travel 10 miles or 25 percent of the pupils would be
required to travel 15 miles to the nearest other public high school.
(3) Topographical or other conditions exist in the school district
which would impose unusual hardships on the pupils if the number of
miles specified in paragraph (2) were required to be traveled. In
these cases, the Superintendent may, when requested, and after
investigation, grant exceptions from the distance requirements.
(4) The Superintendent has approved the recommendation of a county
committee on school district organization designating one of two or
more schools as necessary isolated schools in a situation where the
schools are operated by two or more school districts and the average
daily attendance of each of the schools is less
fewer than 287 pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
(b) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high school
also includes either of the following:
(1) A high school maintained by a school district for the
exclusive purpose of educating juvenile hall pupils or pupils with
exceptional needs.
(2) A high school maintained by a unified school district as the
only comprehensive high school if the high school
has an average daily attendance of less fewer
than 300 286 pupils and the
school district has 50 or fewer pupils
pupils, as measured by enrollment, per square mile of school
district territory.
(c) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high school
does not include a continuation school.
(d) For purposes of this section, "other public high school" is a
public school, including a charter school, that serves any of grades
9 to 12, inclusive.
