Bill Text: CA AB1967 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pupil admission: kindergarten and first grade.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-28 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1967 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB1967-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1967 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 28, 2010
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 12, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Mendoza
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
Ammiano, Brownley, and Torlakson
)
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
An act to amend, repeal, and add Sections 48000 and 48010 of the
Education Code, relating to pupil admission.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1967, as amended, Mendoza. Pupil admission: kindergarten and
first grade.
(1) Existing law requires that a child be admitted to kindergarten
at the beginning of a school year, or at any time later in the same
year if the child will have his or her 5th birthday on or before
December 2 of that school year. An elementary school is required to
admit a child to the first grade during the first month of a school
year if the child will have his or her 6th birthday on or before
December 2 of that school year.
This bill would change the required birthday for admission to
kindergarten to September 1 commencing with the 2012-13 school year,
and for admission to first grade to September 1 commencing with the
2013-14 school year. The bill, commencing with the 2012-13 school
year, would authorize a child who will have his or her 5th birthday
between September 2 1 and December 2 to
be admitted to a prekindergarten
transitional kindergarten program, as defined, that is
maintained by the school district and would require the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate to a school district
that maintains a prekindergarten
transitional kindergarten program an amount equal to the
revenue limit amount that the district would have received for the
attendance of these pupils if they would have been eligible to attend
kindergarten that year pursuant to the law governing admission to
kindergarten as it read on January 1, 2012. To the extent those
changes establish new administrative duties on the governing boards
of school districts in implementing the changes, they would impose a
state-mandated local program.
(2) 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 48000 of the Education Code is amended to read:
48000. (a) A child shall be admitted to a kindergarten at the
beginning of a school year, or at any later time in the same year if
the child will have his or her fifth birthday on or before December 2
of that school year.
A child who will have his or her fifth birthday on or before
December 2 may be admitted to the prekindergarten summer program
maintained by the school district for pupils who will be enrolling in
kindergarten in September.
(b) The governing board of any school district maintaining one or
more kindergartens may, on a case-by-case basis, admit to a
kindergarten a child having attained the age of five years at any
time during the school year with the approval of the parent or
guardian, subject to the following conditions:
(1) The governing board determines that the admittance is in the
best interests of the child.
(2) The parent or guardian is given information regarding the
advantages and disadvantages and any other explanatory information
about the effect of this early admittance.
(c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2012, and, as
of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2013, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 2. Section 48000 is added to the Education Code, to read:
48000. (a) Commencing with the 2012-13 school year, a child shall
be admitted to a kindergarten at the beginning of a school year, or
at any later time in the same year if the child will have his or her
fifth birthday on or before September 1 of that school year.
(b) (1) Commencing with the 2012-13 school
year, a child may be admitted at the beginning of a school year or at
any later time in that same year to a prekindergarten
transitional kindergarten maintained by a school
district if the child will have his or her fifth birthday between
September 2 1 and December 2 of that
school year. The Superintendent shall allocate to a school district
that maintains a prekindergarten transitional
kindergarten program pursuant to this subdivision an amount
equal to the revenue limit amount that would have been allocated to
the district for the kindergarten attendance of these pupils if they
would have been eligible to attend kindergarten pursuant to this
section as it read on January 1, 2012. Pupils who attend a
prekindergarten transitional kindergarten
program pursuant to this subdivision are eligible to attend a
kindergarten program the following school year, as specified in
subdivision (a).
(2) For purposes of this section, "transitional kindergarten
program" means year one of a two-year kindergarten program using a
modified kindergarten curriculum.
(c) The governing board of any school district maintaining one or
more kindergartens may, on a case-by-case basis, admit to a
kindergarten a child having attained the age of five years at any
time during the school year with the approval of the parent or
guardian, subject to the following conditions:
(1) The governing board determines that the admittance is in the
best interests of the child.
(2) The parent or guardian is given information regarding the
advantages and disadvantages and any other explanatory information
about the effect of this early admittance.
SEC. 3. Section 48010 of the Education Code is amended to read:
48010. (a) A child shall be admitted to the first grade of an
elementary school during the first month of a school year if the
child will have his or her sixth birthday on or before December 2nd
of that school year. For good cause, the governing board of a school
district may permit a child of proper age to be admitted to a class
after the first school month of the school term.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and, as
of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 4. Section 48010 is added to the Education Code, to read:
48010. Commencing with the 2013-14 school year, a child shall be
admitted to the first grade of an elementary school during the first
month of a school year if the child will have his or her sixth
birthday on or before September 1 of that school year. For good
cause, the governing board of a school district may permit a child of
proper age to be admitted to a class after the first school month of
the school term.
