Bill Text: CA AB2364 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Rural Education Task Force.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-19 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2364 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2364-Amended.html
Amended
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April 25, 2022 |
Amended
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March 17, 2022 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2364
Introduced by Assembly Member Megan Dahle |
February 16, 2022 |
An act to add Article 5 (commencing with Section 33570) to Chapter 4 of Part 20 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to rural education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2364, as amended, Megan Dahle.
Rural Education Advisory Council. Task Force.
Existing law establishes the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to provide guidance and support to local educational agencies and other entities that operate schools and preschool programs, and further authorizes the establishment and operation of numerous educational programs on the state level that are administered by the state board, the department, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or other state agencies. Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature to create 3 levels of educational advisory bodies, as specified.
This bill would create the Rural Education Advisory Council
Task Force in state government that includes members from specified categories. The bill would require that each member of the council task force is to be selected to ensure that the council task force is representative of very rural areas of the state. The bill would require the council task force to provide assistance and advice to the state board
Superintendent on the needs and challenges of very rural schools that serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, including, but not be limited to, transportation costs, facilities, special education, and qualified staffing.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 5 (commencing with Section 33570) is added to Chapter 4 of Part 20 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read:
Article
5. Rural Education Advisory Council Task Force
33570.
For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:(a) “Council” “Task force” means the Rural Education Advisory Council Task Force established in Section 33571.
(b) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter
school.
33571.
(a) There is in the state government the Rural Education(b) The council task force shall include members from all of the following categories:
(1) As a majority of its members, representatives from local educational agencies.
(2) Administrators.
(3) Principals and other school leaders.
(4) Parents.
(5) Members of governing boards of school districts.
(6)Representatives of private school children.
(6) Members of county boards of education.
(7) Specialized instructional support
personnel and paraprofessionals.
(8) Representatives of chartering authorities of charter schools.
(9) Charter school leaders.
(c) Each member of the council task force shall be selected to ensure that the council task force is representative of very rural areas in the state.
(d) The council
task force shall provide assistance and advice to the state board Superintendent on the needs and challenges of very rural schools that serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, including, but not limited to, transportation costs, facilities, special education, and qualified staffing.