Bill Text: CA AB2527 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School accountability: model surveys.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2527 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2527-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2527	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 52063.5 to the Education Code, relating to
school accountability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2527, as introduced, Weber. School accountability: model
surveys.
   Existing law required, on or before July 1, 2014, the governing
boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt a
local control and accountability plan using a state template adopted
by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the local
control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a
description of annual goals for all pupils and specified subgroups of
pupils to be achieved for certain state priorities, including a
school climate priority, as measured by, among other things, local
surveys of pupils, parents, and teachers on the sense of safety and
school connectedness, and a parental involvement priority. Existing
law provides that an adopted local control and accountability plan is
effective for 3 years and requires the governing board of each
school district and each county board of education to update its
local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year.
Existing law requires the governing boards of school districts and
county offices of education to each establish a parent advisory
committee to provide advice to the governing board of the school
district or the county office of education regarding the requirements
of local control and accountability plans.
   This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to convene an advisory committee consisting of representatives from
the state board, public schools, governing boards of school
districts, local educational agencies, parent groups, parent and
youth-serving community-based organizations, and advocacy
organizations to provide general guidance on, and to make
recommendations relating to, the creation of model survey questions.
The bill would require the Superintendent, on or before July 1, 2017,
to recommend model surveys to the state board for consideration and
adoption, and, if the state board adopts the model surveys, would
require the model surveys to be made available to local educational
agencies and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence
as a resource to assist local educational agencies, including in
assisting them in meeting the local survey requirement on safety and
school connectedness. The bill also would express the Legislature's
intent to, among other things, provide funding to support local
educational agencies with the implementation of the surveys.
   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 52063.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   52063.5.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish
model survey questions for pupils, parents, and teachers that are
aligned with the state priorities established in subdivision (d) of
Section 52060 and subdivision (d) of Section 52066, including, but
not limited to, questions on the sense of safety and school
connectedness and on parental involvement.
   (b) The Superintendent shall convene an advisory committee
consisting of representatives from the state board, public schools,
governing boards of school districts, local educational agencies,
parent groups, parent and youth-serving community-based
organizations, and advocacy organizations to provide general guidance
on, and to make recommendations relating to, the creation of model
survey questions.
   (c) On or before July 1, 2017, the Superintendent shall recommend
model surveys to the state board for consideration and adoption.
   (d) If the model surveys are adopted by the state board, the model
surveys shall be made available to local educational agencies and
the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence as a resource
to assist local educational agencies, including in assisting them in
meeting the local survey requirement on safety and school
connectedness, as specified in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (6) of
subdivision (d) of Section 52060 and subparagraph (C) of paragraph
(6) of subdivision (d) of Section 52066.
   (e) It is further the intent of the Legislature to provide funding
to support local educational agencies with the implementation of the
surveys referenced in subdivision (d).