Bill Text: CA AB2845 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Migrant education: California Mini-Corps program and currently migratory children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-12 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2845 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2845-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 01, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Robert Rivas |
February 15, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a state master plan for services to migrant children. Existing law requires the plan to include specified elements, including the active involvement of parents, teachers, and community representatives in the local implementation of migrant education programs.
This bill would require the state board to revise the plan as necessary, and would require the plan to include the active involvement of migratory parents, school personnel, and community representatives in the local planning and implementation of migrant education programs.
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.
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 54446 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 54445, to read:54446.
Using data collected pursuant to applicable federal law, the department shall annually report on its internet website the total number of currently migratory children enrolled in schools statewide and disaggregated by school district, county offices of education, and charter schools.SEC. 3.
Article 3.3 (commencing with Section 54447) is added to Chapter 4 of Part 29 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read:Article 3.3. The California Mini-Corps Program
54447.
(a) The California Mini-Corps program is hereby established to do both of the following:SEC. 4.
Section 69617 of the Education Code is amended to read:69617.
(a) (1) Subject to moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of this section, the commission shall administer the Golden State Teacher Grant Program. Under the program, the commission shall provide one-time grant funds of up to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to each student enrolled, or who has applied for enrollment, on or after January 1, 2020, in a professional preparation program leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential, at either a qualifying institution, as defined in subdivision (l) of Section 69432.7, or a professional preparation program approved by the Commission on Teaching Credentialing that has a main campus location or administrative entity that resides in California, including professional preparation programs operated by local educational agencies in California, if the student commits to working at a priority school or a California preschool program for four years within the eight years following the date the student completes the professional preparation program.The state board shall adopt, and revise as necessary, a state master plan for services to migrant children. The plan shall include all of the following:
(a)Instructional activities on a regular and extended year basis. These activities shall be designed to identify, assess, and provide treatment for academic deficiencies of migrant children. Special emphasis shall be given to oral and written communications, reading, and mathematics. Small group or individual instruction and tutorial services shall be provided to assist migrant children to
meet the same academic content and achievement standards that all children are expected to meet in all subject areas. All instructional services shall be provided as supplements to regular programs of instruction provided by the public schools for all children.
(b)Health and welfare services. These services shall be designed to identify, assess, and provide treatment for conditions that interfere with the education and learning of migrant children, including dental, emotional, or environmental conditions. To the extent possible, existing community resources shall be used to provide these services.
(c)Preservice and in-service education
of professional and nonprofessional personnel. This education shall be planned to prepare school administrators, teachers, aides, and other personnel to meet the special needs of migrant children.
(d)Supportive services including transportation, family liaison, and other services necessary to the success of the programs.
(e)Child development activities including, but not limited to, social, sensorimotor, conceptual and language development, and perceptual discrimination activities for migrant infants and prekindergarten children who are too young to participate in instructional services normally provided by the public schools.
(f)The active involvement of migratory parents,
school personnel, including, but not limited to, administrators and teachers, and community representatives in the local planning and implementation of migrant education programs.