Bill Text: CA AB296 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Supplemental educational services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-27 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB296 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB296-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 296	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2009

   An act to add Article 4.3 (commencing with Section 52060) to
Chapter 6.1 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education
Code, relating to supplemental education services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 296, as amended, Solorio. Supplemental educational services.
   (1) Existing federal law defines "supplemental educational
services" as tutoring and other supplemental academic enrichment
services that are provided, in addition to instruction provided
during the schoolday and are high quality, research-based, and
specifically designed to increase academic achievement, as specified.

   Under federal law, local educational agencies, state educational
agencies, and providers of supplemental educational services are
required to comply with certain requirements relating to the
administration of these supplemental educational services.
   This bill would require  the State Department of
Education, the State Board of Education, providers of supplemental
services, and  local educational agencies to comply with
specified requirements relating to these supplemental educational
services  , including expanding the means of providing
information to parents and guardians and accepting enrollment forms
 . Because the bill would require local educational agencies to
provide a higher level of service, it 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.  Article 4.3 (commencing with Section 52060) is added to
Chapter 6.1 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education
Code, to read:

      Article 4.3.  Supplemental Educational Services


   52060.  This article applies to supplemental educational services
offered pursuant to Section 6316(e) of the federal No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.). 
   52061.  (a) The department shall not deny the application of a
provider of supplemental educational services based solely on the
denial of the provider's application in another state.
   (b) If the program of a provider of supplemental educational
services that has been approved by the state board is debarred in
another state, the state board shall conduct a review prior to
termination of the provider's approval status if the sole basis for
contemplating termination is that the provider's program was debarred
in another state.
   (c) Local educational agencies offering supplemental services
shall open the enrollment period for supplemental educational
services within nine weeks of the beginning of the school year.
   (d) Local educational agencies offering supplemental educational
services shall ensure that blank enrollment forms are available to
any member of the public who requests a form.


   (e) 
    52061.   (a)    Local educational
agencies shall provide at least two methods by which parents or
guardians of eligible pupils may submit completed enrollment forms.
These methods may include, but are not necessarily limited to, a
drop-off location, facsimile, postal mail, and through an Internet
Web site. 
   (f) 
    (b)  Local educational agencies shall provide parents or
guardians of eligible pupils with information about the availability
of supplemental educational services through at least two channels.
These may include, but are not necessarily limited to, providing the
pupil with information, back-to-school presentations, school fairs,
postal mail, and telephone. 
   (g) 
    (c)  If a local educational agency provides outside
entities access to school facilities before school, after school, or
both, the local educational agency shall permit supplemental
educational services providers the same access. Those providers shall
comply with the same legal requirements and fee obligations with
which all other outside entities comply. 
   (h) Each provider of supplemental educational services shall begin
providing services to pupils within three weeks of the close of the
enrollment period. 
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.