Bill Text: CA AB498 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: Medi-Cal.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 672, Statutes of 2013. [AB498 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB498-Introduced.html

---

BILL NUMBER: AB 498	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chávez

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend Section 47601 of the Education Code, relating to
pupils.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 498, as introduced, Chávez. Charter schools: operation.
   The Charter Schools Act of 1992 allows one or more persons seeking
to establish a charter school within a school district to circulate
a petition to that effect. The act provides for the establishment and
operation of a charter school as prescribed. Existing law expresses
the Legislature's intent to provide an opportunity for teachers,
parents, pupils, and community members to establish and maintain
schools that operate independently from the existing school district
structure, as a method to accomplish specified goals.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 47601 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   47601.  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this
part, to provide  opportunities   an opportunity
 for teachers, parents, pupils, and community members to
establish and maintain schools that operate independently from the
existing school district structure, as a method to accomplish all of
the following:
   (a) Improve pupil learning.
   (b) Increase learning opportunities for all pupils, with special
emphasis on expanded learning experiences for pupils who are
identified as academically low achieving.
   (c) Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching
methods.
   (d) Create new professional opportunities for teachers, including
the opportunity to be responsible for the learning program at the
schoolsite.
   (e) Provide parents and pupils with expanded choices in the types
of educational opportunities that are available within the public
school system.
   (f) Hold the schools established under this part accountable for
meeting measurable pupil outcomes, and provide the schools with a
method to change from rule-based to performance-based accountability
systems.
   (g) Provide vigorous competition within the public school system
to stimulate continual improvements in all public schools.