Bill Text: CA AB728 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School accountability: local control and accountability plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB728 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB728-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 728

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Introduced by Assembly Member Jackson

February 13, 2023

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An act to add Section 52064.7 to the Education Code, relating to school accountability.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 728, as introduced, Jackson. Suspension rates: lowest performing schools: interventions.

Existing law requires the governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt local control and accountability plans 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 each state priority, as specified, including, among other state priorities, school climate, as measured by, among other things, suspension and expulsion rates.

Existing law requires the state board to adopt evaluation rubrics for specified purposes relating to school accountability and requires the state board, as part of the evaluation rubrics, to adopt state and local indicators to measure school district and individual schoolsite performance in regard to each of the state priorities and standards for local educational agency and individual schoolsite performance and expectations for improvement, as provided.

Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the state board, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in the evaluation rubrics.

This bill would, for each school within a school district, school operated by a county superintendent of schools, and charter school, that for 2 consecutive years receives the lowest performance measure for suspension rate, as reported on the California School Dashboard, require the department to develop, and the school to implement, school discipline reforms and interventions to address that low performance. If a school for 3 consecutive years receives the lowest performance measure for suspension rate, as reported on the California School Dashboard, the bill would require the department to file a complaint with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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 the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 52064.7 is added to the Education Code, to read:

52064.7.

 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, for each school within a school district, school operated by a county superintendent of schools, and charter school, that for two consecutive years receives the lowest performance measure for suspension rate, as reported on the California School Dashboard, the department shall develop, and the school shall implement, school discipline reforms and interventions to address that low performance.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, for each school within a school district, school operated by a county superintendent of schools, and charter school, that for three consecutive years receives the lowest performance measure for suspension rate, as reported on the California School Dashboard, the department shall file a complaint with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

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.