Bill Text: CA AB734 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Charter schools: funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB734 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB734-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 734 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Fletcher
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
An act to amend Section 47634.1 of the Education Code, relating to
charter schools.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 734, as introduced, Fletcher. Charter schools: funding.
Existing law sets forth the calculations to be made by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine the amount of
categorical block grants for charter schools. The amount of the
categorical block grant for a charter school that is to be allocated
by the Superintendent is set at $500 per unit of charter school
average daily attendance as adjusted for cost-of-living and
supplemented by a specified amount of funding per economic impact
aid-eligible pupil enrolled in the charter school.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in this
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 47634.1 of the Education Code, as added by
Section 24 of Chapter 2 of the 4th Extraordinary Session of the
Statutes of 2009, is amended to read:
47634.1. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section
47634, a A categorical block grant for charter
schools for the 2005-06 fiscal year shall be calculated as follows:
(1) The Superintendent shall divide the total amount of funding
appropriated for the purpose of this block grant in the annual Budget
Act or another statute, less the total amount calculated in
paragraph (2), by the statewide total of charter school average daily
attendance, as determined at the second principal apportionment for
the 2005-06 fiscal year.
(2) The statewide average amount, as computed by the
Superintendent, of funding per identified educationally disadvantaged
pupil received by school districts in the current fiscal year
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 54020) of Chapter 1 of
Part 29. This amount shall be multiplied by the number of
educationally disadvantaged pupils enrolled in the charter school.
The resulting amount, if greater than zero, shall not be less than
the minimum amount of Economic Impact Aid funding to which a school
district of similar size would be entitled pursuant to Section 54022.
For purposes of this subdivision, a pupil who is eligible for
subsidized meals pursuant to Section 49552 and is identified as an
English learner pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 306 shall
count as two pupils.
(3) For each charter school, the Superintendent shall multiply the
amount calculated in paragraph (1) by the school's average daily
attendance as determined at the second principal apportionment for
the 2005-06 fiscal year.
(4) The Superintendent shall add the amounts computed in
paragraphs (2) and (3). The resulting amount shall be the charter
school categorical block grant that the Superintendent shall
apportion to each charter school from funds appropriated for this
purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute. The
Superintendent shall allocate an advance payment of this grant as
early as possible, but no later than October 31, 2005, based on prior
year average daily attendance as determined at the second principal
apportionment or, for a charter school in its first year of operation
that commences instruction on or before September 30, 2005, on
estimates of average daily attendance for the current fiscal year
determined pursuant to Section 47652.
(b) (1) For the 2006-07 fiscal year, the categorical block grant
allocated by the Superintendent for charter schools shall be four
hundred dollars ($400) per unit of charter school average daily
attendance as determined at the second principal apportionment for
the 2006-07 fiscal year. This amount shall be supplemented by the
amount calculated in paragraph (2).
(2) The statewide average amount, as computed by the
Superintendent, of funding per economic impact aid-eligible pupil
count received by school districts in the current fiscal year,
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 54020) of Chapter 1 of
Part 29, shall be multiplied by the number of economic impact
aid-eligible pupils enrolled in the charter school. The resulting
amount, if greater than zero, shall not be less than the minimum
amount of Economic Impact Aid funding to which a school district of
similar size would be entitled pursuant to Section 54022.
(c) (1) For the 2007-08 fiscal year, the categorical block grant
allocated by the Superintendent for charter schools shall be five
hundred dollars ($500) per unit of charter school average daily
attendance as determined at the second principal apportionment for
the 2007-08 fiscal year. For each fiscal year thereafter, this per
unit amount shall be adjusted for the cost-of-living adjustment, as
determined pursuant to Section 42238.1, for that fiscal year. This
amount shall be supplemented in the 2007-08 fiscal year and each
fiscal year thereafter by the amount calculated in paragraph (2).
(2) The statewide average amount, as computed by the
Superintendent, of funding per economic impact aid-eligible pupil
count received by school districts in the current year, pursuant to
Article 2 (commencing with Section 54020) of Chapter 1 of Part 29,
shall be multiplied by the number of economic impact aid-eligible
pupils enrolled in the charter school. The resulting amount, if
greater than zero, shall not be less than the minimum amount of
Economic Impact Aid funding to which a school district of similar
size would be entitled pursuant to Section 54022.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to fully fund the
categorical block grant for charter schools as specified in this
section and to appropriate additional funding that may be needed in
order to compensate for unanticipated increases in average daily
attendance and counts of economic impact aid-eligible pupils,
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 54020) of Chapter 1 of
Part 29, in charter schools. In any fiscal year in which the
department identifies a deficiency in the categorical block grant,
the department shall identify the available balance for programs that
count towards meeting the requirements of Section 8 of Article XVI
of the California Constitution and have unobligated funds for the
year. On
(e) On or before July 1, the
department shall provide the Department of Finance with a list of
those programs and their available balances, and the amount of the
deficiency, if any, in the categorical block grant. Within 45 days of
the receipt of a notification of deficiency, the Director of Finance
shall verify the amount of the deficiency in the categorical block
grant and direct the Controller to transfer an amount, equal to the
lesser of the amount available or the amount needed to fully fund the
categorical block grant, from those programs to the categorical
block grant. The Department of Finance shall notify the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee within 30 days of any transfer made
pursuant to this section.
(e)
(f) Commencing October 1, 2007, the Legislative Analyst'
s Office shall triennially convene a work group to review, commencing
with appropriations proposed for the 2008-09 fiscal year, the
appropriateness of the funding level provided by the categorical
block grant established in this section.
(f)
(g) Categorical block grant funding may be used for any
purpose determined by the governing body of the charter school.
(g)
(h) This section shall become operative on July 1,
2013.
