Bill Text: CA AB815 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 815 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: School intervention: parent empowerment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-16 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB815 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB815-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 815	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Conway
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Allen,   Beth Gaines,   Gorell,  
Harkey,   Jones,   Morrell,   Nestande,
  and Wilk   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 53300 of the Education Code, relating to
school intervention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 815, as amended, Conway. School intervention: parent
empowerment.
   Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one
of several specified interventions for a school not identified as a
persistently lowest-achieving school that, after one full school
year, is subject to corrective action, as specified, and fails to
meet specified criteria and has a specified percentage of parents and
legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the local
educational agency to implement at least one of 5 specified
interventions. Existing law requires a local educational agency to
implement the intervention option requested by the petition unless
the agency makes a specified finding in a regularly scheduled public
hearing.
   This bill would delete the provision excluding schools identified
as persistently lowest-achieving schools, and would also make the
provisions applicable to schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive,
of the Academic Performance Index. The bill would make technical
changes by updating cross-references. By imposing additional duties
on school districts, 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 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.  Section 53300 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   53300.  For any school that, after one full school year, is
subject to corrective action pursuant to Section 6316(b)(7) of the
federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301
 et seq.)   et seq.),  and continues to
fail to make adequate yearly progress, and has an Academic
Performance Index (API) score of less than 800, or any school ranked
in any of deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the API and where at least
one-half of the parents or legal guardians of pupils attending the
school, or a combination of at least one-half of the parents or legal
guardians of pupils attending the school and the elementary or
middle schools that normally matriculate into a middle or high
school, as applicable, sign a petition requesting the local
educational agency to implement one or more of the four interventions
identified pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (4),  inclusive
  inclusive,  of subdivision (a) of Section 53202
or the federally mandated alternative governance arrangement pursuant
to Section 6316(b)(8)(B)(v) of the federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.), the local educational
agency shall implement the option requested by the parents unless, in
a regularly scheduled public hearing, the local educational agency
makes a finding in writing stating the reason it cannot implement the
specific recommended option and instead designates in writing which
of the other options described in this section it will implement in
the subsequent school year consistent with requirements specified in
federal regulations and guidelines for schools subject to
restructuring under Section 6316(b)(8) of the federal Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.) and regulations
and guidelines for the four interventions.
  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.