Bill Text: CA SB292 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education expenses: Education Savings Account Act of 2024.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [SB292 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB292-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 292

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Introduced by Senator Grove

February 02, 2023

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 292, as introduced, Grove. 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, in enacting the act, to provide opportunities 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.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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.