Bill Text: CA SB344 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-02-27 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [SB344 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB344-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 344	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add Section 313.6 to the Education Code, relating to
English learners.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 344, as introduced, Padilla. English learner services:
effectiveness: report.
   Existing law, an initiative measure, requires that all children in
public schools, with certain exceptions, be taught English by being
taught in English, requires that all children be placed in English
language classrooms, and requires that children who are English
learners be educated through sheltered English immersion during a
temporary transition period not normally intended to exceed one year.

   Existing law, if specified conditions are met, requires the State
Department of Education, by January 1, 2014, to review and analyze
the criteria, policies, and practices that a sampling of school
districts that represent the geographic, socioeconomic, and
demographic diversity of school districts in the state use to
reclassify English learners, and recommend to the Legislature and to
the State Board of Education any guideline, regulatory, or statutory
changes that the department determines are necessary to identify when
English learners are prepared for the successful transition to
classrooms and curricula that require English proficiency, and to
issue an updated report by January 1, 2017.
   This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
by January 1, 2016, and every 2 years thereafter, to evaluate the
effectiveness of the English learner services provided by local
educational agencies and, notwithstanding specified provisions of
law, to report his or her findings to the Governor and the
Legislature.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 313.6 is added to the Education Code,
immediately following Section 313.5, to read:
   313.6.  By January 1, 2016, and every two years thereafter, the
Superintendent shall evaluate the effectiveness of the English
learner services provided by local educational agencies and,
notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, shall report
his or her findings to the Governor and the Legislature.