Bill Text: CA SB509 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Instructional materials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 629, Statutes of 2011. [SB509 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB509-Amended.html
Bill Title: Instructional materials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 629, Statutes of 2011. [SB509 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB509-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 509 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 14, 2011 INTRODUCED BY Senator Price FEBRUARY 17, 2011An act to amend Sections 42605 and 60119 of the Education Code,An act to amend Section 1240.3 of the Education Code, relating to instructional materials. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 509, as amended, Price. Instructionalmaterials: funding.materials. Existing law states the Legislature's intent that each local educational agency provide each pupil with standards-aligned textbooks or instructional materials from the same adoption, consistent with specified provisions of law. This bill would authorize each school district to purchase the newest adopted instructional materials for the neediest schools in the school district, as defined, prior to purchasing these materials for the remaining schools in the district.Existing law establishes the Pupil Textbook and Instructional Materials Incentive Program and requires the governing board of a school district to take specified actions to be eligible to receive funds pursuant to the program, including, but not limited to, holding a public hearing or hearings to determine whether each pupil in each school in the district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, or both, that are aligned to specified content standards. Existing law defines sufficient textbooks or instructional materials for purposes of the program.This bill would amend the definition of sufficient textbooks or instructional materials to require those materials to meet the most recently adopted standards and criteria for instructional materials and to include copyrights that are not more than 8 years old, unless the State Board of Education waives this requirement upon a finding that an instructional material with a copyright older than 8 years provides continuous improvement in pupil performance.Existing law authorizes local educational agencies to use specified funding in a flexible manner for the 2008-09 to 2012-2013 fiscal years, inclusive. Existing law provides that agencies participating in this flexible funding provision are in compliance with associated statutory, regulatory, and provisional language, but are still required to comply with specified provisions, including, but not limited to, a requirement that instructional materials purchased by a local educational agency meet certain criteria.This bill would only allow a local educational agency to participate in that flexible funding provision if the agency provides sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, as that term is defined for purposes of the Pupil Textbook and Instructional Materials Incentive Program.Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:yesno . State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1240.3 of the Education Code is amended to read: 1240.3. (a) Forthepurposes of Section 1240, for the 2008-09 to 2014-15 fiscal years, inclusive, sufficient textbooks or instructional materials include standards-aligned textbooks or instructional materials, or both, that were adopted prior to July 1, 2008, by the state board or local educational agency pursuant to statute, unless those local educational agencies purchased or arranged to purchase textbooks or instructional materials adopted by the state board after that date. It is the intent of the Legislature that each local educational agency provide each pupil with standards-aligned textbooks or instructional materials from the same adoption, consistent with Sections 60119 and 60422. However, a school district may purchase the newest adopted instructional materials for the neediest schools in the school district, defined as schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the base Academic Performance Index in the past three school years, prior to purchasing these materials for the remaining schools in the district. For those schools that do not have three years of valid ra nkings in the base Academic Performance Index, a school district may establish criteria to define the "neediest schools" for purposes of this subdivision. This section does not require a local educational agency to purchase all of the instructional materials included in an adoption if the materials that are purchased are made available to all the pupils for whom they are intended in all of the schools within the local educational agency. (b) Notwithstanding Section 1240 or any other law, for the 2008-09 to 2014-15 fiscal years, inclusive, a county superintendent of schools, in making visits to schools as specified in Section 1240, shall determine the status of sufficient textbooks as defined in subdivision (a). (c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2015, and, as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed. All matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the bill as introduced in the Senate, February 17, 2011. (JR11)