June 2017 Memo GAD Item 01 - Information Memorandum …



|California Department of Education |memo-exec-gad-jun17item01 |

|Executive Office | |

|SBE-002 (REV. 01/2011) | |

|memorandum |

|Date: |June 1, 2017 |

|TO: |MEMBERS, State Board of Education |

|FROM: |TOM TORLAKSON, State Superintendent of Public Instruction |

|SUBJECT: |State Legislative Update, Including, but not Limited to, Information on the 2017–18 Legislative Session. |

Summary of Key Issues

The California Department of Education (CDE) Government Affairs Division has identified bills that may affect policy related to the State Board of Education (SBE). Inclusion in this list does not constitute an SBE or State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI) position for the legislation.

Attachment(s)

Attachment 1: Legislative Update (20 pages)

Legislative Update

These bills address relevant policy areas and/or impact the role of the State Board of Education (SBE). Inclusion in this list does not constitute an SBE or State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI) position for the legislation.

The status of each bill is provided as of May 26, 2017.

Accountability and School Improvement

AB 305 (Arambula) – School Accountability Report Card: Drinking Water Access Points

This bill would require the School Accountability Report Card (SARC) to include an assessment of the drinking water access points at each school site and the goals, actions, and progress made to address deficiencies uncovered in the assessment.

AB 305 would also require the California Department of Education (CDE) to compile the assessments and transmit them to the State Water Resources Control Board.

Status: Assembly Education Committee – Two Year Bill

AB 1661 (Limon) – School Accountability: Multiple Measures Accountability System

This bill would update state law to reflect the new multiple measures accountability system recently adopted by the SBE. Specifically, AB 1661 would repeal the prior accountability system under the Academic Performance Index (API) and require the SSPI to develop, subject to approval by the SBE, a multiple measures public school accountability system based on the eight state priorities established as part of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). AB 1661 would also require that the new accountability system address the accountability requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This bill would replace references to the API for specified programs, including Williams Case monitoring and charter renewal, and make other changes to conform state law to the ESSA.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 1183 (Gipson) – Local Control and Accountability Plans: Annual Goals: State Priorities: Measurement of Pupil Engagement: High School Graduation Rates

Current law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) and include a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority such as pupil engagement. AB 1183 would add high school graduation rates for pupils who graduate from continuation schools, for pupils who are late arrival English learners (ELs), and for all other pupils as three distinct categories for inclusion in the annual measurement of pupil engagement. The bill would also specify that pupils with exceptional needs who receive certificates of completion from high school are high school graduates for this purpose.

Status: Assembly Education Committee – Two Year Bill

AB 1370 (Kiley) – School Accountability: Open Enrollment Act: Low-Achieving Schools

Existing state law, the Open Enrollment Act, authorizes the parent of a pupil enrolled in a low-achieving school to submit an application for the pupil to attend a school in a school district other than the school district in which the parent resides. This bill would redefine low-achieving school for the purposes of this act to include schools identified by the SSPI and the SBE for comprehensive support and improvement pursuant to federal specified accountability system requirements. AB 1370 would prohibit a school district of enrollment from not accepting transfers due to the costs associated with those transfers or because the pupil is special needs, including an individual with exceptional needs, or the pupil is an EL, and would authorize a school district of residence to prohibit or limit transfers.

The bill would additionally increase the reporting requirements for each school district of enrollment and would require the SSPI to annually make certain information available to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature, the Governor, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO). The SSPI would also be required to contract for an independent evaluation of the open enrollment program and the LAO would be required to complete an evaluation of, and to make recommendations on, the open enrollment program by December 1, 2022. AB 1370 would also sunset the program on July 1, 2023.

Status: Assembly Education Committee – Two Year Bill

SB 777 (Allen) – School Accountability: Professional Development: Visual and Performing Arts

This bill would require the CDE to establish a statewide program to provide professional development training to assist school districts and county boards of education with offering instruction in visual and performing arts including information about courses offered in visual and performing arts in their LCAP or annual update.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

Assessments

AB 81 (Gonzalez) – English Learners: Identification: Notice

Current law requires a local educational agency (LEA) to provide each parent with notice of the assessment of his or her child’s English language proficiency annually. This bill would expand the requirements of the notice by adding the following information: whether the pupil is a long-term English learner (LTEL) or at risk of becoming an LTEL; the manner in which English language development (ELD) instruction will meet the educational strengths and needs of the pupil; and the manner in which ELD instruction will help a pupil who is an LTEL or at-risk of becoming an LTEL develop English proficiency and meet academic standards. AB 81 would authorize LEAs to use local definitions for a student who is or at risk of becoming a LTEL, if the definitions are broader than existing statutory definitions and the notification states that the definitions are broader than state law.

AB 81 would also require the CDE to make available to public schools a sample notification letter with specified statements and require school districts to provide the notification letter to parents when the home language survey is administered.

A similar bill, AB 491 (Gonzalez, 2016), was vetoed last year. Unlike AB 491, AB 81 would include one less specified statement in the sample notification letter and permit LEAs to use local definitions for a student who is or is at risk of becoming LTEL, as discussed above.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 761 (Mullin) – Pupil Assessment: History-Social Science Assessments

This bill would require the SSPI to develop, and the SBE to adopt, a history-social science assessment to be administered in grades 4, 8, and once in high school within the time period approved by the SBE. AB 761 would require the assessments to be computer-based, measure history-social science content standards articulated in the framework adopted by the SBE, and focus on historical and social science analytical skills. The history-social science assessments in grade 8 and high school would incorporate content standards that are related to civic education. Prior to the adoption of the assessment, the SSPI must develop, and the SBE must adopt, the purpose for the assessment.

Status: Assembly Education Committee – Two Year Bill

AB 830 (Kalra) – High School Exit Examination

This bill would repeal the high school exit examination (HSEE) and the requirement to pass the HSEE as a condition of graduation. The bill would also make clarifying, conforming, and nonsubstantive changes.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 1035 (O’Donnell) – Interim Assessments: Content Standard Reporting.

Current law requires the CDE to acquire, through the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, interim and formative assessment tools for grades K-12 and offer those tools at no cost to LEAs. AB 1035 would remove the requirement that the CDE acquire interim and formative assessment tools through a consortium membership and require the CDE to offer LEAs interim assessments for grades K-2. The bill would require the interim assessment system to provide teachers access to the items, pupil responses to each item, and a direct digital link to practice items and supplemental instructional materials.

This bill would also require a score report from an interim assessment offered to an LEA to do the following:

• Clearly report pupil scores by content standard in a manner that allows a teacher to easily and quickly see how their pupils performed without reference to a key or other guide.

• Clearly report pupil scores, organized by content standard, both as individual scores and as aggregate scores for groups of pupils, such as pupils in a classroom or enrolled in a course.

• Report pupil scores as raw scores, by percentage correct, and by achievement level.

• Rank pupils by performance relative to each standard so that a teacher may easily and quickly see which pupils require additional instruction.

• Identify which standards are considered critical areas, as identified in state content standards.

AB 1035 would specify that interim assessments offered to LEAs are intended solely for the purpose of providing timely feedback to teachers that they may use, in combination with other sources of information they have about their pupils’ progress, to continually adjust instruction to improve learning. The bill would prohibit the use of interim assessments for any high-stakes purposes.

Status: Assembly Floor – Passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee with amendments to permit interim assessments to be used by teachers to identify professional development goals and remove the requirement that CDE offer LEAs interim assessments for grades K-2.

AB 1202 (Baker) – Pupils: Diploma Alternatives: Exceptionally Gifted Pupils

This bill would authorize an exceptionally gifted pupil, as defined, to be eligible for a certificate of proficiency by having his or her proficiency in basic skills taught in public high schools verified according to criteria established by the CDE. AB 1202 would further authorize a pupil under 16 years of age who receives a certificate of proficiency to be admitted to a community college.

Status: Assembly Education Committee – Two Year Bill

AB 1533 (O’Donnell) – Pupil Instruction: College Promise Partnership Act

Current law establishes the College Promise Partnership Act, and authorizes the Long Beach Community College District and the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) to enter into a partnership to provide participating pupils with an aligned sequence of rigorous high school and college coursework with consistent and jointly established eligibility for college courses. Current law also requires participating students in the partnership to complete an augmented California Standards Test in grade 11. AB 1533 would instead require that students participating in the partnership complete the grade 11 achievement test provided for in the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) or its equivalent. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Status: Urgency – Senate Education Committee

AB 1602 (O’Donnell) – Alternative Grade 11 Assessment Pilot Program

This bill would establish the Alternative Grade 11 Assessment Pilot Program, which would authorize school districts to participate in the pilot program. The bill would require the SSPI to establish guidelines for accepting applications and select up to five school districts to participate in the pilot program. LBUSD must be one of the selected districts if it applies to participate. Participating school districts may administer an assessment in grade 11 other than the CAASPP, if the following requirements are met:

• The assessment is a statistically reliable and valid norm-referenced or criterion-referenced test.

• The assessment is aligned to English language arts (ELA) and mathematics content standards adopted by the SBE.

• The administration of the alternative assessment is consistent with the school district’s LCAP.

• The assessment is administered at no charge and to all pupils in grade 11 except those who opt out.

• The assessment complies with the federal ESSA.

The bill would require participating school districts to report results of the assessment to the SSPI and report on the effectiveness of the assessment in accomplishing specified objectives by January 1, 2023. The bill would make the pilot program inoperative on July 1, 2023, and would repeal the pilot program on January 1, 2024.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

SB 494 (Hueso) – Language Arts: Reading: Grants Program

This bill would establish the Golden State Reading Guarantee grant program for the purpose of assisting LEAs in ensuring that all students meet reading standards and language progressive skills by the end of third grade. An LEA would be eligible to apply for the grant program if it enrolls students in grades 1 to 4 and less than 50 percent of students in grade 4 score at Level 3 or 4 in the prior school year on the reading standards within the Smarter Balanced assessment in ELA. SB 494 would require the CDE to administer the program and establish a process to provide professional development training to LEAs on existing diagnostic, formative, and interim assessment tools that are available from the state, how to evaluate the data from those assessment results, and how to administer and score the assessments.

Status: Senate Floor

SB 544 (McGuire) – Pupil Assessments

This bill would require the CDE to establish a process for identifying and evaluating formative assessment tools and locally-developed assessments to be made available for local use. SB 544 would prioritize the identification and evaluation of formative assessment tools in science and ELD, and prioritize the identification and evaluation of locally-developed assessments in career technical education (CTE) and ELD.

Status: Senate Floor

Career Technical Education

AB 445 (Cunningham) – The California Career Technical Education Grant Program

This bill would change the name of the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program to the California Career Technical Education Grant Program. AB 445 would increase the allocation for the grant program from $200 million to $300 million for the 2017–18 fiscal year and appropriate $300 million each fiscal year until 2021.

AB 445 would also lower the amount of local matching funds required of an applicant from $2.00 for every dollar received to $1.00, and would allow an applicant receiving this grant during the 2017–18, 2018–2019, or 2019–2020 fiscal years to be eligible for a renewal grant in the next fiscal year, if that applicant demonstrates continued compliance with program requirements.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

AB 1577 (Gipson) – Career Technical Education: Access Plan

This bill would require the CDE, in collaboration with the California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO), to develop a plan to ensure access to CTE programs at every K-12 school in California. AB 1577 would also require the CDE to report the plan to the Legislature by January 1, 2020.

Status: Assembly Floor

SB 552 (Fuller) – Career Technical Education: Areas of Interest

This bill would require the CDE by January 1, 2019 to develop or revise a CTE test that measures aptitudes or areas of interest for students, with special emphasis on students in grades 6 to 8. SB 552 would also require the CDE to post the test on its Web site. Finally, the bill would stipulate that the assessment shall not be used as an enrollment requirement for students interested in taking CTE courses.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

SB 696 (Wilk) – Career Technical Education: Career Pathways

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to career pathways for training from high school to the workforce and prison to the workforce.

Status: Senate Rules Committee – Two Year Bill

Charter Schools

AB 23 (Ridley-Thomas) – Educational Programs: Single Gender Schools and Instructional Programs

This bill would authorize an LEA to implement single gender academies and instructional programs if all of the following requirements are met:

• The single gender aspect of the academy or instructional program serves an important LEA objective.

• The LEA implements its objective in an evenhanded manner.

• Pupil enrollment in a single gender academy or instructional program is voluntary.

• The LEA provides to pupils of both genders a substantially equal coeducational class, extracurricular activity, or program in the same subject.

AB 23 would also require an LEA that implements a single gender academy or instructional program to conduct an evaluation at least once every two years to ensure that the single gender aspect of the academy or program is based upon genuine justifications and does not rely on overly broad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of either gender.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 318 (Caballero) – Pupil Instruction: Independent Study

This bill would require a certificated employee to communicate, in person or by a live visual connection, with each pupil participating in Independent Study at least once per week to assess whether each pupil is making satisfactory educational progress. AB 318 would also authorize the principal of the Independent Study program, or a designee of the governing board or body of a participating school district, charter school, or county office of education (COE), to grant exceptions to the once per week communication requirement on a case-by-case basis.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 406 (McCarty) – Charter Schools: Operation

This bill would prohibit a charter school, after January 1, 2019, from operating as or being operated by a for-profit corporation or a for-profit charter management organization. AB 406 would also specify that a charter school may elect to operate as, or be operated by, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, pursuant to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 950 (Rubio) – Charter School

This bill would expand the role of a county board of education and the SBE in authorizing charter schools. Specifically, this bill would:

• Delete the requirement that a countywide charter demonstrate that a student population cannot be served as well by a charter school that operates in only one school district in the county.

• Delete the requirement that a countywide charter must provide reasonable justification for why it could not be authorized by the school district in which they operate.

• Authorize a county board of education to grant a countywide charter school if the school meets the following requirements:

o Demonstrates that the charter school will provide a high-quality educational program.

o Describes how the charter school will seek to share best and promising practices with other traditional and charter public schools that have low academic performance.

• Delete the requirement that the SBE make a finding, based on substantial evidence that the charter's proposed instructional services cannot be provided by a charter school operating in only one school district or only in one county.

• Authorize the SBE to grant a statewide charter school if a school meets the following, in addition to other criteria to be established by the SBE:

o The statewide charter petition demonstrates that the charter school will provide a high-quality educational program.

o The charter school describes how the charter school will seek to share best and promising practices with other traditional and charter public schools that have low academic performance.

• Authorize a charter school that is granted authorization through an appeal by the SBE to submit its petition for renewal to the SBE, instead of the district in which they operate in.

• Authorize a countywide charter petitioner to appeal an application that has been denied, non-renewed or revoked by the county board of education to the SBE.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

AB 1224 (Weber) – Chartering Authority Pilot Program

This bill would establish the Chartering Authority Pilot Program administered by the SBE. The SBE would be authorized to select up to three county boards of education with demonstrated authorizing and oversight capacity to authorize and oversee up to five additional charter schools each. AB 1224 would also require the SBE to annually evaluate and report to the Legislature on the performance of the participating chartering authorities and each charter school approved. The SBE would be required to submit a final report to the Legislature on or before June 30, 2024.

AB 1224 would allow the SBE to extend the authority for any of the pilot program participants, or, if the SBE finds that a participating county board of education has been unable to provide reasonable oversight over its charter schools, the SBE may terminate the authority of any of the participants.

The bill would also authorize a nonprofit public benefit corporation that operates more than one charter school in the state to petition a county board of education participating in the pilot program to consolidate all of its existing and future charter schools under the jurisdiction of a single chartering authority, subject to approval by the SBE. Finally,

AB 1224 would exempt charter management organizations from existing requirements pertaining to the citing of resource centers which would allow an unlimited number of resource centers anywhere in the state.

Status: Assembly Education Committee –Two Year Bill

AB 1360 (Bonta) – Charter Schools: Pupil Admissions, Student Suspensions, and Expulsions

This bill would permit additional admission preferences at charter schools, if the following conditions are met: Each new admission preference (1) is approved by the charter school at a public hearing; (2) is consistent with state and federal law; (3) does not result in limiting access for pupils with disabilities, academically low-achieving pupils, ELs, neglected or delinquent pupils, homeless pupils, or pupils who are economically disadvantaged; and (4) does not require mandatory parental volunteer hours as a condition for admission or continued enrollment. AB 1360 would also require charter schools to notify parents and guardians of new applicants and currently enrolled students that parental involvement is not a requirement for acceptance to, or continued enrollment at, the charter school.

AB 1360 would also require a charter school petition to include a description of the schools suspension and expulsion procedures. The bill would specify that a student cannot be removed, involuntary dismissed, disenrolled, or terminated from a charter school unless the charter school has provided the student due process, consistent with the school’s procedures.

Status: Assembly Floor – Passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File with amendments

AB 1478 (Jones-Sawyer) – Charter Schools Governance

This bill would require that charter schools and entities managing charter schools are subject to:

• The Ralph M. Brown Act, unless the charter school is operated by an entity governed by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, in which case the charter school would be subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.

• The California Public Records Act.

• The Political Reform Act of 1974.

• Prohibition from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members of.

AB 1478 also states that an employee of a charter school is not disqualified from serving as a member of the governing body of the charter school because of their employment status. The bill would require such a member of the governing body of a charter school to abstain from voting on, influencing, or attempting to influence, another member of that body regarding any matter uniquely affecting his or her own employment.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 1528 (Acosta) – Virtual or Online Charter Schools: Average Daily Attendance: Report

This bill would extend the sunset on the provision allowing a virtual or online school to claim independent study student average daily attendance (ADA) for a pupil who moves outside of the geographic boundaries of the school from January 1, 2018 to January 1, 2021. AB 1528 would also require the CDE to conduct an assessment of the need for a virtual or online charter school to claim the independent study ADA and submit the report to the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the LAO on or before December 31, 2019.

Status: Assembly Floor

SB 765 (Weiner) – School facilities: Surplus Real Property: Charter Schools

This bill would require school districts seeking to sell, lease, exchange, or jointly occupy property to first offer the property to a charter school, except property intended to be used for teacher housing in the least affordable counties of the state. SB 765 would also specify that proceeds from the sale or lease of surplus property to a charter school may be used by the school district for any one-time general fund purpose.

Status: Senate Floor

SB 806 (Glazer) – Charter Schools: Operation: For-Profit Entities

This bill would prohibit a charter school from operating as a for-profit entity, and instead, would require a charter school to operate as, or be operated by, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, a school district, or a COE. SB 806 would also require charter schools and entities managing a charter school to be subject to the following:

• The Ralph M. Brown Act, except when a charter school is operated by an entity governed by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.

• The California Public Records Act.

• Provisions of Government Code 1090 prohibiting government officers or employees from being financially interested in contracts or purchases made by them in their official capacity, unless the charter school is operated as, or is operated by, a nonprofit public benefit corporation.

• The Political Reform Act of 1974.

• The Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law, if the charter school is operated by or as a nonprofit public benefit corporation.

Status: Senate Judiciary Committee – Two Year Bill

SB 808 (Mendoza) – Charter schools: Chartering Authorities and Approvals

This bill would require all charter school petitions to be approved by the governing board of the school district in which the charter school is located. Specifically, this bill would:

• Remove the authority of a charter school that is unable to locate within the jurisdiction of its authorizer to establish one site outside the boundaries of the school district.

• Remove the authority for a charter petition to be appealed to the county board of education if the school district denies the petition.

• Remove the authority for a charter petition to be appealed to the SBE if the county board of education denies the petition.

• Allow a charter petition denial by a school district to be appealed to the county board of education, only if the appeal alleges that the school district committed a procedural violation in its review. 

• Remove the authority for a charter petition to be submitted directly to a county board of education to establish a countywide charter school.

• Remove the authority for a charter petition to be submitted directly to the SBE to establish a statewide benefit charter school.

• Allow charter schools previously approved by a county board or the SBE to continue operating until the charter is up for renewal, at which point the charter school must apply for renewal to the school district in which the charter school is located.

Status: Senate Education Committee – Two Year Bill

Data Collection

AB 677 (Chiu) – Data Collection: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Disparities Reduction Act

Current law directs specified state departments to collect voluntary self-identification information on sexual orientation and gender identity. This bill would expand the list of state entities currently required to collect voluntary self-identification information on sexual orientation and gender identity to include various education and employment-related state agencies, including the SSPI, CDE, and SBE.

Status: Assembly Floor – Passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File with technical amendments

English Learners

AB 192 (Medina) – Migrant Education: Statewide Parent Advisory Council

Current law requires the State Parent Advisory Council (SPAC) to prepare and submit an annual report on the status of the migrant education program to the Legislature, SBE, SSPI, and Governor. This bill would change the reporting requirement to every three years. AB 192 would also authorize the SSPI to sponsor regional conferences to take the place of the SPAC conference, if the SSPI determines that regional conferences would increase parent participation.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 617 (Gomez) – School District and School Advisory Committees: Pupil Members

This bill would authorize a school district advisory committee on programs and services for ELs, and a school advisory committee on programs and services for ELs, to each include a pupil member who is an EL.

Status: Senate Desk – Pending referral

AB 1142 (Medina) – State Seal of Biliteracy: English Learners

Current law requires students to meet certain criteria to receive the State Seal of Biliteracy. This bill would update two of the criteria to reflect the changes in state assessments. Specifically, AB 1142 would align the ELA standards assessment to the CAASPP for ELA administered in the eleventh grade and the ELD assessment to the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC).

Status: Senate Education Committee

SB 463 (Lara) – English Learners: Reclassification

Existing law requires the CDE, with the approval of the SBE, to establish procedures for conducting the ELD test and for the reclassification of a pupil from EL to English proficient. Existing law also requires that reclassification of a pupil use the following multiple criteria:

• Assessment of language proficiency.

• Teacher evaluation, including a review of the pupil’s curriculum mastery.

• Parental opinion and consultation.

• Comparison of student performance in basic skills against an empirically established range of performance in basic skills based on the performance of English proficient students of the same age.

This bill would instead require an LEA serving ELs in grades 3 through 12, who do not have an individualized education plan (IEP) that specifies the pupil requires assistance due to language proficiency issues, to reclassify as English proficient according to the following criteria commencing with the 2018-19 school year:

• Assessment of language proficiency.

• Teacher evaluation of the pupil’s English language mastery.

• The opinion of, and consultation with, parents and guardians.

• Comparison of student performance in ELA using CAASPP assessment against an empirically established range of performance in basic skills based on the performance of English proficient students of the same age.

SB 463 would also require an LEA serving ELs in grades K-2, who do not have an IEP that specifies the pupil requires assistance due to language proficiency issues, to reclassify as English proficient according to the following criteria commencing with the 2018-19 school year:

• Assessment of language proficiency.

• Teacher evaluation of the pupil’s English language mastery.

• The opinion of, and consultation with, parents and guardians.

• Academic performance of the pupil in ELA as measured by grades or locally developed assessments.

This bill would also require the CDE, with the approval of the SBE, to develop guidance for LEAs to reclassify a pupil as English proficient, including factors that may be used to determine a pupil’s English language mastery and detailed information on the implementation of parental opinion and consultation by January 1, 2019.

SB 463 would require the SBE, in consultation with the CDE, to determine minimum scores on the English language proficiency test or ELA assessment for reclassification of a pupil as English proficient by January 1, 2019. The SBE is required to consider the academic performance of non-ELs on the assessments in determining minimum scores. This bill would require that an EL is immediately eligible for reclassification if the pupil attains those minimum scores on the assessments, unless the LEA determines there is academic-related evidence the pupil will not be successful in a mainstream curriculum. The CDE is required to develop a rubric to measure academic-related evidence.

This bill would require the CDE, in consultation with the SBE, to develop and submit recommendations to the Legislature regarding appropriate reclassification criteria for ELs with IEPs by September 1, 2018.

SB 463 would additionally require an LEA that has a numerically significant pupil subgroup of ELs or that includes specific goals and actions for that pupil subgroup in its LCAP to complete specified actions, including: reviewing the proficiency and academic performance of ELs and developing a process and procedures to monitor the academic performance of pupils for a minimum of four years after their reclassification as English proficient. 

Status: Senate Floor

Fiscal and Funding

AB 1321 (Webber) – Educational Finance: Fiscal Transparency

This bill would require the reporting of per-pupil expenditures of federal, state, and local funds, including actual personnel expenditures and actual non-personnel expenditures of federal, state, and local funds, disaggregated by source of funds for each LEA and school in the state as specified in the federal ESSA. AB 1321 would also establish guidelines for the reporting of personnel and non-personnel expenditures, as specified, and to establish the methodology for disaggregating LCFF funds. The bill would require the SSPI, the State Controller, and the Director of Finance to consider, no later than March 1, 2018, the provisions of the bill in developing and adopting new standards and criteria for local budgets and expenditures.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 1449 (Muratsuchi) – Education Finance: LCFF: Special Education Grant

This bill would require funding pursuant to the LCFF to include in addition to a base, supplemental, and concentration grant, a special education grant add-on that is based on the percentage of individuals who are severely disabled served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. Additionally, AB 1449 would require the SSPI to establish procedures and timeframes for LEAs to annually report the enrollment of individuals with exceptional needs using the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS).

Status: Assembly Education Committee – Two Year Bill

SB 328 (Portantino) – Pupil Attendance: School Start Time

This bill would require the school day for middle schools and high schools to begin no earlier than 8:30 a.m. SB 328 would require this new start time to be implemented no later than July 1, 2020 and would exclude “zero periods.” Additionally the bill would allow rural school districts to seek a waiver from the SBE if that school district can demonstrate a verifiable financial hardship that would result from the implementation of this bill. This waiver would be granted for two years and, upon approval by the SBE, may be extended for an additional two years.

Status: Senate Floor – Passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense File with amendments

Nutrition

AB 1502 (Thurmond) – Free or Reduced-Price School Meals: Direct Certification

This bill would amend state law to add the CDE as an agency that can directly perform Direct Certification matches to certify school-age recipients of CalFresh as eligible for free school meals without the completion of a meal application. AB 1502 would also require each state agency involved in the data match process to amend any applicable existing agreements before the CDE may conduct the data match. The state agency must execute a written agreement that outlines the use of the data in the data match process and incorporate privacy and confidentiality procedures consistent with all applicable state and federal laws.

Status: Senate Education Committee

Professional Learning and Evaluation

AB 169 (O’Donnell) – Teaching Credential: Teacher Recruitment: Golden State Teacher Grant Program

Subject to budget appropriation, the bill would establish the Golden State Teacher Grant Program to be administered by the CDE. The new grant program would provide one-time grant funds of $20,000 to each student enrolled in a professional preparation program leading to a preliminary teaching credential on or after January 1, 2018 if the student commits to working in a high-need field for five years after receiving the teaching credential. AB 169 would define high-need field to be bilingual education; mathematics; or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); science; special education; or other subjects as designated annually by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC).

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 170 (O’Donnell) – Teacher Credentialing

Current law prohibits a person seeking to obtain a teaching credential from holding a baccalaureate degree in professional education. This bill would remove the prohibition and authorize elementary and middle school teachers earning their undergraduate degree in professional education to obtain a multiple subject teaching credential or a preliminary multiple subject teaching credential.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 410 (Cervantes) – Teacher Credentialing: Beginning Teacher Induction Programs: Fees

This bill would prohibit a school district, COE, or charter school from charging a beginning teacher a fee to participate in a beginning teacher induction program commencing with hiring for the 2017–18 school year.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 681 (Chau) – Teacher Credentialing: Teacher Preparation Outside of the 

United States

This bill would authorize the CTC to determine whether the national standards for coursework, programs, or degrees in a country other than the United States are equivalent to those offered by a regionally accredited institution in the United States. AB 681 would stipulate that if the CTC determines that the other country’s national standards are equivalent, an individual who holds or is eligible for a credential in that country is presumed to have satisfied specified requirements for obtaining a credential.

AB 681 would require the CTC to report annually to the Legislature the list of countries that qualify and the number of credential applications approved by country of origin. The bill would also require a school district, COE, and charter school to annually report to the CDE, the number of visa applications submitted on behalf of potential nonimmigrant employees, and the number of visa applications that are granted. The bill would also require the CDE to annually report this information to the Legislature.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 1217 (Bocanegra) – Teachers: California Teacher Corps Act of 2017: Teacher Residency Programs

This bill would enact the California Teacher Corps Act of 2017, under which the SSPI would make grants to applicant LEAs and consortia of LEAs to assist these agencies in establishing, maintaining, or expanding teacher residency programs. The teacher residency programs established by the bill would be defined as school-based teacher preparation programs. AB 1217 would also establish eligibility standards for persons who apply for participation in the teacher residency programs established by the bill. The bill would also make an unspecified appropriation for the grants.

Status: Assembly Floor – Passed Out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee contingent on budget appropriation

SB 390 (Mendoza) – LCAPs: Annual Goals: State Priorities: Model School Library Standards

This bill would add the implementation of the Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools adopted by the SBE to the enumerated state priorities.

Status: Senate Floor

SB 436 (Allen) – Teachers: California STEM Professional Teaching Pathway Act of 2017

This bill would establish the California STEM Professional Teaching Pathway, to be administered by the California Center on Teaching Careers, for the purpose of recruiting, training, supporting, and retaining qualified STEM professionals, including military veterans, as mathematics and science teachers in California. SB 436 would also authorize various activities as part of the California STEM Professional Teaching Pathway, including developing and distributing statewide recruitment materials encouraging interested STEM professionals to pursue teaching careers in mathematics and science and providing information to STEM professionals regarding the requirements for obtaining a teaching credential. The bill would require its provisions to be implemented only upon the enactment of an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes

Status: Senate Floor

SB 533 (Portantino) – Teacher Credentialing: Governor’s Urgent State of Need: Teacher Shortages

This bill would authorize the Governor, upon the submission of evidence demonstrating a teacher shortage in a school district, to declare an “Urgent State of Need” in response to a teacher shortage in one or more school districts for a shortage of teachers in specific subject areas or a shortage of teachers with an authorization to provide bilingual instruction to limited-English-proficient pupils. Evidence of teacher shortage includes, but is not limited to, teacher availability data and recent efforts made by the school district to recruit credentialed teachers. SB 533 would authorize a school district subject to an “Urgent State of Need” declaration to employ as a teacher a person without a valid credential, certificate, or permit otherwise necessary to provide instruction to pupils.

SB 533 would require a teacher employed under an “Urgent State of Need” declaration to enroll in a CTC-accredited teacher credentialing program within two years of their start of employment. The bill would require the CTC to determine the appropriate credential to issue and would authorize the commission, if appropriate, to issue to the teacher an authorization to provide services to limited-English-proficient pupils.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

Standards, Curriculum Frameworks, and Instructional Materials

AB 24 (Eggman) – Instructional Programs: State Seal of Civic Engagement

This bill would require the SBE to establish criteria for awarding a State Seal of Civic Engagement (seal) by January 1, 2019. In establishing criteria for the seal, AB 24 would require the SBE to incorporate the Six Proven Practices for Effective Civic Learning and other best practices for civic learning and engagement. AB 24 would require the SSPI to prepare and deliver an insignia to be affixed to students’ diploma or transcript that denotes they have been awarded the seal and requires a participating school district to maintain appropriate records in order to identify students who have earned the seal. In establishing criteria for the seal, the SBE shall also consult with a diverse group of credentialed, current, classroom teachers who teach the subject of history-social science, including government, in secondary schools.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 37 (O’Donnell) – Pupil Instruction: Visual and Performing Arts: Content Standards in Media Arts

Current law requires the SBE to approve updates to the visual and performing arts (VAPA) content standards in dance, theater, music, and visual arts by January 31, 2019. As part of the current VAPA standards update, this bill would require the SSPI, in consultation with the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) and experts in arts education, to recommend content standards in media arts to the SBE for their adoption by January 31, 2019. AB 37 would require the National Core Arts Standards in media arts to serve as the basis for new media arts standards. Further, the bill would authorize media arts to be included in the next VAPA content standards curriculum framework and instructional materials adoption.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 155 (Gomez) – Pupil Instruction: Model Curriculum: Media Literacy

This bill would require the IQC to develop, and the SBE to adopt, revised curriculum standards and frameworks for ELA, mathematics, history-social science, and science that incorporate civic online reasoning. AB 155 would define “civic online reasoning” as the ability to judge the credibility and quality of information found on Internet Web sites, including social media.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

AB 189 (Low) – School Curriculum: Coursework for High School Graduation: Service Learning

This bill would require the SSPI, in consultation with the IQC, to develop curriculum standards that incorporate a service learning component into courses by March 1, 2020. AB 189 would require the SBE to adopt or reject the curriculum standards by July 1, 2020. Subject to the SBE’s approval of the curriculum standards, this bill would require school districts to implement the standards commencing with the 2019–20 school year and require that at least one of the courses completed by a student to satisfy the graduation requirements include a service learning component, commencing in the 2023–24 school year.

Status: Assembly Floor – Passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File with amendments

AB 446 (Bigelow) – Instructional Materials: Disposal of Obsolete Instructional Materials

This bill would authorize the SBE, the governing board of a school district that is contiguous with an adjoining state, or a COE of a county that is contiguous with an adjoining state to donate surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials to children or adults in the adjoining state for the purpose of increasing general literacy.

Status: Senate Education Committee

AB 643 (Frazier) – Pupil Instruction: Abusive Relationships

This bill would require the comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education to include instruction and materials that provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to recognize the early warning signs of domestic violence in order to prevent abusive relationships.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 738 (Limon) – Pupil Instruction: Native American Studies: Model Curriculum

This bill would require the IQC to develop a model curriculum in Native American studies by December 31, 2019, and the SBE to adopt, modify, or revise the model curriculum by March 31, 2020. The development of the model curriculum must include participation of faculty of Native American studies programs from institutions of higher education and representatives of LEAs, a majority of whom are K–12 teachers with experience in the study or teaching of Native American studies. AB 738 would also encourage school districts and charter schools maintaining grades 9 through 12 to offer a course in Native American studies, based on the model curriculum adopted by the SBE, as an elective in the social sciences or ELA.

Status: Assembly Floor

AB 838 (Levine) – Pupil Instruction: Model Curriculum: 2016 Presidential Election

This bill would require the IQC, during the next revision of the history-social science curriculum framework, to consider including high school instruction regarding Russian interference with the 2016 United States presidential election. AB 838 would require the SBE to adopt, modify, or reject the curriculum framework recommended by the IQC.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Held Under Submission

AB 858 (Dababneh) – Pupil instruction: California Financial Literacy Initiative

This bill would establish the California Financial Literacy Initiative program to be administered by the SSPI. The program would offer instructional materials for teachers and parents to provide high-quality financial literacy education to students in K-12. The SSPI may provide an online library of financial literacy resources and materials to be made available for schools, teachers, parents, and pupils. AB 858 states that financial institutions, financial services providers, nonprofit community organizations, and other publishers whose materials or resources are included in the online library may include in those materials a means of collecting data, including number of users, grade levels of users, and whether the person accessing the material is a pupil, teacher, administrator, parent, or other interested person.

Status: Assembly Floor

SB 135 (Dodd) – Pupil Instruction: Media Literacy: Model Curriculum

This bill would require the SBE to ensure that media literacy is integrated into social science curricula in the next revision of instructional materials or curriculum framework. SB 135 would define “media literacy” as the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via electronic or digital media and the ability to synthesize, analyze, and produce mediated messages. The bill would provide that components of media literacy may be designed to include the ability to measure 21st century skills of teachers and pupils using the international standards defined by the International Society for Technology in Education.

SB 135 would additionally require the CDE to make available on its web site a list of resources and materials on media literacy and ensure that approved media literacy training opportunities are made available for use in professional development programs for teachers.

Status: Senate Floor

SB 583 (Stone) – High School Graduation Course Requirements: Economics: Financial Literacy

This bill would add a course in financial literacy to the list of courses a pupil is required to complete to receive a diploma of graduation from high school on and after January 1, 2019.

Status: Senate Floor

SB 787 (Morrell) – Pupil Instruction: History-Social Science Framework: Historical Documents: Northwest Ordinance

This bill would require the IQC, whenever the history-social science framework is revised, to include the Northwest Ordinance in the list of required documents. SB 787 would also require that list of documents be read by students.

Status: Senate Education Committee – Two Year Bill

SB 346 (Glazer) – Computer Science Strategic Implementation Plan

This bill would make changes to the computer science strategic implementation advisory panel that was established by AB 2329 (Bonilla, 2016). Changes would include moving the date of the convening of the panel from September 1, 2017 to September 1, 2018. SB 346 would also specify that the SSPI or designee and the president of the SBE or designee would serve as co-chairs of the advisory panel and require the Governor to select the membership of the advisory panel unless otherwise specified.

SB 346 would also change the current requirement that the advisory panel submit recommendations to the SSPI for a computer science implementation plan from July 1, 2018 to July 1, 2019 and would change the date for the SSPI to develop and the SBE to consider adopting a computer science strategic implementation plan and submit the plan to the Legislature to January 1, 2020. Further, this bill would delete the requirement that there be a statewide computer science liaison.

Status: Urgency – Assembly Education Committee

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