August 2017 Memo EXEC GAD Item 01 - Information …



|California Department of Education |memo-exec-gad-aug17item01 |

|Executive Office | |

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

|memorandum |

|Date: |August 16, 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 (16 pages)

Legislative Update

These bills address relevant policy areas and/or impact the role of the State Board of Education (SBE). This list only includes bills that were active on

June 01, 2017. See previous legislative updates for other bills. 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 July 28, 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 – Two Year Bill

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

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 Appropriations 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 Floor

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. The bill would require that the interim assessments be developed in close consultation with current classroom teachers at each grade level assessed and be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers for their use to continually adjust instruction to improve learning.

AB 1035 would state legislative intent that the interim assessment system, at a minimum, provides teachers access to the items, pupil responses to each item, and formative assessment tools.

This bill would also state legislative intent that a score report from an interim assessment offered to an LEA 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 item-level scores and by achievement level.

• Sort pupils by performance relative to each standard so that a teacher may easily and quickly see how pupils performed.

AB 1035 would specify that interim assessments offered to LEAs be intended for the purposes of improving teaching and pupil learning. The bill would prohibit the use of interim assessments for any high-stakes purposes.

Status: Assembly Floor – Concurrence in Senate amendments pending

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 Floor

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

Subject to budget appropriation, 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. An LEA that receives a grant must use the funds for specialists and activities that address the needs of pupils related to meeting reading standards and acquiring language progressive skill.

SB 494 would also 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, how to administer and score the assessments, and the appropriate use of assessments in the language of instruction in reading and language arts for pupils instructed in bilingual, language immersion, and dual language immersion programs.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee

Career Technical Education

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 career technical education (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: Senate Education Committee – Two Year Bill

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 318 (Caballero) – Pupil Instruction: Independent Study: Visual Contact with Pupil

This bill would prohibit an LEA, including a charter school, from being eligible to receive apportionments for independent study unless it has adopted and implemented written policies that include a statement that a teacher shall make visual, in-person contact with a student, or by a live visual connection, at least once every two weeks. The bill also allows for an exception to be made on a case-by-case basis by the principal of the program, or a designee.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee

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: Senate 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 new admission preference conditions are met: (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 school’s 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: Senate Appropriations Committee – Suspense File

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: Senate Appropriations Committee

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: Assembly Education Committee

Data Collection

AB 677 (Chiu) – Data Collection: Sexual Orientation

Current law directs specified state departments to collect voluntary self-identification information on sexual orientation and gender identity. This bill would add education and employment-related agencies, including the CDE, to the list of state entities required to collect data on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill would exclude the collection of this data from the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS). AB 677 would prohibit LEAs that administer voluntary surveys that already include questions pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity from removing those questions.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee

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: Signed by the Governor on July 21, Chapter 78, Statutes of 2017.

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

Current law requires students to meet certain criteria to receive the State Seal of Biliteracy (SSB). This bill would update 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). This bill would clarify that students, who show proficiency in a foreign language through completed coursework for purposes of qualifying for the SSB, achieve oral proficiency in the language comparable to the proficiency required to pass a foreign language Advanced Placement examination with a score of three or higher or an International Baccalaureate examination with a score of four or higher.

This bill would allow a student who seeks to qualify for the SSB through a language that is not characterized by listening, speaking or reading, or for which there is no written system, to pass an assessment on the modalities that characterize communication in that language at the proficient level or higher.

Status: Assembly Floor – Concurrence in Senate amendments pending

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: Assembly Education Committee – Two Year Bill

Fiscal and Funding

AB 235 (O’Donnell) – School District Annual Budget: Reserve Balances

Existing law, unless the school district is granted an exemption, limits the amount of the combined assigned or unassigned ending fund balance contained in a school district’s annual budget in any fiscal year immediately after a fiscal year in which a transfer is made into the Public School System Stabilization Account, and establishes a formula for calculating the maximum amount allowable for school districts with less than 400,000 units of ADA, and a formula for school districts with more than 400,000 units of ADA.

This bill would define “combined assigned or unassigned ending General Fund balance” and would make that limitation applicable in a fiscal year immediately after a fiscal year in which the moneys in the Public School System Stabilization Account are equal to or exceed 3 percent of the combined total of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and allocated local proceeds of taxes, as specified, for that fiscal year. The bill would make the formula for school districts with less than 400,000 units of average daily attendance applicable to school districts with 400,000 units of average daily attendance or less. The bill would exclude basic aid school districts and small school districts from the requirements of those provisions.

AB 235 would require the SSPI to notify school districts and COEs whenever the conditions specified above are met and when those conditions no longer exist.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee

AB 1321 (Weber) – 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. The bill would also 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: Senate Appropriations Committee

SB 257 (Lara) – Pupils of Deported Parents: Residency: Average Daily Attendance Apportionments

This bill would specify that a pupil meets the residency requirements for school attendance if their parents or guardians were residents of California and who have been deported or were permitted to leave voluntarily pursuant to the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. SB 257 would also require a school district to admit a pupil who is seeking admission to a school, regardless of their current residency, if they meet the following requirements:

• Provides documentation from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service showing they have a parent or guardian who has been deported or was permitted to depart voluntarily.

• Moved abroad as a result of the deportation or voluntary departure of the parent or guardian and provides information and evidence demonstrating that the person previously lived in California.

Finally, the bill would authorize the parent or guardian of the pupil to designate a U.S. citizen to attend school meetings and serve as an emergency contact and prohibits a school district from levying any charges or fees for admission or attendance in a school for pupils admitted under these provisions.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee

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: Assembly Appropriations Committee

SB 751 (Hill and Glazer) – School Districts Annual Budget: Reserve Balances

This bill would require the governing board of a school district that proposes to adopt a budget that includes unassigned ending balances in the school district’s general fund and special reserve fund for other than capital outlay projects in excess of the minimum recommended reserve for economic uncertainties to provide specified information for public review and discussion.

SB 751 would provide that the school district’s budget shall not contain unassigned ending balances in the school district’s general fund and special reserve fund for other than capital outlay projects in excess of 17 percent of those funds, irrespective of the school district’s ADA, and would require a county superintendent of schools to grant a school district an exemption if the school district provides documentation indicating that extraordinary fiscal circumstances substantiate the need for those fund balances, as specified.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee

Local Governance

AB 261 (Thurmond) – Governing Boards: Pupil Members Preferential Voting

This bill would require a pupil member of a local governing board of a school district to have preferential voting rights.

AB 261 would incorporate additional changes proposed by SB 468 to be operative only if this bill and SB 468 are enacted and this bill is enacted last

Status: Senate 3rd Reading

SB 468 (Leyva) – Governing Boards: Pupil Members

This bill would specify that a pupil member shall receive all open meeting materials presented to the board members at the same time the materials are presented to the board members and would additionally require a pupil member to be invited to staff briefings of board members or provided a separate staff briefing within the same timeframe as the staff briefing of board members.

SB 468 would incorporate additional changes proposed by AB 261 to be operative only if this bill and AB 261 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Status: Assembly 3rd Reading

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: Signed by the Governor on July 21, Chapter 91, Statutes of 2017.

Professional Learning and Evaluation

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: Signed by the Governor on July 24, Chapter 123, Statutes of 2017

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: Senate Appropriations – Suspense File

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

United States

This bill would authorize the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (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. This 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. This bill would also require the CDE to annually report this information to the Legislature.

Status: Assembly Floor – Concurrence in Senate amendments pending

SB 390 (Mendoza) – Local Control and Accountability Plans: 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: Assembly Appropriations – Suspense File

Specialized 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: Senate Judiciary Committee

AB 1217 (Bocanegra)- State Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics School

This bill would establish a state school for instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in a county with a population of more than 3.5 million, to be governed by a nonprofit public benefit corporation, and overseen by the SSPI.

Specifically, this bill would:

• Require the state school to complete a plan that governs the education of its pupils and the operation of the school. The plan shall be submitted for review and approval by the SSPI.

• Require the state school to meet all statewide standards and conduct statewide academic assessments.

• Subject the state school to the existing technical assistance request and referral requirements for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence.

• Require the state school to consult with parents, legal guardians, and teachers on a regular basis.

• Require teachers in the state school to hold a Commission on Teacher Credentialing certificate, permit, or another document equivalent to what a teacher in other public schools would be required to hold.

• Require the state school to transmit a copy of its annual, independent financial audit for the preceding fiscal year to the SSPI and the State Controller by December 15 each year.

• Authorize the state school to apply for funding under the Charter School Facility Grant Program and school facility programs for charter schools operated by the California School Financing Authority.

• Prohibit the state school from incurring bond indebtedness.

• Prohibit the state school from establishing any resource centers, meeting spaces, or satellite facilities separate from the school site.

• Allow the school to operate for five full school years.

AB 1217 would also authorize the SSPI to monitor the state school, which includes site visits, fiscal reviews, and the investigation of written complaints. Finally, the bill would require the SSPI to contract with an independent evaluator, at the expense of the state school, to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the school after three years of operation. This evaluation shall be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee

Standards, Curriculum Frameworks, and Instructional Materials

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

This bill would require the SSPI to recommend to the SBE criteria for awarding a State Seal of Civic Engagement (seal) by January 1, 2020. In establishing criteria for the seal, AB 24 would require the SSPI to incorporate the Six Proven Practices for Effective Civic Learning and other best practices for civic learning and engagement. This bill would also 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 SSPI 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 Third Reading

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: Signed by the Governor on July 24, Chapter 102, Statutes of 2017

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: Senate Appropriations Committee – Suspense File

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: Vetoed by the Governor on July 24. The veto message states that the bill is unnecessary as current law already authorizes the donation of obsolete materials to public agencies in other states.

AB 643 (Frazier) – Pupil Instruction: Abusive Relationships

This bill would require the information included in the instruction about adolescent relationship abuse and intimate partner violence to also include the early warning signs of such abuse or violence.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee – Suspense File

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: Senate Appropriations Committee

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. Specifically AB 858 would require online curricula included in an online library, or otherwise promoted or made available, through this initiative to conform to specified provisions protecting pupil privacy and protecting pupils against marketing directed at them through instructional materials.

Status: Senate Appropriations Committee – Suspense File

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. On or before March 31, 2019, the SBE shall adopt, reject, or modify the model curriculum in media literacy submitted by the IQC.

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. In developing the model curriculum in media literacy, the IQC shall convene an advisory group comprised of experts in media literacy education. A majority of this group shall be current public school elementary or secondary classroom teachers who have a professional teaching credential that is valid under state law and who have experience or expertise in media literacy education.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee – Suspense File

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

This bill would require the IQC to develop, and the SBE to adopt, reject, or modify, a model curriculum designed for pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in financial literacy, for voluntary use by educators as an elective course on or before March 31, 2021.

Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee - Suspense File

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