School Finance
School Facilities
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Charter Schools
School Safety
Child and Day Care
Special Education
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Higher Education
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School Finance
School finance: attendance and enrollment
Establishes initial calculations to transition from the collection of average daily attendance to average monthly enrollment for the purpose of allocating revenue limit funding to school districts.
Vetoed
Kings Canyon Unified School District
Allows the Kings Canyon Unified School District to receive a necessary small school apportionment for the Dunlap High School as long as that school's average daily attendance does not exceed 286.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1139 (Cox-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
Public schools: high school instructional time
Establishes a new categorical program, the California Enhanced Instructional Time program, to provide funding incentives to high schools that voluntarily increase instructional time by up to 17%.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
County community schools
Revises authorization and funding for alternative educational settings that primarily serve pupils that have been suspended, expelled, or referred by probation officers.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Class size reduction: apportionments
Extends, from 7/1/09 to 7/1/14, the sunset date for specified provisions of current law relating to class size reduction apportionment penalties.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2008
Education finance districts: taxes
Allows schools districts to form education finance districts and permits those districts to levy qualified special taxes, commonly known as parcel taxes.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Education finance: San Bruno Park School District
Authorizes the San Bruno Park School District to use $1.4 million of the proceeds from the sale of the site of an elementary school for one-time general fund expenses of the school district, and requires the District to restore these funds, with interest, within 10 years beginning in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
Vetoed
After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002
Places a measure on a future ballot to repeal the continuous annual appropriation of $550 million for the After School Education and Safety Program, and, instead, requires funding to be contingent upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act. The new measure also revises the terms by which provisions of Proposition 49 might be amended in the future.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Before and after school programs
Expands (within existing funding) the After School Education and Safety Program to allow programs to operate on weekends, and requires subcontracts to contain overhead allowances for necessary subcontract administrative costs.
Vetoed
Education finance
Repeals the existing supplemental instruction programs, the Targeted Instructional Improvement Block Grant, the Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling Program, the economic impact aid program, and the advanced placement program, and replaces them with the Academic and Pupil Support Block Grant Program, effective as of the 2009-10 fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Taxation: educational entities: parcel tax
Amends the California Constitution to lower the vote threshold from 2/3 to 55% for school districts, county offices of education, and community college districts to levy parcel taxes.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Taxation: Education Finance District: special tax
Amends the California Constitution to lower the threshold for special taxes levied by education finance districts from 2/3 to a majority of voters.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Rural school funding
Urges the 110th Congress to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act which provides federal funding in lieu of property taxes to rural schools located on or near federal forest lands.
Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2008
Schools
Requires the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence and the P-16 Council, established by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to work together to develop a report, by 7/1/09, for submission to the Legislature, that provides adequate information to enable it to establish the reasonable costs of schools offering instruction in K-12, and to determine the best use of available resources so that the vast majority of pupils may meet academic performance standards established by the state.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School transportation costs: tax credit
Provides that for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/07, there shall be allowed as a credit against a taxpayer's net tax an amount equal to 20% of the school transportation costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year. Limits the definition of "school transportation costs" to any charge or fee imposed by a public school or public school district in California for home-to-school transportation.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Schools: pupil services block grant
Establishes the pupil services block grant for the purpose of providing education, mental health, and social services support services to pupils. Provides that funds will be apportioned to school districts and used to hire, or expand services provided by, specified credentialed or certificated school professionals, including, among others, school psychologists, counselors, nurses, social workers, speech-language pathologists, and audiologists. Authorizes a school district to use these block grant funds to reduce the size of special education classes for pupils with low-incidence disabilities and other specified disabilities.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School attendance
Revises the method of determining the average daily attendance in regular elementary, middle, and high schools. Specifies that school districts shall divide the sum of the active enrollment figures reported for those schools during each period by the number of school months in which those figures were calculated during that period, and requires that average daily attendance in continuation schools and classes be determined by dividing the total number of days of attendance allowed in all full school months in each period by the number of days the schools and classes are actually taught in all full school months in each period.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: K-14 education
Enacts the 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill which, among other provisions, reduces funding by nearly $1 billion as a result of various revenue changes, therefore eliminating funding for K-14 cost-of-living adjustments. However, overall K-14 Proposition 98 funding is approximately $1.1 billion greater than the Administration's May Revise. Eliminates the 2008-09 prior year K-14 settlement payment. Increases Home-to-School transportation funding by an additional $317 million from available transit spillover funding. Provides K-12 with $228 million in property tax revenues as a result of adjusting redevelopment agencies pass-through, which provides a like amount of General Fund relief - consistent with a Legislative Analyst's Office May Revise recommendation.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2008 -- Item Veto
School finance: per pupil funding
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, by 6/1/09, a method by which a school district distributes resources to schools under its jurisdiction based on the specific needs of the pupils enrolled in a school and that allows pupil funding to follow, on an annual basis, the pupil who generates the funding when the pupil moves within a school district so that the funding generated by the pupil does not remain with a program after the pupil is no longer enrolled in that program.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School finance: Standardized Account Code Structure
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a plan to modify the Standardized Account Code Structure and the school district financial reporting process to enable school districts to itemize expenditures made to each school site within a district.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School finance: declining enrollment
Augments average daily attendance calculated for funding purposes for school districts where the second principal apportionment average daily attendance has declined for two consecutive years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupil counseling: supplemental school counseling
Changes the method of allocating funds for the Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling Program from the existing per-pupil enrolled in grades 7-12 amount to an allocation based on the number of pupils who failed either section of the high school exit examination in the most recent 10th grade administration.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education finance
Implements the education-related portion of the 2008-09 State Budget as follows: (1) Calculates a deficit factor for school districts and county offices of education to reflect the reduction of statutory cost-of-living adjustments for 2008-09; (2) requires the Department of Education to submit reports on federal funds availability; (3) suspends the existing statute that specifies the division of Proposition 98 funding among K-12 local education agencies; (4) provides statutory authority to allocate $112.7 million in federal funds by establishing a one-year nonrenewable grant for approximately 150 K-12 local education agencies facing corrective actions under the federal No Child Left Behind Act; (5) continued authorization of the disability adjustment calculation through 2008-09; (6) repeals the Norm-Referenced Test; (7) extends the date by which the Department of Finance is authorized to sell, or effectuate an alternative arrangement to the sale of EdFUND from 1/1/09 to 1/1/11; (8) makes the Student Aid Commission to act as the "lender of last resort" under agreement with the United States Secretary for Education, should students, via colleges and universities, be unable to secure student loans through the traditional federally-subsidized student loan program; (9) clarifies the uses of community college financial aid funding; and (10) appropriates $12.5 million from the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Fund to expand the number of high school partnership academies by 61.
Chapter 757, Statutes of 2008
School finance: funding formula
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group to simplify K-12 education school funding formulas to ensure transparency and help all pupils reach the high academic performance standards of the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education finance
Consolidates six revenue limit add-ons into two fixed adjustments to be included in each district's total revenue limit funding.
Vetoed
Home-to-school transportation: funding
Establishes a new funding formula for the Home-to-School Transportation program, with the intent of increasing funding for this program in the annual Budget Act or another statute to meet 90% of school district and county office of education costs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Home-to-school transportation
Establishes a new funding formula for the Home-to-School Transportation program with the affect of providing local education agencies with additional funding that reduces their funding contribution for this program to 2%.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School finance: military dependents
Increases the average daily attendance for specific school districts by the amount of average daily attendance generated by the attendance of military dependents.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School finance: declining enrollment
Makes changes in the calculation of average daily attendance used for computing funding allocations for school districts, county offices of education, and special education local plan areas where average daily attendance is declining.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School finance: special education
Modifies the special education formula funding model to require a cost-of-living adjustment for all special education funds tied to cost-of-living adjustments calculated for school districts' revenue limits.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Adult education
Authorizes school districts to claim and expend more than 5% but no more than 15% of their adult block entitlement for approved adult education innovation and alternative instructional delivery programs if the programs are approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Chapter 655, Statutes of 2008
Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities
Deems a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board, or engaging in other leadership or civic engagement activities, as participating in independent study for the purpose of calculating average daily attendance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: education finance
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, establishes a process to improve the compliance of redevelopment agencies with existing law, which requires them to pass through to school districts, county offices of education, and community college districts (K-14 education agencies) a portion of their tax increment revenues from post-1993 project areas and expansions and that requires a portion of those pass-through payments to be reported by K-14 education agencies as property tax revenues for apportionment and Proposition 98 purposes. This process will identify and recover pass-through payments that redevelopment agencies failed to make to K-14 education agencies for the 2003-04 through 2007-08 fiscal years and ensure proper payments in 2008-09. The process also will ensure that the required percentage of those pass-through payments are identified as K-14 property tax revenues and offset state education costs for an estimated General Fund savings of $98 million in 2008-09. An audit by the State Controller's Office found substantial noncompliance with these requirements.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008
Before and after school education
Places an initiative on the statewide ballot to allow budgetary flexibility related to the expenditure of Proposition 98 funding, as it pertains to after school and safety programs.
Vetoed
School finance: Average Monthly Enrollment Pilot Program
Establishes, until 7/1/15, the Average Monthly Enrollment Pilot Program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate the revenue limits for school districts that are repaying emergency apportionment loans made by the state using average monthly enrollment, instead of average daily attendance, beginning in the 2008-09 fiscal year. Makes related changes to fiscal provisions. Requires the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to conduct a study of the use of average monthly enrollment in the program and to report its findings to the Legislature no later than 7/1/14.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Class size reduction: penalty: January 2007 freeze exemption
Exempts from funding deduction provisions, under the Class Size Reduction Program, a school district that exceeded the class size reduction limitations due to the January 2007 freeze and is wholly or partially located in a county declared in a state of emergency due to that freeze.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School finance: equalization
Distributes revenue limit (general purpose funding) equalization funding for the 2007-08 fiscal year under an existing formula, with the goal of increasing base revenue limits to 90% of the statewide average for the appropriate size and type of a district. Appropriates $150 million from the General Fund for this purpose.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Class size reduction
Authorizes school districts in specified counties where major fires occurred in October 2007 to continue to receive class size reduction funding for the 2007-08 fiscal year based on enrollment counts taken before the fires forced class closures and class size increases to accommodate relocated pupils.
Chapter 30, Statutes of 2008
Dixon Unified School District: school farm property
Authorizes the Dixon Unified School District to sell specified surplus property and to deposit the proceeds into the general fund of the school district in order to reestablish a 3% reserve.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2008
Education finance
Authorizes the Education Audit Appeals Panel to accept an appeal filed by the Vallejo City Unified School District with regard to specific findings in the annual audit of the district for 2003-04. Provides the District with more time to sell district property in order to repay their state guaranteed emergency loan and extends from 2004 to 2010 the time period that the District may receive hardship facilities assistance.
Chapter 636, Statutes of 2008
Education finance: maintenance of school buildings
Reduces the minimum amount of funds required to be deposited in a school district's restricted account for the ongoing and major maintenance of school buildings for the 2008-09 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School and Library Improvement Block Grant
Requires school districts that receive funds under the School and Library Improvement Block Grant to develop a Central Office and Non-instructional Services Improvement Plan to accomplish specified goals.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Funding and Accountability Commission for Transparency
Establishes a Funding and Accountability Commission for Transparency and Simplicity to provide policymakers with a comprehensive plan to reform the education finance system, provided that the Superintendent of Public Instruction certifies that sufficient funds exist for the commission to be implemented.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
School finance: categorical education program funding
Authorizes a school district to annually transfer up to 5% of its categorical program funds (excluding special education) to other categorical programs if it posts specified financial information each month on its Internet web site.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Local educational agencies: administration
Provides, upon the existence of a fiscal emergency, for alternative calculations of funding for low-performing school districts, and for the authority in those districts to flexibly redirect both unrestricted and restricted fiscal resources in a discretionary manner under a broad exemption from program requirements, with specified exceptions.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education finance: apportionment of state aid
Requires, beginning in the 2009-10 fiscal year, the calculation of base revenue limit funding (general purpose) for the San Bernardino County Office of Education to include annual funding from the County of San Bernardino pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the two parties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School finance: categorical funding
Authorizes a school district to use up to 20% of the total amount of categorical funding it receives in each fiscal year, except funding for special education but including any block granted funds, for purposes of providing home-to-school transportation.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School finance: equalization
Establishes a statutory formula for making equalizing adjustments to school district revenue limits in the 2009-10 fiscal year with a goal of raising per pupil revenue limits such that 90% of all pupils would be attending school districts with revenue limits that are equal to other districts of the same size and type.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
Education finance: study relating to weighted pupil funding
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to enter into an agreement for a comprehensive study of key factors to be considered in the creation of variables within the concept of a weighted formula for funding pupil learning. Sunsets this provision on 7/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education finance: California State Lottery Education Fund
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually post and maintain on its Internet web site a detailed report on the amount of lottery funds that were expended by each school district and county office of education in the previous fiscal year and the purpose for which those funds were expended.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education finance: federal forest reserve funds
Authorizes the State Controller, in the 2008-09 fiscal year, to issue loans from the General Fund to a county, school district, a county superintendent of schools on behalf of a school district, or a community college district, that has requested a loan in order to provide short-term relief based on a delay in the receipt of federal forest funding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education finance: categorical programs
Creates an urgency statute that provides fiscal flexibility to school districts by allowing them, for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years, to transfer restricted fund balances from any prior year to the district's unrestricted general fund.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education finance: restricted routine maintenance funds
Reduces the minimum amount of funds required to be deposited in a school district's restricted account for the ongoing and major maintenance of school buildings for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School finance: categorical education block grant funding
Consolidates numerous K-12 education categorical funding programs into several clustered categorical block grants beginning in the 2008-09 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education finance: categorical programs
Consolidates numerous K-12 education categorical funding programs into several broad based categorical block grants beginning in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School districts: state mandates: suspension
Requires in each fiscal year, either full funding for, or suspension of, education-related state-mandated local programs.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
2007 Budget: Education
Makes a variety of education-related budget adjustments to the K-12 schools and community colleges portions of the 2007-08 Budget Act, as necessary to achieve mid-year General Fund, Proposition 98 savings. Specifically, it (1) captures $506.8 million in savings for K-12 schools and community college programs, (2) moves $1.1 billion in advance revenue limit apportionment payments for K-12 school districts from July to September in 2008-09 to meet the state's cash needs, (3) appropriates an additional $100 million in Proposition 98 Reversion Funds for the Energy Repair Program in 2007-08 pursuant to current law, and (4) clarifies the definition of "continuous appropriation" for purposes of Proposition 49 (the After School Education and Safety Program) to mean that funds are appropriated on a fiscal year basis and are available for encumbrance for one year.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2007-08, Third Extraordinary Session
Expenditure limits
Makes changes to Article XIII B of the California Constitution established by Proposition 4 (1979), as amended by Proposition 111 (1990), which provides for a constitutional limit on governmental expenditures.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School Medicaid services
Expresses the Legislature's opposition to one of the enacted federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulations that eliminates federal Medicaid reimbursements for school health-related services.
Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2008
School Facilities
School facilities: multitrack year-round schools
Exempts a school that is located in a school district with 30% of its pupils attending a multitrack year-round school from specified building capacity requirements.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
School facilities
Exempts a school district that receives Year-Round School Grant Program funds in fiscal year 2007-08, from losing eligibility for state school bond funds. Sunsets the Year-Round School Grant Program on 7/1/13 and requires the reallocation of those funds to the Charter School Facility Grant Program.
Chapter 271, Statutes of 2008
School property: housing: Field Act exemption
Exempts housing built on school property from the provisions of the Field Act and declares that the Department of General Services is not required to review plans or construction associated with this exemption.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
New construction grant eligibility: special education pupils
Requires the new construction per-pupil grant for special education students to be increased by 6%, and authorizes a school district that has a new construction project approved on or after 7/1/06 that contains special education classrooms to apply to the State Allocation Board for a supplemental apportionment equal to the 6% grant increase.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: construction
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to examine and evaluate the ability of school districts to build complete schools, within the current law computations.
Vetoed
Local planning: school sites: freeways
Prohibits a school district from approving the acquisition of a school site that is located within 500 feet of a freeway lane or a busy traffic corridor, unless it is determined, by an environmental health and safety agency of the district, that the health and safety risks posed by the air quality of the site are less than significant.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Highway construction: school boundaries
Prohibits, with exceptions, construction and expansion of state highways within one-fourth mile of a school boundary.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
State Allocation Board: Office of Public School Construction
Eliminates the Office of Public School Construction which operates under the Department of General Services, and transfers the duties and staff to the State Allocation Board on or after 1/1/09, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School construction
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to permit specified elementary school districts to utilize the high school attendance area to calculate eligibility for new construction funding if the district meets specified conditions.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2008
School facilities: needs assessment
Requires the Office of Public School Construction to convene an advisory committee to investigate alternatives to, and costs of, the implementation of a data collection system and the establishment of an inventory of school facilities for K-12. Requires the Office of Public School Construction to submit recommendations via a report to the Legislature by 1/15/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Portable classrooms: formaldehyde
Requires portable classrooms to meet specified standards in order to reduce formaldehyde emissions.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
School facilities: energy efficiency
Requires the State Architect to incorporate specified energy efficiency standards as a condition of certification for school facilities constructed or modernized with state funds.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education facilities: per-unhoused-pupil grants
Increases the new construction and special education, per-unhoused-pupil grants for the construction of new school facilities by specified amounts.
Vetoed
School facilities
Authorizes the annual, independent performance audit, authorized by Proposition 39, to include reviews of the compliance by a school or community college district with its bond ballot language and specified design and construction costs and procedures.
Vetoed
School facilities: new construction eligibility
Allows school districts to use the actual enrollment, rather than the seating capacity, to determine the eligibility for new construction funding for schools located on high-security military bases that restrict access for nonmilitary individuals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
New construction: minimum essential school facilities
Establishes the Minimum Essential School Facilities (MESF) program, administered by the State Allocation Board, and authorizes a school district that lacks or does not have a MESF, as specified, to apply to the Board for school construction and modernization funds to construct or expand an MESF.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: supplemental funding: project management
Authorizes a school district, with an average daily attendance of 2,500 or fewer pupils, to request supplemental funding assistance from the State Allocation Board in order to manage new construction and modernization projects of the school district that are approved by the Board after 1/1/08.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: joint-use projects
Requires the State Allocation Board, in providing grant funds for joint-use projects, utilizing the $29 million from the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 earmarked for joint-use projects, to assign preference to applicant school districts that propose active recreation projects, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School facilities
Allows school districts that have been awarded facilities grants for Class B construction or modernization projects to have the grants increased to match the statewide cost index in effect in the ninth month after the date of apportionment by the State Allocation Board or the time of the bid opening date for the project's first construction phase, whichever comes first.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School construction: Twin Rivers Unified School District
Provides the Twin Rivers Unified School District an exception to current law and regulations under the School Facility Program, which prohibits the State Allocation Board from providing funds for the construction of new schools if an application is received after classrooms are occupied.
Chapter 652, Statutes of 2008
Public contracts: school districts: relocatable buildings
Permits a school district, without advertising for bids, to authorize another public agency to purchase relocatable buildings for the district. (This process is commonly referred to as "piggybacking" because a school district places its order for personal property on top of another public agency's order.)
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
School facilities: modernization eligibility
Credits for purposes of determining the eligibility for modernization funding one additional year for each three-year period for which a school facility was in continual use on a multitrack year-round educational schedule.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: uniform standards: solar design plans
Requires the Department of General Services' Division of State Architect, on or before 1/1/10, to develop uniform criteria for the precheck approval process for solar design plans, including structural plans and calculations, for school facility projects' compliance with existing law and regulations.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2008
Career Technical Education Facilities Program
Requires that new construction grants not exceed $3,500,000 per project per schoolsite (current law specifies $3,000,000 per project per schoolsite).
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School facilities: new construction: portable classrooms
Requires the number of pupils housed in portable classrooms that are at least 30-years old to be subtracted from a school district's building capacity for the purpose of determining new construction funding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: modernization funding
Makes several changes to the state school modernization program, including establishing a new program to provide grant funding to school districts that previously used modernization funding for seismic evaluation, repair, reconstruction, or replacement, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: small schools
Establishes a small school program for the purpose of utilizing state school construction and modernization funding, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School Facilities: San Francisco USD
Authorizes the San Francisco Unified School District, until October 2011, to deposit proceeds from the sale of surplus property sold between 11/1/07, and 10/31/11, into the district's general fund for any one-time general fund purchase and specifies that such action does not disqualify the school district from eligibility for funding from any school facilities program authorized by the state.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
School facilities: charter schools
Modifies the methodology used by the California School Finance Authority for determining the interest rate on a loan made to a charter school for financing the construction or rehabilitation of a school facility under the Charter School Facility Program.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2008
School construction: modernization eligibility
Provides Santee School District eligibility to receive state school facility funds for the modernization of the Pepper Street School.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Public schools facility financing
Changes requirements for assessing, and revises the methodology for calculating, Level 2 developer fees for the construction of school facilities.
Vetoed
School facilities
Makes changes to the per-unhoused-pupil state funding for school construction and modernization.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
School facilities
Requires that notice requirements be met by a school district governing board or a county board of education prior to proceeding with the issuance of Certificates of Participation and other debt instruments secured by real property and that do not require the approval of voters.
Chapter 128, Statutes of 2008
School facilities: hazardous site
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act regarding the siting of school facilities near or on hazardous waste sites or near facilities emitting hazardous emissions.
Chapter 148, Statutes of 2008
School facilities: energy efficiency
Requires the State Allocation Board, on or after 1/1/09, to review the criteria for funding under the High Performance Schools Grant program authorized under Proposition 1D -- the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, for new construction and modernization projects and the extent to which renewable energy technologies were included in funded projects, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: site acquisition and development
Alters the timeframe for the appraisal of a site for the purposes of calculating the amount of funding assistance provided through the School Facility Program related to site acquisition.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School facilities: water toxicity assessment
Requires a school district to conduct a one-time assessment of water toxicity levels in schools with plumbing that has not been updated since 1993, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education facilities: inspections
Requires school districts and community college districts to use Field Act inspectors that are under the Department of General Services' Division of the State Architect authority, except as specified.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
Bilingual Education
English learners: California high school exit examination
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to invite providers of innovative programs for English language learners to submit proposals of programs designed to provide intensive, intervention-focused, supplemental instruction to English language learners enrolled in grades 10-12 who have not passed the high school exit exam.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Parental involvement: limited-English-proficient parents
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another enacted statute, to establish and implement a pilot program to provide matching grant awards to local education agencies to encourage the involvement of limited-English-proficient parents in their children's education. Sunsets the pilot program on 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Teachers: professional development
Authorizes a local educational agency to use up to 25% of the Mathematics Reading and Professional Development program funds (except for funds appropriated for teachers of English language learners) for instruction and training that has not been approved by the State Board of Education in order to provide teachers with intensive training in mathematical content.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Preschool: teachers: limited-English-proficient children
Requires the California Department of Education to establish and implement a pilot program that includes three counties in the state (one in each geographic region) to provide college coursework, training, and career ladder opportunities for preschool teachers who provide instruction to limited-English-proficient children.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Accelerated English Acquisition and Literacy Pilot Program
Enacts the Accelerated English Acquisition and Literacy Pilot Program to provide for the development of instructional materials in English language development and literacy that are designed for English language learners and to assess the impact of these materials on English language development and reading/language arts achievement.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Bilingual education: teacher credentialing
Permits candidates for the Bilingual, Crosscultural, Language and Academic Development authorization to demonstrate knowledge, skills and language proficiency by completing coursework or a combination of coursework and examinations.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2008
English learners: reclassification
Requires the California Department of Education, as part of its duties in administering the California English Language Development Test, to gather from each school district that has at least one English language learner, the criteria used by that district for the reclassification of a pupil from English language learner to proficient in English. The information would be posted on the web site.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
English Language Learner Literacy pilot program
Establishes the English Language Learner Literacy and Accelerated English Language Acquisition Pilot program, until 1/1/16, to call for the development of instructional materials specifically designed for English language development and literacy to accelerate the acquisition of English, and to provide a comprehensive program of reading/language arts and English language development designed for English language learner pupils.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Charter Schools
Charter schools: petitions: facilities
Makes changes to current law regarding statewide charter schools, and appropriates $18 million for the Charter School Facility Grant Program.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
Charter schools: funding
Entitles a county-sponsored charter school authorized prior to 7/1/05 (the Soledad Enrichment Action Charter School is the school that qualifies) to receive additional funding through the charter school categorical block grant program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School facilities
Exempts a school district that receives Year-Round School Grant Program funds in fiscal year 2007-08 from losing eligibility for state school bond funds. Sunsets the Year-Round School Grant Program on 7/1/13, and requires the reallocation of those funds to the Charter School Facility Grant Program.
Chapter 271, Statutes of 2008
Charter schools: facilities
Provides that a resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility, established by 1/1/08, by a nonclassroom-based charter school in the county in which the charter school is authorized, is deemed to be in compliance with the provisions authorizing the establishment of such a facility in an adjacent county including the provision which requires the majority of the pupils served by the nonclassroom-based charter to be residents of the county in which the school is authorized.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Independent study
Provides that if an auditor determines that a school district, county office of education or charter school has not complied with the law concerning independent study apportionments, or that noncompliance has been minor or inadvertent but educational services are generally being provided, the school district, county office, or charter school would not be subject to a penalty if its practices are brought into substantial compliance within six months of the issuance of the audit report.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
Pupils: supplemental instruction programs
Authorizes school districts and charter schools that offer specified supplemental programs to offer instruction with real-world applications delivered through project-based learning and problem-based teaching strategies.
Vetoed
Charter schools: funding
Establishes a pilot program to authorize a charter school, beginning 7/1/08, which serves pupils who meet requirements for assignment to a community day school to receive community day school funding until 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Charter schools: revocation
Makes changes to the appeal process for charter school revocation.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Charter schools
Repeals, on 1/1/13, provisions of existing law authorizing the State Board of Education to approve petitions submitted directly to the Board of Equalization to establish state charter schools that may operate at multiple sites throughout the state. Requires the California Research Bureau in the California State Library, on or before 2/1/12, to provide information to the Legislature regarding the implementation of that authorization.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Charter schools: governing boards
Requires charter schools, as a part of their petition, to provide an assurance of compliance with the Ralph M. Brown Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Government tort claims: charter schools
Requires the California Law Revision Commission to submit a report to the Legislature, by March 2009, that includes a description of the policy purposes of existing statute concerning government tort liability and the possible consequences of adding charter schools to the list of public agencies covered by those statutes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Oakland Unified School District: charter school petitions
Prohibits a chartering authority from approving a petition to establish a charter school within the geographic boundaries of the Oakland Unified School District, while the State Administrator continues to exercise any powers or the district has an outstanding balance on the emergency apportionment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Charter schools: school facilities
Modifies the methodology used by the California School Finance Authority for determining the interest rate on a loan made to a charter school for financing the construction or rehabilitation of a school facility under the Charter School Facility Program.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2008
Charter schools: governing boards
Requires charter schools to adopt and comply with a conflict of interest policy that requires its governing board members to abide by the same conflict of interest requirements as local education agency governing board members.
Vetoed
Charter schools: joint powers agreement: funding
Establishes a formula to allow the apportionment of revenue limit funding for pupil attendance in classes operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement. Authorizes the Center for Advanced Research and Technology, which is operated pursuant to a joint powers agreement, to receive charter school general purpose funding for 2005-06 and 2006-07.
Chapter 762, Statutes of 2008
Charter schools: statewide assessments
Requires a charter school that administers its own pupil assessments to notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction and specifies the process for a charter school to change that decision by a specified date.
Vetoed
School Safety
Safe school zones: gangs
Provides that for a defendant convicted of participation in a street gang or a felony for which a gang enhancement was imposed, if a crime occurs within 1,000 feet of a school or park, it shall be a fact in aggravation.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
School zones: crime
Enhances the law concerning safe school zones, relative to crimes occurring in these zones.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
School zones: crime
Expands the area of a safe school zone from 1,000 to 1,500 feet from a school, and provides that existing school disruption and related crimes apply to prescribed conduct on or around a private school.
Chapter 726, Statutes of 2008
Pupil safety
Adds to the School/Law Enforcement Partnership program provisions related to bullying committed by means of an electronic act, adds a definition of "electronic act" for this purpose, and authorizes school officials to suspend or recommend for expulsion pupils who engage in bullying, as specified.
Chapter 646, Statutes of 2008
Schoolgrounds: imitation firearms
Expands the existing prohibition against openly displaying or exposing any imitation firearm in a public place to include any such display on the grounds of a public school.
Chapter 422, Statutes of 2008
School security officers
Requires every school district to maintain a minimum ratio of one school security officer for every 500 pupils enrolled at each of its middle schools and comprehensive high schools.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School safety plans
Requires principals or schoolsite administrators (rather than the school district) to be solely responsible for notifying the California Department of Education of their school's compliance with school safety plan requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Sex offenders: schools
Creates a new infraction for any person required to register as a sex offender, as specified, who is found in a parked motor vehicle within 200 feet of a school that provides kindergarten and grades one through 12, inclusive, without lawful business.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
School safety: Safe School Guarantee
Defines "safe" and "unsafe" schools and provides a parent of a public elementary or secondary school pupil the option to transfer his/her child to a safe school in the district or in another school district.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
School safety plans
Requires school districts to annually submit a list to the California Department of Education of schools under their jurisdiction that have complied or that have not complied with the requirement to develop comprehensive school safety plans.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School districts: school safety
Requires school employees to immediately report, as specified, to the school principal any acts of harassment or discrimination that have occurred, or any terrorist threats made, that makes a pupil subject to expulsion or suspension. Upon receipt of the report, the principal or designee is responsible for investigating the report and notifying the superintendent of the district of the incident.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Child and Day Care
Child care: eligibility: termination of services
Permits the transfer of child care benefits for children in foster care who are placed with a new foster parent.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Child care resource and referral programs: funding
Allocates funding from a specified budget source to child care resource and referral programs for the purpose of facilitating inclusion of children with disabilities into state-funded child care programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Child day care: payment programs
Specifies that payment to a child care provider shall not commence until the Department of Social Services confirms that the child care provider is a registered child care trustline provider or is exempted from trustline registration, and revises the scope of circumstances that require that the payment shall immediately cease. Applies these provisions only in counties in which the trustline automated registration process and the LiveScan system are operational, and makes additional changes to conform to existing law.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
Child care: provider organization: representation
Authorizes family child care providers to form, join and participate in "provider organizations" for purposes of negotiating with state agencies on specified matters.
Vetoed
Child care: data collection
Requires the California Department of Education to collect, aggregate, and analyze specified child care and development data and annually report findings to the Legislature on the data beginning in January 2010.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Child care: County of San Mateo child care subsidy plan
Extends the sunset date by five years, to 2014, for San Mateo County's individualized child care subsidy pilot program.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2008
Child care: reimbursement rate
Allows Title 5 child care programs that are reimbursed at a lower rate than license-exempt providers in that county to be reimbursed at a higher rate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
State preschool programs
Establishes the Early Learning Quality Improvement System Advisory Committee to develop recommendations on how to evaluate and improve the quality of child development programs providing services from birth to age five, including preschool, and establishes a framework for future resources necessary to achieve and maintain higher quality programs.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 2008
Child care: state preschool programs
Excludes from income calculation the basic housing allowance received by active military personnel for purposes of determining eligibility for state preschool.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Child day care facility rating system
Requires the Department of Social Services to develop and implement a licensed child care facility rating system that encompasses child health and safety by 1/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Child day care facilities
Exempts from the California Child Day Care Facilities Act any program that provides activities for children of an instructional nature in a classroom-like setting that is otherwise subject to the act if the instruction is based upon the language, customs, and traditions of a population group that is primarily located outside of the United States and the program is registered as a trustline provider.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
Child care: City and County of San Francisco
Allows, on a pilot project basis, families living in the City and County of San Francisco to transfer their children from a locally funded child care program to a state or federally funded child care program.
Vetoed
Child care resource and referral programs
Appropriates $2.9 million (General Fund) from the California Department of Education to allow child care resource and referral programs to continue providing support and training to license-exempt child care providers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Child care: funding: audits
Establishes accounting rules and auditing practices for child care and development centers and agencies which contract with the California Department of Education, and prohibits consideration of unrestricted donations in state funding determinations for child care contractors.
Vetoed
Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program
Expands available awards and creates new eligibility criteria for the Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program, and expresses the intent of the Legislature to award up to 400 new grants each year, raising the value of such grants to $3,000 per year for applicants in four-year institutions and $2,000 per year for applicants in two-year institutions, contingent upon increases in federal funding to cover additional costs.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
2008 Human Services Budget Trailer bill: child care
Enacts the 2008 Human Services Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, modifies child care provisions of law.
Chapter 759, Statutes of 2008
State preschool programs
Appropriates funding for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years for prekindergarten and family literacy programs and specifies eligibility and programmatic requirements.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: child care
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, abolishes the Child Care and Development Facilities Loan Guaranty Fund, the Child Care and Development Facilities Direct Loan Fund, and the Child Care Loan Guaranty Fund Account in the Small Business Expansion Fund. Provides that all monies remaining in those funds and that account revert to the General Fund.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008
Child care providers
Increases the amount of reserve funds an Alternative Payment Program may maintain.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Child care: licensure requirements: heritage schools
Exempts "Heritage Schools" from the Department of Social Services licensing requirements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Child care: state employees
Authorizes the Department of General Services to provide a full cost subsidy to a child care facility that has received a rent deferral for two or more years.
Vetoed
State preschool: information
Authorizes the transfer of information about a preschool pupil to the local public school to which the pupil will transfer to include information that the Superintendent of Public Instruction deems appropriate and helpful to the public school teacher.
Vetoed
Child care providers: data
Allows specified individuals to permit disclosure of their own criminal background information across multiple agencies so as to improve the ability of adults providing care in preschool, infant and toddler, and school-age child development programs to move between agencies.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
State preschool programs: reform
Recasts, renames, and modifies provisions of the Child Care and Development Services Act to establish the California State Preschool Program.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2008
Special Education
New construction grant eligibility: special education pupils
Requires the new construction per-pupil grant for special education students to be increased by 6%, and authorizes a school district that has a new construction project approved on or after 7/1/06 that contains special education classrooms to apply to the State Allocation Board for a supplemental apportionment equal to the 6% grant increase.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Special education: workability project grant funds
Authorizes a school district to use workability project grant funds to provide transition services that are not part of a workability project, yet meet the elements of a workability project.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities
Exempts, until 12/31/10, eligible pupils with disabilities from the requirement to pass the high school exit exam as a condition of receiving a high school diploma, and provides the opportunity for eligible pupils with disabilities to receive a diploma.
Vetoed
Special education: foster children: funding
Requires a local educational agency to include payment for services provided to a pupil prior to approval of an individualized education program that authorizes placement in the school if the pupil has been placed in a specified group home or community treatment facility by the county welfare or probation department, except as prescribed, the pupil was placed in the school by the person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, and an individualized education program is approved for the pupil that authorizes placement in the school.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Special education: funding
Requires the state, for out-of-county foster children residing in a licensed children's institution who have been certified as seriously emotionally disturbed by the mental health director from the county of jurisdiction, to assume the educational costs incurred in any fiscal year by a special education local plan area that are in excess of the revenues received.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Special education: school finance
Modifies the special education formula funding model to require a cost-of-living adjustment for all special education funds tied to cost-of-living adjustments calculated for school districts' revenue limits.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupils with disabilities: waivers
Revises the law concerning waivers for pupils with disabilities relative to the high school exit exam.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Special education: procedural safeguards
Makes several changes to special education law and adds requirements to the special education dispute resolutions process, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Special education: due process hearings
Requires a local education agency to continue providing early intervention services to a three-year-old child (as specified in the Individualized Family Service Plan) applying to receive preschool services, pending the resolution of a due process hearing, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Special education: seriously emotionally disturbed children
Authorizes payments for care and supervision of a child classified as a seriously emotionally disturbed and placed out-of-home in an out-of-state, for-profit residential facility pursuant to special education provisions.
Vetoed
Special education: autism spectrum disorders: clearinghouse
Establishes the California Autism Spectrum Disorder Clearinghouse, to be administered by the California Department of Education, for the purpose of providing evidence-based and recommended information and practices regarding the education of pupils with autism spectrum disorders.
Vetoed
Special education: initial assessment
Requires the existing notice of parent rights and procedural safeguards provided to parents or guardians of pupils with disabilities to include information regarding the state special schools for pupils who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2008
Special education: due process hearing: burden of proof
Assigns the burden of proof to the local education agency in a special education due process hearing, if the parent challenging the appropriateness of his/her child's individualized education program has presented a prime facie case.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Special education: foster children
Shortens the time frame for conducting an assessment and completing an individualized education program from 60 calendar days to 20 working days for pupils placed in a specified classification of a group home or community treatment facility.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
School Accountability and Testing
Pupil assessment: English learners
Requires, commencing in the 2008-09 fiscal year, an English-language-learner pupil who receives instruction in his/her primary language, and has been enrolled in a school in the United States for a specified period of time, to take a standards-aligned assessment in the pupil's primary language.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public school accountability: allocations
Provides federal funding for technical assistance provided to school districts recommended by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and approved by the State Board of Education for corrective action under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
School district accountability
Makes changes in the process for state intervention for local education agencies that are identified for program improvement and facing corrective action under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Appropriates $47 million in federal funds for purposes of the bill.
(Failed passage on Senate Unfinished Business File)
Pupil assessment: high school exit examination
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop an additional section to be included in the high school exit examination that tests United States history and government. Requires the State Board of Education, by 1/1/09, to adopt a United States history and government section developed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for inclusion in the high school exit examination, to be available to pupils taking the test by the 2010-11 school year.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Pupil instruction: graduation requirements
Requires high schools participating in the California Enhanced Instructional Time Program to adopt a graduation policy that requires pupils to complete two courses in career technical education.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
Independent study and alternative accountability systems
Establishes a process for monitoring the academic progress of pupils in independent study, and revises requirements for the establishment of an alternative accountability system for schools serving high-risk pupils, such as community schools and continuation schools.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupil testing
Requires that pupils in kindergarten and first grade whose primary language is other than English be assessed in the areas of English listening, speaking, and early literacy.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School accountability: report card
Revises the items that must be reported on the School Accountability Report Card, and requires that school districts make the annually updated School Accountability Report Card available to the public no later than February 1 of the following year.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupil testing
Requires the State Board of Education to minimize testing time, maintain academic rigor, maximize the efficiency of the state testing system, and only implement federally required tests pursuant to state law.
Vetoed
School accountability: Academic Performance Index
Adds partial credit for pupils who graduate high school in five or six years to the calculation of each high school's Academic Performance Index.
Chapter 710, Statutes of 2008
Pupils: high school graduation requirements
Requires all pupils to attain a score of at least "proficient" on the history-social science section of the California Standards Test while in grade 11 in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Pupil data
Develops a process, commencing 7/1/09, for reviewing and responding to requests for aggregate or non-identifiable, individual pupil data records housed in the emerging California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System.
Vetoed
High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities
Exempts, until 12/31/10, eligible pupils with disabilities from the requirement to pass the high school exit exam as a condition of receiving a high school diploma, and provides the opportunity for eligible pupils with disabilities to receive a diploma.
Vetoed
Pupil data: Asian and Pacific Islander pupils
Requires that the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System have the ability to disaggregate data related to Asian Pacific Islander pupils in order to provide a more accurate view of the academic achievement of the subgroups of pupils within that category.
Vetoed
High school graduation
Establishes a statewide goal of increasing high school graduation rates to 90%. Requires supplemental instruction be provided for pupils not demonstrating sufficient progress.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Education data: standing committee
Establishes a committee responsible for providing oversight for the California Department of Education's data collection activities.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
The Standardized Testing and Reporting Program
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract for an independent evaluation of the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program for presentation to the Legislature and the State Board of Education by 1/1/10.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
The STAR Program
Establishes the Standardized Testing Achievement Rewards to provide non-monetary pupil awards and incentives based on testing results.
Vetoed
California's high school exit examination
Requests the Governor take, as many times as necessary, and pass California's high school exit examination, in the language of the Governor's choice, within one year of the effective date of this resolution, or resign the office to allow the Lieutenant Governor to serve as Governor until passing the examination, or the natural expiration of the current term of office, whichever is sooner.
(Died in Senate being unassigned to a committee)
High school exit examination: instruction & services
Corrects an error in current law pertaining to the provision of intensive instruction and services designed to help pupils pass the high school exit examination.
Vetoed
Pupils: AVID program
Requires the California Department of Education to expand the Advancement Via Individual Determination program to students in grades 4-8, in deciles one to three schools, as specified, subject to an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or other statute.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
California high school exit examination: English learners
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to invite providers of innovative programs for English language learners to submit proposals of programs designed to provide intensive, intervention-focused, supplemental instruction to English language learner pupils enrolled in grades 10-12 who have not passed the high school exit exam.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupil counseling: supplemental school counseling
Changes the method of allocating funds for the Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling program from the existing per-pupil enrolled in grades 7-12 amount to an allocation based on the number of pupils who failed either section of the high school exit examination in the most recent 10th grade administration.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School accountability: UC study
Requests the Regents of the University of California to research the meaning of the term "proficiency" and recommend a definition of that term to the Legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the state's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
High schools: requirements for graduation
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the Secretary for Education and the High School Exit Exam Standards Panel, to identify alternative criteria and measures by which high school pupils can demonstrate proficiency (other than passing the California High School Exit Exam) in order to receive a high school diploma, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School accountability
Exempts schools ranked in deciles 6 to 10 in its most recent ranking on the Academic Performance Index from the requirements of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and repeals the program on 1/10/10. States legislative intent to create an accountability system that combines federal and state requirements. Allows local education agencies identified for program improvement to receive funding for four years, rather than two, subject to the availability of funds provided in the Budget Act. Adds several elements and requirements regarding the operation and tenure of district assistance and intervention teams.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Pupil assessment
Requires the county office of education to administer a designated achievement test to pupils in grade 2, on and after 7/1/07, until those provisions are repealed on 1/1/11.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education: supplemental instruction
Requires school districts, and permits charter schools, to offer supplemental instruction to pupils in grades 7-12 that are not demonstrating sufficient progress toward completing courses required for graduation. Requires that the first priority for funding, pursuant to this item, be provided to support pupils not demonstrating sufficient progress toward passing the high school exit exam.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Education: instructional materials: financial literacy
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that information about financial literacy is included in appropriate subject area frameworks and encourages school districts to include instruction relating to the understanding of personal finances. Provides that the provisions of the bill be funded through private donations.
Vetoed
Pupils with disabilities: exit exams
Revises significantly, the current process concerning waivers for pupils with disabilities relative to the high school exit exam.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
High school exit examination
Provides eligible pupils with disabilities who have fulfilled all of the requirements for a high school diploma, except passage of the high school exit exam, to demonstrate through alterative means that they have achieved the same level of academic achievement required for passage.
Chapter 666, Statutes of 2008
High school exit examination
Extends to 9th and 10th grade pupils, as specified, eligibility for intensive instruction and services for pupils who have failed one or both parts of the California High School Exit Exam.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
The California English language development test
Requires that the California English Language Development Test be administered at least 65% of the way into the school year, that the California Department of Education annually release sample questions from the test, and that a pupil's scores be reported to his/her parent in their home language. Allows local education agencies to score exams unofficially at the local level.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Funding and Accountability Commission for Transparency
Establishes a Funding and Accountability Commission for Transparency and Simplicity to provide policymakers with a comprehensive plan to reform the education finance system, provided that the Superintendent of Public Instruction certifies that sufficient funds exit for implementation.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Schools: accountability
Aligns exit criteria for the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and the High Priority Schools Grant Program by requiring schools to meet or exceed Academic Performance Index growth targets averaged over three years for High Priority Schools Grant Program and two years for Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, to exit the state accountability programs.
Vetoed
Public school accountability
Requires the Public Schools Accountability Act advisory committee to recommend to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education an appropriate methodology that establishes a measure of growth in annual academic achievement for specific cohorts of pupils, and a mechanism to utilize the measure.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
The Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999
Requires the Academic Performance Index advisory committee, by 7/1/10, to make recommendations for measuring academic performance of K-12 pupils and schools in a longitudinally valid assessment system. Requires the advisory committee to make recommendations regarding the inclusion of the California English Language Development Test to the Academic Performance Index.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Pupil achievement: high school exit examination
Enhances the existing multi-year independent evaluation of the California High School Exit Exam by adding information that attempts to document what happens to students who did not pass in time to graduate. Seeks to examine economic outcomes of these pupils and examine conditions of their schools.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: reauthorization
Urges the Congress of the United States to amend the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to provide states more flexibility in the implementation of the law and in the identification of schools in need of improvement in order to strategically target resources and interventions toward those schools and school districts that are most in need, to permit adequate yearly progress to accommodate a range of accountability models, and to respect parental choice. Also urges the President and the Congress of the United States to fully fund the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 for the life of the Act.
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2008
Pupil testing and secondary education
Recognizes the impact of the narrowing of the curriculum that is resulting from the state and federal assessment and accountability systems.
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2008
Higher Education
Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act
Enacts the California Dream Act, which expands eligibility for state postsecondary financial aid and community college fee waiver programs to include students who are exempted from paying nonresident tuition under current law, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Educational & Economic Goals for Higher Education
Requires the state to establish an accountability framework to biennially assess the collective progress of the state's system of postsecondary education in meeting specified educational and economic goals.
Vetoed
Reimbursement of community college enrollment fees
Reimburses California Community College fees for students who transfer to, and graduate from, the University of California or the California State University within a specified timeframe.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
California Postsecondary Education Commission
Deletes a variety of review and reporting requirements of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, most of which are obsolete or have not been recently produced by the commission, in order to prioritize workload.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2008
Community colleges: inmate education programs
Expands the ability of community colleges to obtain state apportionment funding for credit courses offered in correctional institutions, including state correctional facilities.
Vetoed
Student loan assistance: prosecutors and public defenders
Establishes the Public Safety Incentive Program, administered by the California Student Aid Commission, to provide up to $40,000 in loan assumption benefits over a five-year period to attorneys employed as prosecutors or public defenders, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Postsecondary education: community college school buildings
Provides for alternative building standards for the California Community Colleges, mirroring those applying to the California State University, while keeping plan check and oversight responsibilities with the Department of General Services.
Chapter 588, Statutes of 2008
Student financial aid: grant deadlines
Changes the annual deadline for submitting an application for a Cal Grant loan from March 2 to June 30.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Tuition programs: income tax deductions
Authorizes, beginning on or after 1/1/07, a tax deduction for the amounts contributed by a qualified taxpayer to a qualified tuition program, as defined. Requires the Scholarshare Investment Board to make a one-time matching contribution in the amount of $50 to any qualified tuition program, as defined, established for any child born in this state on or after 1/1/08, before that child reaches one year of age. Appropriates from the General Fund to the Board, the amounts necessary to make the contributions. Declares the Legislature's intent to enact legislation to establish a one-time matching contribution program for contributions to qualified tuition programs for children under the age of seven.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Authorizes credentialed teachers to participate in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education if they teach in low-performing schools ranked in decile one or two, as measured by the Academic Performance Index, and have not otherwise participated in the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Higher education: health insurance for students
Adds a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that requires the University of California, the California State University, and each community college district to each provide, as part of their respective health care services programs, health insurance coverage for each full-time student who is not otherwise covered by a private health insurance plan or by publicly financed health care coverage.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Student financial aid: working group on Cal Grant deadlines
Requires the Student Aid Commission to establish a working group to consider whether altering existing deadlines for Cal Grant applications would lead to greater access to the grants by low-income and underrepresented pupils. Requires the report detailing the group's findings and recommendations be submitted to the Legislature by 9/30/08.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Holocaust and genocide: education
Extends the operation for the California Taskforce on Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education and the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance at the California State University, Chico, to 1/1/10.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Public Service Customer Service Academy
Encourages the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to authorize the establishment of a Public Service Customer Service Academy to train state and local public agency employees in customer service and workplace skills and to undertake a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a Public Sector Professional Development Institute, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008
Recasts and revises the provisions the California Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 into the Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008.
Vetoed
Students: college preparedness
Establishes the voluntary Early Commitment to College program designed to increase college preparation for low-income K-12 pupils. Provides participating pupils a community college fee waiver for two or more years of enrollment, as long as the pupil is a California resident and continues to show financial need on the free application for federal student aid.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2008
Tuition: income tax
Allows a taxpayer to direct any portion of their personal income tax refunds into a qualified tuition program account.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Community College Early Assessment Pilot Program
Authorizes the individual results of the California Standards Test to be provided to the California Community Colleges so that the Early Assessment Program may be expanded to include participation by prospective community college students.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2008
Private Postsecondary Education
Establishes a sunset date of 1/1/13 for the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, which is to be contingent upon the passage of SB 823 (Perata).
Chapter 385, Statutes of 2008
California State University
Requires the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, to establish a pilot program in the Agricultural Education and Communication Department relating to the teaching of career technical education, engineering, mathematics, and science.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Student financial aid: Assumption Program of Loans
Shifts 400 Assumption Program of Loans for Education (APLE) awards from one category of participants (district interns) to another category of participants ("veteran" teachers, as defined). Revises some of the APLE award amounts and conditions for making awards. Reorganizes and updates the APLE statutes including making technical, conforming and clarifying changes.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2008
Disclosure of improper governmental activities
Authorizes recovery for damages under the California Whistleblower Protection Act unless the University of California reached, or failed to reach, a decision regarding a complaint within specified time limits.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Student financial aid: members of the Armed Forces
Entitles, as of the 2009-10 fiscal year, a student who is a member or former member of the armed forces and is enrolled on a campus of the California Community Colleges, a career technical education program, or a qualifying undergraduate program, to receive a Cal Grant A or B award, provided they enroll with two years of leaving active duty and meet other specified criteria.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
California State University: Doctor of Nursing Practice
Authorizes the California State University to award a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The program focuses on the preparation of faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing education programs and may also train nurses for advanced nursing practice or leadership.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
National Guard: educational benefits
Requires any campus of the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges to provide a tuition and fee waiver, as specified, to any qualified member, as defined.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
Student financial aid: institutional financial aid
Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges and requests the University of California to provide institutional financial aid to students who are exempt from nonresident tuition due to specified provisions in law, as established by AB 540 (Firebaugh), Chapter 814, Statutes of 2001.
Vetoed
A similar bill was SB 160 (Cedillo-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
Community Colleges
Deletes various references to communism in the context of using school property and the dismissal of school district, community college, and public employees. Clarifies exemptions regarding communism as part of the required oath of allegiance for public officers and employees, and offers an alternative oath of allegiance, as specified.
Vetoed
Postsecondary education: private student loans
Requires public and private postsecondary education institutions to disclose specified information regarding the terms of private loans and federal loans in specified financial aid materials.
Vetoed
Education: freedom of speech and of the press
Prohibits a school employee from being dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against for acting to protect a pupil or student engaged in conduct authorized by state law or refusing to infringe upon conduct that is protected pursuant to the United States Constitution and the California Constitution.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2008
Nursing programs
Makes minor clarifying changes to existing provisions of law relating to registered nursing education programs at the campuses of the California State University and the California Community Colleges.
Chapter 175, Statutes of 2008
Education technology: California Virtual Campus
Establishes in statute the California Virtual Campus and deems the California Community Colleges to be qualifying schools for the California Teleconnect Fund program administered by the Public Utilities Commission. Extends to 1/1/14 the sunset date for exemptions to the cap on the percentage of pupils that K-12 school principals may recommend for enrollment at community colleges during summer sessions.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2008
Golden State Scholarshare Trust Act: CalSAVE program
Establishes the California Scholarshare Advancement Vehicle for Education program within the Scholarshare trust to fund scholarships for beneficiaries to be determined by the Scholarshare Investment Board.
Chapter 474, Statutes of 2008
School nurse loan assumption program
Establishes an Assumption Program of Loans for Education for individuals completing training for the school nurse services credential and who agree to work as a school nurse in a qualifying school or school district.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
Public postsecondary education: gender equity in athletics
Establishes California Title IX for purposes of monitoring college athletics gender equity on postsecondary campuses that have National Collegiate Athletic Association intercollegiate programs, and requires the California State University and request the Regents of the University of California to carry out new responsibilities concerning gender equity.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
California Community Colleges: transfer students
Establishes a voluntary five-year pilot program for not more than 10 community colleges to increase the rate of student transfer to four-year institutions. Requires the California State University, and requests the University of California, to establish outreach programs at each participating community college.
Vetoed
University of California: public contracts
Limits the term of all contracts for goods, materials, and services awarded by the Regents of the University of California (UC) to no more than three years and limit any contract extensions to one year. Requires UC to publish information for bidding on contracts in the State Contracts Register. Requires UC to establish a contractor responsibility program to ensure that contractors comply with all relevant laws, including those related to the health, safety, wages, and hours of employees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Community colleges: nursing faculty
Allows temporary clinical nursing faculty at three community college districts, as selected by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to teach an unlimited number of semesters between 7/1/09 and 6/30/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Nursing education
Makes several modifications regarding eligibility for participation in the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education-Nursing Faculty.
Chapter 183, Statutes of 2008
Student financial aid: Assumption Program of Loans
Expands, as of the 2009-10 fiscal year, eligibility for the Assumption Program of Loans for Education to teachers who teach at a school for juvenile offenders in a state correctional facility. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to annually identify schools and programs for juvenile offenders within facilities of the Division of Juvenile Justice.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Student financial aid: Military and Veterans Office
Allows the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and encourages the University of California, to coordinate services for students who are veterans or members of the military by designating Military and Veterans Offices to provide specified services, and to report annually to the Department of Veterans Affairs on the number of veterans assisted and the total educational benefits obtained.
Chapter 123, Statutes of 2008
California Community Colleges: public works: cost reduction
Establishes provisions within the Education Code that parallel Public Contract Code provisions that create an incentive program that rewards contractors for proposing cost- reduction strategies on California Community College projects and that require the "extra compensation" to the contractor be 50% of the net savings in construction costs as determined by the California Community College district.
(Died on Assembly on Inactive File)
California Community Colleges: Consortium on Aerospace
Establishes a Consortium on Aerospace Manufacturing to develop and promote specialized vocational curriculum geared to fulfilling the need for skilled workers in aerospace industry, to establish linkages to, and solicit technical assistance from, the relevant private sector employers for the development and implementation of the curriculum, and to engage in outreach to both community colleges and high schools and to promote awareness about skilled labor opportunities in the aerospace industry.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program
Creates the National Guard Education Assistance Award Program to provide financial support for qualifying active members of the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the Naval Militia attending a qualifying postsecondary institution. Participants would apply to the Adjutant General, who would certify eligibility to the California Student Aid Commission, who would issue the awards.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Public postsecondary education: community college districts
Requires the Legislature to provide for an independent public postsecondary education system of local community college districts as part of the public school system.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Educational assistance: armed forces members
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to amend Title 38 of the United States Code to establish a program of educational assistance for members of the Armed Forces that provides education benefits similar to those provided in the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
University of California: study abroad
Recommends that the University of California maximize student opportunity to study abroad by regularly re-evaluating its policies regarding study abroad programs in countries throughout the world including those with United States Travel Warnings.
Adopted by the Senate
University of California: obesity/diabetes/related diseases
Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish and administer an Institute for the Study of the Phenomenon of Obesity and Diabetes Experimental Research at the University of California, Irvine, in coordination with the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, to promote and conduct basic science research on obesity and diabetes, and to develop effective education and treatments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: higher education
Enacts the 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill which, among other provisions, provides approximately $428 million in lease-revenue bonds for 11 capital outlay projects consistent with an economic stimulus approach, augments the California Student Opportunity and Access Program by an additional $500,000 (for a total augmentation of $1 million), and specifies that the dollars be spent on career-technical education outreach and public awareness activities.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2008 -- Item Veto
National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Extends the operative date for the National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education from 7/1/07 until 7/1/10.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
San Jose State University-National Hispanic University
Requires the Trustees of the California State University to authorize San Jose State University and the National Hispanic University to enter into a collaboration agreement to include outreach, transfer, joint classes, and other programs of education, research, and public service.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
University of California: Energy Biosciences Institute
Calls for the establishment of an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in California. States the economic and environmental benefits of locating the EBI in California, urges the University of California to enter into a partnership with British Petroleum to establish the EBI, and declares legislative intent that the state provides the University of California with $40 million in the 2007-08 Budget Act to construct the EBI.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Cal Grant B awards: access costs
Establishes that awards for access costs in the Cal Grant B Program shall not be less than 20% of the indirect costs of the student budget allowance, as determined by the Student Aid Commission through a survey conducted triennially by the commission (the allowance is be increased by inflation in the intervening two years). Requires, beginning with the 2009-10 award year, the current maximum award for access costs be increased between 5% and 10% per year until the award has reached or exceeded the 20% goal described above.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
High schools: College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program
Establishes the College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program, to be administered by the California Department of Education, to provide pupils in selected schools with a core curriculum that integrates college preparatory courses and career technical education.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Public postsecondary education: exemption: nonresidents
Deletes the exemption allowing aliens without lawful immigration status to pay resident tuition prices when attending the California Community Colleges or the California State University.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards: award amount
Eliminates the restriction in the Cal Grant B program that, in the first year of enrollment, denies tuition benefits, and instead provides a stipend for "access costs," (i.e., costs for books, supplies, living expenses, and transportation) to 98% of Cal Grant B recipients.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
California Community Colleges Access Grant Program
Establishes a campus-based financial aid system at the California Community Colleges, to be funded with 33% of student fee revenues.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education Budget Trailer Bill of 2008
Enacts the 2008 Education Budget Trailer Bill which authorizes the California Student Aid Commission to act as the "Lender of Last Resort," under agreement with the United States Secretary for Education, should students, via colleges and universities, be unable to secure student loans through the traditional federally-subsidized student loan programs. Clarifies the uses of community college financial aid funding to include financial aid support services, in response to a recent Commission on State Mandates decision.
Chapter 757, Statutes of 2008
University of California: drinking water study
Asks the University of California to direct the University of California Center for Water Resources to study the potential adverse effects on human health of compounds used to disinfect drinking water and byproducts resulting from disinfection, with emphasis on chloramine use by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and to report the Center's findings to the Legislature by 7/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Community colleges: nursing education programs
Requires any community college district that offers a nursing education program to students to select the students to be enrolled in that program on the basis of its determination of which of those students possess more of the academic and other pertinent characteristics of a successful nursing student. Prohibits a community college district from using a lottery system, or any other random selection method, for choosing candidates for any nursing education program that it offers.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
Community colleges: open education resources centers
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish a pilot program to provide resources for faculty and staff to establish open resource centers. Provides the grants will be awarded, once funding for this purpose is made available, through a competitive process, as specified. Specifies the Board will provide for an evaluation of the pilot program to be submitted to the Legislature no more than two years after the program is implemented.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Community colleges: temporary employees
Allows the California Community Colleges to hire temporary part-time employees to teach up to 67%, rather than 60% of the hours per week that constitute a regular full time faculty assignment.
Chapter 84, Statutes of 2008
Universities: reserve peace officers
Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University and the Regents of the University of California to establish reserve peace officer programs to supplement their respective police departments.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Community college: police
Includes community college and school district police, as specified, to provisions of law which make attempted murder on a peace officer a circumstance in aggravation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Student financial aid: physician assistants
Establishes, until 1/1/14, the California Physician Assistant Loan Assumption Program to assume up to $20,000 in student loans for eligible students who agree to practice in medically underserved areas.
Chapter 628, Statutes of 2008
Student financial aid: veterans
Enacts the Golden State G.I. Bill of Rights for Higher Education, prohibiting any campus of the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges from charging any mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to a California resident who is a member of the armed services, were honorably discharged, and have used all of their Montgomery Bill G.I. benefits.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Career technical education
Authorizes adult education schools to participate in a career technical education grant program administered jointly by the California Department of Education and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Tuition: income tax deduction
Allows a tax deduction for contributions made by a qualified taxpayer to another qualified tuition program.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Higher education: recycling polystyrene
Prohibits the California State University, California Community Colleges and, upon approval of the Regents, the University of California from selling, possessing, or distributing expanded polystyrene food containers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Higher education: career technical education
Requests the University of California and the California State University to provide assistance in the development of K-12 Career Technical Education courses for the purposes of admission to University of California and California State University and to disseminate information about those courses.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2008
Student financial aid
Establishes a five-year pilot program to provide loan assumption for teachers and interns with the Compton Unified School District who agree to teach full-time in the district.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
California Community Colleges
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to conduct five annual random audits to encourage compliance with existing law that requires California Community Colleges districts to expend 50% of their expense of education on the salaries of classroom instructors.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
U.C. Study: school accountability
Requests the Regents of the University of California to research the meaning of the term "proficiency" and recommend a definition of that term to the Legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the state's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
University of California Riverside: corrections study
Appropriates $149,000 to the Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies, located at the University of California, Riverside, for a study into correction alternatives in San Mateo County.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Health care: nurse training scholarship pilot program
Extends the sunset date of the Associate Degree Nursing Scholarship Pilot Program from 1/1/09 to 1/1/14.
Chapter 426, Statutes of 2008
University of California at Davis: food safety
Creates the Fresh Produce Food Safety Research Fund, to be administered by the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security within the University of California, Davis. Specifies monies in the fund are to be used to finance research to significantly reduce the risk of contamination of fresh produce.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
Postsecondary education: student fees
Establishes a new student fee policy for resident undergraduate students in the University of California and the California State University.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008
Recasts and revises the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Act as the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008, to be in the Business and Professions Code.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Contracts: community college districts
Authorizes the Los Angeles Community College District to engage in "job order contracting" as an alternative to traditional competitive bidding for smaller modernization and maintenance contracts.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
Civic service: Civic Service Loan Assumption Program
Establishes a new loan assumption program for prospective "civic" service in cities, counties, and community organizations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Community colleges: employment of full-time faculty
Requires, by 12/31/10, that at least 75% of the hours of credit instruction at each district in the California Community Colleges (CCC) be taught by full-time faculty, and requires each CCC district, at the end of a fiscal year, to allocate any reserve funds exceeding 5% toward achieving this goal. Prohibits the CCC Board of Governors from waiving these requirements unless a district's reserves are 5% or less of the proposed expenditures for the new fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Occupational therapists
Establishes the California Board of Occupational Therapy Student Loan Repayment Program for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants who practice for three years in California.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Faculty and College Excellence Act
Requires the California Community Colleges and the California State University to achieve 75% full-time equivalent faculty by 2014-15, and to achieve certain standards in pro-rata salary and benefits. Provides preferential treatment for part-time faculty in the hiring process for new full-time faculty positions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupils: concurrent enrollment
Expands the use of concurrent enrollment between high schools and the California Community Colleges (CCC) by raising, and ultimately lifting, the cap on the percentage of high school pupils that principals may recommend for CCC summer sessions and by easing restrictions on the types of CCC courses that may be offered to high school pupils, pursuant to a partnership between the school district and the CCC.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Community colleges: salary schedules for academic employees
Requires all California community college district salary schedules for academic employees to be uniform in application and effect.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act
Enacts the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2007. Provides that current or former foster youth in their first year of postsecondary enrollment will be eligible for tuition and fee coverage under the Cal Grant B program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Higher education: curriculum
Requires the California State University Trustees, and requests the University of California Regents to recognize, beginning 1/1/14, career technical education courses that meet standards adopted by the State Board of Education.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
University of California: retirement benefits
Requests the Regents of the University of California to implement a defined benefit plan that includes an employer contribution for employees who are ineligible to participate in the University of California Retirement Plan.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Student financial aid
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to report on actions by the federal government and the State of New York to address issues regarding ethics standards in the student loan industry.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Community colleges: grade changing policies
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to distribute a preexisting model grade changing policy updated in 2008 to protect the accuracy and integrity of all awarded grades.
Vetoed
Postsecondary education
Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requests the University of California, to provide tuition and fee waivers to qualified members of the California National Guard.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public postsecondary education: reporting requirements
Eliminates, restructures, and reorganizes various higher education reporting requirements of the state's public universities and colleges to provide for more effective, manageable, and transparent reporting to the Legislature.
Vetoed
Peralta Community College District: transportation fees
Authorizes the Peralta Community College District (CCD) to charge a fee to students and employees in order to fund transportation services if specified requirements are met. (This authority is currently provided only to the Los Rios and Rio Hondo CCDs.) Expands the terms by which the Los Rios and Rio Hondo CCDs may charge transportation fees (and extends these terms to Peralta, as well.)
Chapter 145, Statutes of 2008
California Community Colleges
Establishes a Center of Innovation for Green Technology, to be located at a community college district in the San Francisco Bay region, within the California Community Colleges' Economic and Workforce Development Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
California State University: prevailing wage law study
Requires the Legislative Analyst Office to complete a study of the compliance by California State University with prevailing wage laws by 7/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Student financial aid: military service
Requires the California Student Aid Commission to provide special consideration to applicants for competitive Cal Grant A and B awards that have served in the California National Guard for at least six years.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Student financial aid: institutional financial aid
Requests the University of California and requires the California State University, and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish procedures and forms to enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition, as specified, to be eligible to receive institutional financial aid awards.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
University of California hospitals: staffing
Requires the Department of Public Health, beginning on 1/1/10, to establish a procedure for collecting and reviewing the written staffing plans developed by the University of California general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals. Requires the Department of Public Health to review documentation from each hospital concerning several aspects of its patient classification plan, as specified.
Vetoed
Postsecondary education
Clarifies that students participating in the Competitive Cal Grant B award program may use a college grade point average, if they have one, in lieu of a high school grade point average, and repeals an obsolete statute authorizing a California Community Colleges district governing board to contract out the operation of a bookstore.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 2008
Community colleges: open education resources centers
Authorizes the California Community Colleges Board of Governors to use existing resources to establish a pilot program to provide resources for faculty and staff to establish open education resource centers.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2008
Public contracts: community college districts
Allows a community college district to authorize a contractor to proceed with work on certain contracts which contain multiple changes or alterations without securing bids provided the costs of all the changes or alterations do not exceed specified amounts.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
Community colleges: collective bargaining
Requires the issue of earning and retaining short-term disability rights to be a mandatory subject of negotiation with respect to the collective bargaining process relating to any new or successor contract executed between a community college district and the exclusive bargaining representative of its faculty occurring on or after 1/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
Community Colleges: property tax revenues
Backfills a current-year shortfall in property tax revenue to the California Community Colleges with state General Fund monies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Cal Grant B awards: award amount
Phases in elimination of the restriction in the Cal Grant B program that, in the first year of enrollment, denies tuition benefits and instead provides only a stipend for "access costs," (i.e., costs for books, supplies, living expenses, and transportation) to 98% of Cal Grant B recipients.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public postsecondary education: systemwide fees: limitations
Establishes an income tax surcharge, on taxable income exceeding $1 million, to limit tuition and fee charges to the University of California and the California State University students.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees
Extends eligibility for fee waivers at the state's public postsecondary institutions by including dependents of federal firefighters who die in the line of duty while working in the state and by expanding the circumstances leading to a law enforcement officer or firefighter death under which survivors may qualify for fee waivers to include death resulting from occupational disease.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Public contracts: community college districts: purchases
Creates a five-year pilot program that allows a California Community College district to award contracts for goods and services greater than $50,000, other than construction services, to the bidder offering the best value instead of the lowest responsible bidder.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2008
California Community Colleges: design-assist contract
Authorizes the California Community Colleges to utilize the design-assist method of contracting on projects that exceed $2.5 million, in which the California Community Colleges district engages a contractor to assist the district and its design professional in developing the design for, and then the construction of, the project.
(Died in Assembly Higher Educations Committee)
Public postsecondary education: statewide student fee policy
Requires the University of California and California State University set mandatory systemwide fees and tuition for undergraduate students over a four-year period.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
Private postsecondary education
Expands significantly, until 1/1/15, state regulation of private postsecondary schools in California by a bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Postsecondary education: Student Loan Integrity Act
Creates the Student Loan Integrity Act that establishes a student notification process and a code of conduct for employees of postsecondary education institutions relating to student loans and allows students to recover punitive and other damages for violation of these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
University of California: contracts
Requests the University of California, and requires the Department of General Services, to establish standard contract provisions for research, training, and service contracts between the University of California and the state.
Vetoed
University of California: retirement and health benefits
Establishes joint governance of the University of California's retirement benefits and post employment health benefits by creating a board of trustees to govern the University of California Retirement System and requires University of California to comply with any additional requirements that regulate University of California Retirement System as enacted by statute.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
Public postsecondary education: student enrollment: funding
Creates a long-term state-funding policy for the University of California and the California State University.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
University of California: academic partnerships
Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish cost neutral academic partnerships (e.g., joint degree programs) with institutions that are classified as Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2008
Task Force on the Future of Compton Community College
Requires the Special Trustee of the Compton Community College District to establish, convene and chair the Task Force on the Future of the Compton Community College and to invite participation by the representatives of specified entities.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2008
University of California: divestment from Iran
Calls upon the University of California to divest from foreign companies with specified business activities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
California Community College faculty
Expresses the Legislature's intent that community college districts increase their proportion of full-time faculty, consistent with the policy of the Board of Governors, and provide comparable pay and benefits to part-time faculty.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
College and Career Pathways Month
Proclaims the month of June 2008 as College and Career Pathways Month to recognize the importance of career technical education for the students, schools, and State of California.
Resolution Chapter 89, Statute of 2008
Postsecondary education: student financial aid
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to (1) ensure low-income students continue to have opportunities to attend college, (2) work with states to establish new programs and support existing programs to educate students about financial aid options, and (3) ensure that financial aid programs contain reasonable terms and conditions and do not discriminate against or reduce access to educational opportunities for low-income students.
Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2008
Relative to Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital
Urges the University of California to expedite negotiations with the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County and the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science to discuss the future management of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital in the Watts/Willowbrook area of south Los Angeles County.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
School Employees
Teacher training
Expands the definition of "school paraprofessional" to include other employees who meet the minimum standards of the paraprofessional job classification and who are employed in an after school program, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Math and Science Teacher Academy Pilot Program
Establishes the Math and Science Teacher Academy Pilot Program for the purpose of providing selected pupils in grades 7 through 9 with a course of study leading them, ultimately, to become highly qualified teachers in math or science.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
State teachers: retirement: health benefits
Requires the Board of the State Teachers' Retirement System to file with the Legislature a study, conducted over one full year, of school districts that do not provide health benefits for retired teachers.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
School employees: Lottery Act allocation
Provides proceeds from the California State Lottery Education Fund allocated to schools, as specified, will not be used for salaries or employee benefits. In addition, makes several clarifying changes.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
Schools and community colleges: district employees
Requires personnel commissions at school and community college districts that utilize the merit system for classified employees, to determine compensation for, annually evaluate and supervise the personnel director. The personnel commissions are required to write an annual written performance evaluation of the personnel director, in which the district administration and exclusive representatives of the classified employees may participate. The personnel commissions are authorized to impose disciplinary measures on the personnel director for cause, though the personnel director is entitled to request a hearing in such cases.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
State Teachers' Retirement System
Prohibits the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from investing public employee retirement funds in companies with business operations in a "foreign terrorist state" (as defined), and requires the boards of these retirement systems to sell or transfer any investments with these companies and report to the Legislature regarding these investments, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Authorizes credentialed teachers to participate in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education if they teach in low-performing schools (ranked in decile one or two, as measured by the Academic Performance Index) and have not otherwise participated in the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Teachers
Establishes the California Mathematics and Science Teacher Initiative to increase the number of credentialed math and science teachers programs. Makes various changes to district internship programs, such as authorizing intern programs to teach pupils with any level of disability rather than only mild and moderate disabilities, disallows districts to compensate intern supervisors through intern salary deductions, and requires that preservice training occur before the intern provides instructional services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
State Teachers' Retirement System
Provides that a member is not to forfeit his or her additional credit for services under the State Teachers' Retirement System if he/she is reemployed within five years after retirement as a substitute teacher by a school district from which he or she retired.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
Teacher credentialing: criminal history
Requires each applicant for a credential, or for the renewal of a credential, to submit, as directed by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, legible fingerprints and a personal description. Requires the Commission Teacher Credentialing to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by Department of Justice of all applicants for an initial credential, or for the renewal of a credential, for purposes of obtaining certain information relating to convictions, arrests, and bail.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
School administrators
Establishes the Leadership Coaching Program for Public School Administrators to provide local education agencies with incentive funding to support advanced leadership development of school principals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
State teachers: retirement: health benefits
Requires all school districts to establish a health benefit plan for retired teachers by 1/1/11, and further requires teachers to contribute to the health benefits plan.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Teacher credentialing
Streamlines requirements for the preliminary designated subjects career technical education teaching credential, and changes the name of the clear designated subjects adult educating credential in order to make it conform to the naming structure of the credential for career technical education.
Chapter 576, Statutes of 2008
Teacher credentialing: criminal convictions
Expands the definition of "conviction" when applied to suspending or revoking teaching credentials to include pleas of nolo contendere, allows the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to make adverse action findings available for up to five years, as specified, and requires the Legislature to convene a workgroup to study Sections 44010, 44011, and 44424 of the Education Code, and to report on its findings before 12/1/09.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2008
Teacher credentialing: revocation of credential
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to suspend a teaching credential when the holder's credential has been revoked by another state; and, to revoke a teaching credential when the holder's ability to associate with minors has been limited as a condition of probation.
Chapter 578, Statutes of 2008
Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Shifts 400 Assumption Program of Loans for Education (APLE) awards from one category of participants (district interns) to another category of participants ("veteran" teachers, as defined). Revises some of the APLE award amounts and conditions for making awards. Reorganizes and updates the APLE statutes including making technical, conforming and clarifying changes.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2008
Teachers
Provides exemptions from the state basic skills proficiency test requirement, clarifies requirements for teacher development programs, and makes other technical and conforming changes to statute.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2008
School employees: leaves of absence
Narrows the conditions in which school employees who are placed on mandatory leave of absences, for certain drug-related offenses and who complete a drug diversion program, may be compensated for the period of leave upon their return to work.
Chapter 579, Statutes of 2008
School employees: dismissal
Deletes various references to communism in the context of the dismissal of school district and community college employees. Clarifies exemptions regarding communism as part of the required oath of allegiance for employees, and offers an alternative oath of allegiance, as specified.
Vetoed
Education: freedom of speech and of the press
Prohibits a school employee from being dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against for acting to protect a pupil or student engaged in conduct authorized by state law or refusing to infringe upon conduct that is protected pursuant to the United States Constitution and the California Constitution.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2008
State Teachers' Retirement System
Makes several technical, nonsubstantive changes to the State Teachers' Retirement Law to facilitate efficient administration of the State Teachers' Retirement System and its various programs.
Vetoed
Teachers: professional development
Authorizes school districts to use a portion of their Professional Development Block Grant funds to provide suicide prevention training to teachers.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2008
School personnel: administering insulin
Authorizes school personnel who volunteer to administer insulin to pupils with diabetes who require insulin during the regular school day, as defined, in the absence of a credentialed school nurse or other licensed nurse onsite at the school, subject to specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
Teacher credentialing: eminence teaching credential
Authorizes a county superintendent of schools to issue an eminence teaching credential, until 1/1/14, to a person who has demonstrated subject matter competence through an examination, college degree, or work experience, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Teachers: compensation
Authorizes a school district to expend Professional Development Block Grant funds to compensate new and existing mathematics, science, and special education teachers in schools ranked in deciles 1, 2, or 3 of the Academic Performance Index in a manner separate from the salary schedule, as specified.
Chapter 276, Statutes of 2008
School classified employees
Requires school and community college district personnel commissions to determine the compensation for their personnel directors and to supervise the personnel director.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Teachers: applied learning programs: advisory committee
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to convene an advisory committee to determine the preparation and professional development needs of both academic and career technical teachers to employ pedagogical strategies to ensure pupil success.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School administrators: Administrator Training Program
Requires the California Department of Education, on or before 1/1/09, to submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor on the effectiveness of the Administrator Training Program in training participants to serve as administrators of high-priority schools and schools on behalf of which the applicable school district or districts have contracted with school assistance and intervention teams. Requires the California Department of Education to make recommendations in the report regarding what modifications should be made to the program.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Teacher credentialing: specialist: pupils with autism
Authorizes teachers with a valid Level 1 or clear education specialist teaching credential to provide instruction to pupils who are three and four years of age and who have been diagnosed as autistic, if the teacher meets certain competency criteria, until 8/31/11.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2008
Public school employees: merit system
Extends the current authority granted to the Los Angeles Unified School District to fill vacancies in specified job classifications from ranks other than the top three ranks of an employment list, under specified conditions, to include classifications that have been designated as management.
Chapter 186, Statutes of 2008
School employees: leave of absence
Requires school districts to take specified actions in response to suspected investigations of criminal offenses that require a compulsory leave of absence.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Certificated school employees: salary payments
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold state apportionments in an amount not to exceed one-half of the annual salary of the superintendent of a school district or county office of education (COE) if the district or COE fails to comply with salary payment schedule requirements for certificated and classified employees. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to hold these funds in trust until he/she determines the school district or COE is in compliance with statute.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
State teachers' retirement
Restores, over time, the $500 million that was not transferred from the state General Fund to the State Teachers' Retirement System Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account in fiscal year 2003-04 by making additional General Fund transfers beginning 7/1/10 to 7/1/14.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
Teachers: affordable housing
Establishes the Affordable Housing for Teachers Program. Contains numerous additional provisions relating to the Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing Program.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
Student financial aid
Establishes a five-year pilot program to provide loan assumptions for teachers and interns with the Compton Unified School District who are otherwise qualified to participate in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education and who agree to teach full-time in the district.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Teachers: professional development
Authorizes a local educational agency to use up to 25% of the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program funds (except for funds appropriated for teachers of English-language learners) for instruction and training that has not been approved by the State Board of Education in order to provide teachers with intensive training in mathematical content.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Preschool: teachers: limited-English-proficient children
Requires the California Department of Education to establish and implement a pilot program that includes three counties in the state (one in each geographic region) to provide college coursework, training, and career ladder opportunities for preschool teachers who provide instruction to limited-English-proficient children.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Certificated school employees: compensation
Encourages school districts to utilize alternative salary schedules for teachers, pursuant to the needs established by school district governing boards.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: teachers' retirement
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, revises the payments and calculations used by the State Teachers' Retirement System for the Supplemental Benefits Maintenance Account.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008
Teacher credentialing: services credential
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, on or before 1/1/09, to adopt a data evaluation system capable of assessing the effectiveness of accredited programs that prepare educators for the administrative services credential, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Public school employers: joint powers agencies
Expands the definition of "public school employer" and "employer" to include joint powers agencies for purposes of collective bargaining protection under the Education Employment Relations Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
State teachers' retirement
Allows the State Teachers' Retirement System to offer a ROTH Individual Retirement Account for the purpose of rolling over assets held in an annuity contract or custodial account offered by the system.
Chapter 432, Statutes of 2008
Teacher credentialing: services credential
Requires, on or before 1/1/10, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to adopt a data evaluation system capable of assessing the effectiveness of each accredited program of professional preparation that provides preparation for the administrative services credential. Requires the effectiveness of the programs to be assessed on multiple measures, including, but not limited to the ability to prepare candidates who improve student learning, program completion rates, placement of program graduates in administrative positions, and employment retention rates of program graduates.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Model civic education staff development program
Establishes the model civic education staff development program, to be administered by the California Department of Education. Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to apply for grant funds to offer staff development to certificated employees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School districts: budgets: retired employee benefits
Requires each school district that provides retired employee health and welfare benefits other than pensions to develop a long-term plan that identifies the manner in which the district will fund those benefits for current and future retired employees and to include that plan in actions related to the development and review of the district's annual budget.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School volunteer aides: background checks
Requires school districts that use non-teaching volunteer aides to adopt a screening policy for those volunteers and to define what a non-teaching volunteer aide is for this purpose. Requires, as a minimum criminal background check, that districts utilize the Department of Justice's "Megan's Law" web site, which tracks registered sex offenders in California.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School teachers: adverse actions on credentials
Sets a priority for the Committee of Credentials when conducting formal reviews involving the consideration of adverse action. Requires the committee to give priority to hearings for which the applicant is subject to adverse action for conduct that exposes a child to physical harm.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Certificated employees: probationary period
Extends the probationary period for teachers employed by school districts and county offices of education to be between two and four years for teachers whose probationary period commences during or after the 2009-10 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Teachers and faculty members: housing
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit a report, prepared in collaboration with the California Department of Education, to the Legislature and Governor by 11/15/09 on local programs designed to help teachers and faculty in securing housing.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Teachers: National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Reestablishes the fee assistance program for teachers seeking national board certification using existing program funds.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Teachers: recruitment/induction/support
Requires a school district that received funds in the 2008-09 fiscal year pursuant to the Quality Education Investment Act of 2006 to develop, adopt, and implement the teacher recruitment, induction, support, retention, and improvement plan. Expresses the Legislature's intent that school districts invest specified monies to develop and implement such a plan.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Teacher credentialing: English language development
Permits candidates for the Bilingual, Crosscultural, Language and Academic Development authorization to demonstrate knowledge, skills and language proficiency by completing coursework or a combination of coursework and examinations.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2008
Part-time teachers: adult education
Requires the right of part-time adult school teachers to earn and retain annual reappointment rights to be a mandatory subject of collective bargaining with respect to a new or successor contract between school districts and part-time adult school teachers on or after 1/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public school employees: personnel records
Expands the rights given to a local education agency employee with respect to their review and response to false or unsubstantiated items placed in the employee's personnel record.
Vetoed
Teachers: special education teacher preparation programs
Encourages institutions of higher education or local education agencies to accept coursework or field experience completed in another institution or agency and requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup on the same subject and report to the Legislature by 12/1/09.
Chapter 233, Statutes of 2008
Teacher credentialing: specialist credential
Authorizes holders of a Level 1 education specialist teaching credential for mild to moderate disabilities to provide instruction to pupils with autism spectrum disorder, as specified, until the Commission on Teacher Credentialing adopts relevant regulations for the credential.
Chapter 41, Statutes of 2008
State teachers' retirement: postretirement earnings
Extends the sunset date of the State Teachers' Retirement System's post-retirement earnings limit exemptions from 6/30/09 to 6/30/10, and expands eligibility, where applicable, by one year to members who retired between 6/30/07 and 12/31/07, to purchase service credit for service performed prior to retirement in a publicly-funded educational institution outside the United States.
Chapter 494, Statutes of 2008
Mathematics & Reading Professional Development Program
Authorizes teachers to fulfill 50% of the 80 hours of follow-up Math and Reading Professional Development training in data analysis.
Chapter 239, Statutes of 2008
Employee salaries: LAUSD Employment Recovery Act
Establishes the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Employee Recovery Act which requires LAUSD to reimburse certificated and classified employees for any additional income taxes payable because of an overpayment error made by LAUSD, and authorizes the district to withhold an amount from salaries or expenses of the superintendent and assistant superintendents of LAUSD if the error rate of the total payroll is greater than 1%.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Teacher credentialing
Establishes an educator credentialing demonstration project to assess new options for educator preparation, including programs operated by school districts, county offices of education, community-based organizations, and nongovernmental organizations. Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to report on the project by 1/1/15.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Model civic education staff development program
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a plan and make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor on the development of a model civic education staff development plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Employee bargaining units: salary deductions
Requires a school district with a pupil population exceeding 400,000, that collects or deducts money from a classified employee's salary for employee organization dues for fair share fees, to provide, along with the money, all data related to those funds to the employee organization.
Vetoed
School districts: employees
Requires school employees to immediately report, as specified, to the school principal any acts of harassment or discrimination that have occurred, or any terrorist threats made, that makes a pupil subject to expulsion or suspension. Upon receipt of the report, the principal or designee is responsible for investigating the report and notifying the superintendent of the district of the incident.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Teachers' retirement: 2007-08 Budget
Specifies that the annual state contribution to the State Teachers' Retirement System for the Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account for 2008-09 be made on 11/1/08.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2007-08, Third Extraordinary Session
School nurses: salaries
Urges school districts to take the steps necessary to increase school nurse salaries.
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2008
School nurses
Declares May 7, of each year, as School Nurse Day in California and encourages all Californians to promote the good health of the state's students and recognize California's credentialed school nurses for their contributions to the health of the state's children.
Resolution Chapter 159, Statutes of 2008
School Curriculum
Schools: science instruction: grant program
Establishes the Science Instruction Augmentation Grant Program to provide grants to K-12 school districts for the purpose of providing greater access to science education and promoting knowledge, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and interest in all aspects of science.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Residential outdoor science programs
Establishes eligibility criteria for a residential outdoor science education program, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion funds, contingent on appropriation, for economically disadvantaged students, of up to $10 per day per eligible pupil.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Physical education
Clarifies that a student may be granted exemption from courses in physical education if the student has met at least five of the six standards of the physical performance test.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2008
Pupil instruction: graduation requirements
Requires high schools participating in the California Enhanced Instructional Time Program to adopt a graduation policy that requires pupils to complete two career technical education courses.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
Instructional programs: Technology Integration Curriculum
Requires the California Department of Education to conduct a needs assessment survey to determine the availability and accessibility of courses and coursework in career technology and computer literacy, and provide a comprehensive plan for integrating technical skills training into the core curriculum of schools, and appropriates $300,000 from the General Fund for the activities required.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
The Holocaust, genocide, human rights, & tolerance
Extends the operation for the California Taskforce on the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education and the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance until 1/1/10.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Environmental education
Adds climate change to the list of environmental education topics that shall be included in the revision of the science framework.
Vetoed
Instructional materials
Requires the State Board of Education, beginning 1/1/09, to annually solicit recommendations from local education agencies (as part of the regular six-or eight-year adoption cycle), regarding the adoption of standards-aligned instructional materials in specified academic content areas, including English language development, and to adopt these materials unless the State Board of Education, within 120 days, makes written factual findings, as specified, that the materials are lacking in some manner.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School curriculum: content standards
Establishes a process for review and revision of the reading/language arts and history/social science state academic content standards.
Vetoed
Pupil instruction: adopted course of study
Authorizes the social sciences course of study for grades 1-6, and for grades 7-12,. to include instruction on the unconstitutional deportation during the Great Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico. Requires the State Board of Education to provide for such inclusion when it next revises and adopts the curriculum for the history-social science framework and instructional materials on or after 1/1/09.
Vetoed
A similar bill was SB 551 (Cedillo-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
Education: curriculum
Encourages the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to consider methods of enhancing pupil knowledge of American history and government, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Science education: experimental science curriculum
Encourages the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to consider ways to increase the number of pupils who go to college and graduate with degrees in the various scientific and engineering fields, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupils: high school graduation requirements
Requires all pupils to attain a score of at least "proficient" on the history-social science section of the California Standards Test while in grade 11 in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Pupils: supplemental instruction programs
Authorizes school districts and charter schools that offer specified supplemental programs to offer instruction with real-world applications delivered through project-based learning and problem-based teaching strategies.
Vetoed
Sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education
Applies to charter schools the existing authorization for schools to provide comprehensive sexual health education and the requirement to provide HIV/AIDS prevention education to pupils in grades 7-12.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
Reading and language arts: framework
Requires the State Board of Education, in the next revision of the Reading/Language Arts framework, to include a chapter that provides for language and content instruction specific to English learners, as specified.
Vetoed
Pupil instruction: school district residency requirements
Requires school districts to accept any documents and representations that reasonably provide evidence that a pupil meets residency requirements for school attendance within the district that show the name and address of the parent or guardian within the school district, and specifies certain types of documents that shall be considered reasonable evidence.
Vetoed
Local history instruction
Encourages high school social studies teachers to study independently at their local county historical society and to use the materials available there to instruct their pupils on local history, and encourages high schools to offer instruction covering all of the most important historical events that occurred in the county in which each school is located.
Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2008
Public schools: science and technical innovation
Calls for a revision of the science teaching framework to encourage pupils to pursue various scientific and engineering fields.
Adopted by the Senate
Public schools: American history and government
Encourages the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to consider methods of enhancing pupil knowledge of American history and government.
Adopted by the Senate
Public schools: employment skills
Encourages the expansion of career technical education in middle and high schools.
Adopted by the Senate
High schools: College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program
Establishes the College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program, to be administered by the California Department of Education, to provide pupils in selected schools with a core curriculum that integrates college preparatory courses and career technical education.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Instructional materials
Makes a publisher or manufacturer who fails to deliver instructional materials within 60 days of the receipt of a purchase order from a school district liable for damages, as specified.
Vetoed
Curriculum frameworks: social sciences: school segregation
Requires that the history-social science framework and instructional materials for grade 4 and either grade 11 or 12, when they are adopted in the course of the next submission cycle, include the case of Mendez v. Westminster School District and the role it played in the civil rights movement and desegregation of public schools in California and the nation.
Vetoed
Pupil instruction: consumer credit
Requires the California Department of Education to develop and make available to school districts information regarding the consumer credit system, including history, the manner of obtaining credit, the proper use of credit, and understanding credit reports, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Schools: sex education
Requires school districts to adopt a policy regarding teacher-led discussions in K-6 about human sexuality and sexual orientation. Encourages the adoption of a policy that those discussions occur at home. Requires a notice to parents regarding such discussions.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Courses of study: weekly teaching requirement
Requires each school district to provide instruction in all required school subjects in grades 1-12 on a weekly basis, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education: instructional materials
Deletes the repeal date for the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program, thereby extending its provisions indefinitely. Clarifies that the existing definition of "supplementary instructional materials," under the instructional materials realignment program, may also be known as pupil support instructional materials. Establishes the Pupil Support Instructional Materials Account within the State Treasury and requires the State Board of Education to administer it. Requires that the funds in the account be used to supplement, rather than to supplant, existing funds available for instructional materials, and authorizes the Board to deny future funding if it determines that a school district has exhibited a pattern of a failure to exercise due diligence or of using the funding to supplant other funding sources.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education: instructional materials
Requires the instructional materials adopted by the governing board of a school district that accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity in our society also include the role and contributions of religious people and religious groups in historical events without advocating for or against the tenets of one faith, belief, or practice over another.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupil instruction: social science
Encourages the State Board of Education to include the role and contribution of Italian Americans, as specified, in the next history-social science framework, and encourages schools to include such information in social science instruction.
Vetoed
Pupil instruction: intensive instruction and services
Provides that a pupil who has not passed the California High School Exist Exam by the end of grade 12, but is receiving intensive instruction and services, as defined, shall not be considered or counted as a dropout.
Vetoed
Curriculum and instructional materials: Native Americans
Encourages the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Commission to ensure that the history-social science framework and instructional materials include information about American Indians, emphasizing California Native Americans.
Vetoed
Instructional materials: Vietnam War
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social science framework include instruction on the Vietnam War, as specified.
Vetoed
Instructional materials
Requires the State Board of Education to revise the reading/language arts framework to include, as a core program, an English Language Development Literacy Program, as specified, during the next revision cycle.
Vetoed
Instructional materials
Makes various changes to the instructional materials adoption process, and provides flexibility and more information to districts in the purchase of the materials.
Vetoed
Curriculum: African, Asian, and Latin American cultures
Requires history-social science courses for pupils in grades 7-12 to include information on modern Africa, Asian, and Latin American cultures and civilizations. Requires the State Board of Education, by 5/20/10, to evaluate the history-social studies grade 10 content standards for their coverage of the cultures of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Instructional programs: Online Classroom Pilot Program
Extends the existing Online Classroom Pilot program until 7/1/12 for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating pupil participation in high school online interactive instruction programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Instructional materials: submissions: criteria
Requires instructional materials for foreign language and health to be submitted to the State Board of Education for adoption in 2012 and 2013, respectively, and shortens the time period between the adoption of the framework and criteria and the adoption of instructional materials for the next history and social science and science adoptions.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2008
Curriculum: social science
Expresses the encouragement of the Legislature that instruction in social sciences includes the role of Filipinos in World War II.
Vetoed
Pupil instruction: social sciences
Designates the month of October as Italian American Heritage Month and encourages public schools to highlight Italian American achievements and contributions to the culture of California and to take steps to promote the inclusion of the achievements and contributions of Italian American to United States and California history in elementary and secondary textbooks during the revisions process for those textbooks.
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2008
Pupil testing and secondary education
Recognizes the impact of the narrowing of the curriculum that is resulting from the state and federal assessment and accountability systems.
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2008
Pupil Nutrition
Food safety
Prohibits the serving of meat from downed cattle, as defined, to pupils as part of a school meal or otherwise. Requires establishments subject to required inspection under existing law to install video surveillance in the areas of the establishments where livestock and poultry are present, makes it unlawful to tamper with video surveillance or the resulting recordings, and requires that state officials have access to the live feed from the video surveillance, as specified. Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to make the appropriate notifications within 24 hours. Makes it a crime to treat livestock inhumanely by taking any of specified actions.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
Pupil nutrition: trans fats
Prohibits a school or school district, beginning 7/1/09, from serving or selling to K-12 students any food containing artificial trans fat, and prohibits the use of artificial trans fat in the preparation of food served or sold to those pupils. Specifies the ban on artificial trans fat applies to schools or school districts participating in the United States Department of Agriculture meal program and individually sold meal items (ala carte foods).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupil nutrition: school meals
Requires each school site that meets the qualifications of the federal severe need reimbursement to offer breakfast, beginning with the 2008-09 school year. Authorizes the California Department of Education to grant a waiver of the breakfast requirement if the local school governing board declares that providing breakfast is financially infeasible for the school and local education agency, even with a school breakfast start-up or expansion grant.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Farm Fresh Schools Program
Establishes the Farm Fresh Schools Program, administered jointly by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Public Health, in consultation with the California Department of Education, for the purpose of reducing obesity, improving nutrition, and strengthening the regional agricultural economy by promoting the consumption of locally grown fruits and vegetables in public schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School meals: pupil nutrition
Requires school sites that enroll more than 400 pupils and meet the qualifications of federal service need reimbursement to offer breakfast, beginning with the 2010-11 school year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School lunch and breakfast programs: direct certification
Requires the California Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health Care Services, to develop and implement a process for using data from the Medi-Cal program to directly enroll children in the school meal programs.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 2008
Pupil nutrition: availability of tap water
Prohibits the governing board of a school district from entering or renewing a contract that restricts the availability of free tap water on the school campus. Authorizes schools to provide free tap water in school food service areas.
Vetoed
Vocational Education
Career Technical Education Vision Council
Creates the Career Technical Education Vision Council to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding career technical education and to develop a workforce preparation and strategic plan by 12/31/08.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Regional Education and Economic Integration Initiative
Establishes the Regional Education and Economic Integration Initiative, administered by the California Workforce Investment Board, for the purpose of awarding grants to establish up to 20 regional collaborations that design and deliver career and college pathway programs, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education: subject requirements
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in conjunction with an advisory group, to contract for the development of standards-based core curricula for career technical education for at least five high-need industry sectors.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education: advisory committee
Defines "career technical education (CTE) program" and requires a school district's CTE advisory committee to include industry sector members appointed by the governing board of the district from recommended lists provided by local industry organizations, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
High-speed rail: educational and vocational training program
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare, in conjunction with the High-Speed Rail Authority, an inventory of future educational and vocational courses necessary for the high-speed train project. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, in cooperation with High-Speed Rail Authority and the California Community Colleges, will also be required to develop courses of study necessary to meet the need for skills associated with building and operating the project. Specifies it will not be operative until the date of the election in which the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act is approved by the voters.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Pupil instruction: courses of study: graduation requirements
Requires high schools participating in the California Enhanced Instructional Time Program to adopt a graduation policy that requires pupils to complete two courses in career technical education.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
Regional occupational centers: joint powers authorities
Requires, commencing in the 2009-10 fiscal year, regional occupational centers and programs established and maintained by joint powers agencies to receive funding directly from the county office of education in which it is located instead of each of the school districts participating in the joint powers agency.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2008
Career technical education
Encourages the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to consider ways to expand career technical education in middle and high schools. Requires a district's career advisory committee to include specified representatives.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education: Facilities Program
Authorizes the local contribution required for the Career Technical Education Facilities program to include donations of equipment, labor, or construction materials from an outside entity.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Before and after school programs: funding: career technical
Authorizes before and after school programs to use grant monies for purposes of career technical programs, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Career technical education: work certification training
Authorizes a pupil enrolled in a minimum of three high school courses to concurrently enroll in a California Community College for the purpose of taking career and technical education classes leading to work certification. Requires that the career and technical education class must not be available at the pupil's high school or a regional occupational center or program and the pupil must have parental permission. Requires the California Community Colleges to give enrollment priority to high school pupils who wish to attend career and technical education courses available in the afternoon. Requires the pupil to receive high school credit for California Community College courses that he/she completes. Requires the California Community Colleges to not include enrollment growth attributable to a high school pupil enrolled in a careeer and technical education course as part of its annual budget request.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education
Requires the appropriate governing body (school district, county office of education) to ensure that career technical education instructors are given professional development opportunities that conform to contemporary business and industry. Requires career technical education course reviews conducted every two years to ensure that each course identifies skills relevant in business and industry that comply with state standards and the needs of business and industry and is part of a multiyear, sequence-based curriculum that begins with introductory courses and concludes with courses that may include regional occupational program work.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Community colleges: career technical education
Authorizes adult education schools to participate in a career technical education grant program administered jointly by the California Department of Education and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education
Requests the California State University and the University of California to designate qualified representatives to provide assistance in the development and implementation of career technical education programs that integrate technical and academic knowledge and request those institutions to develop on line resources.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2008
Career technical education
Establishes a statutory formula for making annual equalizing adjustments to the revenue limits of regional occupational centers and programs, with a goal of raising per pupil revenue limits for each regional occupational center or program to the median level for any fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Regional occupational centers and programs
Authorizes a regional occupational center or program to plan, establish, and maintain a partnership academy and deems a regional occupational center or program a school district for these purposes. Authorizes a regional occupational center or program that maintains a partnership academy to offer academic courses as part of that partnership academy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Partnership academies: green technology and goods movement
Establishes, commencing with the 2008-09 school year, the Green Technology Partnership Academies and the Goods Movement Partnership Academies as two new categories of partnership academies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education: labor market needs
Requires the California Department of Education to work with the Employment Development Department to provide school districts and local agencies with job forecasting information from the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department to enable development of career technical education.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
California Career Resource Network Program
Establishes the California Career Resources Network, an existing independent agency, as a program within the California Department of Education.
Vetoed
Career Technical Education Revitalization Act of 2007.
Establishes the Career Technical Education Revitalization Program, administered by the California Department of Education, to support the creation and maintenance of quality, course-sequenced, career technical education programs in middle schools and foundational programs in grades 9 to 10, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education
Requires the California Department of Education to establish a career and vocational counseling program consisting of electronic information sharing between high school counselors, pupils, and community colleges, and establishes an online clearinghouse of information regarding career technical education in the state.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Career technical education: regional occupational centers
Establishes a statutory formula for making annual equalizing adjustments to the revenue limits of regional occupational centers and programs with a goal of increasing per pupil revenue limits for each program or center to the median level for any fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Regional occupational centers or programs: apprenticeship
Authorizes a regional occupational center or program to offer a Preparation for Apprenticeship program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in conjunction with specified parties, to develop a report that explores the feasibility of establishing and expanding multiple pathway programs in California high schools, including the costs and merits associated with expansion of these programs.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 2008
Career technical education: peace officer
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to coordinate, in consultation with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, the development of model curriculum standards for a career technical education course of study relevant to becoming a peace officer by 1/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Career technical education: partnership academies: green
Establishes, commencing in the 2009-10 school year, specific categories of California Partnership Academics in Green Technology and Goods Movement.
Chapter 685, Statutes of 2008
Miscellaneous
Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring
Requires any local educational agency that chooses to issue a pupil a device that uses radio frequency identification for purposes of recording attendance or tracking pupil location to notify and obtain written consent from the pupil's parents or guardian before the device may be issued to the pupil.
Vetoed
School districts: reorganization of large districts
Requires the reorganization of any unified school district enrolling at least 500,000 pupils into several school districts enrolling no more than 50,000 pupils by 7/1/11. Requires the establishment of a commission to aid in the reorganization process and develop a reorganization plan.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Schoolbuses: fuel
Requires that, as of 1/1/08, all school districts use a fuel blend containing at least 20% biodiesel fuel in diesel-powered school buses operated by public or private providers under contract to the district.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2008
Enacts the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Act of 2008 for submission to voters at the statewide general election (November 2008). Approves the issuance of $4 billion in general obligation bonds for the purpose of library construction and renovation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Physical education for the blind and visually impaired
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to utilize an existing task force for Braille education to develop guidelines for teachers so that functionally blind and visually impaired pupils may participate in physical education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupils: comprehensive learning support system
Establishes the Comprehensive Pupil Learning Support System pilot program, which is intended to reduce dropout rates, lower the achievement gap, and ensure that pupils receive the support necessary to become responsible learners and citizens by more comprehensively integrating instructional and student support services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Public School Health Center Support Program
Expands the definition of "school health centers" and requires the Department of Public Health, to the extent funds are appropriated for implementation of the Public School Health Center Support Program, to establish a grant program to provide technical assistance and funding for the expansion, renovation, and retrofitting of existing school health centers and the development of new school health centers, as specified.
Chapter 381, Statutes of 2008
Pupils: confidential medical services: parental notification
Requires school districts to include in the annual notification sent to parents and guardians a statement that a minor may obtain various medical, dental, mental health, and counseling services without the consent of his or her parent or guardian and the school authorities may excuse a pupil from school to obtain confidential medical services without that consent.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Student health: immunizations
Adds a pertussis (whooping cough) booster to the list of immunizations required for seventh grade students prior to school admission.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public schools: high school instructional time
Establishes a new categorical program, the California Enhanced Instructional Time program, to provide funding incentives to high schools that voluntarily increase instructional time by up to 17%.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
Gifted and talented pupils: identification
Requires the California Department of Education to ensure that each staff person providing or receiving services within specific education programs is provided training to allow and encourage the identification of gifted and talented pupils from underrepresented populations, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupils: identifying information
Encourages, and ultimately requires, school districts to omit the social security number and birth date of a pupil from materials mailed to the pupil's residence or to any authorized individuals.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupils: physical education
Increases state requirements for high school graduation by requiring that all students take four years of physical education, unless granted exemption, and adds an advisory to provisions for ill or injured students to be temporarily exempted from physical education.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
CA Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish, until 1/1/14, a Community Supplemental Education Demonstration Grant Program and a Telemedicine Demonstration Grant Program, meeting certain requirements, with all funding for the programs coming from the moneys repaid to the fund from the monies loaned by the fund to the General Fund in the annual Budget Act of 2003. Awards under the grant programs will be for the purpose of providing advanced telecommunications network services to community technology programs, to public libraries that deliver supplemental education services to pupils, and to health care facilities that provide telemedicine services.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
California Partnership Academies
Provides for the expansion of the number of California Partnership Academies, revises funding formulas and requirements for school districts operating academies, and revises the eligibility criteria to allow for the participation of ninth graders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Instructional materials
Requires the State Board of Education (SBE), beginning 1/1/09, to annually solicit recommendations from local education agencies (as part of the regular six-or eight-year adoption cycle) regarding the adoption of standards-aligned instructional materials in specified academic content areas, including English language development, and to adopt these materials unless the SBE, within 120 days, makes written factual findings, as specified, that the materials are lacking in some manner.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public schools: open enrollment policies
Updates statutes requiring a school district to have an open enrollment policy under which a parent of a pupil may select a school, within the district, but outside of the attendance area in which the pupil resides. Provides that a district shall determine the capacity of its schools based on enrollment and available space, and eliminates a district's discretion to close a school to transfers solely based upon the district's policy.
Chapter 113, Statutes of 2008
Patriotic exercises and instruction
Provides that when instruction related to the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America is given in a public school, it satisfies the requirements that patriotic exercises be conducted, and it is to provide a combination of giving of the Pledge and instruction promoting the understanding of specified concepts.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 2008
California education information
Establishes processes by which local education agencies and public institutions of higher education issue, maintain, and report information using the unique state wide student identifiers required under current law. Convenes a high-level working group to decide the best governance structure for the data system. Directs the State Chief Information Officer to prepare a strategy plan outlining a clear path for technical implementation. Requires the various education segments to begin using a common student identifier, so that once a governance structure and technical architecture are in place, records can be linked from pre-K through the university.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2008
School recycling programs
Establishes the School Beverage Container Recycling program to require school districts to consult with the local Community Conservation Corps or another recycler to obtain information in order to establish a program at each school campus and public office of that district. Sunsets this program on 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public employment and property
Deletes various references in statute to communism: (1) as cause for dismissal of school, community college and public employees, and (2) relative to the use of school property.
Vetoed
Education technology
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a task force for the purpose of developing recommendations for a comprehensive statewide plan on education technology.
Vetoed
School park property
Authorizes a school district governing board to designate all or a portion of a field or landscaped area that is district property as "school park property" to allow general recreational use by the public, and creates immunity for the district from any injuries resulting from the negligence or wrongful act or omission of a person(s) using the "school park property."
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)
Education: freedom of speech and of the press
Prohibits a school employee from being dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred, or otherwise retaliated against for acting to protect a pupil or student engaged in conduct authorized by state law or refusing to infringe upon conduct that is protected pursuant to the United States Constitution and the California Constitution.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2008
Independent study
Provides that if an auditor determines that a school district, county office of education or charter school has not complied with the law concerning independent study apportionments, or that noncompliance has been minor or inadvertent but educational services are generally being provided, the school district, county office, or charter school would not be subject to a penalty if its practices are brought into substantial compliance within six months of the issuance of the audit report.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
Education technology: California Virtual Campus
Establishes in statute the California Virtual Campus and deems the California Community Colleges to be qualifying schools for the California Teleconnect Fund program administered by the Public Utilities Commission. Extends to 1/1/14 the sunset date for exemptions to the cap on the percentage of pupils that K-12 school principals may recommend for enrollment at community colleges during summer sessions.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2008
Pupil attendance: City of La Palma
Allows a parent or guardian who lives within the city limits of the City of La Palma in Orange County to enroll their child or children in any school district that serves the City regardless of school district attendance boundaries.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
Pupil discipline: restraint and seclusion
Prohibits an educational provider from using chemical and mechanical restraint, and limits the use of physical restraint and seclusion, as specified.
Vetoed
California Reading and Literacy Improvement & Public Library
Authorizes the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2010 (the library bond), a general obligation bond of $4 billion to be placed on a statewide general election ballot in 2010.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Technology-based materials
Changes the definition of technology-based materials to specify that they may include the electronic equipment required in order to use them if that equipment is to be used by pupils and teachers as a learning resource.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Juvenile court schools
Requires the California Department of Education to develop and adopt regulations to implement existing provisions related to the transfer of partial or full course credit completed by a pupil while attending a public school, juvenile court school, or nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency when the pupil transfers to another school.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Education data: standing committee
Requires the California Department of Education to establish the Data Review and Consolidation Committee, a standing committee, to review and approve data requests made by the department to local education agencies under the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
State preschool programs
Establishes the Early Learning Quality Improvement System Advisory Committee to develop recommendations on how to evaluate and improve the quality of child development programs providing services from birth to age five, including preschool, and establishes a framework for future resources necessary to achieve and maintain higher quality programs.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 2008
The California Technology Assistance Project
Extends the sunset on the California Technology Assistance Project and Statewide Educational Technology Services from 1/1/09 to 1/1/14.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2008
Juveniles: juvenile court schools
Encourages each county superintendent and the county chief probation officer to enter into a memorandum of understanding, or an equivalent agreement, that supports a process for collaboration, exchanging information, and dispute resolution relating to the delivery of educational services to pupils in juvenile court schools.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2008
Education: electronic learning assessment resources
Authorizes the California Learning Resource Network to provide information about the extent to which electronic learning assessment resources are compatible with state student data systems.
Vetoed
Arts Education Month
Proclaims the month of March 2008 to be Arts Education Month and encourages all elected officials to participate with their educational communities in celebrating the arts.
Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2008
Education: 21st century skills
Encourages the California education system to partner with business leaders to create an education system that prepares pupils for 21st century.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2008
Week of the Student Leader
Proclaims the third week in April each year as Week of the Student Leader, and commends the student leaders of the secondary schools of California for their support of and contributions to quality schooling in the state.
Resolution Chapter 42, Statutes of 2008
Educational Options Month
Proclaims May 2008 as Educational Options Month. Educational options serve at-risk youth and include continuation high schools, magnet programs, charter schools, independent study, adult education, opportunity programs, community day schools, pregnant minor programs, county community schools, juvenile court schools, youth authority, and alternative schools.
Resolution Chapter 47, Statutes of 2008
Digital Television Education
Designates May 2008 as Digital Television Education Month in California.
Adopted by the Senate
Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program
Revises the eligibility, funding, and other requirements of the Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program. Expands eligibility to schools operated by county offices of education. Expands the type of staff authorized to participate in home visits, including counselors, classified staff, teaching paraprofessionals, and other support staff. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, and to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 1/1/10, with specified information.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Pupils: Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot Programs
Establishes the Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot program, until 1/1/12, to provide gang alternative education, counseling, and support services to elementary and middle school pupils in the Compton Unified School District, the Long Beach Unified School District, the Oakland Unified School District, and the San Bernardino Unified School District.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School districts: reorganization of large districts
Requires the reorganization of any unified school district enrolling at least 500,000 pupils into several school districts enrolling no more than 50,000 pupils by 7/1/11. Requires the establishment of a commission to aid in the reorganization process and develop a reorganization plan.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupils: dropout prevention: grant program
Establishes the Dropout Prevention Model Programs and Training Grant Program, administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to provide grants to schools for the development and dissemination of model programs, instructional strategies, and effective practices for working with high risk pupils in order to prevent them from dropping out of school.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers
Extends the sunset for the "school district of choice" interdistrict transfer authorization from 7/1/07 to 7/1/09, and requires school districts (electing to accept transfers) to maintain records on the number of requests it receives, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School libraries: online databases: subscriptions
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a county office of education, upon approval by the State Board of Education and an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, to develop and fund a statewide online research database purchase, and convene an Online Database Advisory Committee to assist in developing an online database selection process.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling
Prohibits a school district, beginning in the 2011-12 school year, from operating a multitrack year-round education program if 50% of the district's schools receive federal Title I funds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Preschool: access
Requires all three-and four-year-olds from low-income families to have access to state preschool programs by 2011-12, with priority for four-year-old children.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Alternative education and work center
Reauthorizes a school district that participates in school-based program coordination to establish an alternative education and work center for school dropouts and pupils at risk at a continuation high school or adult school, or to contract with a private nonprofit community-based organization to provide the center. The center is required to teach basic academic skills, operate on a clinical, client-centered basis, and provide programs that include specified qualities.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupils: teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention
Requires school districts to develop policies, procedures, and training regarding the prevention of teen dating violence and sexual violence, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupil admission
Moves up the date by three months by which a child must be five years to enroll in kindergarten and six years old to enroll in first grade.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities
Deems a pupil engaging in leadership or civic engagement activities an excused absence for the purpose of a school district calculating average daily attendance, as specified. Provides, therefore, a pupil engaging in a leadership or civic engagement activity cannot generate average daily attendance funding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupil health: school health services
Requires each school district to report to the California Department of Education the number of pupils who have acute or chronic health conditions, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Transportation of school pupils
Specifies that a parent may contract with a charter-party carrier that operates a vehicle carrying between 11 and 25 persons to or from school-related activities. Requires the California Department of Education to review and, if necessary, revise its training courses and requirements for classroom instruction and behind-the-wheel training to ensure that they appropriately address those vehicles that carry between 11 and 25 persons.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2008
Prisons: inmate education
Establishes the California Correctional Education Advisory Board within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (department). Requires the Board to work collaboratively with the Superintendent of Correctional Education, advise the Secretary of the department on management and operation of education programs within the department, identify effective education programs of the appropriate levels and types in the correctional institutions and assess and recommend other necessary educational opportunities within the correctional system.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
Pupils with hearing impairment
Requires parents of a hearing impaired child to file a written certificate with the school district stating that he or she, or a family member, has completed an age-appropriate course on specified communication options for his or her child.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School district and community college district bonds
Authorizes proceeds from the sale of local school bond funds to be used to acquire or construct residential rental property to house teachers and employees of the district.
Vetoed
State Library: homework assistance
Requires the State Librarian to enter into a contract with an entity to establish and maintain a program of online homework assistance that is free of charge through public libraries in the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Compulsory school attendance: kindergarten readiness program
Moves up the date by three months by which a child must be five years old to enroll in kindergarten and six years old to enroll in first grade, beginning in 2011-12. Makes kindergarten compulsory, beginning in 2010-11, and establishes the Kindergarten Readiness Program, beginning in 2011-12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Schools: athletes: steroid testing
Requires the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to amend its constitution and bylaws to require, as a condition of participation in interscholastic sports, school districts to prohibit a pupil from participating in high school athletics involving a CIF-sanctioned or sponsored athletic competition unless that pupil has consented, in writing, to random urinalysis testing for anabolic steroids, and acknowledged, in writing, the description of laws regarding anabolic steroids.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials
Changes the restrictions placed on the State Board of Education and school districts in the disposal of surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Education
Adds "religion" as a protected characteristic to several nondiscrimination sections of the Education Code.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Local educational agencies: administration
Establishes the Central Valley District Improvement Program for the purposes of authorizing the county superintendents of Fresno and Tulare to assume greater responsibility for the operation, oversight, and monitoring of academic progress of school districts identified for program improvement or corrective action under provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Pupils: concurrent enrollment
Provides that, from 1/1/08 to 12/31/10, a principal may not recommend for community college summer session attendance more than 10% of the total number of pupils who completed the grade in the school year immediately prior.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Pupils: truancy
Requires school districts, upon a pupil's initial classification as a truant, to provide the required parental notification within 10 schooldays of the pupil's last day of being absent or tardy from school without a valid excuse.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Education: content standards: periodic review
Repeals the authority of the State Board of Education to modify proposed academic content standards and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to appoint review panels to review and revise the academic content standards for English language arts and mathematics.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
Pupils: military families
Establishes the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunities for Military Families and ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families due to frequent moves and deployment of their parents. Pursuant to federal law, the compact would become effective and binding when at least 10 states ratify it and requires the effective date to be no earlier than 12/1/07.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School districts: reorganization of large districts
Requires the reorganization, by 7/1/12, of any unified school district having annual enrollment on 1/1/09 greater than 500,000 students into several school districts; each new district may have an enrollment of no more than 50,000 pupils.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
School districts: four-day school week
Authorizes the Potter Valley Community Unified School District to operate one or more schools in the school district on a four-day school week if the district complies with the instructional time requirements and other requirements for operating a four-day school week.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2008
Surplus property: Chino Valley Unified School District
Authorizes the Chino Valley Unified School District to transfer specified surplus property previously acquired from the state, to the City of Chino Hills, in the County of San Bernardino, subject to certain conditions for development of a park.
Chapter 663, Statutes of 2008
Adult education
Authorizes local education agencies to establish an adult education collaborative for the purposes of administering adult education programs, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Public schools: children of military families
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene and support a task force to review and make recommendations regarding the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 2008
Education Omnibus Bill
Corrects technical errors and oversights, and makes numerous non-controversial and conforming changes to various provisions of the Education Code.
Chapter 223, Statutes of 2008
Compulsory full-time education
Increases the penalties for parents of children between the ages of 6 and 18 years who fail to attend school as required.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Physical education: award program
Establishes the Physical Education Award Program for the purposes of recognizing schools that conduct physical education courses pursuant to model content standards and demonstrate that an increasing numbers of pupils pass specified minimum standards.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Work-based learning
Provides that work-based learning opportunities for pupils may be delivered through specified existing career technical education programs.
Vetoed
Schools: discrimination
Deletes sexual orientation from the list of nondiscrimination obligations related to the kinds of instruction and district activities that are prohibited in schools.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
Schools: parental notification: sexual orientation
Requires a school district to send a notice to parents and guardians if a teacher proposes to include a discussion on gender identity or sexual orientation in a class other than one on comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
School operations: multitrack year-round schedule
Prohibits, beginning on 7/1/19, school districts from operating on a multi-track year round education calendar.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Driver's education: provisional licenses
Requires a provisional driver's license applicant under the age of 18 to submit proof related to high school enrollment and/or graduation or enrollment in a postsecondary institution (in addition to other documentation), before a license is issued.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
High school graduation: requirements
Requires school districts to exempt a pupil in foster care who transfers to the district in grade 11 or 12 and would not be able to graduate from high school by his/her 19th birthday from the additional graduation coursework requirements the governing board has adopted, and requires districts to provide notification to such pupils, as specified.
Vetoed
Pupils: work permits
Authorizes a principal of a public or private school to issue work permits or to designate another administrator to issue work permits for pupils that attend their school. Specifies the hour limitations that apply to a work permit shall be based on the school calendar of the school the pupil attends.
Vetoed
Pupils: notices sent to parents
Authorizes a parent to waive the requirement that notices, reports, statements or records be sent in a primary language and, instead, receive materials only in English, and specifies that the school or school district is not required to comply with that request.
Vetoed
School district reorganization
Streamlines the process for specified school district reorganizations, frameworks, and management strategies. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt and implement a plan to measure the quality of administrators in public schools.
Vetoed
School districts: administrator assessment
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt and implement a plan to measure the quality of administrators in public schools.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Interscholastic athletics: steroid prevention
Requires, by 1/1/11, the California Department of Education to report the effectiveness of the steroid prevention program established by SB 37 (Speier), Chapter 673, Statutes of 2005.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Adult education: English classes
Encourages adult education classes to be scheduled on days that will maximize the participation of working adults, including Saturday and Sunday and encourages a local education agency that offers weekend classes to enter into a collective bargaining agreement that addresses issues relating to working on weekends.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupil attendance: civic engagement activities
Adds participation in civic engagement activities to the definition of an excused absence.
Vetoed
Pupil attendance: school attendance review boards
Authorizes a local or county school attendance review board to recommend that the Department of Motor Vehicles suspend the learner's permit or driver's license of a pupil until the age of 18 who meets specified criteria.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Extracurricular activities
Prohibits a school or school district from expending state funds on any extra curricular activity, including, but not necessarily limited to cultural activities (e.g., dramatic or musical performances), field trips, and interscholastic sports events, if that school or school district prohibits Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) programs from being established or conducting activities on campus, or prohibiting or hindering its pupils from participating in an off-campus JROTC program.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Instructional materials: policies
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt specified procedures related to the adoption and purchase of instructional materials.
Vetoed
Education: code maintenance
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and convene an advisory committee to identify duplicative and unnecessary sections of the Education Code, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School assistance and intervention teams
Requires a school assistance and intervention teams (SALT) and district assistance intervention teams (DAIT) to include members who possess a high degree of knowledge, skills, and expertise in meeting the curriculum and instructional needs of specified pupil subgroups, including English language learners. Requires a SALT to use procedures and tools developed specifically for improvement in language and content instruction for schools in which pupil subgroups have failed to meet specified targets. Requires SALT corrective action plans to ensure that pupils have access to all core subjects and prohibits a SALT or DAIT from eliminating primary language programs
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Compulsory education: disenrollment
Prohibits a school district from preventing a pupil whose parent or guardian resides in the district from enrolling in a school of the district for any reason, including, but not limited to, a poor attendance record or low credit completion, unless the pupil has been expelled in accordance with existing law.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupil opportunities
Provides an income tax credit for costs paid or incurred for private school tuition.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Nonpublic school attendance: income tax credit
Allows a personal income tax credit to qualified taxpayers for each dependent attending a nonpublic school.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Pupil records: privacy rights
Amends the California Education Code to conform with the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act requirements relating to the confidentially of pupil records.
Vetoed
Pupil Suspension
Requires a pupil who is suspended to complete all in-class assignments, tests, and homework he/she will miss or has missed during suspension.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School districts: pupils' health and nutrition
Prohibits, beginning 1/1/10, the governing board of a school district or administrator of a charter school from allowing advertising of a food or beverage product or corporate brands, names, or trademarks of food and beverage manufacturers on school premises, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Pupils: interdistrict transfers
Authorizes students who score at the below basic or far below basic level on statewide tests in an academic subject for two consecutive years to transfer to another a school district if the receiving district approves the transfer. Sunsets on 7/1/14.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Coding system for educational institutions
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt regulations in order to maintain the county-district-school codes system for educational institutions that enroll pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 through 12.
Vetoed
Education technology: Internet safety policy
Requires a school district that is subject to the requirement in the federal Children's Internet Protection Act to have an Internet safety policy in place to monitor and review Internet usage on its school computers on a monthly basis and to report specified instances of Internet misconduct to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Green schools
Requires a public or private elementary or secondary school, upon the fast contractual opportunity, or no later than 7/1/12, to use only environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products when this alternative exists.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
After school programs
Expands the educational enrichment component of the After School Education and Safety Program to include foreign languages and revises the term "fine arts" to "visual and performing arts."
Vetoed
Instructional materials: submissions: criteria
Requires instructional materials for foreign language and health to be submitted to the State Board of Education for adoption in 2012 and 2013, respectively, and shortens the time period between the adoption of the framework and criteria and the adoption of instructional materials for the next history and social science and science adoptions.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2008
Pupil data
Authorizes the State Chief Information Officer (CIO) to manage the data of local educational agencies through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS), and thus manage CALPADS itself; requires the CIO to establish and maintain two bureaucratic structures to review data requests and to make recommendations regarding the CIO's management of educational data.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
Pupil records: release of information
Requires school districts, when requesting emergency information, to include notice of privacy rights under federal law and to allow parents, guardians, and pupils to request that the pupils name, address, and telephone number not be released to military recruiters or institutions of higher education. Allows a secondary school to administer an Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test to pupils only if pupil information obtained with the test will not be used by the Armed Forces for recruiting purposes without the pupil's consent.
Vetoed
Arts Education Month
Declares March 2008 as Arts Education Month and encourages all elected officials to participate with their educational communities in celebrating the arts.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
Home-to-school transportation
Requests the Superintendent of Public instruction to convene a committee to investigate cost savings and best practices for school districts operating home-to-school transportation programs.
Resolution Chapter 155, Statutes of 2008
Home schooling
Acknowledges the long and rich history of private home schooling in California and calls upon California courts to denounce the opinion of the California Court of Appeal for the second Appellate District in Los Angeles in the case of In re Rachel L. and to acknowledge the right of parents to teach their children at home, apart from any public school program, and without a teaching credential.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Schools: entrepreneurship
Encourages schools to hold events promoting entrepreneurship during the week of November 17-23, 2008.
Resolution Chapter 135, Statutes of 2008
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 15 | Wyland-R Career Technical Education Vision Council | Vocational Education |
| SB 21 | Torlakson-D Regional Education and Economic Integration Initiative | Vocational Education |
| SB 29 | Simitian-D Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring | Miscellaneous |
| SB 43 | Torlakson-D Teacher training | School Employees |
| SB 69 | Runner-R School districts: reorganization of large districts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 72 | Florez-D Schoolbuses: fuel | Miscellaneous |
| SB 92 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Charter schools: petitions: facilities | Charter Schools |
| SB 146 | Scott-D School finance: attendance and enrollment | School Finance |
| SB 156 | Simitian-D Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2008 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 160 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act | Higher Education |
| SB 168 | Denham-R Physical education for the blind and visually impaired | Miscellaneous |
| SB 176* | Denham-R School facilities: multitrack year-round schools | School Facilities |
| SB 197 | Ducheny-D Child care: eligibility: termination of services | Child and Day Care |
| SB 200 | Florez-D Food safety | Pupil Nutrition |
| SB 288 | Yee-D Pupils: comprehensive learning support system | Miscellaneous |
| SB 305 | Ducheny-D Pupil assessment: English learners | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 309 | Scott-D Career technical education: subject requirements | Vocational Education |
| SB 314 | Wyland-R Career technical education: advisory committee | Vocational Education |
| SB 322 | Ducheny-D Math and Science Teacher Academy Pilot Program | School Employees |
| SB 325 | Scott-D Educational & Economic Goals for Higher Education | Higher Education |
| SB 347 | Cogdill-R Reimbursement of community college enrollment fees | Higher Education |
| SB 361 | Scott-D California Postsecondary Education Commission | Higher Education |
| SB 369 | Vincent-D State teachers: retirement: health benefits | School Employees |
| SB 372 | Steinberg-D High-speed rail: educational and vocational training program | Vocational Education |
| SB 393 | Margett-R School employees: Lottery Act allocation | School Employees |
| SB 413 | Scott-D Community colleges: inmate education programs | Higher Education |
| SB 453 | Negrete McLeod-D Schools and community colleges: district employees | School Employees |
| SB 460 | Florez-D Kings Canyon Unified School District | School Finance |
| SB 461 | Ashburn-R State Teachers' Retirement System | School Employees |
| SB 481 | Runner-R Student loan assistance: prosecutors and public defenders | Higher Education |
| SB 493 | Wyland-R Public school accountability: allocations | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 507 | Torlakson-D Schools: science instruction: grant program | School Curriculum |
| SB 543 | Maldonado-R Residential outdoor science programs | School Curriculum |
| SB 550 | Ashburn-R Safe school zones: gangs | School Safety |
| SB 564 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public School Health Center Support Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 588 | Runner-R Postsecondary education: community college school buildings | Higher Education |
| SB 595 | Alquist-D Student financial aid: grant deadlines | Higher Education |
| SB 602 | Torlakson-D Physical education | School Curriculum |
| SB 606* | Perata-D School district accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 621 | Harman-R Pupils: confidential medical services: parental notification | Miscellaneous |
| SB 637 | Wyland-R Pupil assessment: high school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 643 | Florez-D Tuition programs: income tax deductions | Higher Education |
| SB 647 | Romero-D Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| SB 658* | Romero-D School facilities | School Facilities Charter Schools |
| SB 668 | Torlakson-D School property: housing: Field Act exemption | School Facilities |
| SB 672 | Torlakson-D Pupil instruction: graduation requirements | School Accountability and Testing School Curriculum Vocational Education |
| SB 673 | Scott-D Assumption Program of Loans for Education | Higher Education School Employees |
| SB 675 | Torlakson-D Instructional programs: Technology Integration Curriculum | School Curriculum |
| SB 676 | Ridley-Thomas-D Student health: immunizations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 679 | Romero-D Independent study and alternative accountability systems | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 680 | Ridley-Thomas-D Child care resource and referral programs: funding | Child and Day Care |
| SB 681 | Torlakson-D Public schools: high school instructional time | School Finance Miscellaneous |
| SB 693 | Ashburn-R Child day care: payment programs | Child and Day Care |
| SB 704 | Ducheny-D New construction grant eligibility: special education pupils | School Facilities Special Education |
| SB 736 | Correa-D Gifted and talented pupils: identification | Miscellaneous |
| SB 741 | Ackerman-R Pupils: identifying information | Miscellaneous |
| SB 750 | Florez-D Pupils: physical education | Miscellaneous |
| SB 757 | Ridley-Thomas-D CA Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund | Miscellaneous |
| SB 766 | Alquist-D Higher education: health insurance for students | Higher Education |
| SB 769 | Alquist-D Student financial aid: working group on Cal Grant deadlines | Higher Education |
| SB 802 | Romero-D County community schools | School Finance |
| SB 807 | Machado-D Holocaust and genocide: education | Higher Education School Curriculum |
| SB 808 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public Service Customer Service Academy | Higher Education |
| SB 823 | Perata-D Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008 | Higher Education |
| SB 827* | Padilla-D Pupil testing | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 830 | Kehoe-D California Partnership Academies | Miscellaneous |
| SB 835 | Scott-D School accountability: report card | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 844 | Calderon-D School zones: crime | School Safety |
| SB 858 | Scott-D Teachers | School Employees |
| SB 867 | Cedillo-D Child care: provider organization: representation | Child and Day Care |
| SB 879 | Calderon-D State Teachers' Retirement System | School Employees |
| SB 882 | Harman-R Teacher credentialing: criminal history | School Employees |
| SB 890 | Scott-D Students: college preparedness | Higher Education |
| SB 908 | Simitian-D Environmental education | School Curriculum |
| SB 918 | Oropeza-D Tuition: income tax | Higher Education |
| SB 944 | Padilla-D Child care: data collection | Child and Day Care |
| SB 946 | Scott-D Community College Early Assessment Pilot Program | Higher Education |
| SB 961 | Scott-D School administrators | School Employees |
| SB 963 | Ridley-Thomas-D Private Postsecondary Education | Higher Education |
| SB 979 | Maldonado-R California State University | Higher Education |
| SB 1003 | Romero-D Instructional materials | School Curriculum Miscellaneous |
| SB 1095 | Vincent-D State teachers: retirement: health benefits | School Employees |
| SB 1097 | Torlakson-D School curriculum: content standards | School Curriculum |
| SB 1104 | Scott-D Teacher credentialing | School Employees |
| SB 1105 | Margett-R Teacher credentialing: criminal convictions | School Employees |
| SB 1110 | Scott-D Teacher credentialing: revocation of credential | School Employees |
| SB 1111 | Scott-D Pupil testing | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1112 | Scott-D Class size reduction: apportionments | School Finance |
| SB 1158 | Scott-D Student financial aid: Assumption Program of Loans | Higher Education School Employees |
| SB 1186 | Scott-D Teachers | School Employees |
| SB 1197 | Alquist-D Regional occupational centers: joint powers authorities | Vocational Education |
| SB 1199 | Yee-D Disclosure of improper governmental activities | Higher Education |
| SB 1207 | Scott-D Public schools: open enrollment policies | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1214 | Cedillo-D Pupil instruction: adopted course of study | School Curriculum |
| SB 1219* | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: members of the Armed Forces | Higher Education |
| SB 1248 | Wyland-R Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| SB 1251 | Steinberg-D School accountability: Academic Performance Index | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1254 | Wyland-R Education: curriculum | School Curriculum |
| SB 1269 | Wyland-R Science education: experimental science curriculum | School Curriculum |
| SB 1274 | Wyland-R Patriotic exercises and instruction | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1275 | Wyland-R Pupils: high school graduation requirements | School Accountability and Testing School Curriculum |
| SB 1281 | Wyland-R Special education: workability project grant funds | Special Education |
| SB 1288 | Scott-D California State University: Doctor of Nursing Practice | Higher Education |
| SB 1290 | Wyland-R National Guard: educational benefits | Higher Education |
| SB 1298 | Simitian-D California education information | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1301 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: institutional financial aid | Higher Education |
| SB 1303 | Runner-R School employees: leaves of absence | School Employees |
| SB 1304 | Simitian-D Child care: County of San Mateo child care subsidy plan | Child and Day Care |
| SB 1321 | Correa-D School recycling programs | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1322 | Lowenthal-D Community Colleges | Higher Education School Employees Miscellaneous |
| SB 1327 | Wyland-R Career technical education: Facilities Program | Vocational Education |
| SB 1330 | Torlakson-D Education technology | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1347 | Denham-R School park property | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1354 | Torlakson-D School facilities: construction | School Facilities |
| SB 1355 | Corbett-D Postsecondary education: private student loans | Higher Education |
| SB 1370 | Yee-D Education: freedom of speech and of the press | Higher Education School Employees Miscellaneous |
| SB 1372 | Wyland-R Charter schools: facilities | Charter Schools |
| SB 1376 | Wiggins-D State Teachers' Retirement System | School Employees |
| SB 1378 | Dutton-R Teachers: professional development | School Employees |
| SB 1385 | Runner-R Independent study | Charter Schools Miscellaneous |
| SB 1393 | Scott-D Nursing programs | Higher Education |
| SB 1410 | Corbett-D Child care: reimbursement rate | Child and Day Care |
| SB 1425 | Steinberg-D Pupil data | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1430 | Torlakson-D Education finance districts: taxes | School Finance |
| SB 1437 | Padilla-D Education technology: California Virtual Campus | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| SB 1442 | Wiggins-D Pupils: supplemental instruction programs | Charter Schools School Curriculum |
| SB 1445 | Harman-R Pupil attendance: City of La Palma | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1446* | Romero-D High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities | Special Education School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1447 | Yee-D Education finance: San Bruno Park School District | School Finance |
| SB 1457 | Steinberg-D Golden State Scholarshare Trust Act: CalSAVE program | Higher Education |
| SB 1468 | Oropeza-D Local planning: school sites: freeways | School Facilities |
| SB 1487 | Negrete McLeod-D School personnel: administering insulin | School Employees |
| SB 1492 | McClintock-R After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002 | School Finance |
| SB 1507 | Oropeza-D Highway construction: school boundaries | School Facilities |
| SB 1515 | Kuehl-D Pupil discipline: restraint and seclusion | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1516 | Simitian-D California Reading and Literacy Improvement & Public Library | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1521 | Cedillo-D School nurse loan assumption program | Higher Education |
| SB 1524 | Romero-D Pupil data: Asian and Pacific Islander pupils | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1532 | Steinberg-D High school graduation | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1544 | Ashburn-R Technology-based materials | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1545 | Romero-D Juvenile court schools | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1552 | Margett-R State Allocation Board: Office of Public School Construction | School Facilities |
| SB 1556 | Ducheny-D School construction | School Facilities |
| SB 1578 | Florez-D Public postsecondary education: gender equity in athletics | Higher Education |
| SB 1585 | Padilla-D California Community Colleges: transfer students | Higher Education |
| SB 1592 | Perata-D Education data: standing committee | School Accountability and Testing Miscellaneous |
| SB 1596 | Yee-D University of California: public contracts | Higher Education |
| SB 1600 | Kuehl-D Sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education | School Curriculum |
| SB 1607 | Romero-D Reading and language arts: framework | School Curriculum |
| SB 1620 | Ashburn-R Community colleges: nursing faculty | Higher Education |
| SB 1621 | Ashburn-R Nursing education | Higher Education |
| SB 1629 | Steinberg-D State preschool programs | Child and Day Care Miscellaneous |
| SB 1637 | Torlakson-D The California Technology Assistance Project | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1638 | Alquist-D Juveniles: juvenile court schools | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1643 | Torlakson-D Teacher credentialing: eminence teaching credential | School Employees |
| SB 1650 | Torlakson-D The Standardized Testing and Reporting Program | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1656 | Romero-D Student financial aid: Assumption Program of Loans | Higher Education |
| SB 1657 | Romero-D School facilities: needs assessment | School Facilities |
| SB 1660 | Romero-D Teachers: compensation | School Employees |
| SB 1666 | Calderon-D School zones: crime | School Safety |
| SB 1671 | Hollingsworth-R Before and after school programs: funding: career technical | Vocational Education |
| SB 1674 | Torlakson-D Before and after school programs | School Finance |
| SB 1676 | Negrete McLeod-D School classified employees | School Employees |
| SB 1677* | Scott-D Teachers: applied learning programs: advisory committee | School Employees |
| SB 1680 | Wyland-R Student financial aid: Military and Veterans Office | Higher Education |
| SB 1692 | Padilla-D California Community Colleges: public works: cost reduction | Higher Education |
| SB 1709 | Alquist-D The STAR Program | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1735 | Romero-D Pupil instruction: school district residency requirements | School Curriculum |
| SB 1736 | Romero-D California Community Colleges: Consortium on Aerospace | Higher Education |
| SB 1752* | Wyland-R California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program | Higher Education |
| SB 1753 | Torlakson-D Portable classrooms: formaldehyde | School Facilities |
| SB 1755 | Romero-D Education finance | School Finance |
| SB 1767 | Alquist-D Education: electronic learning assessment resources | Miscellaneous |
| SCA 3 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public postsecondary education: community college districts | Higher Education |
| SCA 17 | Simitian-D Taxation: educational entities: parcel tax | School Finance |
| SCA 18 | Torlakson-D Taxation: Education Finance District: special tax | School Finance |
| SCR 82 | Maldonado-R Arts Education Month | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 86 | Denham-R Local history instruction | School Curriculum |
| SCR 88 | Denham-R Education: 21st century skills | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 101 | Florez-D Week of the Student Leader | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 107 | Steinberg-D Educational Options Month | Miscellaneous |
| SJR 23 | Aanestad-R Rural school funding | School Finance |
| SJR 34 | Scott-D Educational assistance: armed forces members | Higher Education |
| SR 18 | Migden-D University of California: study abroad | Higher Education |
| SR 24 | Romero-D Digital Television Education | Miscellaneous |
| SR 28 | Florez-D California's high school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| SR 30 | Wyland-R Public schools: science and technical innovation | School Curriculum |
| SR 31 | Wyland-R Public schools: American history and government | School Curriculum |
| SR 32 | Wyland-R Public schools: employment skills | School Curriculum |
| AB 25 | Brownley-D Schools | School Finance |
| AB 32 | Fuller-R Career technical education: work certification training | Vocational Education |
| AB 33* | Jeffries-R School transportation costs: tax credit | School Finance |
| AB 50 | Soto-D Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 68 | Dymally-D Schools: pupil services block grant | School Finance |
| AB 73 | Dymally-D School attendance | School Finance |
| AB 74 | Dymally-D University of California: obesity/diabetes/related diseases | Higher Education |
| AB 80 | Krekorian-D School facilities: energy efficiency | School Facilities |
| AB 86 | Lieu-D Pupil safety | School Safety |
| AB 88* | Assembly Budget Committee 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: K-14 education | School Finance Higher Education |
| AB 90 | Lieu-D Pupil nutrition: trans fats | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 92 | Garcia-R Pupil nutrition: school meals | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 96 | Feuer-D School administrators: Administrator Training Program | School Employees |
| AB 100 | Mullin-D Education facilities: per-unhoused-pupil grants | School Facilities |
| AB 111* | Blakeslee-R National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education | Higher Education |
| AB 125 | Ma-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 127 | Beall-D School finance: per pupil funding | School Finance |
| AB 128 | Dymally-D Pupils: Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot Programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 131* | Beall-D Teacher credentialing: specialist: pupils with autism | School Employees |
| AB 134 | Wolk-D School facilities: new construction eligibility | School Facilities |
| AB 143 | Coto-D Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| AB 145 | Coto-D San Jose State University-National Hispanic University | Higher Education |
| AB 146 | Smyth-R School districts: reorganization of large districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 153 | Blakeslee-R University of California: Energy Biosciences Institute | Higher Education |
| AB 168 | Berg-D New construction: minimum essential school facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 170 | Saldana-D Child care: state preschool programs | Child and Day Care |
| AB 173* | Dymally-D Pupils: dropout prevention: grant program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 175 | Price-D Cal Grant B awards: access costs | Higher Education |
| AB 178 | Coto-D High schools: College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program | Higher Education School Curriculum |
| AB 179 | De Leon-D School finance: Standardized Account Code Structure | School Finance |
| AB 260 | Fuller-R School facilities: supplemental funding: project management | School Facilities |
| AB 270* | Huff-R Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 284 | Smyth-R Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 286 | Cook-R Public postsecondary education: exemption: nonresidents | Higher Education |
| AB 302 | De La Torre-D Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards: award amount | Higher Education |
| AB 313 | Benoit-R Child day care facility rating system | Child and Day Care |
| AB 333 | Hancock-D School libraries: online databases: subscriptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 344 | Huff-R Child day care facilities | Child and Day Care |
| AB 352 | Solorio-D Schoolgrounds: imitation firearms | School Safety |
| AB 357 | Mendoza-D Instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 359* | Karnette-D High school exit examination: instruction & services | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 366 | Wolk-D School finance: declining enrollment | School Finance |
| AB 415 | Karnette-D Public school employees: merit system | School Employees |
| AB 447 | Galgiani-D Pupils: AVID program | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 471 | Carter-D School facilities: joint-use projects | School Facilities |
| AB 480 | De Leon-D English learners: California high school exit examination | Bilingual Education School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 486 | De La Torre-D School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling | Miscellaneous |
| AB 488 | Portantino-D California Community Colleges Access Grant Program | Higher Education |
| AB 491 | Carter-D Pupil counseling: supplemental school counseling | School Finance School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 497 | Portantino-D Special education: foster children: funding | Special Education |
| AB 506 | Lieu-D School employees: leave of absence | School Employees |
| AB 519* | Assembly Budget Committee Education finance | School Finance Higher Education |
| AB 531 | Salas-D Curriculum frameworks: social sciences: school segregation | School Curriculum |
| AB 557 | Huff-R Charter schools: revocation | Charter Schools |
| AB 559 | Ruskin-D University of California: drinking water study | Higher Education |
| AB 571 | Jones-D Preschool: access | Miscellaneous |
| AB 573 | Horton-R Community colleges: nursing education programs | Higher Education |
| AB 577 | Ruskin-D Community colleges: open education resources centers | Higher Education |
| AB 584 | Swanson-D Alternative education and work center | Miscellaneous |
| AB 586 | Coto-D School finance: funding formula | School Finance |
| AB 589 | Levine-D Pupils: teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention | Miscellaneous |
| AB 590 | Solorio-D Parental involvement: limited-English-proficient parents | Bilingual Education |
| AB 591 | Dymally-D Community colleges: temporary employees | Higher Education |
| AB 599 | Mullin-D Education finance | School Finance |
| AB 618 | Karnette-D Certificated school employees: salary payments | School Employees |
| AB 621 | Smyth-R Universities: reserve peace officers | Higher Education |
| AB 635 | Duvall-R Community college: police | Higher Education |
| AB 638 | Bass-D Student financial aid: physician assistants | Higher Education |
| AB 659 | Ma-D Child care: City and County of San Francisco | Child and Day Care |
| AB 683 | Sharon Runner-R Pupil admission | Miscellaneous |
| AB 694 | Wolk-D Home-to-school transportation: funding | School Finance |
| AB 699 | Parra-D Home-to-school transportation | School Finance |
| AB 710 | Parra-D School finance: military dependents | School Finance |
| AB 743 | Solorio-D School security officers | School Safety |
| AB 750 | Carter-D Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 760 | Coto-D Pupil health: school health services | Miscellaneous |
| AB 767 | Walters-R Student financial aid: veterans | Higher Education |
| AB 789 | Mullin-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| AB 792* | Garcia-R Teachers: affordable housing | School Employees |
| AB 795 | Keene-R Special education: funding | Special Education |
| AB 806 | De La Torre-D Career technical education | Higher Education Vocational Education |
| AB 810 | Lieu-D School safety plans | School Safety |
| AB 818 | Krekorian-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 819* | Sharon Runner-R Tuition: income tax deduction | Higher Education |
| AB 820 | Karnette-D Higher education: recycling polystyrene | Higher Education |
| AB 830 | Ma-D Transportation of school pupils | Miscellaneous |
| AB 835 | Krekorian-D School finance: declining enrollment | School Finance |
| AB 850 | Torrico-D School finance: special education | School Finance Special Education |
| AB 876 | Davis-D Higher education: career technical education | Higher Education Vocational Education |
| AB 883 | Dymally-D Student financial aid | Higher Education School Employees |
| AB 906 | Eng-D California Community Colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 911 | Strickland-R Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 916* | Niello-R School construction: Twin Rivers Unified School District | School Facilities |
| AB 925 | Hancock-D School accountability: UC study | School Accountability and Testing Higher Education |
| AB 931 | Ruskin-D University of California Riverside: corrections study | Higher Education |
| AB 956 | Nakanishi-R Public contracts: school districts: relocatable buildings | School Facilities |
| AB 967 | Nava-D Farm Fresh Schools Program | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 974 | Fuller-R Regional occupational centers and programs | Vocational Education |
| AB 975 | Solorio-D Child care resource and referral programs | Child and Day Care |
| AB 994 | Parra-D Health care: nurse training scholarship pilot program | Higher Education |
| AB 999 | Hancock-D Partnership academies: green technology and goods movement | Vocational Education |
| AB 1011 | DeSaulnier-D School facilities: modernization eligibility | School Facilities |
| AB 1015 | Brownley-D High schools: requirements for graduation | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1024 | Caballero-D University of California at Davis: food safety | Higher Education |
| AB 1027 | Caballero-D Teachers: professional development | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| AB 1028 | Caballero-D Child care: funding: audits | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1029 | Caballero-D Prisons: inmate education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1038 | Feuer-D Postsecondary education: student fees | Higher Education |
| AB 1052 | Torrico-D Preschool: teachers: limited-English-proficient children | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| AB 1059 | De Leon-D Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1062 | Ma-D School facilities: uniform standards: solar design plans | School Facilities |
| AB 1068 | Cook-R Sex offenders: schools | School Safety |
| AB 1085 | Richardson-D Pupils with hearing impairment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1101 | Parra-D Career Technical Education Facilities Program | School Facilities |
| AB 1112 | Torrico-D School district and community college district bonds | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1116 | Nava-D Career technical education: labor market needs | Vocational Education |
| AB 1122 | Duvall-R Pupil instruction: consumer credit | School Curriculum |
| AB 1160 | Niello-R Certificated school employees: compensation | School Employees |
| AB 1163 | Krekorian-D Adult education | School Finance |
| AB 1177 | Solorio-D Accelerated English Acquisition and Literacy Pilot Program | Bilingual Education |
| AB 1182 | Niello-R California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008 | Higher Education |
| AB 1204 | Portantino-D Contracts: community college districts | Higher Education |
| AB 1216 | Laird-D School accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1230 | Laird-D California Career Resource Network Program | Vocational Education |
| AB 1233 | Galgiani-D State Library: homework assistance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1236 | Mullin-D Compulsory school attendance: kindergarten readiness program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1249 | Silva-R Schools: sex education | School Curriculum |
| AB 1267 | Feuer-D Civic service: Civic Service Loan Assumption Program | Higher Education |
| AB 1279* | Assembly Budget Committee 2008 Human Services Budget Trailer bill: child care | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1305 | Charles Calderon-D Community colleges: employment of full-time faculty | Higher Education |
| AB 1319 | Houston-R Schools: athletes: steroid testing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1320 | Carter-D Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities | School Finance |
| AB 1325 | Mullin-D Courses of study: weekly teaching requirement | School Curriculum |
| AB 1329 | Houston-R Occupational therapists | Higher Education |
| AB 1342 | Mendoza-D Surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1343 | Mendoza-D Faculty and College Excellence Act | Higher Education |
| AB 1344 | Mendoza-D State preschool programs | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1346 | Silva-R Education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1353* | Huff-R Pupil assessment | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1389* | Assembly Budget Committee 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: education finance | School Finance Child and Day Care School Employees |
| AB 1395 | Coto-D Child care providers | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1403 | Arambula-D Local educational agencies: administration | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1409 | Portantino-D Pupils: concurrent enrollment | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| AB 1414 | Hancock-D Career Technical Education Revitalization Act of 2007. | Vocational Education |
| AB 1415 | Brownley-D Teacher credentialing: services credential | School Employees |
| AB 1423 | Davis-D Community colleges: salary schedules for academic employees | Higher Education |
| AB 1446 | DeSaulnier-D Pupils: truancy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1454 | Richardson-D Education: content standards: periodic review | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1463 | Eng-D Public school employers: joint powers agencies | School Employees |
| AB 1480 | Mendoza-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| AB 1482 | Leno-D Education: supplemental instruction | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1490 | Mendoza-D School facilities: new construction: portable classrooms | School Facilities |
| AB 1500 | Hancock-D School facilities: modernization funding | School Facilities |
| AB 1502 | Lieu-D Education: instructional materials: financial literacy | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1503 | Huff-R Pupils with disabilities: waivers | Special Education School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1522 | Brownley-D Teacher credentialing: services credential | School Employees |
| AB 1526* | Assembly Budget Committee Before and after school education | School Finance |
| AB 1537 | Mullin-D Model civic education staff development program | School Employees |
| AB 1544 | Richardson-D Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 1567 | Garrick-R School districts: budgets: retired employee benefits | School Employees |
| AB 1578 | Leno-D Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act | Higher Education |
| AB 1586 | DeSaulnier-D Higher education: curriculum | Higher Education |
| AB 1593 | Blakeslee-R School volunteer aides: background checks | School Employees |
| AB 1594 | Blakeslee-R School teachers: adverse actions on credentials | School Employees |
| AB 1599 | Mendoza-D Education: instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 1601 | Hancock-D School finance: Average Monthly Enrollment Pilot Program | School Finance |
| AB 1609 | Leno-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 1632 | Parra-D Class size reduction: penalty: January 2007 freeze exemption | School Finance |
| AB 1638* | Houston-R School finance: equalization | School Finance |
| AB 1649 | Levine-D University of California: retirement benefits | Higher Education |
| AB 1652 | Lieber-D Student financial aid | Higher Education |
| AB 1659 | Lieber-D Special education: procedural safeguards | Special Education |
| AB 1676 | DeVore-R Education: instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 1754 | Hayashi-D Community colleges: grade changing policies | Higher Education |
| AB 1758 | DeVore-R Postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 1761 | Fuller-R Certificated employees: probationary period | School Employees |
| AB 1768 | Evans-D Special education: due process hearings | Special Education |
| AB 1772 | Garcia-R Charter schools: governing boards | Charter Schools |
| AB 1805* | Assembly Budget Committee Special education: seriously emotionally disturbed children | Special Education |
| AB 1809 | Saldana-D Pupils: military families | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1821 | Brownley-D Public postsecondary education: reporting requirements | Higher Education |
| AB 1831 | Mendoza-D Teachers and faculty members: housing | School Employees |
| AB 1834 | Coto-D Teachers: National Board for Professional Teaching Standards | School Employees |
| AB 1835 | Coto-D Teachers: recruitment/induction/support | School Employees |
| AB 1841 | Coto-D School facilities: small schools | School Facilities |
| AB 1863 | Portantino-D Pupil instruction: social science | School Curriculum |
| AB 1865 | Smyth-R School districts: reorganization of large districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1868* | Walters-R Government tort claims: charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 1871 | Coto-D Bilingual education: teacher credentialing | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| AB 1872 | Coto-D Special education: autism spectrum disorders: clearinghouse | Special Education |
| AB 1885 | Nava-D Pupil instruction: intensive instruction and services | School Curriculum |
| AB 1888 | Huff-R Child care: licensure requirements: heritage schools | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1889 | Berg-D School districts: four-day school week | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1893* | Garrick-R Class size reduction | School Finance |
| AB 1908* | Wolk-D Dixon Unified School District: school farm property | School Finance |
| AB 1934 | Ma-D School Facilities: San Francisco USD | School Facilities |
| AB 1948 | Evans-D Education finance | School Finance |
| AB 1966 | Garcia-R School meals: pupil nutrition | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 1980 | Swanson-D Peralta Community College District: transportation fees | Higher Education |
| AB 1981 | Huff-R Surplus property: Chino Valley Unified School District | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2006 | Hayashi-D California Community Colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 2008 | Swanson-D Oakland Unified School District: charter school petitions | Charter Schools |
| AB 2015 | De La Torre-D Adult education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2027 | Swanson-D Education finance: maintenance of school buildings | School Finance |
| AB 2033 | Nunez-D School facilities: charter schools | School Facilities Charter Schools |
| AB 2034 | Nunez-D Curriculum and instructional materials: Native Americans | School Curriculum |
| AB 2037 | Portantino-D California State University: prevailing wage law study | Higher Education |
| AB 2040 | Nunez-D High school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2049* | Saldana-D Public schools: children of military families | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2053 | Karnette-D Part-time teachers: adult education | School Employees |
| AB 2056 | De Leon-D High school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2057 | Assembly Education Committee Education Omnibus Bill | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2061 | Parra-D Compulsory full-time education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2064 | Arambula-D Instructional materials: Vietnam War | School Curriculum |
| AB 2072 | Hayashi-D Physical education: award program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2077 | Fuentes-D The California English language development test | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2078 | Fuentes-D Work-based learning | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2082 | Salas-D Student financial aid: military service | Higher Education |
| AB 2083 | Nunez-D Student financial aid: institutional financial aid | Higher Education |
| AB 2085 | Huff-R Schools: discrimination | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2086 | Huff-R Schools: parental notification: sexual orientation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2087 | De La Torre-D School operations: multitrack year-round schedule | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2107 | Mullin-D Driver's education: provisional licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2113 | Anderson-R School construction: modernization eligibility | School Facilities |
| AB 2115 | Mullin-D Charter schools: governing boards | Charter Schools |
| AB 2135 | Mendoza-D Instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 2138 | Adams-R High school graduation: requirements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2145 | Brownley-D School and Library Improvement Block Grant | School Finance |
| AB 2159 | Brownley-D Funding and Accountability Commission for Transparency | School Finance School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2167 | De Leon-D Public school employees: personnel records | School Employees |
| AB 2173 | Caballero-D Public schools facility financing | School Facilities |
| AB 2182 | Caballero-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 2197 | Mullin-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 2213 | Houston-R Pupils: work permits | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2214 | Nakanishi-R Pupils: notices sent to parents | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2226 | Ruskin-D Teachers: special education teacher preparation programs | School Employees |
| AB 2236 | Garrick-R School finance: categorical education program funding | School Finance |
| AB 2243* | Carter-D School district reorganization | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2244 | Price-D University of California hospitals: staffing | Higher Education |
| AB 2246* | Villines-R Charter schools: joint powers agreement: funding | Charter Schools |
| AB 2254 | Arambula-D Local educational agencies: administration | School Finance |
| AB 2260 | Assembly Higher Education Committee Postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 2261 | Ruskin-D Community colleges: open education resources centers | Higher Education |
| AB 2264 | Furutani-D Public contracts: community college districts | Higher Education |
| AB 2271 | Fuentes-D Community colleges: collective bargaining | Higher Education |
| AB 2274 | Krekorian-D School districts: administrator assessment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2277 | Eng-D Community Colleges: property tax revenues | Higher Education |
| AB 2282 | Carter-D Education finance: apportionment of state aid | School Finance |
| AB 2290 | Benoit-R School finance: categorical funding | School Finance |
| AB 2300 | Laird-D School lunch and breakfast programs: direct certification | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 2302* | Bass-D Teacher credentialing: specialist credential | School Employees |
| AB 2305 | Karnette-D Charter schools: statewide assessments | Charter Schools |
| AB 2315 | Mullin-D Instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 2318 | Smyth-R Interscholastic athletics: steroid prevention | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2325 | Price-D Curriculum: African, Asian, and Latin American cultures | School Curriculum |
| AB 2340 | Arambula-D Adult education: English classes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2346 | Swanson-D Child care: state employees | Child and Day Care |
| AB 2361 | Keene-R School safety: Safe School Guarantee | School Safety |
| AB 2365 | De La Torre-D Cal Grant B awards: award amount | Higher Education |
| AB 2372* | Coto-D Public postsecondary education: systemwide fees: limitations | Higher Education |
| AB 2378 | Houston-R School finance: equalization | School Finance |
| AB 2390 | Karnette-D State teachers' retirement: postretirement earnings | School Employees |
| AB 2391 | Solorio-D Mathematics & Reading Professional Development Program | School Employees |
| AB 2394 | Coto-D Education finance: study relating to weighted pupil funding | School Finance |
| AB 2396 | Carter-D Pupil attendance: civic engagement activities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2414 | Fuller-R Pupil attendance: school attendance review boards | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2429 | Strickland-R Extracurricular activities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2438 | Price-D Schools: accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2457 | Walters-R Instructional programs: Online Classroom Pilot Program | School Curriculum |
| AB 2462 | Davis-D Education finance: California State Lottery Education Fund | School Finance |
| AB 2467 | Brownley-D State preschool: information | Child and Day Care |
| AB 2468 | Brownley-D Instructional materials: policies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2478 | Huffman-D Public school accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2481 | Mendoza-D Employee salaries: LAUSD Employment Recovery Act | School Employees |
| AB 2489 | Arambula-D Education: code maintenance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2493 | Strickland-R Career technical education: regional occupational centers | Vocational Education |
| AB 2496 | Huffman-D Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees | Higher Education |
| AB 2515 | Hancock-D Regional occupational centers or programs: apprenticeship | Vocational Education |
| AB 2517 | Portantino-D Teacher credentialing | School Employees |
| AB 2531 | Mendoza-D School assistance and intervention teams | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2544 | Mullin-D Model civic education staff development program | School Employees |
| AB 2545 | Carter-D Compulsory education: disenrollment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2550 | Furutani-D Public contracts: community college districts: purchases | Higher Education |
| AB 2551 | Furutani-D California Community Colleges: design-assist contract | Higher Education |
| AB 2555 | Torrico-D Special education: initial assessment | Special Education |
| AB 2561* | Niello-R Pupil opportunities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2576 | Furutani-D Employee bargaining units: salary deductions | School Employees |
| AB 2582 | Coto-D Child care providers: data | Child and Day Care |
| AB 2605* | Nakanishi-R Nonpublic school attendance: income tax credit | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2630 | Salas-D Pupil records: privacy rights | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2639 | Lieu-D School safety plans | School Safety |
| AB 2648 | Bass-D Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 2656 | Brownley-D Pupil Suspension | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2698 | Charles Calderon-D Career technical education: peace officer | Vocational Education |
| AB 2704 | Leno-D Pupil nutrition: availability of tap water | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 2708 | Solorio-D School districts: pupils' health and nutrition | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2717 | Lieber-D Special education: due process hearing: burden of proof | Special Education |
| AB 2720 | Levine-D School facilities: hazardous site | School Facilities |
| AB 2722 | Duvall-R Public postsecondary education: statewide student fee policy | Higher Education |
| AB 2725* | La Malfa-R Education finance: federal forest reserve funds | School Finance |
| AB 2739 | Nakanishi-R Pupils: interdistrict transfers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2746 | Niello-R Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 2757 | DeSaulnier-D Coding system for educational institutions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2759 | Jones-D State preschool programs: reform | Child and Day Care |
| AB 2762 | Eng-D School districts: school safety | School Safety School Employees |
| AB 2774 | Fuller-R Education technology: Internet safety policy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2776 | Mullin-D The Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2783 | Plescia-R Special education: foster children | Special Education |
| AB 2808 | Garcia-R Green schools | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2822 | Duvall-R English learners: reclassification | Bilingual Education |
| AB 2831* | Fuller-R Education finance: categorical programs | School Finance |
| AB 2832* | Fuller-R Education finance: restricted routine maintenance funds | School Finance |
| AB 2843 | Karnette-D After school programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2855 | Hancock-D Career technical education: partnership academies: green | Vocational Education |
| AB 2864 | De Leon-D School facilities: energy efficiency | School Facilities |
| AB 2876 | Lieber-D Postsecondary education: Student Loan Integrity Act | Higher Education |
| AB 2890 | Duvall-R School finance: categorical education block grant funding | School Finance |
| AB 2895 | Brownley-D Pupil achievement: high school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2932 | Karnette-D Instructional materials: submissions: criteria | School Curriculum Miscellaneous |
| AB 2933 | Assembly Education Committee Education finance: categorical programs | School Finance |
| AB 2936 | Mullin-D School facilities: site acquisition and development | School Facilities |
| AB 2955 | Duvall-R Pupil data | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2965 | Krekorian-D School facilities: water toxicity assessment | School Facilities |
| AB 2974 | Solorio-D English Language Learner Literacy pilot program | Bilingual Education |
| AB 2994 | Lieber-D Pupil records: release of information | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2995 | Davis-D Education facilities: inspections | School Facilities |
| AB 3008 | Villines-R School districts: state mandates: suspension | School Finance |
| AB 3033 | Laird-D University of California: contracts | Higher Education |
| AB 3084* | Cook-R Curriculum: social science | School Curriculum |
| ACA 3 | Gaines-R Expenditure limits | School Finance |
| ACA 5 | Portantino-D University of California: retirement and health benefits | Higher Education |
| ACA 16 | Torrico-D Public postsecondary education: student enrollment: funding | Higher Education |
| ACR 21 | Portantino-D University of California: academic partnerships | Higher Education |
| ACR 69 | Price-D Task Force on the Future of Compton Community College | Higher Education |
| ACR 79 | Anderson-R University of California: divestment from Iran | Higher Education |
| ACR 88 | Fuller-R Arts Education Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 91 | Mendoza-D California Community College faculty | Higher Education |
| ACR 99 | Swanson-D School nurses: salaries | School Employees |
| ACR 114 | Fuller-R Home-to-school transportation | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 115 | Anderson-R Home schooling | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 120 | Silva-R Schools: entrepreneurship | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 138 | Horton-R School nurses | School Employees |
| ACR 140 | Benoit-R College and Career Pathways Month | Higher Education |
| ACR 145 | Portantino-D Pupil instruction: social sciences | School Curriculum |
| AJR 23 | Hancock-D No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: reauthorization | School Accountability and Testing |
| AJR 48 | Price-D Postsecondary education: student financial aid | Higher Education |
| AJR 58 | Horton-R School Medicaid services | School Finance |
| AJR 64 | Mullin-D Pupil testing and secondary education | School Accountability and Testing School Curriculum |
| HR 35 | Furutani-D Relative to Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital | Higher Education |
| AB 4XXX* | Assembly Budget Committee 2007 Budget: Education | School Finance |
| AB 8XXX* | Assembly Budget Committee Teachers' retirement: 2007-08 Budget | School Employees |