Bill Text: CA AB1049 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1049 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Schools: low-achieving schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1049 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1049-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1049	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act relating to persistently lowest performing schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1049, as introduced, Brownley. Schools: low-achieving schools.
   The Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State
Board of Education, to develop the Academic Performance Index (API)
consisting of a variety of indicators currently reported to the State
Department of Education to track the achievement of schools and
their pupils. Existing law requires the API to be used for specified
purposes, including, but not limited to, ranking all public schools
in the state. The Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools
Program, the High Priority Schools Program, and the Quality Education
Investment Act of 2006 are intended to provide support to schools
ranked in the lower deciles of the API.
   The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 requires the state
accountability system to ensure that all local educational agencies
and public schools make adequate yearly progress, as defined. The
State Department of Education is required to identify local
educational agencies that are in danger of being identified within 2
years as program improvement local educational agencies under the
federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and
the State Board of Education to identify the persistently lowest
achieving schools, as defined, for purposes of implementing the
federal Race to the Top program established by the federal American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
establish an advisory committee to advise on all appropriate matters
relative to the creation of the API and the implementation of the
Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and the High
Achieving/Improving Schools Program. Existing law requires the
committee to make recommendations to the Superintendent on the
appropriateness and feasibility of a methodology for generating a
measurement of academic performance by using unique pupil identifiers
and annual academic achievement growth to provide a more accurate
measure of a school's academic achievement growth over time.
   This bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to
convene a working group to identify a single formula that defines, to
the greatest extent possible, persistently lowest performing schools
and that can be used in both state and federal accountability
programs. The bill would require the working group to include
representatives from the Legislative Analyst's Office, the Department
of Finance, the State Department of Education, the advisory
committee described above, the state board, the staffs of the fiscal
and policy committees of the Legislature, and stakeholder groups. The
bill would require the working group to develop and report its
recommendations to the state board and the education policy
committees of the Legislature by July 1, 2012.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  (a) The Legislative Analyst's Office shall convene a
working group to identify a single formula that defines, to the
greatest extent possible, persistently lowest performing schools and
that can be used in both state and federal accountability programs.
The working group also shall identify exceptions to the single
formula.
   (b) The working group shall include representatives from all of
the following:
   (1) The Legislative Analyst's Office.
   (2) The Department of Finance.
   (3) The State Department of Education.
   (4) The advisory committee established pursuant to Section
52052.5.
   (5) The State Board of Education.
   (6) The staffs of the fiscal and policy committees of the
Legislature.
   (7) Stakeholder groups, including county, school district, and
schoolsite administrators, teachers, and parent and equity
organizations.
   (c) By July 1, 2012, the working group shall develop and report
its recommendations to the State Board of Education and the education
policy committees of the Legislature.