Bill Text: CA AB1221 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil assessment: California Assessment of Student

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1221 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1221-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1221	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to  amend   add  Section 
47612.1 of   60648.6 to  the Education Code,
relating to  charter schools.   pupil
assessment. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1221, as amended, Salas.  Charter schools: operations:
instruction with partnership entities.   Pupil
assessment: California Assessment of Student Performance and
Progress.  
   Existing law establishes the California Assessment of Student
Performance and Progress as the statewide system of pupil assessment,
under which various assessments are required or authorized to be
administered in public schools, including, among others, summative
assessments aligned to the common core state standards in English
language arts and mathematics, and alternative assessments, as
specified.  
   This bill would require the State Department of Education to
provide, upon request, technical assistance to a rural school
district pertaining to the district's implementation and
administration of the assessment system.  
   Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, requires a pupil
over 19 years of age, in order to be eligible for generating charter
school apportionments, to be continuously enrolled in a public school
and make satisfactory progress towards a high school diploma.
Existing law provides an exception to those provisions for a charter
school that provides instruction exclusively in partnership with one
of specified entities if the charter school's charter was granted
before July 1, 2014. The provision limiting that exception to charter
schools chartered before July 1, 2014, becomes inoperative on July
1, 2015, and is repealed on January 1, 2016.  
   This bill would continue until July 1, 2017, the operation of the
requirement that the charter school be chartered before July 1, 2014.

   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.    Section 60648.6 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   60648.6.  The department shall provide, upon request, technical
assistance to a rural school district pertaining to the district's
implementation and administration of the assessment system. 

  SECTION 1.    Section 47612.1 of the Education
Code, as amended by Section 30 of Chapter 32 of the Statutes of 2014,
is amended to read:
   47612.1.  (a) Except for the requirement that a pupil be a
California resident, subdivision (b) of Section 47612 shall not apply
to a charter school whose charter was granted by its chartering
authority before July 1, 2014, and that provides instruction
exclusively in partnership with any of the following:
   (1) The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (Public Law No.
105-220; 29 U.S.C. Sec. 2801 et seq.).
   (2) Federally affiliated Youth Build programs.
   (3) Federal job corps training or instruction provided pursuant to
a memorandum of understanding with the federal provider.
   (4) The California Conservation Corps or local conservation corps
certified by the California Conservation Corps pursuant to Sections
14406 or 14507.5 of the Public Resources Code.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2017 and, as
of January 1, 2018, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
becomes operative on or before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends
the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed. 

  SEC. 2.    Section 47612.1 of the Education Code,
as added by Section 31 of Chapter 32 of the Statutes of 2014, is
amended to read:
   47612.1.  (a) Except for the requirement that a pupil be a
California resident, subdivision (b) of Section 47612 shall not apply
to a charter school program that provides instruction exclusively in
partnership with any of the following:
   (1) The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (Public Law No.
105-220; 29 U.S.C. Sec. 2801 et seq.).
   (2) Federally affiliated Youth Build programs.
   (3) Federal job corps training or instruction provided pursuant to
a memorandum of understanding with the federal provider.
   (4) The California Conservation Corps or local conservation corps
certified by the California Conservation Corps pursuant to Sections
14406 or 14507.5 of the Public Resources Code.
   (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2017.