Bill Text: CA AB1435 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public school accountability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-14 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB1435 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1435-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1435	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 29, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member V. Manuel Perez
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Ammiano,   Brownley,   Solorio,   and
Torlakson   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to  amend Section 52052.5 of   add
Section 52052.7 to  the Education Code, relating to public
school accountability.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1435, as amended, V. Manuel Perez. Public school
accountability.
   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 Academic Performance Index 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, by July 1, 2005, 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
growth over time.
   This bill would  delete the provisions relating to the
recommendations that were required to be submitted by July 1, 2005,
and instead  require the advisory committee, by July 1,
2010, to make recommendations to the Superintendent regarding the
inclusion of the  California English Language Development
Test (CELDT)   results of the English language
development test or series of tes   ts developed or acquired
pursuant to a specified provision  and the feasibility of
including English learner proficiency as part of the Academic
Performance Index (API). The bill would require the Superintendent,
with the approval of the state board, to include  CELDT
  the  results  of the English language
development test or series of tests   developed or acquired
pursuant to a specified provision  and English language
proficiency levels and growth of those levels in the API.
   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 52052.7 is added to the 
 Education Code  , to read:  
   52052.7.  By July 1, 2010, the advisory committee established
pursuant to Section 52052.5 shall make recommendations to the
Superintendent regarding the inclusion of the results of the English
language development test or series of tests developed or acquired
pursuant to Section 60810 and the feasibility of including English
learner proficiency as part of the Academic Performance Index (API).
The Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, shall
include the results of the English language development test or
series of tests developed or acquired pursuant to Section 60810 and
English language proficiency levels and growth of those levels in the
API.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 52052.5 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
   52052.5.  (a) The Superintendent shall establish a broadly
representative and diverse advisory committee to advise the
Superintendent and the state board on all appropriate matters
relative to the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the
implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools
Program and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. Members of
the advisory committee shall serve without compensation for terms not
to exceed two years. The State Department of Education shall provide
staff to the advisory panel.
   (b) By July 1, 2010, the advisory committee established pursuant
to this section shall make recommendations to the Superintendent
regarding the inclusion of the California English Language
Development Test (CELDT) and the feasibility of including English
learner proficiency as part of the Academic Performance Index (API).
The Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, shall
include CELDT results and English language proficiency levels and
growth of those levels in the API.