Bill Text: CA AB2845 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Migrant education: California Mini-Corps program and currently migratory children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.) [AB2845 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2845-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2845

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Introduced by Assembly Member Robert Rivas

February 15, 2024

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An act to amend Section 54442 of the Education Code, relating to migrant education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2845, as introduced, Robert Rivas. Migrant education: state master plan.

Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a state master plan for services to migrant children. Existing law requires the plan to include specified elements, including the active involvement of parents, teachers, and community representatives in the local implementation of migrant education programs.

This bill would require the state board to revise the plan as necessary, and would require the plan to include the active involvement of migratory parents, school personnel, and community representatives in the local planning and implementation of migrant education programs.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 54442 of the Education Code is amended to read:

54442.

 The state board shall adopt adopt, and revise as necessary, a state master plan for services to migrant children. The plan shall include all of the following:

(a) Instructional activities on a regular and extended year basis. These activities shall be designed to identify, assess, and provide treatment for academic deficiencies of migrant children. Special emphasis shall be given to oral and written communications, reading, and mathematics. Small group or individual instruction and tutorial services shall be provided to assist migrant children to attain normal progress rates meet the same academic content and achievement standards that all children are expected to meet in all subject areas. All instructional services shall be provided as supplements to regular programs of instruction provided by the public schools for all children.

(b) Health and welfare services. These services shall be designed to identify, assess, and provide treatment for conditions that interfere with the education and learning of migrant children, including dental, emotional, or environmental conditions. To the extent possible, existing community resources will be utilized shall be used to provide these services.

(c) Preservice and in-service education of professional and nonprofessional personnel. This education shall be planned to prepare school administrators, teachers, aides, and other personnel to meet the special needs of migrant children.

(d) Supportive services including transportation, family liaison, and other services necessary to the success of the programs.

(e) Child development activities including, but not limited to, social, sensorimotor, conceptual and language development, and perceptual discrimination activities for migrant infants and prekindergarten children who are too young to participate in instructional services normally provided by the public schools.

(f) The active involvement of migratory parents, school personnel, including, but not limited to, administrators and teachers, and community representatives in the local planning and implementation of migrant education programs.