Bill Text: CA AB70 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: genetic testing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-11 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. [AB70 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB70-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 70	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        DECEMBER 12, 2008

   An act to add Section 313.5 to the Education Code, relating to
English learners.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 70, as introduced, Duvall. English learners.
   Existing law requires a school district that has one or more
pupils who are English learners to assess the English language
development of each pupil in order to determine the level of English
proficiency of the pupil. The State Department of Education, with
approval of the State Board of Education, is required to establish
procedures for conducting the assessment and for the reclassification
of a pupil from English learner to proficient in English. These
reclassification procedures are required to use multiple criteria,
including the English language development test, teacher evaluation,
parental opinion and consultation, and comparison of the performance
in basic skills of the pupil against a range of performance in basic
skills of English proficient pupils.
   This bill would require the department, as part of its duties in
administering the English language development test, to gather from
each school district that has one or more English learners the
criteria that the district uses for the reclassification of a pupil
from English learner to proficient in English and to summarize and
report the criteria it receives from school districts on the Internet
Web site of the department in a manner that makes the criteria
easily accessible to members of the public.
   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 313.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   313.5.  (a) As part of its duties in administering the English
language development test, the department shall gather from each
school district that has one or more English learners the criteria
that the district uses for the reclassification of a pupil from
English learner to proficient in English. The department shall
summarize and report the criteria it receives from school districts
on the Internet Web site of the department in a manner that makes the
criteria easily accessible to members of the public.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "school district" includes a
county office of education and a charter school.