Bill Text: CA SB1125 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1125 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Local educational agencies: educational programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-12 - Referral to Com. on GOV. & F. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar. [SB1125 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB1125-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1125

Introduced by Senator Portantino

February 19, 2020

An act to amend Section 46148 of, to add Section 8203.4 to, and to add Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 36000) to Part 21 of Division 3 of Title 2 of, the Education Code, relating to local educational agencies.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1125, as introduced, Portantino. Local educational agencies: educational programs.

(1) Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating public elementary, middle, junior high, and charter schools, under which a program can apply for a grant for operating a before school component, an after school component, or both the before and after school components, on one or multiple schoolsites.

This bill would require the State Department of Education to review funding for all after school programs offered in the state, including, but not limited to, the After School Education and Safety Program and programs supported by federal funding, and to, by regulation, provide flexibility to school districts to use funds provided for after school programs for before school programs if that flexibility is not prohibited by the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election as Proposition 49, or federal law.

(2) The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for a system of common schools and gives the Legislature the power to provide, by general law, for the incorporation and organization of school districts, high school districts, and community college districts of every kind and class.

This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, county office of education, or school district from imposing any rule, regulation, ordinance, or condition, or taking any action, that would prohibit or restrict a school district, county office of education, or charter school from complying with any state law or regulation.

The bill would include findings that changes described in this paragraph address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

(3) Existing law requires the schoolday for middle schools and high schools, including those operated as charter schools, to begin no earlier than 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, by July 1, 2022, or the date on which a school district’s or charter school’s respective collective bargaining agreement that is operative on January 1, 2020, expires, whichever is later, except for rural school districts.

This bill would expand the exemption to rural charter schools, and would express the intent of the Legislature to define “rural school district and rural charter school” for purposes of those provisions. The bill would authorize a school district or charter school subject to the start time requirement to offer a surf class or club before the start of the schoolday and would authorize the surf class or club to generate average daily attendance for purposes of computing any apportionments of state funding.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 8203.4 is added to the Education Code, to read:

8203.4.

(a) The department shall review funding for all after school programs offered in the state, including, but not limited to, the After School Education and Safety Program (Article 22.5 (commencing with Section 8482)) and programs supported by federal funding.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall, by regulation, provide flexibility to school districts to use funds provided for after school programs for before school programs if that flexibility is not prohibited by the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election as Proposition 49, or federal law.

SEC. 2.

Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 36000) is added to Part 21 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read:

CHAPTER 5. Matters of Statewide Concern

36000.

(a) A city, county, city and county, county office of education, or school district shall not impose any rule, regulation, ordinance, or condition, or take any action, that would prohibit or restrict a local educational agency from complying with any state law or regulation.

(b) For purposes of this section, a “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

(c) The Legislature finds and declares that this section addresses a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair as that term is used in Section 5 of Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore, this section applies to all cities, including charter cities.

SEC. 3.

Section 46148 of the Education Code is amended to read:

46148.

(a) (1) The schoolday for high schools, including high schools operated as charter schools, shall begin no earlier than 8:30 a.m.

(2) The schoolday for middle schools, including middle schools operated as charter schools, shall begin no earlier than 8:00 a.m.

(b) For purposes of this section, ~~“schoolday”~~ the following definitions apply:

(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to define “rural school district and rural charter school” for purposes of this section.

(2) “Schoolday” has the same meaning as defined by the school district or charter school for purposes of calculating average daily attendance in order to compute any apportionments of state ~~funding.~~ funding, except for a surf class or club. This section does not prohibit a school district or charter school from offering classes or activities to a limited number of pupils before the start of the schoolday that do not generate average daily attendance for purposes of computing any apportionments of state ~~funding.~~ funding, or from offering a surf class or club before the start of the schoolday that generates average daily attendance for purposes of computing any apportionments of state funding.

(c) This section shall be implemented by middle schools and high schools no later than July 1, 2022, or the date on which a school district’s or charter school’s respective collective bargaining agreement that is operative on January 1, 2020, expires, whichever is later.

(d) This section shall not apply to rural school ~~districts.~~ districts or rural charter schools.

(e) The department is encouraged to post on its internet website available research on the impact of sleep deprivation on adolescents and the benefits of a later school start time and examples of successful strategies for managing the change to a later school start time, and to advise school districts and charter schools of this posting.

(f) The Legislature encourages school districts, charter schools, and community organizations to inform their communities, including parents, teenagers, educators, athletic coaches, and other stakeholders, about the health, safety, and academic impact of sleep deprivation on middle and high school pupils and the benefits of a later school start time, and to discuss local strategies to successfully implement the later school start time.