Legislative Update as of 2/4/2012
2. Support
| SB 298 (De León D) | Support |
| Charter schools: at-risk pupils: Los Angeles County Board of Education. Location: 8/26/2011 - A . 2 YEAR | Bill Text pdf html |
| Extends the sunset date for Soledad Enrichment Action (S.E.A.) to continue operation until 2018. Under the supervision of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, S.E.A. is an educational option that provides real alternatives to keep at risk youth in school and out of gangs. | |
4. Oppose
| AB 401 (Ammiano D) | Oppose |
| Charter schools. Location: 7/8/2011 - S . 2 YEAR | Bill Text pdf html |
| Would have capped the number of charter schools allowed to operate in California to 1,450, until 1/1/2017, at a time when states across the country are lifting their caps on charter schools. After 1/1/2017, the cap would have reverted back to the current law which allows growth of 100 charter schools a year. Additionally, it would have added various nepotism prohibitions into law. This bill sought to stop charter school growth in California. | |
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| AB 925 (Lara D) | Oppose |
| Charter schools. Location: 7/8/2011 - S . 2 YEAR | Bill Text pdf html |
| Would have made applicable a costly and unnecessarily high ceiling of employment rights for classified employees at charter schools. The bill specifically would have required that classified employees receive sick leave and vacation based on time served in addition to 11 paid holidays, and to require charter schools to create sick and vacation leave policies. It also included requirements related to personnel files, jury duty, permanent status for employees within one year of employment, written layoff notices, and other leaves of absence requirements. This was an inclusion of labor law into charter school law that had never been proposed before, and would have inserted the state into what has traditionally been an employer-employee decision. Charter school employees are free to form or join unions and to bargain for greater rights beyond those already provided by law, if deemed necessary. | |
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| AB 1172 (Mendoza D) | Oppose |
| Charter schools: petition for establishment: decision to grant or deny. Location: 1/31/2012 - S . RLS. | Bill Text pdf html |
| Allows authorizers to use a finding of negative fiscal impact on the school district as a reason to deny a charter petition. This bill would vastly restrict charter school growth and insert fiscal consideration into the petition approval process for the first time. | |
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| AB 1568 (Hernández, Roger D) | Oppose |
| Charter schools: preferences for admission. Location: 1/31/2012 - A . PRINT | Bill Text pdf html |
| Current law requires, if the number of pupils who wish to attend a charter school exceeds its capacity, preference to be extended to pupils currently attending the charter school and pupils who reside in the school district. Current law also authorizes other preferences to be extended, on an individual school basis, if consistent with the law. This bill would prohibit preferences based on the contribution of time or money. | |
5. Oppose unless amended
| SB 81 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) | Oppose unless amended |
| Budget Act of 2011. Location: 2/2/2012 - S . ENROLLED | Bill Text pdf html |
| Restores the transportation funds cut as a result of the budget “trigger” by instituting an across-the-board cut to revenue limits. While district schools will subsequently receive transportation dollars, charter schools will receive no corresponding increase to the categorical block grant, left only with a $42 cut per student to this year's budgets. | |
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7. Watch
| AB 18 (Brownley D) | Watch |
| Education finance: school-based financial reporting system: Targeted Pupil Equity funding: Quality Instruction funding. Location: 7/8/2011 - S . 2 YEAR | Bill Text pdf html |
| Enacts the Education Finance Reform Act. Revamps California’s complex school finance system, including supporting the use of comprehensive school-level financial data, and switching state funding to a broader block grant system, establishing the Targeted Pupil Equity Funding and Quality Instruction Funding and including charter schools in those new funding programs. | |
| AB 1564 (Lara D) | Watch |
| Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters: tax-exempt organizations. Location: 1/30/2012 - A . PRINT | Bill Text pdf html |
| Would include volunteers of public or private organizations, including nonprofit organizations, whose duties require direct contact with and supervision of children in the list of individuals who are mandated reporters. The bill would also require employers to provide training in child abuse and neglect identification and reporting to their employees and volunteers who are mandated reporters. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws. | |
| AB 1575 (Lara D) | Watch |
| Pupil fees. Location: 2/1/2012 - A . PRINT | Bill Text pdf html |
| Current law requires the Legislature to provide for a system of common schools by which a free school is required to be kept up and supported in each district. Current law prohibits a pupil enrolled in school from being required to pay a fee, deposit, or other charge not specifically authorized by law. This bill would prohibit a pupil enrolled in a public school from being required to pay a pupil fee, as defined, for participation in an educational activity, as defined, as specified. The bill would provide that this prohibition is not to be interpreted to prohibit solicitation of voluntary donations, voluntary participation in fundraising activities, or school districts, schools, and other entities from providing pupils prizes or other recognition for voluntarily participating in fundraising activities. The bill would specify that these provisions apply to all public schools, including, but not limited to, charter schools and alternative schools, are declarative of current law, and should not be interpreted to prohibit the imposition of a fee, deposit, or other charge otherwise allowed by law. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws. | |
| SB 740 (Hancock D) | Watch |
| Pupil assessment. Location: 8/26/2011 - A . 2 YEAR | Bill Text pdf html |
| Current law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act (Greene Act) , requires each school district, charter school, and county office of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement tests. This bill, commencing July 1, 2012, would exclude pupils in grade 2 from the standards-based achievement test requirement and make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions. | |
8. Tracking
| AB 160 (Portantino D) | Tracking |
| Concurrent enrollment in secondary school and community college. Location: 8/26/2011 - S . 2 YEAR | Bill Text pdf html |
| Makes various changes to the concurrent enrollment law, to make the system work better for colleges and high schools alike, in light of various challenges by those seeking to use concurrent enrollment. | |
Total Measures: 11
Total Tracking Forms: 11
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