AB 1955

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually calculate a local control funding formula grant for each school district and charter school based on data submitted by local educational agencies, as specified, in accordance with instructions specified by the Controller. This bill would require the Superintendent to establish and implement the Healthy Kids, Healthy Minds Demonstration for the period of July 1, 2015, until June 30, 2018, under which participating schoolsites would employ a school nurse and a mental health professional, as defined, and extend library hours. The bill would authorize local educational agencies that have a percentage of unduplicated pupils, as defined, in excess of 55 percent of the local educational agency's total school enrollment to apply to the Superintendent for funding for these purposes, as specified and upon appropriation. The bill would authorize individual schoolsites to apply for this funding if the local educational agency does not have the required percentage of unduplicated pupils. The bill would require participating local educational agencies to collect and aggregate certain pupil data, and transmit this data annually to the State Department of Education. The bill would encourage participating local educational agencies to offer specified library programs. The bill would require the State Department of Education to compile, analyze, and present the results of the demonstration to the State Board of Education and the Legislature no later than December 31, 2018.