AB 130

Bill Subjects

Abstract

(1) Existing law places various requirements on county superintendents of schools and the Superintendent of Public Instruction in reviewing and determining whether a county office of education's adopted budget will allow the county office of education to meet its financial obligations during the fiscal year and, based on current forecasts, for 2 subsequent fiscal years. This bill would revise certain requirements on county superintendents of schools and the Superintendent regarding determinations of fiscal distress for county offices of education, and would require the Superintendent to provide a written notice of going concern determination to the county board of education and the county superintendent of schools under certain circumstances. Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to annually submit a report, at a regularly scheduled November board meeting, to the governing board of each school district in the county, the county board of education, and the county board of supervisors describing the state of schools in the county that meet specified criteria for low performance. Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools, or a designee of the county superintendent of schools, to visit those schools at least annually for purposes of developing that report, and requires at least 25% of those visits to be unannounced. This bill, for the 2021–22 school year only, would require unannounced visits pursuant to those provisions to only be undertaken at the discretion of the county superintendent of schools in consultation with local health officials and in compliance with any orders or guidance issued by any local or state public health official, and would waive the 25% requirement if the county superintendent of schools, in consultation with local public health officials, determines that unannounced visits are unable to be conducted due to identified health and safety concerns. (2) Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires, in the 2014–15 school year and each school year thereafter, and as a condition of receipt of apportionments for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, a child who will have their 5th birthday between September 2 and December 2, to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school. Existing law authorizes, for the 2015–16 school year and each school year thereafter, a school district or charter school to admit a child to a transitional kindergarten program who will have their 5th birthday after December 2 but during that same school year, as provided. This bill would revise the timespans for those mandatory and optional admittance requirements to be phased in from the 2022–23 school year to the 2025–26 school year, as provided, at which time a school district or charter school, as a condition of receipt of apportionments for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, would be required to admit to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by the school district or charter school a child who will have their 4th birthday by September 1. This bill would establish the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs at local educational agencies, defined as school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. The bill would appropriate $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to local educational agencies for grants for the 2021–22 fiscal year. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate $200,000,000 of that amount to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants for specified purposes. The bill would require the Superintendent to award $100,000,000 in competitive grants to local educational agencies to increase the number of highly qualified teachers available to serve in specified capacities. (3) This bill would enact the California Community School Partnership Act, and would appropriate $2,836,660,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to administer the California Community Schools Partnership Program. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award grants on a competitive basis to qualifying entities, as defined, to support the establishment of new, and for the expansion or continuation of existing, community schools at local educational agencies, as provided, and to contract with local educational agencies to create a network of at least 5 regional technical assistance centers to provide support and assistance to local educational agencies and community schools. (4) The After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002 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. The act requires first priority enrollment to pupils who are identified by the program as homeless youth, as defined, and pupils who are identified by the program as being in foster care, and 2nd priority enrollment, for programs serving middle and junior high school pupils, to pupils who attend the program daily. This bill would require pupils who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals to additionally receive first priority enrollment. Existing law requires a program established under the act to charge family fees, requires a program that charges family fees to waive or reduce the cost of these fees for pupils who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and prohibits a program from charging a fee to a family for a child if the program knows that the child is a homeless youth or for a child who the program knows is in foster care. This bill would instead require a program that charges family fees to waive the cost of these fees for pupils who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, for a child who is a homeless youth, or for a child who the program knows is in foster care. The bill would also require a program that charges family fees to schedule fees on a sliding scale that considers family income and ability to pay. (5) Existing law requires the Controller to draw warrants on the State Treasury throughout each year in specified amounts for purposes of apportioning funding to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. Existing law, commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, requires the warrants scheduled to be drawn in June to instead be drawn in July of the same calendar year. This bill instead would amend that provision to no longer require that deferral to be conducted after the 2020–21 fiscal year. Existing law, commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year, requires specified amounts of warrants scheduled to be drawn in February to instead be drawn in November of the same calendar year, requires specified amounts of warrants scheduled to be drawn in March to instead be drawn in October of the same calendar year, requires specified amounts of warrants scheduled to be drawn in April to instead be drawn in September of the same calendar year, and requires specified amounts of warrants scheduled to be drawn in May to instead be drawn in August of the same calendar year. This bill instead would only require those deferrals to be conducted for the 2020–21 fiscal year. The bill would require warrants for principal apportionments for the months of February, March, and April of the 2020–21 fiscal year described above to instead be drawn in August 2021, as specified. (6) The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (the Greene Act) requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts, as defined, prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for the construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. Existing law authorizes the board to require an audit of expenditure reports submitted by a school district pursuant to the Greene Act and to require repayment of certain funds a school district failed to expend in accordance with the law. Existing law requires a school district to repay the funds within 60 days of the notice requiring repayment unless the board determines that repayment of the full liability within 60 days would constitute a severe financial hardship, as defined by the board, for the school district, in which case the board is required to approve a plan of equal annual payments over a period of up to 5 years. This bill would expand the maximum time for repayment in the case of severe financial hardship from a period of up to 5 years to a period of up to 20 years. The bill would also expressly include the 2006 State School Facilities Fund and the 2016 State School Facilities Fund within those provisions. (7) Existing law establishes the Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program, under the administration of the State Allocation Board, to provide one-time grants to school districts to construct new school facilities or retrofit existing school facilities for the purpose of providing full-day kindergarten classrooms, as specified. For purposes of the program, existing law specifies that kindergarten includes transitional kindergarten. Commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, existing law makes the grant program contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would change the name of this program to the California Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten, and Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program and would expressly add providing California state preschool program and transitional kindergarten classrooms as another purpose of the grants. The bill would make county offices of education eligible to receive grants for preschool facilities under the program. The bill would prohibit a school district from using these funds to purchase or install portable classrooms, as defined. The bill would appropriate $490,000,000 for the program for the 2021–22 fiscal year. (8) Existing law requires a school district that has been organized for more than three years to be lapsed under certain conditions related to the number of registered electors or average daily attendance of pupils in the school district. Existing law authorizes a school district to also be lapsed when there are no school facilities or sites on which to maintain any school in the school district. This bill would revise the conditions and procedures for the required lapsation of a school district, would authorize a county board of education to defer the lapsation of a school district under certain conditions, and would additionally authorize a school district to be lapsed upon adoption of a resolution approved by a majority of the members of the governing board of the school district and written concurrence of the county superintendent of schools. (9) For the 1990–91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, existing law requires that moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts, community college districts, and direct elementary and secondary level instructional services provided by the state be distributed in accordance with certain calculations governing the proration of those moneys among the 3 segments of public education. Existing law makes that provision inapplicable to the 1992–93 to 2020–21 fiscal years, inclusive. This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2021–22 fiscal year. (10) The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, set forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts based on one of 3 tests in any given fiscal year. Commencing with the 2021–22 fiscal year, existing law requires an appropriation to be made from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act for the support of elementary and secondary public schools and community colleges to supplement funding appropriated pursuant to Proposition 98 annually in an amount equal to 1.5% of total General Fund revenues, as calculated pursuant to Proposition 98, until the sum of the supplemental appropriations equals $12,366,107,000. This bill would repeal the latter provision requiring a supplemental appropriation. (11) This bill would appropriate $1,500,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for the Educator Effectiveness Block Grant, which the bill would establish, and would require the Superintendent to apportion those funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools to provide professional learning for teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals who work with pupils, and classified staff that interact with pupils. (12) This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to apportion to the Orange County Department of Education to award no less than $30,000,000 as grants to local educational agencies for the purpose of funding schoolwide and districtwide implementation of services or practices aligned to the Multi-tiered Systems of Support framework. The bill would require the Superintendent to establish a process, in consultation with and subject to the approval of the executive director of the state board, to select a local educational agency, a local educational agency in partnership with an institution of higher education or nonprofit educational service provider, or a consortia, to partner with the Orange County Department of Education and the Butte County Office of Education to expand the state's capacity to support local educational agencies' implementation of social-emotional learning, trauma-informed practices, and culturally relevant, affirming, and sustaining practices, and would require no more than $20,000,000 of the $50,000,000 appropriation to be available for these purposes. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on certain county offices of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (13) This bill would appropriate $547,513,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for purposes of the A–G Completion Improvement Grant Program, which the bill would establish, to provide additional supports to local educational agencies to help increase the number of California high school pupils, particularly unduplicated pupils, who graduate high school meeting the A–G subject matter requirements for admission to the University of California and the California State University. For the 2021–22 fiscal year, the bill would require the Superintendent to allocate $300,000,000 as A–G Access Grants, and $100,000,000 as A–G Success Grants to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools meeting certain requirements to be used for activities that directly support pupil access to, and successful completion of, the A–G course requirements, as prescribed. For the 2021–22 fiscal year, the bill would require the Superintendent to allocate $147,513,000 as A–G Learning Loss Mitigation Grants to be used to allow pupils who receive a grade of "D," "F," or "Fail" in an A–G approved course in the spring semester of 2020 or the 2020–21 school year to retake those A–G courses or to offer credit recovery opportunities to all pupils to ensure pupils are able to graduate high school on time, as prescribed. The bill would require the Superintendent to annually post on the department's internet website in an easily accessible location a list of each local educational agency's and each individual high school's A–G completion rate, as defined. (14) 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 funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as specified, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. This bill, commencing with the 2021–22 fiscal year, would increase the amount of funding received for concentration grant add-ons for school districts and charter schools, as specified. (15) Under existing law, the local control funding formula uses the numbers of pupils enrolled in a school district or a charter school who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals as part of the calculation of the apportionment of state funds to be received by that school district or charter school pursuant to the formula. Existing law defines "eligible for free or reduced-price meals" for these purposes. Existing law requires each school district and county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday. This bill would adjust the definition of "eligible for free or reduced-price meals" to carry over the number of pupils at the school who were eligible for free or reduced-price meals from the school year in which the school applied to use a federal universal school meal provision, and to use each pupil's eligibility status in the base year to report eligibility for up to each of the following 3 school years. The bill, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, would require a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or charter school to provide 2 nutritiously adequate school meals free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil's eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, with a maximum of one free meal for each meal service period. The bill would require the department to reimburse local educational agencies for all nonreimbursed expenses accrued in providing United States Department of Agriculture reimbursable meals, as specified. This provision would be operative only if the Legislature appropriates funds for its purposes. The bill would require the department to develop and adopt regulations to implement this provision, as specified. To the extent that this provision would impose new duties on local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (16) Existing law requires certain components of funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, charter schools, and certain special education programs to be adjusted for inflation in each fiscal year, as specified. Existing law, notwithstanding those specified inflation adjustments, requires those inflation adjustments for the 2020–21 fiscal year to instead be zero. This bill, when making those specified inflation adjustments for the 2021–22 fiscal year, would require those adjustments to be 2.7% and to be calculated by first assuming that the adjustments for the 2020–21 fiscal year were 2.31% instead of zero. (17) Existing law requires the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, as defined. Existing law specifies how to calculate the average daily attendance for school districts, and requires an adjustment for the calculation of average daily attendance for a sponsoring school district, as defined. This bill would make the provisions requiring an adjustment for the calculation of average daily attendance for a sponsoring school district inapplicable to the 2021–22 fiscal year. (18) Existing law requires, on or before March 31, 2014, the State Board of Education to adopt a template for use by school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools for purposes of local control and accountability plans. Existing law requires the state board to adopt regulations that require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to increase or improve services for unduplicated pupils in proportion to the increase of funds apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils, and requires a local control and accountability plan to include the specific actions and budgeted expenditures that contribute to the demonstration that this requirement is met. This bill would require the state board's template to be revised, on or before January 1, 2022, to include a demonstration that the full proportionality obligation described above is being met annually through the listed actions and services, that each action's quantitative contribution toward the proportionality obligation as expenditures or its qualitative contribution as a percentage of increased or improved services for unduplicated pupils over and above the level of services provided to all pupils, and, for local educational agencies that receive concentration grant funding, that the additional funding received as a result of the increased concentration grant add-ons described in (14) above is being used to increase the number of credentialed staff, classified staff, or both of those, that provide direct services to pupils on certain school campuses. The bill would require, commencing with the local control and accountability plan and the annual update to the local control and accountability adopted on or before July 1, 2022, by each school district, county office of education, and charter school to include certain calculations relating to those actions and the actions that contribute to the demonstration that the above-described requirement is met. The bill would require the state board to, on or before November 30, 2021, adopt a one-time supplement template to the annual update to the 2021–22 local control and accountability plan to require certain information from local educational agencies relating to certain additional moneys received. By requiring local educational agencies to include additional information in a local control and accountability plan, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (19) Existing law, for the 2020–21 school year, waives the minimum requirements for instructional minutes offered during the school year and authorizes a local educational agency to meet the minimum requirements for instructional minutes offered during a schoolday and for instructional days offered in the 2020–21 school year through in-person instruction or a combination of in-person instruction and distance learning, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent to withhold a portion of a local educational agency's funding apportionments for failing to offer the minimum number of instructional days in the 2020–21 school year and for noncompliance with documentation requirements of pupils participating in distance learning. This bill would revise the calculations for the withholding of a local educational agency's funding apportionments for noncompliance with those requirements, and would authorize the state board to waive certain fiscal penalties for a school district or charter school that fails to maintain the prescribed minimum number of instructional days for the school year if the school district or charter school adheres to certain requirements to make up lost instructional days. (20) For the 2020–21 fiscal year, existing law appropriates $6,557,443,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent, of which $4,557,443,000 would be apportioned to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools, as prescribed, and available for expenditure through August 31, 2022, for certain activities, including offering supplemental instruction and support. Existing law requires the remaining $2,000,000,000 to be apportioned to school districts, county offices of education, and certain charter schools, and available for expenditure through August 31, 2022, if those local educational agencies, among other things, provide optional in-person instruction to certain pupil groups within prescribed timelines. This bill instead would appropriate $4,542,003,000 from the General Fund and $2,015,440,000 from the Federal Trust Fund to the Superintendent for the above-described purpose. The bill would extend the expenditure period for state funds by 25 months, thereby making an appropriation, and would specify certain expenditure periods for federal funds. The bill would prohibit a charter school that has ceased operation on or before March 5, 2021, from being allocated funding pursuant to those provisions. (21) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits the commission from issuing initially a credential, permit, certificate, or renewal of an emergency credential to a person to serve in the public schools unless the person has demonstrated proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language by passing the state basic skills proficiency test. Existing law exempts specified applicants from this basic skills proficiency test requirement. Existing law specifies the minimum requirements for the preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential, including a subject matter competence requirement demonstrated by either completion of a subject matter program that has been approved by the commission or passage of a subject matter examination. This bill would exempt from the basic skills proficiency test requirement an applicant who earns at least a letter grade of B in qualifying coursework, as defined, determined by a credential preparation program or the commission, as specified, to sufficiently serve as an indicator of proficiency in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language. The bill would also exempt an applicant who has demonstrated proficiency in the basic skills through a combination of qualifying coursework, passage of components of the state basic skills proficiency test, and scores on certain tests. This bill would authorize a candidate for the preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential to demonstrate subject matter competence by completing higher education coursework in the subject matters related to the content area of the credential, as provided. The bill would authorize a program of professional preparation to verify a candidate's subject matter competence in this manner and would authorize a candidate to demonstrate subject matter competence through a combination of a subject matter examination and higher education coursework in the subject matters related to the content area of the credential. (22) Existing law establishes the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program to award grants to teachers who, among other things, have attained certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Under the program, a teacher attaining a national board certification is eligible for an award of up to $20,000 if the teacher agrees to teach at a high-priority school, which is a school ranked at the bottom 12 of all schools based on the Academic Performance Index rankings, for at least 4 years. This bill, commencing July 1, 2021, would increase that award to up to $25,000 and instead would require the teacher to agree to teach for 5 years at a high-priority school, which this bill would instead define as a school with 55% or more of its pupils classified as an English learner or foster youth, or eligible for a free or reduced-price meal. The bill, commencing July 1, 2021, would award a grant of $2,500 to any teacher who initiates the process of pursuing a certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards when teaching at a high-priority school. The bill would appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for purposes of the program, as specified. (23) Existing law appropriates $75,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission to establish the Teacher Residency Grant Program, including $50,000,000 to provide one-time competitive grants to develop new, or expand existing, teacher residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of special education teachers, and $25,000,000 to provide one-time competitive grants to develop new, or expand existing, teacher residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of bilingual education, science, technology, engineering, or mathematics teachers, as provided. This bill would appropriate $350,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission for the Teacher Residency Grant Program for the commission to make one-time grants to develop new, or expand, strengthen, or improve access to existing, teacher residency programs that support designated shortage fields or local efforts to recruit, develop support systems for, provide outreach and communication strategies to, and retain a diverse teacher workforce that reflects a local educational agency community's diversity, as provided. The bill would require a candidate in a teacher residency program sponsored by a grant to agree in writing to serve in a school within the jurisdiction of the grant recipient that sponsored the candidate for at least 4 school years after completing an initial year of preparation and obtaining a preliminary teaching credential. If a candidate fails to earn a preliminary credential or complete the period of the placement, the bill would require the candidate to reimburse the sponsoring grant recipient the amount of grant funding invested in the candidate's residency training, as provided. (24) Existing law requires an employee of an entity that has a contract with a school district, county office of education, or charter school to provide specified services for the school, if that employee may have contact with pupils, to submit or have submitted their fingerprints to the Department of Justice to ascertain if that individual has been arrested or convicted of a crime and to notify the employer designated by the individual of that fact. Under existing law, these requirements do not apply to an entity providing those services to a local educational agency in an emergency or exceptional situation, or when the local educational agency determines that the employees of the entity will have limited contact with pupils. Existing law authorizes a local educational agency, on a case-by-case basis, as specified, to require an entity providing other schoolsite services to submit or have submitted its employee's fingerprints. Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to forward a copy of the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to verify the record of previous arrests or convictions of the applicant. The Department of Justice is required to review the criminal record summary it obtains from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and notify the employer only as to whether or not an applicant has any convictions or arrests pending adjudication for offenses which, if committed in California, would have been punishable as a violent or serious felony and is required to provide written notification to the contract employer only concerning whether an applicant for employment has any conviction or arrest pending final adjudication for any of those crimes. Commencing January 1, 2022, this bill instead would require any entity that has a contract with a school district, county office of education, or charter school to ensure that any employee who interacts with pupils, outside of the immediate supervision and control of the pupil's parent or guardian or a school employee, has a certain valid criminal records summary. When the contracting entity performs the criminal background check, the bill would require it to immediately provide any subsequent arrest and conviction information it receives to any local educational agency that it is contracting with pursuant to the subsequent arrest service. The bill instead would authorize a local educational agency, on a case-by-case basis, to require an entity with whom it has a contract to comply with the requirements of these provisions for employees in addition to those described above. The bill instead would require the Department of Justice to forward a copy of the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to verify the record of previous arrests or convictions of the applicant. To the extent these provisions impose additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (25) Existing law establishes the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program. Existing law authorizes local educational agencies to elect to participate in the program, and authorizes a classified employee of a participating local educational agency who meets specified requirements to withhold an amount from the employee's monthly paycheck during the school year to be paid out during the summer recess period, as provided. Existing law authorizes a classified employee to be eligible to participate in the program if the classified employee is employed by the local educational agency in the employee's regular assignment for fewer than 11 months out of a 12-month period. This bill would instead authorize a classified employee to be eligible to participate in the program if the classified employee is employed by the local educational agency in the employee's regular assignment for 11 months or fewer out of a 12-month period. The bill would also, for purposes of determining a classified employee's total months employed by the local educational agency, require the local educational agency to exclude any hours worked by the classified employee as a result of an extension of the academic school year, for specified school years, directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as provided. The bill would appropriate $60,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for the program. (26) Existing law generally prohibits a pupil in a kindergarten from being kept in school on any day for more than 4 hours excluding recesses, except as specified. This bill would establish the Expanded Learning Opportunity Program, and would appropriate $753,131,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to school districts and certain charter schools under the program. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate moneys appropriated for purposes of the program to school districts and charter schools on a per unit basis of the school district or charter school's prior year reported kindergarten and grade 1 to 6, inclusive, classroom-based average daily attendance attributable to unduplicated pupils, as specified. The bill would require, as a condition of receipt of these funds, school districts and charter schools to offer to at least all unduplicated pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and to provide to at least 50% of unduplicated pupils enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, classroom-based instructional programs with expanded learning opportunity programs that provide access to no less than 9 hours of combined in-person instructional time and expanded learning opportunities, as defined, per instructional day on schooldays, and no less than 9 hours of expanded learning opportunities per day for at least 30 nonschooldays during intersessional periods. The bill would make an exception to the above-described prohibition for kindergarten pupils in expanded learning opportunity programs provided by school districts under these provisions. (27) For purposes of state apportionments, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school during a fiscal year has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of an emergency, and the fact of which is established to the satisfaction of the Superintendent by affidavits of the members of the governing board or body of the local educational agency, existing law requires the Superintendent to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school the total average daily attendance that would have been credited had the emergency not occurred. Existing law requires the Superintendent to make specified calculations for purposes of state apportionments to a school district, county office of education, or charter school affected by a state of emergency declared by the Governor in November 2018. Existing law continuously appropriates the amounts necessary to provide those apportionments. This bill would require the Superintendent to provide additional apportionments, as specified, for the 2021–22 fiscal year to certain school districts and charter schools affected by a state of emergency declared by the Governor in November 2018. The bill would require the Superintendent to make specified calculations for purposes of state apportionments to a school district or charter school for the 2021–22 fiscal year affected by a state of emergency declared by the Governor in September 2020. The bill would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school that submits an affidavit under certain provisions for an event occurring after September 1, 2021, to certify that it has a plan for which independent study will be offered to pupils that complies with certain requirements. (28) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the State Board of Education to approve a petition for the establishment of a charter school, as specified. Existing law authorizes a chartering authority to renew the approval of a charter school petition under specified procedures. Existing law authorizes a charter to be granted by a chartering authority under designated provisions for a period not to exceed 5 years. This bill, notwithstanding the renewal process and criteria effective July 1, 2021, would require all charter schools whose term expires on or between January 1, 2022, and June 30, 2025, inclusive, to have their term extended by two years. The bill would revise criteria in provisions that require or prohibit the renewal of a charter school if the 2 consecutive years immediately preceding the renewal decision include the 2019–20 or 2020–21 school year. Existing law prohibits, from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2022, inclusive, the approval of a petition for the establishment of a new charter school offering nonclassroom-based instruction and funded as specified. This bill would extend that prohibition by 3 years until January 1, 2025. (29) Existing law requires, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, a school district or charter school to ensure that credentialed teachers who are first assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom after July 1, 2015, have, by August 1, 2021, met one of 3 designated criteria establishing qualification for the position. This bill would delay until August 1, 2023, the deadline for a credentialed teacher first assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom after July 1, 2015, to meet one of the designated criteria referenced above. The bill would additionally require, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, a school district or charter school to maintain an average transitional kindergarten class enrollment of not more than 24 pupils for each schoolsite, and to maintain certain average adult-to-pupil ratios for transitional kindergarten classrooms. (30) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law also provides that specified services provided by local educational agencies are covered Medi-Cal benefits and are reimbursable on a fee-for-service basis under the local educational agency Medi-Cal billing option. This bill would require the State Department of Education to, no later than January 1, 2022, establish an Office of School-Based Health Programs for the purpose of assisting local educational agencies regarding the current health-related programs under the purview of the State Department of Education. The bill would require the office to, among other things, provide technical assistance, outreach, and informational materials to local educational agencies on allowable services and on the submission of claims. The bill would authorize the office to form, or participate in, advisory groups, as specified, and, to the extent necessary, would require the State Department of Health Care Services to make available to the office any information on other school-based dental, health, and mental health programs, and school-based health centers, that may receive Medi-Cal funding. This bill would require the State Department of Education to, by January 1, 2022, appoint a state school nurse consultant to be housed within the office. The bill would require the state school nurse consultant to be a school nurse credentialed by the commission, as specified, who has a minimum of 5 years of experience in school health program management. The bill would require the state school nurse consultant to work with local educational agencies and school nurses to promote quality school nursing services and school health programs that address the broad health needs of pupils, among other responsibilities. This bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for the School Health Demonstration Project, which the bill would establish within the office as a pilot project, to be administered by the department, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, to expand comprehensive health and mental health services to public school pupils by providing training and support services to selected local educational agencies to secure ongoing Medi-Cal funding for those health and mental health services, as provided. The bill would require a local educational agency selected to serve as a pilot project participant to receive $100,000 each year of the 2-year pilot project, to be used for contracting with one of 3 technical assistance teams selected by the Superintendent. This bill would continuously appropriate $250,000 each fiscal year from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to be awarded to a local educational agency to perform specified tasks for purposes of providing guidance related to Medi-Cal billing and increasing local educational agencies' capacity to successfully submit claims through the Local Educational Agency Medi-Cal Billing Option Program. (31) Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools that has a very high poverty school, as defined, in its jurisdiction to, on or before September 1, 2018, apply to operate a federal universal meal service provision pursuant to specified federal law, and to begin providing breakfast and lunch free of charge through the universal meal service to all pupils at the very high poverty school upon state approval to operate that service. Under existing law, certain charter schools are considered very high poverty schools for purposes of these provisions, and the law requires those charter schools to comply with the requirements imposed on, and authorizes those charter schools to exercise the authority granted to, school districts and county superintendents of schools pursuant to these provisions. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2022, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2023. The bill would require a school district or county superintendent of schools that has a high-poverty school, as defined, in its jurisdiction to, on or before June 30, 2022, apply to operate a federal universal meal service provision pursuant to specified federal law, and to begin providing breakfast and lunch free of charge through the universal meal service to all pupils at the high-poverty school upon state approval to operate that service. The bill would consider certain charter schools to be high-poverty schools for purposes of these provisions, and would require those charter schools to comply with the requirements imposed on, and would authorize to exercise the authority granted to, school districts and county superintendents of schools pursuant to these provisions. Because the bill would impose additional duties on school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools, it would impose a state-mandated local program. (32) Existing law authorizes a school district, charter school, or county office of education to provide an independent study program for, and independent study courses to, pupils enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in accordance with prescribed conditions. Existing law prohibits a school district or county office of education from being eligible to receive apportionments for independent study by pupils unless the school district or county office has adopted written policies and implemented those policies in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Superintendent, as specified, including a requirement that a current written agreement with specified content for each independent study pupil is maintained on file. This bill would revise and recast provisions relating to independent study programs and courses to, among other things, authorize independent study for a pupil whose health would be put at risk by in-person instruction, as determined by the parent or guardian, require a charter school to adopt and implement written policies related to independent study to be eligible to receive apportionments for independent study by pupils, impose additional requirements for the contents of the required written agreement, authorize a written agreement to be signed using an electronic signature, and impose certain audit requirements. For the 2021–22 school year only, the bill would require the governing board of a school district or a county office of education to offer independent study to meet the educational needs of pupils in accordance with specified requirements, unless waived as provided. By imposing additional duties on school districts and county offices of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (33) Existing law prohibits a local educational agency, including, but not limited to, a charter school, from claiming state funding for the independent study of a pupil if the agency has provided any funds or other thing of value to the pupil or the pupil's parent or guardian that the agency does not provide to pupils who attend regular classes or to their parents or guardians. Existing law prohibits a charter school from claiming state funding for the independent study of a pupil if the charter school has provided any funds or other thing of value to the pupil or the pupil's parent or guardian that a school district could not legally provide to a similarly situated pupil of the school district or to the pupil's parent or guardian. Existing law authorizes school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education to claim apportionment credit for independent study only to the extent of the time value of pupil work product, as personally judged in each instance by a certificated teacher. This bill would clarify that providing access to connectivity and local educational agency-owned devices adequate to participate in an independent study program or course and complete assigned work is not considered funds or other things of value for purposes of those provisions. For purposes of claiming apportionments, the bill would require a local educational agency to document daily participation for each pupil on each schoolday, in whole or in part, for which independent study is provided, and would require a pupil who does not participate in independent study on a schoolday to be documented as nonparticipatory for that schoolday. The bill would require a local educational agency to maintain written or computer-based evidence of pupil engagement. (34) Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. Existing law appropriates specified amounts for the program from the General Fund for the 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18 fiscal years. Existing law provides, for the 2018–19 fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter, that $150,000,000 is made available for the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law specifies minimum eligibility requirements for grant applicants. This bill would provide that, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, $300,000,000 would be made available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act or another statute, for the program. The bill would make adjustments to program provisions relating to eligibility requirements for grant applicants, and for ensuring compliance with program requirements. (35) Existing law requires the department to award grants for the establishment of Family Empowerment Centers on Disability in 32 regions in the state to provide training and services to children and young adults with disabilities and their families. Existing law establishes a minimum base rate of $150,000 for each center awarded a grant and requires a center that receives a grant to complete specified actions related to providing that training and those services. Existing law establishes a Family Empowerment and Disability Council composed of the executive directors of the centers and certain other members, and establishes a base amount of $150,000 to be made available annually to the council. This bill would revise and recast the provisions related to Family Empowerment Centers on Disability, including requiring the department to award grants by March 1, 2022, to applicants in those of the 32 regions in the state that do not have a center and to give priority to certain applicants, increasing the minimum base rate for each center awarded a grant from $150,000 to $246,000 commencing on July 1, 2021. The bill would also increase the base amount to be made available annually to the council from $150,000 to $246,000. (36) Existing law provides for the calculation of apportionments to fund the provision of special education instruction and services for pupils who qualify for these programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to calculate the amount of funding per unit of average daily attendance for each special education local plan area as either $625 per unit of average daily attendance, as adjusted annually by a specified inflation factor, or the amount of funding per unit of average daily attendance the special education local plan area received in the 2019–20 fiscal year, whichever is greater. This bill would revise those funding calculations to increase the amount of funding per unit of average daily attendance for each special education local plan area to be either $715 per unit of average daily attendance, as adjusted annually by a specified inflation factor, or the amount of funding per unit of average daily attendance the special education local plan area received in the 2020–21 fiscal year, as adjusted annually by a specified inflation factor, whichever is greater. The bill would revise various other special education funding calculations and would make related clarifying and conforming changes. (37) Existing law requires the Superintendent, commencing with the 2004–05 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to make certain calculations for, and the department to apportion certain amounts to, special education local plan areas, as provided, for children and youth residing in foster family homes, small family homes, foster family agencies, group homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and community care facilities. Existing law requires the department to calculate an out-of-home care funding amount for each special education local plan area, as provided, for each fiscal year. This bill would require, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent to instead calculate, and the department to apportion, certain amounts of funding generated by foster youth, short-term residential therapeutic program placements, and children and youth residing in community care facilities, intermediate care facilities, and skilled nursing facilities. (38) Existing law establishes the special education early intervention preschool grant, which requires the Superintendent, in any year moneys are appropriated for this purpose, to allocate grant funding to school districts for preschool children with exceptional needs, as provided. This bill would revise the allocation formula for the grant funding, and would require those moneys to be used to provide services and supports in inclusive settings that have been determined to improve school readiness and long-term outcomes for infants, toddlers, and preschool pupils from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive. (39) The California Constitution prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state and each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior year, as adjusted. Existing law authorizes a school district, county superintendent of schools, or community college district to increase its appropriations limit pursuant to certain provisions, and requires any increase in a local jurisdiction's appropriations limit, in the fiscal year in which the change is made, to reduce the appropriations limit of the state by an equal amount. If, in the 2021–22 fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, the appropriations limit for that fiscal year of a school district, community college district, or county superintendent of schools exceeds its proceeds of taxes, this bill would require the governing body of the school district or community college district, or the county superintendent of schools to decrease its appropriations limit to an amount equal to its proceeds of taxes, and would increase the appropriations limit of the state by an equal amount. The bill would also require these reductions to a local jurisdiction's appropriations limit and increase to the state's appropriations limit for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 fiscal years. If in the 2021–22 fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, the proceeds of taxes of a school district, community college district, or county superintendent of schools exceeds its appropriations limit, the bill would require the governing body of the school district or community college district, or the county superintendent of schools to increase its appropriations limit to an amount equal to its proceeds of taxes, and would decrease the appropriations limit of the state by an equal amount. To the extent these provisions impose additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (40) Existing law requires certain funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for reimbursement for the cost of a new program or increased level of service of an existing program mandated by statute or executive order to be available as a block grant to school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education, to support specified state-mandated local programs. Existing law provides that a school district, charter school, or county office of education that submits a letter requesting funding to the Superintendent and receives this block grant funding is not eligible to submit a claim for reimbursement for those specified mandated programs for the fiscal year in which the block grant funding is received. This bill would add to the list of programs that are authorized for block grant funding in lieu of program-specific reimbursement to include requirements relating to feminine hygiene products in certain public school restrooms. (41) The Budget Act of 2020 appropriates $15,746,000 to allocate to each school district maintaining a secondary school or county superintendent of schools that offers adult education classes for adults in correctional facilities, as provided. This bill would reduce that appropriation by $7,746,000. (42) Existing law establishes the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) for the assessment of certain elementary and secondary pupils and which is composed of: a consortium summative assessment in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 to 8, inclusive, and grade 11, as specified; science grade level assessments in grades 5, 8, and 10, measuring specified content standards; the California Alternate Performance Assessment in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, in English language arts and mathematics and science in grades 5, 8, and 10, as specified; and the Early Assessment Program. Existing law specifies numerous policies and procedures with respect to the development and the implementation of the CAASPP by the Superintendent, the state board, and affected local educational agencies. This bill would require a local educational agency to administer, in person, subject to public health guidelines, an assessment in English language arts and in mathematics to all pupils who were in grades 3 to 8, inclusive, and grade 11 in the 2020–21 school year, designed to measure academic progress and performance that are aligned to the common core academic standards and would authorize the administration of a science test, as specified. (43) Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools, if the governing board of a school district requests technical assistance, if a county superintendent of schools does not approve a local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan approved by the governing board of a school district, and for any school district or charter school for which one or more pupil subgroups meet certain criteria, to provide technical assistance, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, if the Superintendent does not approve a local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan approved by a county board of education, if the county board of education requests technical assistance, and for any county office of education for which one or more pupil subgroups meet certain criteria, to provide technical assistance, as provided. This bill would expand the scope of technical assistance activities under those provisions to include an analysis of various pupil and school outcomes from the 2021–22 school year, the results of which would inform technical assistance activities focused on building capacity to develop and implement actions and services responsive to pupil and community needs. (44) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard for publicly reporting local educational agency performance data. Existing law prohibits the department from publishing the California School Dashboard in 2020 and from identifying a local educational agency during the 2020–21 school year for the technical assistance or intervention process based on the performance criteria used for the California School Dashboard. This bill would, until December 2022, prohibit the department from publishing the California School Dashboard and identifying a local educational agency during the 2021–22 school year for the technical assistance or intervention process based on the performance criteria used for the California School Dashboard. (45) This bill would appropriate $125,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the California Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program. (46) This bill would separately appropriate $708,000 and $36,966,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation to the Fresno County Office of Education to continue to administer the statewide early math initiative established in a certain item of the Budget Act of 2018. (47) This bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to provide professional development and resources to support local educational agencies offering new and expanded ethnic studies courses. The bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools serving pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, on a per-pupil basis to support the creation or expansion of ethnic studies course offerings. The bill would make the allocation of those funds contingent upon the enactment of Assembly Bill 101 of the 2021–22 Regular Session. (48) This bill would appropriate $6,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to augment an existing contract to perform certain activities relating to school climate surveys. (49) This bill would appropriate $3,100,000 from the General Fund to the department for the 2021–22 fiscal year for allocation to the Kern County superintendent of schools for the Kern County Office of Education and the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team for the Standardized Account Code Structure system replacement project. Commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, the bill would continuously appropriate $3,920,000 each fiscal year from the General Fund to the department for allocation to the Kern County superintendent of schools for the Kern County Office of Education and the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team for maintenance and operation support for the Standardized Account Code Structure system. (50) This bill would appropriate $6,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to be allocated by the Superintendent to the Special Olympics of Northern and Southern California for specified purposes. (51) This bill would appropriate $150,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to allocate to local educational agencies, $120,000,000 of which is to be used on kitchen infrastructure upgrades that will increase pupil access to, or improve the quality of, fresh and nutritious school meals, and $30,000,000 of which is to be used for food service staff to receive training on promoting nutritious foods. (52) This bill would appropriate $86,416,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment to career technical education regional occupational centers or programs operated by a joint powers authority to be used for any purposes consistent with providing in-person instruction for any participating pupil. (53) This bill would appropriate $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to provide grants to county offices of education to operate an education-based foster youth services coordinating program to provide educational support for pupils in foster care. The bill would require $5,000,000 of the $30,000,000 appropriation to be used to provide direct services to improve postsecondary education enrollment and outcomes, including, but not limited to, postsecondary preparation and matriculation. (54) This bill would appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for purposes of the 21st Century School Leadership Academy. (55) This bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the Computer Science Supplementary Authorization Incentive Grant Program, which the bill would establish, as provided, for the purpose of providing one-time grants to local educational agencies to support the preparation of credentialed teachers to earn a supplementary authorization in computer science and provide instruction in computer science coursework in settings authorized by the underlying credential. (56) This bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to designate a county office of education to identify and curate a repository of high-quality open educational resources for use by local educational agencies as part of the statewide system of support, as provided. To the extent this bill would impose obligations on the designated local educational agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (57) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to generate and disseminate professional learning opportunities for educators in the areas of evidence-based literacy, intensive literacy interventions, and support of pupils' executive functioning skills, as specified. (58) This bill would appropriate $5,200,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation to the department for the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program to be expended for identified broadband connectivity solutions. (59) This bill would require the Superintendent, commencing with the 2021–22 fiscal year, to add $3,500,000 to the local control funding formula allocation for the San Francisco Unified School District, to be made available for the San Francisco Unified School District to contract with the Exploratorium in the City and County of San Francisco for purposes of supporting professional development and leadership training for education professionals, expanding access to quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning opportunities, and supporting statewide implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards. (60) This bill would appropriate $2,402,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to support the creation of an online training on schoolsite and community resources focused on strategies to support LGBTQ+ pupils. (61) This bill would appropriate $10,500,000 from the Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Fund to the Superintendent to be allocated to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to be used to support the expenses associated with either the CIF State or ten CIF Section offices that have experienced significant revenue reductions in the 2020–21 fiscal year as a result of closures and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (62) The Community Redevelopment Law authorized the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined. Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing law requires a successor agency to, among other things, continue to make payments due for enforceable obligations, remit unencumbered balances to the county auditor-controller for distribution, and dispose of assets, as directed. This bill would, on or before June 30, 2022, appropriate an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance from the General Fund to the Superintendent in augmentation of a certain item in the Budget Act of 2021. The bill would make these funds available only to the extent that revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies are less than the estimated amount determined by the Director of Finance. The bill would require, on or before June 30, 2022, the Director of Finance to determine if the revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies exceed the estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2021 and, if so, would require the Director of Finance to reduce the specified appropriation in the Budget Act of 2021 by the amount of that excess. (63) This bill would appropriate $6,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to allocate to the San Mateo County Office of Education to contract for the creation of free and open education resources on climate change and environmental justice and the integration of certain environmental principles and concepts. (64) This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to allocate to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to administer, in partnership with selected county offices of education, evidence-based professional education for educators that can support learning acceleration, particularly in mathematics, literacy, and language development. (65) This bill would appropriate $80,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment to county offices of education in the 2021–22 fiscal year, as prescribed, to be used for any purposes consistent with providing in-person instruction. (66) This bill would appropriate $1,700,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to be transferred to the Tulare County Office of Education to continue to administer the California Center on Teaching Careers. (67) This bill would appropriate $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to the Marin County Office of Education to contract with nonprofit organizations with subject matter expertise in genocide and Holocaust education to perform certain activities relating to genocide and Holocaust education. (68) Contingent upon the enactment of legislation during the 2021–22 Regular Session prescribing the process for the development of model curricula for Native American studies, the Vietnamese American refugee experience, the Cambodian genocide, and Hmong history and cultural studies, this bill would appropriate $1,200,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to support the development of model curricula for Native American studies, the Vietnamese American refugee experience, the Cambodian genocide, and Hmong history and cultural studies. (69) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for purposes of the Antibias Education Grant Program, which the bill would establish, for purposes of preventing, addressing, and eliminating racism and bias in all California public schools, and making all public schools inclusive and supportive of all people. The bill would require the Superintendent to award a minimum of 50 Antibias Education Grants to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools meeting certain requirements to be used for training and resources to prevent and address bias or prejudice toward any group of people based on certain characteristics. (70) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for purposes of the Dual Language Immersion Grant Program, which the bill would establish, to expand access to quality dual language learning and foster languages that English learners bring to California's education system. The bill would require the department to award a minimum of 25 one-time Dual Language Immersion Grants over a period of 3 fiscal years to eligible entities to expand or establish dual language immersion programs that provide integrated language learning and academic instruction for native speakers of English and native speakers of another language. (71) This bill would require the Superintendent to add $25,000,000 to the amount to be apportioned pursuant to the county local control funding formula to the Kern County Office of Education to contract with the Child Mind Institute for the purposes of developing mental health and wellness instructional resources and trainings, as specified. (72) This bill would appropriate $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to special education local plan areas for the purpose of supporting member local educational agencies in conducting dispute prevention and voluntary alternative dispute resolution activities, as specified. (73) This bill would appropriate $450,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to special education local plan areas to be expended by special education local plan areas and their member local educational agencies for the purposes of providing learning recovery support to certain pupils, including individuals with exceptional needs. (74) This bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to the Riverside County Office of Education and the El Dorado County Office of Education in equal amounts in support of the Supporting Inclusive Practices project. (75) This bill would appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board for deposit into the 2016 State School Facilities Fund for certain school new construction and modernization projects. (76) This bill would appropriate $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to, in consultation with the executive director of the State Board of Education, award grants to community-based organizations supporting local educational agencies with the implementation of high quality integrated academic, behavioral, and social-emotional learning practices. (77) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (78) Certain funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. (79) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.