AB 181

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Abstract

(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop, on or before December 31, 2022, a standardized English language teacher observation protocol for use by teachers in evaluating a pupil's English language proficiency. This bill would extend the date for the development of that protocol by one year to December 31, 2023. (2) 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, as provided, and, if certain determinations are made, requires the Superintendent to take certain actions, as necessary, to enable the county office of education to meet its financial obligations. Existing law requires a county office of education to pay reasonable fees charged by the Superintendent for administrative expenses incurred for undertaking the required actions or for costs associated with improving the county office of education's financial management practices. This bill would require the county office of education to instead pay 75% of fees charged by the Superintendent for those administrative expenses or costs, and would require the other 25% to be covered by the Superintendent. (3) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes a county office of education operations grant that includes, among other things, $109,320 per school district under the county office of education's jurisdiction, and $70 per unit of countywide average daily attendance up to 30,000 units, $60 per unit for 30,001 to 60,000 units, $50 per unit for 60,001 to 140,000 units, and $40 per unit above 140,000 units. Existing law adjusts these amounts for inflation in each fiscal year, as specified. This bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would add $175,000 to the per-school district amount, and $14 to each unit amount, as those amounts are adjusted for inflation. (4) Existing law requires the Superintendent to add specified amounts to a county superintendent of school's local control funding formula allocation, dependent upon the number and size of school districts under its jurisdiction that are determined to be in need of differentiated assistance. Existing law excludes a county superintendent of schools in a county where the county board of education serves as the governing board of any school district under its jurisdiction from that funding, as provided. This bill instead would include those county superintendents of schools in that funding. The bill would require the Superintendent to also add $100,000 per charter school determined to be in need of differentiated assistance to each county superintendent of school's local control funding formula allocation, as specified, and would require additional specified adjustments to the allocation formula. (5) Existing law establishes 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. Existing law appropriates $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. Existing law requires 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. Existing law requires local educational agencies that receive grants to provide specified data to the department. This bill would require the department to initiate collection proceedings for certain grant funds that are unexpended by local educational agencies by June 30, 2026, and for grant funds that are used by local educational agencies in a manner inconsistent with the program or that fail to provide required data. For the 2022–23 fiscal year, the bill would appropriate $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation to local educational agencies for purposes of the program, as specified. (6) Existing law establishes the California Community Schools Partnership Act and appropriates specified moneys from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the California Community Schools Partnership Program to award grants, including implementation and coordination 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. Existing law requires the Superintendent to prioritize grant funding to qualifying entities who meet specified criteria. Existing law appropriates $2,836,660,000 for purposes of the act, and makes those moneys available for expenditure or encumbrance until June 30, 2028. This bill would revise provisions of the act to, among other things, extend the expenditure and encumbrance period of the above-described appropriation by 3 years, thereby making an appropriation, make changes to the definition of qualifying entity, remove the authority to issue coordination grants and instead authorize extensions of implementation grants to local educational agency implementation grantees, revise priority criteria, and revise program evaluation requirements. The bill would require up to $140,000,000 of those appropriated moneys to be allocated to county offices of education serving at least 2 qualifying entities receiving grant funding pursuant to the act to coordinate county-level governmental, nonprofit community-based organizations, and other external partnerships to support community school implementation at grant recipients in their county, including by designating a county-level community schools liaison, as provided. By expanding the purposes for which appropriated moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would additionally appropriate $1,132,554,000 from the General Fund in the 2022–23 fiscal year to the Superintendent for implementation grants and grant extensions, to be allocated beginning with the 2023–24 fiscal year, as provided. (7) Existing law continuously appropriates from the General Fund to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the Controller any amount necessary to meet the requirements of specified programs during each fiscal year upon certification by the Superintendent of those amounts. Existing law requires the Controller to provide in each warrant a portion of the total amount certified by the Superintendent as apportioned for specified programs during the fiscal year from the State School Fund to the school districts and charter schools under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of that county, to the county school service fund of that county, and to the county school tuition fund of that county. The bill would include among these programs a specified transportation allowance, which would constitute an appropriation. (8) Existing law establishes the California Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten and Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program, under the administration of the State Allocation Board, to provide one-time grants to school districts or county offices of education to construct new school facilities or retrofit existing school facilities for the purpose of providing transitional kindergarten classrooms and full-day kindergarten classrooms, as specified. Existing law appropriates $490,000,000 for one-time grants for the 2021–22 fiscal year. This bill would make community college districts eligible to receive grants for preschool facilities under the program if the community college district operates a preschool program on behalf of, or in lieu of, a school district or county office of education. By expanding the purposes for which those appropriated funds may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require applicants seeking a preschool facilities grant under the program to hold title to the real property where the facilities will be located. The bill would appropriate an additional $100,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2021–22 fiscal year to the State Allocation Board for one-time grants under the program for the 2022–23 fiscal year, as specified. (9) Existing law requires a school district that has been organized for more than 3 years to be lapsed, as defined, under certain conditions related to the number of registered electors or average daily attendance of pupils in the school district. Existing law authorizes a county board of education to defer the lapsation of a school district for one year under certain conditions and prohibits a county board of education from making more than 3 deferments for any school district. This bill instead would not limit the number of these deferments made for a school district by a county board of education. (10) 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 2021–22 fiscal years, inclusive. This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2022–23 fiscal year. (11) 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, the first of which is based on the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986–87. This bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would require the Director of Finance to annually adjust the above percentage so that any annual increase in local control funding formula apportionments generated by an increase in average daily attendance due to the implementation of certain provisions relating to transitional kindergarten result in a commensurate increase in General Fund proceeds of taxes and allocated local proceeds of taxes that are required to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts. (12) Existing law establishes the Educator Effectiveness Block Grant, appropriates $1,500,000,000 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of the block grant, and requires 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, as provided. This bill would authorize those grant funds to also be used for, among other things, coursework that would allow existing staff to become credentialed or fully credentialed for their assignment, costs reasonably related to providing and attending professional learning, and strategies to improve beginning teacher retention and support through teacher induction programs. By expanding the purposes for which those appropriated funds may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would extend the deadline for developing an expenditure plan and for certain reporting requirements related to the block grant. (13) Existing law appropriates $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. Existing law requires the grants to be awarded on or before December 15, 2021. This bill would require any funds not awarded on or before December 15, 2021, to be available for the Orange County Department of Education, in consultation with the Superintendent and the executive director of the state board, to award as grants to local educational agencies on or before December 15, 2022, thereby making an appropriation. (14) Existing law, until January 1, 2027, authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership with the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. Existing law requires each middle college high school to be structured as a broad-based, comprehensive instructional program focusing on college preparatory and school-to-work curricula, among other things. Under existing law, pupils in early college high schools begin taking college courses as soon as they demonstrate readiness and the college credit earned may be applied toward completing an associate or bachelor's degree, transfer to a 4-year university, or obtaining a skills certificate. This bill would appropriate $200,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the department, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, by January 1, 2023, to administer a competitive grant program to, among other things, enable local educational agencies to establish opportunities for pupils to obtain college credits while enrolled in high school and provide dual enrollment opportunities, as provided. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to apply for one-time grants of up to $250,000 to support the costs to plan for, and start up, a middle college or early college high school that is located on the campus of a local educational agency, a partnering community college, or other location determined by the local partnership, as provided. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to also apply for one-time grants of up to $100,000 to establish a CCAP partnership, as provided. (15) Under existing law, when the governing board of a school district provides for the transportation of pupils to and from schools, or between the regular full-time day schools they would attend and the regular full-time occupational training classes, the governing board of the school district may require the parents and guardians of all or some of the pupils transported to pay a portion of the cost of this transportation, as specified. Existing law requires the governing board to exempt from these charges pupils of parents and guardians who are indigent, as provided. This bill instead would, when a local educational agency provides for the transportation of pupils to and from schools, or between the regular full-time day schools they would attend and the regular full-time occupational training classes, authorize the governing board to require the parents and guardians of all or some of the pupils transported to pay a portion of the cost of this transportation, as specified. The bill instead would require the governing board to exempt from these charges pupils of parents and guardians who are unduplicated pupils, as provided. (16) Existing law provides certain allowances for home-to-school transportation, and requires that each school district or county office of education receive the same home-to-school transportation allowance received in the prior fiscal year. Existing law precludes that home-to-school transportation allowance from exceeding the prior year's approved home-to-school transportation costs of a school district or county office of education, increased by an amount provided in the annual Budget Act. This bill would revise and recast these provisions. The bill would, among other things, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, require a transportation allowance equal to 60% of the home-to-school transportation expenditures reported by the school district or county superintendent of schools as determined by its Function 3600 entry in the Standardized Account Code Structure report for the prior year, excluding capital outlay and nonagency expenditures, and reduced by the amount of a school district's or county superintendent of schools' transportation add-on under the local control funding formula, as adjusted. The bill would, as a condition of receiving these apportionments, require a local educational agency to develop a plan describing the transportation services it will offer to its pupils, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and pupils who are low income, among other requirements related to this plan. (17) Existing law makes a school district eligible to receive a supplemental apportionment for transportation if certain conditions are met. Existing law also authorizes certain school districts and county offices of education to apply to the State Department of Education for a one-time-only apportionment for the purchase of transportation equipment. The bill would repeal both of those provisions. (18) Existing law requires the Oakland Unified School District, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, in collaboration with and with the concurrence of the Alameda County Superintendent of Schools and the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, to take certain actions by March 1, 2019, regarding its financial plans and school district construction plans, as specified. Existing law requires the Inglewood Unified School District, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, to take certain actions to improve the school district's fiscal solvency. This bill would require the Oakland Unified School District, in collaboration with and with the concurrence of the Alameda County Superintendent of Schools and the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, to take certain actions by April 1, 2023, regarding its financial plans and school district construction plans, as specified, and to undergo an on-time annual independent audit. The bill would provide that the Budget Act of 2023 shall include certain appropriations for the Oakland Unified School District, as provided. The bill would make the disbursement of moneys from those appropriations contingent upon the completion of activities specified in the prior year Budget Act to improve the school district's fiscal solvency, as provided. This bill would require the Inglewood Unified School District to take certain actions by April 1, 2023, including meeting the requirements for qualified or positive certification, completing a comprehensive operational review, and undergoing an on-time annual independent audit, as provided. The bill would provide that, beginning with the 2022–23 fiscal year, the Budget Act shall include certain appropriations for the school district, as specified. The bill would make the disbursement of moneys from those appropriations contingent upon the completion of activities specified in the prior year Budget Act to improve the school district's fiscal solvency, as provided. Because the bill would impose additional duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Oakland Unified School District and the Inglewood Unified School District. (19) 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 unduplicated pupils, as specified, served by the school district or charter school. Existing law requires the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a grade span-adjusted base grant, a 10.4% adjustment to the kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, base grant for school districts that maintain an average class enrollment of not more than 24 pupils for those grades unless a collective bargained alternative is agreed to by the school district. This bill would, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, require the Superintendent to increase the base grants for transitional kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, by an additional 6.28% as specified. The bill would, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, require the Superintendent to compute an additional add-on of $2,813 for transitional kindergarten, as specified, require the add-on to be annually adjusted for inflation commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, as specified. Notwithstanding the authorization to collectively bargain an alternative average class enrollment for transitional kindergarten, the bill would instead require a school district to maintain an average transitional kindergarten class enrollment of not more than 24 pupils. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to also include funds received for specified pupil transportation programs, as provided. This bill would, commencing in the 2023–24 fiscal year, require funds received for these specified pupil transportation programs to receive an annual cost-of-living adjustment, as provided. (20) Existing law includes average daily attendance as a component of the calculation under the local control funding formula. Existing law requires a school district's average daily attendance to include the 2nd principal apportionment regular average daily attendance for the current fiscal year, or the prior fiscal year if the prior year average daily attendance is greater, as specified. Existing law requires the average daily attendance for charter schools to be the total current year average daily attendance in the corresponding grade level ranges for the charter school. This bill would instead, for the 2021–22 fiscal year for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that meet specified requirements relating to independent study, require the Superintendent to calculate an attendance yield for the 2019–20 and 2021–22 fiscal years, as specified, and to adjust the 2021–22 fiscal year average daily attendance for purposes of apportionments under the local control funding formula for these local educational agencies, as provided. The bill also would revise the calculation of a school district's average daily attendance, as specified. (21) Existing law provides for the funding of necessary small schools and high schools, as specified. Existing law requires, among other things, that funding to include various specified amounts per pupil and teacher for different tiers of numbers of pupils and teachers. This bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would revise the funding for necessary small schools and high schools, as provided, including, among other things, by increasing the various amounts per pupil and per teacher, as specified. The bill would extend certain necessary small school funding provisions to school districts where a school eligible for funding pursuant to those necessary small school funding provisions was destroyed as a result of a state of emergency that was declared by the Governor in August 2021, as provided. (22) Existing law authorizes a regionally accredited institution of higher education to offer a 4-year or 5-year integrated program of professional preparation that allows a student to earn a baccalaureate degree and a preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, including student teaching requirements, concurrently and within 4 or 5 years of study. Existing law requires integrated programs offered by the California State University be designed to concurrently lead to a preliminary multiple subject or single subject teaching credential, or an education specialist instruction credential authorizing the holder to teach special education, and a baccalaureate degree. This bill would additionally authorize the California State University to meet the above-described requirement if the integrated program is designed to concurrently lead to an early childhood education specialist credential and a baccalaureate degree, and would additionally authorize a regionally accredited institution of higher education to offer a 4-year or 5-year integrated program of professional preparation that allows a student to earn a baccalaureate degree and a early childhood education specialist credential concurrently within 4 or 5 years of study. Existing law, contingent upon appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act or another statute, requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to develop and implement a program to award grants of up to $250,000 each to regionally accredited institutions of higher education for the development of transition plans to guide the creation of 4-year integrated programs of professional preparation, as provided. This bill would revise and recast that program to instead require the commission to award planning grants of up to $250,000 each to regionally accredited institutions of higher education to develop plans for the creation of integrated programs of professional preparation that lead to more credentialed teachers with an emphasis on identified shortage fields, as provided. The bill would require the commission to award implementation or expansion grants of up to $500,000 each for regionally accredited institutions of higher education to develop new programs of professional preparation or to establish a new partnership with a California community college, as provided. The bill would make these grant programs contingent upon appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act or another statute. (23) 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. Existing law requires grants to be disbursed in two parts, as provided. This bill would require grants to instead be disbursed from the State Department of Education to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as provided, and require unused funds to be applied to future candidates. (24) Existing law establishes the Teacher Residency Grant Program and appropriates funds from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to make one-time grants to develop new, or expand, strengthen, or improve access to existing, teacher residency programs that support, among other things, a list of designated shortage fields. This bill would revise the program by, among other things, adding school counselor to the list of shortage fields and authorizing the residency programs to support candidates seeking a PK-3 early childhood education specialist credential, as provided. By expanding the purposes for which appropriated money may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would also appropriate $184,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission to augment the Teacher Residency Grant Program to support teacher and school counselor residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of teachers and school counselors, as provided. This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission to select a local educational agency to serve as a statewide technical assistance center to support teacher residency programs, as provided. (25) Existing law establishes the 21st Century California School Leadership Academy to organize and offer professional learning opportunities for administrators and other school leaders and to provide grants to local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit educational services providers in a manner that ensures the availability of professional learning, free of charge, to local educational agencies, as provided. Existing law requires grantees to identify metrics to measure the effectiveness of professional learning and requires the State Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to evaluate the professional learning opportunities offered or funded through the 21st Century California School Leadership Academy for their effectiveness. This bill instead would require the department and the collaborative to establish criteria and measures to assess the performance of the grantees, as provided, and would authorize the collaborative to enter into contracts to assist with program evaluation. (26) Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate certain amounts to school districts and certain charter schools that have a prior fiscal year unduplicated pupil percentage of 80% or more, and allocate the remainder of funds on a per unit basis of the school district or charter school's prior year reported kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, classroom-based average daily attendance attributable to unduplicated pupils, as specified. Existing law requires, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, as a condition of receipt of the first category of funds, school district and charter schools to offer access to programs that meet certain conditions, including minimum day and hour requirements, to all pupils in classroom-based instructional programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and to provide access to any pupil whose parent or guardian requests their placement in a program. This bill, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, would require the Superintendent to instead allocate a different specified amount to all school districts and charter schools, and for the 2022–23 school year, as a condition of receipt of those funds, would instead require schools districts and charter schools to offer access to programs to all unduplicated pupils and to provide access to programs to at least 50% of enrolled unduplicated pupils. The bill, commencing with the 2023–24 school year, would require, as a condition of receipt of those funds, school districts and charter schools that have a prior fiscal year unduplicated pupil percentage of 75% or more to offer access to programs to all pupils and to provide access to programs to any pupil whose parent or guardian requests their placement in a program, and school districts and charter schools that have a prior fiscal year unduplicated pupil percentage of 75% or less to offer access to programs to at least all unduplicated pupils and to provide access to any unduplicated pupil whose parent or guardian requests their placement in a program. The bill, commencing with the 2023–24 school year, would require the Superintendent to withhold certain amounts from a school district or charter school's apportionment if it does not offer or provide eligible pupils with access to programs or if the programs do not meet specified day or hour requirements. The bill would revise and recast other program requirements. (27) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law authorizes a charter school that established a schoolsite outside the boundaries of the chartering authority before January 1, 2020, or that established a resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility outside the boundaries of the school district in which the charter school is located before January 1, 2020, to continue to operate that site if the charter school satisfies specified requirements, in which case existing law requires the State Department of Education to regard the charter school as a continuing charter school. Existing law defines an acquiring charter school as a state charter school site deemed a continuing charter school that has wholly combined with one or more other affected state charter school sites, as provided. Under existing law, on July 1, 2023, a charter school meeting the definition of an acquiring charter school is no longer regarded as a continuing charter school, as provided. This bill would extend by 2 years until July 1, 2025, the date at which a charter school meeting the definition of an acquiring charter school would no longer be regarded as a continuing charter school, as provided, and would make conforming changes to extend related provisions. (28) Existing law requires school districts and charter schools, as a condition of receiving funds for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, to maintain an average transitional kindergarten class enrollment of not more than 24 pupils for each schoolsite and to maintain specified adult to pupil ratios, as provided, and to ensure that credentialed teachers who are first assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom after July 1, 2015, have, by August 1, 2023, at least one of 3 specified requirements relating to early childhood education units and a child development teacher permits. This bill would, among other things, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, require the Superintendent to withhold from the school district's or charter school's apportionment of funds pursuant the local control funding formula, as specified, if a school district or charter school fails to comply with those requirements. (29) Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was for the benefit of the pupil's mental or behavioral health. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to update its illness verification regulations, as necessary, to account for including a pupil's absence for the benefit of the pupil's mental or behavioral health within the scope of this provision. This bill would delete the above-described requirement on the state board. (30) Existing law provides specified education-related rights and supports for foster children, alternately known as pupils in foster care. Existing law defines a foster child for these purposes to include, among other categories, (A) a child who is under the jurisdiction of a juvenile court, has been removed from their home by the juvenile court, and is in foster care, as specified, and (B) a nonminor under the transition jurisdiction of the juvenile court who meets certain criteria. This bill would change, for the purposes of those provisions specifying education-related rights and supports, those 2 categories of covered foster children to instead include a child who has been removed from their home pursuant to the temporary custody provisions of the juvenile dependency law and a child who is the subject of a juvenile wardship or dependency petition, whether or not the child has been removed from their home. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies related to certain foster children, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (31) Existing law requires a pupil to complete designated coursework while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school. This bill would require a local educational agency to exempt an individual with exceptional needs who satisfies specified eligibility criteria from all coursework and other requirements adopted by the governing board or governing body of the local educational agency that are additional to the above-described coursework requirements and to award the pupil a diploma of graduation from high school, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (32) Existing law establishes the State Seal of Civic Engagement to recognize pupils who have demonstrated excellence in civics education and participation and have demonstrated an understanding of the United States Constitution, the California Constitution, and the democratic system of government, as provided. Under existing law, by executive order, CaliforniaVolunteers is established in the office of the Governor and is charged with overseeing programs and initiatives for service and volunteerism. This bill would establish the California Serves Program under the administration of the State Department of Education, in collaboration with CaliforniaVolunteers, for purposes of promoting access to effective service learning for pupils in grade 12 who are enrolled at participating local educational agencies. The bill would require the department, in partnership with CaliforniaVolunteers, to review available evidence on ways to incorporate effective service learning for pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, develop model uniform metrics for the measurement of pupil progress, provide recommendations to the Legislature on, and post on the department's and CaliforniaVolunteers' internet websites information related to, evidence-based strategies to expand access to high-quality service learning programs, as provided. Commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, the bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund, each fiscal year, to the department to award grants of up to $500,000 annually to local educational agencies in which at least 55% of enrolled pupils are unduplicated pupils, as defined, to be used for paid planning time and professional development for school and local educational agency administrators and classroom teachers, the purchase of instructional materials, and participation and personnel costs, as provided. (33) 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 local educational agency from being eligible to receive apportionments for independent study by pupils unless the local educational agency has adopted and implemented written policies, including a requirement that a current written agreement with specified content for each independent study pupil is maintained on file, and authorizes a local educational agency to claim apportionment credit for independent study only to the extent of the time value of pupil work products. Existing law prohibits an individual with exceptional needs, as defined, from participating in independent study unless the pupil's individualized education program specifically provides for that participation. This bill would make various changes to these provisions, including requiring the certificated employee designated as having responsibility for the special education programming of the pupil to sign the written agreement, as specified, and authorizing local educational agencies to claim apportionment credit for independent study for the combined time value of pupil work product and pupil participation in synchronous instruction, as provided. Upon a parent or guardian of an individual with exceptional needs requesting independent study, as provided, the bill would require the pupil's individualized education program team to make an individualized determination as to whether the pupil can receive a free appropriate public education in an independent study placement, as provided. To the extent that these individualized determinations impose new requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (34) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district and the county superintendent of schools to establish parent advisory committees to provide advice to certain persons and entities regarding school accountability, as specified. Existing law requires a parent advisory committee to include parents or legal guardians of certain pupils, including pupils who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, pupils who are foster youth, and pupils of limited English proficiency. This bill would revise requirements regarding the composition of those parent advisory committees to, among other things, require the inclusion of parents or legal guardians of pupils with disabilities currently enrolled in those schools. To the extent this requirement imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (35) Existing law State Board of Education to adopt a template for use by school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools for a local control and accountability plan and an annual update to the local control and accountability plan. Existing law also authorizes the state board to require the inclusion of additional information in the template in order to meet requirements of federal law. This bill would require the state board to, on or before January 31, 2025, adopt an IDEA Addendum relating to improvements in services for individuals with exceptional needs, as specified. The bill would require certain school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education identified by the State Department of Education, as provided, to complete the IDEA Addendum and to undertake certain activities related to the addendum. To the extent that these provisions impose additional duties on these local educational agencies than required by federal law, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (36) Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to annually prepare a summary of how the county superintendent plans to support school districts and schools within the county in implementing certain provisions related to school accountability and to present the summary to the county board of education at a specified public meeting. This bill would require this summary to include one or more goals relating to providing support to school districts in developing and implementing the special education addendum, as provided. (37) Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to advise and assist school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving their local control and accountability plan goals. Existing law requires the State Department of Education and the collaborative to establish a process, administered by the department, to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board in consultation with the Department of Finance, special education local plan areas or consortia of special education local plan areas to serve as special education resource leads to work with the lead agencies and other county offices of education to improve pupil outcomes as part of the statewide system of support. Existing law requires at least 3 resource leads to be selected in a manner to ensure statewide representation and focus directly on building special education local plan area capacity, as specified. The bill would authorize county offices of education or consortia of county offices of education to be eligible for selection to serve as special education resource leads under the above-described process. The bill would require at least 3 resource leads to instead be selected in a manner to ensure statewide representation and focus directly on building local and regional capacity. Commencing with the grant cycle beginning July 1, 2023, the bill would require at least one resource lead to be selected to support the development and implementation of high-quality individualized education programs and at least one resource lead to be selected to, in partnership with a family support organization or coalition of family support organizations, provide capacity building, training, and technical assistance on family support for families of pupils with disabilities, and conflict prevention and alternate dispute resolution in special education. (38) Existing law establishes the Community Engagement Initiative and requires the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and a selected lead agency to convene professional learning networks for purposes of improving local pupil outcomes and community engagement, as specified. This bill would establish the Community Engagement Initiative Expansion and would, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriate $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to the collaborative to expand and strengthen the Community Engagement Initiative, as provided. The bill would require the department and the collaborative, with approval from the executive director of the state board, to select an expert community engagement lead agency to coadminister the expansion with the collaborative, as provided. (39) Existing law establishes the California Career Pathways Trust as a state education and economic and workforce development initiative with the goal of preparing pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to successfully transition to postsecondary education and training and to employment in high-skill, high-wage, and high-growth or emerging sectors of the state's economy. This bill would establish the Golden State Pathways Program to promote pathways in high-wage, high-skill, high-growth areas, including technology, health care, education, and climate-related fields that, among other things, allow pupils to advance seamlessly from high school to college and career and provide the workforce needed for economic growth. The bill would appropriate $500,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to competitively award grant funds to school districts, charter schools, county offices of education, or regional occupational centers or programs operated by a joint powers authority or county office of education. The bill would also authorize community college districts to partner with local educational agencies to submit applications to receive funding to support the offering of a Golden State Pathways Program. The bill would require grant applicants to, among other things, commit to providing high school pupils with various academic and career development opportunities, as provided. The bill would condition grant eligibility on certain funding commitments, alignment with the priorities and activities of the grantee's local control and accountability plan, and data collection, as provided. The bill would authorize the Superintendent to award up to 10% of the total grant funds as consortium development and planning grants and no less than 85% of the total grant funds as implementation grants, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 5% of the total appropriation to contract with up to 10 local educational agencies for the provision of technical assistance to local educational agencies, applicants, and grant recipients, as provided. (40) Existing law requires a school district to submit to the Superintendent a local plan for the education of all individuals with exceptional needs either on its own, in conjunction with one or more school districts, or with the county office of education, as specified. Existing law requires, commencing July 1, 2023, each local plan to include an annual assurances support plan, as provided. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop a template for the annual assurances support plan by July 1, 2022. This bill would extend the date for the department to develop a template for the annual assurances support plan by 4 years to July 1, 2026. The bill would extend the date for each local plan to include an annual assurances support plan by 4 years to July 1, 2027. (41) Existing law, commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent, to the extent there is an appropriation of federal funds or a General Fund appropriation in the annual Budget Act for purposes of educationally related mental health services or mental health-related services, respectively, to allocate funds to a special education local plan area per unit of average daily attendance reported for the 2019–20 fiscal year. This bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would require, to the extent there is one of the above-described appropriations, the Superintendent to instead allocate funds per unit of average daily attendance, as specified, reported for a local educational agency for the prior or current fiscal year, respectively, as of the second principal apportionment. (42) Existing law, commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to calculate allocations to special education local plan areas based on the reported average daily attendance, as specified. Existing law, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to calculate the amount of funding per unit of average daily attendance for each special education local plan area as 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. This bill, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, would require the Superintendent to instead calculate special education funding allocations based on the average daily attendance of each local educational agency and charter school that is a local educational agency for purposes of special education, as specified. The bill, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, would increase the amount of funding per unit of average daily attendance for each special education local plan area to be either $820 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 2021–22 fiscal year, as adjusted annually by a specified inflation factor, whichever is greater, and would require the Superintendent to instead calculate special education funding allocations based on the average daily attendance of each local educational agency and charter school that is a local educational agency for purposes of special education accountability, as specified. Also commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, the bill would require each special education local plan area to report to their member local educational agencies the amount of funding each local educational agency generates for the special education local plan area, as specified. By imposting additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would revise various other special education funding calculations and would make related clarifying and conforming changes. (43) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential who commit to teach in a high-need field at a priority school for 4 years, as provided. Existing law defines "high-need field" to include, among others, subjects that are based on an analysis of the availability of teachers in California, as provided. Existing law makes funds appropriated for the program in the Budget Acts of 2020 and 2021 available for encumbrance or expenditure by the commission until June 30, 2026. This bill would remove the grant condition of teaching in a high-need field and would expand grant eligibility to students enrolled, or who have applied for enrollment, in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel service credential who instead commit to work at a priority school for 4 years within 8 years of the date the student completes the professional preparation program, as provided. By expanding who is eligible to receive a grant under the program, which is funded by an existing appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require the commission to develop a process for interested students to request a preenrollment conditional award notice from the commission, as specified. The bill also would make conforming, clarifying, and other revisions to the operation of the program. (44) 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 defines "proceeds of taxes" for those purposes and requires each school district to report to the Superintendent and to the Director of Finance, at least annually, the amount of its state aid apportionments and subventions included within the proceeds of taxes of the school district, among other things. The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 requires the State Allocation Board to require a school district that receives funds under the act to agree to establish a restricted account within the school district's general fund for the exclusive purpose of providing moneys for ongoing and major maintenance of school buildings, as provided. This bill, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, and each year thereafter, would exclude funds deposited into a restricted account described above by a local jurisdiction, as defined, from the definition of "proceeds of taxes." The bill would require a local jurisdiction that deposited money into a restricted account in the 2021–22 fiscal year to revise the above-described annual report. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to direct the Superintendent to make necessary adjustments to the revised report, retroactive to the 2 fiscal years before making the adjustments, and to direct the Superintendent to notify the local jurisdiction of the adjustments made. (45) Existing law authorizes a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) who is subsequently employed to perform service subject to coverage by the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan to elect to retain coverage by PERS for that subsequent service. Existing law prescribes requirements for the exercise of this election, including that the election be submitted in writing, as specified, within 60 days after the member's date of hire to perform the service. This bill, until January 1, 2024, would authorize a member of PERS who provides emergency teaching services pursuant to a specified executive order to elect to retain coverage under the provisions described above, notwithstanding the failure to meet specified administrative requirements. (46) Existing law, subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, requires the State Department of Social Services to administer the California Newcomer Education and Well-Being Program to provide services for refugees, unaccompanied undocumented minors, and immigrant families, as those terms are defined, by allocating funding to school districts, as specified. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to administer this program in collaboration with the State Department of Education, and to expand the provision of those services to newcomer pupils and English learners, as defined. The bill would expand the program to include county offices of education in the allocation of funding. (47) Existing law establishes the Early Literacy Support Block Grant and appropriates $50,000,000 for its purposes. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Education to establish conditions for the grant and otherwise administer the grant as necessary to advance the purposes of the grant, and authorizes the department to use $3,000,000 of the $50,000,000 appropriated to offset its costs in administering the grant. This bill would appropriate $2,960,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to offset the department's costs associated with the Early Literacy Support Block Grant and would delete the department's authority to use the $3,000,000 described above for that same purpose. (48) Existing law establishes the California Dyslexia Initiative and requires the State Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, with approval from the executive director of the State Board of Education, to designate an applicant county office of education to administer the initiative, as provided. Existing law requires the designated county office of education to encumber or expend certain funds appropriated for these purposes by June 30, 2023. The bill would extend the date for the designated county office of education to encumber or expend those appropriated funds by one year to June 30, 2024, thereby making an appropriation. (49) Existing law requires the department to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard for publicly reporting local educational agency performance data. Existing law requires the department, for purposes of identifying local educational agencies for technical assistance or intervention in December 2022, to use performance data on the state and local indicators using data from the 2021–22 school year, as specified. This bill would exclude from the above requirement English Language Proficiency Assessments for California data from the 2020-21 school year for the purposes of producing status for the English Learner Progress Indicator. (50) Existing law appropriates $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to allocate to local educational agencies for food service staff to receive training on promoting nutritious foods, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would authorize local educational agencies, to the extent any funds remain after food service staff receive training on promoting nutritious foods, to use that remaining funding on cooking equipment and supporting infrastructure system needs, service equipment, refrigeration and storage, or transportation of ingredients, meals, and equipment between sites, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. (51) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law, until July 1, 2022, authorizes any holder of a credential or permit issued by the commission that authorizes the holder to substitute teach in a general, special, or career technical education assignment to serve in a substitute teaching assignment aligned with their authorization, including for staff vacancies, for up to 60 cumulative days for any one assignment. This bill would extend the date of that authorization by one year to July 1, 2023. (52) Existing law requires a specified amount appropriated to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for emergency assistance to nonpublic schools, as provided under the federal Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021, to be allocated to eligible nonpublic schools to address the impact of COVID-19 on nonpublic school pupils and teachers in the state. Existing law requires these funds to be available for encumbrance through September 30, 2022. This bill would extend the date those funds are available for encumbrance by one year through September 30, 2023, thereby making an appropriation. (53) Existing law defines a nonpublic, nonsectarian school as a private, nonsectarian school that enrolls individuals with exceptional needs pursuant to an individualized education program and that is certified by the department. This bill would authorize a local educational agency to claim apportionment for a pupil who receives services from a nonpublic, nonsectarian school through a virtual program if certain conditions are met, including that the pupil is an individual with exceptional needs whose individualized education program includes a placement at a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, and the local educational agency offers, and the pupil's parent or guardian requests, independent study, as provided. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2025. (54) Existing law requires the department to develop a 3-year plan of activities, with the approval of the state board, supporting the continuous improvement of the assessments developed and administered pursuant to the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. Existing law requires the department to periodically contract for a 3-year independent evaluation of the consortium computer-adaptive assessments in English language arts and mathematics in designated grades. Existing law further requires these independent evaluation reports and specified interim annual reports to be submitted to the Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the state board, and the chairs of the education policy committees of both houses of the Legislature by October 31 of each year. These provisions became inoperative on July 1, 2021, and as of January 1, 2022, were repealed. This bill would authorize the department, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, to extend the contract for the independent evaluation of assessments by a period of up to 2 years if additional time is needed to complete the evaluation, as specified. The bill would also extend the submission of the independent evaluation report to October 31, 2023, as specified. (55) The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, among other things, increased certain tax rates for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012, and before January 1, 2017, and deposited the revenues from those increases in tax into the Education Protection Account. The act provides that all moneys in the Education Protection Account are continuously appropriated for the support of school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts, and requires 89% of the moneys appropriated to be allocated quarterly by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in proportion to certain calculations to provide general purpose funding to those local educational agencies, as specified. The act requires that allocation to be offset by certain amounts, provided that no local educational agency receives less than $200 per unit of average daily attendance. These provisions were extended for taxable years before January 1, 2031, by Proposition 55, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election. This bill would, for 2021–22 fiscal year to the 2032–33 fiscal year, inclusive, require the Superintendent, for purposes of those calculations, to adjust the amounts calculated for those local educational agencies by a certain inflation adjustment applicable to the local control funding formula, as specified. (56) This bill would authorize the Director of Finance to order certain funds reappropriated by the Budget Act of 2022 to instead be transferred to, and for administration by, the Office of Public School Construction, thereby making an appropriation. (57) This bill would, for 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriate $1,125,000,000 from the General Fund, to the State Air Resources Board for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Voucher Incentive Project to fund zero-emission schoolbuses to replace heavy-duty internal combustion schoolbuses owned by local educational agencies, as specified, and would appropriate $375,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to fund zero-emission schoolbus charging or fueling infrastructure and related activities, including, but not limited to, charging or fueling stations, equipment, site design, construction, and related infrastructure upgrades, in order to complement those vehicle investments, as specified. The bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would require the state board to award grants totaling $225,000,000, and require the commission to award grants totaling $75,000,000, in each fiscal year to local educational agencies, as specified. The bill would require the Department of General Services, in consultation with the commission and the California Workforce Development Board, to establish statewide contracts with manufacturers of zero- or low-emission schoolbuses, as provided. (58) This bill would, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriate $85,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to county offices of education to provide professional development and support family engagement in mathematics and science for pupils in preschool, transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as specified. The bill would allocate $35,000,000 of that amount to the Fresno County Office of Education to expand the existing California Statewide Early Math Initiative, as specified. The bill would allocate $50,000,000 of that amount to a county office of education to partner with the Fresno County Office of Education's Early Math Initiative, as provided. To the extent that this provision would impose additional duties on the Fresno County Office of Education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (59) This bill would appropriate $413,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment to classroom-based charter schools that are continuing operations in the 2022–23 fiscal year in accordance with prescribed calculations. The bill would authorize the Director of Finance to increase the amount appropriated for this purpose if necessary to fund all eligible charter schools pursuant to these provisions. (60) This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to further support the Educator Workforce Investment Grant Program to coordinate and support professional learning opportunities for educators across the state, as specified. (61) The bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation to one or more local educational agencies to coordinate and support professional learning opportunities for educators across the state, as specified. (62) This bill would appropriate $15,000,000 to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the Reading and Literacy Supplementary Authorization Incentive Grant Program, which the bill would establish to support the preparation of credentialed teachers to earn a supplementary authorization in reading and literacy, as specified. (63) 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, as specified. (64) For the 2022–23 fiscal year, this bill would appropriate $1,300,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2021–22 fiscal year to the State Allocation Board for new construction and modernization projects under the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998, as provided. (65) 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, 2023, 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 2022. 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, 2023, 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 2022 and, if so, would require the Director of Finance to reduce the specified appropriation in the Budget Act of 2022 by the amount of that excess. (66) This bill would appropriate $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to be allocated by the Superintendent to the Special Olympics of Northern and Southern California for specified purposes, as provided. (67) This bill would appropriate $600,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation to certain school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to expend on kitchen infrastructure upgrades that will increase a school's capacity to prepare meals served through a federal school meal program, as defined, including for freshly prepared onsite meals, to serve fresh and nutritious school meals using minimally processed, locally grown, and sustainable food, or for expanding meal options for pupils with restricted diets, as specified. (68) This bill would appropriate $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, for allocation to local educational agencies to expend on implementing school food best practices as part of reimbursable meals served through the federal National School Lunch Program and federal School Breakfast Program, as provided. The bill would require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to develop eligibility criteria for California-grown, whole or minimally processed, sustainably grown food, and plant-based or restricted diet food options from California producers that may be minimally processed and can be purchased by local educational agencies with appropriated funds, as provided. (69) This bill would appropriate $3,560,885,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to establish the Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials Discretionary Block Grant, for allocation to county offices of education, school districts, charter schools, and the state special schools, in accordance with a formula based on a per-pupil basis, as provided. The bill would authorize funds to be used to obtain standards-aligned professional development and acquire instructional materials in specified subject areas, to develop diverse book collections and obtain culturally relevant texts, and for operational costs, as provided. (70) This bill would appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board to be available for allocation to the Lynwood Unified School District to support the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Lynwood High School, as provided. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Lynwood Unified School District. (71) Existing law appropriates $1,200,000 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, contingent upon the enactment of legislation during the 2021–22 Regular Session prescribing the process for the development of those model curricula. Existing law, enacted during the 2021–22 Regular Session, requires the department, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the State Board of Education, for each of those model curricula, to enter into a contract with a county office of education or a consortium of county offices of education for the purposes of developing the model curriculum, as specified. This bill would appropriate $14,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to the county offices of education selected to develop model curricula for Native American studies, the Vietnamese American refugee experience, the Cambodian genocide, and Hmong history and cultural studies. The bill would require the funding to be split equally among the four model curricula. (72) This bill would appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to local educational agencies meeting certain criteria for the Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists Grant Program, which the bill would establish, in order to employ and train literacy coaches and reading and literacy specialists to develop school literacy programs, mentor teachers, and develop and implement interventions for pupils in need of targeted literacy support, as provided. (73) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for purposes of the 2022 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. (74) This bill would appropriate $35,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for purposes of the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program, as provided. (75) Existing law defines a school district that does not receive funding pursuant to the local control funding formula, except as otherwise required, as a basic aid school district. This bill would provide that a basic aid school district that experiences a decrease in local property tax revenues as a result of the wildfires of 2020 shall be reimbursed from the General Fund for losses experienced in the 2020–21 and 2021–22 fiscal years, as provided, and would require the Controller to allocate the funds needed for reimbursement in accordance with a schedule provided by the Department of Finance, thereby making an appropriation. (76) 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. (77) 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. (78) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.