AB 114

Bill Subjects

Abstract

(1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes, among other things, an alternative education grant, as specified. Existing law includes, among other things, a base grant based upon average daily attendance as a component of that alternative education grant. This bill would revise the alternative education grant by, among other things, increasing the base grant component of the alternative education grant, revising the calculation of average daily attendance for purposes of the alternative education grant, as specified, and establishing add-ons of $200,000 for each county office of education that operates a juvenile court school and $200,000 for each county office of education that operates a county community school. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate $3,000 per unit of average daily attendance for a Student Support and Enrichment Block Grant, as provided. The bill would make these provisions applicable commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year. (2) Existing law, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add $200,000 and other specified amounts, that are dependent upon the number and size of school districts under its jurisdiction and that are determined to be in need of differentiated assistance, to a county superintendent of school's local control funding formula allocation, as specified. This bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would increase the above-described add-on by $100,000. (3) Existing law, commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add $2,000,000 to the Los Angeles County Office of Education's local control funding formula allocation for the purpose of supporting statewide professional development and leadership training for education professionals related to antibias education and the creation of inclusive and equitable schools. This bill would, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, increase that add-on for the Los Angeles County Office of Education by $1,000,000 to instead be $3,000,000. (4) The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent to administer the California state preschool program. The act also requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Social Services and the executive director of the State Board of Education, to convene a statewide interest holder workgroup to provide recommendations on best practices for increasing access to high-quality universal preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children offered through a mixed-delivery model that provides equitable learning experiences across a variety of settings. The act requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the director, to provide a report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance with the recommendations of the workgroup no later than January 15, 2023. This bill would delay the reporting of those recommendations described above to instead be no later than March 31, 2024. (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. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education in both the 2021–22 fiscal year and the 2022–23 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to allocate or prorate unexpended funds returned by or collected from a grant recipient for grants to local educational agencies for costs associated with the educational expenses of current and future California state preschool program, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten professionals that support their attainment of required credentials, permits, or professional development in early childhood instruction or child development, including developing competencies in serving inclusive classrooms and dual language learners, as provided. By authorizing the use of appropriated funds for new purposes, the bill would make an appropriation. (6) Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program under which participating public schools receive grants to operate before and after school programs serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 9, inclusive. Existing law authorizes specified entities to apply for grants under the After School Education and Safety Program, including local educational agencies and cities, counties, and nonprofit organizations in partnership with, and with the approval of, a local educational agency. This bill would require a local educational agency that contracts with a third party to operate before and after school programs to require the third party to (A) notify the local educational agency of any health- or safety-related issues, as specified, and (B) to request from parents or guardians pupil health information, as provided. (7) Existing law, the California School Finance Authority Act, authorizes a participating party, as defined, in connection with securing financing or refinancing of projects, or working capital, as defined, to elect to guarantee or provide for payment of the bonds and related obligations in accordance with specified conditions. Existing law requires participating parties to, among other things, elect to participate by an action of its governing board and provide written notice to the Controller. Existing law authorizes school districts and county offices of education with qualified or negative financial certifications, as provided, to intercept payments only for short-term financings, as provided. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, authorizing participating parties to elect to participate in a local intercept by sending to the county treasurer, or other appropriate county fiscal officer, a request for the county to participate. If the county agrees to participate, the bill would require the county treasurer or other county fiscal officer to make an apportionment or revenue transfer, as provided. This bill would limit the authorization of school districts and county offices of education with qualified or negative financial certifications to intercept payments for indebtedness for which the repayment is determined to be probable, as provided. (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 to, among other things, construct new school facilities or retrofit existing school facilities for the purpose of providing transitional kindergarten classrooms and full-day kindergarten classrooms, as provided. Existing law appropriates, during specific fiscal years, specified sums of money to the board to provide the grants. This bill would extend the time that the above described appropriated funds are available for encumbrance or expenditure by the board until specified dates during specified fiscal years, thereby making an appropriation. (9) Existing law creates the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of receiving appropriations for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts related to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing law appropriates $7,936,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate these appropriated funds to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as provided. Existing law authorizes allocated funds to be used for learning recovery initiatives through the 2027–28 school year that, at a minimum, support academic learning recovery, and staff and pupil social and emotional well-being. Existing law requires local educational agencies receiving these allocations to report interim expenditures to the department by December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2027, and to submit a final report no later than December 1, 2029. This bill would reduce the above-described appropriation from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund by $1,590,595,000 to instead be $6,345,405,000, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require local educational agencies receiving these allocations to instead report interim expenditures to the department by December 15, 2024, and annually thereafter, and to submit a final report on expenditures by December 15, 2029. (10) Existing law requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to instructional materials, emergency or urgent facilities conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of pupils or staff, and teacher vacancy or misassignment, as provided. Under existing law, the procedure required under the uniform complaint process is intended to address, among other things, a complaint related to teacher misassignment that claims that a teacher who lacks credentials or training to teach English learners is assigned to teach a class with more than 20% of English learner pupils in the class. This bill would establish that the procedure required under the uniform complaint process is instead intended to address a complaint related to teacher misassignment that claims that a teacher who lacks credentials or training to teach English learners is assigned to teach a class with one or more English learner pupils in the class. To the extent this imposes new obligations on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (11) Existing law requires the Controller to create an audit guide that includes, among other things, instructions for procedures for determining, among other things, if there any unspent funds associated with the completion of a Charter School Facilities Program project, a Career Technical Education Facilities Program project, or a project where the local educational agency received hardship funding, as provided. This bill would delete the requirements that the Controller's audit guide include instructions for procedures for determining if there are any unspent funds associated with the completion of a Charter School Facilities Program project, a Career Technical Education Facilities Program project, and a project where the local educational agency received hardship funding, as provided. (12) 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 2022–23 fiscal years, inclusive. This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2023–24 fiscal year. (13) Existing law, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, requires 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. As a condition of receiving those apportionments, existing law requires 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. Existing law authorizes a school district to convert all of its schools to charter schools if it meets certain specified requirements and its petition is approved by both the Superintendent and the State Board of Education. This bill would make the above-described transportation funding provisions inapplicable to a school district with an approved districtwide charter petition. (14) 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 county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. For purposes of the local control funding formula, existing law defines unduplicated pupil to mean a pupil who is classified as an English learner, eligible for a free or reduced-price meal, or a foster youth, as specified. This bill would, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, annually appropriate $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionment, which the bill would establish, as provided. The bill would require the funding to be allocated to eligible local educational agencies, as defined, on a per-unit basis of a schoolsite's total prior year adjusted cumulative enrollment, as specified, and would require an eligible schoolsite to receive not less than $50,000 annually for purposes of this apportionment. The bill would require the State Department of Education to submit an annual report to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Department of Finance that includes specified information on pupil outcomes from the apportionment, as provided. (15) Existing law requires a school employer, as defined, to notify an employee when a wage overpayment has been made to the employee and afford the employee an opportunity to respond before commencing recoupment actions, and requires reimbursement to be made through one of 3 specified methods mutually agreed to by the employee and the employer. Existing law requires installment amounts deducted from payment of salary or wages pursuant to these provisions to not exceed 25% of the employee's net disposable earnings, except as specified. Existing law prohibits an administrative action taken by the employer to recover an overpayment unless the action is initiated within 3 years from the date of overpayment. The bill would provide that if these provisions conflict with a memorandum of understanding, the memorandum of understanding controls without further legislative action, except as provided. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, requiring the school employer to notify the school employee in writing of an overpayment and specified rights, deleting the authorization for a school employer to require full repayment through payroll deductions for overpayments that have occurred for more than one year, revising the limits for installment payments, as specified, and, if a school employee disputes the existence or amount of a school employer's claimed overpayment, requiring the school employer to first initiate a legal action and obtain a court order or a binding arbitration decision validating the claimed overpayment amount, as specified. The bill would instead provide that if these provisions conflict with a memorandum of understanding, and it was in effect on July 31, 2022, the memorandum of understanding controls until its expiration or renewal. (16) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to administer the State Assignment Accountability System to provide local educational agencies with a data system for assignment monitoring. Existing law requires the commission and the State Department of Education to enter into a data sharing agreement to provide the commission with employee assignment data necessary to annually identify misassignments and vacant positions at local educational agencies. Existing law authorizes the commission to promulgate regulations that define standards for a local educational agency, including a charter school, that consistently misassigns employees and what sanctions, if any, to impose on that local educational agency. Existing law requires the Superintendent to identify a list of schools for which the county superintendent, or a designee, shall inspect annually and submit an annual report that describes the state of schools in the county, as provided. As part of the development of that list, existing law requires the Superintendent to identify a list of schools where 15% or more of the teachers are holders of a permit, certificate, or any other authorization that is a lesser certification than a preliminary or clear California teaching credential. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, requiring the department to provide the commission with educator assignment data necessary to annually identify educator assignments, including assignments filled by individuals on preliminary or clear credentials, intern credentials, permits or waivers, misassignments, and vacant positions at local educational agencies. The bill would also require the commission to ensure local educational agencies have access to the results of the accountability system's process of assignment monitoring, publish annual certificated educator assignment data that reflects the level of preparation and licensure of educators serving California pupils, and support the department in providing annual updates that provide comprehensive information on teaching assignment outcomes inclusive of all educator classifications at the schoolsite, school district, and county level. The bill would expand the commission's above-described authority to promulgate regulations to apply to local educational agencies that consistently misassign educators, instead of employees, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to include on the list of schools where 15% or more of the teachers are holders of a permit, certificate, or any other authorization that is a lesser certification than a preliminary or clear California teaching credential all schools, except for alternative schools, within a local educational agency that fail to meet certain requirements. To the extent that this bill would create new duties for county superintendents of schools and local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the commission, on or before September 30, 2023, to examine and determine how it can ensure that transcripts will be reviewed for all candidates requiring determinations of basic skills or subject matter competence in order to complete their credentialing requirements, and, by November 15, 2023, provide recommendations on ways in which efficient transcript review can be provided to all candidates who require determinations to the relevant policy committees and budget subcommittees of the Legislature, the executive director of the State Board of Education or the director's designee, and the Director of Finance. (17) Existing law establishes the Teacher Credentials Fund, requires all fees levied and collected by the commission to be deposited in the fund, and prohibits those fees from being transferred to any other fund. Existing law also establishes the Test Development and Administration Account in the Teacher Credentials Fund, and requires all fees collected by the commission for tests, examinations, or assessments to be deposited in the account. Existing law requires the Department of Finance to recommend a reduction in credential or other fees if, at the beginning of any fiscal year, the commission has surplus funds, as provided. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2023, require all fees collected by the commission for tests, examinations, or assessments to instead be deposited in the Teacher Credentials Fund and would exempt these fees from the above-described requirements related to fee reductions when the commission has surplus funds, as provided. The bill would require these funds to be expended for the development, agency support, maintenance, or administration of tests or other assessments established, required, or administered by the commission, unless otherwise authorized by the Legislature. The bill would require the Department of Finance to annually recommend to the Legislature, as part of the budget review process, an appropriate credential fee sufficient to generate revenues necessary to support the operating budget of the commission plus a prudent reserve, as provided. (18) Existing law establishes that a preliminary teaching credential shall be valid for 5 years, pending completion of the clear credential program. Existing law requires the commission to grant or deny a completed application for a credential within 7 days of the date that the commission received the application if the applicant supplies the commission with evidence that the applicant is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station in this state under official active duty military orders and holds a valid teaching credential in another state, district, or territory of the United States. This bill would require the commission to issue a comparable credential to any United States military service member or their spouse or domestic partner, or a surviving spouse or domestic partner of a service member who died while serving as an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States in the previous 12 months, who, among other things, possesses and provides proof of a valid, out-of-state, unexpired, professional-level credential. The bill would limit a comparable credential issued under these provisions to be valid only for the duration of those military orders, except as provided. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that includes a teaching performance assessment that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the commission, as provided. This bill would require the commission to exempt specified preliminary multiple subject credential candidates and preliminary single subject credential candidates from the requirement, and any accompanying regulations, to complete a teaching performance assessment, as provided. (19) Existing law establishes the Teacher Residency Grant Program and appropriates funds from the General Fund to the commission to make one-time grants to develop new, or expand, strengthen, or improve access to existing, teacher and school counselor residency programs. Existing law requires grants provided for this purpose to be up to $25,000 per residency candidate. Existing law requires a residency candidate to agree to serve in a school within the jurisdiction of the grant recipient that sponsored the candidate for at least 4 school years, as provided. Existing law requires the commission to conduct evaluations of the grants and to provide a report to the Department of Finance and the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature on or before December 1, 2027. This bill would require a residency candidate to instead agree to serve in any public school in California for at least 4 school years. The bill would increase the amount of the grants to instead be up to $40,000 per residency candidate. The bill would require grant recipients receiving an award during and after the 2023–24 fiscal year to provide residency candidates with a minimum compensation package of no less than $20,000. The bill would also extend by 2 years the deadline by which the commission is required to provide the above-described report to December 1, 2029. (20) Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. Existing law authorizes a local educational agency that elects to operate an expanded learning opportunity program to operate a before school component of a program, an after school component of a program, or both, and requires the local educational agency to comply with specified requirements, including the development of a program plan, as specified. This bill would, among other things, specify licensing requirements for purposes of the program depending on whether the expanded learning opportunity program is operated directly by a local educational agency or by a third party, as provided, and would require the Superintendent, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to establish a process and a timeline for local educational agencies that contract with third-party providers to operate expanded learning opportunity programs at a location other than a local educational agency's school campus pursuant to these provisions and California state preschool program providers to annually submit program access information to the State Department of Education, as specified. The bill would require the State Department of Education to distribute a compiled list to the State Department of Social Services for purposes of Community Care Licensing Division data collection and submission to a local educational agency's applicable resource and referral agency. The bill would require the Superintendent, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to submit a report to the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature relating to these provisions, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent to allocate funding for the program, as specified, and authorizes a charter school or school district, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, to expend the funds from the Superintendent from the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years, and, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, authorizes those local educational agencies to expend the funds received from the Superintendent from the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years. The bill would authorize charter schools and school districts, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, to instead expend or encumber the funds from the Superintendent from the 2021–22 fiscal year to the 2023–24 fiscal year, inclusive, and, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, would authorize those local educational agencies to instead expend or encumber the funds received from the Superintendent from the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years. (21) 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, 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 the state of emergency declared by the Governor in November 2018, as provided. For the 2020–21 fiscal year for school districts, existing law requires the Superintendent to calculate the difference between the school district's certified second principal apportionment local control funding formula entitlement in the 2020–21 fiscal year and the 2019–20 fiscal year and, if there is a difference, to allocate the amount of that difference to the school district, and for the 2021–22 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to allocate an amount equal to 25% of the difference calculated by the Superintendent for the 2020–21 fiscal year. Existing law continuously appropriates the amounts necessary to provide those apportionments. This bill would require the Superintendent, for the 2022–23 fiscal year for school districts, to allocate an amount equal to 12.5% of the difference calculated by the Superintendent for the 2020–21 fiscal year, thereby making an appropriation. (22) 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. Existing law extends certain necessary small school funding provisions to school districts where a school eligible for necessary small school funding was destroyed as a result of a state of emergency that was declared by the Governor in August 2021 by authorizing school districts to continue to report the amount of attendance generated by pupils enrolled in another school of the school district that would have otherwise attended the destroyed school, and the number of full-time teachers employed by the school district that would have otherwise provided instructional services at the school, as if the school were operational in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years. Existing law requires those schools to be considered a necessary small school for these purposes for the 2022–23 fiscal year. This bill would extend the applicability of those provisions to the 2023–24 fiscal year, as provided. (23) Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires a school district or charter school to, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, commencing with the 2023–24 school year, and for each year thereafter, maintain an average of at least one adult for every 10 pupils for transitional kindergarten classrooms, contingent upon an appropriation of funds. Existing law also 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, 2023, met one of 3 designated criteria establishing qualification for the position. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, to withhold a school district's or charter school's entitlements if a school district or charter school fails to comply with certain requirements, including, among others, the above-described qualification requirements, as specified. This bill would delay the start of the requirement that a school district or charter school maintain an average of at least one adult for every 10 pupils for transitional kindergarten classrooms at each schoolsite until the 2025–26 school year, and would delete the requirement that this provision be contingent upon an appropriation of funds. The bill would delay until August 1, 2025, 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, and would make a conforming change to the above-described withholding provision. Existing law authorizes, in any school year, a school district or charter school to, at any time during a school year, admit a child to a transitional kindergarten program who will have their 5th birthday after the applicable cutoff date but during that same school year, as provided. This bill, notwithstanding that provision, would authorize a school district or charter school to enroll an early enrollment child, as defined, in a transitional kindergarten program if specified conditions are met, including, among others, that any classroom that includes an early enrollment child maintains an adult-to-pupil ratio of at least one adult to every 10 pupils, and would penalize a school district or charter school that fails to meet at least one of certain requirements, as provided. Under the bill, a pupil admitted to a transitional kindergarten program pursuant to these provisions is prohibited from generating average daily attendance or being included in the enrollment or unduplicated pupil count until the pupil has attained their 5th birthday. The bill, beginning July 1, 2023, and for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years, would require a school district or charter school that offers transitional kindergarten to early enrollment children to concurrently offer enrollment in a California state preschool program that is operated by the school district or charter school if it operates a California state preschool program and that program is not fully subscribed, and would authorize the school district or charter school to enroll an early enrollment child in the program, regardless of income, after all other eligible children have been enrolled. The bill would, for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years, require school districts and charter schools that serve early enrollment children in transitional kindergarten to report specified information to the State Department of Education, and would require the department to report that information, as specified, to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature by October 1, 2024, and again by October 1, 2025. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2025. (24) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or a county board of education to request the state board to waive all or part of specified education laws or regulations adopted by the state board, as provided, with exceptions. Existing law establishes provisions relating to transitional kindergarten and kindergarten admission. This bill would prohibit the state board from waiving all or part of certain laws relating to kindergarten and transitional kindergarten admission. (25) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law authorizes a charter school to appeal a school district's decision to deny a charter petition to the county board of education and, if the county board of education upholds the decision, to appeal the county board of education's decision to the State Board of Education. Existing law authorizes the state board to reverse those decisions only upon a determination that there was an abuse of discretion. This bill would instead authorize the state board to reverse those decisions only upon a determination that there was an abuse of discretion by each of the school district and the county board of education. Existing law authorizes a chartering authority to renew the approval of a charter school petition under specified procedures. Existing law requires all charter schools whose term expires on or between January 1, 2022, and June 30, 2025, inclusive, to have their term extended by 2 years. This bill would also require all charter schools whose term expires on or between January 1, 2024, and June 30, 2027, inclusive, to have their term extended by one additional year. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies acting as chartering authorities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law prohibits, from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2025, inclusive, the approval of a petition for the establishment of a new charter school offering nonclassroom-based instruction, as defined. Existing law authorizes a charter school to receive funding for nonclassroom-based instruction only if the state board makes a specified funding determination. This bill would extend the prohibition on approving a petition for the establishment of a new charter school offering nonclassroom-based instruction by 1 year to instead be until January 1, 2026. The bill would require, no later than March 1, 2024, the Legislative Analyst's Office and the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, the State Department of Education, and the executive director of the state board on the processes used to determine funding for nonclassroom-based charter schools. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to regard a charter school that is operating under a chartering authority other than the chartering authority that originally granted its charter petition and that meets certain requirements as a continuing charter school, in which case the charter school is not eligible for funding as a new charter school, as specified. 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, 2025, 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 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 by one year to instead be July 1, 2026, and would make conforming changes to extend related provisions. (26) Existing law requires county boards of education to provide for the administration and operation of juvenile court schools by the county superintendent of schools or by contract with the respective governing boards of the elementary, high school, or unified school district in which the juvenile court school is located, as provided. Existing law encourages each county superintendent of schools or governing board of a school district, as determined by the county board of education, and the county chief probation officer to enter into a memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement to support a collaborative process for meeting the needs of wards of the court who are receiving their education in juvenile court schools. Existing law authorizes those agreements to include, among other things, a joint process for performing an intake evaluation for each ward to determine educational needs and ability to participate in all educational settings once the ward enters the local juvenile facility and requires that process to recognize the limitations on academic evaluation and planning that can result from short-term placements, as provided. If a memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement is agreed to as described above, the bill would require that memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement to instead include a joint process for performing an intake evaluation for each ward to determine educational needs and ability to participate in all educational settings within 2 business days, or under extraordinary circumstances up to 5 business days, of the ward entering the local juvenile facility and a transition plan for when the ward reenrolls at a local educational agency postplacement that would be required to be transferred to the postplacement local educational agency within 2 business days of the youth being enrolled in the postplacement local educational agency. The bill would require the department to annually report specified information relating to pupils in juvenile court schools on its internet website. The bill would require the department to enter into a contract for an independent evaluation of county juvenile court schools and county community schools, as provided, and to provide a report on that evaluation to the Legislature, the executive director of the state board or their designee, and the Director of Finance on or before November 1, 2025. The bill would require the Superintendent to convene a workgroup, as specified, on meeting the needs of pupils with disabilities who enroll in juvenile court schools operated by county offices of education, and would require the workgroup to, among other things, examine existing law and current practices regarding the education of pupils with disabilities enrolled in county juvenile court schools and county community schools and make recommendations on improvements, as provided. The bill would require the department, on or before February 25, 2025, to submit a report with the workgroup's findings and recommendations to the relevant policy and budget committees of the Legislature, the state board, and the Department of Finance. Existing law requires a county probation department to ensure that juveniles with a high school diploma or California high school equivalency certificate who are detained in, or committed to, a juvenile hall or a juvenile ranch, camp, or forestry camp have access to, and can choose to participate in, public postsecondary academic and career technical courses and programs offered online, and for which they are eligible based on eligibility criteria and course schedules of the public postsecondary education campus providing the course or program. Existing law encourages county probation departments to develop other educational partnerships with local public postsecondary campuses, as is feasible, to provide programs on campus and onsite at the juvenile hall or a juvenile ranch, camp, or forestry camp. This bill would revise those activities, as specified, and require county probation departments to undertake them in collaboration with a county office of education, and in partnership with the California Community Colleges or the California State University, or in voluntary partnership the University of California, as provided. The bill would also apply these provisions to juveniles who are detained in, or committed to, secure youth treatment facilities, as provided. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (27) Existing law authorizes a public or private elementary or secondary school to determine whether or not to make emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained personnel available at the school, and to designate one or more volunteers to receive related training to address an opioid overdose, as specified. Commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, this bill would appropriate $3,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to county offices of education for the purpose of purchasing and maintaining a sufficient stock of emergency opioid antagonists for school districts and charter schools within their jurisdiction to maintain a minimum of two units at each middle school, junior high school, high school, and adult school schoolsite, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to allocate up to $350,000 of those funds to county offices of education for administrative costs, as provided. The bill would require, as a condition of receipt of these funds, county offices of education to, among other things, coordinate the purchase of and maintain a stock of emergency opioid antagonists, as provided. (28) Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide 2 school meals free of charge during each schoolday to each pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil's eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, as provided. Existing law requires the department to reimburse local educational agencies that participate in the federal School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program for all nonreimbursed expenses accrued in providing United States Department of Agriculture reimbursable meals to pupils, as provided. This bill would instead require the State Department of Education to provide state meal reimbursement to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that participate in, and meet the requirements of, the federal School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program, and any applicable state laws or regulations, for reduced-price and paid meals served to pupils, as provided. (29) Existing law requires a local educational agency to exempt an individual with exceptional needs from all coursework and other requirements who satisfies specified eligibility criteria, as provided. This bill would, among other things, instead specify that the exemption applies to an individual with exceptional needs who entered the 9th grade in the 2022–23 school year or later and would revise the eligibility criteria for an alternative diploma pathway, as provided. (30) Existing law requires the Student Aid Commission and the department to facilitate the completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the form used for purposes of the California Dream Act, in a specified manner. This bill would require the commission to provide the California College Guidance Initiative with the discrete data necessary to inform the educator reports available through a specified internet website so that educators can ensure that each individual pupil has successfully completed and submitted their Free Application for Federal Student Aid or California Dream Act Application. (31) Existing law requires the state board to, on or before March 31, 2014, adopt a template for a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) and an annual update to the LCAP for use by school districts, county boards of education, and charter schools. Existing law, on or before January 31, 2022, requires the template adopted by the state board to require the inclusion of certain information, including, among other things, a summary of the stakeholder engagement process, as provided. This bill would revise and recast the information required to be included to, among other things, require a summary of the stakeholder engagement process, including stakeholders at schools generating Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding, as specified. Existing law requires the state board to include instructions for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to complete the LCAP and annual update to the LCAP, as specified. This bill would revise and recast provisions involving the contents of these instructions to, among other things, require these instructions to specify that school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools are required, commencing with 2024–25 local control and accountability plans to include certain actions in the LCAP when a school or pupil group within a local educational agency, or a pupil group within a school, received the lowest performance level on one or more state indicators on the California School Dashboard, as provided, and, for local educational agencies receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding, specific goals for each school generating that funding, as provided. By creating new requirements involving the template used by local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (32) Existing law requires each school district, county office of education, and charter school, on or before July 1, 2019, and each year thereafter, to develop a summary document known as the local control funding formula budget overview for parents. This bill would, for county offices of education, require the local control funding formula budget overview for parents to additionally and separately address county office of education add-on funding provided for purposes of juvenile court schools, funding provided for county community schools, and for the Student Support and Enrichment Block Grant, as specified. By imposing additional duties on county office of education officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law, on or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter, requires the governing body of a charter school to hold a public hearing to adopt an LCAP using a template adopted by the state board. Existing law requires the governing body of a charter school to update the goals and annual actions to achieve those goals identified in the charter petition, as provided, using the template for the LCAP and annual update to the LCAP adopted by the state board, as provided. This bill would require a charter school to present a report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents on or before February 28 of each year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing body of the charter school, as provided. Existing law requires, before a governing board of a school district or a county board of education considers the adoption of an LCAP or an annual update to the plan, certain things to occur, including that the superintendent of the school district or the county superintendent of schools present the LCAP or annual update to the LCAP to the parent advisory committee for review and comment, as provided. This bill would additionally require the superintendent of a school district or the county superintendent of schools, before a governing board of a school district or a county board of education considers the adoption of an LCAP or an annual update to the plan, to present a report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents on or before February 28 of each year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board of the school district or the county board of education, as specified. The bill would require the superintendent of the school district or the county superintendent of schools present the LCAP or annual update to the LCAP instead to any applicable advisory committee, including the parent advisory and English learner parent advisory committee, for review and comment, as provided. By requiring local educational agencies and officials to present this new report on or before February 28 of each year and to any applicable advisory committee, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (33) Existing law requires the single multiple measures public school accountability system authorized by the provisions requiring the state board to adopt evaluation rubrics to measure the overall performance of numerically significant pupil subgroups in schools, including charter schools, school districts, and county offices of education, as provided. Existing law includes within these numerically significant pupil subgroups, among others, English learners. This bill would include English learners and, separately, long-term English learners for this purpose. To the extent this would create new duties for local educational agencies, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program. (34) Existing law requires the state board to, on or before October 1, 2016, adopt evaluation rubrics for certain purposes, including, among others, to assist a school district, county office of education, or charter school in evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and areas that require improvement. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the state board, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in the evaluation rubrics. This bill would require the public reporting of performance data on state and local indicators via the web-based system to be completed on or before certain dates for the prior school year and would require timelines associated with the collection of data through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to be adjusted to support these public reporting dates, as specified. To the extent this would create new duties for local educational agencies, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program. (35) Existing law requires the superintendent of a school district to prominently post on the homepage of the school district's internet website any LCAP approved by the governing board of the school district, as specified. This bill would require the superintendent of a school district to prominently post on the homepage of the school district's internet website any LCAP approved by the governing board of the school district and the county superintendent of schools, as specified. By creating new duties for superintendents of school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to prominently post on the homepage of the county office of education's internet website any LCAP approved by the county board of education, as specified. This bill would require a county superintendent of schools to prominently post on the homepage of the county office of education's internet website any LCAP approved by the county board of education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as specified. By creating new duties for county superintendents, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (36) Existing law, beginning with the 2018–19 fiscal year and in each fiscal year thereafter, requires a county superintendent of schools to prepare a summary of how the county superintendent plans to support school districts and schools within the county in implementing LCAPs and to present the summary to the county board of education. Existing law, commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, and in each fiscal year thereafter, requires the county superintendent of schools to submit the summary with its LCAP. Under existing law, the above-mentioned requirements do not apply to a county superintendent of schools with jurisdiction over a single school district. This bill would instead apply those provisions to a county superintendent of schools with jurisdiction over a single school district. By creating new requirements for a county superintendent of schools with jurisdiction over a single school district, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (37) Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to approve an LCAP or annual update to an LCAP adopted by the governing board of a school district, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to approve an LCAP or annual update to an LCAP adopted by the county board of education, if specified determinations are made, including, among other things, that the plan or annual update adheres to and follows any instructions or directions for completing the template adopted by the state board. This bill would, among other things, require school districts and county offices of education that meet specified criteria to include in the LCAP or annual update to an LCAP the actions and services that implement the work related to technical assistance for improving the outcomes of the pupil group or groups that lead to the school district or county office of education to meet the specified criteria. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on school districts and county offices of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (38) Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools, if the governing board of a school district requests technical assistance, if the county superintendent of schools does not approve an LCAP or annual update to the LCAP approved by a governing board of a school district, or for any school district for which one or more specified pupil subgroups meets certain performance criteria, to provide technical assistance, as provided. This bill would require the county superintendent of schools, for any school district for which one or more specified pupil subgroups meets the certain performance criteria, to instead provide technical assistance for a minimum of 2 years, as provided. The bill would require the county superintendent of schools to additionally provide technical assistance for any school district that fails to submit specified data to the department, as provided. The bill would require, for any school district that meets the certain performance criteria for 3 or more consecutive years, the school district's geographic lead agency, in collaboration with the county superintendent of schools, to provide technical assistance to the school district, as provided. By creating new duties for county superintendents of schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (39) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, if the Superintendent does not approve an LCAP or annual update to the LCAP approved by a county board of education, if the county board of education requests technical assistance, or for any county office of education for which one or more of specified pupil subgroups meets certain performance criteria, to provide technical assistance, as provided. This bill would require the Superintendent, for any county office of education for which one or more specified pupil subgroups meets the certain performance criteria, to instead provide technical assistance for a minimum of 2 years, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to additionally provide technical assistance for any county office of education that fails to submit specified data to the department, as provided. (40) Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the purpose of advising and assisting school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving the goals set forth in an LCAP. The bill would require, by March 1, 2024, the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and the department to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board and as a result of a competitive process, local educational agencies, or a consortium of local educational agencies, to serve as Equity Leads within the system of support, as provided. The bill would prescribe the competitive process for selecting Equity Leads and would require the Equity Leads selected to demonstrate a willingness and capacity to, among other things, develop and disseminate resources on effective practices for analyzing programs, identifying barriers and opportunities, and implementing actions and services to meet the identified needs of all pupils, including by addressing racial disparities. The bill would require Equity Leads to have certain responsibilities, including, among others, to support the work of local educational agencies, prioritizing those with schools receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding, as specified, in developing and implementing programs and supports that address racial disparities in opportunities and academic outcomes. The bill would, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriate an unspecified sum each fiscal year from the General Fund to the department to be awarded to local educational agencies serving as Equity Leads, as specified. (41) Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, or charter school that requests the advice and assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to reimburse the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the cost of those services pursuant to authority provided in the annual Budget Act. This bill would instead provide that only a school district, county office of education, or charter school that is eligible for certain technical assistance may request the advice and assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, as provided. The bill would additionally authorize the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to request the advice or assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and would require the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to reimburse the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the cost of those services pursuant to authority provided in the annual Budget Act, as provided. (42) Existing law authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to the approval of the state board, to identify county offices of education and school districts in need of intervention if the county office of education or school district, in 3 out of 4 consecutive school years, meets specified criteria, as applicable, and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence has provided advice and assistance to the county office of education or school district, as provided. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent, in those cases where a county office of education or school district has been identified as needing intervention to, among other things, make changes to the LCAP and develop and impose a budget revision. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by creating 2 separate intervention processes, as provided. The bill would first require the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, in consultation with certain providers of technical assistance and the school district or the county office of education, as applicable, to determine if assistance from the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence is necessary, as provided. The bill would then authorize the Superintendent, subject to the approval of the state board, to identify county offices of education and school districts in need of intervention if the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence determines that the county office of education or school district, as applicable, has failed, or is unable, to implement the recommendations of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence or that the inadequate performance of the county office of education or school district, based upon a specified rubric, as applicable, is either so persistent or acute as to require intervention by the Superintendent. By creating new duties for school districts and county offices of education in relation to their collaboration with the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence regarding assistance for these purposes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (43) Existing law establishes the Community Engagement Initiative Expansion and, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriates $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. For the 2022–23 fiscal year to the 2026–27 fiscal year, inclusive, existing law requires the collaborative and a selected lead agency to convene 30 community engagement professional learning networks, as provided, and requires these teams to be willing to, among other things, partner with other communities and school districts on improving community engagement. This bill would require a partnership pursuant to those provisions to include providing fiscal support to partner organizations to support their capacity for meaningful collaboration and implementation of the Community Engagement Initiative. (44) Existing law establishes the Bilingual Teacher Professional Development Program, administered by the department in consultation with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, for teachers seeking to provide instruction in bilingual and multilingual settings. Existing law provides that the purpose of the grant program is to ensure that California can meet the demand for bilingual teachers necessary for the implementation of dual language and other bilingual education programs, as authorized by the California Education for a Global Economy Initiative, and to ensure California is able to meet the demand in preparing bilingual education teachers. Existing law requires the department to issue a minimum of 5 grants to applicants through a competitive process and to allocate grant funding to eligible local educational agencies for purposes of providing professional development services to teachers or paraprofessionals. Existing law requires grant recipients to provide a final report on specified information related to the program to the department by January 1, 2022. This bill would provide that it is also the purpose of the grant program to increase bilingual teachers in multiple languages to staff bilingual classrooms, such as Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, and Arabic classrooms, and other languages, as represented in instructional programs. The bill would, among other things, require the department to meet quarterly with grant recipients to share promising practices and resources, and to resolve issues of implementation. The bill would, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for purposes of the program, to be available for grants totaling $4,000,000 each fiscal year, from the 2023–24 fiscal year to the 2027–28 fiscal year, inclusive, and would require grant recipients of those funds to provide, by July 1, 2026, a preliminary report, and, by January 1, 2029, a final report, of specified information to the department, as provided. (45) Existing law requires the Superintendent to develop program guidelines for dyslexia to be used to assist regular education teachers, special education teachers, and parents to identify and assess pupils with dyslexia, as provided. This bill would require the state board to appoint an independent panel of experts on or before January 31, 2024, to create an approved list of screening instruments for assessing pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2 for risk of reading difficulties, as provided. The bill would require the panel to approve the list of screening instruments on or before December 31, 2024, and would require the governing board or body of a local educational agency serving pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 or 2 to adopt one or more screening instruments from the list on or before June 30, 2025. The bill would require a local educational agency serving pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 or 2 to, commencing no later than the 2025–26 school year, and annually thereafter, assess each pupil in those grades using the adopted screening instrument, except as provided. If a pupil is identified as being at risk of having reading difficulties after being screened pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require the local educational agency to provide the pupil with supports and services, as provided. By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would appropriate $1,000,000 to the Superintendent for the state board to appoint the panel for the purpose of creating an approved list of screening instruments. (46) Existing law requires each special education local plan area to administer local plans, as provided. Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district, from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2024, inclusive, from electing to submit a local plan for the education of all individuals with exceptional needs residing in the district for the purpose of creating a single district special education local plan area, as provided. This bill would extend that prohibition by 2 years until July 1, 2026. The bill would require the Superintendent to post all local plans submitted by each special education local plan area on the department's internet website. Existing law requires, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent to determine the base grant funding for each special education local plan area, as provided. This bill would require, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, each special education local plan area to, at minimum, allocate special education funding to all of its member local educational agencies equal to the total sum of base grant funding allocated to all of its member local educational agencies in the 2022–23 fiscal year multiplied by the sum of one plus a certain inflation factor for the 2023–24 fiscal year, and then multiplied by the sum of one plus the percent change in funded average daily attendance of its member local educational agencies from the 2022–23 fiscal year to the 2023–24 fiscal year, as provided. To the extent this imposes additional duties on a special education local plan area, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (47) Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to provide a system of assessments of pupils that has the primary purposes of (A) assisting teachers, administrators, and pupils and their parents, (B) improving teaching and learning, and (C) promoting high-quality teaching and learning using a variety of assessment approaches and item types. Existing law requires the department to acquire, and offer at no cost to local educational agencies, certain interim assessment tools for pupils in kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and requires those interim assessments to be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers to improve instruction, for communication with pupils' parents or guardians, and for identifying teachers' professional development goals. Existing law prohibits the results of these interim assessments from being used for any high-stakes purpose, including, among other specified uses, school staff evaluations or pupil grade promotion or retention. This bill would apply those purposes and that prohibition instead to any interim assessments offered by the department to local educational agencies. (48) Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CalPADS) , which is maintained by the department and consists of pupil data from elementary and secondary schools, as specified, relating to, among other things, demographic, program participation, enrollment, and statewide assessments. Existing law requires the system to be used to accomplish specified goals and requires local educational agencies, in order to comply with federal law, to retain individual pupil records for each test taker, as provided. This bill would require local educational agencies, in order to accomplish those specified goals and to comply with the requirement to retain individual pupil records for each test taker, to submit data according to the processes and timelines established by the department, as provided. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (49) Existing law authorizes the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) to provide its services to all California school districts. Existing law requires the department to ensure that the notifications provided by local educational agencies, as required by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, include appropriate content related to how CalPADS and CCGI data will be used, as provided. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, authorizing CCGI to provide its services to all local educational agencies and requiring the department to instead notify local educational agencies of the additional use of CalPADS data and advise local educational agencies to include in their annual parent notifications, as required by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, information about CalPADS and CCGI data, as provided. (50) 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 or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for 4 years at a priority school, as provided. Existing law requires, except as provided, that a grant recipient agree to repay received grant funds if they do not complete their preparation program and earn a preliminary credential within 3 years after the first distribution of grant funds. Existing law requires the commission, in coordination with the State Department of Education, to publish a list of priority schools by April 15 of each year. This bill would expand the program to award grants to students who commit to work for 4 years at California preschool programs, as defined. The bill would require a grant recipient to agree to repay received grant funds if they do not complete their teacher preparation program and earn a preliminary credential within 6 years after the first distribution of grant funds. For purposes of satisfying the service requirement, the bill would authorize a grant recipient to use service at a school listed on the most recently published priority school list that is available when the grant recipient seeks employment at a priority school, and would require further service at that school to continue to satisfy the 4-year service requirement, even if the school is no longer included on future priority school lists. Existing law requires, for purposes of the Golden State Teacher Grant Program, the student to be enrolled in an approved teacher preparation program that has a main campus location or administrative entity that resides in the state, or to be enrolled in an approved teacher credential program at a California private or independent postsecondary educational institution, a nonprofit institution headquartered and operating in California, or a California public postsecondary educational institution. Existing law requires the Student Aid Commission to provide one-time grant funds of up to $20,000 to each enrolled student under the program, as specified. This bill would authorize the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to determine that a private postsecondary educational institution that offers a professional preparation program approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing qualifies for the program if the institution meets certain criteria, including that the institution was originally chartered and is currently operating as a nonprofit entity that offers services exclusively online to California residents. The bill would require the Student Aid Commission to provide one-time grant funds of up to $10,000 to each enrolled student in a private postsecondary educational institution qualified for the program under these provisions, as specified. (51) Existing law appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for the department and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, with approval from the executive director of the state board, 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. Existing law makes these funds available for encumbrance until June 30, 2024. This bill would extend the encumbrance period for that appropriation to June 30, 2025, thereby making an appropriation. (52) Existing law, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriates $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 $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. Existing law, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, requires the State Air Resources Board to award grants totaling $225,000,000, and requires the commission to award grants totaling $75,000,000, in each fiscal year to local educational agencies, as specified. This bill would delete the above-described appropriations and instead appropriate, for the 2023–24 fiscal year only, $375,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Air Resources Board for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Voucher Incentive Project to fund grants to local educational agencies, as defined, for zero-emission schoolbuses to replace heavy-duty internal combustion schoolbuses owned by local educational agencies, as specified, and $125,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to fund grants to local educational agencies for 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. (53) Existing law appropriates $413,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment to certain charter schools in the 2022–23 fiscal year. This bill would reduce the appropriation for that purpose by $122,977,000 to instead be $290,023,000. (54) Existing law, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriates $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. This bill would, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriate $1,960,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board for new construction and modernization projects under the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998, as provided. The bill would authorize the Department of General Services to charge against either of those appropriations, the administrative costs, not to exceed $15,000,000, incurred to implement the appropriation. By expanding the authorized uses of the $1,300,000,000 appropriation referenced above, the bill would make an appropriation. (55) Existing law appropriates $600,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education 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, as defined, 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. Existing law appropriates $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to local educational agencies to expend on implementing specified school food best practices as part of reimbursable meals served through the federal National School Lunch Program and federal School Breakfast Program, as provided. Existing law requires 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. This bill would revise the list of specified school best practices, as provided, that local educational agencies are authorized to expend those funds on, thereby making an appropriation, and would make a corresponding change to the eligibility criteria that the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, is required to develop. The bill would revise the definition of freshly prepared onsite meals, as specified, for purposes of both of the above-described provisions and would authorize the department, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, to interpret this definition and provide guidance to local educational agencies to support the implementation of those programs, consistent with the intent of those programs. (56) Existing law appropriates $3,560,885,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the 2022–23 fiscal year to establish the Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials Discretionary Block Grant, as specified. This bill would reduce the above-described appropriation by $200,000,000 to instead be $3,360,885,000, thereby making an appropriation. (57) Existing law appropriates $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 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. Existing law requires recipient local educational agencies to submit a report on how it used grant funds to the State Department of Education on or before June 30, 2027. Existing law also requires the Superintendent to provide a comprehensive report to the Department of Finance, State Board of Education, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature on the data submitted by local educational agencies. This bill would revise and recast the reporting provisions by, among other things, requiring the recipient local educational agencies and the Superintendent to submit interim reports before the final reports, as provided. The bill would also require the Superintendent to submit the interim and final reports submitted by recipient local educational agencies to a certain selected entity to conduct an independent evaluation, as provided. The bill would prohibit the above-described funds from being used to support the salaries of existing literacy coaches and reading specialists. This bill would appropriate $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to augment the Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists Grant Program to allocate moneys to eligible schoolsites, as defined, that did not receive moneys under the initial program to develop school literacy programs, employ and train literacy coaches and reading and literacy specialists, and develop and implement interventions for pupils in need of targeted literacy support. (58) The Budget Act of 2023 appropriates $118,810,000 to the department from the Federal Trust Fund, for purposes of the federal Stronger Connections Grant Program, in order to support local educational agencies to implement Multi-Tiered Systems of Support activities, as specified. This bill would require the Superintendent to award, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board, grants on a competitive basis to eligible local educational agencies pursuant to the requirements of the federal program, as provided. The bill would require grant funds to be used to establish safe, healthy, and supportive learning opportunities and environments in schools, as specified to include, among other things, implementation of high quality integrated academic, behavioral, and social emotional learning practices or services aligned to the Multi-Tiered System of Support. (59) This bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office, by no later than March 15, 2024, to provide recommendations to the Department of Finance, the State Board of Education, and the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature for changes to the local control and accountability plan for county offices of education or, to the extent feasible, recommendations for alternative reporting requirements outside of the local control and accountability plan, as provided. (60) This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate certain funding to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish the Diverse Education Leaders Pipeline Initiative program for the purpose of providing grants to local educational agencies to train, place, and retain diverse and culturally responsive administrators in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to improve pupil outcomes and meet the needs of California's education workforce, as provided. The bill would require the commission to award grants to local educational agencies of up to $30,000 per administrator candidate. The bill would require an administrator candidate for whom a grant is awarded to agree in writing to serve in a public school in California for a period of at least 2 school years. The bill would require the commission to submit a report on the program to the Department of Finance and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature on or before June 30, 2027. (61) This bill would, on or before June 30, 2024, 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 2023. 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, 2024, 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 2023 and, if so, would require the Director of Finance to reduce the specified appropriation in the Budget Act of 2023 by the amount of that excess. (62) This bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to create, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, a Literacy Roadmap to help educators apply the state's curriculum framework to classroom instruction, navigate the resources and professional development opportunities available to implement effective literacy instruction, and improve literacy outcomes for all pupils with a focus on equity, as provided. (63) This bill would appropriate $100,000 for the 2023–24 fiscal year to the Superintendent for allocation to the Sacramento County Office of Education to, in consultation with the executive director of the state board and the department, update distance learning curriculum and instructional guidance for mathematics in alignment with the state-adopted mathematics framework. (64) Existing law requires the department, on or before June 1, 2024, to develop evidence-based best practices for restorative justice practice implementation on a school campus and to make these best practices available on the department's internet website for use by local educational agencies. This bill would appropriate $7,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to be made available to support local educational agencies electing to implement the restorative justice best practices, as specified. (65) This bill would, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, appropriate $148,000 from the General Fund to the department for the maintenance and support of the Local Control and Accountability Plan Electronic Template System and a specified database and reporting interface, as provided. (66) This bill would, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriate $100,000 from the General Fund to the department to contract with a specified independent evaluator to extend the evaluation of certain technical assistance, including by examining and analyzing California School Dashboard data, as provided. (67) This bill would, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, award $1,000,000 as a grant to the community-based organization Beyond Differences to support local educational agencies with the implementation of high-quality integrated academic, behavioral, and social-emotional learning practices. (68) This bill also would delete obsolete provisions, make conforming changes, and make technical changes. (69) This bill would provide that its provisions are severable. (70) 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. (71) 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. (72) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.