Zaragoza-Diaz & Associates
Martha Zaragoza-Diaz
MEMORANDUM
To: CABE Board Members
From: Martha Zaragoza Diaz, Lobbyist
Subject: Introduced Bills-K-12th grade, 2016 Legislative Session
Date: March 7, 2016
Cc: Jan Gustafson Corea, C.E.O.
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For your information, below are bills that have been introduced this 2016 legislative session specific to Kindergarten and grade 12. This list is not the complete listing of all K-12 bills, but only those you should be aware of.
I. English Learners
AB 1876 (Lopez) Pupils: Diploma Alternatives: language options. Introduced: Feb. 10, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue a high school equivalency certificate and an official score report, or an official score report only, to a person who has not completed high school and who meets specified requirements, including, among others, having taken all or a portion of a general education development test that has been approved by the State Board of Education. Commencing July 1, 2017, this bill would prohibit the department from approving or renewing approval of a contractor or testing center to administer the tests described above unless the contractor or testing center provides those tests in the top 5 primary languages used in the contractor or testing center's service area.
AB 1880 (Irwin) Local Educational Agencies: Parent Advisory Committees. Introduced Feb. 10, 2016.
Summary:Current law exempts the meetings of specified school site councils and committees from the Ralph M. Brown Act and the Bagley-Keen Open Meeting Act, but still requires properly noticed public meetings with posted agendas. This bill would delete obsolete statutory references from this provision and would correct references to certain parent advisory committees that fall within this exemption. The bill would also make non-substantive changes.
AB 1935 (Kim) Local Control and Accountability Plans: Posting in Different languages. Introduced: Feb. 12, 2016.
Summary:Current law provides that, when 15% or more of the pupils enrolled in a public school speak a single primary language other than English, all notices, reports, statements, or records sent to the parent or guardian of any such pupil by the school or school district shall, in addition to English, be written in their primary language, and may be responded to either in English or their primary language. This bill would require these multilingual notice requirements to apply to a local control and accountability plan or update or revision posted to the Internet Web site of a school district, a county of office of education, or the Superintendent of Pubic Instruction.
AB 2091 (Lopez) Special Education: IEP-Translation Services. Introduced: Feb. 17, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires a local educational agency to take any action necessary to ensure that the parent or guardian understands the proceedings at a meeting, including arranging for an interpreter for parents or guardians with deafness or whose native language is a language other than English. This bill would require a local educational agency to also provide translation services for a pupil's parent, guardian, or educational rights holder, as specified.
AB 2248 (Holden) Out-State-Teachers: Credentialing-English Learners. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to issue a clear teacher credential to an out-of-state prepared applicant who satisfies specified requirements, including verifying 2 or more years of teaching experience. This bill would require CTC to issue these teaching credentials within 30 days of receiving all required documentation.
Existing law also requires CTC to issue authorizations for a teacher to provide services to pupils who are English Learners, if specified requirements are met.
This bill would require CTC, within 30 days of receiving the required documentation, to issue these authorizations to a teacher who: a) holds a valid teaching credential, 2) or is applying for a certain teaching credential as an out-of-state prepared teacher and is able to present a valid out-of-state credential or certificate that authorizes the equivalent level of instruction of English Learners.
AB 2350 (O’Donnell) English Learners: English Language Proficiency Assessments. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires the State Department of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish procedures for conducting
the assessment and for the reclassification of a pupil from English learner to English proficient. Current law requires that the assessment primarily used is the English Language Development test identified or developed, or developed, or acquired by the Superintendent pursuant to a specified statute. This bill would delete English language development tests that are identified or acquired, but not developed, from tests that may be used by the assessment referenced above.
AB 2353 (McCarty) Teacher Professional Development: Culturally Responsive Instruction. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Would require the State Department of Education to develop a curriculum for professional development in covering culturally responsive instruction and make this curriculum available as part of its continuing education and professional development programs for teachers. The bill would state legislative findings and declarations relating to the importance of culturally responsive teaching.
SB 1178 (Vidak) Posters: Child Abuse and Neglect: Languages Introduction: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to create a poster that notifies children of the appropriate telephone number to call to report child abuse or neglect. The bill would authorize the superintendent to partner with various entities for purposes of design and content of the poster. The bill would require the poster to incorporate specified elements, including that it be produced in 5 different languages. The bill would require the superintendent, on or before July 1, 2017, to post the downloadable versions of the poster on the department's Internet Web site.
SB 1384 (Liu) Children: Migrant Education: Child Development Services. Introduction: Feb. 19, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires the children of migrant agricultural worker families to be enrolled in child development programs on the basis of specified priorities, including priority to children whose family moves from place to place. This bill, beginning July 1, 2017, would instead define "migrant agricultural worker family" as a family with at least one parent who has earned at least 50 percent of his or her income from employment in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of application for child care and development services.
II. Accountability
AB 2527 (Weber) School Accountability: Model Surveys
Introduced: Feb. 19, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires the governing boards of school districts and county offices of education to each establish a parent advisory committee to provide advice to the governing board of the school district or the county office of education regarding the requirements of local control and accountability plans. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene an advisory committee consisting of representatives from the state board, public
schools, governing boards of school districts, local educational agencies, parent groups, parent and youth-serving community-based organizations, and advocacy
organizations to provide general guidance on, and to make recommendations relating to, the creation of model survey questions.
AB 2548 (Weber) School Accountability: Statewide Accountability System. Introduced: Feb. 19, 2016.
Summary: Would, for purposes of a statewide accountability system and to ensure alignment and fidelity with the state priorities and federal law, require the State Board of Education to adopt a statewide accountability system. The bill would require the system to satisfy the accountability requirements of specified federal law, rely upon data from key indicators established by the evaluation rubrics adopted by the state board, and, working in concert with the collaborative, utilize a multitiered system of review, support, collaboration, and intervention, aligning the level of support to the needs of the local educational agency or individual school.
AB 2645 (Mayes) School Intervention: Parent Empowerment. Introduced: Feb. 19, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires a local educational agency to implement one of several specified interventions for a school not identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school that, after one full school year, is subject to corrective action, as specified, and fails to meet specified criteria and has a specified percentage of parents and legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the local educational agency to implement at least one of 5 specified interventions. This bill would make non-substantive changes by updating cross-references and reorganizing language.
AB 2698 (Weber) Local Accountability and Control Plans. Introduced: Feb. 19, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires the governing board of each school district to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a template adopted by the State Board of Education. This bill would make non-substantive changes to that provision.
SB 871 (Liu) California Collaborative for Educational Excellence: Professional Development Training-Pilot Program. Introduced: January 14, 2016.
Summary: Would require the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, commencing with the 2016-17 fiscal year, to establish a statewide infrastructure to provide professional development training to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for the purpose of successfully implementing the evaluation rubrics adopted by the State Board of Education. This bill contains other related provisions.
SB 1050 (de Leon) Elementary and Secondary Education: Achievement Gap: Teachers: Courses of Study. Introduction: Feb. 9, 2016.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would close the achievement gap, ensure an adequate supply of well-trained teachers, expand access to quality support services, and ensure access for all pupils to a rich course of study in both academic and career-related subjects.
SB 1156 (Huff) School Accountability: Academic Performance Index. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index, to measure the performance of schools and school districts, especially the academic performance of pupils. This bill would make non-substantive changes to that provision.
III. Assessments
SB 1145 (Hueso) Language Arts: Reading-Assessments and plans. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Would require the State Board of Education, on or before December 31, 2017, to develop a reading assessment that can be used by the public schools to assess pupils in grades 1 to 3, inclusive, in their ability to read
proficiently by the end of grade 3. The bill would require public schools that enroll pupils in these grades, on or before the start of the 2018-19 school year, to ensure that each pupil's reading competency is measured using the reading assessment.
IV. Curriculum
AB 2016 (Alejo) Pupil Instruction: Ethnic Studies. Introduced: Feb. 16, 2016.
Summary: Would require the Superintendent to oversee the development of, and the state board to adopt, a model curriculum to ensure quality courses in ethnic studies. The bill would require the Instructional Quality Commission to advise, assist, and make recommendations to the Superintendent regarding the development of the model curriculum. The bill would, beginning the school year following the adoption of the model curriculum, require each school district maintaining any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, that does not otherwise offer a standards-based ethnic studies curriculum, to offer, as an elective in the social sciences, a course of study in ethnic studies based on the model curriculum.
AB 2237 (Olsen) S.T.E.M. Education. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Current law establishes a system of elementary and secondary education in this state, consisting of public and private elementary and secondary schools providing instruction in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the provision of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in elementary and secondary schools in this state.
AB 2290 (Santiago) Pupil Instruction: Foreign Language. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Current law sets forth the intent and purpose of the Legislature to encourage the establishment of programs of instruction in foreign language, with instruction beginning as early as feasible for each school district. This bill would make a non-substantive change to that provision.
AB 2393 (McCarty) Teacher Professional Development: Cultural Responsive Instruction. Introduced: Feb. 18, 2016.
Summary: Would require the State Department of Education to develop a curriculum for professional development in covering culturally responsive instruction and make this curriculum available as part of its continuing education and professional development programs for teachers. The bill would state
legislative findings and declarations relating to the importance of culturally responsive teaching.
AB 2864 (Chau) Pupil Instruction: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Geary Act of 1892. Introduced: Feb. 19, 2016.
Summary: Would encourage all state and local professional development activities to provide teachers with content background and resources to assist them in teaching about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Geary Act of 1892, and other specified laws relating to the discrimination against, and mistreatment of, Chinese and other minority groups. The bill would require those laws be considered in the next cycle in which the history-social science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are adopted.
SB 1123 (Leyva) Pupil Instruction: High School Graduation Requirements. Introduction: Feb. 17, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires each pupil completing grade 12 to satisfy certain requirements as a condition of receiving a diploma of graduation from high school. These requirements include the completion of designated coursework in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. This bill would require that the coursework requirements include, among others, the completion of one course in visual or performing arts, foreign language, or, commencing with the 2012-13 school year and continuing until the end of the 2021-22 school year on July 1, 2022, or until the occurrence of a specified event relating to career technical education requirements of the University of California and the California State University, whichever occurs earlier, career technical education, as specified.
SB 1356 (Allen) Instructional Materials. Introduced: Feb. 19, 2016.
Summary: Current law requires the State Board of Education to consider the adoption of a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in science, as provided. This bill would make a non-substantive change to that provision.
SB 1435 (Jackson) School Curriculum: Health Education. Introduction: Feb. 19, 2016.