California Department of Education
Executive Office
SBE-003 (REV.06/2008)
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/ CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
MAY 2009 AGENDA

SUBJECT

Information Regarding the Role and Responsibility of the Schoolsite Council and the Local Governing Board Regarding the Single Plan for Student Achievement. / Action
Information
Public Hearing
RECOMMENDATION

The California Department of Education (CDE) is providing the following to the State Board of Education (SBE) for information and discussion.

SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION DISCUSSION AND ACTION

The SBE routinely considers and approves waivers to allow consolidation of schoolsite councils (SSCs) in instances where staff and parents at the schoolsite(s)involved are too small to independently meet size or parity requirements. The recommendation for approval requires that the consolidated SSC maintain parity with the originating schoolsites and with the overall composition of the SSC. Further, the full scope of duties and requirements of individual SSCs transfers to the composite SSC.

SUMMARY OF KEY ISSUES

CaliforniaEducation Code (EC)Section 52852 requires that a SSC be established at each school which participates in school-based program coordination. School districts must assure that these SSCs have developed and approved a plan, known as either the Single Plan for Pupil Achievement or the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA), prepared in accordance with law (ECSection 64001).

The governing board of each school district is further responsible to:

  • Ensure that the principal is knowledgeable and provides information regarding SSC roles and responsibilities to teachers, other school personnel, parents, and, in secondary schools, pupils.

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SUMMARY OF KEY ISSUES (Con’t.)______

  • Adopt policies to ensure that, prior to a school beginning to develop a SPSA, a SSC is established at the schoolsite toconsider whether or not it wishes the school to participate inthe school-based coordination program.
  • Ensure thatall interested persons, including, but not limited to, the principal,teachers, other school personnel, parents, and, in secondaryschools, pupils have an opportunity to meet in public to establish the SSC.
  • Ensure that funds coordinated pursuant to this article areused to supplement, not supplant, existing state and local fiscalefforts and that schools which receive the funds shall have baseexpenditures comparable to nonparticipating schools (ECSection 52852.5).

The content of a SPSA must be aligned with school goalsfor improving pupil achievement. School goals must be based upon ananalysis of verifiable state data, including the Academic PerformanceIndex (API) and the California English Language Development Test. The Single Plan for Pupil Achievement must, at aminimum, address how funds provided to the school through any of thesources identified in ECSection 64000 will be used to improve theacademic performance of all pupils to the level of the performancegoals, as established by the API (ECSection 64001[f]).

The SPSA must be reviewed annuallyand updated, including proposed expenditure of funds allocated to theschool through the consolidated application, by the SSC. Each school’s SPSA must be reviewed andapproved,or disapproved,by the governing board of the local educational agency.

The school district governing board must review and approve,or disapprove,the SPSA and subsequent revisionsat aregularly scheduled meeting whenever there are material changes thataffect the academic programs for students covered by programsidentified in the SPSA (ECSection 64001[g]).The schooldistrict governing boardmust certify that, to the extent allowableunder federal law, the SPSA developed for purposes of this section areconsistent with district local improvement plans that are required asa condition of receiving federal funding (ECSection 64001[h]).A SPSAcannot be approvedunless it was developed and recommended by the SSC.If a SPSA is not approved by the governing board, specific reasonsfor that action shall be communicated to the SSC. Modificationsto any SPSA shall be developed, recommended, and approved ordisapproved in the same manner (ECSection 52855).

FISCAL ANALYSIS (AS APPROPRIATE)

There is no fiscal impact.

ATTACHMENT(S)

None.

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