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Signed into law 09/2012 | Bilingual/ESL |
P-12 | Reclassification of English Learners
S.B. 1108
From bill summary: Requires the state department of education, by January 1, 2014, to (1) review and analyze the criteria, policies, and practices that a sampling of districts that represent the geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic diversity of school di...
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Signed into law 09/2012 | Bilingual/ESL |
P-12 | Long-term English Learners
A.B. 2193
Defines "Long-term English learner" as an English learner in grades 6-12 who has been enrolled in schools in the U.S. for more than 6 years, has remained at the same English language proficiency level for 2 or more consecutive years as determined by the state ...
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Signed into law 09/2012 | Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
P-12 | Charter School Establishment, Renewal, and Revocation
S.B. 1290
From bill summary: Mandates that measurable pupil outcomes required in a petition to establish a standard or countywide charter school include outcomes that address increases in pupil academic achievement both schoolwide and for all groups of pupils served by ...
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Vetoed 09/2012 | Economic/Workforce Development |
Community College | Community College Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program
A.B. 2309
From bill summary: Authorize the board of governors of the California Community Colleges, once sufficient funding becomes available, to establish a competitive grant pilot program to evaluate a public-private partnership model designed to accomplish specified ...
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Vetoed 09/2012 | Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Postsec. | California Hope Public Trust
A.B. 2442
Primarily from bill summary: Provides that the purpose of the California Hope Public Trust is to increase revenue for higher education by developing state properties that are currently underutilized. Establishes the California Hope Public Trust in state govern...
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Signed into law 09/2012 | Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
P-12 | Identification of Gifted and Talented Pupils
A.B. 2491
From bill summary: Requires the state board, upon the next revision of criteria for programs for gifted and talented pupils proposed by applicant school districts, to adopt a standard for pupil identification
to ensure the identification procedures of an appli...
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Signed into law 07/2012 | Accountability--School Improvement |
P-12 | Evaluation of Appointed Administrator for Emergency Apportionment District
A.B. 2278
From bill summary: Authorizes the governing board of a qualifying district, after one complete fiscal year has elapsed following the district's acceptance of an emergency apportionment, to conduct an annual advisory evaluation of the administrator appointed by...
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Vetoed 09/2010 | High School--College Readiness |
Community College,
Postsec. | Common Assessment, Data Warehouse and Web Portal
A.B. 2682
Requires the board of governors of the California Community Colleges to establish a pilot project that seeks to create a centrally delivered system of student assessment to be used as one of multiple measures for community college placement and advisement. Pro...
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Signed into law 09/2010 | Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Postsec. | Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act
S.B. 1440
From bill summary: Enacts the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, which, commencing with the 2011–12 academic year, requires a student who receives an associate degree for transfer to be deemed eligible for transfer into a California State University bacc...
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Signed into law 01/2010 | Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
P-12 | Parent Empowerment
S.B. 4E - Parent Empowerment
Creates new sections 53300 and ff. of the Education Code, establishing new "Parent Empowerment" section. Provides that for any school not identified as a persistently low-achieving school under new Section 53201 (see enacted S.B. 1E http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/p...
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Vetoed 10/2009 | Bilingual/ESL |
P-12 | Including Improving English Proficiency in State Accountability System
A.B. 1435
Relates to the advisory committee on the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. By July 2010, directs the advisory committee ...
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Vetoed 10/2009 | P-3 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity Pilot Program
A.B. 627
Provides legislative findings and declarations on nutrition and health in children's early years. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish a minimum 12-month pilot program in which selected child care centers and day care homes participat...
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Vetoed 10/2009 | Special Populations--Foster Care |
P-12 | Preschool Enrollment for Children of Juvenile Court Wards
A.B. 769
States findings and declarations regarding children of youth who are in custody, or on probation or in the foster care system. Requires priority for participation in state preschool programs to be given to children who have a biological custodial parent who is...
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Adopted 08/2009 | Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Postsec. | Conferral of Degree upon Completion of Requirements
Title 5 CCR Section 40411
Allows the president of each California State University campus to preclude a student from enrolling in any additional state-supported courses when the student has met all conditions for a degree but has not taken the steps to be awarded the degree. Allows eac...
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Signed into law 09/2008 | Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
P-12 | Student health
S.B. 564
Specifies that a school health center may conduct routine physical health, mental health, or oral health assessments, and provide for any services not offered onsite or through a referral process. Requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a g...
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Signed into law 07/2008 | Assessment |
P-12 | Data Analysis
A.B. 2391
Allows a teacher to fulfill requirement to receive follow up training and instruction in areas that include data analysis, alignment of assessment and instruction, implication of data analysis and effect on increasing pupil achievement, impact on pupil success...
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Signed into law 09/2006 | Bilingual/ESL |
P-12 | Best Practice for ELL Students
A.B. 2117
Establishes a grant pilot project to identify existing best practices regarding curriculum, instruction, staff development, for teaching English learners and promoting English language acquisition and development. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruct...
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Signed into law 09/2006 | Health--Nutrition |
P-12 | School Garden Program
A.B. 1535
Makes grants available to charter schools, school districts and county offices of education for the establishment of instructional school gardens. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene an interagency working group on instructional school...
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Signed into law 09/2006 | High School--Exit Exams |
P-12 | High School Exit Exam Assistance
S.B. 638
Relates to the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program to assist pupils in passing high school exit exams. Provides hours of operation per week for each program. Revises grant application procedures and requirements for sc...
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Signed into law 09/2006 | Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
P-12 | American Indian Education Unit and Centers
S.B. 1710
Relates to the American Indian Education Unit. Adds duties to the Unit and the State Department of Education. Authorizes American Indian education centers to improve the academic achievement of American Indian pupils in kindergarten through grade 12 and to pro...
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Vetoed 09/2006 | Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Early Assessment Pilot Program
S.B. 1563
Establishes the Community College Early Assessment Pilot Program for the purpose of providing high school pupils with an indicator of their readiness for transfer level English and mathematics at the end of grade 11 and allowing high schools to work with pupil...
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Signed into law 09/2006 | State Longitudinal Data Systems |
P-12 | Longitudinal Teacher Data System
S.B. 1614
Requires a contract for developing the Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data System (LTIDS). Requires the Education Information System to include the LTIDS and the Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. Provides the LTIDS house information regarding teache...
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Signed into law 08/2006 | Accountability--Reporting Results |
P-12 | Reporting Exit Exam Results
S.B. 1592
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to report on the number and percentage of pupils who failed to receive a diploma of graduation from high school in 2006 due to the failure of those pupils to pass the high school exit examination, aggregated by...
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Signed into law 08/2006 | Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
P-12 | Ethical Use of Information Technology
A.B. 307
Requires a school district's education technology plan to include a component to educate pupils and teachers on the appropriate and ethical use of information technology, in the classroom, Internet security, avoiding plagiarism, the concept, purpose, and signi...
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Signed into law 08/2006 | School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
P-12 | Disaster Preparedness Materials
A.B. 103
Requires the State Department of Education to electronically distribute disaster preparedness educational materials and lesson plans that are currently available to local school districts and county offices of education. Requires the department to ensure that ...
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Signed into law 09/2005 | Career/Technical Education |
P-12 | Career Education Data on State Report Cards
H.B. 1609
An act to amend Section 33126 of the Education Code, relating to vocational education. This bill would amend the act to also require the school accountability report card to include assessment of career-technical education data measures, such as the number of ...
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Signed into law 09/2004 | Accountability--School Improvement |
P-12 | Technical Assistance Areas
A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to establish a statewide system of school support that provides intensive and sustained support and technical assistance for school districts, county offices of education, and schools in need of improveme...
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Signed into law 09/2004 | Accountability--School Improvement |
P-12 | Low Performing Schools and Teacher Job Applications
A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 11: Declares that the Legislature encourages school districts to provide all the schools it maintains that are ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the Academic Performance Index first priority to review resumes and job applications received by the dis...
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Signed into law 09/2004 | Accountability--School Improvement |
P-12 | Requirements for High Priority Schools Grant Candidates
A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Requires that, commencing with the 2004–05 fiscal year, for a district with a school initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after July 2004, the report include whether at least 80% of the teachers assigned to the sch...
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Signed into law 09/2004 | Bilingual/ESL |
P-12 | Teacher Misassignment and ESL Teacher Qualifications
A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to annually monitor and review school district certificated employee assignment practices according to certain priorities with first priority going to schools and school districts that are likely to ha...
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Signed into law 09/2004 | High School |
P-12 | Principal Training Program
A.B. 164
Authorizes training plans for high school principals to include professional development activities that include coaching, mentorship, assistance and intensive support customized to meet the individual needs of high school administrators. http://www.leginfo.ca...
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Vetoed 09/2004 | No Child Left Behind |
P-12 | No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
S.B. 471
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine which provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are fully or partially federally funded. Requires, the superintendent, if a provisions is not fully federally funded, or not funded, by the federal ...
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Signed into law 09/2004 | Postsecondary Accountability |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community Colleges: Funding
A.B. 1417
Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to provide recommendations to the Legislature and Governor regarding the design of a workable structure for annual evaluation of district-level performance. Sets forth criteria with which a c...
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Vetoed 09/2004 | Postsecondary Faculty |
Postsec.,
Community College | Tenure Track vs. Temporary Faculty
A.B. 242
Requires the board of governors and the trustees, and would request the regents, to adopt policies regarding the appropriate balance of temporary and permanent/tenure-track faculty for their respective systems and to report these respective policies, and the r...
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Vetoed 09/2004 | Textbooks and Open Source |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Textbook Rental Services
A.B. 2678
Urges the Trustees of California State University, the governing body of each community college district in the state and the Regents of the University of California to set up a textbook rental service for the students at each of their campuses. Textbook renta...
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Signed into law 09/2004 | Textbooks and Open Source |
Postsec.,
Community College | College Textbooks
A.B. 2477
Expresses findings and declarations of the Legislature with respect to the cost of college textbooks. Urges textbook publishers to take specified actions aimed at reducing the amounts that students currently pay for textbooks. Requires the Trustees of the Stat...
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Signed into law 06/2004 | Adult Basic Education |
P-12 | Ex-Offender Literacy Act
A.B. 1901
Creates the Ex-Offender Literacy Act that states the success of a pilot program requiring an adult convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense to participate in a program designed to assist the person obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade education as a co...
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