| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
|
 Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Revising Academic Performance Index (API)
S.B. 1458
From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to develop and implement a specified program of school quality review...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Accountability, Dropout Recovery High Schools
A.B. 1668
From bill summary: Changes the definition of a dropout recovery high school to mean a school offering instruction in any of grades 9-12 in w...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Inglewood Unified School District Takeover and Emergency Loan
S.B. 533
From bill summary: Expresses legislative intent to provide emergency apportionment assistance to the Inglewood Unified School District. Requ...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | State Superintendent Reassuming Rights, Duties, Powers of Insolvent District
A.B. 2662 - State Superintendent Reassuming Rights, Duties, Powers of Insolvent District
From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to reassume the rights, duties, and powers of a district receiving an...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Enrollment/Readmission of Student with Previous Contact with Juvenile Justice System
S.B. 1088
Prohibits a public school from denying enrollment or readmission to a pupil solely on the basis that he/she has had contact with the juvenil...
| More... |
Attendance--Truancy |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Truancy
A.B. 2616
From bill summary: Identifies specific reasons that constitute a valid excuse for which a pupil may be absent from school for purposes of be...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
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 pra...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Primary Language Assessment Instrument for Dual Language Immersion Program Students
A.B. 1521
From bill summary: Authorizes the department, subject to state board approval, to make available to districts and charter schools a primary ...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Supplemental Instructional Materials for English Language Learners
A.B. 1719 - Supplemental Instructional Materials for English Language Learners
From bill summary: Requires the department to recommend, and the state board to approve, evaluation criteria to guide the development and re...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
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,...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Career Technical Education Pathways Program
S.B. 1070
From bill summary: Establishes the Career Technical Education Pathways Program until June 30, 2015, which requires the Chancellor of the Cal...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
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 inclu...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Charter School Finance
A.B. 1811
From bill summary: Commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, requires the general-purpose entitlement of a conversion charter high school est...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Transmitting Charter School Pupil Data to District That Is Chartering Authority
A.B. 1919
From bill summary: Requires the department of education to provide a district that is a charter school's chartering authority, in accordance...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Charter School Is LEA for Purposes of Repaying Certain Funds
A.B. 2662 - Charter School Is LEA for Purposes of Repaying Certain Funds
From bill summary: Specifies that a charter school is a local educational agency (LEA) for purposes of provisions regarding LEA repayment (1...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | California Youth Leadership Project
S.B. 803
Primarmily from bill summary: Defines "disconnected and disadvantaged youth" for purposes of these provisions to include, but not be limited...
| More... |
Curriculum--Mathematics |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Supplemental K-7 Instructional Materials for Math
A.B. 1719 - Supplemental K-7 Instructional Materials for Math
From bill summary: Requires the department, at least 30 days before the state board takes specified action, to develop a list of supplementa...
| More... |
Curriculum--Science |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Organ and Tissue Donation in Health and Science Curriculum Frameworks
A.B. 1967
From bill summary: Requires the Instructional Quality Commission and the state board to ensure that the health and science curriculum framew...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Labor History Month
A.B. 2269
From bill summary: Moves Labor History Month from April to May. Continues existing provision encouraging districts to commemorate that month...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
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 esta...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program
S.B. 1402
From bill summary: Generally recasts and revise the provisions governing the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Developmen...
| More... |
Finance--Bonds |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | Paying Interest on Bond Notes via Property Tax
A.B. 794
From bill summary: Instead of requiring the interest on school district or community college district bond anticipation notes notes to be pa...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Indirect Cost Rates
A.B. 2435
From bill summary: Requires, until January 1, 2016, the department of education, and any other state agency that administers a grant or allo...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Districts Receiving Emergency Apportionments
A.B. 2279
Amends conditions under which a trustee and necessary staff appointed to a district receiving an emergency apportionment must serve (a trust...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Authority of a County Superintendent to Change a District's Fiscal Certification
A.B. 2662 - Authority of a County Superintendent to Change a District's Fiscal Certification
From bill summary: Permits a county superintendent of schools to change a district's certification (that it can meet its financial obligatio...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | Design-Build Contracts for District and Community College District Facilities
S.B. 1509
Primarily from bill summary: Extends until January 1, 2020 the authority of a district governing board or community college district governi...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Use of School Property for Non-School Youth and School Activities
S.B. 1404
From bill summary: Until January 1, 2020, expands the definition of direct costs that a school district governing board may charge an entity...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | At-Risk Pupil Funding and Expenditures
S.B. 754
From bill summary: Requires a district, as a condition of the receipt of at-risk pupil funding (i.e., economic impact aid funds, allocated b...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Programs Eligible for Block Grant
S.B. 1028 - Programs Eligible for Block Grant
From bill summary: Under the California Constitution, whenever the legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of s...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Computing Average Daily Attendance for Students in Online Instruction
A.B. 644
From bill summary: Commencing with the 2014–15 school year, authorizes, for purposes of computing average daily attendance, the inclusion of...
| More... |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Community College | Lottery Funds for Classes for Adults and Regional Occupational Centers
A.B. 2662 - Lottery Funds
From final bill analysis: Extends to 2014-15 provisions in which payments from the California State Lottery Education Fund include the same ...
| More... |
Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Prohibition of Pupil Fees
A.B. 1575
Primarily from bill summary: Defines "pupil fee." Defines "educational activity" as an activity that constitutes an integral fundamental par...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
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 de...
| More... |
Governance--Regional Entities |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Members of County Boards of Education
A.B. 1662
From bill summary: Provides that any employee of a school district that is within the jurisdiction of the county board of education is ineli...
| More... |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Inclusion of Pupil Only Once in Dropout Data
S.B. 1497
From bill summary: Prohibits California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) from including an individual pupil in dropout r...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Principal Evaluations
S.B. 1292
From bill summary: Authorizes a district to evaluate a principal annually for the principal's first and second year of employment as a new p...
| More... |
P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Teacher Credentialing and Transitional Kindergarten
A.B. 1853
From bill summary: Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup of specified members to develop program standar...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Ceiling on Parent Liability for Damages Caused by Minor Pupil
A.B. 2662 - Ceiling on Parent Liability for Damages Caused by Minor Pupil
From bill summary: Allows $10,000 limit on liability for damages caused by minor pupil's misconduct to be adjusted annually for inflation. h...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Peaceful Demonstrations on College Campuses
A.B. 1955
From bill summary: Requires, for purposes of promoting peaceful campus demonstrations, the Trustees of the California State University to re...
| More... |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Data on Student Outcomes at Cal Grant Participating Institutions
S.B. 1103
Ror each Cal Grant participating institution, requires the Student Aid Commission to provide in a searchable database on its website (1) enr...
| More... |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Statewide Postsecondary Metrics and Performance Report
S.B. 721
Primarily from bill summary: States legislative intent that budget and policy decisions regarding postsecondary education generally adhere t...
| More... |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Regaining Institutional Eligibility for Cal Grant Awards
S.B. 1028 - Regaining Institutional Eligibility for Cal Grant Awards
From bill summary: Requires that an otherwise qualifying institution that becomes ineligible for initial and renewal Cal Grant awards due ei...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Private Student Loans
S.B. 1289
From bill summary: Requires a public, private, or independent postsecondary educational institution, except the California Community College...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | California Open Education Resources Council
S.B. 1052
Similar to S.B. 1053 (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1053_bill_20120905_enrolled.pdf)
From bill summary: Expr...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Victims of Serious Crimes Exempt from Paying Nonresident Tuition
A.B. 1899
From bill summary: Requires students who are victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes who have been granted a spe...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Community College | Community College Student Fees
S.B. 1456 - Community College Student Fees
From bill summary: Requires that a student qualifying for a waiver from $46 per unit per semester student enrollment fee meet minimum academ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Working Families Student Fee Transparency and Accountability Act
A.B. 970
From bill summary: Establishes the Working Families Student Fee Transparency and Accountability Act as a part of the Donahoe Higher Educatio...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Student Residency Requirements for Veterans.
A.B. 2478
From bill summary: Makes students who were stationed in California for more than one year as active duty military for more than one year imm...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Campus-Based Mandatory Fees at California State University
S.B. 960
From bill summary: Prohibits specified California State University campus-based mandatory fees from being reallocated without an affirmative...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Community College | Reporting of Creditable Hours by Part-Time Community College Instructors
S.B. 114
From final bill analysis: Beginning July 1, 2013, requires community college districts to submit collective bargaining agreements or employm...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Faculty Tenure at California State University and University of California
A.B. 2132
From bill summary: Expresses legislative intent that the California State University and the University of California develop and adopt tenu...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Community College |
S.B. 1456 - Community College Orientation, Assessment and Placement, Counseling, and Academic Interventions
From bill summary: Revises and recasts the Seymour-Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986, and renames it the Seymour-Campbell Student Success A...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | University of California Funding Contingent on Achieving Enrollment Goal
S.B. 1028 - University of California Funding Contingent on Achieving Enrollment Goal
From bill summary: The Budget Act of 2012 appropriated $2,053,750,000 for the support of the University of California. This bill requires th...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | "Best Value" Policies for Awarding of UC and CCC Contracts
S.B. 1280
From final bill analysis: Until January 1, 2018, authorizes a California Community College (CCC) district and the University of California (...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | California State University Regulations
A.B. 2126
From bill summary: Extends repeal date to January 1, 2018 for provisions setting forth a procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Live Video Transmissions of Postsecondary Governing Board Meetings
A.B. 1723
From bill summary: Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, an...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Community College | Governing Board Elections for Los Angeles Community College District
A.B. 2572
From bill summary: Makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles Community Colleg...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | California State University's Chancellor Selection Process
A.C.R. 164
Encourages the recruitment and selection process for the next Chancellor of the California State University to be done in a publicly inclusi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Private Postsecondary Institutions
A.B. 2296
From bill summary: Prohibits a private postsecondary institution from offering an associate, baccalaureate, or master's degree program witho...
| More... |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | California Digital Open Source Library
S.B. 1053
Similar to S.B. 1052 (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1052_bill_20120905_enrolled.pdf)
From bill summary: Expr...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Students in Definition of Higher Education Employees
S.B. 259
From bill summary: Amends Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, which governs employer-employee relations between the State of C...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Social Media Privacy
S.B. 1349
From bill summary: Defines "social media." Prohibits public and private postsecondary educational institutions, and their employees and repr...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Testing Accommodations on LSAT
A.B. 2122
From bill summary: Requires the test sponsor of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) to provide testing accommodations to a test subject who...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Priority Registration for Veterans
A.B. 2133
From bill summary: Enacts the Combat to College Act of 2012, which authorizes a qualifying student to use the 4 academic years during which ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Community College | Academic Credit for Prior Military Experience
A.B. 2462
Directs the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, using common course descriptors and pertinent recommendations of the American C...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Credit for Veterans' Military Experience
A.C.R. 159
Encourages the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to consider and adopt the Am...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Early Start Program at California State University
A.B. 2497
From bill summary: Expresses legislative finding and declaration that the trustees of the California State University (CSU) adopted an Early...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program
S.B. 1087
From bill summary: Increases hours a participating program operated by a city, county, or nonprofit organization in the After School Learnin...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science
A.B. 1663
Partially from bill summary: Amends methodology for establishing tuition fee for the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Scie...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Strikes "Pedophilia" from Inclusion under Sexual Orientation in School Safety Law
A.B. 401
From bill summary: States legislative intent that public schools have access to supplemental resources to combat bias on the basis of race, ...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Alternatives to Suspension, Expulsion; Other Means of Correction
A.B. 1729
From bill summary: Authorizes a superintendent or principal to use alternatives to suspension or expulsion that are age appropriate and desi...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Grounds for Suspension and Expulsion
A.B. 2242
From bill summary: Provides that, if the district superintendent or principal determines that a pupil has disrupted school activities or oth...
| More... |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Community College | Governing Board Discretion to Enroll or Deny Enrollment to Previously Expelled Community College Student
A.B. 2171
From bill summary: Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to either deny enrollment, permit enrollment, or permit co...
| More... |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Suspensions and Expulsions
A.B. 2537
From bill summary: Deletes provision that made it an infraction for a principal or superintendent to willfully not notify appropriate city o...
| More... |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Reducing Student Suspensions
S.B. 1235
From bill summary: Existing law states that a school should consider implementing a supervised suspension program or an alternative to the s...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | District Public Project Bidding Procedures
A.B. 1565
From bill summary: For contracts awarded on and after January 1, 2014, and until January 1, 2019, requires the governing board of the distri...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Annexation of School Districts
A.B. 2662 - Annexation of School Districts
From bill summary: Existing law defines a "lapse" as an action to dissolve a school district and annex the entire territory of that district...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Waivers from Providing Free Meals During Summer Session
A.B. 2555
Amends deadline for a district to submit a waiver from requirement to provide free meal to free-/reduced-price lunch-eligible students durin...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Free/Reduced Lunches Must Be Served Needy Students at Charter Schools
A.B. 1594
From bill summary: Requires a charter school to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during e...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Sale of Produce from School Gardens
A.B. 2367
Authorizes a district, charter school, or county office of education operating a school garden to sell produce grown in the school garden, p...
| More... |
Special Education--Placement |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Foster Children, Including with Special Needs
S.B. 121
From bill summary: Requires that, if a foster child's parent or guardian, or other person holding the right to make educational decisions fo...
| More... |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Foster Children (Including Pupils with Disabilities), and Disciplinary Issues
A.B. 1909
From bill summary: Requires each local education agency (LEA)'s educational liaison for foster children, if so designated by the LEA superin...
| More... |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Continuation of Former Foster Child in School of Origin
S.B. 1568
From bill summary: Requires a local educational agency to allow a former foster child to continue his/her education in the school of origin ...
| More... |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
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 appl...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children - Task Force and State Council
A.B. 2202
From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to convene the State Council required by the Interstate Compact on Ed...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Licensure Renewal Requirements for Active Duty Military
A.B. 1588
From bill summary: Requires state professional licensing boards, with certain exceptions, to waive the renewal fees, continuing education re...
| More... |
Standards |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | History-Social Science Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria for Instructional Materials
S.B. 1540
From bill summary: Existing law prohibits the state board from adopting instructional materials until the 2015–16 school year. These provisi...
| More... |
Standards |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Common Core State Standards; Adoption of State Science Standards
S.B. 1200
From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to recommend and the state board to adopt the college and career read...
| More... |
Standards--Common Core State Standards |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | County Office of Education Authority to Approve Supplemental Instructional Materials
A.B. 2662 - County Office of Education Authority to Approve Supplemental Instructional Materials
From bill summary: Extends to county offices of education the authority (which local districts already have) to approve supplemental instruc...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Longitudinal P-20 Statewide Data System
S.B. 885
From final bill analysis: Authorizes the California Department of Education , the University of California, the California State University,...
| More... |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | California Task Force on School Finance
A.B. 18
From bill summary: Establishes a 21-member California Task Force on School Finance as of January 1, 2013, to review and analyze alternative ...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
Postsec. | Student Athlete Bill of Rights
S.B. 1525
From bill summary: Enacts the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, pursuant to which, commencing with the 2013–14 academic year, intercollegiate ...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Privacy of Pupil Records: Standardized Test Scores and Grades.
A.B. 1166
From bill summary: Prohibits districts from including on a pupil's school identification card or any other object that a pupil is required b...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Transfer of Student Records
A.B. 1799
From bill summary: Existing law requires a pupil's former school district or private school to transfer the pupil's permanent record, or a c...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Confidentiality of Pupil Records
A.B. 733
From final bill analysis: Amends the California Education Code to conform with the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) p...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Teachers' Retirement Law
A.B. 2663
This bill deals with the state's retirement system and is an attempt to reduce costs by clearing up some language and closing some loopholes...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | Notice of Layoff to Classified Employees
A.B. 1908
From bill summary: Requires that written notice be given to a classified employee of a school district or community college district subject...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | Reemployed Worker Who Failes to Complete Probationary Period in New Position
A.B. 2307
From bill summary: Existing law requires that persons laid off because of lack of work or funds in a school district or community college di...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | Public School Employee Organizations
A.B. 1203
From bill summary: Requires a school district or a community college district to provide a paid leave of absence to a classified employee wh...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 09/2012 |
P-12 | Textbooks, Instructional Materials, and Supplemental Instructional Materials
A.B. 1246
Primarily from bill summary: Removes requirement that instructional materials purchased by a local education agency (LEA) be state board-ado...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Digital Textbooks in Textbook Adoption Considerations
A.B. 1790
From bill summary: Requires a publisher or manufacturer submitting a printed instructional material for adoption by the state board or a dis...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Vetoed 09/2012 |
P-12 | Instructional Materials in Digital Format
S.B. 1154
From bill summary: Requires a publisher or manufacturer that offers printed instructional materials or printed supplemental instructional ma...
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Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Heritage Schools
S.B. 1137
From bill summary: Requires each heritage school's electronic registration form filed with the superintendent of public instruction to inclu...
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Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Instruction in Bracero Program
S.B. 993
From bill summary: Authorizes social sciences instruction for grades 7-12 to include instruction on the Bracero program. Authorizes that ins...
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Health |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Training on Signs and Symptoms of Concussions
A.B. 1451
Amends provisions regarding the California High School Coaching Education and Training Program; provides that "training" include a basic und...
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High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Exit Exam and Students with Disabilities
A.B. 1705
Delays until Class of 2016 the implementation of alternative means for students with disabilites to demonstrate achievement of standards as ...
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High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Independent Study
A.B. 1987
Extends educational opportunities that may be offered through independent study to include leadership opportunities that support and strengt...
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Postsecondary |
Adopted 08/2012 |
Postsec. | Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
A.R. 35
Resolves that the Assembly unequivocally condemns all forms of intolerance, including anti-Semitism, on public postsecondary educational ins...
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School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 08/2012 |
P-12 | Child Sexual Abuse Curriculum
S.C.R. 73
Encourages districts to include age-appropriate instruction related to child sexual abuse in their curriculum to help pupils understand the ...
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State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Vetoed 08/2012 |
P-12 | Teacher Leaders Advisory Panel
A.B. 1765
From bill summary: Requires the Commission on Teaching Credentialing to convene an advisory panel to explore the recognition of leadership r...
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STEM |
Adopted 08/2012 |
P-12 | STEM
A.R. 34
Resolves that the assembly continues to urge the development of summer camps, workshops, and after-school programs, and the extension of cur...
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Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
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 distric...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 | Residency Requirements for Foster Children
A.B. 1573
Provides a pupil who is a foster child who remains in his/her school of origin has met the residency requirements for school attendance (pre...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 | Charter School Proposed Alteration of District Property
A.B. 1859
From bill summary: Requires a charter school, if it applies for the federal qualified school construction bond volume cap, or any other fede...
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Finance--Bonds |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12,
Community College | School Bonds: Citizens' Oversight Committee
A.B. 1199
Requires that members of an independent citizens' oversight committee (established by a district or community college if voters approve fina...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Textbooks
S.B. 1539
Requires a textbook publisher, or an agent or employee of a publisher, to provide prescribed data about the textbook to prospective purchase...
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Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
Community College | Fair Market Value of Community College Leases
A.B. 1748
Removes provision that previously prohibited certain community college property leases from exceeding $25,000 a year. http://www.leginfo.ca....
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 | School Attendance at Early and Middle College High Schools
S.B. 1316
From bill summary: States findings and declarations regarding the pupils for whom an early college high school is designed and the key eleme...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 | School Police Department
A.B. 2368
From bill summary: Authorizes a district governing board to establish a school police department under the supervision of a school chief of ...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 | Electronic Bullying
A.B. 1732
Amends provisions related to bullying by electronic means. From bill summary: Identifies specific conduct that constitutes a post on a socia...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 | State Teachers' Retirement System
A.B. 178
From bill summary: Extends until June 30, 2013 exemptions to limits on the postretirement compensation that may be earned in specified types...
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Teaching Quality--Teacher Contracts (Not Tenure) |
Signed into law 07/2012 |
P-12 | Employee Appointments
A.B. 2125
From bill summary: Until December 31, 2015, in a district with a pupil population over 400,000, authorizes an employee appointment to specif...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Charter School Finance and Facilities
S.B. 1016 - Charter School Finance and Facilities
From sections 1, 25.1, 25.3, 25.5, 25.7, 25.9, 33, 41, 42 of bill summary:
Until July 1, 2017, authorizes a county board of education, sub...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Charter School Borrowing
S.B. 1016 - Charter School Borrowing
From section 54 of bill summary: Permits a charter school to borrow and expend borrowed funds, and be subject to certain indebtedness provis...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Appropriations and Reappropriations
S.B. 1016 - Appropriations and Reappropriations
From section 56 of bill summary: Reduces by various amounts appropriations made for supplemental school counseling, special education, partn...
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Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Proposed Federal Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Acts of 2011 and 2012
A.J.R. 24
Urges the state's congressional delegation to sign on as cosponsors of, and requests that Congress and the president enact, the proposed fed...
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P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Family Fee Schedule for State-Funded Child Care Services
S.B. 1016 - Family Fee Schedule for State-Funded Child Care Services
Provides relative to the income eligibility limits in the family fee schedule for state-funded child care services. Requires that the family...
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P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Preschool Finance
S.B. 1016 - Preschool Finance
From sections 5-16 of bill summary: Previous provisions provide for both part- and full-day preschool programs. New provisions provide that ...
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P-3 Preschool |
Passed 06/2012 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Education
S.R. 32
Proclaims the importance of early childhood education; encourages senate constituents to enroll their chidren in preschool and other early c...
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Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Notification of Parent Rights and Responsibilities.
A.B. 2262
From bill analysis: Authorizes the governing board of each school district to, at the request of parents or guardians, provide the annual no...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. | Athletic Scholarships
A.B. 1743
From bill analysis: Clarifies that existing law regarding the provision of information about athletic scholarships to student athletes appli...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. | Cal Grant Awards
S.B. 1016 - Cal Grant Awards
From sections 45, 47, 48 of bill summary: Commencing with the 2013–14 award year, sets maximum tuition award amounts for Cal Grant A and B a...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. | Cal Grant Institutional Eligibility + Cohort Default Rates and On-Time Completion Rates
S.B. 1016 - Cal Grant Institutional Eligibility + Cohort Default Rates and On-Time Completion Rates
From section 46 of bill summary: Existing provisions provide that, effective with the 2012-13 academic year, for students at the institution...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Community College | Community College Fees for Nonresident Students
S.B. 1016 - Community College Fees for Nonresident Students
From section 50 of bill summary: Amends community college fee for nonresident students. Increases fee from $42 per course unit to a per-unit...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Community College | Community College Funding Boost If Tax Increase Approved
S.B. 1016 - Community College Funding Boost If Tax Increase Approved
From section 69 of bill summary: Requires that, if the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012 is approved by the voters at t...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Potential Reduction of School Year to 160 Days
S.B. 1016 - Potential Reduction of School Year to 160 Days
From section 40 of bill summary: Provides that if the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012 (Attorney General reference num...
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Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Eligibility for Project Workability Funds
S.B. 1016 - Eligibility for Project Workability Funds
From section 44 of bill summary: Extends definition of eligible applicants for Project Workability program (to provide transition services f...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 | Benefit Calculation When Instructional Days Reduced
S.B. 1016 - Benefit Calculation When Instructional Days Reduced
From section 27 of bill summary: Provides that, if a district, county office of education, or charter school reduces the number of days of i...
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Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 04/2012 |
P-12 | CAHSEE Alternative Means
5 CA ADC 1216.1
Adopts emergency regulation to extend to January 1, 2013 deadline for state board to implement regulations providing for an "alternative mea...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
P-12 | Budget Act of 2011
S.B. 81
Requires the state to readjust how budget cuts impact district funding. District funding would be reduced by a rate of 9.57% instead of 8.92...
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P-3 Governance |
Issued 02/2012 |
P-12 | State Advisory Council on Early Childhood Education and Care
E.O. B-15-12
Designates the existing Head Start and Early Learning Advisory Committee as the state advisory council on early childhood education and care...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Size of Pupil Subgroups for Purposes of API Reporting
S.B. 512
From bill summary: Requires that reporting for purposes of the Academic Performance Index (API) include performance data for pupil subgroups...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Education Quality Index
S.B. 547
From bill summary: Makes provisions relating to the Academic Performance Index (API) inoperative on July 1, 2014, and repeals them as of Jan...
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Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Dropout Recovery High Schools and Individual Pupil Growth Model
A.B. 180
From bill summary: Existing law requires the superintendent of public instruction, with approval of the state board, to develop an alternati...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Parent Trigger Amendments
A.B. 203
From bill summary: Requires interventions to be implemented for a school that is identified as persistently lowest-achieving but does not re...
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Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Fee for Class in English and Citizenship
A.B. 189 - Fee for Class in English and Citizenship
From bill summary: Authorizes the governing board of a school district to charge a fee for a class in English and citizenship for foreigners...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Assessment System
A.B. 250 - Assessment System
From bill summary: Requires the superintendent of public instruction to develop recommendations, to be reported to the fiscal and appropriat...
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Assessment--Accommodations |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Assessment of LEP Students and Students with Disabilities
A.B. 532
From bill summary: Requires California's assessments to be valid, reliable, and comparable for pupils who are limited English proficient and...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Documents to Demonstrate Residency
A.B. 207
From bill summary: Requires a school district to accept a wide range of documents and representations from the parent or legal guardian of a...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Excused Absence and Military Deployment
A.B. 387
From bill summary: Includes spending time with an immediate family member who is an active duty member of the uniformed services and has bee...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | English Language Development Standards
A.B. 124
From bill summary: Makes a clarifying change to the provisions relating to the standards for English language development. Requires the supe...
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Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Testing English Language Development
S.B. 753
From bill summary: Requires a school district to annually conduct the assessment of each English language learner's English language develop...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Occupational and Technical Training
S.B. 451
From bill summary: Requires the Student Aid Commission to develop, and regularly review and update at least every 5 years, the areas of occu...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Linked Learning
A.B. 790
From bill summary: Commencing with the 2012–13 school year, establishes the Linked Learning Pilot Program to be administered by the state de...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | University of California Curriculum Integration Institute (UCCII)
S.B. 611
From bill summary: Makes legislative declarations and findings. Requests the Regents of the University of California, subject to availabilit...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Subject Matter Projects
S.B. 612
From bill summary: Existing law provides for the establishment and maintenance of subject matter projects by the Regents of the University o...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Graduation Requirements
A.B. 1330
From bill summary: Commencing with the 2012–13 school year, adds completion of a course in career technical education as an alternative to t...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Charter School Petitions
A.B. 86
From bill summary: With respect to charter petitions signed by teachers, requires that the petition be signed by a number of nonsupervisoria...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
A.B. 1034
From bill summary: Revises the provision relating to admission requirements so that admission policies and procedures are to be included in ...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Computation of Attendance for Certain Students and Classes
S.B. 361
From bill summary: Existing law sets the minimum schoolday in a high school, except certain schools, including a regional occupational cente...
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Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Interdistrict Transfer for Child of Parent Who Works in Another District
S.B. 381
From bill summary: Extends the operation of the provision authorizing the district in which a pupil's parent or the legal guardian is physic...
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Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Open Enrollment
A.B. 47
From bill summary: Existing law, the Open Enrollment Act, allows the parent of a pupil enrolled in a low-achieving school to submit an appli...
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Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | State Seal of Biliteracy on High School Diplomas and Transcripts
A.B. 815
From bill summary: Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency...
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Curriculum--Physical Education |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Health and Fitness Award Program
A.B. 200
From bill summary: Requires the state board to establish the Health and Fitness Award Program to recognize schools that conduct their physic...
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Curriculum--Science |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Science Standards
S.B. 300
From bill summary: Requires the state board to adopt science content standards pursuant to specified requirements. Requires the superintende...
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Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Instruction on the Role of Filipinos in WWII
A.B. 199
From bill summary: Encourages instruction in social sciences for grades 7-12 to include instruction on the role of Filipinos in World War II...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Strategic Plan for Connecting Education and Workforce Development
A.B. 1310
Partially from bill summary: Requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, in conjunction with the California Workforce Investm...
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Equity |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Gender Expression and Gender Identity
A.B. 887
Creates definition of "gender expression" in the Education Code. Adds that a public education is to be offered to all, regardless of gender ...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Hearing Before Adoption of Local Budget
A.B. 189 - Hearing Before Adoption of Local Budget
From bill summary: Requires a public hearing to be held prior to and independent of a meeting where the governing board of a school district...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | School Facilities Funding: High-Performance Schools
S.B. 128
Makes specified new construction and modernization projects eligible for an incentive grant if the project meets the criteria prescribed in ...
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Finance--Federal |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Facilitating Renewable Energy Products on School Lands
A.B. 982
From bill summary: Contingent on the cooperation of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, requires the state lands commission to enter into a ...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Reimbursable State Mandates
A.B. 202
From bill summary: Expresses legislative intent that statutes creating a reimbursable state mandate on local educational agencies be periodi...
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Finance--Student Fees |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Prohibition for Pupil Fees for Participation in an Educational Activity
A.B. 165
From bill summary: Prohibits a public school pupil from being required to pay a pupil fee for participation in an educational activity, as s...
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Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Gifts to Board Members and Employees of Public Employees' Retirement System and State Teachers' Retirement System
S.B. 439
From bill summary: Prohibits any member of the board of, and any designated employee of, the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) or S...
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Health |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Training Nonmedical School Employees to Provide Emergency Assistance to Students Suffering Seizures
S.B. 161
From bill summary: Until January 1, 2017, authorizes a school district, county office of education, or charter school to participate in a pr...
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Health |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Concussions
A.B. 25
From bill summary: Requires a school district that elects to offer athletic programs to immediately remove from a school-sponsored athletic ...
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High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Common Assessment System for Community Colleges
A.B. 743
From bill summary: Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish a common assessment system with specifi...
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High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12,
Community College | College Promise Partnership Act (Long Beach)
S.B. 650
From bill summary: Makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Long Beach Unified School Di...
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High School--GED (General Education Development) |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Option for 17-Year-Olds to Be Eligible to Sit for GED
S.B. 461
Adds being at least 17 years of age, having accumulated fewer than 100 units of high school credit before enrollment in the academic program...
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High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Awarding of Credit for Certain Pupils in Foster Care
S.B. 578
From bill summary: Requires a school district and county office of education to accept coursework satisfactorily completed by a pupil in fos...
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Leadership--District Superintendent |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Retirees' Return to Work
S.B. 349
Makes numerous changes to retirement provisions, including permitting a retired member of the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), purs...
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P-3 Child Care |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | Child Care Providers: Bargaining Representative
A.B. 101
From bill summary: Authorizes family child care providers to choose whether to be represented by a single provider organization designated p...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Anti-Smoking and Tobacco Enforcement
A.B. 795
From bill summary: Provide that the governing bodies of the California State University and each community college district have the authori...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Participation in Student Government
A.B. 844
From bill summary: Provides that any student, including a person without lawful immigration status, or a person who is exempt from nonreside...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Pilot to Increase Participation in State and Federal Financial Aid
A.B. 91
Directs the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish a voluntary pilot program on up to 10 community colle...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Financial Aid, Student Fees for Undocumented Immigrants
A.B. 131
From bill summary: Existing law requires that a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, who has attended high school in California for 3 o...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Residency Requirements for Military or Dependents
A.B. 882
From bill summary: Amends state law to conform with federal law granting a member of the Armed Forces, or his or her dependent, entitlement ...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Contracts for Services at CSU
A.B. 450
From bill summary: Requires the California State University trustees' policies and procedures for the acquisition of food services to ensure...
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Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Best Value Construction Contract Pilot Program
S.B. 835
From bill summary: Expands the Best Value Construction Contract Pilot Program, which currently allows a University of California campus in S...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Governing Board Elections
A.B. 684
From bill summary: Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to change election systems in accordance with the provisio...
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Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Enrollment of Previously Expelled Community College Student
A.B. 288
From bill summary: Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to either deny enrollment, permit enrollment or permit con...
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Postsecondary Participation--Affirmative Action |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Consideration of Race, Gender, Ethnicity and National Origin in Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions
S.B. 185
From bill summary: Authorizes the University of California and the California State University to consider race, gender, ethnicity and natio...
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Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Priority Enrollment for Foster Youth
A.B. 194
From bill summary: Until January 1, 2017, requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the Uni...
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Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | California Cadet Corps
S.B. 537
From bill summary: Authorizes the organization of a California Cadet Corps (http://www.cadet.org/cadet/site/default.asp) at each college, co...
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Religion |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | "Undue Hardship" in Terms of Rescheduling College Exam to Accommodate Religious Observance
A.B. 668
Defines "undue hardship" for purposes of allowing a student at a California State University campus to take an exam when that activity would...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Vetoed 10/2011 |
P-12 | After School Education and Safety Program
S.B. 737
From bill summary: Permits a participating program operated by a city, county or nonprofit organization in the After School Education and Sa...
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Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | After School Education and Safety Program
S.B. 429
From bill summary: Provides that any school that establishes a program pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program, or establi...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Comprehensive School Safety Plans
A.B. 680
From bill summary: Authorizes school districts and county offices of education, in consultation with law enforcement officials, to elect not...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Bullying
A.B. 9
From bill summary: Requires the policy adopted by the local educational agencies to prohibit discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bu...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Postsec. | Harassment and Bullying; Nondiscrimination; Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation
A.B. 620
From bill summary: Requests the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing ...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Bullying
A.B. 1156
From bill summary: As of July 1, 2012, encourages the inclusion of policies and procedures aimed at the prevention of bullying in comprehens...
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School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | School District Reorganization
S.B. 821
From bill summary: With respect to a school district involved in a reorganization, requires the interim or governing board of the existing s...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | School Lunch Program Eligibility Data in Determining CalFresh Eligibility
A.B. 402
From bill summary: Authorizes a school district or county office of education to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the local age...
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Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Enrollment of Foster Children
A.B. 709
From bill summary: Specifies that the new school is required to immediately enroll a foster child even if he or she is unable to produce med...
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State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
Community College | Community College E-Transcript Program
A.B. 1056
From bill summary: Requires the office of the chancellor of the California Community Colleges, by January 1, 2012, to implement a procedure ...
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Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Student Records
A.B. 143
From bill summary: Redefines pupil directory information that districts may release to no longer include a pupil's place of birth, but to in...
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Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Diversification of State Retirement Assets
S.B. 294
From bill summary: Requires the board of administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement Board to eac...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Social Content Reviews of Instructional Materials
A.B. 339
From bill summary: Amends provisions related to state board review and adoption of instructional materials. Requires the state board to adop...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Supplemental Instructional Materials
S.B. 140
From bill summary: Requires the state department of education to recommend, and the state board to approve, evaluation criteria to guide the...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Curriculum Frameworks, Standards, Instructional Materials, Model Professional Development Modules
A.B. 250 - Curriculum Frameworks, Standards, Instructional Materials, Model Professional Development Modules
From bill summary: Deletes the schedule for submission of instructional materials for foreign languages and health for state board approval,...
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Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 10/2011 |
P-12 | Purchasing of Instructional Materials in the Neediest Schools
S.B. 509
From bill summary: Authorizes each school district to purchase the newest adopted instructional materials for pupils in all of the neediest ...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12,
Community College | Enrollment in Workforce Development Program
A.B. 835
Authorizes a community college district to enroll high school pupils who are not residents of the district in a California Community College...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Linked Learning Credential
A.B. 1304
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup to develop program standards for the issuance of a recognition of ...
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Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Industry-Based Certification Incentive Grant Program
S.B. 942 - Industry-Based Certification Incentive Grant Program
Repeals the Industry-Based Certification Incentive Grant Program, which awards grants to selected school districts, county offices of educat...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending 09/2011 |
P-12 | Interdistrict Transfers
S.B. 745
Existing law defines a school district of choice as one in which the district's governing board has, by resolution, elected to accept interd...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Vetoed 09/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Budget Issues
S.B. 6
From bill summary: Requires the director of finance to meet specified requirements if he/she proposes to reduce an item of appropriation pur...
| More... |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Duties of Secretary of Education and State Board President
S.B. 942 - Duties of Secretary of Education
From bill summary: Eliminates the secretary of education's duties with regard to specified programs, including, among others, the Child Care...
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Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Office of the Governor
S.B. 940 - Office of the Governor
From bill summary: Requires reports submitted to the Legislature by the University of California, the California State University, the Offic...
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High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate
S.B. 532
From bill summary: Requires the superintendent of public instruction to annually update the information on Advanced Placement on the departm...
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Postsecondary |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
Postsec. | National Guard and Reservists Called into Active Duty
A.B. 636
From bill summary: Revises the conditions for a tuition and fees refund for National Guard and reservist students called into active duty to...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Transportation Fees at Community Colleges
S.B. 774
From bill summary: Raise the maximum parking services fee limits at community colleges, and authorizes the governing board of each community...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
To governor 09/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Student Fees
A.B. 32
From bill summary: Provides that provision setting community college student fees at $36 per unit per semester repeals May 1, 2011 instead o...
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Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Intersegmental Working Group
S.B. 940 - Intersegmental Working Group
From bill summary: Eliminates the intersegmental working group within the California Postsecondary Education Commission to determine state f...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
Postsec. | Definition of "Private College" or "Private Participating College"
A.B. 1163
Amends definition of a "private college" or "private participating college" for purposes of the California Educational Facilities Authority...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
Postsec. | Priority Enrollment for Veterans
S.B. 813
From bill summary: Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Certain Transfer Students Receive Priority for Enrollment Planning and Admissions
S.B. 940 - Certain Transfer Students Receive Priority for Enrollment Planning and Admissions
From bill summary: Requires that transfer students admitted to the California State University pursuant to the the Student Transfer Achievem...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Governor's Reading Award Program
S.B. 942 - Governor's Reading Award Program
Repeals the Governor's Reading Award Program, a grant program for school districts that maintain any of grades K-8. Repeals the requirement ...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Gender Identity and Gender Expression
S.B. 559
Expresses legislative intent that public schools have access to supplemental resources to combat bias on the basis of gender identity and ge...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Intellectual Disability
S.B. 942 - Intellectual Disability
Replaces references to "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability" in provisions governing special education programs. http://www.legi...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | California Interscholastic Federation
S.B. 107
From bill summary: Extends provisions governing the operation of the California Interscholastic Federation to January 2017 (these were due t...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
Postsec. | Records Maintained by Auxiliary Organization or UC Campus Foundation
S.B. 8
From bill summary: Requires records maintained by an auxiliary organization of the governing board of a community college district, the Boar...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Out-of-State-Prepared Credential Applicants
S.B. 941 - Out-of-State-Prepared Credential Applicants
From bill summary: Removes reference to a "professional clear teaching credential" in provisions regarding credentialing of out-of-state pre...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Awarding of Additional Subject Credential or New Teaching Credential Type
S.B. 941 - Awarding of Additional Subject Credential or New Teaching Credential Type
From bill summary: Requires the commission on teacher credentialing to issue an authorization for an additional subject or for a new teachin...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment
S.B. 941 - Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment
From bill summary: Permits the commission on teacher credentialing to waive requirements relating to beginning teacher support and assessmen...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Accreditation of Educator Preparation
S.B. 941 - Accreditation of Educator Preparation
From bill summary: Existing law requires the commission on teacher credentialing to adopt and implement an accreditation framework, setting ...
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Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
Signed into law 09/2011 |
P-12 | Education Technology Professional Development Program
S.B. 940 - Education Technology Professional Development Program
From bill summary: Repeals the Education Technology Professional Development Program to provide teacher training on the use of technology in...
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Health |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 | California School Climate, Health, and Learning Survey
S.C.R. 18
From bill summary: States legislative intent to pursue every means necessary to ensure that the California School Climate, Health, and Learn...
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Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Appeal Procedures for Denial of Admission to CSU
A.B. 670
From bill summary: Require the trustees of the California State University to ensure that campuses meet specific requirements with respect t...
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Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
Postsec. | Private Postsecondary Education
A.B. 1013
Provides that if the U.S. Department of Education does not have a relevant exam for an ability-to-benefit student (i.e., a student without a...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | County and Local School Attendance Review Boards
A.B. 614
From bill summary: Specifically requires a representative of school, county or community mental health personnel to be appointed to a county...
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Attendance |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Conditional School Attendance in Absence of Pertussis Boosters
S.B. 614
Until June 30, 2012, allows a county office of education, district governing board or charter school governing body to allow a student in gr...
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Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Interdistrict Attendance Appeals
A.B. 1085
From bill summary: Expresses legislative intent that school districts and county boards of education use their best efforts to expeditiously...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Prohibition of Discriminatory Content
S.B. 48
From bill summary: Updates references to certain categories of persons and requires instruction in social sciences to include a study of the...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Allocation of Federal Funds to Districts
A.B. 169
Clarifies that for purposes of state board allocation of federal funds to districts, "districts" are defined to include school districts, co...
| More... |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Funds for Special Education Instruction
A.B. 108 - Special Education Funding
From bill summary: Amends the Budget Act of 2011 by reducing the amount of moneys appropriated from the general fund to the state department...
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Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | School-Based Health Centers
A.J.R. 10
From bill summary: Memorializes the legislature's support for the school-based health center program authorized by the federal Patient Prote...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
Postsec. | Morrill Act
S.J.R. 1
Memorializes the President of the United States and the Congress to renew the commitment to accessible higher education and the support of r...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
Postsec. | California Dream Act of 2011
A.B. 130
Enacts the California Dream Act of 2011. Provides that on or after January 1, 2012, a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, who is exemp...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Student Fees at Community Colleges
A.B. 108 - Community College Fees
Amends circumstances under which the governing board of each community college district must raise student fees to $46 per semester, and whe...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Oversight of Instruction
A.B. 1029
Extends to January 1, 2014 deletion of requirement that the board of governors of the California Community Colleges review and approve cours...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
Postsec. | Unaccredited Doctoral Degrees
A.B. 611
From bill summary: Prohibits a private postsecondary institution from offering an unaccredited doctoral degree program without disclosing to...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | "Electronic Act" under Anti-Bullying Provisions
A.B. 746
Specifies that an "electronic act" as defined under anti-bullying policies includes a post on a social network Web site. http://www.leginfo....
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Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 | Rehiring Laid-Off Teachers
A.B. 1269
Amends provisions related to rehiring of laid-off teachers. Deletes provisions requiring that reemployment be in the reverse order of layoff...
| More... |
Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. | ID for Postsecondary Admission and Placement Exams
A.B. 176
Provides relative to the administration of standardized tests for purposes of postsecondary education.
From bill summary: Requires a test s...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Charter School Finance
A.B. 114 - Charter School Finance
From bill summary: Provides that, to the extent funds are provided, for the 2010–11 to the 2014–15 fiscal years, a supplemental categorical ...
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Health--Mental Health |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | Referral to Mental Health Services
A.B. 114 - Referral to Mental Health Services
From bill summary: Makes certain provisions authorizing referral, through a prescribed process, of a pupil suspected of needing mental healt...
| More... |
High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Middle College High School Students
A.B. 230
From bill summary: Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to assign a low enrollment priority to middle c...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. | Cal Grant Institutional Eligibility
A.B. 114 - Cal Grant Institutional Eligibility
From bill summary: Specifies that, effective with the 2012-13 academic year, an institution with a 3-year cohort default rate that is equal ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Out-of-State Absence of Community College District Governing Board Members
A.B. 334
Makes provisions prohibiting the out-of-state absence of a local school board member (with exceptions for illness, military service, etc.) a...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 | School Calendar Reduction for 2011-12 School Year
A.B. 114 - School Calendar Reduction for 2011-12 School Year
Adds new Section 46201.3 to specify (only if subdivision (c) of Section 3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 is operative) that for the 2011–12 sc...
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School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 | School Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
A.C.R. 22
Provides that legislature declares March 2011 to be California School Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, and urges that the issue of bully...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 | Partnership Academies in Clean Technology and Renewable Energy
S.B. 1
From bill summary: Requires the superintendent of public instruction to award grants to districts that propose to implement or maintain a pa...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Child Care and Development Services
S.B. 70 - Sec. 8201, 8208, 8263.1
Amends eligibility requirements for children to receive child care and development services. Existing law provides children must be at least...
| More... |
Class Size |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Class Size Reduction Funds
S.B. 70 - Sec. 58
From bill summary: Existing law appropriates funding for class size reduction grades K-3, to be expended consistent with specified requireme...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Funding School Facility Maintenance
S.B. 70 - Sec. 17070.766
Extends through the 2014-15 fiscal year the temporary provision that reduces the deposit that districts applying for ongoing and major schoo...
| More... |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Shortening School Year by 5 Days
S.B. 70 - Sec. 46201.2
Extends through 2014-15 school year the provision allowing a school district, county office of education or charter school to shorten its in...
| More... |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Finance
S.B. 70 - Sec. 84043
Extends through the 2014-15 fiscal year a provision authorizing a community college district to use funds apportioned to the district for sp...
| More... |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec. | State Financial Aid Programs
S.B. 70 - Sec. 69432.7, 69432.9, 69433.2, 69433.6
Makes amendments to the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Awards, the Co...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec. | Lowering Instruction and Administration Costs, Meeting Enrollment Goals
S.B. 70 - Sec. 59 and 60
From bill summary:
Requires the Regents of the University of California and the Trustees of the California State University, in implementin...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Community College | Access to Community College Student Records
S.B. 70 - Sec. 76243
From bill summary: Under existing law, a community college or community college district may not permit any person to access student records...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | CALPADS Implementation
S.B. 70 - Sec. 54 and 55
From bill summary: Appropriates $2,257,000 from the Federal Trust Fund to the state department of education, in accordance with a specified ...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Textbook Visits by County Superintendents
S.B. 70 - Sec. 1240.3
Extends until July 1, 2015 the mandate that county superintendents make an annual visit to each school in his/her county, with the priority ...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 | Prohibition from Adoption or Implementation of Instructional Materials
S.B. 70 - Sec. 60200.7
Extends until the 2015-16 school year a provision prohibiting the state board of education from adopting instructional materials. Also exten...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | Truants
A.B. 1610 - Truants
Requires initial parental notification of child's status as truant to be made using the most cost-effective method possible, including e-mai...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | English Language Acquisition Program
A.B. 1610 - English Language Acquisition
Primarily from bill summary: Repeals English Language Acquisition Program for students in grades 4-8. Requires the superintendent of public ...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | Charter School Facility Grant Program
A.B. 1610 - Charter School Facility Grant Program
From bill summary: Existing law authorizes a local educational agency, including a direct-funded charter school, to apply for any state cate...
| More... |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | Deferring Payments to Districts
A.B. 1624
Allows the state to defer up to $3.2 billion in payments to school districts until additional funding can be found. http://www.leginfo.ca.go...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
Postsec. | Prohibition of Student Fees to Support Intercollegiate Athletics Programs
A.B. 1610 - Prohibition of Student Fees to Support Intercollegiate Athletics Programs
From bill summary: Prohibits the trustees of the California State University from allocating, and would request the regents of the Universit...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | University of California Retirement Plan
A.B. 1610 - University of California Retirement Plan
From bill summary: Existing provision expresses legislative intent that no new general fund augmentation be made available for contributions...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | Supplemental Instruction
A.B. 1610 - Supplemental Instruction
From bill summary: Makes inoperative until July 1, 2013 the requirement that districts offer programs of direct, systematic and intensive su...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | Behavioral Interventions for Students with Disabilities
A.B. 1610 - Behavioral Interventions for Students with Disabilities
From bill summary: Existing law requires the superintendent of public instruction to develop, and the state board of education to adopt, reg...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | County Juvenile Court Schools
A.B. 1610 - County Juvenile Court Schools
From bill summary: Makes a county juvenile court school eligible to receive economic impact aid funding commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal y...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
Signed into law 10/2010 |
P-12 | Awards for National Board-Certified Teachers
A.B. 1610 - Awards for National Board-Certified Teachers
From bill summary: Existing law makes a teacher who earns National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification and meets other s...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Including Primary Language Assessment in State Assessment/Accountability System
S.B. 930
From bill summary: Requires that any primary language assessment developed by the department and administered to limited English proficient ...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Adopted 09/2010 |
P-12 | Parent Empowerment
5 CA ADC 4800, 4801, 4802, 4803, 4804, 4805, 4806, 4807
Adopts emergency regulations to implement Senate Bill 4, Chapter 3, 5th Extraordinary Session of 2010. This Senate Bill and these emergency ...
| More... |
Assessment |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Evaluation of STAR Assessment Program
A.B. 391
Requires the superintendent of public instruction, by April 1, 2011, to contract for an independent evaluation of the Standardized Testing a...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | California Partnership Academies for At-Risk Pupils
S.B. 1354
From bill analysis: Modifies the criteria for determining "at risk" for purposes of eligibility to participating in a California Partnership...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Reporting Pupil Attendance Data
S.B. 1357
From bill summary: Requires the department of education, contingent on federal funding for this purpose and in consultation with the departm...
| More... |
Attendance |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Determining Pupil Residency for Attendance in a District
A.B. 1854
From bill analysis: Requires school districts to accept reasonable evidence that a pupil meets residency requirements for school attendance ...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Chronic Truant
S.B. 1317
From bill summary: Defines a chronic truant as any pupil absent from school without a valid excuse for 10% or more of the school days in one...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | CTE Facilities
S.B. 1380
From bill summary: Requires school facilities constructed or modernized with specified bond funds set aside for career technical education p...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Aligning Cal C Grants with High-Need/-Wage/-Growth Occupations
S.B. 957
Primarily from bill summary: Requires that Cal C grants (which may already only be used for occupational or technical training) be used only...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Linked Learning Programs
A.B. 1223
Defines "linked learning programs". Authorizes the commission on teacher credentialing to convene a workgroup consisting of specified member...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Partnership Academies in Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Businesses
S.B. 675
From bill summary: Requires the Controller annually to allocate $8,000,000 from the Energy Resources Program Account, upon appropriation by ...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Charter Renewals and Appeals
A.B. 2543
Requires a charter school to submit a renewal petition to the chartering authority no later than September 15 prior to the expiration of the...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Charter School Transparency and Ethics
A.B. 572
Specifies that charter schools are subject to state sunshine laws, the California Public Records Act and specified ethics and conflict-of-in...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Federal Tax Credit Bond Volume Cap
A.B. 2560
Authorizes the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California School Financing Authority (CSFA) to assign and distribute the st...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Eligibility of Entities for Federal Funding
A.B. 1683
From bill analysis: Requires the state board of education to include school districts, county offices of education, charter schools and othe...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Interdistrict Transfer
A.B. 2444
From bill analysis: Precludes a pupil enrolled in a school through an interdistrict transfer provision from having to reapply for an interdi...
| More... |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Heritage Schools
S.B. 1116
Applies specified background check procedures to heritage schools, which serve children between the ages of 5 and 18 who attend a public or ...
| More... |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Self-Defense and Safety Instruction in P.E.
S.B. 1290
Requires the state board of education and the curriculum development and supplemental materials commission to include self-defense instructi...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | California Holocaust Memorial Week
A.C.R. 31
Establishes the week of April 12 through April 18, 2010 as "California Holocaust Memorial Week," and urges Californians to observe these day...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Academic Content Standards Commission for Science and History-Social Science
A.B. 97
Establishes the Academic Content Standards Commission for Science and History-Social Science. Upon the state superintendent's recommendation...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Fred Korematsu Day
A.B. 1775
Adds each January 30, Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, to the days having special significance for public schools...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | History-Social Science Framework and Textbooks
S.B. 1451
From bill summary: Requires the state board to inform the chairs of the assembly and senate education committees and the secretary for educa...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Community College | Pilot Program for Innovative Nursing and Allied Health Care Profession Education
A.B. 2385
Establishes the Pilot Program for Innovative Nursing and Allied Health Care Profession Education at the California Community Colleges. Provi...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12,
Community College | Linking CTE Offerings to High-Priority Workforce Needs
S.B. 515
From bill summary: Commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, requires as a condition of receiving federal funds provided under the Carl D. Pe...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Performance Audits on School Facilities Bonds Proceeds
S.B. 1473
Defines the standards and methodologies to be used on performance audits for funds related to certain school facilities projects. Requires t...
| More... |
Health |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Integrated Pest Management
S.B. 1157
From bill summary: Beginning January 1, 2014, requires all schoolsites to adopt an integrated pest management program as established, admini...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12,
Community College | Authority of Physician's Assistant
S.B. 1069
From bill analysis: Authorizes a physician's assistant to:
(1) Certify that teacher certification or renewal candidates are free from any c...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Free, Fresh Water During School Meals
S.B. 1413
Requires a school district to provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times in school food service areas by July 1, 2011, u...
| More... |
High School--College Readiness |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
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...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Reporting by California Community Colleges
A.B. 1713
From bill analysis: Authorizes the California Community Colleges (CCC) to consolidate annual reports on concurrent enrollment and special ad...
| More... |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | CTE Course As Alternative in Graduation Requirements
A.B. 2446
From bill analysis: Beginning with the 2011–12 school year and until July 2016, adds completion of a career technical education course as an...
| More... |
Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | American Indian Education Center Program
A.B. 2089
Existing law establishes California American Indian education centers to serve as community-based educational resource centers for American ...
| More... |
P-3 Kindergarten |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Kindergarten Entrance Age
S.B. 1381
Changes the required birthday for admission to kindergarten and first grade to November 1 for the 2012–13 school year, October 1 for the 201...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Athletic Scholarships
A.B. 2079
From bill summary: Beginning January 2012, requires California colleges and universities that offer athletic scholarships to provide the fol...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Increasing Student Participation in State and Federal Financial Aid
A.B. 1997
Requires the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, until January 2014, to establish a voluntary pilot program to in...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | California Dream Act of 2010
S.B. 1460
From bill summary: Enacts the California Dream Act of 2010. As of July 1, 2011, exempts a person who has attended, for 3 or more years, at l...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Student Financial Aid
A.B. 1413
Effective July 1, 2011: Provides that persons who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition (per section 68130.5 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Transfer and Student Textbooks
A.B. 2203
Requires the Trustees of the California State University (CSU), and requests the Regents of the University of California (UC) to review and ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Nonresident Tuition
A.B. 2297
Authorizes community college districts to use an alternative method to set nonresident tuition rates. Deletes the requirement that community...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Transportation and Parking Services Fees
S.B. 82
From bill summary: Increases the combined limit of the transportation fee (for the transportation costs incurred by the district or the cost...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Part-Time and Temporary Faculty
A.C.R. 138
Expresses legislative intent that part-time and temporary faculty receive pay and benefits that are equal to those of specified tenured and ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Improving Student Success in Community Colleges
S.B. 1143
Directs the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to adopt a plan for promoting and improving student success within the C...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education
A.C.R. 184
Expresses the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education's recommendation that its existence be extended into the 2011–12 regul...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Live Audio Transmission of Postsecondary Meetings
A.B. 1436
Directs the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the trustees of the California State University, the California Postsec...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Determining Job Placement Rates for Graduates of For-Profit Programs
A.B. 2393
From bill analysis: Requires institutions subject to the Private Postsecondary Education Act (Act) and the related oversight provided by the...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Proprietary Postsecondary Education
A.B. 1889
From bill analysis: Prohibits an institution from offering an unaccredited doctoral degree program without disclosing to prospective student...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Repeal Date on California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009
S.B. 294
Changes repeal date on the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2015. (Act provides for...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Longitudinal Data Systems and Teacher Preparation Program Data
A.B. 2086
From bill analysis: Existing law creates the California Education Information System, consisting of the CALPADS (California Longitudinal Pup...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Public Involvement in and Notification of Changes to Admissions Requirements
A.B. 2402
From bill analysis: Requires that, before adopting a change in admissions criteria that affects applicants residing within the local service...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Consideration of Certain Factors in Student Admissions
A.B. 2047
From bill analysis: Authorizes the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) to consider geographic origin and...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Assistance for Students Taking Military Leave of Absence
S.B. 1075
As an alternative to specified protections for a student granted an academic leave of absence for military service, requires an institution,...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
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 ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Facilitating Transfer
A.B. 2302
Directs the California State University (CSU) and the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCC) to work together t...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Sharing Student Data with Afterschool Program Operators
A.B. 2178
To the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws, authorizes local educational agency (LEA) grantees funded through to the After...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Cost of Program Site Supervisor for Afterschool Program
A.B. 434
From bill analysis: Specifies that for the After School Education and Safety (ASES) Program, the cost of a program site supervisor may be in...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program
S.B. 798
Primarily from bill summary: Requires, in any fiscal year in which the total state appropriation for that fiscal year under the 21st Century...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
Postsec. | Fire Inspections of University of California Property
A.B. 2021
From bill analysis: Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to enforce the building standards and other regulations of the State Fire Marshal on a...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Door Locks for School Safety
A.B. 211
Requires all new construction projects submitted to the division of the state architect to include locks that allow doors to classrooms and ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | School Facilities and Special Education Provisions
S.B. 1432
From bill summary: Requires a school district or county office of education, as a condition of receiving approval by the state department of...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Construction Permits
A.B. 2048
Prohibits the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development from issuing a building permit for any construction absent certification f...
| More... |
Special Education |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Special Needs Students in Foster Care System
S.B. 1059
From bill analysis: Clarifies which local educational agency is responsible for the provision and payment of special education services for ...
| More... |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Educational Stability for Foster Youth
S.B. 1353
From bill analysis: Makes findings and declarations about the importance of a child's education; the negative effects on foster children of ...
| More... |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Attendance of Foster Children
A.B. 1933
From bill analysis: Requires an LEA, at the initial detention or any subsequent change in a foster child's placement, to allow that child to...
| More... |
Special Populations--Migrant Education |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Migrant Education
S.B. 331
Reduces the number of years a child may be deemed a migrant child from 5 years to 3 years. Deletes provisions (1) requiring priority to be g...
| More... |
STEM |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | STEM Education
S.B. 1444
From bill summary: Sets forth various legislative findings and declarations relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S...
| More... |
STEM |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
Postsec. | High Speed Train System and Assessment of Workforce Needs
S.B. 964
From bill summary: Requires the High-Speed Rail Authority to contract with the Employment Development Department to develop a labor market a...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Postsecondary Auxiliary Organizations and California Public Records Act
S.B. 330
Requires specified entities to comply with the California Public Records Act (i.e., an auxiliary organization created by the governing board...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Vetoed 09/2010 |
P-12 | Retirement Benefits and Limit on When Retiree May Return to Work
S.B. 1425
From bill summary: Provides that any change in salary, compensation or remuneration principally for the purpose of enhancing a member's bene...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Technology and Supplementary Instructional Materials
A.B. 2694
From bill analysis: Includes in the definition of "supplementary instructional materials" instructional materials that use current relevant ...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 | Work-Based Learning Programs (and Textbooks)
A.B. 2211
States legislative findings regarding work-based learning. Authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based le...
| More... |
Accountability |
Vetoed 08/2010 |
P-12 | Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Quality Education Investment Act
S.B. 1191
Requires that, in the report evaluating the effectiveness of the Quality Education Investment Act of 2006, the department identify the strat...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 08/2010 |
P-12 | Determining Graduation Rates in Lowest-Achieving Schools
A.B. 2083
Existing law provides that persistently lowest-achieving schools include a high school with a graduation rate below 60% in each of the last ...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Charter School Students' Freedom of Expression
S.B. 438
Makes clear that provisions protecting public school students' right to freedom of speech and of the press are also applicable to charter sc...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Emergency Regulations 08/2010 |
P-12 | Open Enrollment
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 4700, 4701, 4702
This emergency rulemaking action establishes the process for determining the 1,000 California open enrollment schools from which students ma...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Student Immunizations
A.B. 1937
Permits specified health care professionals acting under the direction of a supervising physician and surgeon to administer immunizations to...
| More... |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
Vetoed 08/2010 |
P-12 | Teacher Leaders Advisory Panel
A.B. 2040
Directs the commission on teacher credentialing to convene an advisory panel to consider:
(1) The various roles of teacher leaders in today'...
| More... |
Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Latino Education and Advocacy Week
A.C.R. 137
Declares the last week of March each year as a statewide week of advocacy for Latino education. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Legislative Intent to Increase Funding for Child Development Centers and Preschools
S.C.R. 47
Expresses legislative intent to increase funding for child development centers and preschools in future years, as resources become available...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
Postsec. | Master Plan for Higher Education
A.B. 1901
Amends 66002, regarding the state Master Plan for Higher Education, to reference "Appreciating Our Past, Ensuring Our Future: A Public Agend...
| More... |
STEM |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Task Force on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education
A.C.R. 88
Establishes, until January 1, 2014, the California Task Force on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education for the purpose ...
| More... |
Student Surveys |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Pupil Survey of Teachers
S.B. 1422
Authorizes a high school's student government to establish a committee of pupils and teachers to develop a survey by which pupils may provid...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Informing Private Schools of Action Against Credentialholders
A.B. 2685
Existing law requires the commission on teacher credentialing to send on a monthly basis to each private school a list of all teachers who h...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Credentials for Teachers of Students with Autism
A.B. 2160
Extends provision to October 2013 allowing a teacher with a Level 1 credential to provide instruction to pupils with autism. http://leginfo....
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 | Technology-Based Materials as Part of Instructional Materials
A.B. 1742
Adds that a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides K-12 special education services must, in providing state-adopted, standards-based, ...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Ed Roberts Day
S.B. 1256
Requires the Governor to proclaim January 23 of each year as Ed Roberts Day, and encourages public schools and educational institutions to c...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Ronald Reagan Day
S.B. 944
Designates February 6 of each year as Ronald Reagan Day, and encourages public schools and educational institutions to conduct exercises rem...
| More... |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Background Checks
A.B. 346
Amends Section 45125.01. Adds to existing provision allowing a single district or county superintendent to act on behalf of multiple distric...
| More... |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Vetoed 07/2010 |
Postsec. | Identification for Admission to Postsecondary Testing
A.B. 2026
Adds Section 99155, requiring a test sponsor to accept the Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridad (Consular Matriculation of High Security), i...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Vetoed 07/2010 |
P-12 | After School Programs and Funding
A.B. 1876
Authorizes administrators of an After School Education and Safety Program to provide activities on weekends. Provides costs associated with ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | School Recycling
A.C.R. 128
Encourages school districts to engage in recycling programs and to promote awareness of available state resources that schools may utilize t...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Merging of Elementary and High School District
A.B. 2081
From Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing Section 35542 provides that whenever the boundaries of an elementary school district and a high ...
| More... |
Standards |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Common Core State Standards
A.J.R. 39
Calls upon the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to develop common core state stan...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | California Interscholastic Federation and the California Public Records Act
A.B. 352
Amends Section 33353 of the Education Code. Adds legislative intent that the California Interscholastic Federation (a voluntary organization...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 | Adult Education Teaching Credentials
A.B. 1374
Adds Section 44251.2, which provides that a credential, permit, certificate or other document that is lawfully issued by the Commission on T...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 | Full Funding for IDEA
A.J.R. 31
Respectfully memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to enact one of the bills pending before Congress that would f...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Adopted 04/2010 |
P-12 | Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program
Title 4 CCR Sec(s) 10175, 10176, 10177, 10178, 10179, 10180, 10181,10182, 10185, 10187, 10188, 10190
Relates to the State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program. Adds definitions of "Academic Performance Index Growth" and "Adequa...
| More... |
School Climate/Culture |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 | Healthy School Environments
A.C.R. 145
Encourages schools and districts to take proactive and preventative steps to create healthy school environments, including training staff on...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | P-12 and Postsecondary Campuses as "Discrimination-Free Zones"
A.C.R. 82
Encourages public education institutions to:
--Designate each campus as a "Discrimination-Free Zone" to provide a safe haven from intoleran...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2010 |
P-12 | Reducing Instructional Days without Incurring Penalties
Title 5 CCR Sections 19824, 19851, 19854
Amends three sections of the audit guide to bring the regulations into conformance with legislation enacted effective July 28, 2009 (Assembl...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 02/2010 |
P-12 | Career Technical Education Teaching Credentials
Title 5 CCR Sections 80034.1, 80034.2, 80034.3, 80035, 80035.1,80035.5
Allows advanced industry certifications to meet one year of the three years of experience required for the Three-Year Preliminary CTE Teachi...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Academic Performance Index and Student Growth Measurements
S.B. 1E - Section 7
By January 2011, directs the superintendent and state board, in consultation with the advisory committee established through 52052.5(a), to ...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
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 id...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | California Assessment of Academic Achievement
S.B. 1E - Sections 9, 12, 14, 15, 16
Numbers below relate to Section numbers in Education Code.
60601: Extends repeal date on Chapter 5 of Education Code, "California Assessmen...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | CTE Data
S.B. 1E - Section 3
Directs the department of education, by January 2011, to ensure that the data elements pertaining to success in the 21st century workforce d...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Open Enrollment
S.B. 4E - Open Enrollment
Establishes the Open Enrollment Act. Creates new Sections 48350 and ff. of the Education Code, allowing students attending low-achieving sch...
| More... |
Finance--Federal |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Race to the Top
S.B. 1E - Section 8
Adds Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 53100) to the Education Code. Numbers below relate to new section numbers.
53100: For purposes of...
| More... |
Finance--Federal |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Legislative Intent and Race to the Top
S.B. 1E - Section 1
Establishes legislative intent regarding California's efforts in the federal Race to the Top competition. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-1...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | P-16 Data System
S.B. 1E - Section 4
Authorizes the department of education, the University of California, the California State University, the chancellor of the California Comm...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Longitudinal Data System
S.B. 2E
Sections below refer to sections of bill. Text below largely from Legislative Counsel's Digest:
Section 1: Amends Section 1798.24 of the Ci...
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State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Use of Data in Teacher/Administrator Evaluations and Employment Decisions
S.B. 1E - Section 2
Adds Section 10601.6 to the education code. Permits districts to use data in the California Education Information System and/or any other da...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Fees to Cover Costs of Providing Data to Researchers
S.B. 1E - Section 6
Directs the department of education to charge reasonable fees to researchers applying for access to individually identifiable data, in order...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | State Longitudinal Data System
S.B. 1E - Section 21
Adds that further purposes of state longitudinal data system are (1) to allow the state to publicly report data, as specified by the federal...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. | State Data System
S.B. 1E - Section 22
Permits unemployment and disability compensation information to be used to allow the state department of education and the 2- and 4-year pub...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 | Alternative Certification Pathways for STEM and CTE Teachers
S.B. 1E - Section 5
Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Career Technical Education Educator Credentialing Program to provide alternative...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 11/2009 |
Postsec. | Workforce Development
S.B. 599
Requires the successor agency to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education to transmit school performance data from scho...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Adopted 11/2009 |
P-12 | Charter and Critically Overcrowded Facilities Programs
Title 2 CCR Sec(s) 1859.2, 1859.121, 1859.148.2, 1859.164.2,1859.166.2, 1859.197
Amends rules concerning the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 as it relates to the Charter and Critically Overcrowded School (CO...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 11/2009 |
Postsec. | Alternative Cal Grant Delivery System
A.B. 187
Under existing law, Cal Grants are need-based awards granted by the Student Aid Commission. New provision requires the Student Aid Commissio...
| More... |
Assessment |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Evaluation of STAR Assessment Program
A.B. 476
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with an independent evaluator by April 2010 for evaluation of the Standardized...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | College-Readiness Tests
S.B. 511
Requires the department to ensure that a California Standards Test that is augmented for the purpose of determining readiness for college-le...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Notice of Consequences of Dropping Out
A.B. 374
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to produce a consequences of dropping out notice to inform pupils of the consequences of d...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Annual Report on Dropouts
S.B. 651
Requires the superintendent of public instruction by August 2011 to submit a report called the Annual Report on Dropouts in the state. Requi...
| More... |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Certificate to Supervise or Coach Student Activity
A.B. 1025
Requires a noncertified candidate, prior to assuming a paid or volunteer position to supervise, direct, or coach a pupil activity program sp...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Teacher Certification
A.B. 239
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue the authorization to provide services to limited-English-proficient pupils to an...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Bringing Interpreter to School Meetings
A.B. 1510
Authorizes parents or guardians of English learners to bring an oral language interpreter to all conferences, meetings or proceedings held a...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
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/Und...
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Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | School Counseling
S.B. 272
Partially from Legislative Counsel's Digest:
States legislative intent relating to the role of school counselors and counseling programs. ...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | CTE Courses as Electives for CSU Admissions Requirements
S.B. 147
Requires the trustees of the California State University to develop and implement a procedure for allowing a student to satisfy the completi...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Charter School Facilities
S.B. 592
From Legislative Counsel's Digest:
Amends existing law which requires that, prior to receiving funding, title to property used for a charte...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Charter School Funding Calculations
S.B. 191
Provides that modified funding calculations do not apply to charter schools that convert to charter schools on or after a specified date. Pr...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Charter Schools Transportation
S.B. 509 - Charter School Transportation
Repeals provision that provides that charter schools are eligible for a transportation allowance to cover the costs of purchasing or renting...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Intradistrict Transfers
S.B. 680
Requires any communication made by a school district of choice to parents or guardians to be factually accurate and not target individual pa...
| More... |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | American Indian Languages Teaching Credential
A.B. 544
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentials to issue an American Indian Languages eminence credential to a candidate who has demonstrated...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Green Collar Jobs Council Strategic Initiative
A.B. 1394
Authorizes the state workforce investment board to accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods or services from federal and state entities an...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative
A.B. 3
Requires the state workforce investment board to establish a Renewable Energy Workforce Readiness Initiative to ensure green collar career p...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | California Workforce Investment Act
S.B. 410
Declares legislative intent that other intensive services, such as out-of-area job search assistance, literacy activities related to workfor...
| More... |
Equity |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Publicizing Student Rights under Title IX
S.B. 248
Requires school districts, the president or chief executive officer of a community college campus, the president of a California State Unive...
| More... |
Equity |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Review for Approval of Athletic Facilities for Gender Equitability
A.B. 685
Requires the state department of education to include, as part of its review of an application for new construction plan approval, a determi...
| More... |
Finance |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | School Finance
S.B. 84
Conditions the reduction of the revenue limit or general purpose entitlement for school districts upon certification by the superintendent o...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Funding for REgional Occupational Centers
A.B. 673
Requires, for the 2009-10 fiscal year, recalculation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the prior year average daily attendance ...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Revenue Limit Adjustment
A.B. 851 - Revenue Limit Adjustment
From Legislative Counsel's Digest:
Existing law provides a revenue limit adjustment for a school district or county office of education tha...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Creation of Education Finance Districts
A.B. 267
Authorizes school districts to create an education finance district that may impose a qualified special tax that applies uniformly to all ta...
| More... |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | District-Sponsored Bingo Games
S.B. 126
Deletes a reference to school districts in provisions specifying the organizations that may conduct bingo games. Authorizes charitable organ...
| More... |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Postsecondary Auxiliary Organizations
S.B. 218
The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and to make copies...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Student Members of Local School Boards
A.B. 1007
Requires the governing board of a school district to appoint a pupil member or members within 30 days of receiving a petition from students ...
| More... |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Transmission of State Board Meetings and Hearings
S.B. 312
Requires the state board of education and the state allocation board to provide for live video and audio transmission of all meetings and he...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Information about Meningococcal Disease
S.B. 249
Requires the department of public health to develop information about meningococcal disease, including information pertaining to children be...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Immigration Agents, Immigration Status and Care for Neglected Pupils
A.B. 132
Creates new Section 32297. Provides that immigration agents shall not interfere with the education of pupils. Specifies that this policy not...
| More... |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Five- and Six-Year Graduation Rates
S.B. 509 - Five- and Six-Year Graduation Rates
Includes 5- and 6-year graduation rates in the indicators reported to the department for purposes of calculating a school's Academic Perform...
| More... |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | High School Credit for Community Service
S.B. 520
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to offer credit for hours of community service provided by a pupil outside of school hou...
| More... |
Minority/Diversity Issues |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | State School Racial Equality Designation Act
A.B. 1281
Enacts the State School Racial Equality Designation Act. Expresses legislative findings and declarations relating to the collection of data ...
| More... |
P-3 |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
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 inst...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Honorary Degrees for Japanese Forced to Leave Studies
A.B. 37
Requires the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and requests the R...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Postsec. | State Whistleblower Protection Law
S.B. 219
Relates to State Whistleblower Protection Law law which authorizes a University of California employee or applicant for employment to recove...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Postsec. | Designees of Ex Officio CSU Trustees
A.B. 690
Authorizes each ex officio trustee of the California State University, except the chancellor, to designate a person to attend a meeting or m...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Postsec. | Electronic College Textbooks
S.B. 48
Requires that publishers of textbooks offered for sale at a public or a private postsecondary institution of education make the textbooks av...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Postsec. | Captioned Electronic Instructional Materials
A.B. 386
Relates to existing law which requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educat...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Fees
A.B. 947
Authorizes a community college district to charge the additional fee to any nonresident student by deleting a condition that a nonresident b...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Postsec. | In-State Tuition for Certain Wards of the State
A.B. 669
Allows an exception to the uniform residency requirements for a student 19 years of age or under at the time of enrollment in postsecondary ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty--Intellectual Property |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Postsec. | Model Contracts for UC and CSU
A.B. 20
Requires the department of general services to negotiate and establish a model contract with standard contract provisions with both the rege...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Enrollment for Previously Expelled Students
A.B. 1400
Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to either deny enrollment, permit enrollment or permit conditional enrollment...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Foster Youth |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Postsecondary Housing for Foster Youth
A.B. 1393
Requests community college campuses, and requires California State University and University of California campuses that maintain student ho...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Priority Registration for Armed Forces Members
S.B. 361
Specifies that priority registration provisions of the University of California, California State University and community college districts...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Articulated Nursing Degree Transfer Pathways
A.B. 1295
Relates to existing law expressing legislative intent to encourage the California State University (CSU) to establish partnerships with comm...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Harvey Milk Day
S.B. 572
Provides that the Governor proclaims May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day and would designate that date as having special significance in ...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Four-Day School Week for Certain Districts
A.B. 691
Extends the authority to operate one or more schools on a 4-day week and apply those minimum annual instructional time requirements and othe...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Razors and Box Cutters on School Grounds
A.B. 870
Makes it a misdemeanor or felony to bring or possess razors with unguarded blades or box cutters upon school grounds of any public or privat...
| More... |
School Safety |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Alcoholic Beverages or Containers Near School Property
A.B. 888
Prohibits, as an infraction, the possession of an alcoholic beverage container, or consumption of an alcoholic beverage, on a public street,...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Reporting Possession of Firearm or Explosive to Authorities
A.B. 1390
Requires a school principal or the principal's designee to report any act involving either the possession, sale, or furnishment of a firearm...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Restraining Orders to Protect Threatened Students
S.B. 188
Authorizes a chief administrative officer of a private postsecondary educational institution, or a person designated to maintain order on th...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Loitering Around a School or Other Locale
S.B. 492
Relates to the crime of loitering, after being asked to leave, near any school or public place at which children attend or normally congrega...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | School District Organization
A.B. 174
Revises and clarifies the definition of an action to reorganize a school district. Authorizes a county committee to approve a petition to fo...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Sharing of Real Property and Buildings
A.B. 1080
Authorizes a school district to enter into leases and agreements relating to real property and buildings to be used jointly by the district ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Seismic Safety Inventory of School Buildings
S.B. 305
Requires the Office of the State Architect to update the seismic safety inventory of school buildings and related report to more accurately ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Constructability Reviews
A.B. 1120
Requires the department of general services to distribute information on the use of constructability reviews of plans and specifications use...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Transportation Fees in Community College Districts
A.B. 774
Amends existing law that authorizes the governing boards of specified community college districts to require that a transportation service f...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Penalties for Schoolbus Idling
S.B. 124
Amends existing law which establishes toxic control measures to limit schoolbus idling and idling at schools and regulates drivers of school...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Walking Schoolbus
S.B. 315
Authorizes the governing board of any school district to establish and maintain a walking schoolbus, defined as a group of pupils walking to...
| More... |
Service-Learning |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Excused Absence to Participate in Civic Engagement Activities
A.B. 796
Amends existing law that authorizes a pupil to be excused from school for specified reasons. Includes civic engagement activities offered by...
| More... |
Special Education--Finance |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Facilities and Special Needs Students
S.B. 334
Relates to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act, which requires the state allocation board to allocate funding to school districts for ...
| More... |
Special Education--Finance |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Reimbursement for Eligible Services
A.B. 1540
Extends to 2013 provision requiring the department to amend the Medicaid state plan with respect to the billing option for services by local...
| More... |
Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Transitions for Youth with Developmental Disabilities
A.B. 287
Relates to individual development programs for persons with a developmental disability. Encourages the individual program planning process t...
| More... |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
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 prio...
| More... |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Graduation Requirements Waiver for Certain Foster Care Students
A.B. 167
Requires a school district to exempt a pupil in foster care from all coursework and other requirements adopted by the district's governing b...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Military Uniforms at High School Graduations
A.B. 1463
Provides that a pupil who has fulfilled the requirements to receive a diploma of graduation from a high school, is otherwise eligible to par...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
A.B. 343
Ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to facilitate the enrollment, placement, advancement and tr...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Measuring Academic Growth More Accurately Over Time
A.B. 429
Requires the advisory committee that advises the superintendent of public instruction regarding matters relative to the creation of the Acad...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | California Education Information System
S.B. 19
Relates to the the California Education Information System, which consists of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CAL...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Academic Growth Models
A.B. 1130
State findings and declarations regarding standards-based education reform, assessments, and accountability and the use of cohort growth mea...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Provision of Data to Controller
S.B. 509 - Provision of Data to Controller
Existing law requires the state superintendent of education to provide the Controller with certain data no later than 6 months following the...
| More... |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | School Finance Working Group
A.B. 8
Expresses legislative findings and declarations regarding the state's school funding system. Requires a working group to be convened to make...
| More... |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Education Technology Task Force
A.B. 836
Adds Article 15.1., "Education Technology Task Force" to the education code. Defines "technology literacy". Establishes a task force for edu...
| More... |
STEM |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | California Stem Cell and Biotechnology Education and Workforce Development Act of 2009
S.B. 471
Creates the Stem Cell and Biotechnology Education and Workforce Development Act of 2009. Establishes stem cell and biotechnology education a...
| More... |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Postsecondary Finance, Governance and Reporting
A.B. 1182
Expresses legislative intent to refine higher education reporting requirements to provide for more effective, manageable and transparent rep...
| More... |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Cleaning of Wrestling Equipment
S.B. 212
Authorizes the governing board of each school district maintaining a high school to provide for the annual cleaning and sterilization of wre...
| More... |
Students--Employment |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Student Work Permits
A.B. 66
Authorizes the principal of a public or private school, subject to specified requirements and conditions, to issue, or designate another adm...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Access to Student Records
A.B. 261
Amends existing law that prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to any person without parental consent or judic...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Teacher Certification
S.B. 751
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue an education specialist, multiple- or single-subject teaching credential to a te...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Retirement Benefits for Returning Retirees
A.B. 506
Applies a limitation of $0 to the compensation for performance of specified activities as an employee of an employer, an employee of a third...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Retired Public Employees Vision Care Program
A.B. 65
Existing law establishes the Vision Care Program for State Annuitants, administered by the Department of Personnel Administration. New provi...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Retirement Calculations for Employees Subject to Furloughs
A.B. 399
Requires, for members of the State Teachers' Retirement System, that the calculations of a retirement allowance for a state employee subject...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Negotiation Skills in Individualized Programs of Professional Growth
A.B. 1
Relates to standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of teaching credentials. Specifies that an individualized program of profes...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Beginning-Teacher Salary Incentive Program
A.B. 851 - Beginning Teacher Salary Incentive Program
From Legislative Counsel's Digest:
Existing law establishes the Jack O'Connell Beginning-Teacher Salary Incentive Program, under which a co...
| More... |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Definition of "Technology-Based Materials"
A.B. 1398
Relates to instructional materials. Revises the definition of technology-based materials to specify that they may include the electronic equ...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 10/2009 |
P-12 | Electronic Textbooks
S.B. 247
Amends the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program. Provides a local governing board may use funding received pursuant to this p...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Vetoed 10/2009 |
P-12 | Delays in Textbook Deliveries
A.B. 146
Amends provisions requiring a publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials to guarantee delivery by the date specified in the contra...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Vetoed 09/2009 |
P-12 | Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
A.B. 264
Requires the Governor to annually proclaim March 30 of each year as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. Encourages schools to conduct exercis...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 09/2009 |
P-12 | Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
A.B. 717
Requires the Governor to annually proclaim March 30 of each year as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. Encourages schools to conduct exercis...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 09/2009 |
P-12 | Bringing Per-Pupil Spending to National Average
A.C.R. 54
States legislative intent that the state of California generate sufficient funds for, and allocate sufficient funds to education, so as to b...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 08/2009 |
P-12 | Work-Based Learning Programs
A.B. 332
Authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based learning programs, and to purchase liability insurance for pu...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | CTE Programs at Regional Occupation Centers/Programs
S.B. 640
Requires an employer advisory board to recommend measures, criteria and methods to evaluate the skills and knowledge of students in a region...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Vetoed 08/2009 |
P-12 | Definition of "School District" for Receipt of Federal Funds
A.B. 339
Existing law requires the state board of education to direct the allocation and apportionment of federal funds to school districts. Proposed...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Dentistry in the Schools
A.B. 667
From Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires that pupils of public and private schools, be offered the opportunity to receive, w...
| More... |
P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Disputes between a Regional Center and Generic Agency
A.B. 140
Relates to services for individuals with developmental disabilities. Establishes procedures for the resolution of disputes between a regiona...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Adopted 08/2009 |
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 cours...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Nooses on School Property
A.B. 412
Provides that any person who hangs a noose, knowing it to be a symbol representing a threat to life, on property of a K-12 educational facil...
| More... |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Foster Student Eligibility for Extracurricular Activities
A.B. 81
Requires that a foster child who changes residences pursuant to a court order or decision of a child welfare worker be immediately deemed to...
| More... |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Career Resource Network
S.B. 123
Relates to the existing Career Resource Network, the primary duty of which is to provide career development information and resources to mid...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Certification of Health of Certified District Employees
S.B. 171
Amends existing law that requires a candidate for a position within a school district who has not been employed previously in the state or a...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 | Waiver on Teacher Certification Fee
A.B. 794
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to waive all application and processing fees for the initial issuance of a teaching credent...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Charter School Finance
A.B. 2 - Sections 22-24
From legislative analysis:
Existing law establishes the Charter School Facility Grant Program to provide assistance with facilities rent an...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | King City Joint Union High School District
S.B. 130
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to provide emergency apportionment assistance to the King City Joint Union High School District and ...
| More... |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | No Automatic Increases
A.B. 12D - Section 6
Provides that no automatic increases will be provided to the University of California, California State University or to state agency operat...
| More... |
P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Three-year Child Development Appropriations
A.B. 2D - Sections 4 and 5
Section 4: Repeals Section 8278 of the Education Code, which made child development appropriations, with the exception of funds appropriated...
| More... |
P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Cost-Containment for Certain Special Education Services
A.B. 9D
From Legislative Counsel's Digest:
In providing early intervention services and support to all eligible infants and toddlers and their fam...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. | National Guard Education Assistance Award Program
A.B. 12D - Section 4
From legislative analysis: Establishes the California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program on behalf of qualifying members of t...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Minimum Instructional Day and Year
A.B. 2D - Section 21
From legislative analysis: Existing law prescribes the minimum length of time for the instructional school year and the minimum number of in...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | After School Education and Safety Program
A.B. 2 - Section 8
The purpose of the After School Education and Safety Program is to create incentives for establishing before- and after-school enrichment pr...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Teacher Induction Requirement
A.B. 2 - Section 17
From legislative analysis: Existing law sets forth the minimum requirements for the professional clear multiple or single subject teacher cr...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 | Definition of "Sufficient Textbooks"
A.B. 2D - Section 1
From legislative analysis: Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools of each county to make annual visits to each school, p...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12 | State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grant
Title 4 CCR Sections 10175, 10176, 10177, 10182, 10185, 10187, 10188, 10189, 10190
Amends several sections within Title 4 to clarify that charter schools can only receive a State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grant if...
| More... |
Private Schools |
Adopted Rule Filing 03/2009 |
P-12 | Special Education and Nonpublic Schools
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 3001, 3051, 3060, 3061, 3062, 3063, 3064, 3065, 3066, 3067, 3068, 3069, 3070
Amends rules pertaining to special education and nonpublic schools. Clarifies requirements for certification of California nonpublic schools...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 03/2009 |
P-12 | Extensions of Preliminary Teaching Credentials
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 80413, 80487
Creates application and eligibility criteria and procedures for two extensions of time for preliminary teaching credentials to enable creden...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 | Adoption of Instructional Materials
Title 5 CCR Section 9517.1
Establishes the process for follow-up adoptions and the fee to be paid by publishers and manufacturers for participation in follow-up adopti...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 | Social Content Review of Instructional Materials
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 9800, 9810, 9820, 9830
Amends rules concerning the social content review of instructional materials. Establishes the procedures for the special content review of n...
| More... |
Curriculum--Science |
Rule Adoption 01/2009 |
P-12 | Single-Subject Teaching Credential Authorization
Title 5 CCR Section 80004
Amends rules concerning single-subject teaching credential authorization. Allows for an additional option for employers to assign individual...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 01/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Finance and Facilities
A.B. 4A
Relates to sufficient textbook requirements, county superintendent revenue limits, school district building maintenance funding, funding for...
| More... |
P-3 Preschool |
Adopted Rule Filing 12/2008 |
P-12 | State Preschools
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 18131, 18131.1
Amends rules concerning state preschools. Amends the enrollment priorities for state preschool programs to give priority to three- and four-...
| More... |
Finance--Lotteries |
On June 8 10/2008 |
P-12 | Finance
V. 24; (NEW BILL)
2010 Ballot., (PROPOSITION TBA; SCA 12, CHAPTER 143, 2008) Proposes an amendment to the State constitution to provide that an additional pur...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Rule Adoption 10/2008 |
P-12 | LEROY F GREENE SCHOOL FACILITIES ACT OF 1998- AB 1014
Title 2 CCR Sec(s) 1859.2, 1859.41, 1859.41.1, 1859.42, 1859.42.1,1859.43, 1859.51, 1859.147
Amends rules concerning the Leroy F Greene School Facilities Act of 1998. Adds components to the enrollment projection calculation method us...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Accountability sanctions
A.B. 2438
Requires the determination regarding growth targets for the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program (IIUSP) be averaged for f...
| More... |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Adult ed accountability
A.B. 1163
Authorizes school districts to claim and expend a percentage of their adult block entitlement for various adult education programs if approv...
| More... |
Assessment |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Assessments
S.B. 1111
Requires the State Board of Education to minimize the amount of testing time and duplication required to complete the state standards tests,...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Early Assessment Program
S.B. 946
Expresses legislative intent that the Early Assessment Program (EAP) be expanded to include state community colleges. Authorizes community c...
| More... |
Assessment |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | electronic learning assessment
S.B. 1767
Amends existing law which requires the Learning Resource Network to establish review criteria for electronic learning assessment resources a...
| More... |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Alternate assessments
A.B. 2040
Relates to a high school exit examination in English language arts and mathematics. Creates a panel to make recommendations regarding altern...
| More... |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | exit exams
S.B. 1446
Reenacts provisions of former law which required a school district or state special school to grant a high school diploma to a pupil with a ...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Data collection
A.B. 1885
Specifies that eligible pupils who are enrolled in intensive instruction and services to help those pupils pass the High School Exit Examina...
| More... |
Attendance |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Attendance
S.B. 1735
Requires a school district to accept any documents and representations from the parent or guardian of a pupil that reasonably provide eviden...
| More... |
Attendance--Truancy |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | truancy
S.B. 29
Requires a public school, school district, and county office of education that issues a device that uses radio frequency identification for ...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Course articulation
A.B. 876
Requests the California State University, and the University of California to take specified actions with respect to the recognition of care...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Apprenticeships
A.B. 2078
Authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based learning programs, and to purchase liability insurance for pu...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Charter school facilities
A.B. 2033
Relates to the Charter Schools Facilities Program under the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998 that provides funding to qualifying...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Charter school governance
A.B. 2115
Requires charter schools to adopt and comply with a conflict-of-interest policy to include specified requirements set forth in existing law....
| More... |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | civic education
S.B. 1274
Requires that, when pupils are instructed with regard to the words of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America a...
| More... |
Class Size |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Class Size
S.B. 1112
Extends the sunset date for the mitigation provisions in the Class Size Reduction Program, in which participating school districts are provi...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Financial literacy
A.B. 1502
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that information about ...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Native American curriculum
A.B. 2034
Encourages the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-soci...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Social science curriculum
A.B. 1863
Encourages schools to include the role and contribution of Italian Americans in social science instruction. Encourages the State Board of Ed...
| More... |
Curriculum--Language Arts |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Curriculum frameworks
S.B. 1607
Requires the State Board of Education to include a chapter in its regulations concerning the development of curriculum frameworks and the ad...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | History curriculum
A.B. 2064
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that the history-social...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Economic Development
A.B. 1916
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ECONOMY: Recommend concurrence in SENATE amendments., Requires the State Economic Strategy Panel to prepare and...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Workforce development
A.B. 1230
Establishes the existing Career Resource Network that provides career development information and resources to people in the state to enable...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | economic development
A.B. 2622
Amends existing law that requires the Employment Training Panel to establish a three year plan that includes the identification of specific ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Career development
A.B. 2648
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, in conjunction with certain organizations, a report that explores the feasibil...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Employability
A.B. 2125
Requires county juvenile justice plans for high-risk juveniles to assess job training services and strategies, and requires a demonstration ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Economic development
A.B. 3018
Enacts the Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008. Requires the State Workforce Investment Board to establish the Green Collar Jobs Council that shal...
| More... |
Education Research |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
Community College | Education resource centers
A.B. 2261
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the State Community Colleges to establish a pilot program to provide faculty and staff from community c...
| More... |
Finance |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Community College | Community College finance
A.B. 1821
Provides for the integration of reports by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges that relate to pupils enrolled in summer sess...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Finance
A.B. 2246
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute an amount of funding for each pupil concurrently enrolled in regular secondary ...
| More... |
Finance |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | remediation finance
A.B. 359
Amends existing law that requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion to each school district a per pupil amount of funds ...
| More... |
Finance |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | after school programs
S.B. 1674
Relates to the After School Education and Safety Program Act. Authorizes the administrators of a before- or after-school program to operate ...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Finance
S.B. 1197
Requires that a regional occupational center or program established and maintained by school districts or joint powers agencies pursuant to ...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Finance
A.B. 100
Repeals a provision of the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 which sets specific per- unhoused-pupil grant eligibility levels. I...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Facilities
S.B. 1556
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to permit an elementary school district, with a certain number of elementary schools, that is located ...
| More... |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | finance
S.B. 146
Relates to school finance. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute the average monthly enrollment of each elementary, h...
| More... |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Lottery funds
A.B. 1654
Amends the State Lottery Act of 1984. Provides that the purpose of the act is preservation of the rights, liberties, and welfare of the peop...
| More... |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Child care
A.B. 2759
Recasts provisions of existing law as the State Preschool Program. Deletes campus child care and development programs and child abuse protec...
| More... |
Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
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 se...
| More... |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Graduation requirements
A.B. 2138
Amends existing law that prescribes the course of a study a pupil is required to complete while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to receive a d...
| More... |
Middle School |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Early commitment to college program
S.B. 890
Establishes the Early Commitment to College Program. Requires schools designated and not designated as a College Opportunity Zone to provide...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Supplemental programs
S.B. 1442
Relates to supplemental instructional programs for pupils who do not demonstrate sufficient progress toward passing the high school exit exa...
| More... |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Technological delivered instruction
S.B. 1330
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Statewide Education Technology Policy Task Force for the purpose of devel...
| More... |
P-3 |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Child care
A.B. 2467
Amends the Child Care and Development Services Act which establishes various full and part-time programs for a comprehensive, coordinated an...
| More... |
P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Autism
S.B. 1475
Requires the State Department of Developmental Services to establish a pilot project to provide methods, instruments, and systems of care be...
| More... |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Early learning
S.B. 1629
Establishes the Early Learning Quality Improvement System Advisory Committee which would be required to develop the policy and implementatio...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Finance
A.B. 1028
Revises various provisions of the Child Care and Development Services Act relating to the reimbursement and auditing of child care and devel...
| More... |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary accountability
S.B. 325
Require the State to establish a new accountability framework for achieving prescribed educational and economic goals for public higher educ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Postsec. | Nonresident tuition
S.B. 1301
Requires the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and requests the R...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Postsec. | Disabled veterans
A.B. 3066
Expands the number of employment training programs of the Employment Training Panel that qualify for priority funding to include projects th...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Postsec. | student loans
S.B. 1355
Relates to student financial aid programs. Requires a public or private postsecondary educational institution to make specified disclosures ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
Postsec. | scholarships
S.B. 1457
Creates the State Scholarshare Advancement Vehicle for Education program to fund scholarships for beneficiaries to be determined by the Scho...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Grade changing policies
A.B. 1754
Requires the Chancellor of the State Community Colleges to distribute a pre-existing model grade changing policy updated in 2008 to each com...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Articulation
S.B. 1585
Requires the Chancellor of State Community Colleges to establish an Improve Transfer Success Pilot Program to increase the number of transfe...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Postsec. | Private postsecondary
S.B. 823
Recasts, revises, and reenacts the provisions of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 as the Private Postse...
| More... |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Virtual campus
S.B. 1437
Authorizes the State Virtual Campus to partner with education entities and community-based organizations to facilitate efforts relating to t...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Language arts development
A.B. 2135
Requires the State Board of Education to revise reading/language arts framework to include, as a core program, the English Language Developm...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | curriculum standards
S.B. 1097
Relates to the State Board of Education and school curriculum content standards. Requires that prior to the adoption of a curriculum framewo...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | After school programs
A.B. 1526
Repeals a provision of the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002 that makes a continuous annual appropriation to the Departm...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Year-Round School Grant Program
S.B. 658
Provides for the phase out of the Year-Round School Grant Program by reducing the grant amounts each fiscal year until a specified fiscal ye...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Week |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Four-day week
A.B. 1889
Relates to a 4-day school week. Extends requirements, including that participating schools achieve their API growth targets to the Potter Va...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
Postsec. | safe schools
A.B. 2470
Relates to existing law which makes it a crime for persons to possess specified weapons on the grounds of any University. Expands that prohi...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Safe schools
A.B. 3015
Requires the training for group home administrators, licensed foster parents and relative caretakers to also include basic instruction of th...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary safety
S.B. 361
Requires that reports submitted to the Legislature by the State Postsecondary Education Commission be submitted to specified committees and ...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | School safety
A.B. 352
Amends existing law that makes it an offense to openly display or expose a imitation firearm in a public place. Includes public schools with...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | safe schools
S.B. 1666
Defines and expands the distance of Safe School Zones. Specifies the term school includes any public or private school. Amends existing law ...
| More... |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Bullying
A.B. 86
Specifies that bullying, as used in the Interagency School Safety Demonstration Act of 1985, includes acts that constitute sexual harassment...
| More... |
School Safety--Special Education |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Discipline
S.B. 1515
Prohibits an educational provider from using chemical restraint, mechanical restraint, physical restraint, or seclusion, for the purpose of ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | School/district employee files
A.B. 2167
Prohibits a statement or document that is false or unsubstantiated from being placed in the personnel records of a classified employee of a ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | School district structure
A.B. 2243
Authorizes a county committee to approve a petition to form one or more new school districts, if specified conditions are met. Applies these...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | Rental properties
A.B. 1112
Adds the acquisition and construction of residential rental property to be used to house teachers and employees of a school district or comm...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Facilities
A.B. 2173
Revises the process by which a governing board of a school district calculates the maximum fee, against school facility construction that ma...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Solar Facilities
A.B. 1062
Requires the Division of the State Architect to develop uniform criteria for precheck approval processes for solar design plans for a school...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Food service
A.B. 2300
Amends existing law relating to direct certification for enrollment in the School Lunch and Breakfast Program. Permits the State Department ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Water
A.B. 2704
Expresses findings of the legislature related to childhood obesity and the significance of free tap water at schools. Prohibits the governin...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | transportation
A.B. 830
Provides a school or a school district would not be liable for transportation services provided by an operator of a charter-party carrier fo...
| More... |
Special Education |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Autism disorder clearinghouse
A.B. 1872
Establishes the State Autism Spectrum Disorder Clearinghouse within the State Department of Education to provide evidence-based resources, r...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
Postsec. | Correctional education
S.B. 413
Requires the open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors to be waived for any governing board of a community ...
| More... |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | juvenile court schools
S.B. 1638
Encourages each county superintendent of schools or school district and county chief probation officer to enter into a memorandum of underst...
| More... |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Military children
A.B. 2049
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene and support a task force to review and make recommendations regarding the Inter...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | longitudinal data
A.B. 2757
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt regulations necessary to maintain the state's county-district-school codes system...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | data systems
S.B. 1298
Requires the Department of Education to establish a process by which local educational agencies maintain and report information for center-b...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | longitudinal data
S.B. 1425
Requires the Department of Education to the extent permissible under existing federal law, to conduct pupil data management on behalf of loc...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | longtudinal data
S.B. 1524
Requires the the Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to also have the ability to disaggregate data related to Asian Pacific Islander ...
| More... |
STEM |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | digital technology training
A.B. 2471
Establishes the Digital Arts Studio Partnership and Workforce Program to train youth in digital technology skills. Requires the program to b...
| More... |
Student Achievement |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | School Improvement
S.B. 1251
Relates to the Academic Performance Index (API). Includes 5- and 6-year graduation rates in the indicators currently reported for purposes o...
| More... |
Students |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | whole child
A.B. 2252
Establishes the Commission on Youth to examine policy and fiscal issues affecting the youth of this state and to make recommendations on tho...
| More... |
Students |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | Student employment
A.B. 2213
Authorizes the principal of a public or private school to issue, or designate another administrator in the school to issue, work permits to ...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | student records
A.B. 2630
Amends existing law which prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to any person without written parental consent...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Student records
A.B. 2994
Requires a school district to include a notice in an emergency information request form informing a parent or guardian and pupil of their ri...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | LEP teachers
A.B. 1871
Amends existing law that authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue certificates of English language development and biling...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | teacher quality
S.B. 1186
Exempts from the state basic skills proficiency test an applicant for an eminence credential, and an applicant who achieves scores on specif...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Community College | technical educators
S.B. 1104
Repeals the authority of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue a 2-year preliminary designated subjects teaching credential upon ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Credential revocation
S.B. 1110
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to suspend the credential of a holder when it receives notice that another State has taken ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | credential reinstatement
S.B. 1105
Provides procedures for credential reinstatement for a credential holder after dismissal of a misdemeanor sex offense accusation or informat...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | teacher certification
S.B. 1303
Requires that a certificated or classified employee who was placed on a compulsory leave of absence after being charged with certain offense...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Education of Autistic
A.B. 131
Authorizes a local educational agency or school to employ and assign an individual to provide instruction to pupils who are of a specified a...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Professional development
S.B. 1660
Authorizes a school district to use funds received pursuant to the professional development block grant to compensate new and existing mathe...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | loan forgiveness
S.B. 1158
Expands educational loan assumption program eligibility to include an applicant who agrees to teach on a part- time basis for a specified nu...
| More... |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 09/2008 |
P-12 | Technology
S.B. 1637
Provides that provisions of the State Technology Assistance Project, which provides a regionalized network of technical assistance to school...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | unbundled instructional materials
A.B. 2468
Adds to the procedures relating to basic instructional materials that the State Board of Education is required to adopt as regulations proce...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Vetoed 09/2008 |
P-12 | instructional materials
A.B. 2315
Amends existing law that which requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grad...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Employability training
S.B. 302
Requires the Employment Development Department, in addition to its existing duties and obligations, to report annually to the Governor, Legi...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Adopted 08/2008 |
P-12 | Child Nutrition Programs
Title 5 CCR Division 1, Chapter 15, Subchapter 1, Article 6, Sec(s)15575, 15576, 15577, 15578
Amends rules pertaining to child nutrition programs. Provides essential guidance to entities selling foods and beverages on school campuses ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
Postsec. | student aid and textbooks
A.B. 2260
Revises the minimum requirements for the competitive Cal Grant B award to additionally authorize a student, in lieu of meeting the high scho...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Council on Developmental Disabilities
S.B. 1774
Amends existing law that creates a state council on developmental disabilities appointed by the Governor. Requires that the state council in...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 | Special Education Teachers
A.B. 2226
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup for the purpose of providing guidance to programs in determining the...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
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 asse...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 07/2008 |
P-12 | Charter School Assessments
A.B. 2305
Requires a charter school or group of charter schools that directly administer pupil assessments to submit a notice of direct administration...
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Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | Open enrollment
S.B. 1207
Requires the governing board of a school district to calculate the capacity of the schools in the district for purposes of the open enrollme...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 07/2008 |
P-12 | Science
S.B. 908
Amends existing law that requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to recommend minimum standards of course ...
| More... |
Finance |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | Finance
A.B. 2197
Relates to notification of Superintendent of Public Instruction when the county board of education approves proceeding with the issuance of ...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | Teacher certification
A.B. 2057
Relates to annexation of specified territory by a school district or county board of education, waiver requests from specified education ent...
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Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | Suicide prevention
S.B. 1378
Authorizes a school district that receives a professional development block grant to offer to each of its teachers staff development in the ...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community college
A.B. 591
Requires that any person who is employed to teach adult or community college classes for a specified percentage of the hours constituting a ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 07/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Finance Performance Audit
A.B. 125
Authorizes the performance audit of a school or community college district to ensure that bond funds have been expended only on the specific...
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Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Services for Veterans
S.B. 1680
Authorizes the California Community Colleges and California State University, and requests the University of California, to coordinate servi...
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Scheduling/School Calendar |
Vetoed 07/2008 |
P-12 | After school program
A.B. 2843
Relates to the After School Education and Safety Program Act which requires that each component of a program established pursuant to the act...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed by Governor 07/2008 |
P-12 | Environmental impact
A.B. 2720
Makes technical changes to the California Environmental Quality Act that prohibits an environmental impact report for any project involving ...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 | IEP
A.B. 2555
Amends existing law that requires the parent of a pupil be given, in writing, a proposed assessment plan within a specified time frame of th...
| More... |
Student Achievement |
Vetoed 07/2008 |
P-12 | student incentives
S.B. 1709
Authorizes school districts to provide nonmonetary incentives to pupils in grades 7 to 11, inclusive, for achievement or improvement based u...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Student records
S.B. 1696
Provides that a state or local agency may not allow another party to control the disclosure of information that is otherwise subject to disc...
| More... |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 | PE exemptions
S.B. 602
Clarifies that a pupil may be granted exemption from courses in physical education if the pupil has met at least 5 of the 6 standards of the...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Rejected by voters 06/2008 |
P-12 | Fuel costs
V. 19
2008 Ballot., Proposition 10, Petition 1332 (07-0101, Amdt. 2S). Creates the Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act. Authorizes the...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 | Special Education
A.B. 2302
Authorizes a local education agency or school to assign a teacher who holds a level 1 education specialist credential, or a previously issue...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 05/2008 |
P-12 | HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS (NCLB)
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 6100, 6104, 6105
Amends rules to utilize flexibility in federal guidance. Creates an alternative HOUSSE to help middle and high school level teachers in alte...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Adopted 04/2008 |
P-12 | School Maintenance Program
Title 2 CCR Sec(s) 1866.1.3, 1866.4.3, 1866.13
Amends rules concerning the state school deferred maintenance program (DMP). Provides state matching funds, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, to...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 | FACILITIES FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS
Title 5 CCR
Clarifies and expands existing provisions with regards to facilities and the operation and maintenance of charter schools. Adds content to t...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 | After School Programs
A.B. 4C
Delays the encumbrance of funds appropriated for the After School Education and Safety Program. Defers the entire amount of the July warrant...
| More... |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Proposed Rule COMMENT DEADLINE: 05/07/2007 Rule Adoption 12/2007 |
P-12 | HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAMINATION
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 1200, 1202, 1204, 1204.5, 1205, 1207, 1207.1,1207.2, 1207.5, 1209, 1210, 1211, 1211.5, 1215, 1215.5, 1216, 1217, 1218, 1219,1225
Introduces a fee for local educational agencies (LEA) that order excessive test materials, requires LEAs to submit unlisted accommodations a...
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Adult Basic Education |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Adult Literacy
A.B. 1030
Authorizes the Library Literacy and English Acquisition Services Program to be used for services targeted to young adults 16 years of age an...
| More... |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Exit exams
S.B. 123
Requires a school district or state special school to grant a diploma to a pupil with a disability who is scheduled to graduate in a specifi...
| More... |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Assessments, Exit Exams
A.B. 144
Requires the Department of Education to provide the mathematics portion of the high school exit examination to the Franklin-McKinley School ...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Alternative education finance
S.B. 219
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to revise the Academic Performance Index to include additional information by a specified ...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Bilingual endorsements
A.B. 280
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have mastered languages in addition to English. Requires the...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Teacher credentials
S.B. 52
Renames the designated subjects vocational education teaching credential the designated subjects preliminary career technical education teac...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Charter school finance
S.B. 345
Authorizes the governing board of a charter school to use monthly installments and withholding options in making salary adjustments to the s...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Citizenship education
A.B. 466
Authorizes service by a pupil as a member of a precinct board for an election to be independent study. Exempts that pupil from the requireme...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Curriculum
A.B. 150
Establishes the Financial Literacy Initiative for improving financial literacy by offering instructional materials for teachers and schools ...
| More... |
Curriculum--Science |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Outdoor Science
S.B. 95
Establishes eligibility criteria for a residential outdoor science program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion t...
| More... |
Curriculum--Sex Education |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Sex education
A.B. 629
Enacts the Sexual Health Education Accountability Act. Requires any program conducted by an outside agency at a publicly funded school, that...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Finance--Facilities
A.B. 1450
Requires the State Allocation Board to provide a grant for 50% of the replacement cost of an existing building to be demolished if a school ...
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Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Facilities finance, surplus property
S.B. 789
Authorizes the Chino Valley Unified School District to transfer specified surplus property owned by the school district to the City of Chino...
| More... |
Governance |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Governance
S.B. 132
Makes various clarifying and technical changes to the Education Code which assigns various duties to state and local educational agencies an...
| More... |
Governance--School Boards |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | school board member
S.B. 909
Relates to existing law that establishes the amount of compensation for the services of a member of the city board of education or governing...
| More... |
Health |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | student health
S.B. 533
Relates to vaccinations. Adds pneumococcus to the list of childhood diseases for which the Legislature intends the eventual achievement of t...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Health
S.B. 624
Relates to the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act that prohibits the furnishing of tobacco products to, and the purchase of tobacco...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Nursing education
S.B. 139
Amends the Donahoe Higher Education Act. Prohibits a campus of the State University or the State Community Colleges that operates a register...
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P-3 |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Preschool
A.B. 1080
Relates to the Child Care and Development Service Act that includes funds for reimbursement of part- day and preschool appropriate program l...
| More... |
P-3 Child Care |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Child care
A.B. 1164
Authorizes family child care providers to choose to be represented by a single provider organization. Provides that the designated provider ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Cash for College Program
A.B. 1540
Expresses the intent of the Legislature that resident students with financial need be made aware of the opportunities afforded to them throu...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary finance
S.B. 855
Amends the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947. Amends the definitions of bonds and revenue bonds and the authority of Trustees to mak...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Financial disclosure
A.B. 262
Relates to extending the repeal date of provisions of existing law that set forth the procedures for the adoption of regulations by the Trus...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Governance
A.B. 1413
Authorizes an ex officio trustee of the California State University to designate a staff person to attend a meeting or meetings of the board...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | community college finance
A.B. 1368
Authorizes a school district or community college district to issue notes that mature within a period not to exceed a specified number of ye...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Private/Independent |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Private postsecondary finance
A.B. 1749
Provides that the provision of existing law relating to the issuance of bonds for financing of public and private higher education facilitie...
| More... |
Postsecondary Students--Minority |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Postsecondary Minority/Diversity Issues
S.B. 65
Requires the Trustees of the California State University to authorize San Jose State University and the National Hispanic University to ente...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Reading/literacy
A.B. 962
Requires the Postsecondary Education Commission to assess and discuss issues, information, and barriers relating to, and progress made in th...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Proprietary security officers
S.B. 666
Requires a proprietary private security officer to complete training in security officer skills within a specified period of time. Requires ...
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School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 471 10/2007 |
P-12 | Facilities finance
S.B. 614
Relates to design-build contracts for the design and construction of a school facility. Authorizes a school district governing board to ente...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Transportation
A.B. 57
Authorizes state and local entities to secure and expend federal funds appropriated under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpo...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | biodiesel fuels
S.B. 70
Specifies standards for biodiesel and biodiesel blends and for renewable diesel and renewable diesel blends. Requires notification of consum...
| More... |
Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Special education
A.B. 1663
Relates to existing law which establishes the right of individuals with exceptional needs to receive free public education and ensures the r...
| More... |
Special Education--Finance |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Special education finance
S.B. 418
Requires the auditor of a county whose Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) contains excess funds to apportion funds sufficient to c...
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Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Corrections Education
A.B. 1049
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish reentry programs for parolees between 16 and 23 years of age to assis...
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Students |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Student employment
S.B. 406
Authorizes certificated employees, who are employed by the applicable school district, authorized by the superintendent of the school distri...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Postsec. | voter registration
S.B. 854
Allows students to submit completed voter registration forms to the Secretary of State in addition to returning the forms in person or by ma...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | Student records/rights
A.B. 1168
Requires the Office of Privacy Protection in the Department of Consumer Affairs to establish a task force to conduct a review of the use by ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 | teacher retirement
S.B. 901
Extends the operation of both the State Teachers' Retirement Law and the Defined Benefit Program. Extends provisions related to an exemption...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Textbooks
A.B. 1548
Adds the College Textbook Transparency Act to the Donahoe Higher Education Act. Establishes various requirements for textbook publishers inc...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
P-12 | Textbook cost
A.B. 1148
Requires the Department of Education to provide the Secretary of Education, the Senate and Assembly Budget Subcommittees on Education Financ...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Vetoed 10/2007 |
Postsec. | Textbook cost
S.B. 832
Relates to the cost of college and university textbooks. Requires a publisher of a textbook, its agents and employees to make available to e...
| More... |
Accountability |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Accountability
A.B. 494
Requires the Department of Education to notify a school district that a review is scheduled to occur if the department intends to waive that...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Accountability
A.B. 400
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to incorporate various indicators into the Academic Performance Index, including high scho...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Accountability
A.B. 438
Relates to the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 which establishes the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program to pro...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Reinstating authority
A.B. 45
Requires the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistant Team, until all operational areas have been returned to the governing board of the Oakla...
| More... |
Assessment |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | language arts assessment
A.B. 252
Authorizes the Department of Education to make a primary language assessment available to public schools for assessing pupils enrolled in du...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
Postsec. | private postsecondary
S.B. 45
Extends the provisions of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989. Provides for the extension of voluntary agr...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Career education
A.B. 598
Authorizes a community college or apprentice training instructor to teach a career technical education course in a subject that is not a cor...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Career education facilities
S.B. 13
Requires the State Department of Education to include in the application for school districts for new construction funding certain questions...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Career/Technical Education
A.B. 597
Makes the State Department of Education responsible for the creation of comprehensive, easy to access, user-friendly Web site pages with spe...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Career education
A.B. 666
Relates to existing law that establishes an incentive grant program for the purpose of improving, expanding, and establishing instructional ...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. | P-16
A.B. 428
Requires each school district offering any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, prior to class registration, for each school in the district, to pr...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Charter schools
A.B. 177
Relates to charter schools that serve at-risk pupils. Extends allowable term of operation until a specified date, subject to the approval of...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
A.B. 1281
Relates to Charter School Act of 1992. Revises the description of the procedures relating to pupil suspension or expulsion. Requires a descr...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Charter schools
S.B. 537
Amends the Charter Schools Act which authorizes a chartering agency to charge for up to 1% of a charter school's revenue for the actual cost...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Citizenship
A.B. 183
Requires each school district with at least one high school to report the voter registration efforts described in provisions of existing law...
| More... |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
To governor 09/2007 |
P-12 | Foreign Language
A.B. 280
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have mastered languages in addition to English. Requires the...
| More... |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | physical education
S.B. 601
Requires the Department of Education to ensure that data collected through Categorical Program Monitoring indicates the extent to which each...
| More... |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Social science
A.B. 72
Encourages instruction in social science for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction on World War II and the role of Filipinos in ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
Postsec. | Workforce development
A.B. 365
Expresses findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the relationship between postsecondary education and workforce developmen...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
Postsec. | Teacher quality
S.B. 280
Deletes the staff development requirement for certificate for instruction delivered in English to limited-English-proficient pupils. Require...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
To governor 09/2007 |
P-12 | Facilities finance
A.B. 1014
Relates to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act, that provides a school district's eligibility for new construction funding is determin...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | High school exit exam
A.B. 1379
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to identify alternative criteria and measures by which high school pupils who are regarded...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | High school exit exam, remediation
A.B. 347
Relates to funding for intensive instruction for pupils that have not satisfied the exit examination requirements, the use by a school distr...
| More... |
High School--International Baccalaureate |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | International Baccalaureate
A.B. 556
Amends law relating to the International Baccalaureate Program for high school and middle school pupils. Repeals provision regarding startup...
| More... |
Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | native american
S.B. 826
Requests the Regents of the University of California, acting through subject matter projects, to carry out specified responsibilities in exi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
Postsec. | Accountability
S.B. 190
Makes all meetings of the California State University Trustees to be subject to the Bagley- Keene Act. Requires the trustees to take action ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
Postsec. | Financial aid
S.B. 1
Amends the Donahoe Higher Education Act to require the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the Califor...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
Community College,
Postsec. | community college
A.B. 668
Enacts the Community College Student Federal and State Financial Aid Opportunity Act. Expresses various findings and declarations of the Leg...
| More... |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 |
A.B. 216
Relates to special education. Requires that the educational materials, services, and programs provided by the nonpublic, nonsectarian school...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
Community College | Emergency Preparedness
S.B. 166
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding emergency preparedness plans. Requires the Office of the Chancellor of the Community C...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | safe schools
S.B. 777
Revises the list of prohibited bases of discrimination and the kinds of prohibited instructions and activities in public or private elementa...
| More... |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Safety/student discipline
A.B. 394
Requires the Department of Education to monitor adherence to the antidiscrimination and antiharassment requirements as part of its regular m...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | Facilities
S.B. 121
Requires an applicant school district for new construction to submit to the State Allocation Board a one-time report of existing school buil...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Nutrition
S.B. 490
Prohibits a school or school district, through a vending machine or school food service establishment during school hours and up to 1/2 hour...
| More... |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. | P-16
S.B. 405
Expands the Fair Competition for College and Career Opportunity Program to include provisions for individualized review of the career goals ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | teaching quality
S.B. 859
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue and renew visiting faculty permits authorizing instruction in departmentalized c...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | Teacher quality
S.B. 193
Requires a school district or county office of education to require a person participating in the Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
Postsec. | Teaching interns
S.B. 44
Establishes the Teacher Cadet Program. Requires the State University to convene an advisory committee to develop a common core teacher cadet...
| More... |
Technology |
Vetoed 09/2007 |
P-12 | technology
A.B. 764
Relates to the state Technology Assistance Project (CTAP). Makes evaluation findings and declarations relating to the CTAP and the Statewide...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | textbooks
S.B. 733
Amends The Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program. which requires the State Department of Education to apportion funds to schoo...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 | textbooks
S.B. 734
Relates to the selection of materials by the State Board of Education for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8. Relates to a fee assessed b...
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Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
P-12 | Accountability, Report Cards
A.B. 1061
Relates to the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act. Deletes items from the list of school conditions for which assess...
| More... |
Finance |
To governor 08/2007 |
P-12 | Appropriation
S.B. 80
Provides funding for education under the State Budget Act for the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
http://www.senate.ca.gov/...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Postsec. | Student Financial Aid
S.B. 91
Repeals provisions of existing law relating to the establishment and operation of the auxiliary organization and the state's participation i...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2007 |
Postsec. | Beginning teacher
S.B. 112
Makes a exclusion from the definition of a beginning teacher. Deletes specific exemptions described in existing law and instead exempt a per...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
To governor 07/2007 |
P-12 | Special education
A.B. 485
Relates to special education. Prohibits a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency whose certification has been revoked, and certain other a...
| More... |
Attendance--Truancy |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 | Funding state mandates
A.B. 1698
Requires the Commission on State Mandates to amend the parameters and guidelines regarding the notification of truancy mandate program and d...
| More... |
Curriculum--Language Arts |
Became law without governor's signature 07/2007 |
P-12 | speech pathologists
S.C.R. 40
Requests the Governor and all state agencies to work together to alleviate the critical shortage of speech-language pathologists in the stat...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Special Populations |
To governor 07/2007 |
P-12 | American Indian education
S.B. 273
Amends existing law that establishes within the Department of Education an American Indian Education Unit to provide technical support to, a...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 | Special education
A.B. 685
Makes technical changes to various provisions of existing law regarding special education and related services to conform various provisions...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 | Teacher certification
S.B. 363
Amends the Teacher Credentialing Law. Requires the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing to establish a nonpersonally identifiabl...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 | special education interns
S.B. 196
Relates to existing law which authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue district intern credentials authorizing persons em...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 | After-school programs
A.B. 1685
Requires certain measures of the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program effectiveness related to repo...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 | Teacher quality
A.B. 1194
Gives public school employees the right to represent themselves individually in their employment relations with the public school employer, ...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Adopted 05/2007 |
P-12 | Charter Schools
Title 5 CCR Sec(s) 11962, 11962.1
Establishes clear procedures to be implemented in the event of theclosure of a charter school. Requires that a petition for a charter school...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | School Report Card Indicators
S.B. 1510
Deletes certain items from the list of school conditions for which assessments are required to be included in the school accountability repo...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Parental Information in Languages other than English
A.B. 680
Relates to students whose primary language is not English. Requires the Department of Education to monitor adherence to requirements relatin...
| More... |
Accountability--Rewards |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program
A.B. 756
Establishes the Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the program....
| More... |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Prekindergarten and Family Literacy Programs
A.B. 172
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Department of Education to administer prekindergarten and family literacy pr...
| More... |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Assessment Accommodations for ELL Students
S.B. 1580
Requires a pupil identified as limited English proficient and who is either literate or receives instruction in his or her primary language ...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Survey of Student Drug, Alcohol Use and Bullying
A.B. 2510
Amends existing law that requires the Attorney General to conduct a biennial survey of drug and alcohol use among pupils enrolled in grades ...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Tutoring for ELL Students
S.B. 368
Requires each school district, as a condition of receiving funding under this act, to develop a plan, to be approved by the governing board,...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
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 Eng...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Career Technical Education Coordinating Council
A.B. 2115
Establishes the Career Technical Education Coordinating Council for purposes of identifying state and federal career education programs in k...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
Postsec. | Career/Technical Education Standards
S.B. 1543
Adds a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that if either the University of California or California State University had not adop...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Digital Arts Program
A.B. 252
Establishes the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Program to train youth in digital technology arts. Requires the program to be administered b...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Notice of Charter School Revocation
A.B. 2030
Requires a chartering authority to provide a written notice of intent to revoke and notice of facts in support of revocation to a charter sc...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Charter Schools Financing
A.B. 2717
Provides that charter schools are eligible for assistance under the School Finance Authority Act. Revises various definitions and procedures...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Charter School Financing
S.B. 1446
Provides that for the purposes of the computation of a sponsoring school district of its average daily attendance, a pupil enrolled in a gra...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Charter School Fiscal Impact on District
A.B. 2954
Adds the finding that a charter school would have a negative fiscal impact on the school district where it is located to the list of finding...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Content of Textbooks and Student Characteristics
S.B. 1437
Relates to existing law which prohibits instruction or school sponsored activities and the adopting of textbooks or other instructional mate...
| More... |
Civic Education |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Tolerance Education Pilot Program
A.B. 1056
Establishes the Tolerance Education Pilot Program to promote instruction to public schools on tolerance and intergroup relations as part of ...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Oversight of Physical Education and Athletics
S.B. 562
Extends the operation of existing laws that provides the State Department of Education the authority to exercise general supervision over co...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Graduates with Multiple Language Skills
A.B. 2445
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have mastered speaking, reading, and writing skills in one o...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Economics Educ. and Financial Literacy
A.B. 1950
Authorizes a school district, in providing instruction in economics, to include instruction related to the understanding of personal finance...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Instruction on Human Rights Issues
S.B. 1575
Relates to instruction on human rights issues in grades 7 through 12, inclusive. Requires the social science courses to include particular a...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Language Arts and Math Instruction Requirements
A.B. 2722
Prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting the same basic instructional materials in language arts or mathematics for the same gra...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Language Arts Curriclum
S.B. 1769
Requires the 2008 Reading/Language Arts/English Language Development Curriculum Frameworks and Criteria adopted by the Board of Education to...
| More... |
Curriculum--Science |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Science Teacher Development Program
S.B. 1142
Establishes the Science Teacher Development Program by enacting provisions relating to science instruction that are similar to the existing ...
| More... |
Curriculum--Science |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Science Coaches
A.B. 937
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to designate a credentialed teacher as a science coach at each elementary school, or pro...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Workforce Development Initiative
A.B. 2595
Requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development to establish, in partnership with specified entities, a logistics worker training ...
| More... |
Equity |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Anti-discrimination and Anti-harassment Policies
A.B. 606
Requires the State Department of Education to develop a model antidiscrimination and antiharassment policy that prohibits such conduct based...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Information on Diabetes in Schools
A.B. 2226
Requires each school district to provide a type 2 diabetes information sheet developed by the Department of Education to the parent or guard...
| More... |
Health |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | School Health Centers
A.B. 2560
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a Public School Health Center Support Program to perform a specified functions relat...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
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 ga...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | School Food and Beverage Guidelines
A.B. 469
Requires the Department of Education to develop and maintain nutrition guidelines for all food and beverages served on public school campuse...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Reduced-priced Meals for Child Development Programs
S.B. 1674
Extends the reimbursement rate for free and reduced- price meals to specified child development programs. Requires school and such developme...
| More... |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | AP and IB Grant Program
S.B. 1442
Amends existing law that establishes a 5-year grant program to award grants to cover the costs of advanced placement examination fees to aut...
| More... |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Calculation of Graduation Rates
A.B. 2167
Establishes the specific calculation for graduation rates to be included within the Academic Performance Index. Requires the Superintendent ...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Exit Exam Standards Evaluation
A.B. 2937
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to determine which of the Standards Tests or combination of those tests, is equivale...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Exit Exam and Students w/ Disabilities
S.B. 267
Relates to the State High School Exit Examination. Extends provisions relating to the granting or denial of a high school diploma by a schoo...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
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 ex...
| More... |
Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
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 edu...
| More... |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Electronic Instructional Materials
A.B. 1548
Authorizes 12 schools to request a publisher that makes instructional materials available to a school district in a hard copy format to make...
| More... |
P-3 |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Early Childhood Teacher Certification
A.B. 2802
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish an optional early childhood education credential for kindergarten and grades 1...
| More... |
P-3 Preschool |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Preschool Program Requirements
A.B. 2881
Defines preschool services as part- or full-day educational programs for prekindergarten-aged children. Establishes a family fee schedule. R...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | State Financial Aid Eligibility
S.B. 1383
Specifies that a student who does not meet the requirements of the Cal Grant Program that specify the need for a high school diploma or its ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | State Financial Aid Limits
A.B. 358
Expresses legislative intent that the maximum grant for Cal Grant recipients in 4-year programs at independent institutions be set and adjus...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Financial Aid Age Requirements
A.B. 2813
Relates to the State Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Program eligibility requirements that includes a requirement that the ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Oversight of Private College Financial Aid
A.B. 751
Authorizes the Student Aid Commission to regulate all matters and functions related to the state operations of purveyors of private college ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
S.B. 160
Enacts the California Dream Act that requires the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California C...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
S.B. 1133
Revises minimum state educational funding procedure for school districts and community college districts. Enacts the Quality Education Inves...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Workforce Development Program
S.B. 1552
Delays the repeal date of the Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. Adds to the program a provision requiring the C...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
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 ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Dual Enrollment and Exit Exams
S.B. 1303
Relates to prohibiting a principal from recommending, for any particular grade level, for community college summer session attendance, more ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Tuition
A.B. 473
Deletes the exemption of students who enroll for 6 or fewer units from the requirement to pay a nonresident tuition fee at a community colle...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Personnel Director Reviews
A.B. 2633
Requires the personnel commission of school and community college districts to make a biennial performance evaluation of and to determine th...
| More... |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | University and Community College Articulation
S.B. 652
Adds a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that requests the University of California address deficiencies in the articulation of ...
| More... |
Reading/Literacy |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Reading First Evaluation
A.B. 2248
Provides a local educational agency that receives continuous funding for Reading First beginning in rounds 1-3 of grant funding is eligible ...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Energy Conservation Grant Program
A.B. 2756
Requires the Controller to transfer funds from the Ratepayer Relief Fund to an account in the Special Deposit Fund to provide grants to elig...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12,
Community College | K-12 and Community College Facilities
A.B. 162
Requires the Department of General Services to establish procedures governing the use of the collaborative process for project development a...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Healthy Schools Act
A.B. 2865
Relates to the Healthy Schools Act. Expands the definition of schoolsite to include private child day care facilities. Requires landlords to...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Facilities Cost Calculations
A.B. 2947
Relates to eligibility for new school building construction calculations. Requires the existing building capacity calculation used to determ...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Special Education Student's Parental Rights
A.B. 2871
Amends existing law that requires all procedural safeguards under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Act to be established by each no...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Services for Autistic Children
A.B. 2513
Declares that the recommendations of the Superintendent of Public Instruction's advisory committee concerning means that public and private ...
| More... |
Standards |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | School Library Content Standards
A.B. 2065
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, school library content standards. R...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
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 inc...
| More... |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Supplemental Service Funds
A.B. 2254
Permits use of state and local funds if a school is required to contract with an outside entity for supplemental instruction to high-priorit...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | Student Records - Emergency Info. and Military Recruiters
A.B. 1778
Requires a school district, that requires the parent or legal guardian of a secondary school pupil to provide current emergency information ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12 | NBPTS Fees and Test Exemption; Teaching Fellowships
S.B. 842
Authorizes state funds to school districts for fees of teachers who seek certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Sta...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Teacher Certification Policies and Requirements
S.B. 1209
Requires the amount of funding a school district receives under a teacher credentialing grant be adjusted based on changes in the number of ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Vetoed 09/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Teacher Certification - Early Completion
A.B. 1857
Recasts, and adds additional requirements to, the entrance requirements for the early program completion option for interns who are accepted...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program
S.B. 472
Extends the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program. Deletes the authority of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to f...
| More... |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 09/2006 |
P-12 | K-12 High-Speed Network
A.B. 1228
Establishes the K-12 High-Speed Network to enrich pupil educational experiences and improve pupil academic performance by providing high spe...
| More... |
Textbooks and Open Source |
To governor 09/2006 |
P-12 | Instructional Material Purchases
S.B. 696
Authorizes a school district to expend for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, not more than 30% of the district's allowance to purch...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 | High Priority Schools Grant Program
Title 5 CCR Sections 1030.7, 1030.8
Amends rules relating to high priority schools grant program. Provides clarification regarding the use of valid APIs in the determination of...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
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 gradua...
| More... |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Adult Education Working Group
A.B. 1319
Requires the Chancellor of the Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group of adult education...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
P-12 | Compulsory Attendance Policies
A.B. 2181
Amends existing law that specifically authorizes a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with compulsory attendance...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
P-12 | Charter School Student Counts
S.B. 604
Permits advance apportionment for a charter school in certain years of operation that is adding one or more grade levels. Bases the apportio...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Vetoed 08/2006 |
P-12,
Community College | Dual Enrollment Policy
S.B. 1546
Provides that, a community college district may establish and offer to students a course of study leading to the concurrent award for the as...
| More... |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
P-12 | Credit Transfers from Dept. of Defense Schools
A.B. 2102
Requires the State Board of Education to establish a liaison with the U.S. Department of Defense and school districts to examine course cred...
| More... |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Vetoed 08/2006 |
P-12 | NCLB Proficiency Levels
A.B. 2975
Relates to the level of proficiency achieved by pupils. Requires the definition of proficient for the purposes of calculating Adequate Yearl...
| More... |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
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 ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Course Credits
A.B. 1943
Expresses legislative intent with respect to allowing community college districts to offer credit courses that are not part of an approved e...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Community College Finance System
S.B. 361
Establishes a new community college funding system. Requires the Board of Governors of Community Colleges to develop criteria and standards ...
| More... |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
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 ar...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
P-12 | Assistance for Students w/ Disabilities
A.B. 1667
Provides that any individual with exceptional needs, any pupil with a disability and any other pupil who requires specialized physical healt...
| More... |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Vetoed 08/2006 |
P-12 | Professional Development and Student Data
A.B. 2109
Requires a school district, as a condition for receiving specified professional development block grant funds, to analyze disaggregated test...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
Postsec. | Student Freedom of Speech Rights
A.B. 2581
Relates to rules subjecting a student to sanction solely on the basis of conduct that is speech or other communication that is protected fro...
| More... |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
P-12 | Teacher Transfers
S.B. 1655
Prohibits the transferring of a teacher who requests to be transferred to a school offering kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 08/2006 |
P-12 | Teacher Certification and Assignments
S.B. 1292
Authorizes a teacher with a designated subjects teaching credential or a service credential with a special class authorization to be assigne...
| More... |
Technology--Equitable Access |
Vetoed 08/2006 |
P-12 | School Techology Access Data
S.B. 812
Requires the State Department of Education to establish common data elements to determine the extent of educational technology access and in...
| More... |
Technology--Internet Safety |
Vetoed 08/2006 |
P-12 | Internet Safety Curriculum
S.B. 1740
Requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain Internet safety curriculum for use by local educational agencies. Require...
| More... |
Curriculum--Science |
Vetoed 07/2006 |
P-12 | Elementary Science Teachers and Curriculum
A.B. 2423
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to designate a credentialed teacher as a science coach at each elementary school, or pro...
| More... |
Finance |
Rejected by voters 07/2006 |
P-12 | School Funding and Tax Increase
V. 14 (Prop. 88)
(1189. SA2005RF0126) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to provide public school funding by imposing a tax on real property that exem...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Rule Adoption 07/2006 |
P-12 | High School Exit Exams
Title 5 CCR Sections 1204.5, 1207.1, 1207.2
Establishes emergency rules relating to high school exit examination.
a) Eligible pupils in grade 11 who have not yet passed one or both se...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Approved by voters 07/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | School and University Facilities Funding
V. 9 (Prop. 1D)
(AB 127-Chapter 35, 2006) Enacts the Kindergarten- University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 which would authorize a specified...
| More... |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 | Special Education Reporting Requirements
S.B. 1327
Relates to a free appropriate public education to all children with disabilities, children with disabilities who have been suspended or expe...
| More... |
Finance--Facilities |
Rejected by voters 06/2006 |
P-12 | Public Library Construction Bond to Improve Reading & Literacy
Prop. 81
This act provides for a bond issue in an amount not to exceed a total of six hundred million dollars ($600,000,000) to provide
funds for the...
| More... |
P-3 Finance |
Rejected by Voters. 06/2006 |
P-12 | Voluntary Public Preschool Program
V. 3 (Prop. 82)
Proposes an amendment to the California Constitution to establish a right to voluntary public preschool for all four-year old children, admi...
| More... |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Financial Aid Eligibility for Students with Parents in Military
A.B. 840
Relates to the eligibility requirement under the Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Program that a participant graduate for a ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Rule Adoption 06/2006 |
P-12 | NCLB and Rural Teacher Requirements
Title 5 CCR Section 6110, 6112, 6113
Adopts rules relating to rural flexibility and the No Child Left Behind Teacher requirements. Implements new timelines for middle and high s...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
A.B. 127
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006. Authorizes a specified amount in state general obligation b...
| More... |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 | Accountability and Funding for Low-Performing Schools
A.B. 1758
Provides that 36 months after the receipt of funding to implement a school action plan, all schools that are not subject to state monitoring...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Adopted 03/2006 |
P-12 | High School Exit Examination Administration
Title 5 CCR Sections 1204.5 thru 1207.2
1204.5. Grades 11 and 12 and Adult Education Testing Dates.
(a) Eligible pupils in grade 11 and eligible adult students who have not yet pas...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 01/2006 |
P-12 | One-year Exit Exam Exemptions for Students with Disabilities
S.B. 517
Requires school districts or state special schools to grant a high school diploma to a pupil with a disability who is scheduled to graduate ...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rejected by voters 11/2005 |
P-12 | Teacher Tenure Waiting Period
Ballot Measure 4 (Proposition 74)
Increases length of time required before a teacher may become a permanent employee to five complete consecutive school
years. Authorizes sch...
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Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. | NCLB Requirements for Middle and High School Teachers
Title 5, Div.1: 6:7:3 sec. 6111
A new middle or high school teacher who meets NCLB requirements must have a bachelor's degree and either be enrolled in an approved intern p...
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Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | School Intervention Contract Criteria
H.B. 953
This bill would require the Superintendent to provide a list of approved school assistance and intervention teams with which a school
distri...
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Assessment |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | Assessing English Language Learners; and Posting State Test Items
S.B. 755
This bill would require a pupil identified as limited English proficient who is enrolled in any of grades 2 to 11, and who either receives i...
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Assessment |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 | Assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners
S.B. 385
This bill would require a pupil to take achievement tests in his or her primary language, if the pupil is identified as limited English prof...
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At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | School Placement for Foster Children
H.B. 1261
An act to amend Sections 48853, 48853.5, 48859, 49069.5, 52052, 56034, 56366.1, and 56366.2 of the Education Code, and to amend Sections 319...
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Bilingual/ESL |
(S) IN SENATE. TO UNFINISHED BUSINESS. (VETO) 10/2005 |
P-12 | Instructional Materials for English Language Learners
S.B. 72
This bill would provide specified funding to school districts to provide supplementary instructional materials specifically for
English lang...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | Charter Schools and High School Exit Exams
H.B. 1610
An act to amend Sections 33054, 47605, 47605.6, 47607, 47612.5, and 51745.6 of, and to add Section 47612.6 to, the Education Code, relating ...
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Curriculum |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 |
S.B. 684
Social sciences curriculum. This bill would encourage a school district to provide instruction in social sciences that accurately reflects ...
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Finance |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 | Instructional Materials Fund
S.B. 657
Existing law establishes the State Instructional Materials Fund and continuously appropriates the money in the fund to the State
Department ...
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Health |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 | School Wellness Policies
S.B. 567
This bill would require local educational agencies that participate in specified federal school lunch programs to establish
and implement a ...
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Health |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | High School Athletes and Use of Steroids
S.B. 37
Prohibited substances. The bill would prohibit specified dietary supplements from being used by a pupil participating in interscholastic hi...
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Health |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | Content Standards for Health Education
H.B. 689
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate nutrition education curriculum content into the health
curriculum fra...
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High School |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | High School Attrition Data
H.B. 1496
An act to add Section 33318.5 to the Education Code, relating to pupils. - High school attrition rates. This bill would require the departme...
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High School |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 | Exit Exams Waivers for Students with Disabilities
S.B. 586
High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities. This bill would require a school district to grant a high school
diploma to a pupil ...
| More... |
High School--Exit Exams |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 | High School Exit Exams - Alternative Assessments
H.B. 1531
An act to add Section 60856.1 to the Education Code, relating to academic assessment. This bill would permit a pupil to satisfy the English ...
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Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
Postsec. | Tuition Waivers for Survivors of Deceased Law Enforcement and Firefighter Personnel
H.B. 1655
An act to amend Section 68120 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take ...
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Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
Postsec. | Community College Baccalaureate Programs
H.B. 1280
An act to add and repeal Section 78016.5 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. - Public postsecondary education...
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Special Education |
Signed into law 10/2005 |
P-12 | Special Education Services and Requirements
H.B. 1662
Existing law establishes a right of individuals with exceptional needs to receive free appropriate public education and ensures the right to...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Preliminary Credentials for Individuals without Teaching Certificate
S.B. 404
This bill would require the commission, until January 1, 2011, upon the recommendation of the governing board of a school district,
to issue...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 | Math and Reading Professional Development
S.B. 414
This bill extends the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program until July 2012. Under existing law, the program will become ...
| More... |
Technology--Internet Safety |
Vetoed 10/2005 |
P-12 | Internet Safety
S.B. 338
School curricula: Internet safety. This bill would authorize the State Department of Education, in cooperation with industry, and nonprofit ...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Accountability Report Cards - Inclusion of Expenditures and Salaries
S.B. 687
The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act requires each school district to develop and implement a school
accountabilit...
| More... |
Adult Basic Education |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Adult Learners May Take Exit Exam
A.B. 1057
An act to add Section 60851.3 to the Education Code, relating to education. Require the exit examination to be offered to a person regularly...
| More... |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Assistance to Students Failing the Exit Exam
A.B. 128
States that funds received through section 37252 for supplemental instruction may be used to provide intensive instruction and services to s...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 |
P-12 | Counseling for At-risk Students
A.B. 455
An act to amend Section 49600 of the Education Code, relating to at-risk pupils. Requires that educational counseling include, in addition t...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
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 sch...
| More... |
Career/Technical Education |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Career Technical Education Vision Council.
H.B. 917
This bill would create the Career Technical Education Vision Council to make recommendations regarding career technical education,
as specif...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Consideration of governor's veto pending 09/2005 |
P-12 | Role of Filipinos in World War II
A.B. 15
Allows social studies instruction in grades 7-12 to include instruction the role of Filipinos in World War II and
that war, and encourages ...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Driver's Ed at Private High Schools
A.B. 846
Rewrites Section 51220.6 of the Education Code, relating to driver education. Specifies that a private school is not required to offer drive...
| More... |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Curriculum and Tolerance Instruction
H.B. 723
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide academically rigorous content standards in core curriculum
areas, and ...
| More... |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Incorporating SCANS into Teacher Training Programs
A.B. 693
Defines the competencies and personal skills identified in the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report....
| More... |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Site Based Decisionmaking Pilot Program
S.B. 1053
Establishes the Local Improvement Program as a pilot program, with up to 5% of all public schools and up to 15 school districts participatin...
| More... |
Finance--District |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Replacing or Reconditioning Older School Buses
A.B. 1107
An act to amend Section 42291 of the Education Code. Establishes a priority for allocations to small school districts to replace or recondit...
| More... |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | School Transportation Block Grant
A.B. 1110
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code. Would create the School Transportat...
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Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | California Fresh Start Pilot Program
S.B. 281
Adds new section establishing within the department of education the California Fresh Start Pilot Program to provide fresh fruits and vegeta...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Healthy Beverages Sold at Schools
S.B. 965
Modifies the list of beverages that may be sold to pupils at an elementary or a middle or junior high school, and restricts the sale of beve...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Health Food and Beverage Provisions
S.B. 12
An act to amend sections 49430 and 49431, and to add section 49431.2 to the Education Code. Adds definitions of "added sweetner," "sold" "en...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Student and Adult Organization Food Sales in Schools
A.B. 443
An act to add Section 48939 to the Education Code, relating to school food sales. Requires the state board to review, and revise
as appropri...
| More... |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Data System for School Lunch and Breakfast Program
H.B. 1385
An act to add Section 49561 to the Education Code, relating to pupil nutrition. This bill would require the State Department of Education to...
| More... |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Rule Adoption 09/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Credit for College Courses
Title 5 CCR, Sec 1630
Repeals regulation governing high school students credit for college courses. ...
| More... |
Leadership |
09/2005 |
P-12 | Administrator Training Program
H.B. 430
This bill would change the name of the Principal Training Program to the Administrator Training Program and would change the reference
"scho...
| More... |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
Postsec. | Doctor of Education Degree
S.B. 724
From legislative counsel's digest: Authorizes the California State University to award the Doctor of Education degree, and prescribe standar...
| More... |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
Postsec. | Whistleblower Protection at California State University
A.B. 708
An act to amend Section 8547.12 of the Government Code, relating to the California State University and whistleblower protection. Authorizes...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
Postsec. | Definition of Private College for Funding Purposes
A.B. 947
Specifies that, for purposes of obtaining financing under the California Educational Facilities Authority Act, a "private college" also incl...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Golden State Scholarshare Trust and Postsecondary Finance
A.B. 961
Makes modifications to the administration and functioning of the Golden State Scholarshare Trust. Deletes the make up payment provision, the...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Health Supervision and Services Fees for Community College Students
A.B. 982
An act to amend Section 76355 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges. Expresses findings and declarations of the Legislature ...
| More... |
Postsecondary Finance |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
Postsec. | Review of Local Fiscal Impact of UC Campuses
A.B. 1690
An act to add Article 4.3 (commencing with Section 92043) to Chapter 1 of Part 57 of the Education Code, relating to municipal services. Exp...
| More... |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
Community College,
Postsec. | Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
S.B. 930
From the legislative counsel's digest: An act to amend Section 71000 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges. This bill would ...
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School Safety |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
Postsec. | Campus Safety and Sexual Violence
H.B. 1088
An act to add Section 67385.7 to the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. The bill requires the governing board of ea...
| More... |
School Safety |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | False Accusation of Sexual Assault
A.B. 605
An act to amend Section 48900 of the Education Code, relating to pupil rights. Authorizes a principal or superintendent to suspend a student...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Transportation Costs for Special Education Students and Rural Schools
H.B. 1110
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code, relating to school finance. - Schoo...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | School District Reorganization and Consolidation Requirements
H.B. 1642
This bill specifies requirements and procedures that follow from school district reorganization and consolidation, including school board el...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Bids for Construction Work
A.B. 490
An act to amend Section 20112 of the Public Contract Code, relating to public contracts. Requires notice for bids for district projects to b...
| More... |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | California Career Resource Network
S.B. 665
Repeals the California Occupational Information Coordination Committee and instead establishes the California Career Resource Network for th...
| More... |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Athletes' Bill of Rights
H.B. 322
Existing federal law, known as Title IX, prohibits a person, on the basis of sex, from being excluded from
participation in, being denied th...
| More... |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 09/2005 |
P-12 | Teacher Retirement Benefits
A.B. 224
Makes numerous changes to teacher retirement provisions. Broadens the authority of the Teachers' Retirement Board to fix compensation for ce...
| More... |
Technology--Equitable Access |
Vetoed 09/2005 |
P-12 | Measuring Educational Technology Access and Instructional Integration
S.B. 1006
An act to add Section 33126.4 to the Education Code, relating to schools. - Schools: educational technology access and instructional integra...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
P-12 | Transfers for Children of Military Personnel
A.B. 208
Authorizes a school district that accepts interdistrict transfers to give priority for attendance to children of military personnel, if the ...
| More... |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 08/2005 |
Postsec. | Observance of Veterans Day for California State University
A.B. 720
An act to add Section 89005.7 to the Education Code, relating to the California State University. Requires every campus of the California St...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Data Reporting
A.B. 110 -- Reporting Section
Legislative intent: (a) Promote good data management practices with respect to education data.
(b) Support the efforts of the State Departme...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Charter School Facilities
S.B. 1054
An act to amend Section 47610 of , and to add Section 47610.5 to, the Education Code, relating to charter schools. Expressly includes the Ca...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 07/2005 |
P-12 | Charter School Renewals
S.B. 166
An act to amend Section 47607 of the Education Code, relating to charter schools. Existing law provides procedures that
relate to the renewa...
| More... |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Options for Expelled Students
A.B. 110 --Expulsion Section
Governing boards that expel pupils must provide access to an educational program for those students. Such a program may be operated by the s...
| More... |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 | Student Expulsion Program and Reporting Requirements
A.B. 110
An act to amend Section 48916.1 of, and to repeal Sections 42103.3 and 56137 of, the Education Code, and to repeal Section 628.4 of the Pena...
| More... |
Attendance |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 | Attendance Review Board Recommendations
A.B. 656
Under existing law, a county school attendance review board may be established in each county to propose and promote the
use of alternatives...
| More... |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 | County Committees on School District Organization
A.B. 835
Existing law authorizes a county committee on school district organization, except as specified, to establish, rearrange the boundaries of,
...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Vetoed--in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 |
P-12 | Grant Joint Union High School District
S.B. 1271
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state and incurred...
| More... |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed, back in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. | Concurrent Enrollment
S.B. 905
Relates to existing law which authorizes a principal to recommend a high school pupil for community college summer session attendance, if th...
| More... |
Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Insufficient Textbooks and Instructional Materials
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Requires the county superintendent, for purposes of enforcing the use of required textbooks and instructional materials, to specifically rev...
| More... |
Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Annual Report on Status of Low-Performing Schools
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Requires the county superintendent to annually present a report to the governing board of each school district under his or her jurisdiction...
| More... |
Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Nonpublic Schools Serving Special Education Students
A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Requires a master contracts with nonpublic, nonsectarian schools for the provision of special education and related services to include that...
| More... |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Special Education in Private Schools
A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct an investigation onsite at any time without prior notice when there is substanti...
| More... |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Public School Performance Accountability Program:Opportunity for Teaching and Learning Index
S.B. 1419
Existing law establishes the Public School Performance Accountability Program which consists of the Academic Performance
Index (API), the Im...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Reporting School Performance
S.B. 722
Requires the comparable improvement in academic achievement to be measured by the Academic Performance Index for all numerically significant...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | State Reimbursement for the School Accountability Report Card and the STAR Program
A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 19: Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining an elementary or secondary school to develop and cause t...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Accountability Report Card: Requirements
A.B. 2596
Deletes the requirement, under the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, that the School Accountability Report Card in...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Review of Audit Exceptions
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 13: Requires the county superintendent of schools to include in the review of audit exceptions those audit exceptions related to use of...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | District Compliance Audits
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 2: Requires a district compliance audit to include verification of the reporting requirements for the sufficiency of textbooks and inst...
| More... |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Accountability Report Cards
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 10: Requires the school accountability report card to include information regarding the availability of sufficient textbooks and other ...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Districts: Four-Day School Week
S.B. 1138
Authorizes specified school districts to operate one or more schools in their districts on a 4-day school week, so long as the school distri...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Recognized High Schools: Grant Programs
A.B. 1841
Provides that if a high school participating in either the High Priority Schools Grant Program or the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Underperforming Schools Program
A.B. 2066
Requires the state department of education to identify and notify local educational agencies that are in danger of being identified within t...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Pupil Achievement Grant Program
A.B. 2152
Establishes the Pupil Achievement Grant Program to consolidate funding and provide flexibility at the schoolsite in the use of funds from sp...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Teachers
A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 1: Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the financial co...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | High Priority Schools Grant Program
A.B. 1987
Provides that a school participating in the High Priority Schools Grant Program that received a planning grant in the 2001-02 fiscal year is...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
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 sustai...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
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...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
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 ...
| More... |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Applicants to High Priority Schools Grant Program
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Requires schools initially applying to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant Program on or after the 2004–05 fiscal year to include...
| More... |
Adult Basic Education |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College | Education Finance: Joint Commission on Adult Education
S.B. 1442
Establishes the Joint Commission on Adult Education for the purpose of making recommendations regarding the coordination of adult education ...
| More... |
Adult Basic Education |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
Postsec. | Adult Education: Funding
S.B. 1309
Provides that the allocation of statewide authorized adult education average daily attendance would be modified pursuant to a specified form...
| More... |
Assessment |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Pupil Assessment
A.B. 2413
Places a prohibition from carrying on a program of specific preparation of the pupils for the statewide pupil assessment program or a partic...
| More... |
Assessment |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Inclusion of Documents in History-Social Science Framework
A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Section 2: Repeals the requirement that pupils in American government and civics courses required for high school graduation read and be tau...
| More... |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Special Education: Visually Impaired Pupils
A.B. 662
Creates the Advisory Task Force for Education of Blind and Visually Impaired Pupils to provide input to formulate the most effective policy ...
| More... |
Assessment--Computer Based |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Pupil Assessment Data: Electronic Resources
S.B. 1384
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to require the California Learning Resource Network to establish review criteria and a pro...
| More... |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | High School Remediation Funding Flexibility Program
A.B. 2647
Establishes the High School Remediation Funding Flexibility Program for the purpose of providing funding flexibility for remediation instruc...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Charter Schools and Student Discipline/Attendance
A.B. 1860
Prohibits a school district governing board from denying a charter school petition, unless it makes findings that the petition lacks a descr...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12,
Community College | Advancement Via Individual Determination Program
A.B. 3017
Appropriates a specified amount of funds from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the support of the Advancement Via I...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Pupils: Drug and Alcohol Testing
S.B. 1386
Provides for drug and alcohol testing of a pupil only upon a reasonable suspicion the pupil is unlawfully using or has unlawfully used a con...
| More... |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Steroids and Performance-Enhancing Dietary Supplements
S.B. 1630
Requires the Department of Health Services to develop a list of performance enhancing dietary supplements. Requires school districts to proh...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Health Services Authorization Affidavit
A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
Section 12: Existing law deems a pupil to have complied with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pu...
| More... |
Attendance |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Compulsory Attendance Laws
A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Extends authorization to January 1, 2006 for a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with compulsory attendance law...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. | Teachers
A.B. 242
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and, where appropriate, the State Department of Education, to incorporate into licensure re...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
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 p...
| More... |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Public Hearing on Textbooks
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 18: Requires the governing board of every district to hold a public hearing and make a determination as to whether each pupil in each s...
| More... |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Charter Schools: Requirement Exempts
S.B. 1423
Exempts a charter high school chartered by the Riverside Unified School District and operated in cooperation with the Riverside Community Co...
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Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Charter School Funding
A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Provides that for pupils who reside in a basic aid school district and are attending a countywide charter school operating at multiple sites...
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Civic Education |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Pupil Attendance: Precinct Board Membership
A.B. 1944
Deems, for purposes of computing the average daily attendance generated by a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course required b...
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Civic Education |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Historical Documents in Curriculum
A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to ensure that specified historical
documents are incorporated int...
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Class Size |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Education: Class Size
S.B. 311
Requires the Controller to deduct from the next principal apportionment of a school district a specified amount based on the annual pupil en...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Private Schools: Driver's Education Instruction
S.B. 524
Provides that the satisfactory completion of a course in automobile driver education offered by a private secondary school satisfies the ins...
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Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Courses of Study: Financial Planning
A.B. 2435
Permits a school district to include instruction on personal finance, including budgeting, savings and credit, in social sciences courses fo...
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Curriculum |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Environmental Education Materials
A.B. 1696
Eliminates the requirement imposed on school district governing boards to include certain environmental education materials as part of the a...
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Curriculum |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Curriculum Excusal on Religious Grounds
A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Provides that if any part of a school's instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a...
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Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Special Interest License Plates
S.B. 1213
Increases the amount of the fees imposed for issuance and renewal of specified special interest license plates approved by the DMV in consul...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | State Workforce Infrastructure Planning
A.B. 671
Defines workforce infrastructure as provisions for the delivery of public services essential to the viability of the state workforce. Requir...
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Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
Postsec. | Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act
A.B. 1821
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to maintain a Health Professions Career Opportunity Program to increase the...
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Equity |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Gender Discrimination
A.B. 358
Requires the state to implement the principles underlying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CE...
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Finance |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Districts: Reorganizations
A.B. 2841
Permits a county committee on school district organization to abolish a common governing board of an elementary school district and a high s...
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Finance--District |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Education Finance: Average Daily Attendance
S.B. 76
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to request approval from the State Board of Education in order to claim apportionments f...
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Finance--District |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Controller: Financial Reports
S.B. 1791
Requires the Controller to collect data regarding the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in each school district and compile t...
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Finance--District |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Surplus School Property: Use of Proceeds: Santa Clara
S.B. 1906
Authorizes the Santa Clara Unified School District to use the proceeds from the sale of surplus real and personal property to deposit the pr...
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Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities: Funding
S.B. 628
Permits the calculation of eligibility for new construction funding if the existing school building capacity in any high school attendance a...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities: Needs Assessment: Emergency Repairs
S.B. 6
Establishes the School Facilities Needs Assessment Grant Program, to be administered by the State Allocation Board, for the
purpose of award...
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Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities
A.B. 736
Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to implement design standards for school facilities in accordance with guidelines e...
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Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities: Sprinkler Systems
A.B. 2343
Requires an automatic sprinkler system to be installed in facilities modernized pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act under ...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities: New Construction and Modernization
A.B. 1465
Amends the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act relating to funding for construction of small high schools. Provides for adjustments of new...
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Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities: Regional Occupational Centers
A.B. 2035
Deems regional occupational centers to be school districts for school modernization funding purposes of the Leroy F. Greene School Facilitie...
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Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities: Modernization
A.B. 1126
Requires the State Allocation Board to adjust for inflation the calculation used to determine the total funding eligibility of a school dist...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Critically Overcrowded School Facilities
A.B. 2950
Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school distric...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Selling or Leasing of Real Estate by a School District
A.B. 2838
Requires the offer to sell or lease real estate with an option to purchase by a school district to be provided in writing to other specified...
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Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Facilities: Lease-Leaseback Contracts
A.B. 1486
Establishes a competitive proposal process for leases that provide for the construction of a building or buildings for the use of the school...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Reimbursement for a new Science Facility
A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions)
SEC. 17: Existing law provides that no pupil shall receive a diploma of graduation from high school who, while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive,...
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Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Facilities Inspection System
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building
Lease-Purchase...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | School Finance: Weighted Per Pupil Funding
A.B. 2373
Requires the California Quality Education Commission to examine the advantages and disadvantages of allowing a school district to allocate f...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Task Force: Restructuring Funding Formula
S.B. 1645
Establishes a task force to develop options for restructuring the funding formula for state aid. Authorizes the use of specified funds appro...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Home-to-School Transportation
A.B. 1253
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to examine home-to-school transportation funding formulas and determine how current formul...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Home-School Transportation
A.B. 2462
Authorizes, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, home-to-school transportation programs to receive a state funding increase in lieu of a...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Education Finance: Categorical Education Program Reform
A.B. 825
Establishes block grants to be composed of funding for specified existing categorical education programs. Repeals dates of the Early Interve...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | State Mandates: Commission on State Mandates
A.B. 2856
Revises the procedures for receiving claims and for hearings on claims from local governmental agencies, including school district, for reim...
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Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Teacher Support and Development Act of 2005
A.B. 1650
Consolidates the funding for programs aimed at promoting the development of teachers in specific areas, and establishes the Teacher Support ...
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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Instructional Materials Program Funding
S.B. 550 (multiple provisions)
Deletes the date of repeal on the Instructional Materials Program and the contingency of program implementation funding on funding from the ...
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Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Property Tax Revenue Shifts
S.B. 1909
Requires the auditor of a qualified county to increase the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to that county by the county ...
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Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Military Service: School District Board Vacancies
A.B. 3015
Provides if the absence of a member of the governing board of a school district for federal military deployment exceeds a 6-month period, th...
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Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College | Education Governance
A.B. 2339
Provides that, to the extent possible, the State Board of Education shall not meet on the same day on which the Regents of the University of...
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Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
Postsec. | Trustees of the California State University
A.B. 2849
Increases the membership of the Trustees of the California State University by requiring the Governor to appoint a nonfaculty employee of th...
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Health |
Vetoed 09/2004 |
P-12 | Pupils Health: Vision Appraisal
S.B. 1692
Requires that if a vision appraisal is conducted by a school district, each pupil is to receive a notice and questionnaire regarding pupil v...
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Health |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
P-12 | Teen Parents in Foster Care Act
S.B. 1178
Creates the Teen Parents in Foster Care Act. Provides ways in which families of dependent minor parents may be preserved, by assisting such ...
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