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AB 1224 , Weber : This bill would establish the Chartering Authority Pilot Program under which the SBE would be authorized to select up to five county boards of education with demonstrated authorizing and oversight capacity to authorize and oversee up to 10 additional charter schools each . Status : Assembly Education Committee ACSA position : Seek comment AB 1478 , Jones-Sawyer : This bill would expressly state that charter schools and entities managing charter schools are subject to the Brown Act , unless the charter school is operated by an entity governed by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act , in which case the charter school would be subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act . This bill would expressly state that charter schools and entities managing charter schools are subject to the Political Reform Act of 1974 , and must adopt a conflict-ofinterest code . Status : Assembly Judiciary Committee ACSA position : Seek comment SB 808 , Mendoza : This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing a county board of education or the SBE to approve a petition to establish a charter school and would specify that a petition may be submitted only to the school district the boundaries within which the charter school would be located .
This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district to also deny a petition if it makes written factual findings in support of the fact that granting the petition would impose financial hardship on the school district . Status : Senate Education Committee ACSA position : Watch
Curriculum and instruction
AB 643 , Frazier : This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require high school sexual health education curriculum to teach
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pupils to recognize the signs of an abusive relationship . Status : Assembly floor ACSA position : Watch AB 1025 , Rubio : This bill would prohibit the average class enrollment for each school site in kindergarten and grades 1 to 5 , inclusive , excluding charter schools , from exceeding 24 pupils . To the extent that this provision would create new duties for local educational agencies , it would constitute a state-mandated local program . Status : Assembly floor ACSA position : Seek comment SB 583 , Stone : This bill would add a course in financial literacy to the list of courses a pupil is required to complete to receive a diploma of graduation from high school on and after January 1 , 2019 . Status : Senate Education Committee ACSA position : Seek comment
English Learners
AB 81 , Gonzalez Fletcher : This bill would require the notice of assessment of a child ’ s English proficiency to include specified additional information , including whether a child is a long-term English learner or is an EL at risk of becoming a long-term EL . The bill would require a school district to provide a notification letter to a pupil ’ s parent or guardian at the time a home language survey is provided that explains the purpose of the home language survey and the procedures for identification and reclassification of ELs .
Status : Assembly Appropriations
Committee ACSA position : Support SB 463 , Lara : This bill would establish criteria for the reclassification of English language learners . It would include an assessment of English language proficiency ; a teacher evaluation of a student ’ s curriculum mastery ; a parental opinion and consultation ; and a comparison of the student ’ s performance in basic skills against an established range of performance . It would also establish a teacher / administrator team to meet regularly and assess the proficiency
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and performance of ELs ; develop procedures to monitor student performance for four years after being reclassified as English proficient ; and review the procedures in place for ELs in special education .
Status : Senate Appropriations Committee
ACSA position : Support
Employer-employee relations
AB 52 , Cooper : This bill would require public employers to provide all employees an orientation . The bill would also require these public employers to permit the exclusive representative , if applicable , to participate .
Status : Assembly Public Employees ,
Retirement and Social Security Committee ACSA position : Watch AB 168 , Eggman : This bill would prohibit an employer , including state and local government employers , from seeking salary history information about an applicant for employment . The bill would require an employer , except state and local government employers , upon reasonable request , to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant for employment .
Status : Assembly Labor and Employment
Committee ACSA position : Seek to amend AB 500 , Gomez : This bill would require a local educational agency to maintain an employee code of conduct with pupils and provide a written copy of the code of conduct to the parent or guardian of each enrolled pupil at the beginning of each school year and to post the code of conduct , or provide a link to it , on the schools ’ website . Status : Assembly Education Committee ACSA position : Watch AB 568 , Gonzalez Fletcher : This bill would require a school district to provide for a minimum six weeks leave of absence from duty for a female employee in the classified service of the district who is required to absent herself from her duties because of pregnancy or convalescence following childbirth . The bill would also require the
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governing board of a school district , and the governing board of a community college district , to provide in the rules and regulations that the leave granted shall be with pay .
Status : Assembly Higher Education
Committee ACSA position : Support if amended AB 621 , Bocanegra : This bill would authorize a classified employee of a school district that does not pay the annual or monthly salaries of its classified employees in 12 equal monthly payments to participate in the Classified School Employees Summer Furlough Fund . The bill would require school districts to deposit the amounts withheld from the paychecks of a participating classified employee in accordance with that employee ’ s choices in an account within its general fund , to be known as the Classified Employees Summer Furlough Fund .
Status : Assembly Appropriations Committee
ACSA position : Oppose
Teacher pipeline
AB 169 , O ’ Donnell : This bill , subject to an appropriation of funding by the Legislature , would establish a program , the Golden State Teacher Grant Program to provide a grant to each student enrolled in an approved teacher credentialing program who commits to working in a high-need field , as defined , for four years after he or she receives a preliminary teaching credential . The bill would require a grant recipient to agree to repay the grant to the state in specified circumstances .
Status : Assembly Appropriations
Committee ACSA position : Approve
ACSA will continue to keep members apprised of the status of the hundreds of bills related to education that continue to move through the Capitol .
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