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Bill Number
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CANEC Position
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Summary
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Status
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604 Dymally |
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Charter School Oversight - This bill requires that a charter
school operating at multiple sites receive its funding directly
from the county superintendent of the county where the sponsor
is located and authorizes the county superintendent to prescribe
the manner of allocation of these funds . (Amended May 5, 2003)
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Passed out of Assembly Education (8-3).
Held in the Appropriations for a second hearing. |
AB
615
Bates |
Support (CANEC sponsored)
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Advisory Commission on Special Education:
Charter School Member - This bill requires the State Board recommend
the Superintendent of Public Instruction appoint one representative
from the charter school community to serve as a member of the Advisory
Commission on Special Education. This bill was sponsored by CANEC. |
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter
208, Statutes of 2003. Law takes effect January 2004. |
AB
1129
Goldberg |
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AMENDED - Now a Class Size Reduction Bill
which ties class size reduction funding to API decile rankings and
excludes charter schools serving nonclassroom based students. (Amended
April 28, 2003) |
To be heard in the Assembly Education
Committee. |
AB
1137
Reyes |
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Charter Schools: Chartering Authority
- This bill specifies several oversight duties of each chartering
authority with respect to charter schools under their authority,
requires a charter school to meet at least one of several academic
performance criteria as a prerequisite to receiving a charter renewal,
and rolls back recent funding carve outs from the charter school
block grant and other instances of re-regulations. This bill is
sponsored by EdVoice. |
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 892, Statutes of 2003.
Law takes effect January 2004.
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AB
1197
Wiggins |
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Conflict of Interest: The Political Reform
Act of 1974 requires each state or local government agency to adopt
a conflict of interest code, pursuant to which each designated employee
of the agency, as defined, shall file statements of economic interest
disclosing his or her financial interests, as specified. This bill
would further define a "designated employee" as including any board
member, chief business officer, superintendent and assistant superintendent
of a public school district or county office of education, and any
person having governance or management responsibility in a charter
school. (Amended August 28, 2003) |
Passed out of Assembly (72-0). Failed to pass out of Senate (25-15).
Reconsideration granted.
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AB
1307
Haynes |
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Charter School Petitioners - This bill
authorizes the State Board, a county board of education, the chancellor
of a campus of the University of California, the president of a
campus of the California State University, the governing board of
a community college district, or the governing body of a public
or private college or university, to approve a petition submitted
to establish a charter school within the county in which the authorizer
is located. (Amended March 25, 2003) |
To be heard in the Assembly Education. Hearing canceled by author.
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AB
1366
Simitian |
Support
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Charter School Finance: Basic Aid Districts
- This bill includes "basic aid districts" within the definitions
of charter school law, but only for the purpose of transferring
amounts of in lieu of property taxes for pupils who reside in or
are otherwise eligible to attend school in a basic aid school district,
but who attend a charter school authorized by a non-basic aid district
or county office of education. (Amended June 26, 2003) |
Passed Assembly (62-10) and Senate (31-2)
with urgency clause. Back to Assembly for concurrence. |
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AB
1381
Firebaugh
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Charter School Facilities Funding: Regulatory Approvals
- This bill requires the State Allocation Board (SAB) to adopt
regulations establishing a similar process for projects relating
to critically overcrowded schools.
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To be heard in the Assembly Education. Hearing canceled by author
(twice).
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AB
1464
Bates |
Support (CANEC sponsored)
Background Paper
Press Release
Talking Points
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Charter School Petitioners - This bill
authorizes the governing body of a private university or college
that offers a specified teacher training program, the chancellor
of a campus of the University of California, the president of a
campus of the California State University, the governing board of
a community college district, or nonprofit charitable organizations
that meet certain requirements, to approve a petition submitted
to establish a charter school within the county in which the petitioner
is located. This bill also authorizes the mayor of a city having
a population of at least 250,000 to approve a petition submitted
to establish a charter school within that city. This bill is sponsored
by CANEC. (Amended May 5, 2003) |
Now a two year bill. Will be reheard in the 2004 legislative
session.
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AB
1636
Alpert |
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Charter School District Conversion -
This bill allows conversion of all of a school district's schools
to charter schools by requiring approval only from the county board
of education and provides that any renewal of a petition approved
by joint action of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and
the State Board of Education prior to January 1, 2004, may be granted
only by the county board of education. This bill provide that, if
the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains
costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall
be made pursuant to these statutory provisions. (Amended April 24,
2003) |
Referred to the Assembly Education Committee.
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AB
1638
La Suer |
Support
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Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools - This
bill would further require the State Board of Education to adopt
regulations to include facilities costs in the calculations of SB
740 funding determinations. (Amended April 22, 2003) |
Still in the first house, but still alive. Failed passage in
Assembly Education with earlier language. Reconsideration granted.
Amended and referred to Health & Human Services.
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SB
15
Alpert |
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Charter School Facilities - AB 14, enacted
last year, provides the process whereby charter schools shall access
statewide school bond dollars provided for charter schools under
Prop. 47, approved by the voters last November, and declared the
process established to be a pilot program implemented to determine
the optimum method for providing school facilities funding for charter
schools. This bill repeals the provision declaring the process to
be a pilot program, thus keeping the current process in place for
the upcoming March 2004 statewide school facilities bond measure.
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Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter
587, Statutes of 2003. Law takes effect January 2004. |
SB
257
Alpert |
Support
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Pupil Data: This bill requires the Superintendent
of Public Instruction (SPI), with approval of the State Board of
Education, to develop and implement a "gain score" measurement of
academic performance for schools and appropriates second year funding
for the longitudinal database initiated last year. (Amended September
3, 2003) |
Enrolled. Sent to the Governor for his
signature on September 15. |
SB
979
Ducheny |
Support
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Charter School Attendance - Existing
charter school law provides that average daily attendance may not
be generated by a pupil over 19 years of age who is not continuously
enrolled in a public school and making satisfactory progress toward
a high school diploma, with certain specified exceptions. This bill
authorizes the State Board to grant a renewable exemption from that
provision to a charter school, upon petition, for a term of up to
five years. |
Passed out of the Senate Education Committee
(10-1). Held in the Appropriations under submission. |
