AB 607 (Goldberg):
Curriculum Development & Supplemental Materials Commission
This bill would make several
changes to this Commission, including specifying that public members of the
Commission are subject to the limitation of one full 4-year term, and would
prohibit a person appointed to serve as part of an advisory group to the
Commission from participating in that advisory group for more than one subject
matter adoption.
Status: Senate Education Committee
Position: Priority 2 - Support
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to take the following actions regarding the review of categorical
programs: 1) improve the coordinated compliance review process, conduct pilot
programs utilizing the federal monitoring process and evaluate this monitoring
process.
Status:
Senate Education Committee
Position:
Priority 2 - Support
AB 1196 (Coto) – Bilingualism
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have mastered speaking, reading, and writing skills in two or more languages, in addition to English.
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee
Position: Priority 2 - Support
This bill would express legislative intent to enact
legislation that develops a coordinated adult education data system. The
bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, using existing resources, to convene a
working group of adult education and data experts to review the separate,
existing adult education and noncredit instruction data systems, and report to
the Legislature and the Governor by July 1, 2007, on the feasibility, design,
and cost of a common data set in adult education.
This bill would reduce the amount of student fees
from $26 to $11 per unit per semester, effective with the fall term of the
2006-07 academic year.
Status: Died
In Assembly Appropriations Committee
Position:
Priority 2- Support
This bill would establish the Categorical Education Block Grant Consolidation Program, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to an application process established by the State Department of Education. The bill would require that a school participating in the program receive all of its state categorical education funding as one block grant, with no restrictions on the use of that funding. This would include Economic Impact Aid.
Status: Died
In Assembly Education Committee
Position: Priority 2 - Oppose
AB 2040 (Chu):
High School Exit Exam: Summer/Saturday Administrations
This bill would authorize the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, commencing in 2006-07, to include summer and Saturday
administrations of the high school exit examination. The bill would
appropriate $5.5 million to fund the additional summer and Saturday
administrations of the high school exit examination and the evaluation of those
additional administrations.
Status:
Senate Education Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support
AB 2053
(Strickland): Community Colleges: Remedial Instruction
Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets
forth the missions and functions of the 3 segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. A provision of the act provides that the provision of
remedial instruction is a function of the California Community Colleges, in
addition to that segment’s primary mission, which is the offering of academic
and vocational instruction. This bill would add a provision to the act
declaring that, within the public postsecondary education system of this state,
the provision of remedial instruction is the exclusive responsibility of the
California Community Colleges.
Status: Died
In Assembly Higher Education Committee
Position: Watch
AB 2117
(Goldberg): English Language Learners: Waivers
The bill establishes the English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program and requires the development of a consortium to develop a plan for a training program for certificated and classified staff teaching English language learners (EL's). Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to establish and administer a three-year competitive grant pilot project, commencing on September 1, 2007, to identify existing best practices regarding curriculum, instruction, and staff development for teaching EL's and promoting English language and academic English acquisition and development.
Status:
Senate Education Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support
AB 2255 (De La
Torre): High School Exit Exam: Administration
This bill would require that the high school exit
examination be offered to students enrolled in an adult education program who
have not passed the high school exit examination and have not received a
diploma of graduation from high school. This bill would require that, beginning
with the 2007-08 school year, at least one administration per year of the high
school exit examination be held on a Saturday.
Status: Died
In Assembly Appropriations Committee
Position: Priority
1- Support
AB 2417
(Wyland): High School Exit Exam: Adult Education Programs
This bill would authorize adult education programs
to assist high school pupils who meet certain conditions and pupils not
enrolled in high school who have completed all graduation requirements other
than passage of the high school exit examination in preparing for the high
school exit examination. This bill would require that adult education
intervention and remediation programs focused on preparing high school pupils
and other pupils not currently enrolled in high school for the high school exit
examination receive funding in addition to average daily attendance-based
apportionments when necessary to provide these services.
Status: Died
In Assembly Appropriations Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support
AB 2445
(Salinas): Bilingual Education Specialist Teaching Credential
This bill would require the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing (CTC) (on or before September 1, 2008, to establish standards for
the issuance of a bilingual education specialist teaching credential for
teachers of bilingual education classes for English language learners
transferred to those classes under a specified provision of existing law and
would require the standards established by the CTC to require the candidate for
a preliminary bilingual education specialist teaching credential to have a
baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution, have completed a program
of professional preparation for the credential, possess a multiple subject
teaching credential or a single subject teaching credential, and demonstrate
knowledge, skills, and abilities in certain, listed areas.
Status:
Senate Education Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support
AB 2532
(Karnette): Adult Education Funding
This bill would provide that, commencing with the
2007-08 fiscal year, adult education programs and adult programs in elementary
and secondary basic skills and other courses and classes required for the high
school diploma are not subject to the authorized limit of adult education
average daily attendance. The bill would also require, for the 2006-07 fiscal
year and each fiscal year thereafter, a school district to certify as secondary
education enrollment for apportionment purposes the attendance of certain
students participating in adult secondary education, adult basic education, or
English as a second language courses for the purposes of passing the California
High School Exit Examination and earning a high school diploma, and would
require the average daily attendance of those students be reimbursed at the
school district revenue limit.
Status:
Senate Education Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support
AB 2780
(Chavez): Adult Education
This bill would make a number of changes in adult
education programs including: 1) reduce the day of attendance from 180 minutes
to 145 minutes of attendance, 2) offer classes to students in specific settings
that are not open to the public for up to 2% of the adult school population, 3)
authorize school districts offering adult education to claim those hours spent
providing counseling, guidance, testing, and assessment services to students
who are enrolled in an adult education program towards their average daily
attendance apportionments with a limit of 5% of the district's total adult
education entitlement and 4) require a school district that submits an
application to the State Allocation Board for funding for a new construction or
modernization project to, at the time of submission of its final drawings to
the Division of the State Architect, certify that the facility needs of adult
school facilities have been considered.
Status: Died
In Assembly Education Committee
Position:
Priority 2- Support
AB 2787
(Niello): English Language Instruction: Annual Assessment
This bill makes technical, non-substantive change to
existing law relating to English language education for immigrant children,
requires that all children in California public schools be taught English by
being taught in English, and in particular, requires that all children be
placed in English language classrooms and criteria developed by the State Board
of Education for conducting the assessment and for the reclassification of a
pupil from English learner to proficient in English.
Status: Died
In Assembly Appropriations Committee
Position:
Watch
SB 368
(Escutia): Community Based Educational Tutoring (CBET) Program
This bill will make specific programmatic changes to
the CBET program and will allow the program to be funded on an annual basis
through the Annual Budget Act. The bill
will focus CBET educational services on parents or guardians of K-12 EL
students. Participating districts will
be required to develop a local implementation plan that would certify that
where possible, districts will offer CBET instruction at neighborhood school
sites in order to provide full articulation between CBET programs and
instructional programs for school-aged English language learners. The local plan shall also encourage interactive
parent-child activities and greater opportunities for parents to become
involved at the child’s school. The
bill will also require participating districts to document the development of
tutoring skills and utilization of appropriate K-12 curriculum by the parent in
the tutoring process. Finally, the bill
will set out an on-going evaluation process to measure the effectiveness of the
CBET program.
Status:
Assembly Education Committee (proposed to be amended)
Position: Priority
1 - Support
SB 847
(Ducheny): Community Colleges: Faculty
This bill, as introduced, would have addressed
highly qualified teachers providing career technical education
instruction. The bill was rewritten and would now raise to 80% the
maximum percentage of the hours per week of a full-time employee having comparable
duties that a person employed to teach adult or community college classes could
teach, while continuing to be classified as a temporary employee. The bill
would provide that the status of a person employed to teach adult or community
college classes for purposes of classification as a contract, regular, or
temporary employee would be determined at the campus level rather than at the
district level. The bill would specify that none of its provisions would be
construed to preclude a person to whom this provision is applicable from
teaching these hours at each of 2 or more colleges within a district, while
being classified as a temporary employee at each campus. The bill would specify
that none of its provisions relating to service in professional ancillary
services shall be construed to affect the requirements of existing law relating
to the allocation of funds to districts not meeting the requirement that
districts having at least 75% of credit instruction be taught by full-time
instructors. The bill would also specify that none of its provisions
shall be construed to affect the Part-Time Community College Faculty Health
Insurance Program and the Community College Part-Time Faculty Office Hours
Program.
Status:
Assembly Higher Education Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support
SB 1566
(Runner): Community Colleges: Equalization Funding
This bill would express a finding and declaration of
the Legislature that the amount appropriated in the Budget Act of 2006 for
equalization of community college apportionments shall complete the
Legislature's goal of eliminating disparities in the amount of funding per
credit full-time equivalent student (FTES) pursuant to the provision of
existing law that determines the calculations to be made with respect to the
apportionments of the equalization funding. The bill would revise these
calculations, for purposes of allocating the increment of equalization funding
provided in the Budget Act of 2006, to make adjustments for the equalization
funding provided in the Budget Act of 2005.
Status: Died
In Senate Education Committee
Position:
Priority 2 - Support
SB 1567
(Soto): English Language Education: Teaching Coaching Program
This bill would establish the English Language
Learner Teacher Coaching Program until January 1, 2012, to provide English
language learner coaches to assist groups of teachers, teaching
paraprofessionals, and pupils in certain matters. The bill would require CDE to select a county office of education
for the purposes of administering the program. The bill would require that the
selected county office of education have a proven record of experience in
providing learning opportunities and services for English language learners.
The bill would also require the department to
evaluate the success of the program and report its findings to the Legislature
by January 1, 2010.
Status: Died
In Senate Appropriations Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support
SB 1580
(Ducheny): Pupil Assessment: English Language Learners
This bill would require a pupil identified as
limited English proficient and who is either literate in his or her primary
language to take the standards-based achievement test in his or her primary
language as soon as the primary language test is available. The bill would
require a pupil identified as limited English proficient that has attended a
school in the United States for 3 consecutive years or more to take the
achievement test in English that is modified, as provided, instead of the
primary language achievement test. The bill would require the State Department
of Education, by January 1, 2008, to modify the standards-based achievement
test, as provided, for limited-English-proficient pupils. The bill would
authorize a school district, on a case-by-case basis, to instead administer an
achievement test in the primary language of a limited-English-proficient pupil
who has attended a school in the United States for 3 consecutive years or
more. The bill would also require the
CDE to use funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the purpose of developing
and adopting primary language versions of assessments that are aligned to the
state academic content standards in the dominant primary language The bill
would require the department, on or before January 1, 2008, to submit a report
to the Legislature on the development and implementation of the initial primary
language assessments and modified English language assessments and
recommendations on the development and implementation of future assessments and
funding requirements. The bill would
provide that a school or school district is not to advance to the next level of
program improvement status or be found to have failed to meet their Academic
Performance Index growth targets on the basis of the test scores of recent
immigrant pupils who have attended a school in the United States for less than
3 consecutive years, or any test other than the primary language of modified
English tests.
Status:
Assembly Education Committee
Position: Priority
1 - Support