Low-performing schools: English learners.

(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, county superintendent of schools, or the governing body of a charter school or its equivalent to implement one of 4 specified intervention options for schools identified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction as persistently lowest-achieving, as specified. Existing law establishes the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, which is a voluntary program in which underperforming schools may participate for the purpose of improving pupil achievement. This bill would require that if a school district or charter school authorizer intervenes to turn around a persistently lowest-achieving school, including a charter school, as specified, or if a school, including a charter school, is eligible to be included in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, and that school has pupils who are English learners, the school district or authorizer take certain actions relating to the provision of services for English learners. The bill also would include a legislative finding and declaration that a school may already have satisfied the requirements specified in the bill by completing and obtaining approval of a school plan, as specified, for purposes of allocating economic impact aid funds. Because the bill would increase the duties of school districts, it would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) "?>(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would 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.