American Indian Education Oversight Committee.

(1) Existing law provides for the establishment of California American Indian education centers to serve as community-based educational resource centers for American Indian pupils, parents, guardians, and the public schools in order to promote the academic and cultural achievement of the pupils. Existing law provides that the California American Indian Education Center Program will become inoperative on January 1, 2012. This bill instead would provide that those provisions regarding the California American Indian education centers will become inoperative and be repealed on January 1, 2017, thereby extending the operation of those provisions by 5 years. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with input from existing California American Indian education center directors, to appoint an American Indian Education Oversight Committee by January 30, 2007, composed of at least 7 educators, 4 of whom are required to be California American Indian education center directors. Existing law requires the committee to provide input and advice to the Superintendent on all aspects of American Indian education programs established by the state. This bill would allow the Superintendent, if he or she is unable to find a qualified individual to fill a vacancy in one of the 4 positions for center directors within 30 days of the vacancy arising, to fill the vacancy with an educator who is not a center director. (3) Existing law requires the State Department of Education, on or before January 1, 2011, to conduct an evaluation of the centers to determine whether to renew the application of each existing center or instead to approve an application to establish a new center. Existing law also requires the department, on or before January 1, 2011, to report consolidated results for all centers and supply information that is required for a comprehensive evaluation of those results, and make recommendations for program improvement. This bill, in addition, would require the department to perform those duties a 2nd time on or before January 1, 2016.