School personnel: Classified School Employee Training Program.

Existing law establishes the Administrator Training Program and the Chief Business Officer Training Program under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Under these programs, the Superintendent awards incentive funding for the prescribed training to school districts and county offices of education meeting specified program criteria. This bill would establish the Classified School Employee Training Program. The bill would provide for the program to be administered by the Superintendent, with the approval of the State Board of Education. Under the Classified School Employee Training Program, the Superintendent would award incentive funding to eligible school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts for prescribed instruction and training for classified school employees. These provisions would not become operative unless and until the Superintendent certifies that the funding for this bill in the fiscal year in which the program commences exceeds the amount appropriated for the Administrator Training Program in the Budget Act of 2009. The bill would require the State Department of Education, after the program has been operative for no more than 3 years, to develop, subject to review and approval by the state board, a report for submission to the Legislature regarding the program.