Public School Performance Accountability Program.

(1) Existing law establishes the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, a part of the Public Schools Performance Accountability Program, for schools that have not met adequate yearly progress and Academic Performance Index (API) growth targets, as established by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to take certain actions when a school does not meet those targets, and also authorizes the Superintendent to require a school district to enter into a contract with a school assistance and intervention team. This bill would require that the members of a school assistance and intervention team, that contracts with a school district in which one or more numerically significant pupil subgroups, as defined, did not meet those targets, possess specified certification and experience in meeting the needs of those pupil subgroups, and to use procedures and tools developed specifically for those pupil subgroups. (2) Existing law requires the school assistance and intervention team to complete a report that includes recommendations for corrective actions, as specified. This bill would require the school assistance and intervention team, in developing recommendations for corrective actions, to ensure that pupils have access to all core subjects, to ensure parental involvement and community involvement, and to include additional recommendations if alternative programs are the reason for program improvement status. (3) Existing law requires a local educational agency identified as a program improvement local educational agency under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to take a self-assessment provided by the department. This bill would require, if a local educational agency is identified as a program improvement local educational agency because of the failure of one or more pupil subgroups to meet adequate yearly progress and API growth targets, that the State Department of Education provide self-assessment materials and criteria specifically for language and content instruction. This bill would require the district assistance and intervention team, in developing recommendations for corrective actions, to ensure that pupils have access to all core subjects, to ensure parental involvement and community involvement, and to include additional recommendations if alternative programs are the reason for program improvement status. The bill would require that the members of a district assistance and intervention team, contracting with a local educational agency identified as a program improvement local educational agency in which one or more pupil subgroups did not meet adequate yearly progress and API growth targets, possess specified certification and experience in meeting the curriculum and instructional needs of the pupil subgroups, as specified. This bill would provide that the additional requirements imposed by its provisions would only apply to school assistance and intervention teams, as specified, that were established on or after January 1, 2010.