Regional occupational centers or programs: apportionments.

Existing law prescribes a formula for the apportionment of funds to regional occupational centers or programs. This formula requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate the funded growth average daily attendance for each regional occupational center or program (ROC/P) . This bill would require, if the growth average daily attendance funded in the annual Budget Act for any fiscal year is a negative adjustment, that the existing formula for the calculation of the funded growth average daily attendance for ROC/Ps be inoperative for that fiscal year, and that the growth average daily attendance be calculated as a percentage reduction and allocated to each ROC/P as an equivalent percentage reduction to the cap on the average daily attendance of that ROC/P. The bill would also require, for the 2009–10 fiscal year, that the Superintendent of Public Instruction recalculate the prior year average daily attendance for each regional occupational center or program pursuant to a prescribed statute to apply a percentage reduction equal to the percentage reduction applied for ROC/P growth in the Budget Act of 2008.