Local educational agencies: program improvement.

Existing law, implementing federal requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, provides that a local educational agency identified for corrective action shall be subject to specified sanctions and may apply for a one-year, nonrenewable grant of federal improvement funding to assist in its improvement process. Existing law provides that the amount of the grant shall be based upon whether the agency has extensive and severe, moderate, or minor or isolated performance problems, and the number of schools in the local educational agency identified for program improvement pursuant to federal law. This bill would specify that the amount of a grant for a local educational agency that is identified for corrective action and subject to sanctions, that does not have a school identified for program improvement pursuant to federal law, shall be based on the overall proportion of schools identified for program improvement of all local educational agencies determined to be within one of 3 categories, multiplied by the number of schools in the local educational agency, multiplied by the grant amount that would be appropriate to the local educational agency based upon the pervasiveness and severity of its performance problems, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.