Special education: funding.

Existing law, until July 1, 2011, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make prescribed computations each fiscal year to determine an adjusted entitlement to be apportioned to each special education local plan area for each incidence of disability. This bill would instead provide that these provisions would remain in effect indefinitely by deleting the repeal date. This bill would require the Superintendent, on or before January 31, 2012, to update the incidence multiplier used to determine the adjusted entitlement of each special education local plan area using data collected in or after 2008. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate funds increasingly based upon calculations made using the updated incidence multiplier for the 2011–12 to 2015–16 fiscal years, inclusive, as specified. The bill would provide that this funding is contingent upon an appropriation made in the annual Budget Act or an appropriation contained in another measure.