Pupils: dropouts: recovery programs.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before August 1, 2011, and annually thereafter, to submit to the Governor, the Legislature, and the State Board of Education a report called the Annual Report on Dropouts in California. Existing law requires, among other things, that the report contain specified information on dropout rates, graduation rates, and pupil promotion rates. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the report be usable by schools, school districts, policymakers, researchers, parents, and the public, for purposes of identifying and understanding trends, causal relations, early warning indicators, and potential points of intervention to address the high rate of dropouts in California. This bill would require the report also to include information about the number of schools that offer dropout prevention or dropout recovery programs. The bill would also require the State Department of Education to post on its Internet Web site a list of schools that offer dropout prevention or dropout recovery programs and to include descriptions of the programs offered.