Virtual or online charter schools: average daily attendance.

Existing law requires community school and independent study average daily attendance to be claimed by school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools only for pupils who are residents of the county in which the apportionment claim is reported or pupils who are residents of a county immediately adjacent to the county in which the apportionment claim is reported. This bill, until January 1, 2018, would authorize a virtual or online charter school, as defined, to also claim independent study average daily attendance for a pupil who is enrolled in the school and moves to a residence located outside of the geographic boundaries of the virtual or online charter school, for the duration of the virtual or online charter school course or courses in which the pupil is enrolled or until the end of the school year, whichever occurs first. The bill would require the State Department of Education to report to the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst's Office on or before December 31, 2016, on the department's assessment of the need for a virtual or online charter school to claim the independent study average daily attendance of pupils enrolled in a virtual or online charter school that have moved outside of the geographic boundaries in which the virtual or online charter school is authorized for the duration of the courses in which the pupils are enrolled.