Schoolsite councils.

Existing law, the School-Based Program Coordination Act, which is applicable only to school districts and schools that participate in school-based coordinated categorical programs, is established to provide flexibility to coordinate categorical funds. The act requires a school that participates in school-based program coordination to establish a schoolsite council, composed of the school principal, teachers, and other prescribed members, and requires the schoolsite council to establish a school plan that includes, among other things, the proposed expenditure of funds received through various categorical programs. Existing law, enacted in 2013, revised provisions of the public school financing system, requires state funding for schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, and authorizes local educational agencies to expend for any local educational purpose funds previously required to be spent for various categorical education programs. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to adopt a local control and accountability plan that includes, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each of the state priorities identified pursuant to specified provisions. This bill would add provisions separate from the School-Based Program Coordination Act that would authorize a school district to establish a schoolsite council at any school, composed as specified, and subject to prescribed conditions and requirements, with responsibility for developing and annually reviewing a specified school plan. The bill would specify that if any provision that would be added by the bill conflicts with the provisions of the School-Based Program Coordination Act, the provisions of the School-Based Program Coordination Act shall prevail. The bill would make conforming changes by updating cross-references and making various nonsubstantive changes. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 64001 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2380 that would become operative if this bill and AB 2380 are both enacted and this bill is enacted last.