Pupil rights: gender equity: interscholastic athletics.

(1) Existing law, on or before July 1, 2014, requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan that includes, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for certain state priorities for all pupils and each identified subgroup of pupils, as specified. Existing law includes among the state priorities school climate, measured as specified. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to update its local control and accountability plan on or before July 1 of each year. This bill, commencing January 1, 2018, would authorize a school district or county board of education to include as a measure of school climate for these purposes compliance with specified federal gender equity requirements, including, but not limited to, the total number of pupils, by gender, participating in interscholastic athletics. (2) This bill would also incorporate additional changes to Section 52060 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1599 that would become operative if this bill and AB 1599 are both enacted on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is enacted last.