School intervention: parent empowerment.

Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one of several specified interventions for a school not identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school that, after one full school year, is subject to corrective action and fails to meet specified criteria and has a specified percentage of parents and legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the local educational agency to implement at least one of 5 specified interventions. Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement the intervention option requested by the petition unless the local educational agency makes a specified finding in a regularly scheduled public hearing. This bill would specify that if the intervention identified in the petition is the restart model, as specified, and the petitioners opt to solicit charter school or educational management organization proposals for the selection of a specific charter school or educational management organization operator, then all parents and legal guardians of pupils attending the school have the right to participate in the selection of the charter school or educational management organization operator, regardless of whether they signed the petition. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes by updating cross-references. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.