Schools: school safety and teacher training.

(1) Existing law establishes the school safety consolidated competitive grant, requires the funding for the school safety consolidated competitive grant to include funding previously apportioned to school districts for carrying out the purposes of specified programs, and requires funds appropriated for purposes of the school safety consolidated competitive grant to be available for encumbrance for 5 years from the date of appropriation. This bill would repeal the provision requiring funds appropriated for purposes of the school safety consolidated competitive grant to be available for encumbrance for 5 years from the date of appropriation. (2) Existing law establishes various categorical education programs and appropriates the funding for those programs in the annual Budget Act. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2008–09 to 2014–15 fiscal years, inclusive, to apportion from the amounts provided in the annual Budget Act for specified categorical education programs an amount based on the relative proportion that the local educational agency received in the 2008–09 fiscal year for those programs and authorizes the local educational agency, for those fiscal years, to use these funds, with specified exceptions, for any educational purpose, to the extent permitted by federal law. This bill would, from moneys annually appropriated for the school safety consolidated competitive grant, require $321,000 of those moneys to be used for certain purposes related to the Interagency School Safety Demonstration Act of 1985. (3) Existing law establishes the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System, which is jointly administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. In administering the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System, existing law requires the Superintendent and the commission to provide or contract for, among other things, establishing requirements for reviewing and approving teacher induction programs. Existing law requires a school district or consortium of school districts that apply to the Superintendent for funding to establish a local teacher induction program to meet specified requirements. This bill, for purposes of the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System, also would require the Superintendent and the commission to provide or contract for implementing high-quality teacher induction programs per specified certification criteria and enforcing each teacher induction program's standards to meet state standards.