Education finance: local control funding formula: implementing regulations.

(1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations that govern the expenditure of funds apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils, as specified. This bill would require the state board, on or before January 31, 2015, to amend those regulations to require an expenditure made pursuant to the local control funding formula for the primary benefit of unduplicated pupils to be expended on programs or services that are evidence based and have been shown to be effective in increasing the academic performance of those pupils, to require the State Department of Education to suspend funding received pursuant to the local control funding formula if the department makes a specified finding, and to prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from receiving funding if the school district, county office of education, or charter school does not submit a local control and accountability plan that includes evidence-based programs that have been proven to be effective. The bill would state a related intent of the Legislature. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.