School attendance: high schools.

Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state. Existing law also establishes school districts throughout the state, and authorizes these school districts to operate schools and to provide instruction to pupils. Existing law establishes a system for the funding of public elementary and secondary schools which includes, among other things, the apportionment of state funds to school districts in accordance with specified computations. Existing law provides for various types of school districts, including elementary school districts, which operate only elementary schools, high school districts, which operate only secondary schools, and unified school districts, which operate both elementary and secondary schools. Existing law provides that any person who is eligible to attend high school, and who does not reside in a high school district or a unified school district, may attend high school in any high school district or unified school district in the county in which he or she resides or in another county. This bill would specify computations to be made under this provision in the event that a pupil attends a high school in a basic aid school district, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion the amount computed under this bill to the school district of attendance from Section A of the State School Fund, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would define a basic aid school district to mean a school district that does not receive from the state an apportionment of state funds pursuant to a specified statute in any fiscal year in which this provision is applied.