Education: omnibus bill.

(1) Existing law establishes the K–12 High-Speed Network, as specified, for the purpose of enriching pupil educational experiences and improving pupil academic performance by providing high‑speed, high‑bandwidth Internet connectivity to the public schools. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to use a competitive grant process to select a local educational agency to serve as the Lead Education Agency to administer the network on behalf of the Superintendent. Existing law requires the Superintendent to establish a K–12 HSN advisory board to include the Superintendent, the county superintendent of schools of the Lead Education Agency, the President of the State Board of Education, and other officers of local educational agencies, including 3 schoolsite representatives, as specified. This bill would specify that the schoolsite representatives appointed to the advisory board under this provision would serve renewable 2-year terms. (2) Existing law authorizes the State Allocation Board to allocate any amount of the funds designated for purposes of school housing aid for school districts impacted by seasonal agricultural employment that is in excess of the amounts needed for administration to any of specified funds, including the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund, as provided. Existing law separately authorizes the board to transfer any funds within the State School Building Aid Fund that are in excess of the amounts needed by the board for the maintenance of portable buildings or for the purchase of new portable buildings, for that fiscal year, to any of specified funds, including the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund, as provided. This bill would delete those allocation authorizations to the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund. (3) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a restricted fund known as the "district deferred maintenance fund" for certain school facilities purposes, including, among others, any other items of maintenance approved by the State Allocation Board. This bill would remove that purpose from the list of specifically authorized purposes, but would no longer limit the use of the fund to the list of specifically authorized purposes. (4) Existing law requires the State Department of Education, and authorizes the Compton Unified School District, to identify low-performing schools in the school district, as provided, for purposes of providing extended school year instruction. Former law, repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2003, authorized the Compton Unified School District to receive funding for extended year classes at those low-performing schools in the school district, as provided. Existing law requires the department, in conjunction with the Legislative Analyst, to contract for 2 independent evaluations, as provided, to determine the effectiveness of the extended school year curriculum, instructional program, and materials in improving pupil academic outcomes at those low-performing schools in the Compton Unified School District. Existing law requires the results of the evaluations to be reported on or before January 1, 2002, and January 1, 2003, respectively, to specified persons. This bill would delete those obsolete provisions. (5) Existing law, the Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Education Act of 1976, which ceased to be operative on June 30, 1987, required, among other things, that the Superintendent of Public Instruction report annually to the Legislature on bilingual education programs, as specified. The act also required the State Department of Education to prepare and submit to the Legislature an annual report regarding the number of participants in the State Bilingual Teacher Training Assistance Program and other topics related to that program. This bill would delete those reporting requirements. (6) Existing law establishes programs to provide state aid to public schools where pupil performance is affected by factors such as low family income, high pupil transiency rates, and large numbers of homes where a primary language other than English is spoken. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit annually to the Governor and to each house of the Legislature a report evaluating these programs and containing information related to specified topics. This bill would delete the requirement for this annual report. (7) This bill would also update references, delete other obsolete provisions, make conforming changes, and make other nonsubstantive changes.