School facilities: design and construction: report: regulations.

Existing law requires the State Department of Education to take specified actions relating to the construction of school facilities, including to establish standards for use by school districts to ensure that the design and construction of school facilities are educationally appropriate and promote school safety. This bill would require those standards to also ensure that the design and construction of school facilities provide school districts with flexibility in designing instructional facilities. The bill would also require the department to develop strategies to assist small school districts with technical assistance relating to school construction and the funding of school facilities. The bill would require the department, the Division of the State Architect, and the Office of Public School Construction to, on or before July 1, 2018, submit a report to the Legislature, as provided, relating to the construction of school facilities that addresses the feasibility of streamlining their application processes, as specified. The bill would require the department and the Office of Public School Construction to each develop regulations that provide local educational agencies with flexibility in the design of instructional facilities, as specified, for consideration by the State Board of Education and the State Allocation Board.