Education finance: Opportunity Youth Reengagement Program.

Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, local educational agencies, which include school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at schoolsites throughout the state. 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 (LCFF) , as specified. This bill would amend the LCFF to authorize the expenditure by school districts and charter schools of a specified amount of moneys from the supplemental grant and concentration grant provisions of the LCFF, and would, for each fiscal year, upon an appropriation of funds for this purpose by the Legislature, require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make a specified apportionment, in order to provide funding to local educational agencies, as defined, serving reengaged opportunity youth, as defined, under the Opportunity Youth Reengagement Program, which the bill would establish. The bill would provide that a youth who is eligible to participate in the program funded under the bill would include a pupil formerly identified as a dropout, an expelled pupil, and a pupil who has not been enrolled for at least 90 days irrespective of designation, including, but not necessarily limited to, a pupil identified as a transfer pupil but who has not reenrolled in a public elementary or secondary school for at least 90 days. The bill would specify the reengagement services that could be provided to eligible youths by local educational agencies entering into agreements for provision of these services. The bill would require a local educational agency that receives funding under the bill to provide specified outcome data in its annual local control and accountability plan.