School Accountability Report Card.

(1) The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, requires the governing board of each school maintaining an elementary or secondary school to develop and cause to be implemented for each school in the school district a school accountability report card that includes specified information. The act prohibits any change to its provisions, except a change to further its purposes enacted by a bill passed by a vote of 23 of the Legislature and signed by the Governor. This bill would revise and recast the provisions relating to the School Accountability Report Card. The bill would revise the provisions requiring specified information to be included in the School Accountability Report Card. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a standardized School Accountability Report Card to simplify the process and make the information more meaningful to the public. The bill would also require the Superintendent to develop a standardized template for school districts to use for certain data required to be included in the School Accountability Report Card. The bill would require the Superintendent to annually post, commencing with the 2019–20 school year, the completed and viewable School Accountability Report Card for each school on the Internet, on or before February 1. The bill would require the governing board of each school district to annually publicize the availability of the School Accountability Report Card for each school in the school district, and would require each school district that is connected to the Internet to provide a link to the information contained in the School Accountability Report Card on the school district's Internet Web site. To the extent the bill would impose additional requirements on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would state that the Legislature finds and declares that the changes made to the act by these provisions further the purposes of the act. (2) This bill would also delete obsolete provisions and make clarifying and conforming changes. (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.