School climate: surveys: report.

Existing law requires the governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt local control and accountability plans using a state template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the local control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a description of annual goals for all pupils and specified subgroups of pupils to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, including, among other state priorities, school climate as measured by, among other things, surveys of pupils, parents, and teachers on the sense of safety and school connectedness. This bill would require, on or before March 1, 2020, the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Public Health, to submit a report to the Legislature, the Governor, and the Department of Finance on how to monitor, using a survey, certain aspects relating to school climate, including a pupil's use of marijuana and other drugs, tobacco, and alcohol. The bill would also require the report to identify specific and ongoing funding sources that could be used to conduct the surveys, as well as a recommended implementation plan that can provide local educational agencies, including charter schools, with the tools and resources to administer annual surveys, as provided. The bill would require the department to identify those core questions in the survey that shall not be removed.