Migrant education: average daily attendance.

Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a state master plan for services to migrant children. Under existing law, with the concurrence of a child's parent, a child who has been identified as a "migrant child" may be deemed a migrant child for a period, not in excess of 3 years, during which the child resides in an area where programs are provided for migrant children. 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, as specified, that includes average daily attendance as a component of that calculation. This bill, commencing with the 2021–22 fiscal year, would authorize up to 2 local educational agencies with instructional days between the first day of a fiscal year to the first principal apportionment of that fiscal year, and between the 2nd principal apportionment of a fiscal year and the last day of that fiscal year, attributable to pupils of migrant agricultural workers who are enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, to request average daily attendance funding for those pupils to be included in the annual apportionment for the applicable fiscal year. The bill would require this average daily attendance funding received by a local educational agency to be used on a program for those pupils, as specified. The bill would require a local educational agency operating the program to annually report to the State Department of Education information on the program, as specified.