Public elementary and secondary schools: schoolsite councils.

Existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to adopt School Plans for Student Achievement as a condition of receiving certain state and federal funds. Existing law requires a school that operates a program that requires a School Plan for Student Achievement to establish a schoolsite council. At a secondary school, existing law requires the schoolsite council to consist of 2 groups: (1) the principal of the school or the principal's designee, classroom teachers employed at the school, and school personnel employed at the school who are not teachers, with classroom teachers constituting a majority of the first group, and (2) parents of pupils attending the school, or other members of the school community, and pupils attending the school. Existing law requires that the number of persons selected for the second group equal the number of persons selected for the first group. This bill would instead authorize the number of persons selected for the second group of a schoolsite council at a secondary school to exceed the number of persons selected for the first group.