School safety: school climate: professional development: training materials.

Existing law prohibits a person employed by, or engaged in, a public school from inflicting, or causing to be inflicted, corporal punishment upon a pupil. Existing law prohibits an educational provider, as defined, from using a behavioral restraint or seclusion in certain circumstances and prohibits the use of certain restraint and seclusion techniques. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, to allocate funding for professional development for staff in methods to improve school safety and school climate, including, but not limited to, deescalation training, as defined, and for the purchase of training materials in these subjects, at schools enrolling pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate these funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools on the basis of an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance, as those numbers were reported at the time of the first principal apportionment for the 2019–20 fiscal year. The bill would require a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school to expend allocated funds for either of the purposes described above.