Education finance: base grants: adjustments: reduced class size.

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. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a grade span adjusted base grant, a 10.4% adjustment to the kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, base grant for school districts that maintain, or make progress toward, as specified, an average class enrollment of not more than 24 pupils for each schoolsite. This bill would instead require, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, the above 10.4% adjustment to be applied to the kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, base grant, the grades 4 to 6, inclusive, base grant, and the grades 7 and 8 base grant for a school district or charter school that maintains an average class enrollment of not more than 24 pupils for each schoolsite, unless a collectively bargained alternative ratio is agreed to by the school district or charter school, and would make conforming changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.