School accountability: college and career readiness indicators: culminating performance assessment.

Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt evaluation rubrics for specified purposes relating to school accountability and requires the state board, as part of the evaluation rubrics, to adopt state and local indicators to measure school district and individual schoolsite performance in regard to each of the state priorities and standards for local educational agency and individual schoolsite performance and expectations for improvement, as provided. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the state board, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in the evaluation rubrics. This bill would require the state board to consider adopting regulations, by January 1, 2025, to include the completion of a culminating performance assessment, such as a graduate pupil profile, capstone project, senior exhibition, or portfolio, that demonstrates competency in skills beyond core academic areas, as an accepted measure for the college or career readiness indicator for the California School Dashboard, as provided. To the extent any regulations adopted by the state board for these purposes would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.