Local control funding formula: county offices of education: alternative education grant.

Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes, among other things, an alternative education grant, as specified. Existing law includes, among other things, a base grant based upon average daily attendance as a component of that alternative education grant. This bill would revise the alternative education grant by, among other things, increasing the base grant component of the alternative education grant, revising the calculation of average daily attendance for purposes of the alternative education grant, as specified, and establishing add-ons of $150,000 and $300,000, respectively, for each county office of education that operates a juvenile court school or a county community school, as specified. The bill also would establish a necessary juvenile court school allocation, as provided, as an alternative option to average daily attendance-based funding for juvenile court schools for purposes of the alternative education grant. The bill would make these provisions applicable commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year.