This measure would declare October 23 to 31, 2018, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and to participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would declare July 27, 2018, as California Bullying Prevention Day, also to be known as Rosie's Day.
This measure would urge the United States Department of Justice not to direct its enforcement priorities towards California's lawfully and closely regulated cannabis industry, among other things.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, administer the Teacher Residency Grant Program and the Local Solutions Grant Program, as specified. This bill would, for the 2019–20 fiscal year, appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission to establish the Computer Science Teacher Grant Program. The bill would require the commission to competitively select a county office of education to administer the grant program to provide specified grants to each student enrolled in an approved teacher preparation program who commits to teaching computer science, at a school district, county office of education, or charter school, for 4 years after he or she receives a preliminary teaching credential, and when he or she has completed 2 and 4 years of the teaching obligation, as provided. The bill would require the administrator of the grant program to annually report the status and progress of the grant program to the commission and to submit a final implementation report, within 6 years of being selected as the administrator, that describes the outcomes and effectiveness of the grant program. Existing law establishes the State Department of Education, under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and assigns to the department numerous duties relating to the financing, governance, and guidance of the public elementary and secondary schools in this state. Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission, on or before July 31, 2019, to consider developing and recommending to the State Board of Education computer science content standards for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, pursuant to recommendations developed by a group of computer science experts that the Superintendent, in consultation with the state board, is required to consider convening. This bill would, for the 2019–20 fiscal year, appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to apportion funds on a one-time basis to all county offices of education, school districts, and charter schools, on the basis of average daily attendance, for the purpose of purchasing instructional materials that are aligned to the forthcoming computer science content standards to be adopted for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided. Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would encourage the federal government to maintain or restore full funding to integral international exchange programs, such as the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Existing law establishes the California Educator Development (CalED) Program as a grant program designed to enhance the state's efforts to address teacher recruitment and retention issues throughout the state by assisting local educational agencies with attracting and supporting the preparation and continued learning of teachers, principals, and other school leaders. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in conjunction with the California Center on Teaching Careers, to develop a competitive grant program, as provided, and requires the California Center on Teaching Careers, in consultation with the commission, to issue a request for proposals to all school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education in the state to solicit applications for the CalEd Program. Existing law requires a specified amount of funding that is allocated to grant recipients to be used for activities that result in new credentials authorizing teachers to provide instruction in special education, mathematics, science, and bilingual education, pursuant to the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. This bill would specify that the authorized specified amount of funding that is allocated to grant recipients to be used for activities that result in new credentials authorizing teachers to provide instruction in, among other subjects, science includes computer science, as provided.
Existing law establishes the California Housing Finance Agency, within the Department of Housing and Community Development, with the primary purpose of meeting the housing needs of persons and families of low or moderate income. Existing law authorizes the agency to make, or undertake commitments to make, loans to housing sponsors to finance certain types of housing developments and residential structures, as provided, and requires the agency to enter into regulatory contracts and other agreements with housing sponsors receiving these loans. Existing law, the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, authorizes school districts to establish and implement programs that address the housing needs of teachers and school district employees who face challenges in securing affordable housing. This bill would specifically authorize the agency to enter into financing agreements with school districts, and developers that have partnered with school districts, for the creation of affordable rental housing, as defined, for school district employees, including teachers. The bill would require that payment on a loan provided pursuant to these provisions be deferred until the affordable rental housing financed by that loan is put into service and the school district begins collecting rent from the occupants of that affordable rental housing. Existing law establishes the California Housing Finance Fund and continuously appropriates all money in the fund to the agency for purposes of financing the various programs that it administers. Existing law requires that all moneys accruing to the agency pursuant to specified provisions, including proceeds from revenue bonds and taxable securities issued by the agency, be deposited in the fund. This bill, notwithstanding these provisions, would make funds available for its purposes only upon appropriation by the Legislature.
This measure would recognize the month of June 2018 as California's Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month and Thursday, June 21, 2018, as The Longest Day in California, and would urge all Californians to wear purple on this day to help spread global awareness of the Alzheimer's Association's vision of a world without Alzheimer's disease.
