This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to continue to place an emphasis on increasing funding to NASA's budget and encouraging the expansive use of public-private partnerships to propel the industry forward into the next generation of advancement.
This measure would recognize adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) , also known as post-traumatic "street" disorder in communities of color, as having lasting negative outcomes to both physical and mental health with growing implications for our state.
(1) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to adopt a local control and accountability plan and requires the governing board of a school district to update its local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires a local control and accountability plan to include a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each of the state's delineated priorities, as specified, for all pupils and certain subgroups of pupils, and a description of the specific actions the school district will take during each year of the local control and accountability plan to achieve the identified goals, including the enumeration of any specific actions necessary for that year to correct any deficiencies in regard to the state's priorities. The state's delineated priorities include, among others, the extent to which pupils have access to, and are enrolled in, a broad course of study that includes all of the subject areas described in specified provisions of the Education Code, including visual and performing arts. This bill would encourage each county office of education to provide local control and accountability plan guidance to its respective school districts related to the collection and dispersal of elementary arts education data, based on examples of school districts currently reporting elementary data, and making the data and any best practices used by a school district for compiling the data available to the public upon request. (2) Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) , and requires a local educational agency to retain all data necessary to compile reports required by specified federal law, including, but not limited to, dropout and graduation rates. Existing law requires that the CALPADS be used to accomplish specified goals, and that it have, among other things, the capability to include pupil achievement data from multiple years. This bill would require a school district that voluntarily reports enrollment and completion data specifically related to visual and performing arts offered by the school district for pupils in kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to the CALPADS to make that data and any best practices used by the school district for compiling the data available to the public upon request.
Existing law requires that schoolbuses manufactured on or after July 1, 2004, or July 1, 2005, depending on vehicle capacity and weight, and purchased or leased for use in California be equipped with a passenger restraint system, as specified, at all designated seating positions, unless specifically prohibited by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2020, the State Department of Education, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and any other appropriate or necessary entities to form a stakeholder workgroup to formulate and report to the Legislature a plan for school districts to have their entire schoolbus fleets equipped with passenger restraint systems on or before January 1, 2023. The bill would encourage a school district to comply with the January 1, 2023, passenger safety restraint plan either through retrofitting existing schoolbuses or purchasing new schoolbuses. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2019, the governing board of a school district to complete an inventory of the school district's schoolbuses that includes specified information and to report this information to the State Department of Education. Because a violation of the bill's requirements would be a crime and by imposing additional duties on school districts, 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, with regard to certain mandates, no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate 680 in the City of San Ramon in the County of Contra Costa as the Detective Sergeant Thomas A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Highway. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
This measure would urge the United States Congress to propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States by the popular vote of all eligible citizens of the United States.
