Existing law, until January 1, 2018, authorizes a virtual or online charter school to claim independent study average daily attendance for a pupil who is enrolled in the school and moves to a residence located outside of the geographic boundaries of the virtual or online charter school for the duration of the virtual or online charter school course in which the pupil is enrolled or until the end of the school year, whichever occurs first. This bill would extend the operation of those provisions until January 1, 2021, and would require the State Department of Education, on or before December 31, 2019, to report to the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst's Office on the department's assessment of the need for a virtual or online charter school to claim the independent study average daily attendance in accordance with the above-specified provisions.
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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 recognize August 15, 2017, as India's Independence Day and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to authorize the development of the Bill Bradley Human Relations Pilot Project for teaching a course on human relations and to take specified actions in that regard. Under existing law, the California International Studies Program is established for purposes of achieving specified goals relating to international studies skills and provides specified funding for program participants. Under existing law, the Reading First Plan is established to provide grants to eligible local educational agencies to provide reading instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, and to special education pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Under existing law, the Early Warning Program is established for the purpose of allocating grants to local educational agencies to implement specified requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Under existing law, the No Child Left Behind Liaison Team is established to advise the Superintendent and the State Board of Education on matters relating to the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Under existing law, the Education Technology Grant Act of 2002 is established to provide grants to eligible school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for purposes of implementing and supporting a system that uses technology to improve pupil academic achievement consistent with specified provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002. Under existing law, the Educational Improvement Act of 1969 is established to provide entitlements calculated by the Superintendent to eligible school districts for specified educational purposes. Under existing law, the School Improvement Act of 1970 provides for the establishment of program improvement schools, as defined, throughout the state. Under existing law, the Education Improvement Incentive Program is established to encourage improvement in public school performance by providing fiscal incentives to motivate teachers and schoolsite administrators to work to increase school performance. Under existing law, the Demonstration of Restructuring in Public Education is established to provide demonstration grants to applicant school districts to develop and implement policies and procedures that support specified educational objectives. Under existing law, the State Instructional Materials Fund is established in the State Treasury to annually fund the acquisition of instructional materials. This bill would repeal all of the above-specified provisions. The bill would also repeal provisions relating to the sunsetting of obsolete programs. Existing law establishes the Conservation Education Service in the State Department of Education, authorizes the governing board of a school district and specified other entities to apply to the Conservation Education Service for planning and implementation grants for conservation education in accordance with specified requirements, and authorizes the Superintendent to make grants pursuant to those provisions. This bill would repeal the provisions authorizing grants to be made pursuant to those provisions.
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies to enter into an agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties. This bill, notwithstanding the law relating to the joint exercise of powers, would authorize a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of El Dorado to enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency. The bill would prohibit nonprofit hospitals and public agencies participating in the agreement from reducing or eliminating any emergency services following the creation of the joint powers authority without a public hearing, as provided. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of El Dorado.