Sen. Megan Dahle

This measure would recognize April 24, 2022, through April 30, 2022, as Crime Victims' Rights Week.

This measure would acknowledge April 2022 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and encourage Californians to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.

This measure would recognize the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots on April 29, 2022, as a time of building and reflection for the citizens of Los Angeles and the citizens of California.

This measure would declare April 28, 2022, as Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and would recognize the goals of introducing our daughters and sons to the workplace and commend all participants of Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day.

This measure would designate the week of May 1, 2022, through May 7, 2022, as Compost Awareness Week.

This measure would proclaim, in perpetuity, the month of April as California Wines: Down to Earth Month, to celebrate the sustainable leadership of California wineries and winegrape growers throughout the month of April.

Existing law establishes the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to provide guidance and support to local educational agencies and other entities that operate schools and preschool programs, and further authorizes the establishment and operation of numerous educational programs on the state level that are administered by the state board, the department, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or other state agencies. Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature to create 3 levels of educational advisory bodies, as specified. This bill would create the Rural Education Task Force in state government that includes members from specified categories. The bill would require that each member of the task force is to be selected to ensure that the task force is representative of very rural areas of the state. The bill would require the task force to provide assistance and advice to the Superintendent on the needs and challenges of very rural schools that serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, including, but not be limited to, transportation costs, facilities, special education, and qualified staffing.

Existing law establishes the special education early intervention preschool grant, which requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in any year moneys are appropriated for this purpose, to allocate grant funding to school districts for preschool children with exceptional needs, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent to make specified computations to determine the amount of grant funding for each school district. This bill would require the Superintendent to add to that calculation an unspecified dollar amount, based on the total number of children from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, who are deaf and hard of hearing to the amount to be apportioned to each school district in order to contract with the California Schools for the Deaf or nonprofit organizations for purposes of providing specified services to children from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, who are deaf and hard of hearing, as provided. The bill would require this funding to be allocated to settings that offer both or one of the languages of American Sign Language and English, as defined. The bill would require the funding allocated to school districts pursuant to these provisions to be used to provide specified services to children from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, who are deaf and hard of hearing, including for strategies to improve outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing children that involve early intensive language services and related specialized services, as provided. The bill would also make related findings and declarations regarding the need for early intervention services for deaf and hard of hearing pupils.