CA AB 1984

Title: Transfer reporting for alternative schools, county community schools, and continuation schools.
Author: Akilah Weber

Summary
AB 1984, as amended, Weber. Transfer reporting for alternative schools, county community schools, and continuation schools. Existing law authorizes a county board of education to establish and maintain one or more community schools and to enroll specified categories of pupils, including pupils expelled from a school district, among others. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to maintain one or more alternative schools, as defined, and requires the governing board of each high school district and each unified school district to establish and maintain within its boundaries special continuation education classes.Existing law requires enrollment in an alternative school to be voluntary, and authorizes both the voluntary and involuntary transfers of pupils to county community schools and to continuation schools, as specified.This bill would require, commencing with the 2025–26 school year, the State Department of Education to collect and publish on its DataQuest internet website, and school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide to the department, data on pupil transfers, disaggregated by those initiated by the pupil or their parent or guardian and those initiated by the local educational agency, including involuntary transfers, to alternative schools, continuation schools or classes, or county community schools. The bill would require the department to systematically review suspension and expulsion data and that transfer data, and include reducing the use of those transfers in any guidance to local educational agencies relating to ending the disproportionate discipline of pupil subgroups, including the subgroups with the highest rate of suspensions or expulsions, as defined. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Status
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

Bill Documents
CA AB 1984 - 04/15/24 - Amended Assembly
04/15/24 - CA AB 1984 (04/15/24 - Amended Assembly)