Official Summary Text
AB 1310, as amended, Pellerin.
Local control and accountability plans: California School Dashboard: school climate: California Healthy Kids Survey: School Climate Improvement Report.
School accountability: school climate report.
Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and county board of education to adopt a local control accountability plan and 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, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, for all pupils and certain subgroups of pupils. The state’s delineated priorities include, among others,
pupil engagement, as measured by specified attendance, dropout, and graduation rates, and
school climate, as measured by pupil suspension and expulsion rates and other local measures, as provided.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the State Board
of Education, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in the evaluation rubrics. The department, pursuant to the requirement of developing the California School Dashboard, has included as one of several local indicators, school climate, as measured by a local climate survey.
This
bill would require,
bill,
commencing with the 2026–27 school year,
would require
a school district, county office of education, or charter school that serves pupils in any of grades 5 to 12, inclusive, to
administer the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) at least once every 2 years. If a local educational agency, pursuant to results from the CHKS, falls below an average of 70% in specified categories or has an average of more than 70% in specified categories for 2 consecutive
administrations of the survey, the bill would require the local educational agency to develop a School Climate Improvement Report (SCIR), as provided. The bill would require an SCIR to include, among other things, specific additional measures the local educational agency will implement to address concerns, and
annually (1) compile a school climate report detailing the pupil engagement and school climate data collected for purposes of their local control and accountability plan, and (2) if the local educational agency identifies any deficiencies in school climate, detail a plan to improve school climate
to be included in the report. The bill
would require the
SCIR
school climate report, including the plan to improve school climate, if applicable,
to be presented at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board or body of the local educational
agency, as provided. The bill would add as a measurement for determining school climate, for purposes of the above-described state’s delineated priorities, the results of the California Healthy Kids Survey, as provided. To the extent this bill would impose
agency and made public accessibly on the local educational agency’s internet website, as provided. By imposing
additional duties on local educational
agencies or local officials,
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.