Average daily attendance: emergencies: immigration enforcement activity: independent study plans.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill was vetoed and its future is uncertain unless lawmakers override the veto.

Attendance Rules During Immigration Enforcement Emergencies

AB-1348 changes how schools are funded during emergencies caused by immigration enforcement activities and requires specific plans for independent study.

What This Bill Does

• Adds immigration enforcement activity to the list of emergencies that affect school funding based on attendance.
• Limits the number of days missed due to an immigration enforcement emergency that can be counted towards a school's average daily attendance to ten days.
• Requires schools to provide live interaction or synchronous instruction for independent study plans during such emergencies, unless there are special reasons preventing it.
• Exempts documentation related to immigration enforcement activities from public records laws when submitted by schools to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
• Makes these rules inactive after July 1, 2029, and removes them entirely as of January 1, 2030.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts
• County offices of education
• Charter schools

Terms To Know

Average daily attendance (ADA)

The average number of students present in school each day, used to calculate funding.

Independent study plan

A learning program that allows students to continue their education outside the regular classroom setting.

Limits and Unknowns

• This bill was vetoed by the governor and its future depends on whether lawmakers override the veto.
• The rules only apply until July 1, 2029, after which they will be inactive but not removed until January 1, 2030.

Official Summary Text

AB 1348, Bains.
Average daily attendance: emergencies: immigration enforcement activity: independent study plans.
Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, as defined.
For purposes of state apportionments based on average daily attendance, as provided, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of a specified type of emergency, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school the total average daily
attendance that would have been credited had the emergency not occurred, as provided.
This bill would, until July 1, 2029,
add an immigration enforcement activity, as defined, to the list of emergencies for which the above-described provisions related to calculating average daily attendance for purposes of state apportionments apply, as provided. The bill would, for purposes of these provisions related to calculating average daily attendance for purposes of state apportionments, prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from being credited for more than 10 days of missed attendance for a pupil due to an immigration enforcement activity.
For affidavits submitted to the Superintendent for emergency events occurring after September 1, 2021, but on or before June 30, 2026, that resulted in a school closure or material decrease in attendance, existing law requires a school district, county office of education, or charter school that provides an
affidavit to the Superintendent to certify that it has a plan for which independent study will be offered to pupils, as provided, and requires that plan to comply with certain requirements, including, among other things, that independent study is offered to any impacted pupil within 10 instructional days of the first day of a school closure or material decrease in attendance.
This bill would, for affidavits submitted to the Superintendent for an immigration enforcement activity that occurred on or after January 1, 2025, but on or before June 30, 2026, that resulted in a school closure or material decrease in attendance, require a school district, county office of education, or charter school that provides an affidavit to the Superintendent to additionally require the independent study plan to either (1) require the offering of live interaction or synchronous instruction to pupils, as provided, or (2) provide a description of both the extenuating circumstances that
prevent the offering of live interaction or synchronous instruction and a description of what pupil engagement, services, and instruction will be provided to support pupils during or immediately after the period of closure or material decrease in attendance.
The bill would, as applied to the above-described provisions for calculating average daily attendance for purposes of state apportionments and related affidavits certifying independent study plans, exempt from the California Public Records Act any documentation related to an immigration enforcement activity submitted to the Superintendent by a school district, charter school, county office of education, or county superintendent of schools, as provided.
The
bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2029, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2030.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

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