Plain English Breakdown
Section (3) of the bill text is truncated in the source material, leaving uncertainty about new requirements for data collection systems.
Education Funding and Literacy Program Review Rules
This law requires literacy training program providers to declare their intent before review, allows the state to charge fees up to $10,000 per program for reviews, directs funds to Marin County Office of Education to hire experts, changes how teacher training funding is calculated using October 2025 data, and adjusts budget reporting rules for past school funding amounts.
What This Bill Does
- Requires professional development providers intending to submit literacy programs for review to first declare their intent before the state incurs substantial costs.
- Authorizes the State Department of Education to charge a fee up to $10,000 per program submitted for review until September 30, 2026, limited to reasonable costs.
- Directs funds from the Budget Act of 2025 to the Marin County Office of Education to contract with research or nonprofit organizations on evidence-based literacy instruction.
- Requires state funding apportionments for teacher training in transitional kindergarten through grade 5 to be calculated using data submitted by October 2025 via the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System.
- Reduces a specific allocation of excess moneys credited from the 2022–23 fiscal year by $20 million and spreads recognition of these amounts over more years for budget reporting purposes.
Who It Names or Affects
- Organizations that create professional development programs for teachers in transitional kindergarten through grade 5.
- Local educational agencies, including school districts and charter schools, regarding how they receive training funds.
- The State Department of Education and the Marin County Office of Education.
Terms To Know
- Professional development programs
- Training courses designed to help teachers learn effective ways to teach literacy skills in transitional kindergarten through grade 5.
- Proposition 98
- A voter-approved rule that sets the minimum amount of money California must spend on schools and community colleges each year based on a specific formula.
- Excess moneys
- Money collected by the state in a given year that is more than what Proposition 98 requires for school funding, which can be credited to future years under certain rules.
Limits and Unknowns
- The official text regarding Section (3) on data collection systems was cut off and cannot be fully summarized.
- The effective date is not listed in the provided source material, so it is unclear when these rules officially begin.
- The bill does not specify exactly which research organizations or nonprofits will contract with Marin County Office of Education.