School accountability: local control and accountability plans: education technology: best practices.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not specify the exact content of the webinars beyond being informational, so the candidate's statement was narrowed.

School Technology Best Practices

The bill requires the State Department of Education to create a guide for schools on how to use technology better, hold webinars about it, and showcase successful examples.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the State Department of Education to prepare a compilation of best practices for using technology in schools by December 31, 2027.
• Conducts at least three informational webinars in 2028 to teach local educational agencies how to incorporate these best practices into their LCAPs.
• Identifies ways to encourage local educational agencies to use the compilation of best practices and showcases successful examples.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts
• County offices of education
• Charter schools

Terms To Know

Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP)

A plan that school districts, county superintendents, and charter schools must create to show how they will use money to help students.

California Collaborative for Educational Excellence

An organization that helps improve education in California by working with the State Department of Education.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much funding will be provided to support these activities.
• It is unclear if all local educational agencies will have access to federal funds required for this initiative.

Official Summary Text

AB 2675, as amended, Arambula.
Elementary and secondary education.
School accountability: local control and accountability plans: education technology: best practices.
Existing law requires school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools to adopt and update a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) using a template adopted by the State Board of Education that requires an LCAP to include certain information, including, among other information, (1) a description of the annual goals to be achieved for specified state priorities, including, among others, pupil achievement and pupil outcomes, (2) a description of the specific actions that the local educational agency will take during each year of the LCAP to achieve these goals, and (3) an assessment of the effectiveness of the specific actions described in the existing LCAP toward achieving the goals, as provided.
This bill would, among other things,
require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the state board and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, to (1) on or before December 31, 2027, prepare a compilation of best practices to harness the power of technology to support pupil academic success and accelerate pupil academic achievement for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that receive specified federal funding, including a model policy for incorporation of those best practices into their LCAPs, (2) conduct at least 3 informational webinars in 2028 for those local educational agencies to understand how to incorporate the best practices and model policy into their LCAPs, and (3) on or before December 31, 2028, identify ways to (A) encourage local educational agencies to incorporate the compilation of best practices and the model policy into their LCAPs, and (B) showcase local educational agencies that have demonstrated success integrating technology in a manner than has positively
impacted pupil achievement.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and authorizes local educational agencies throughout the state to operate schools and provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation relating to elementary and secondary education.

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