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This legislative session there are several crucial special education bills, one of which could change the landscape for special education in California. ACSA has joined forces with our education management colleagues and SELPA directors to stop these measures from reaching the Governors desk. The bills are AB 2717 (Leiber) and AB 2783 (Plescia). More...
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AB 2115 (Mullin) has been amended to apply public conflict of interest regulations and the Brown Act to all charter school boards. You may recall that last year, ACSA and others opposed the CA Charter School Associations conflict of interest regulations put forth before the State Board of Education. Their proposed language diminished the conflict of interest regulations for charter schools that all public school boards must comply with. As a result, legislation has been introduced to require all charter school boards to comply with the same conflict of interest requirement that all entities that receive public funds must adhere to. More...
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The following is an updated list on legislation concerning adult education and career technical education, as of June 2008. More...
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Assembly Member De Leon has introduced AB 2167 at the request of the CA School Employees Association, CSEA. CSEA claims that some of their members have received harassing or frivolous documentation placed into their personnel files. They claim there is no method for having this frivolous or harassing information removed. AB 2167 would prohibit any statement or document that is allegedly “frivolous” from being placed in the personnel file of a classified school employee. Frivolous is defined in AB 2167 as “totally or completely without merit or for the sole purpose of harassing an opposing party.” Under AB 2167, a classified employee would have the right to challenge and have removed a statement or document that is frivolous. The process for challenging and removing the document from the personnel file would be the grievance procedure established by a collective bargaining agreement. More...
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Parents and educators have voiced their strong opposition to all cuts to schools and students. While the Governors revised budget proposal avoids suspending Proposition 98, the states minimum school funding law, it still cuts billions of dollars from public education. More...
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Following is a summary of all statutes now in effect from the 2007 legislative year. Every year the Assembly Education Committee staff prepares a summary of all bills that were introduced with a concise summary. Following are only those bills that have been chaptered and are now law by subject. If you wish to view the entire statute for each bill visit www.assembly.ca.gov for Assembly bills and www.senate.ca.gov for Senate bills. More...
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From: Laura Preston, Association of California School Administrators, Mike Ricketts, California County Superintendents Educational Services Association, Rick Pratt, California School Boards Association and Sandy Silberstein, California Association of School Business Officials. More...
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Governor Schwarzenegger has released his proposed January 2008-09 State Budget declaring a “fiscal emergency” per Proposition 58 and proposing massive cuts to public education. As predicted by ACSA and other experts, it signals the start of yet another difficult financial period for public education. The following outlines the governors proposal, its impact on LEA management and operations, and ACSAs initial policy response. More...
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ACSA Management Advisory: Dec. 20, 2007 More...
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Our offices have received numerous calls and emails regarding impacts the Southern California fires will have on LEA operations and finances. More...
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Please find attached ACSAs letter for our sponsored AB 1148 (Brownley) to reauthorize the Instructional Materials Fund Realignment Program (IMFRP) which is due to sunset June 30, 2007, for an additional eight years. We have also incorporated some additional reforms including annual reporting to the budget subcommittees, DOF and Governor on anticipated costs of instructional materials and programs for better budgeting purposes. We are very close to a full support from the publishers on the bill which is critical in getting it signed. More...
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ACSA continues to press forward on the issue of textbook costs and is sponsoring Assembly Bill 1148 (Brownley) which reauthorizes the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program the main source of funding for standards-aligned K-12 instructional materials. The IMFRP is slated to sunset July 1, 2007.
Without reauthorization K-12 public schools will have no main funding source for textbooks after the 2007-08 fiscal year. AB 1148 would reauthorize the program for five more years. More...
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Please find below links to the Assembly Joint Resolution 23
(Hancock) and a sample letter of support calling upon Congress to reform
NCLB/ESEA so that California gains flexibility under federal law and
Congress commits to fully funding NCLB/ESEA. AJR 23 is sponsored by
CSBA. Gene Mullin the Chair of the Assembly Education Committee is a
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Budget Alert –
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Below are links to the ACSA Legislative Policy Committee consent and review bill lists for each legislative Advocate. Consent bills have a position which staff recommends; and review bills are bills that the advocates need input and positions from the committee. More...
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This is to provide you with an update of what ACSA is doing regarding the recent release of the 22 adequacy and efficiency studies. Our message is that any reforms or efficiencies must be tied to adequate funding for schools. There can be no reforms without funding directly tied to them. Adequate funding is essential. This message is already starting to resonate with the Legislature. The Speaker of the Assembly recently attended ACSAs Board of Directors meeting and stated that reforms must be tied to adequate funding. We are hearing this same thing from other legislators as well as other leaders throughout the state. As you begin discussing adequacy and efficiency locally, we encourage you to include this message in your discussions.
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We are seeking your input on the options under consideration by the State Board of Education pursuant to SB 267 for students with disabilities that are unable to pass the CAHSEE but have met all other graduation requirements.
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The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) represents 16,000 members statewide of whom many are retirees and beneficiaries in the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS). Because current and future CalSTRS retirees are penalized by current Social Security benefit reductions through the spousal offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision, we encourage all ACSA members to write your Congressional Member and express your support for its repeal in during the 110th session of Congress.
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The 2006-07 state budget may seem like a distant memory to many capitol insiders, but for most education leaders, we are in the middle of implementing the myriad of one-time and ongoing programs enacted last year. Implementation of the 28 expanded and new categorical programs continues to be challenging for those following the funding flow and programmatic requirements. At the request of ACSA and other organizations, CDE has kindly developed a “big picture” spreadsheet to assist LEAs in keeping track of last years new programs, their application deadlines, and funding schedules. You can access this spreadsheet at:
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We are making good progress towards a draft set of regulations to implement the new process for subject matter verification for secondary teachers in special settings (both middle and high school) who teach in special education, alternative education and small and rural schools for NCLB purposes. The process is to allow secondary teachers in special settings to obtain additional core content training and professional development in the core subjects they teach but do not hold a credential or have not taken a single subject exam in the particular subject. This is based on assignment and can also include multiple subject teachers teaching self-contained classrooms at the secondary level. District or county superintendents will sign off on the training and it is expected that many county offices will consider offering the training which will be based on the K-12 Curriculum Frameworks, core content standards, CSTs and the CAHSEE.
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On Wednesday, February 21 the Legislative Analysts Office (LAO) released its annual 2007-08 Budget Analysis. The analysis covers the governors January budget proposal as well as the states revenue and expenditure projections for 2007-08 and beyond. The outlook for the states fiscal health has dimmed considerably in the past several months. The following are the fiscal highlights of the report and its implications on Proposition 98 funding:
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ACSAs NCLB Task Force recommendations for the 2007 reauthorization of The No Child Left Behind Act">/b> can be seen by clicking on the link provided below.
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CTA Elects New President More...
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Last December, ACSA issued a policy alert regarding the implementation of AB 1433 – Oral Health Assessments. This measure took effect on January 1, 2007. The purpose of this advisory is to provide an update on this measures implementation.
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Below you will find the links to the notice for final comments and the actual proposed final regulations which amend the section of Title 5 related to the requirements of non-public schools which serve public school students.
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On January 10, the governor released his January budget proposal for FY 2007-08. The January proposal reflects the administrations overall fiscal and policy intent for the 2007-08 fiscal year. The proposal now goes to the Legislature for review, deliberation and amendment per the states annual budget development cycle. The following is an analysis of the Proposition 98 and K-12 aspects of the budget proposal.
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ACSA is planning on sponsoring legislation in the 2007-2008 Legislative Session to establish Leadership Coaching for Public School Administrators by enacting a new education code section that spells out criteria for qualifying to participate and to qualify as a state provider for the incentive funding. More...
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On January 12, the California Legislative Analyst, Elizabeth G. Hill, has released her Overview of the Governors Budget.
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Policy advisory: AB 1433 oral health assessments for school entry – law effective Jan. 1, 2007
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The links below are Notices of Proposed Rulemaking and the proposed Title 5 regulations to be acted upon by the State Board of Education.
Both sets of regulations have written and public comment period deadlines and your input is important. There are a number of ways for you to submit input. You can email or mail written comments, you can testify at the regulation hearings in Sacramento, you can attnd the State Board meeting and testify or, you can email Sgriffith@acsa.org with your comments and she will incorporate them into ACSAs overall comments.
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Below is a link to ACSAs letter in support of SB 472 (Alquist) which reauthorizes the AB 466 teacher training until July 2012 and also provides for a new and exciting component for teachers of English learners within the 80 hours of follow up training. The additional training funds were part of the final state budget ($25 million) specifically to focus upon the training of teachers working with English learners. Legislative leaders determined that it was most efficient to coordinate this effort with the reauthorization of AB 466 training. More...
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SB 1655 (Scott) has passed the Legislature and is on the Governors desk. This is one of the few bills that ACSA and Senator Scott, Chair of the Senate Education Committee, have not agreed upon. The CA Teachers Association and the CA Federation of Teachers strongly opposed SB 1655 as well and we were unsuccessful in defeating the bill. Senator Scott believes strongly in the premise of SB 1655 and fought passionately for its passage. He even called every member of the Assembly personally lobbying his own bill. More...
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Please find attached the final document which is now going to print outlining ACSAs recommendations for the Reauthorization of NCLB.
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In the final days of the 2005-06 legislative session statutory language was released regarding the $2.9 billion Proposition 98 settlement agreement of the CTA et. al. v. Schwarzenegger lawsuit. This measure is on its way to becoming law. This proposal was amended into SB 1133 (Torlakson) and establishes a new categorical program exclusively for decile 1 and 2 schools titled the Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) The following is an initial advisory on this new program. More...
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The California Department of Education staff announced that the draft Coordinated Compliance Review (CCRs) templates will be on the CDE web site May 6, 2005. More...
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To: .ACSA Retirement Committee and Other Interested Members
From: .Karen Stapf Walters, Legislative Advocate
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