California § 42238.024 - Commencing with the 2023

§ 42238.024. Commencing with the 2023

(a) Commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, the sum of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000) is hereby appropriated each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionment in the manner and for the purposes set forth in this section. Commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, the amount appropriated pursuant to this subdivision shall be adjusted each fiscal year by the percentage change applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 42238.02 for that fiscal year. (b) (1) Funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be made available by the Superintendent to eligible local educational agencies for allocation to schoolsites eligible pursuant to paragraph (2) for evidence-based services and supports for pupils, with a demonstration of how the resulting services and supports are increased or improved in comparison to services and supports that would have been provided at the schoolsites if the funding were not provided. Funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) shall supplement, not supplant, funding provided for these schoolsites for purposes of the local control funding formula pursuant to Section 2574, 2575, or 42238.02, the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program pursuant to Section 46120, the Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists Grant Program established pursuant to Section 137 of Chapter 52 of the Statutes of 2022, and the California Community Schools Partnership Act (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 8900) of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1). (2) For schoolsites with prior year nonstability rates greater than 25 percent and prior year socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil rates of greater than 70 percent, funding shall be allocated on a per-unit basis of the schoolsite’s total prior year adjusted cumulative enrollment. The per-unit funding amount is based on total statewide eligible enrollment and the amount of funds available, as reported in the stability rate data file. (3) An eligible schoolsite shall not receive funding pursuant to paragraph (2) of less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), adjusted each fiscal year by percentage change applied pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 42238.02 for that fiscal year. (4) A schoolsite deemed eligible pursuant to paragraph (2) shall instead be deemed ineligible if it meets either of the following criteria: (A) The schoolsite has closed in the year in which the funds are to be allocated, as reported pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 60900. (B) Commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, the local educational agency generated funding for a schoolsite pursuant to paragraph (2) due to a pupil being enrolled in the school district office. (5) Unspent funds from any fiscal year provided to a local educational agency with a schoolsite that has closed, as reported pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 60900, shall be returned to the department. Local educational agencies shall report the total amount of unspent funds in accordance with instructions and forms prescribed and furnished by the Superintendent. (c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Eligible local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school that generates a local control funding formula entitlement pursuant to Sections 2574, 2575, or 42238.02, excluding a charter school classified as a nonclassroom-based charter school as of the prior fiscal year’s second principal apportionment certification pursuant to Section 47612.5. (2) “Nonstability rate” means the percentage of pupils who are either enrolled for less than 245 continuous days between July 1 and June 30 of the prior school year, or exited from a school between July 1 and June 30 of the prior school year due to either truancy, expulsion, or for unknown reasons and without stable subsequent enrollment at another school as identified in the stability rate data file. (3) “Prior year adjusted cumulative enrollment” means any enrollment with a start date in the school year in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as identified in the stability rate data file. (4) “Schoolsite” means an individual school in an eligible local educational agency, excluding the school district office. (5) “Socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil rate” means the percentage of pupils that meet any of the following criteria for the prior school year: (A) Neither of the pupil’s parents has a high school diploma. (B) The pupil is eligible for free or reduced-price meals under the federal National School Lunch Program, including by direct certification. (C) The pupil is a migratory child for purposes of Part C (commencing with Section 6391) of Subchapter I of Chapter 70 of Title 20 of the United States Code. (D) The pupil is a homeless child or youth. (E) The pupil is a foster youth. (F) The pupil is enrolled in a county juvenile court school. (6) “Stability rate data file” means the initial publication of the annual file published by the department for the prior school year that will be used to determine a schoolsite’s prior year adjusted cumulative enrollment, nonstability rate, and socioeconomically disadvantaged rate for the purposes of calculating funding pursuant to this section for an eligible local educational agency. (d) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, by February 1, 2025, and each February 1 thereafter, the department, using existing resources, shall submit an annual report to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the state board, and the Department of Finance that includes the following information on pupil outcomes at schoolsites that receive funding pursuant to this section and statewide pupil outcomes: (1) Pupil subgroup data captured in the stability rate data file, based on enrollment at the eligible schoolsite. (2) Number of truant pupils captured in the stability rate data file and enrolled at the eligible schoolsite. (3) Number of expelled pupils captured in the stability rate data file and enrolled at the eligible schoolsite. (4) Number of pupils whose reasons for exit from the schoolsite are unknown, as captured in the stability rate data file, and enrolled at the eligible schoolsite. (5) Performance of the eligible schoolsites on California School Dashboard state indicators, disaggregated by pupil subgroup. (e) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriations made by subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be “General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts,” as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 41202, for the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made, and included within the “total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202, for the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made.