CA AB 938

Title: Education finance: local control funding formula: base grants: classified and certificated staff salaries.
Author: Anthony J. Portantino Jr.

Summary
AB 938, as amended, Muratsuchi. Education finance: local control funding formula: base grants: classified and certificated staff salaries. (1) Existing law, commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, 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 Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes, among other components, a county office of education operations grant composed of (A) $655,920, as adjusted each fiscal year for inflation; (B) $109,320 per school district under the county office of education’s jurisdiction, as adjusted each fiscal year for inflation; (C) $70 per unit of countywide average daily attendance up to 30,000 units, $60 per unit for 30,001 to 60,000 units, $50 per unit for 60,001 to 140,000 units, and $40 per unit above 140,000 units, as adjusted each fiscal year for inflation; and (D) commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, add-ons of (i) $175,000 to the per-school district amount and (ii) $14 to each per-unit amount.This bill, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, would increase each of those inflation-adjusted amounts to instead be $1,208,859, $201,475, $129, $111, $92, and $74, respectively, and would retain the requirement to adjust those amounts for inflation each fiscal year. The bill, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, would increase the per-school district and per-unit add-on amounts to instead be $262,500 and $21, respectively.(2) Existing law requires the county office of education local control funding formula to also include, among other things, an alternative education base grant that includes, among its own components, a base grant equal to the grade span-adjusted base grant for average daily attendance in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, multiplied by 1.33, as specified. Existing law requires that amount to be adjusted for inflation each fiscal year.This bill, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, would require the inflation-adjusted base grant component of the alternative education grant to instead be $20,674 and would retain the requirement to adjust that amount for inflation each fiscal year.(3) Existing law provides for the funding of necessary small schools and high schools, as specified. Existing law requires that funding to include, among other things, various specified per-pupil and per-teacher amounts for different tiers of numbers of pupils and teachers, as specified. Existing law requires those amounts to be adjusted for inflation each fiscal year.This bill, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, would increase those various per-pupil and per-teacher inflation-adjusted amounts, as specified, and would retain the requirement to adjust that amount for inflation each fiscal year. (4) Existing law, commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, requires school district and charter school funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, among other things, a base grant based on average daily attendance in kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, grades 4 to 6, inclusive, grades 7 and 8, and grades 9 to 12, inclusive, of $6,485, $6,947, $7,154, and $8,289 per pupil, respectively. Existing law requires those amounts to be adjusted for inflation each fiscal year.This bill, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, would increase those inflation-adjusted base grant amounts to instead be $13,749, $13,956, $14,370, and $16,653 per pupil, respectively, and would retain the requirement to adjust those amounts for inflation each fiscal year.(5) Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to the base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of und

Status
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Newman.

Bill Documents
CA AB 938 - 09/01/23 - Amended Senate

CA AB 938 - 08/15/23 - Amended Senate

CA AB 938 - 07/13/23 - Amended Senate

CA AB 938 - 06/21/23 - Amended Senate

CA AB 938 - 05/01/23 - Amended Assembly

CA AB 938 - 04/07/23 - Amended Assembly

CA AB 938 - 02/14/23 - Introduced

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