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As evidenced by the fact that negotiations on this year’s budget went down to the wire, with the Governor signing the final budget agreement mere hours before the start of the new fiscal year, there were a number of areas where the Governor and Legislative Leadership disagreed. For K-12 education, this included the amount by which to increase LCFF base funding, whether to provide attendance relief for the 2021-22 school year, the funding level for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program, and providing additional funding for the state’s Community Schools Program.

On July 1, the State Legislature officially adjourned for Summer Recess. Members of both the Senate and Assembly have returned home to their districts to spend a month with their families and certainly get a little bit of local campaigning done with just months to go before the November election.

The California Department of Education (CDE) has released the preliminary entitlements for the 2022-23 Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. While the per unduplicated pupil (UDP) funding amount for LEAs in Tier 2 (LEAs with less than 75% unduplicated pupil percentage) was initially estimated to be around $1,250/UDP, CDE now has that rate at roughly $2,053/UDP. The full list of preliminary entitlements, broken out by LEA, is available here.

Just a few hours ago, Governor Newsom, Senate President Pro Tem Atkins and Assembly Speaker Rendon announced an agreement on a budget framework for the 2022-23 state budget. The press release focused primarily on the inflation relief proposal and infrastructure package, and did not specifically address K-12 funding.

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Following-up on our update from last night, we wanted to provide additional details around some other major education components in the state budget deal. At the end of the update, we have also included links to the relevant budget bills and budget trailer bills, which also provide more information about the various programs listed below.

CAWS is pleased to announce that Imperial Middle School in
La Habra, La Habra City School District has been authorized as the 69th school to offer the IB Middle Years Programme in California. Congratulations on this noteworthy achievement!

On April 14, on the heels of Senator Pan pulling his vaccine mandate bill, the Governor’s office announced they will further delay the implementation of the current student COVID-19 vaccination requirement. This means the soonest the new requirement would take effect is July 1, 2023, effectively pushing back implementation to the 2023-24 school year.

As we continue our breakdown of key pieces of legislation that we think school leaders should know about, below we take a look at bills in the early learning and care space

Kelsey has graciously shared her slides as well as additional resources from her recent CAWS/IB Virtual Event

The Legislature continues to focus significant attention on issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the COVID related bills that were introduced, we want to bring to your attention the notable policy proposals that would have a direct impact on students, school employees, and school governing boards.

Yesterday, The Newsom Administration announced the state’s requirement for masking in schools will expire on Friday, March 11, allowing students, regardless of vaccination status, to be without a face mask at school beginning Monday, March 14.

Attached please find an updated version of the power point presented at the Association meeting with the IBO Director General regarding the use of federal funds to support IB schools and students.
There are many allowable uses of these funds for IB purposes, as noted in the power point.  We hope that in 2022 the use of this funding will lead to many more students being able to access an IB education.

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) had its first meeting of 2022 late last week. Highlights from the meeting are listed below: