AB 2496 — Local educational agencies: reports: school accountability report card: California School Dashboard: local control accountability plan: local control funding formula budget overview.

Summary

The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, require school districts maintaining an elementary or secondary school to adopt a school accountability report card for each school. The act also requires, by statute, the governing boards of school districts maintaining an elementary or secondary school to annually issue a school accountability report card that includes certain information for each school in the school district, publicize those reports, and notify parents and guardians of pupils that a hard copy of those reports is available upon request, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the State Board of Education, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in evaluation rubrics. This bill would require the department, on or before August 31, 2027, to provide a report to the Legislature that identifies duplication between the data contained in the school accountability report card and other publicly available data sources, as provided. Existing law requires a local educational agency to develop annually a summary document known as the local control funding formula budget overview for parents. Existing law requires, before the governing board or body of a local educational agency considers the adoption of a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) or an annual update to the LCAP, certain things to occur, including that the superintendent of the school district, the county superintendent of schools, or the charter school present a report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents on or before February 28 of each year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board or body of the local educational agency, as specified. This bill would eliminate the February 28 deadline for the presentation of the above-described report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview. Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in consultation with certain local entities. Existing law requires each school to annually review and update its comprehensive school safety plan, and to report each July on the status of its school safety plan, including a description of its key elements in the annual school accountability report card, as provided. This bill would repeal the requirement that each school annually report on the status of its school safety plan. Existing law requires the department to exercise general supervision over the courses of physical education in the elementary and secondary schools of the state, advise officials, school boards, and teachers in the development and improvement of their physical education and activity programs, and investigate the work in physical education in the public schools. Existing law requires the department to ensure that the data collected through the categorical program monitoring indicates the extent to which each school within the jurisdiction of a school district or county office of education provides, among other things, for inclusion of the results of physical testing of pupils in the school accountability report card, as provided. This bill would repeal the above-described requirement that the results of physical testing of pupils be included in the school accountability report card. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district maintaining any of grades 5, 7, or 9, during the month of February, March, April, or May, to administer to each pupil in those grades the physical performance test designated by the state board and report the aggregate results of this physical performance testing in its annual school accountability report card. This bill would repeal this reporting requirement.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 09/27/26 - Chaptered html September 27, 2026
• Amended 08/21/26 - Amended Senate html August 21, 2026
• Amended 08/13/26 - Amended Senate html August 13, 2026
• Amended 07/06/26 - Amended Senate Current pdf July 06, 2026
• Amended 06/22/26 - Amended Senate pdf June 22, 2026
• Amended 04/27/26 - Amended Assembly pdf April 27, 2026
• Amended 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly pdf March 19, 2026
• Introduced 02/20/26 - Introduced pdf February 20, 2026
• AB2496 View text html

Action History

1. September 03, 2026

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

2. August 26, 2026

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.).

3. August 26, 2026

   In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

4. August 26, 2026

   Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).

5. August 24, 2026

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

6. August 21, 2026

   Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

7. August 17, 2026

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

8. August 13, 2026

   Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

9. August 13, 2026

   From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13).

10. August 03, 2026

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

11. July 06, 2026

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

12. July 06, 2026

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1).

13. June 22, 2026

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.

14. June 16, 2026

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

15. May 27, 2026

    Referred to Com. on ED.

16. May 18, 2026

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

17. May 18, 2026

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5136.)

18. May 14, 2026

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

19. May 13, 2026

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 13).

20. May 06, 2026

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

21. April 28, 2026

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

22. April 27, 2026

    Read second time and amended.

23. April 23, 2026

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 22).

24. March 23, 2026

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

25. March 19, 2026

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

26. March 19, 2026

    Referred to Com. on ED.

27. February 21, 2026

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

28. February 20, 2026

    Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

• Solache, Jr., José Luis · Primary

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