City of La Palma Agenda Item No. 11

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1 City of La Palma Agenda Item No. 11 MEETING DATE: December 20, 2016 TO: FROM: SUBMITTED BY: CITY COUNCIL CITY MANAGER Laurie Murray, City Manager AGENDA TITLE: Council Member Request: Support of SB-52 (Newman) Pupil Attendance: Interdistrict Transfers RECOMMENDED ACTION: It is recommended that the City Council consider the Council Member s request and adopt a Resolution in Support of Senate Bill 52. SUMMARY: Council Member Goedhart requested that this matter be placed on the agenda to discuss supporting Senate Bill 52. The Bill, which would extend District of Choice legislation from July 2017 through July 2022, is currently pending referral and will, most likely, be on the Senate floor in January. BACKGROUND: School choice has been a longstanding issue for residents in the City of La Palma, specifically for those residents living north of Houston. Current district boundaries, effective back to 1893, do not allow some La Palma students to attend the schools within their community and within 1.3 miles of their home. Until 2007, an unwritten agreement existed between the Fullerton Joint Union High School District (FJUHSD) and the Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) that requests for transfers from Buena Park High School to John F. Kennedy High School from students living within La Palma would be granted without question. That agreement ended in 2007, which led to Senate Bill 1445 being introduced by then Senator Tom Harman in This legislation would have required school districts with boundaries within La Palma to allow students to transfer to a school located in La Palma upon request. Unfortunately, the bill did not move past the Senate Education Committee. In 2015 Assemblywoman Young Kim introduced Assembly Bill 523, which would have required a high school district that serves La Palma, upon the request of a parent/guardian who resides within the city limits, to enroll the child of the parent/guardian in a school located in La Palma without regard to the attendance boundaries of the high school district that bill was also unsuccessful. Agenda Item 11 Page 1 of 2

2 In April 2016, the City adopted a Resolution requesting that the AUHSD take steps to formally become a District of Choice. At the same time, SB legislation to extend District of Choice legislation was being considered at the State level. In August of this year the Senate Appropriation Committee killed SB Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales, Chair for the Senate Appropriations Committee stated that the District of Choice program exacerbates the unequal system of haves-and-have-nots in our public school and that the most disadvantaged schools and the students they serve get left behind, even though it has been successful and supported by the Senate and the public. SB 52, introduced by Senator Newman, would extend these options through the School year. FISCAL IMPACT: None. APPROVED: City Manager Attachments: 1. Proposed Resolution 2. SB 52 Agenda Item 11 Page 2 of 2

3 RESOLUTION NO A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PALMA SUPPORTING SENATE BILL 52 WHEREAS, the City of La Palma is served by five school districts having five Elementary Schools, two Junior High Schools, and two High Schools located in Buena Park, Cypress, and La Palma; and WHEREAS, for many years residents residing north of Houston have desired that their students be allowed to attend the schools within the City of La Palma rather than attending schools in neighboring cities, which are typically much further away from their homes; and WHEREAS, Senator Newman has introduced legislation that would extend the legislation that allows School Districts to become a District of Choice, which would allow students to transfer into a school within the City of La Palma, upon request of the parent or guardian; and WHEREAS, Senate Bill 52 would help alleviate the effects that residents have long lived with because of the antiquated school district boundaries within the City of La Palma. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of La Palma does hereby support Senate Bill 52, which, if adopted by the Anaheim Union High School District, would give La Palma residents the right to choose the junior and senior high schools their child is enrolled in. APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of La Palma at a regular meeting held on the 20th day of December ATTEST: Michele Steggell, Mayor Kimberly Kenney, City Clerk

4 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF LA PALMA ) I, Kimberly Kenney, City Clerk of the City of La Palma, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the forgoing resolution was adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 20th day of December 2016, and that it was so adopted by called vote as follows: AYES: NOES: Kimberly Kenney, City Clerk

5 Bill Text - SB-52 Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers. Page 1 of 1 12/14/2016 SB-52 Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers. ( ) SHARE THIS: Date Published: 12/05/ :52 PM CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION SENATE BILL No. 52 Introduced by Senator Newman December 05, 2016 An act to amend Section of the Education Code, relating to pupil attendance. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 52, as introduced, Newman. Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to accept interdistrict transfers of pupils in accordance with a policy adopted by resolution, and sets forth various requirements in that regard, including, among other things, requirements relating to attendance priorities, applications for transfer, and the calculation of average daily attendance. Existing law requires certain information in connection with interdistrict transfers to be reported to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Department of Finance, and requires the Department of Finance to report specified information to the Legislative Analyst, upon request. Existing law makes those provisions inoperative on July 1, 2017, and repeals them on January 1, This bill would extend those inoperative and repeal dates to July 1, 2022, and January 1, 2023, respectively. Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal Committee: yes Local Program: no THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section of the Education Code is amended to read: This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2017, 2022, and, as of January 1, 2018, 2023, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, which becomes effective on or before January 1, 2018, 2023, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.