Education finance: supplemental instruction.

Existing law establishes various categorical education programs, including supplemental instruction, and appropriates the funding for those programs in the annual Budget Act. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2008–09 to 2012–13 fiscal years, inclusive, to apportion from the amount provided in the annual Budget Act for specified categorical education programs an amount based on the same relative proportion that the local educational agency received in the 2008–09 fiscal year for those programs, with certain exceptions, including supplemental instruction programs. Those exceptions receive funding based on the 2007–08 fiscal year. Existing law authorizes school districts, for the 2008–09 to 2012–13 fiscal years, to use the categorical education program funds, with specified exceptions, for any educational purpose, to the extent permitted by federal law. This bill would require that a school district receive supplemental instruction funding based on the amount the district received in the 2008–09 fiscal year if the district can substantiate to the satisfaction of the State Department of Education that the 2007–08 school year, for purposes of hours of supplemental instruction provided at a school under its jurisdiction, was a startup year.