Juvenile court school pupils: joint transition planning policy: individualized transition plan.

(1) Existing law requires a county office of education and county probation department to have a joint transition planning policy that includes collaboration with relevant local educational agencies to coordinate education and services for youth in the juvenile justice system. This bill would require, as part of the joint transition planning policy, the county office of education to assign transition oversight responsibilities to existing county office of education personnel who will work in collaboration with the county probation department, as needed, and relevant local educational agencies to ensure that specified transition activities are completed for the pupil, and to facilitate the transfer of, among other things, complete and accurate education records and the pupil's individualized education plan, when a pupil enters the juvenile court school, as specified. The bill would require a pupil detained for more than 20 consecutive schooldays to have an individualized transition plan, as specified, to be developed by the county office of education in collaboration with the county probation department, as needed, and to have specified items accessible to the holder of the educational rights of the pupil upon the pupil's release. The bill would require, for pupils detained for 20 consecutive schooldays or fewer, the pupil's individualized learning plan, if one exists, to be made available by the county office of education to the pupil upon the pupil's release. The bill would require the county office of education, in collaboration, as needed, with the county probation department, to establish procedures for the timely, accurate, complete, and confidential transfer of educational records, as specified. The bill would specify that these provisions also apply to juvenile court schools that are operated by, or as, charter schools. By imposing additional requirements on county offices of education and certain charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.