Emergency average daily attendance.

Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law provides that if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of specified emergencies, that fact shall be established to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction by affidavits of the members of the governing board or body of the school district, county office of education, or charter school and the county superintendent of schools. If a state of emergency is declared by the Governor in a county that causes a decrease in the average daily attendance in the county for a school district, county office of education, or charter school, existing law requires the Superintendent to determine the length of the period during which average daily attendance has been reduced by the state of emergency, and provides that the period shall not extend into the next fiscal year following the declaration of the state of emergency, except upon a showing by the affected school district, county office of education, or charter school, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent, that extending the period into the next fiscal year is essential to alleviate continued reductions in average daily attendance attributable to the state of emergency. This bill would require the Superintendent to extend through the 2019–20 fiscal year the period during which it is essential to alleviate continued reductions in average daily attendance attributable to a state of emergency declared by the Governor in November 2018 for a school district where no less than 5% of the residences within the school district or school district facilities were destroyed by the qualifying emergency. The bill would require the Superintendent to extend through the 2020–21 fiscal year the period during which it is essential to alleviate continued reductions in average daily attendance attributable to a state of emergency declared by the Governor in November 2018 for a charter school where no less than 5% of the residences within the school district in which the charter school is located or a majority of charter school facilities were destroyed by the qualifying emergency. The bill would require an adjustment to the average daily attendance of a charter school that provides nonclassroom-based instruction, as defined, for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 fiscal years, in accordance with certain calculations. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.