Local control and accountability plans: parent advisory committee: student advisory committee.

Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county superintendent of schools to adopt a local control and accountability plan and to annually update its local control and accountability plan, using a template for a local control and accountability plan and an annual update to the local control and accountability plan adopted by the State Board of Education, before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to establish a parent advisory committee to provide advice to the governing board of the school district and the superintendent of the school district, and requires a county superintendent of schools to establish a parent advisory committee to provide advice to the county board of education and the county superintendent of schools, regarding certain requirements pertaining to school accountability. This bill would require, beginning July 1, 2024, the governing board of a school district serving middle school or high school pupils and a county superintendent of schools to either include at least 2 pupils as full members of the parent advisory committee to serve for a renewable term of one full school year, or to establish a student advisory committee as specified. The bill would require a school district and a county superintendent of schools to take into consideration that the pupil members of a parent advisory committee or student advisory committee represent the specified diversity of the school district or county's pupils, and would provide that particular effort should be made to reach out to at-risk or disadvantaged pupils to serve as members of a parent advisory committee or student advisory committee. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.