AB 1310 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

School accountability: school climate report.

Summary

Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and county board of education to adopt a local control accountability plan and to update its local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires a local control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, for all pupils and certain subgroups of pupils. The state's delineated priorities include, among others, pupil engagement, as measured by specified attendance, dropout, and graduation rates, and school climate, as measured by pupil suspension and expulsion rates and other local measures, as provided. This bill, commencing with the 2026–27 school year, would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school that serves pupils in any of grades 5 to 12, inclusive, to annually (1) compile a school climate report detailing the pupil engagement and school climate data collected for purposes of their local control and accountability plan, and (2) if the local educational agency identifies any deficiencies in school climate, detail a plan to improve school climate to be included in the report. The bill would require the school climate report, including the plan to improve school climate, if applicable, to be presented at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board or body of the local educational agency and made public accessibly on the local educational agency's internet website, as provided. 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.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Feb 21, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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What changed between versions

04/21/25 - Amended Assembly → AB1310 · 1 edit

MINOR

No substantive policy changes were made between these two versions. The diff reflects a reformatting of the same bill text from the official printed legislative document format (with line numbers, page headers, and column layout) to the web-based California legislature bill tracking website format (with navigation menus, search boxes, and HTML-style structure). All operative provisions remain identical.

TECHNICAL

The bill text was reformatted from a printed legislative document layout (with line numbers, page breaks, and two-column formatting) to a web page layout for the California legislature's online bill tracking system. No changes to any operative language, thresholds, dates, or requirements were made.

03/24/25 - Amended Assembly → 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly · 4 edits · Apr 21, 2025

MODERATE

The April 21 amendment to AB 1310 adds a new annual 'school climate report' requirement for all local educational agencies serving grades 5-12, separate from and in addition to the existing School Climate Improvement Report (SCIR) trigger. The new report must compile pupil engagement and school climate data collected for LCAP purposes, include an improvement plan if deficiencies are identified, be presented as its own agenda item at a board meeting, and be posted on the agency's website within 30 days. The bill also changes its fiscal committee and state-mandated local program designations from 'no' to 'yes,' acknowledging that the new duties impose reimbursable costs on local agencies.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded to require an annual school climate report for all local educational agencies serving grades 5-12, not just those that trigger the SCIR threshold. This means every qualifying agency now has a recurring reporting obligation regardless of their CHKS survey results, significantly broadening the population of affected entities.

REQUIREMENT

New Section 52064.7 requires every local educational agency serving grades 5-12 to compile an annual school climate report detailing pupil engagement and school climate data collected for their LCAP, starting with the 2026-27 school year. If deficiencies are identified, the agency must include a plan to improve school climate in the report.

ENFORCEMENT

The new school climate report (including any improvement plan) must be presented as its own agenda item at a regularly scheduled governing board meeting for discussion and public input, and made publicly available on the agency's internet website within 30 days of presentation.

FISCAL

Fiscal committee determination changed from 'no' to 'yes,' meaning the bill now requires fiscal analysis by the Legislative Analyst's Office. State-mandated local program designation also changed from 'no' to 'yes,' triggering potential state reimbursement obligations for costs imposed on local agencies.

TECHNICAL

The nonsubstantive amendment to Section 2 of the Education Code (general provisions) was removed from the bill, along with its reference in the bill's title and digest.

02/21/25 - Introduced → 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly · 7 edits · Mar 24, 2025

MODERATE

The bill was dramatically expanded from a simple nonsubstantive wording fix to Section 2 of the Education Code into a comprehensive school climate accountability measure. It now requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools serving grades 5-12 to administer the California Healthy Kids Survey at least every two years starting in 2026-27, and mandates a School Climate Improvement Report if certain survey thresholds are met for two consecutive administrations. The CHKS results are also added as a formal measurement of school climate in local control and accountability plans.

SCOPE

The bill now amends Sections 52060 and 52066 and adds Section 52064.7 of the Education Code, expanding from a single nonsubstantive edit to a multi-section school climate accountability framework.

The original nonsubstantive change to Section 2 (changing 'The code' to 'This code') is retained but renumbered as Section 5, now secondary to the substantive school climate provisions.

REQUIREMENT

New Section 52064.7 requires local educational agencies serving grades 5 through 12 to administer the California Healthy Kids Survey at least once every two years, commencing with the 2026-27 school year.

A School Climate Improvement Report (SCIR) is required if an LEA falls below 70 percent average in positive categories (school connectedness, academic motivation, caring adult relationships, meaningful participation, parental involvement, high expectations, safety) or exceeds 70 percent in negative categories (truancy, bullying, fear of violence, weapons on campus, alcohol/drug use, smoking, vaping) for two consecutive survey administrations.

The SCIR must include key areas of concern, an outline of existing strategies, and specific additional measures the LEA will implement. It must be presented at a regularly scheduled public meeting of the governing board and posted on the LEA's website within 30 days.

DEFINITION

CHKS results are added as a new measurement under the school climate state priority in both Section 52060 (school districts) and Section 52066 (county boards of education), alongside existing measures like suspension and expulsion rates.

FISCAL

The bill now includes a state mandate reimbursement provision (new Section 4) and the fiscal committee designation changed from 'no' to 'yes,' and state-mandated local program changed from 'no' to 'yes,' indicating the new requirements will impose costs on local agencies that the state must reimburse.

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Amendments

Feb 2, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

lower

Apr 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

lower

Apr 22, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on ED.

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 25, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on ED.

lower

Mar 24, 2025

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 24, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on ED.

lower

Feb 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

lower

Feb 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced. To print.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors