Provisions:
The funds in this item shall be allocated to school district to purchase standards- aligned instructional materials, pursuant to Chapter 79 of the Statutes of 2006. Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) on a one-time basis to provide supplemental instructional materials specifically for English learners in kindergarten and grades one to twelve, inclusive. The purpose of these materials will be to accelerate pupils as rapidly as possible towards grade level proficiency. The funds shall be used to purchase supplemental materials that are designed to help English learners become proficient in reading, writing, and speaking English. These materials may only be used in addition to the standards-aligned materials adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to Section 60605 of the Education Code.
(A) Local educational agencies shall be eligible for apportionment funding of up to twenty-five dollars ($25) per pupil, based on the most recently certified language census number of English learners in kindergarten and grades one to twelve, inclusive, to purchase any materials that the State Department of Education verifies and the State Board of Education approves are substantially correlated to identified state standards adopted pursuant to Section 60811 of the Education Code, as applied in the standards adopted pursuant to Section 60605 of the Education Code. Funding may be provided only for the number of pupils that the local educational agency certifies it will purchase materials for pursuant to subparagraph (D). Local educational agencies may expend no more than thirty dollars ($30) per pupil from these funds for these materials. Local educational agencies shall return to the state any funds allocated under this subparagraph that are not expended for purchase of materials pursuant to this provision.
(B) The State Department of Education shall use the existing correlation matrices pursuant to Item 6110-189-0001 of Section 2.00 of Chapter 208 of the Statutes of 2004 to determine if the instructional materials correlate to the English-language arts and English language development standards adopted by the State Board of Education.
(C) Prior to submission of materials to the department for review to ensure that the materials correlate to identified standards, publishers shall be required to submit standards maps to the department and any requesting local education agency so that the department and the local educational agency can determine the extent to which each item, if purchased separately, or set of instructional materials for English learners are correlated to the standards adopted by the State Board of Education. The standards maps shall be filled out using the most recent format approved by the State Board of Education. The contents for the standards map will be the correlation matrix as described in subparagraph (B).
(D) As a condition of receipt of funds, local educational agencies that elect to participate shall do one, or both, of the following:
(i) No later than March 30, 2007, submit a request for review, specifying the title, ISBN number, grade levels, type, and publisher of the materials they intend to purchase, and the number of pupils for which materials may be purchased.
(ii) Identify materials from the existing list of materials approved by the State Board of Education specifying the information described in clause (i).
E) After a local educational agency notifies the State Department of Education of its request for review of materials, the department may select and train panels of teachers and educators to verify the standards maps provided by the publishers and examine the materials for legal and social compliance. The department will also provide an appeals process to allow due process review of discrepancies of findings in the verification process. The verification shall not constitute a state adoption of instructional materials pursuant to Section 60200 of the Education Code. The department shall give first priority in verifying correlation to identified state standards to those materials that are most commonly cited in the intent of school districts to purchase provided under subparagraph (D). The department shall submit its verification results to the State Board of Education for approval and the State Board of Education shall approve or disapprove the materials at the next regularly scheduled meeting after receipt of the verification of the department, in accordance with public notification requirements.
