Report 2019-101 Recommendation Responses
Report 2019-101: K-12 Local Control Funding: The State's Approach Has Not Ensured That Significant Funding Is Benefiting Students as Intended to Close Achievement Gaps (Release Date: November 2019)
Recommendation for Legislative Action
To ensure that intended student groups receive the maximum benefit from supplemental and concentration funds, the Legislature should amend state law to specify that unspent supplemental and concentration funds at year-end must retain their designation to increase and improve services for intended student groups and be spent in a following year. The Legislature should also require districts and other local educational agencies to identify in their LCAPs for the following year the total amounts of any unspent supplemental and concentration funds. In addition, it should direct the State Board to update the LCAP template to require districts and other local educational agencies to report in their LCAPs how they intend to use any previously unspent supplemental and concentration funds to provide services that benefit intended student groups.
Description of Legislative Action
AB 130 (Chapter 44, Statutes of 2021) specifies that unspent funds shall be expended only for specific actions that contribute toward meeting the increased or improved services for intended student groups. This provision also requires LEAs to report the planned uses of these funds in its LCAP.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: July 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Legislation Enacted
Description of Legislative Action
AB 1835 would have required unspent supplemental and concentration grant funds to continue to be required to be expended to increase and improve services for intended student groups.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: November 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Legislation Vetoed
Description of Legislative Action
AB 1835 would require unspent funds identified pursuant to these provisions to continue to be required to be expended to increase and improve services for intended student groups.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: May 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Legislation Introduced
Description of Legislative Action
As of January 2020, the Legislature has not taken action to address this specific recommendation.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: January 2020