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    AB-428 - SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING (2019-2020), as of 6/15/19
Great news! All Ayes, no Noes. On May 16, 2019, this bill was referred to the appropriations committee. This bill increases the rate of State Funding for preschoolers with disabilities and provides increased funding for students with severe disabilities, including those who are referred to as single-placement, nonpublic- nonsectarian schools. The passing of this bill will adjust the enrollment growth calculation to reflect the actual growth in special education enrollment over the next five years.
Funding is broken down:
     Requires the SPI, in each year following an equalization adjustment, to perform the following computations to determine the statewide target amount per unit of ADA in order to determine the inflation adjustment and growth adjustment:
      a) Total the amount of funding computed for each Special Education Local Planning Area (SELPA). b) Total the number of units of Average Daily Attendance(ADA) reported for each SELPA for the fiscal year preceding the equalization appropriation. c) Divide the total funding by the total ADA.
      Establishes an extraordinary cost pool for the extraordinary costs associated with single placements in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools.
      Establishes a low incidence disability fund for costs associated with the education of students who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, and severely orthopedically impaired, and any combination thereof.
     Establishes a low incidence disability fund for costs associated with the education of students who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, and severely orthopedically impaired, and any combination thereof.
     Requires that, in the first fiscal year following the full funding of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) compute an equalization adjustment for each Special Education Local Plan Areas (SELPA), and sets the target equalization rate at the 95th percentile of statewide funding rates. 3) Specifies the method for calculating this equalization adjustment.
Need for the bill. According to the author, “For decades the state has under invested in its special education system, allowing unequal rates to disadvantaged students in some regions for no reason, providing disincentives to invest early in the education of our students - when the return is greatest - and failing to provide additional resources to support students who require a higher level of service to succeed.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION - Senator Connie Leyva, Chair 2019 - 2020 Regular Bill No: AB 428 Hearing Date: June 12, 2019 Author: Medina, et al. Version: February 7, 2019 Urgency: No Fiscal: Yes Consultant: Ian Johnson Subject: Special education funding. SUMMARY This bill requires that special education funding rates be equalized.