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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Schultz</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 41378 of the Education Code, relating to education finance.</ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Education finance: average daily attendance: apportionments.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, as defined. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to decrease a school district’s reported average daily attendance in specified situations where a school district exceeds specified class enrollment levels, as provided.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                Section 41378 of the
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                                 is amended to read:
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                                                                (a)
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                                                                The Superintendent, in computing apportionments and allowances from the State School Fund for the second principal apportionment, shall determine the following for the kindergarten classes maintained by each school district maintaining kindergarten
                                  classes:
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                                                                (1)
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                                                                The number of pupils enrolled in each kindergarten class, the total enrollment in all such classes, and the average number of pupils enrolled per class.
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                                                                (2)
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                                                                The total number of pupils which are in excess of thirty-three (33) in each class having an enrollment of more than
                                  thirty-three (33).
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                                                                (3)
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                                                                The total number of pupils by which the average class size in the district exceeds 31.
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                                                                (4)
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                                                                The greater number of pupils as determined in
                                  paragraph (2) or (3).
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                                                                (b)
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                                                                The Superintendent shall compute the product obtained by multiplying the excess number of pupils computed pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) by ninety-seven hundredths
                                  (0.97) and shall decrease the average daily attendance reported under the provisions of Section 41601 by the resulting product.
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