California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2496: Local educational agencies: reports: school accountability report card: California School Dashboard: local control accountability plan: local control funding formula budget overview.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 32286, 33352, 47606.5, 52062, 52068, and 60800 of, and to add and repeal Section 33126.7 of, the Education Code, relating to school accountability. school accountability Local educational agencies: reports: school accountability report card: California School Dashboard: local control accountability plan: local control funding formula budget overview…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Sections 32286, 33352, 47606.5, 52062, 52068, and 60800 of, and to add and repeal Section 33126.7 of, the Education Code, relating to school accountability. school accountability Local educational agencies: reports: school accountability report card: California School Dashboard: local control accountability plan: local control funding formula budget overview. The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, require school districts maintaining an elementary or secondary school to adopt a school accountability report card for each school. The act also requires, by statute, the governing boards of school districts maintaining an elementary or secondary school to annually issue a school accountability report card that includes certain information for each school in the school district, publicize those reports, and notify parents and guardians of pupils that a hard copy of those reports is available upon request, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the State Board of Education, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in evaluation rubrics. This bill would require the department, …