SB 231

Under current law, each public school, including a charter school, and private

school participating in a parental choice program must annually provide the parent

or guardian of each pupil enrolled in the school with a copy of the school's

accountability report, commonly referred to as the school report card. Current law

also requires the school to provide a list of the educational options available to

children residing in the pupil's resident school district at the same time the school

provides the school report card to parents and guardians. In addition, under current

law, each school board must annually publish as notice and post on the school board's

Internet site a description of the educational options available to children in the

school district.

This bill specifies that the youth apprenticeship program administered by the

Department of Workforce Development must be included in the list of educational

options that a school provides to parents and guardians and in the description of

educational options published and posted on the Internet by a school board. The bill

also creates an exception for a school or school board that does not operate high school

grades. Under the exception, a school or school board that does not operate high

school grades is not required to include an educational option that is available only

to high school pupils in the list or description of educational options. For example,

under the bill, an elementary school is not required to include the early college credit

program, the part-time open enrollment program, or the youth apprenticeship

program in the list of educational options it provides to parents and guardians of

pupils enrolled in the elementary school.