July 7, 2017
The Honorable Benjamin Allen
Chair, Senate Education Committee
California State Senate
State Capitol, Room 5097
Sacramento, CA 95814

AB 1321 (Weber) SUPPORT AS AMENDED
Senate Education Committee
Hearing Date: July 12, 2017

Dear Senator Allen:
On behalf of the California School Boards Association (CSBA), which represents nearly 1,000 school
district and county boards of education statewide, I write to express our Support as proposed to be
Amended position on AB 1321 (Weber) which is scheduled to be heard before the Senate Education
Committee on July 12, 2017.
Federal law requires the disaggregated reporting of funds at the school site level, broken out by federal,
state and local sources. We are pleased that the author has agreed to a simplified reporting of that data
that requires only the 3 report levels in federal law in a manner which is easily understandable to the
public.
We appreciate the inclusion of a methodology in the bill that requires formal consideration for a method
to determine fund allocation to individual sites that includes practitioners in those decisions. Models exist
in several districts already for allocating funding to sites and these should be considered in this process
rather than starting from scratch. We anticipate that it will take time and resources for districts to prepare
these reports and explain them to the public, particularly differences in spending between districts due to
differential LCFF funding, and hope that the state will make resources available for those purposes.
For all of these reasons, we ask for your support of AB 1321 (Weber) when it comes before you in the
Senate Education Committee on July 12, 2017. I invite you to contact me with questions.
Sincerely,

Teri Burns
Legislative Advocate
Office of Governmental Relations
cc:

Members, Senate Education Committee
Assemblymember Shirley Weber
Ian Johnson, Consultant, Senate Education Committee
Roger Mackensen, Consultant, Senate Republican Caucus