49080-49085
EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 49080-49085
49080. The Legislature finds and declares that the mission of the California School Information Services is to do all of the following: (a) Build the capacity of local education agencies to implement and maintain comparable, effective, and efficient pupil information systems that will support their daily program needs, assist local education agencies in improving the outcomes of pupils, and promote the use of information for educational decisionmaking by schoolsite, district office, and county staff. (b) Enable the accurate and timely exchange of pupil transcripts between local education agencies and to postsecondary institutions. (c) Assist local education agencies to transmit state and federal reports electronically to the State Department of Education, thereby reducing the reporting burden of local education agency staff. 49080.5. For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "CSIS" means the California School Information Services established pursuant to this article. (b) "FCMAT" means the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team established pursuant to Section 42127.8. (c) "Administrator" means the administrator of the California School Information Services. 49081. The California School Information Services is hereby established. The CSIS shall be administered by the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team. FCMAT shall hire a program administrator. 49082. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall contract with a consultant for independent project oversight. The Director of Finance and the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Information Technology shall review the request for proposals for the contract. The consultant hired to conduct the independent project oversight shall twice annually submit a written report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education, the FCMAT, the State Chief Information Office, the Director of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The report shall include an evaluation of the extent to which the CSIS is meeting the mission described in Section 49080. 49082.5. The California School Information Services shall consult with technical and support staff from local education agencies, special education local plan areas, and schoolsites, the State Department of Education, the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and parents. 49083. (a) The California School Information Services program administrator shall submit to the State Board of Education a plan to administer, coordinate, and manage the development and implementation of an electronic statewide school information system to address current problems of information exchange. The plan shall be updated with State Board of Education approval annually. (b) The plan shall prescribe the set of statewide data elements and codes to be implemented by the California School Information Services. The data elements and codes that are prescribed to be implemented shall comply with Sections 49061 to 49079, inclusive, and Sections 49602 and 56347, with Sections 430 to 438, inclusive, of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, with the Information Practices Act of 1977 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1798) of Title 1.8 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code), and with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act statute (20 U.S.C. Secs. 1232g and 1232h and related federal regulations. (c) The plan shall prescribe the statewide standards for security of the California School Information Services. Those standards shall include, but not be limited to, processes and procedures for handling both paper and electronic data, training for staff that handle the data, administrative management of the data system, and technical measures to secure the data contained in the electronic system. (d) The data elements and codes set forth in the plan approved by the State Board of Education, as transferred through any electronic statewide school information system, may not contain any questions of items that solicit or invite disclosure of the personal beliefs or practices of a pupil, or his or her parent or guardian, as to sex, family life, morality, or religion, nor may it contain any question designed to evaluate personal behavioral characteristics including, but not limited to, honesty, integrity, sociability, or self-esteem. 49084. (a) A participating local education agency with an enrollment of 3,500 or more pupils, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program, is eligible for one-time funding for startup costs based on the greater of the following: (1) Eight dollars and fifty-one cents ($8.51) for each pupil who is enrolled, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program. (2) Two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per schoolsite under the jurisdiction of the local education agency. (b) A participating local education agency with a pupil enrollment of fewer than 3,500 pupils and greater than 1,800 pupils, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program, is eligible for one-time funding for startup costs based on the greater of the following: (1) Eight dollars and fifty-one cents ($8.51) per pupil who is enrolled, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program. (2) Two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per schoolsite under the jurisdiction of the local education agency. (3) Thirty thousand dollars ($30,000). (c) A participating local education agency with a pupil enrollment of fewer than 1,800 pupils, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program, is eligible for one-time funding for the startup costs based on the greater of the following: (1) Eight dollars and fifty-one cents ($8.51) for each pupil who is enrolled, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information, and two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per schoolsite. (2) Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). (d) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) the California School Information Services Program may not provide a local education agency more than 50 percent of the total funds required by an agency to achieve full participation in the California School Information Services Program. Total costs may include both actual expenditures and in-kind contributions, including those made within the previous three years, that are necessary to enable the local education agency to participate in the California School Information Services Program. (e) For each consortium of local education agencies using the same pupil information system software, the consortium fiscal agent shall receive five thousand nine hundred seventy dollars ($5,970) for each new local education agency in the first and second year of participation in the California School Information Services Program to provide project and fiscal management services on behalf of participating consortium members after July 1, 2002. 49085. The department shall ensure that the California School Information Services system meets the needs of pupils in foster care and includes disaggregated data on pupils in foster care.