SECTIONS 49080-49085 - California Statutes

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.