Enrolled Bill Summary

The Education Code allows school districts to use private or public community-based dropout recovery education programs to serve at-risk students. Senate Bill 1784 amends the code to require those community-based alternative education programs to provide a minimum of four hours of instruction per day, to hire persons with bachelor or advanced degrees as teachers and administrators, to maintain a 28 to 1 or lower student-teacher ratio, to perform satisfactorily according to performance measures and accountability standards set by the commissioner of education for alternative education programs, and to comply with applicable Education Code provisions and rules adopted under the code.