Status:

Enacted

Education

Foster Care

Local Control Funding Formula (2013)

AB 97

Location

California

California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is a groundbreaking law passed in 2013, that changed the way education is funded in the state. LCFF increases local flexibility in spending education dollars while increasing accountability, particularly for improving the educational outcomes of designated student sub-groups. LCFF included the designation of foster youth as student sub-group for the first time anywhere in the United States. Districts are responsible to develop Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP) which identify goals for each sub-group and plans to achieve these goals.

Related Initiatives

Establish Youth-Centered Education for Youth in Foster Care

Youth in foster care often miss out on the opportunity to learn because of unnecessary home and school moves. NCYL works in partnership with school districts and students in foster care to create compassionate, truly supportive education environments.

Establish Youth-Centered Approaches To Education

NCYL works to advance school systems that center the needs and experiences of students - from removing barriers to learning, to providing training for teachers and school personnel, to empowering youth to more fully participate in their own educational trajectory.

Building Compassionate Education Systems for System-Involved Students

Equitably supporting students in foster care, involved in the juvenile justice system or experiencing homelessness, requires dynamic multi-agency collaboration between local education, child welfare, judicial and community-based partners with a shared vision for effectively serving these

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AB 2137 (Quirk-Silva)

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SB 493 Bradford

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