Average daily attendance: emergencies: immigration enforcement activity.

Assembly Member Bains proposes expanding California's school funding protections to address attendance disruptions caused by immigration enforcement activities. The legislation would add immigration enforcement to the list of emergencies that allow schools to maintain their state funding levels when attendance drops significantly.

Under the proposed changes, school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools could receive full average daily attendance funding despite decreased student attendance due to immigration enforcement operations. The bill defines these activities as any efforts to investigate or enforce federal civil immigration laws, as well as criminal immigration laws related to presence, entry, reentry or employment in the United States. To qualify for the attendance adjustment, school administrators must document the impact through affidavits submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The measure builds upon existing provisions that protect school funding during emergencies like natural disasters, epidemics, and transportation strikes. Like those situations, the Superintendent would estimate the attendance that would have occurred without the enforcement activities and allocate state funding accordingly. The adjustment would apply to attendance changes during any part of the school year.