03/23/2024
The Orange County Districts Superintendent’s Organization met with legislators and legislative staff March 15 to advocate for the passage of Senate Bill 1315. This bill would require the California Department of Education to provide a report on the number and types of reports that LEAs are required to submit annually. This report would include, among other things, the purpose of each report and recommendations for which reports can be consolidated to reduce the total number of reports LEAs are required to complete annually.
To underscore the need, Garden Grove Unified School District Superintendent Gabriela Mafi brought boxes of all the documents the district sends to the state in a year.
OC education leaders shared how staff are overburdened with duplicative reporting requirements, taking away time and resources that could be used to address pivotal education challenges impacting students and schools, including engagement, attendance, mental health, academic recovery and more.
CSBA is sponsoring SB 1315 (Senator Bob Archuleta, D-Pico Rivera) in order to ensure state lawmakers realize which reports are most helpful for policy development and identify where information could be condensed and where some reports could be eliminated.
