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Pupil privacy, bond oversight bills among those signed by governor
By Kimberly Beltran
Wednesday, August 14, 2013


While Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of landmark transgender bill grabbed the news spotlight this week, there were several other education-related bills that also got his approval.
Among them, decrees that:
·       Require a timely response to audit questions from a citizen’s oversight committee charged with monitoring bond spending;
·       Authorize local school boards or county superintendents to establish an alternative work schedule for school police departments if agreed to as part of the labor negotiations;
·       Require renaming the school employee termination hearing process, as well as the required paperwork forms;
·       Amend California law to clarify when a school district may grant access to pupil records to an agency caseworker or other representative of a state or local child welfare agency that has legal responsibility for the care and protection of the student.

SB 581, authored by Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Escondido, requires a district board to provide to its citizen’s oversight committee a response to all findings or questions raised about performance and financial audits of school facilities