20250AB__251496AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-03-02 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-04-13 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-06-30 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Members Ransom, Muratsuchi, and Patel (Coauthor: Assembly Member Ahrens) LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ransom LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Muratsuchi LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Patel COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ahrens

An act to add

Chapter 6.3 (commencing with

Section 52100) to Part of Division of Title of the Education Code, relating to pupil achievement. pupil achievement Pupil achievement: State of the Achievement Gap Dashboard. Existing law establishes the State Board of Education and requires the state board to study educational conditions and needs of the state and to make plans for the improvement of the administration and efficiency of the public schools of the state.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Education under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and assigns to the department numerous responsibilities relating to the governance of the public elementary and secondary schools in the state.

This bill would require a working group, proposed to be established by Assembly Bill of the 2025–26 Regular Session, to include as part of a report to the Governor and the Legislature, proposed to be required by Assembly Bill of the 2025–26 Regular Session, recommendations for the development of a State of the Achievement Gap Dashboard that would be annually updated to assess the state in its progress towards closing pupil academic achievement gaps. The bill would require the recommendations to include, among other things, a series of specified proposed metrics, as provided.

This bill would become operative only if AB of the 2025–26 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2027, and adds

Section to the Education Code. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. (

a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the priority of the state to close pupil academic achievement gaps. (

b) It is the intent of the Legislature that a dashboard known as the State of the Achievement Gap Dashboard is established as follows:

(1) The purpose of the dashboard will be to provide a clear and concise method of informing the public of the state’s progress in implementing the plan to support the efforts of local educational agencies in closing pupil academic achievement gaps.

(2) The dashboard will be a mechanism developed by the working group established pursuant to subdivision (

b) of

Section of the Education Code, as proposed by Assembly Bill of the 2025–26 Regular Session.

(3) The goal of the dashboard will be to provide an easy to use and easy to understand set of metrics that the public may use to assess the progress the state is making in implementing and advancing its operations and support to help local educational agencies close pupil academic achievement gaps.

SEC. 2.

Chapter 6.3 (commencing with

Section 52100) is added to Part of Division of Title of the Education Code , to read: 6.3. State of the Achievement Gap Dashboard 52100. The working group established pursuant to subdivision (

b) of

Section 52090, added by Assembly Bill of the 2025–26 Regular Session, shall include, as part of the report required to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature, pursuant to subdivision (

e) of

Section 52090, added by Assembly Bill of the 2025–26 Regular Session, recommendations for the development of a State of the Achievement Gap Dashboard that would be annually updated to assess the state in its progress towards closing pupil academic achievement gaps. The dashboard recommendations shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (

a) A series of proposed metrics that assess all of the following:

(1) Local support, service quality, and accessibility of supportive state programs.

(2) State program evaluation and effectiveness.

(3) Operational efficiency, collaboration and communication, and continuous improvement among state entities.

(4) Financial support of the state.

(5) State transparency and accountability.

(6) The department’s governance structure and its programs, policies, regulations, and initiatives. (

b) A proposed format for the dashboard. (

c) A proposed entity that would be responsible for the design, execution, and maintenance of the dashboard. (

d) A proposed dashboard implementation date.

SEC. 3. This

chapter shall become operative only if Assembly Bill of the 2025–26 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2027, and adds

Section to the Education Code.