Local Control Accountability

As part of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), school districts, COEs, and charter schools are required to develop, adopt, and annually update a three-year Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). The LCAP is required to identify goals and measure progress for student subgroups across multiple performance indicators.

Restraint and Seclusion Information:

Assembly Bill (AB) 2657 (Statutes of 2018, Chapter 998) became effective on January 1, 2019. This bill added sections 49005–49006.4 to California’s Education Code (EC) regarding the use of restraint and seclusion with students receiving both general education and special education. AB 2657 requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to collect and report the data outlined in statute. This new CDE data collection is based, in part, on a similar data collection conducted by U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in which schools are required to report aggregate data to the OCR about the use of restraint and seclusion through the biannual Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). The data collection authorized by AB 2657 differs from the federal CRDC in that it is an annual collection of information about the use of restraint and seclusion in both traditional and non-public schools (NPS) settings. While the law did not specify the exact collection methodology, the CDE decided to collect these data at the student-level through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS).

Data Reporting

Pursuant to the data reporting requirements outlined in California EC section 49006(d), the CDE is required to annually post the following restraint and seclusion data on the CDE website no later than three months after they are reported to the CDE:

• Count of Mechanical Restraints: The number of times that students were mechanically restrained.
• Unduplicated Count of Students Mechanically Restrained: The unduplicated number of students who were mechanically restrained.
• Count of Physical Restraints: The number of times that students were physically restrained.
• Unduplicated Count of Students Physically Restrained: The unduplicated number of students who were physically restrained.
• Count of Seclusions: The number of times that students were secluded.
• Unduplicated Count of Students Secluded: The unduplicated number of students who were secluded.

Restraint and Seclusion Information:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/rsdinfo.asp

To view reported incidents, visit the California Department of Education website:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/filesrsd.asp

24-27 LCAP Documents in English and Translations:

Other Plans:

2019-2020 Federal Addendum: