AB 2440: Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: allowable uses: pooled funding: certifications.

The proposed law aims to improve arts education in California's public schools. It requires local educational agencies to pool allocated funds and ensure that expenditures for each schoolsite are in proportion to the allocation. To verify compliance, agencies must annually certify that funds are used to supplement arts education programs, not replace existing funding. The certification must include calculations comparing existing funds available for arts education programs to current year expenditures. Existing funds are calculated by subtracting proposition 28 funds and unavailable resources from prior year total expenditures for arts programs. If current year expenditures for arts education programs equal or exceed these calculations, the agency is deemed compliant. The law declares that its provisions further the purposes of proposition 28, which provides a minimum source of annual f…