republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1668.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School accountability: academic performance: dropout recovery high schools."
description: "Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index (API) , as part of the Public School Performance Accountability Program, to measure the performance of schools, especially the academic performance of pupils. Existing law requires the Superintendent, with approval of the state board, to develop an alternative accountability system for specified types of schools and allows these schools to receive an API score, but prohibits them from being included in the API rankings of schools. Existing law requires the Superintendent and the state board, as part of the alternative accountability system for schools, or any successor system, to allow no more than 10 dropout recovery high schools to report the results of an individual pupil growth model, as specified, instead of reporting other indicators, and requires the Superintendent to review the individual pupil growth model proposed by a dropout recovery high school and certify that model if it meets specified criteria. Existing law defines a dropout recovery high school as a school offering instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in which 50% or more of its pupils are designated as dropouts, as specified, and the school provides specified instruction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1668"
citation: "California AB 1668 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School accountability: academic performance: dropout recovery high schools."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-14"
last_action: "2012-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0666539d-ff53-47e7-b3eb-9afb3f1dc375"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668"
source_hash: "a4ff44a71f4cf928a6c039dc0d2b969121bedcec02bc6a7600051e0b2d78be2f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1668 (20112012) — School accountability: academic performance: dropout recovery high schools.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index (API) , as part of the Public School Performance Accountability Program, to measure the performance of schools, especially the academic performance of pupils. Existing law requires the Superintendent, with approval of the state board, to develop an alternative accountability system for specified types of schools and allows these schools to receive an API score, but prohibits them from being included in the API rankings of schools. Existing law requires the Superintendent and the state board, as part of the alternative accountability system for schools, or any successor system, to allow no more than 10 dropout recovery high schools to report the results of an individual pupil growth model, as specified, instead of reporting other indicators, and requires the Superintendent to review the individual pupil growth model proposed by a dropout recovery high school and certify that model if it meets specified criteria. Existing law defines a dropout recovery high school as a school offering instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in which 50% or more of its pupils are designated as dropouts, as specified, and the school provides specified instruction.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/14/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668&version=20110AB166899INT)
2. **03/20/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668&version=20110AB166898AMD)
3. **04/16/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668&version=20110AB166897AMD)
4. **05/16/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668&version=20110AB166896AMD)
5. **07/05/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668&version=20110AB166895AMD)
6. **09/21/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668&version=20110AB166893CHP)
7. **AB1668** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668)
8. **08/16/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1668&version=20110AB166894ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1668 CARTER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1668 CARTER Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2012-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2012-02-23** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4922.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-31** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-07-06** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4445.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5886.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2012-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 424, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0666539d-ff53-47e7-b3eb-9afb3f1dc375`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).