On July 1, 2022 AB 2337 authored by Assemblywoman Megan Dahle was signed by the governor of California. This bill ensures California’s smallest, rural school districts receive proper recognition as frontier school districts in California Education Code.
AB 2337 will ensure that California’s smallest, rural school districts receive proper recognition by defining Frontier School Districts in the California Education Code. Frontier school districts will be defined in alignment with federal grant requirements as school districts that have annual average daily attendance of less than 600 students and are located in a county with a population of less than 10 persons per square mile.