BILL ANALYSIS AB 2178 Page 1 Date of Hearing: April 28, 2010 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Felipe Fuentes, Chair AB 2178 (Torlakson) - As Amended: April 14, 2010 Policy Committee: Education Vote:8-0 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: No SUMMARY This bill authorizes local education agency (LEA) grantees under the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program to submit specified pupil data (consistent with state and federal privacy laws) to an operator of an ASES program with whom the LEA has a contract. Specifically, this bill: 1)Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to develop procedures and tools to collect annual data for the ASES program that are consistent with the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) reporting procedures and program development. 2)Authorizes an LEA to submit the following pupil data to an ASES program operator: (a) school day attendance, (b) Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program test scores, (c) high school exit examination scores, (d) English language development test scores, and (d) California Healthy Kids Survey result data. FISCAL EFFECT GF administrative costs, likely between $125,000 and $150,000, to the SDE to implement annual data collection via CALPADS. The 2009 Budget Act allocated $547 million for the ASES program. According to SDE, approximately 400,000 pupil slots statewide are funded per day for ASES programs. COMMENTS AB 2178 Page 2 1)Purpose . In 2002, the voters approved Proposition 49, which expanded before and after school programs and renamed them the ASES program. Proposition 49 requires the state to allocate $550 million annually for before and after school programs. State funding for the ASES program is continuously appropriated and no longer requires approval by the Legislature as part of the annual budget act. The amount of additional funding pursuant to Proposition 49 will be added to the Proposition 98 base in future years. ASES, as modified by Proposition 49, has two main goals: keeping students safe after school and improving student academic outcomes. Existing law requires ASES program grantees to submit annual outcomes-based data to SDE, including attendance and academic performance data. Statute also authorizes SDE to consider these outcomes when determining eligibility for grant renewal. Current law also requires SDE, in consultation with the ASES advisory committee, to develop standardized procedures and tools to collect specified data, including school and program attendance, homework completion rates, behavioral changes, and STAR scores. SDE reports that researchers at the University of California, Davis and Irvine campuses have developed tools to measure behavioral change and skills development. The researchers are currently in the process of field testing these tools and they are expected to be used by grantees in the 2011-12 school year. According to the author, "Some after school providers have difficulty obtaining student academic performance data. Data sharing allows after school providers to better serve an English Learners students (ELs). For example, if an after school provider is serving an ELs and the provider had access to the student California English Language Development Test (CELDT) score, the provider could give the student targeted academic assistance. This bill also clarifies schools and school districts sharing students' academic data with an after school provider are in compliance with federal and state privacy laws." 2)ASES data collection . SDE's website indicates that for annual 2009 data collection ASES grantees are required to use Statewide Student Identifiers (SSIDs) for all reported students. SSIDs are how LEAs report pupil data to SDE under AB 2178 Page 3 CALPADS. SDE also states, "In the future the use of SSIDs may eliminate the need for grantees to report assessment data directly to the SDE. Instead, it will access assessment data via SSIDs." The department, however, indicates that grantees are still required to report the assessment data. Analysis Prepared by : Kimberly Rodriguez / APPR. / (916) 319-2081