BILL ANALYSIS Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair 2178 (Torlakson) Hearing Date: 08/02/2010 Amended: 05/28/2010 Consultant: Dan Troy Policy Vote: ED 8-0 _________________________________________________________________ ____ BILL SUMMARY: AB 2178 would authorize the sharing of pupil data between schools and After School Education and Safety (ASES) programs with which that school contracts, and requires the California Department of Education to collect and maintain after school program data that readily links to the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. _________________________________________________________________ ____ Fiscal Impact (in thousands) Major Provisions 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Fund ASES data Minor costs, likely less than $50 General _________________________________________________________________ ____ STAFF COMMENTS: Current law establishes the ASES program, passed by voters as Proposition 49 in 2002, which provides almost $550 million for before and after school programs for students in kindergarten through grade 9. In 2009-10, 371 grants were awarded predominantly to districts and county offices of education, with some grants going to local governments and nonprofit organizations working in partnership with LEAs. After school programs must commence right after school and at least until 6 p.m. for 15 hours per week. ASES programs are required to include an educational and literacy element in which tutoring or homework assistance is provided in specified content areas, and an educational enrichment element that may include fine arts, career technical education, recreation, physical fitness, and prevention activities. ASES program providers are required to submit annual outcome-based data for evaluation, including research-based indicators and measurable pupil outcomes for academic performance, attendance, and positive behavioral changes. The California Department of Education (CDE) may consider these outcomes when determining eligibility for grant renewal. The CDE is required to develop standardized procedures and tools to collect the indicators and to consult with the evaluation committee of the Advisory Committee on Before and After School Programs. This bill requires the CDE to collect and maintain the annual outcome-based data in a manner that enables the analysis of all programs and the aggregation of state reports, and that readily links to CALPADS. This bill would also provide that local education agency (LEA) grantees that receives ASES funding may, to the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws, submit specified data to an after school program operators that contracts with the LEA. The Page 2 AB 2178 (Torlakson) data would include attendance data, STAR test scores, high school exit examination scores, CELDT scores, and California Healthy Kids Survey data. According to the Department of Education, the costs of this bill are difficult to determine, as some of the effectiveness measures this bill would seek to have included in CALPADS are still under development, pursuant to an ASES evaluation project being undertaken by UCLA. Determinations by that report will determine the data required for collection. While costs may not be precisely determined until the factors are developed, the cost for maintaining them in a manner that would allow them to be linked to CALPADS is not likely to be burdensome, given the existence of unique student identifiers.