BILL ANALYSIS
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CONSENT
Bill No: SB 307
Author: Alquist (D), et al
Amended: 5/26/09
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 9-0, 6/17/09
AYES: Romero, Huff, Alquist, Hancock, Liu, Maldonado,
Padilla, Simitian, Wyland
SUBJECT : Regional occupational centers or programs
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill restores the ability of a regional
occupational center or program established and maintained
by a joint powers agency to receive funding directly from
the county office of education in which it is located
instead of each of the school districts that comprise the
joint powers agency.
ANALYSIS : Existing law authorizes school districts,
county offices of education, and joint powers agencies to
establish and maintain a regional occupational center or
program (ROC/P) to allow students from multiple schools or
districts to attend career technical training programs
regardless of the geographic location of their residence
within a county or region. California's 74 ROC/Ps serve
approximately 500,000 students.
Commencing in the 2009-10 fiscal year, current law (SB
CONTINUED
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1197, Alquist, Chapter 519, Statutes of 2008) requires that
an ROC/P established and maintained by school districts or
joint powers agencies (JPA) pursuant to a joint powers
agreement is required to receive annual operating funds
directly from the county office of education in which it is
located. SB 1197 specified that the amount of funding for
these programs is to be equal to the revenue limit received
by each of the participating school districts for pupils in
attendance at the ROC/P.
SB 4 (Ducheny, 3rd Extraordinary Session, Chapter 12,
Statutes of 2009), a trailer bill for the 2008-09 and
2009-10 Budget Act, reduced funding for ROC/Ps and various
other categorical programs and authorized school districts,
for the 2008-09 to the 2012-13 fiscal year, to use the
funding received for those programs for any educational
purpose. SBX3 4 required the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to apportion funds for ROC/Ps based on the same
relative proportion local education agencies received in
2008-09, in effect making the funding formula specified in
SB 1197 inoperative.
This bill requires commencing in the 2009-10 fiscal year in
any fiscal year when Section 52321 is not operative, ROC/Ps
established and maintained by school districts as JPAs to
receive operating funds directly from the county office of
education (COE) in which it is located in a manner that is
consistent with the apportionments for those school
districts that comprise the JPAs that are provided to the
COE pursuant to the annual Budget Act.
Comments
ROC/P . Regional occupational centers and programs may be
operated by a COE, a school district, or a JPA comprised of
two or more school districts.
1.County-operated ROC/Ps are governed by the county board
of education. There are 42 county-operated ROC/Ps.
2.Single-district ROC/Ps are governed by the district's
governing board. Current law authorizes single-district
ROC/Ps only in large school districts with average daily
attendance (ADA) of 50,000 or more that are located in
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counties with an ADA of 750,000 and over or in districts
with at least 100,000 ADA in counties with an ADA of
140,000 to 749,999. There are six single-district
ROC/Ps.
3.JPA-operated ROC/Ps are governed by a board made up of
elected representatives from the member district school
boards. There are 26 JPA-operated ROC/Ps.
JPA-operated ROC/P funding . Historically, funding for
JPA-operated ROC/Ps has been based on the revenue limit of
each participating school district for each unit of ADA
reported by the program. Funding received by the COE is
distributed to each participating district that in turn,
passes it on to the JPA. The intent of SB 1197 was to
create a more efficient funding mechanism for JPA-operated
ROC/Ps by requiring funding to go directly from the local
county office of education to the JPA.
SB 1197 Cleanup . In creating a lump-sum funding mechanism
for ROC/Ps, SB3X 4 complicated the implementation of SB
1197 and created confusion for JPAs that operate these
regional programs. Notwithstanding the flexibility
established by SB3X 4, this measure restores the
streamlining required by SB 1197 and allows JPAs to receive
funding for ROC/Ps directly from the COE without first
passing through the school district.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/18/09)
Association of California School Administrators
California Association of Regional Occupational Centers and
Programs
California Association of Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning
Contractors' National-Association
California Automotive Business Coalition
California Federation of Teachers
California Industrial and Technology Education Association
East San Gabriel Valley Regional Occupational Program and
Technical
Center
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Metropolitan Education District
Mission Valley ROP
Southern California Regional Occupational Center
DLW:nl 6/18/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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