BILL NUMBER: AB 760 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gordon
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
An act to amend Sections 8800, 8801, 8802, 8803, 8804, 8804.5,
8805, 8806, and 8807 of, to amend the headings of Article 2
(commencing with Section 8803) and Article 3 (commencing with Section
8805) of Chapter 5 of, and to amend the heading of Chapter 5
(commencing with Section 8800) of, Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1
of, the Education Code, relating to community schools.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 760, as introduced, Gordon. California Full-Service Community
Schools Act.
Existing law, the Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act,
requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award grants to
local educational agencies or consortia to fund programs in
qualifying schools that provide designated support services to
eligible pupils and their families. The act authorizes the issuance
of both planning grants and operational grants to local educational
agencies or consortia that provide support services, as defined, to
pupils and their families, and authorizes the issuance of county or
regional planning and coordinating grants to a specified number of
local educational agencies or consortia each year, for the purposes
of increasing the local planning and coordinating efforts among
school districts, county offices of education, county governments,
community organizations, and nonprofit organizations, as specified.
This bill would rename the act as the California Full-Service
Community Schools Act, recast several of the provisions of the act,
and make technical and conforming changes. The bill would require
proposals for grant support to include commitments to carry out the
programs to be implemented by the grant from the governing boards of
applicant local educational agencies, relevant memoranda of
understanding with any local governmental agency partners, and plans
for the phased expansion of any districtwide or countywide expansion
of a program. The bill would also authorize the Superintendent to
award supplemental funds to local educational agencies or consortia
to address specific and serious service gaps.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The heading of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 8800)
of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code is amended
to read:
CHAPTER 5. HEALTHY START SUPPORT SERVICES FOR
CHILDREN CALIFORNIA FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
ACT
SEC. 2. Section 8800 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8800. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
Healthy Start Support Services for Children
California Full-Service Community Schools Act.
SEC. 3. Section 8801 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8801. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) A large and growing number of California's children are not
learning enough in school to prepare them for full economic, social,
and civic participation in adult life, as evidenced by the following
statistics:
(1) Each year, between 59,000 and 72,000 children are born exposed
to drugs or alcohol.
(2) Currently 360,000 children are abused or neglected, according
to the juvenile courts and county welfare departments.
(3) Each year, a substantial number of parents have their parental
rights terminated by the courts.
(4) Seventy thousand children are presently placed with foster
care because of parental abuse or neglect or delinquent behavior.
(5) Out of an average class of 30 high school sophomores, any
eight pupils are on public assistance, any four speak no English, any
eight are at least two years behind in reading and math, any three
have grown up in public housing, any seven will not graduate, any
three will be teen parents, and any seven will not be employable.
(6) Sixty-one thousand children receive mental health services
annually.
(7) One million one hundred thousand children go to bed hungry
every night.
(b) The quality of life for all Californians is affected by these
conditions. These children, and often the children they have, impose
heavy costs on taxpayers by requiring special services, income
assistance, or incarceration or institutionalization. They are a
burden on the capacity of the state's economy to produce adequate
revenues and an adequate tax base.
(c) The causes of the problems children face are complex and
interdependent. Many families, especially those affected by poverty,
fail to provide the physical, emotional, and intellectual support
needed to ensure that their children are ready for school. Many
neighborhoods and larger communities lack the resources or
organization to support children. The schools' support services
either are not effective or have not effectively serviced a large
enough percentage of at-risk children.
(d) Because children spend so much of their time at school,
schools have been increasingly asked to provide a wide range of
health and social services to children, and many have attempted to
help parents as well. The capacity of schools to undertake these
roles must be increased.
(e) However, this service capacity should not be increased through
conventional, categorical approaches. Services to children and their
families can be most effectively provided through consortia which
include schools, other health and human service providers, parents,
and community groups. Collaboration is necessary and more effective
because the goals of school and community services are
interdependent; fragmentation of existing state and local services
otherwise inhibits their effectiveness; and community-based services
offer resources and competence that schools do not have. Both the
state and counties must develop policies and incentives to improve
collaboration at the local level.
(f) Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature that by
implementing the Healthy Start Support Services for Children
California Full-Service Community Schools Act,
children in need of assistance to overcome the barriers to healthy,
productive lives be given assistance in all of the following ways:
(1) By creating a learning environment that is optimally
responsive to the physical, emotional, and intellectual needs of each
child.
(2) By fostering interagency collaboration and communication at
the local level to more efficiently and effectively deliver human
support services to children and their families.
(3) By encouraging the full use of existing agencies, professional
personnel, and public and private funds to ensure that children are
ready and able to learn, and to prevent duplication of services and
unnecessary expenditures.
(4) By encouraging the development of a local interagency
oversight mechanism that includes a records system to evaluate cost
and effectiveness, and the development of a process of
self-assessment of those records and the way in which they are used,
to improve the effectiveness of services.
SEC. 4. Section 8802 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8802. For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Consortium" means two or more local educational agencies.
(b) "Cooperating agency" means any federal, state, or local public
or private nonprofit agency that agrees to offer support services at
a schoolsite through a program implemented under this chapter.
(c) "Council" means the Healthy Start Support Services
for Children California Full-Service Community Schools
Program Council.
(d) "Lead agency" means the State Department of Education.
(e) "Local educational agency" means a school district or county
office of education.
(f) "Private partner" means a private business or foundation that
provides financial assistance or otherwise assists a support services
program operated under this chapter.
(g) "Qualifying school" means a school that is any of the
following:
(1) A school that maintains kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 6,
inclusive, in which 50 percent or more of the enrolled pupils either
(A) are from families that receive benefits from the Aid to Families
with Dependent Children program or any successor program, have
limited English proficiency, as identified pursuant to Section 52163,
or both, or (B) are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals
under Section 49552.
(2) A school that maintains any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, in
which 35 percent or more of the enrolled pupils either (A) are from
families that receive benefits from the Aid to Families with
Dependent Children program or any successor program, have limited
English proficiency, as identified pursuant to Section 52163, or
both, or (B) are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals
under Section 49552.
(3) A school that does not satisfy the criteria in paragraph (1)
or (2) but that demonstrates other factors that warrant its
consideration, including, for example, exceptional need, potential to
serve as a model program, or service to a particular target
population. No more than 10 percent of the schools that participate
in the program established by this chapter may be schools that
qualify under this paragraph. A school that receives a grant under
this paragraph shall ensure that the following pupils in that school
are given priority to receive services provided with the grant money:
(A) are from families that receive benefits from the Aid to Families
with Dependent Children program or any successor program, have
limited English proficiency, as identified pursuant to Section 52163,
or both, or (B) are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals
under Section 49552.
(h) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Child Development and
Education.
(i) "Agency secretary" means the Secretary of the Health and
Welfare Agency.
(j) "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
(k) "Support services" means services that will enhance the
physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of children
and their families.
SEC. 5. The heading of Article 2 (commencing with Section 8803) of
Chapter 5 of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
Article 2. Healthy Start Support Services for
Children California Full-Service Community Schools
Program Council and Grant Program
SEC. 6. Section 8803 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8803. (a) In order to encourage the
integration of children's services, it is the intent of the
Legislature to promote interagency coordination and collaboration
among the state agencies responsible for the provision of support
services to children and their families.
Therefore, the Legislature hereby establishes the Healthy Start
Support Services for Children Program Council, as follows:
(b) The California Full-Service Community Schools Program Council
is hereby established to replace the Healthy Start Support Services
for Children Program Council. The California Full-Service Community
Schools Program Council shall operate in accordance with all of the
following:
(a)
( 1) Members of the council shall include
the superintendent Superintendent , the
agency secretary, the secretary, and the directors of the State
Department of Health Services, the State Department of Social
Services, the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, and the
State Department of Mental Health , or designated
representatives thereof .
(b)
( 2) Duties of the council shall include
all of the following :
(1)
( A) Developing, promoting, and implementing
policy supporting the Healthy Start Support Services for
Children California Full-Service Community
Schools Grant Program.
(2)
( B) Assisting the lead agency in reviewing
grant applications submitted to the lead agency and providing the
lead agency with recommendations for awarding grants pursuant to
Section 8804.
(3)
( C) Soliciting input regarding program
policy and direction from individuals and entities with experience in
the integration of children's services.
(4)
( D) Assisting the lead agency in fulfilling
its responsibilities under this chapter.
(5)
( E) Providing recommendations to the
Governor, the Legislature, and the lead agency regarding the
Healthy Start Support Services for Children
California Full-Service Community Schools Grant Program.
(6)
( F) At the request of the
superintendent Superintendent , assisting the
local educational agency or consortium in planning and implementing
this program, including assisting with local technical assistance,
and developing agency collaboration.
SEC. 7. Section 8804 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8804. The superintendent Superintendent
shall award grants to a local educational agency or consortium
to pay the costs of planning and operating
coordination activities , on behalf of one or more qualifying
schools within the local educational agency or consortium,
relating to programs that provide support services to pupils
and their families at or near the school, as follows:
(a) Grants shall be awarded by the superintendent
Superintendent based upon the recommendations of
the council and pursuant to this section.
(b) Two Three types of grants may be
awarded to applicant local educational agencies or consortia,
depending upon the level of readiness of that applicant to implement
a program pursuant to this chapter. The superintendent
Superintendent shall issue requests for
applications for awarding the grants, which shall specify maximum
dollar amounts for which each type of grant may be awarded. The
requests for applications also shall specify other criteria, as
required by this article. A grant request shall include a
commitment to carry out the program to be implemented by the grant
from the governing board of any applicant local educational agency,
as well as relevant memoranda of understanding with any local
governmental agency partners. The superintendent
Superintendent shall award those grants as
follows:
(1) Planning grants may be awarded to local educational agencies
or consortia that have demonstrated a need to implement a program,
but that are not ready to begin the operation of the program, or that
are in need of additional planning to expand existing support
services programs. If applicable, proposals included in the
application shall outline plans for the phased expansion of any
program districtwide or countywide. Planning grants shall be no
more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and shall be awarded for
a period not to exceed two years. Upon completion of the planning
phase, the local educational agency or consortium shall be eligible
to apply for and may receive an operational grant.
(2) Operational grants may be awarded to local educational
agencies or consortia that have demonstrated readiness to begin
operation of a program or to expand existing support services
programs. Operational grants shall supplement, not supplant, existing
services and funds, and shall be awarded for a period not to exceed
five years. The use of these funds shall be limited to
coordination activities either at the site or at the
community or district level.
(3) Supplemental funds may be awarded to local educational agency
or consortium to address a specific and serious service gap. A
request for supplemental funds shall include a plan for evaluating
the impact of providing the new service and for paying for the
service once the grant has ended.
(A) Operational grants shall be awarded for no more than three
hundred thousand dollars ($300,000). No more than 50 percent of each
grant shall be available for expenditure on direct services, as long
as the grant application contains a three-year plan to significantly
reduce or to eliminate agency reliance on funding provided under this
article for direct services. Direct services do not include salaries
for staff who are developing or implementing the program.
(B) Recipients of operational grants may also receive one-time
startup grants, which may be used, among other things, for purchasing
equipment, hiring staff, designing a program evaluation, or hiring a
consultant. Startup grants shall be awarded for not more than one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(3)
(4) If a local educational agency or consortium submits
an application for an operational grant on behalf of a school that
does not meet the criteria specified in subdivision (g), (h), (i), or
(j), the superintendent Superintendent
may offer the applicant a planning grant, provided that the local
educational agency or consortium has not received previously a
planning grant on behalf of that school.
(c) All grants awarded under this article shall be matched by the
participating local educational agency or consortium and its
cooperating agencies with one dollar ($1) for each four dollars ($4)
awarded. The match shall be contributed in cash or as services or
resources of comparable value. It is the intent of the Legislature
that participants seek and utilize private funds or resources for
this purpose. The superintendent
Superintendent may waive the match requirement upon verifying
that the local educational agency or consortium made a substantial
effort to secure a match but was unable to secure the required match.
(d) The superintendent Superintendent
shall award grants pursuant to this article to local
educational agencies or consortia in northern, central, and southern
California, in urban, suburban, and rural areas. To the extent
possible, the grants shall be awarded for programs representative of
the ethnic and linguistic diversity of schoolage pupils and their
families. Further, to the extent possible, 50 percent of the grants
shall be awarded to schools serving elementary school pupils and 50
percent to schools serving junior and senior high school pupils.
(e) Of the schools that receive grants each year, not more than 10
percent may be selected based on the criteria identified in
paragraph (3) of subdivision (g) of Section 8802.
(f) A local educational agency or consortium is eligible for a
grant under this article, on behalf of one or more schools operated
by the agency or consortium, if it demonstrates in its program plan
that it:
(1) Will give priority for services provided under this chapter to
pupils from low-income families.
(2) Will assist families in responding to support services needs
of pupils.
(3) Has established the local agency collaboration process
described in Article 4 (commencing with Section 8806), including a
mechanism for sharing governance with cooperating agencies and
entities, and for integrating or redirecting existing resources and
other school support services.
(4) Has submitted or is submitting an application to the
State Department of Education and the State Department of
Public Health Services for
certification as a Medi-Cal provider, pursuant to Section
14000, and following, Chapter 7 (commencing with
Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code.
(5) Involves parents or guardians and teachers in the process of
identifying pupils' service needs and in the planning for and
provision of support services.
(g) For purposes of this chapter, support services shall include
case-managed health, mental health, social, and academic support
services benefiting children and their families, and may include, but
are not limited to:
(1) Health care, including:
(A) Immunizations.
(B) Vision and hearing testing and services.
(C) Dental services.
(D) Physical examinations, diagnostic, and referral services.
(E) Prenatal care.
(2) Mental health services, including primary prevention, crisis
intervention, assessments, and referrals, and training for teachers
in the detection of mental health problems.
(3) Substance abuse prevention and treatment services.
(4) Family support and parenting education, including child abuse
prevention and schoolage parenting programs.
(5) Academic support services, including tutoring, mentoring,
employment, and community service internships, and inservice training
for teachers and administrators. However, grants for these purposes
shall supplement, not supplant, existing resources in these areas.
(6) Counseling, including family counseling and suicide
prevention.
(7) Services and counseling for children who experience violence
in their communities.
(8) Nutrition services.
(9) Youth development services, including tutoring, mentoring,
recreation, career development, and job placement.
(10) Case management services.
(11) Provision of onsite Medi-Cal eligibility workers.
(h) A local educational agency or consortium may contract with
other entities, including county agencies and private nonprofit
organizations or private partners, to provide services to pupils and
their families.
(i) (1) Each local educational agency or
consortium seeking a grant under this article shall submit an
application to the superintendent
Superintendent at a time and manner, and with any appropriate
information, as the superintendent
Superintendent may reasonably require.
Each
(2) Each grant application
submitted shall include all of the following:
(1)
( A) A description of the proposed programs,
including four or more support services expected to be provided at
the schoolsite or at a site near, or adjacent to, the school.
(B) A description of how the proposed programs will relate to, or
will be integrated into, the school system governance structure.
(2)
( C) Documentation of need for participation
in the Healthy Start Support Services for Children
California Full-Service Community Schools Grant
Program.
(3)
( D) Documentation of need for planning
assistance, program operation support, or both.
(4)
( E) As to any operational grant
application, a description of the objectives of the program, the
amount and sources of required funding, the existing resources to be
used or redirected, the priorities for development and timing of the
program, the agencies responsible for the implementation of the
program, and the procedures for the evaluation of the program.
The
(3) The program plan submitted
with an operational grant application shall include all of the
following:
(A) Provisions for data collection and recordkeeping, including
records of the population served, the components of the service, the
results of the service, and costs, including startup, direct, and
indirect costs, including those to other agencies, and cost savings.
(B) A service evaluation component, including input, process, and
outcome indicators, quality assessment, and the process by which
these measures will be taken. In addition, the plan shall include
specific targets and outcome measures.
(C) A specific governing mechanism by which the plan will be
implemented, including local decisionmaking responsibilities,
organizational needs, anticipated problems and procedures to solve
them, and incentives for collaboration and participation incentives
to personnel.
(D) A specific system for the provision of case management
services, including procedures for implementation, identification of
the target population, anticipated outcomes, and a list of existing
services, resources, and programs that will be used as components of
the program.
(5)
(4) In the case of a consortium, a list of its members.
(6)
(5) The grant application also shall document any
procedures that have been, or will be, taken to designate the local
educational agency as a Medi-Cal provider pursuant to
Section 14000, and following, Chapter 7 (commencing
with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code.
(7)
(6) A description of technical assistance, professional
growth, and development needs, if any.
(8)
(7) A description of the proposed plan for family
involvement in the program.
(9)
(8) A description of the population anticipated to be
served.
(10)
(9) As to any planning grant application, a plan
describing how the proposed program will be implemented after the
grant has expired.
(j) Grants awarded pursuant to this article may be used for
salaries of staff responsible for developing or implementing the
program plan and administrative support staff, equipment and
supplies, training, and insurance, pursuant to subdivision (b).
(k) (1) No more than 10 percent of the
amount appropriated in a fiscal year for the purposes of this chapter
may be used by the superintendent
Superintendent for state-level administration of this chapter,
including evaluation and technical assistance. Technical assistance
includes, but is not limited to, establishing interagency
collaboration, providing information dissemination and referrals,
including information about appropriate program models, conducting
site visits, and convening workshops to assist in the implementation
of a program developed pursuant to this chapter.
(1)
( 2) Of the amount provided in the annual
Budget Act for state-level administration, up to 75 percent may be
used for the purpose of outreach and technical assistance to local
educational agencies. The remainder shall be used for state-level
program administration.
(2)
( 3) The superintendent
Superintendent shall ensure that adequate resources are
available to conduct an evaluation pursuant to subdivision
(b) of Section 8805.
( l ) Commencing in the 1992 calendar year,
and each subsequent year for In any f iscal
year in which funding is available, grants shall be awarded
according to the following schedule:
(1) The superintendent Superintendent
shall issue requests for applications on or before November 1.
(2) Grant applications shall be submitted to the
superintendent Superintendent on or before March
1.
(3) The superintendent Superintendent
shall award grants on or before May 15.
SEC. 8. Section 8804.5 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8804.5. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that, as the
number of planning and operational grants awarded pursuant to this
chapter increases, additional local planning and coordinating efforts
will be necessary among school districts, county offices of
education, county governments, community organizations, and nonprofit
organizations for all of the following reasons:
(1) To avoid the duplication of efforts among agencies that
administer the grants.
(2) To develop linkages between several school districts,
individual county agencies, statewide organizations, or nonprofit
organizations.
(3) To disseminate training and technical assistance materials
developed by the department and other involved organizations.
(4) To plan for, and ensure, the continued ability of local
educational agencies or consortia to provide support services with an
operational grant, including planning and supporting the funding of
those services beyond the three-year grant period through such means
as Medi-Cal.
(5) To plan for, and ensure, the expansion of support services
provided with an operational grant through creative refinancing
options and the provision of comprehensive, integrated school-linked
services to sites that do not receive planning or operational grants.
(b) From funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the
Healthy Start Support Services for Children
California Full-Service Community Schools Act, the department
may award county or regional planning and coordinating grants to no
more than 11 local educational agencies or consortia each year, to be
used for the purposes enumerated in subdivision (a). Each grant
shall be for an amount not to exceed fifty thousand dollars
($50,000). The total amount of grants awarded annually pursuant to
this section shall not exceed five hundred fifty thousand dollars
($550,000). The duration of each grant shall be mutually agreed upon
by the grantee and the department.
(c) In awarding grants for the purposes of this section, the
department shall give priority to local educational agencies or
consortia that possess one or more of the following:
(1) An established capacity for leadership in the community and an
ability to engage in local problem solving and to creatively
approach the restructuring of service delivery methods.
(2) A demonstrated ability to work with and among service
delivery agencies and systems, including county mental health,
health, probation, and social service systems.
(3) The capacity to support county and regional planning and
coordination efforts to be more responsive to the needs of children
and their families in providing support services.
(4) Knowledge of the most effective strategies for refinancing
grants and for integrating services between and among agencies.
(d) A local educational agency or consortia shall collaborate with
local service delivery agencies and existing collaborative councils
in implementing a grant received pursuant to this section.
SEC. 9. The heading of Article 3 (commencing with Section 8805) of
Chapter 5 of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
Article 3. Healthy Start Support Services for
Children California Full-Service Community Schools
Grant Program Evaluations and Reports
SEC. 10. Section 8805 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8805. The Legislature finds that an evaluation of plan
effectiveness is both desirable and necessary, and accordingly
requires the following:
(a) No later than January 1 of the year following a full year of
operation, each local educational agency or consortium that receives
an operational grant under this chapter shall submit a report to the
superintendent Superintendent that
includes:
(1) An assessment of the effectiveness of that local educational
agency or consortium in achieving stated goals in the planning and/or
operational phase.
(2) Problems encountered in the design and operation of the
Healthy Start Support Services for Children
California Full-Service Community Schools Grant
Program plan, including identification of any federal, state, or
local statute or regulation that will impede program implementation.
(3) Recommendations for ways to improve delivery of support
services to pupils.
(4) The number of pupils who will receive support services who
previously have not been served.
(5) The potential impact of the program on the local educational
agency or the consortium, including any anticipated increase in
school retention and achievement rates of pupils who receive support
services.
(6) An accounting of anticipated local budget savings, if any,
resulting from the implementation of the program.
(7) Client and practitioner satisfaction.
(8) The ability, or anticipated ability, to continue to provide
services in the absence of future funding under this chapter, by
allocating resources in ways that are different from existing
methods.
(9) Increased access to services for pupils and their families.
(10) The degree of increased collaboration among participating
agencies and private partners.
(11) If the local educational agency or consortium received
certification as a Medi-Cal provider, the extent to which the
certification improved access to needed services.
(12) Improvements in average daily attendance as well as
individual attendance for pupils who have directly benefited from
program services.
(b) Additional annual evaluations may be required as designated by
the superintendent Superintendent .
SEC. 11. Section 8806 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8806. (a) Each local educational agency or consortium applying
for a grant under this chapter shall establish procedures to ensure
on-going consultation and collaboration with local agencies for the
purposes set forth in subdivision (c). The consultation and
collaboration process shall involve, at a minimum, parents or
guardians and teachers of pupils of qualifying schools and
representatives of each member agency or private partner who will
provide, or is anticipated to provide, services pursuant to this
chapter.
(b) If the local educational agency or consortium is located
within a county that has established an interagency children's
services coordinating council pursuant to Chapter 12.8 (commencing
with Section 18986) , of Part 6 of Division 9 of
the Welfare and Institutions Code, any Healthy Start Support
Services for Children California Full-Service
Community Schools Grant Program proposal submitted under this
chapter first shall be approved by that council. The implementation
of any program developed pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to
the regular review of the interagency children's services
coordinating council. The local educational agency or consortium may
engage in those activities authorized pursuant to Article 3
(commencing with Section 18986.20) of Chapter 12.8 of Part 6 of
Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code provided that the
interagency children's services coordinating council first approves
those activities. The interagency children's services coordinating
council or its members may be designated to fulfill the
responsibilities of the consultation and collaboration process
required by this article.
(c) Responsibilities of individuals designated for consultation
and collaboration by the local educational agency or consortium shall
include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Participate in the development of the program during the
planning stages.
(2) Participate with the local educational agency or consortium in
the design and operation of the program.
(3) Facilitate communication between the local educational agency
or consortium and state, local, and community-based organizations
providing support services to children.
(4) Make recommendations to appropriate organizations regarding
ways to improve delivery of support services to children, and in the
most cost-effective manner.
SEC. 12. Section 8807 of the Education Code is amended to read:
8807. (a) The State Department of Education is required to
implement this chapter only to the extent that funds are apportioned
for that purpose under the annual Budget Act, or are made available
to the department for the purposes of this chapter from federal
sources. It is the intent of the Legislature that the
superintendent Superintendent , in consultation
with the secretary and the agency secretary, seek and utilize any
federal funds that may be made available for the purposes of this
chapter.
(b) All money appropriated by the Legislature to the
superintendent Superintendent for purposes of
the Healthy Start Support Services for Children
California Full-Service Community Schools Act, shall be
allocated by the superintendent
Superintendent to local educational agencies or consortia that
have been selected to participate in the grant program. Any amount
not allocated during a fiscal year may be carried over to the
subsequent fiscal year. In order to ensure that those local
educational agencies or consortia that receive planning grants will
be eligible to receive operational grants, a portion of any funds
appropriated during a fiscal year may be reserved for allocation as
operational grants in future fiscal years.
(c) Any funds that are not expended by a local educational agency
or consortium by the end of the three-year period of the grant shall
be returned to the state, except under the following circumstances:
(1) A local educational agency or consortium that received an
operational grant in the 1992 calendar year may retain up to fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000) of any amount not expended within the
three-year period of the grant.
(2)
( 1) A local educational agency or
consortium that received an operational grant in the 1993
calendar year or any calendar year thereafter, may retain
up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) of any amount not
expended within the three-year period of the grant.
(3)
( 2) The expenditure of any funds retained
pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) shall be for a
one-year period and shall be used exclusively to continue the program
operations consistent with the original grant. Retention of funds
pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) shall be
contingent on approval by the department of an expenditure plan
submitted by the local educational agency or consortium.
(d) To the extent permitted by federal law, any funding made
available to a local educational agency or consortium shall be
subject to all of the following conditions:
(1) The program is open to children without regard to any child's
religious beliefs or any other factor related to religion.
(2) No religious instruction is included in the program.
(3) The space in which the program is operated is not used in any
manner to foster religion during the time used for operation of the
program.