BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 1221| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: SB 1221 Author: Hancock (D) Amended: 5/27/14 Vote: 21 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-1, 3/26/14 AYES: Liu, Block, Correa, Galgiani, Hancock, Hueso, Monning NOES: Huff NO VOTE RECORDED: Wyland SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-2, 5/23/14 AYES: De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg NOES: Walters, Gaines SUBJECT : After school programs SOURCE : Author DIGEST : This bill modifies various requirements for participation in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program and the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program. ANALYSIS : State funded after school programs Current law establishes the ASES program consisting of before and after school academic enrichment. ASES programs receive direct grants, where attendance is projected and grants are CONTINUED SB 1221 Page 2 funded up- front, in three one-year increments. Each school that establishes an ASES program is eligible to receive a three-year direct grant that is awarded in three one-year increments and is subject to semiannual attendance reporting and other requirements. Direct grants The maximum total direct grant awarded annually for an after school program is $112,500 for each regular school year for elementary schools and $150,000 for middle or junior high schools (based on a formula of $7.50 per student per day of attendance, at a maximum of $37.50 per student per week). The maximum total grant awarded annually for a before school program is $37,500 for each regular school year for elementary schools and $49,000 for middle or junior high schools (based on formula of $5 per student per day of attendance, at a maximum of $25 per student per week). Supplemental grants Schools are eligible for a supplemental grant to operate a three-hour program in excess of 180 days or during any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation for the lesser of $7.50 per student per day or 30% of the total grant amount awarded to the school per school year. Supplemental grants are also available to operate a six-hour program providing a maximum of 30% of the total grant amount. Federal 21st Century The 21st CCLC is a federally funded before and after school program that provides disadvantaged K-12 student (50% or more eligibility for free and reduced-price meals) with academic enrichment and support. The ASES program and 21st CCLC programs are nearly identical and can operate in tandem. Both programs are administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. This bill: 1. Requires a certification that each grant applicant or partner in the application agrees, among other things, to provide to the Department of Education (CDE) information on CONTINUED SB 1221 Page 3 participating pupils' schoolday attendance rates and program attendance. 2. Requires priority for funding to be given to programs that serve pupils attending a school whose most recent score on the Academic Performance Index ranks the school in the lowest three deciles and programs that previously received funding, as specified, for expansion of existing grants up to a certain per site maximum or to replace expiring grants that have satisfactorily met their projected attendance goals. 3. Requires a high school after school program established pursuant to the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens program and a program established pursuant to ASES to submit to CDE annual outcome-based data for evaluation and requires grantees to submit certain attendance information to demonstrate program effectiveness using the unique state pupil identifiers for participating pupils who are unduplicated pupils, and also requires programs to submit evidence of a program quality improvement process that is based on CDE's guidance on program quality standards, as specified. 4. Requires programs to submit social, behavioral, or skill development outcome measures by unique statewide pupil identifiers, based on a list of field-recognized and research-based tools and assessments developed by CDE. 5. Replaces a direct ASES grant with an after school grant and specifies the minimum total after school grant that may be awarded. 6. Defines "expanded learning" as before school, after school, summer, or intersession learning programs that focus on developing the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs and interests of pupils through hands-on, engaging learning experiences. 7. Provides that a school that establishes an ASES program pursuant to specified provisions of ASES is eligible to receive a summer grant to operate the program, as specified, for a maximum of either 30% of the total grant amount awarded, per school year, to the school, or $33,750 for each regular school year for each elementary school and $45,000 CONTINUED SB 1221 Page 4 for each regular school year for each middle or junior high school. It also authorizes an existing after school summer grantee to operate a 3-hour or 6-hour per day program. 8. Authorizes measurable ASES program outcomes to be demonstrated by, but not be limited to, comparing pupils participating in the program to nonparticipating pupils at the same schoolsite and repeals the authority to demonstrate program effectiveness using performance levels from the STAR Program. 9. Authorizes, to the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws, local educational agency grantees funded pursuant to specified provisions to submit certain pupil data to an operator of an after school program with which the local educational agency has a contract, including statewide test and assessment scores. 10.Authorizes additional funding to be provided for transportation, as specified, if an ASES program is operated at a schoolsite located in an area that has a population density of less than 11 persons per square mile. 11.Requires at least 5% of the total amount appropriated pursuant to the 21st CCLC program, except as specified, to be available for grants to provide equitable access and participation in community learning center programs and requires after school and summer funding grants for programs serving middle and elementary school pupils to be allocated according to the same funding provisions, and subject to the same reporting and accountability provisions, as described in specified provisions of ASES, and requires priority to be given to grant applications that will provide year-round expanded learning programming. 12.Limits transportation grants to $15,000 per site, per school year contingent on the availability of finds. 13.Requires CDE to develop and submit a biennial report to the Legislature related to the pupils attending, and the program quality of, expanded learning programs, and would requires the report to include data, as specified, and authorize the report to include aggregate reporting of certain information. CONTINUED SB 1221 Page 5 FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: No According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, this bill may result in a loss of state General Fund savings, to the extent that its creation of new types of grants and of a minimum grant level allow more ASES funds to be expended that could otherwise revert to the General Fund for other Proposition 98 educational purposes. Cost pressure: The ASES and 21st CCLC grant programs are highly competitive funding sources with supplemental school-site based programs. A small fraction of applicants actually receive funding, and there is more demand each year than can be funded. This bill creates new grants to draw from the same funding source, which puts pressure on the existing funding. The bill also creates a minimum grant funding level that is higher than small programs would have been awarded under the existing per-pupil funding formula, which adds pressure on an existing source that is already insufficient to fund most requests. Minor cost savings: To the extent that the new reporting requirements streamline CDE grant monitoring activities, there will be minor workload savings to CDE. SUPPORT : (Verified 5/27/14) State Superintendent, Tom Torlakson Partnership for Children and Youth Bay Area Community Resources Great Schools Inner City Struggle Think Together Central Valley After School Foundation Mission Readiness - Military Leaders for Kids After School Coalition LA's Best PQ:nl 5/27/14 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END **** CONTINUED SB 1221 Page 6 CONTINUED