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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 1221
Author: Hancock (D)
Amended: 7/2/14
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
SENATE FLOOR : 25-10, 5/28/14
AYES: Beall, Block, Corbett, Correa, De León, DeSaulnier,
Evans, Galgiani, Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Jackson,
Lara, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Mitchell, Monning, Padilla, Pavley,
Roth, Steinberg, Torres, Wolk
NOES: Anderson, Berryhill, Gaines, Huff, Knight, Morrell,
Nielsen, Vidak, Walters, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Cannella, Fuller, Wright, Yee
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 56-22, 8/20/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : After school programs
SOURCE : State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom
Torlakson
Partnership for Children and Youth
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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.
Assembly Amendments make technical and clarifying changes.
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
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.
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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 CDE information on 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
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awarded.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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
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.
9. 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.
10.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.
11.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.
12.Requires at least 5% of the total amount appropriated
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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.
13.Limits transportation grants to $15,000 per site, per school
year contingent on the availability of finds.
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 8/20/14)
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson
(source)
Partnership for Children and Youth (source)
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After School Coalition
Bay Area Community Resources
California Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
California School-Age Consortium
Central Valley Afterschool Foundation
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California
Great Schools
InnerCity Struggle
LA's Best
Mission Readiness
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese
THINK Together
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 56-22, 8/20/14
AYES: Alejo, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,
Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez,
Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Hall,
Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal,
Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, John A.
Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber,
Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NOES: Achadjian, Allen, Bigelow, Conway, Dahle, Donnelly, Beth
Gaines, Gorell, Hagman, Harkey, Jones, Linder, Logue,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Melendez, Nestande, Olsen, Patterson,
Wagner, Waldron, Wilk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Grove, Vacancy
PQ:nl 8/20/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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