BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
Senator Mark Leno, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: AB 1600 Hearing Date: June 13,
2016
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|Author: |Committee on Budget |
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|Version: |June 13, 2016 As amended |
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|Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant|Elisa Wynne |
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Subject: School Finance: Education
Summary: This bill makes various statutory changes regarding child care
and early childhood education and K-14 education and
appropriates related funding, necessary for the implementation
of the Budget Act of 2016.
Proposed Law: This bill makes statutory changes to implement the
2016-17 budget. Specifically, this bill:
K-14 Education Crosscutting Issues.
1)Provides $1.4 billion in Proposition 98 one-time and settle up
funding to pay down the existing mandate backlog. Of this,
$1.28 billion is allocated to K-12 local educational agencies
(LEAs) and approximately $106 million is provided to community
colleges. Includes intent language that these funds be spent
on professional development, teacher induction, and supporting
implementation of state-adopted academic content standards.
2)Suspends the Proposition 98 split between K-12 education and
the California Community Colleges.
Child Care and Development, Early Childhood Education
1)Between January 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018, establishes the
regional market rate (RMR), which is the reimbursement for
providers who accept vouchers, at the greater of: (a) the 75th
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percentile of the 2014 survey; (b) 104.5 percent of the 85th
percentile of the 2009 survey, deficited by 10.11 percent; or
(c) 104.5 percent of the 85th percentile of the 2005 survey.
2)Effective, July 1, 2018, updates the RMR to the 75th
percentile of the 2014 RMR.
3)Increases the license-exempt rate for providers from 65
percent to 70 percent, effective January 1, 2017.
4)Increases the standard reimbursement rate, which is the
reimbursement for providers who contract with the Department
of Education, by ten percent, beginning January 1, 2017.
5)Establishes the income eligibility threshold for families to
qualify for subsidized child care at 70 percent of the state
median income of 2007.
6)Declares legislative intent to reimburse child care providers
at the 85th percentile of the most recent RMR; to update to
the most recent RMR ceiling, based on available funding; and
to increase the RMR ceilings, through the 2018-19 fiscal year,
to reflect increased costs to providers, as a result of state
minimum wage increases.
K-12 Education
1)Provides $2.9 billion for continued implementation of the
Local Control Funding Formula, which provides base funding per
student to school districts and charter schools and additional
funding per student for enrollment of low-income, English
learner, or foster youth students.
2)Allocates $200 million in one-time Proposition 98 funds for a
college readiness block grant to provide funds for LEAs to
support and prepare high school students, particularly
low-income, English learner, and foster youth students, to be
eligible for admission into a postsecondary institution and to
increase the four-year college-going rates of these students.
3)Allocates $24 million in one-time Proposition 98 funds for the
California Collaborative on Educational Excellence (CCEE) to
conduct statewide training on the evaluation rubrics under
development by the State Board of Education and the local
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control and accountability plans. A portion of the funds
would also be used to support a pilot program for the CCEE to
assist LEAs in improving pupil outcomes. Amends the process
for referral of an LEA to the CCEE to specify the CCEE shall
consult with the Superintendent when accepting requests or
referrals from LEAs for technical assistance. Clarifies that
charter schools are required to annually complete a local
control and accountability plan and annual update to the plan.
4)Allocates $20 million in one-time Proposition 98 funds for the
Classified Employee Teacher Credentialing Program which would
provide grants for LEAs to assist their classified employees
in obtaining teaching credentials.
5)Allocates $10 million in one-time General Fund to the
Commission on Teacher Credentialing to provide grants to
postsecondary institutions to create or expand four-year
integrated teacher preparation programs.
6)Appropriates $5 million in one-time Proposition 98 funds for
the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to contract with an
LEA to establish the California Center for Teaching Careers
for the purpose of recruiting individuals into the teaching
profession, particularly in shortage areas of math, science,
special education, and bilingual education.
7)Allocates $20 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding for a
new Charter School Start-up Grant program to provide funding
for new charter schools to support initial operations.
8)Allocates $20 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding to be
allocated to the Orange County Department of Education to
provide grants to LEAs for the purpose of funding services or
practices aligned to the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
framework under development. Of this, up to $1 million may be
used to support LEA grantees.
9)Allocates $18 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding for
dropout and truancy prevention programs to be allocated
pursuant the formula adopted for the distribution of
Proposition 47 Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Funds through
legislation adopted in the 2015-16 legislative cycle.
Includes intent language that Proposition 47 Safe
Neighborhoods and Schools Funds are distributed pursuant to
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legislation.
10)Provides $9.5 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding for
the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with
the Department of Education, to award grants to LEAs to
improve access to, and quality of, drinking water in public
schools.
11)Establishes the Mathematics Readiness Challenge program that
would allocate $6.4 million in federal Title II carryover
funding for partnerships between LEAs and postsecondary
institutions for activities designed to reduce mathematics
remediation rates at the California State University.
12)Appropriates $6.6 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding
for the California School Information Services program.
13)Appropriates $3.5 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding
for the operations of the K-12 High Speed Network (HSN) and
requires that the Department of Education provide
three-quarters of the state's funding for the K-12 HSN by
August of each year.
14)Provides $3 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding for
the Department of Education to contract with an LEA to
initialize development of a new standardized account code
structure system.
15)Allocates $2 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding for
the purpose of providing school breakfast program startup
grants in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years.
16)Provides $1 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding to the
Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) to contract
with Special Olympics of Northern and Southern California to
expand the Special Olympics Unified Strategy for Schools.
17)Adjusts the Local Control Funding Formula for the San
Francisco Unified School District to include an additional
$3.5 million on an ongoing basis to contract with the
Exploratorium to provide statewide professional development
and resources for the implementation of the Next Generation
Science Standards.
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18)Provides $500,000 annually for three years (2016-17, 2017-18,
and 2018-19) for support and development of evaluation rubrics
and the School Accountability Report Card through a contract
between the CDE and the San Joaquin County Office of
Education.
19)Provides authority for the appropriation of Proposition 98
General Fund for support of special education programs if the
amount of property taxes provided for this purpose from the
dissolution of redevelopment agencies is less than the
estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2016.
Appropriates up to $27.4 million in one-time Proposition 98
funds for support of special education programs to backfill
for a reduction in property taxes provided for this purpose
related to the elimination of the Triple Flip.
20)Provides an allocation formula for the Foster Youth Services
Coordinating Program funds commencing in the 2016-17 fiscal
year that includes a base grant of $75,000 for each
participating county office of education, with the formula
allocating 70 percent of funds based on the number of foster
youth in the county and 30 percent based on the number of
school districts.
21)Allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction flexibility
in allocating funding to LEAs for the Career Technical
Education Incentive Grant program and allows the Department of
Education to determine if grantees met local match
requirements and reduce funding allocations, if necessary.
Appropriates $7.8 million in one-time Proposition 98 funding
for the Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program.
This is a technical adjustment and does not change the total
amount of funding provided for this program for use in 2016-17
($300 million).
22)Eliminates a requirement that prohibits former employees of
local educational agencies from working for a non-public
agency which provides services such as mental health, behavior
specialists, and autism services to students through contracts
with local educational agencies for 365 days.
23)Defines the term "electronic file", defines which records can
be maintained as electronic files, and specifies that
electronic files may be used for audit purposes.
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24)Provides for a study to be completed on the costs of full and
part-day kindergarten programs and recommendations for
incentivizing full-day programs.
25)Extends the authority of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to
suspend calculation of the Academic Performance Index for the
2015-16 fiscal year.
26)Reflects anticipated changes in funding for the Out-of-Home
Care program for foster students with exceptional needs.
27)States legislative intent that the Department of Education,
where feasible, ensure that future California computer-based
assessments utilize the Smarter Balanced Technical Hosting
Solution as the technology platform and system for delivering
assessments.
California Community Colleges
1)Provides $23.8 million in 2009-10 Proposition 98 settle-up
funds for deferred maintenance, instructional materials, and
other activities.
Fiscal
Effect: The funding related to the changes in this bill is contained
in the 2016-17 budget. In addition, this bill appropriates
funding for K-14 education programs, totaling approximately $4.7
billion.
Support: None on file.
Opposed: None on file.
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