BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 19, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
SB 369
(Block) - As Amended July 16, 2015
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: YesReimbursable:
Yes
SUMMARY:
This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(SPI), on or before July 1, 2016, to add a reporting process
within the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System
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(CALPADS) requiring local educational agencies to report the
enrollment of pupils of military families. Specifically, this
bill:
1)Requires the California Department of Education to include
military families as an indicator for purposes of a
currently-required quarterly report on student attendance.
2)Specifies data collected for purposes of this bill shall not
be used to compile reports required by the federal No Child
Left Behind Act, including, but not limited to, dropout and
graduation rates.
3)Specifies that implementation of this bill shall not subject
the CDE to a loss of funding pursuant to provisional budget
language in the 2015 Budget Act that prohibits additional
components to be added to CALPADS.
FISCAL EFFECT:
1)General Fund administrative costs of approximately $15,000 to
CDE to modify CALPADS to include a new indicator for students
of military families.
2)Unknown Proposition 98/GF costs for local educational agencies
(LEAs) to update user interface with CALPADS and collect and
report this data to CALPADS. For illustration, assuming
approximately 10,000 schools dedicated one hour of staff time
collecting and entering data, statewide costs would be
approximately $500,000. The requirements in the bill impose a
state mandate on LEAs which is likely to be deemed by the
Commission on State Mandates to be reimbursable.
COMMENTS:
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1)Purpose. Currently, there is no method of tracking attendance
of students of military families. Supporters state that
including an indicator in CALPADS would build awareness of
students that may be affected by the deployment of a parent
and facilitate data-driven decision making to improve the
distribution of Department of Defense funding and local
resources to offer appropriate support.
2)Budget conflict. The CDE indicates that the change required
by this bill is relatively simple and could probably be
achieved in approximately one year. However, the 2015-16
Budget Act prohibits the CDE from adding additional data
elements to CALPADS. Specifically, provisional language
states, "As a further condition of receiving these [federal]
funds, the SDE shall not add additional data elements to
CALPADS, require local educational agencies to use the data
collected through the CALPADS for any purpose, or otherwise
expand or enhance the system beyond the data elements and
functionalities that are identified in the most current
approved Feasibility Study and Special Project Reports and the
CALPADS Data guide v4.1." This bill contains a provision that
exempts its requirements from this Budget Act prohibition.
3)Prior legislation. This bill is substantially similar to AB
2431 (Quirk-Silva) of 2014, which was held on the Suspense
file in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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