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VETO
Bill No: SB 369
Author: Block (D)
Amended: 7/16/15
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 8-0, 4/8/15
AYES: Liu, Huff, Block, Hancock, Leyva, Mendoza, Pan, Vidak
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 7-0, 5/28/15
AYES: Lara, Bates, Beall, Hill, Leyva, Mendoza, Nielsen
SENATE FLOOR: 40-0, 6/01/15
AYES: Allen, Anderson, Bates, Beall, Berryhill, Block,
Cannella, De León, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Glazer, Hall,
Hancock, Hernandez, Hertzberg, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson,
Lara, Leno, Leyva, Liu, McGuire, Mendoza, Mitchell, Monning,
Moorlach, Morrell, Nguyen, Nielsen, Pan, Pavley, Roth, Runner,
Stone, Vidak, Wieckowski, Wolk
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 8/31/15 - See last page for vote
SENATE FLOOR: 40-0, 9/1/15
AYES: Allen, Anderson, Bates, Beall, Berryhill, Block,
Cannella, De León, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Glazer, Hall,
Hancock, Hernandez, Hertzberg, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson,
Lara, Leno, Leyva, Liu, McGuire, Mendoza, Mitchell, Monning,
Moorlach, Morrell, Nguyen, Nielsen, Pan, Pavley, Roth, Runner,
Stone, Vidak, Wieckowski, Wolk
SUBJECT: California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data
System: pupils of military families
SOURCE: Author
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DIGEST: This bill requires that the Superintendent of Public
Instruction (SPI) add an indicator to the California
Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) to identify
pupils of military families
Assembly Amendments are technical and correct an error made in
reference to a provision in the Budget Act of 2015.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Establishes the CALPADS to accomplish all of the following
goals:
a) Provide school districts and the California Department
of Education (CDE) access to data necessary to comply with
the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) reporting requirements.
b) Provide a better means of evaluating educational
progress and investments over time.
c) Provide local educational agencies information that can
be used to improve pupil achievement.
d) Provide an efficient, flexible, and secure means of
maintaining longitudinal statewide pupil level data.
e) Facilitate the ability of the state to publicly report
data required by federal law.
f) Ensure compliance with the federal Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). (Education Code § 60900
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et. seq.)
This bill:
1)Adds an indicator to the CALPADS to identify pupils of
military families.
2)Requires the SPI to add a reporting process within CALPADS
requiring local education agencies (LEAs) to report the
enrollment of pupils of military families on or before July 1,
2016.
3)Requires the CDE to include an indicator for pupils of
military families in CALPADS.
4)Provides that the data collection pursuant to this requirement
shall be used to compile reports required by the federal NCLB,
including, but not limited to, dropout and graduation rates.
5)Provides that upon implementation of this bill, the CDE is not
subject to the penalty contained in provision 16 of Item
6100-001-0890 of the Budget Act of 2015.
6)Defines "pupils of military families" to mean pupils whose
parent or legal guardian is an active duty member of the Armed
Forces of the United States.
7)Identifies the bill as potentially creating unfunded state
reimbursable mandated costs.
Comments
1)Need for this bill. More than 60,000 school-aged children of
active duty service members attend California schools.
However, there is no method for identifying this student group
or tracking their academic progress in school. According to
the author, creating an indicator will help determine school
attendance and educational outcomes, as well as assist
districts in identifying the needs of military children
including additional counseling and academic services relative
to the deployment or relocation of a parent.
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2)What currently exists? According to the Marine Corps
Installations West,
there are approximately 13 school districts currently
identifying military students within their local data systems.
These districts include: Travis Unified, San Diego Unified,
South Bay Unified, Murrieta Valley Unified, Coronado Unified,
Lakeside Union, Santee, La Mesa/Spring Valley, Lemon Grove,
Chula Vista Elementary, Poway Unified, Los Angeles Unified,
and Sweetwater Union High. It is unclear if any of the
remaining school districts identify military children using
internal resources.
3)California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System
(CALPADS). The CALPADS was created to enable California to
meet federal requirements delineated in the NCLB Act 2001,
which increases accountability for student achievement.
CALPADS has been operational since 2009 and contains
information on student demographics, program participation,
grade level, enrollment, course enrollment and completion,
discipline, and statewide assessment data.
The student level, longitudinal data in CALPADS enables the
facilitation of program evaluation, the assessment of student
achievement over time, the calculation of more accurate
dropout and graduation rates, the efficient creation of
reports to meet state and federal reporting requirements, and
the ability to create ad hoc reports and responses to relevant
questions. CALPADS provides LEAs with access to longitudinal
data and reports on their own students, and it gives LEAs
immediate access to information on new students, enabling the
LEAs to place students appropriately and to determine whether
an assessment is necessary.
4)Budget prohibits additional data elements. A provision in the
2015 Budget Act, as a condition of receiving funds, prohibits
CDE from adding data elements to CALPADS, as specified. This
bill includes a provision to preclude CDE from being subject
to this penalty.
Prior legislation
AB 2341 (Quirk-Silva, 2014) identical to SB 369, would have
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added an indicator to CALPADS to identify pupils of military
families. The bill was held in Senate Appropriations Committee
Suspense file.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: Yes
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
CALPADS - Minor General Fund costs to the CDE to create a new
indicator in CALPADS to identify pupils of military families,
and communicate the new requirements to LEAs.
LEAs - Unknown, but potentially significant one-time mandated
costs on LEAs, reimbursable from the General Fund, for
approximately 1,000 schools districts to develop and implement
a local process for identifying and tracking pupils of
military families, and inputting that information into
CALPADS. Likely minor, but potentially significant ongoing
mandated costs on LEAs for additional data entry to update
CALPADS.
SUPPORT: (Verified8/31/15)
American Legion - Department of California
AMVETS - Department of California
California State PTA
Department of Defense, Military Community and Family Policy
Military Officers Association of America, California Council of
Chapters
United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps Installations West
United States Navy, Navy Region Southwest
Vietnam Veterans of America - California State Council
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/31/15)
None received
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ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 8/31/15
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang,
Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle,
Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Cristina Garcia,
Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray,
Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low,
Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea,
Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gallagher
GOVERNOR'S VETO MESSAGE:
I am returning Senate Bill 369 without my signature.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to add an indicator to the California Longitudinal
Pupil Achievement Data System to identify students of military
families.
While California is strongly committed to supporting military
families, I am not convinced how collecting state level data
serves a useful purpose. Local school districts already
identify students of military families and apply directly for
federal grants based on local need.
This ever-relentless effort to collect and store more and more
personal data in state computers should give us pause.
Prepared by:Olgalilia Ramirez / ED. / (916) 651-4105
11/4/15 14:01:18
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