BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
SB 911 (Hertzberg) - California American Indian education
centers
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|Version: March 17, 2016 |Policy Vote: ED. 8 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: April 11, 2016 |Consultant: Jillian Kissee |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: This bill removes the January 1, 2017 repeal of the
California American Indian education centers (centers), thereby
extending the operation of the program indefinitely. This bill
also requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to
continue to report on the evaluation of the program every five
years, starting in January 2021, and to make this information
available to the appropriate committees of the Legislature.
Fiscal
Impact:
Program costs: The Budget Act of 2015 provides $4.1 million
Proposition 98 for this program. Removing the program's
statutory sunset will likely result in similar annual costs,
indefinitely.
Administrative costs: CDE indicates that it currently spends
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about $77,000 General Fund between two positions to administer
this program. If this bill were enacted, this support would
continue to be needed.
Background: The centers were authorized by the Legislature through
enactment of Chapter 1425, Statutes of 1974 (SB 2264) to serve
as community-based educational resource centers to American
Indian students, parents, guardians, and the public schools in
order to promote the academic and cultural achievement of the
students. There are currently 23 centers located in 18
counties. According to the CDE website, the center staff assist
schools with professional development, counseling, tutorial
services, or parent education. They also provide supplemental
and extended day instructional programs to meet the needs of
American Indian students. Existing law authorizes numerous
specific activities that the centers may pursue, including
improving the academic achievement of American Indian students
in kindergarten and grades one to 12 and providing training
programs to develop pathways to college and the workplace.
Tribal organizations or incorporated American Indian
organizations may apply to the CDE to establish a center.
Funding is subject to the amount appropriated in the annual
budget act. Existing law provides priority for applications of
an existing center over an application for a new center.
Applications are approved for a period of five years.
Current law requires that on or before January 1, 2011, and
again by January 1, 2016, the CDE report consolidated results
for all centers, and supply information that is required for a
comprehensive evaluation of those results, and make
recommendations for program improvement. The 2016 report is
pending.
Proposed Law:
This bill removes the January 1, 2017 repeal of the California
American Indian education centers, thereby extending the
operation of the program indefinitely. This bill also requires
the CDE to continue to report on the evaluation of the program
every five years beginning January 1, 2021, and to make this
information available to the appropriate committees of the
Legislature.
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Related
Legislation: AB 2089, Coto (Chapter 249, Statutes of 2010),
among other things, extended the program's sunset from January
1, 2012 to January 1, 2017.
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