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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 232
Author: Ducheny (D)
Amended: 8/31/07
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-1, 4/26/07
AYES: Scott, Alquist, Denham, Padilla, Simitian, Torlakson
NOES: Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Maldonado, Romero
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 9-6, 5/31/07
AYES: Torlakson, Cedillo, Corbett, Florez, Kuehl, Oropeza,
Ridley-Thomas, Steinberg, Yee
NOES: Cox, Aanestad, Ashburn, Dutton, Runner, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Battin, Simitian
SENATE FLOOR : 24-11, 6/6/07
AYES: Alquist, Calderon, Cedillo, Corbett, Denham, Ducheny,
Florez, Kehoe, Kuehl, Lowenthal, Machado, Migden, Negrete
McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Ridley-Thomas, Romero, Scott,
Simitian, Steinberg, Torlakson, Vincent, Wiggins, Yee
NOES: Aanestad, Ackerman, Ashburn, Cogdill, Cox, Harman,
Hollingsworth, Margett, McClintock, Runner, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Battin, Correa, Dutton, Maldonado, Perata
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 60-17, 9/11/07 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Teacher development: subject matter projects
SOURCE : Author
CONTINUED
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DIGEST : This bill extends the sunset on the California
Subject Matter Projects from June 30, 2007 to June 30,
2012, and requires the Regents of the University of
California to prepare a final report.
Assembly Amendments (1) change the sunset from 2014 to
2012, (2) delete an obsolete reporting requirement, and (3)
require projects to report specified information on an
annual basis to the Legislature.
ANALYSIS : Existing law provides for the establishment
and maintenance of Subject Matter Projects for the purpose
of developing and enhancing teachers' subject matter
knowledge in the following six specified areas: writing,
reading and literature, mathematics, science,
history-social science, and world history and international
studies.
Existing law requires the Regents of the University of
California (UC) with the approval of an intersegmental
Concurrence Committee to establish and maintain the
projects with funds appropriated in the Budget Act.
Existing law authorizes the UC to establish other subject
matter projects and prohibits funds allocated in the Budget
Act from being used for subject matter projects not
specified in law.
Existing law makes the California Subject Matter Projects
(CSMP) inoperative on June 30, 2007, and is repealed on
January 1, 2008.
This bill extends the sunset on the CSMP and requires the
UC Regents to prepare a final report. Specifically, this
bill:
1.Extends the sunset of the CSMP from June 30, 2007 to June
30, 2012, and as of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless
a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1,
2013, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes
inoperative and is repealed.
2.Deletes obsolete provisions requiring an independent
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evaluation.
3.Requires the UC to provide a final report to the Governor
and appropriate policy and fiscal committee of the
Legislature on or before January 1, 2011, and requires
the report to include, but not be limited to, all of the
following information, compiled for a four-year period:
A. The number, and level of experience, of
participants in each subject matter project;
B. The total amount of funds expended, on an annual
basis, for each subject matter project;
C. An explanation of the type of professional
development activities offered pursuant to each
subject matter project; and,
D. A list including the name and location of each
school affiliated with a subject matter project.
Comments
What are the California Subject Matter Projects (CSMP) ?
The CSMP are an alliance of statewide networks that deliver
intensive, discipline-based professional development in the
six core content areas authorized by law to teachers and
administrators. The programs support K-12
standards-aligned practice and infuse literacy strategies
for improving the academic skills of English Learners as
well as providing instructional techniques to meet the
needs of students with low skills in reading, writing,
math, and science.
In addition to the six projects authorized by law, the UC
maintains three additional subject matter projects in art,
foreign language, and physical education-health. Together,
the CSMP serves over 800 School districts in close to 100
sites statewide on campuses of the UC, California State
University, and independent colleges and universities.
According to the UC, the projects annually provide training
to over 40,000 teachers, administrators, and university
faculty.
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Prior to 1988, the arts, foreign language, and physical
education/health projects were authorized in statute and
funding was provided for them and the six other CSMPs in
the annual Budget Act.
AB 1734 (Mazzoni), Chapter 33, Statutes of 1998, made
significant governance and programmatic changes and
eliminated three projects (arts, foreign language, and
physical education/health). AB 1734 also authorized the UC
to establish other CSMPs, with the condition that the new
projects would not receive funding in the annual Budget
Act.
SB 611 (Ducheny), Chapter 857, Statutes of 2003, expressed
legislative intent that maintenance-level funding be
provided for projects in academic fields for which there
are State Board of Education (SBE) adopted content
standards or in fields that are seeking standards approval
from the SBE. Accordingly, the UC continued to operate
subject matter projects in the arts, foreign language, and
physical education/health projects.
The SBE has adopted K-12 Academic Content standards in
English language arts (1997), mathematics (1997), science
(1998), history/social science (1998), visual and
performing arts (2001), and physical education (2005). The
SBE is expected to adopt foreign language standards in
2007.
Prior legislation
SB 1073 (Simitian), 2005-06, authorized three additional
CSMPs: arts, foreign language, and physical
education/health. This bill was held in Assembly
Appropriations. AB 108 (Mazzoni, 2000) would have also
authorized these three additional CSMPs. Governor Davis
vetoed this bill with the following message:
The UC currently provides support for the arts,
foreign language, and physical education projects. I
believe that highest priority for the use of state
funds should be to support the existing subject matter
projects aimed at improving student academic
performance in English, mathematics, science, and the
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social sciences.
Need for the bill
The UC argues that extending the sunset date will help
ensure that teachers have access to professional
development activities in the subject areas established by
the state adopted content standards for pupils.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
The 2006 Budget Act allocates $9.35 million in state and
federal funding to support the six existing CSMPs. Of this
amount, $4.35 million is federal No Child Left Behind Act,
Title II funding for Repairing, Training, Recruiting High
Quality Teachers and $5 million in state General Funds.
SUPPORT : (Verified 7/11/07)(Unable to reverify)
California Alliance for Arts Education
California Association for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and
Dance
California Association of Teachers of English
California Language Teachers Association
California State PTA
University of California
Association of Independent California Colleges and
Universities
California Postsecondary Education Commission
California School Boards Association
California State University
California Teachers Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Aghazarian, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Benoit,
Berg, Brownley, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeSaulnier,
Dymally, Emmerson, Eng, Feuer, Fuentes, Galgiani, Garcia,
Garrick, Hancock, Hayashi, Hernandez, Horton, Houston,
Huff, Huffman, Jones, Karnette, Krekorian, Laird, Leno,
Levine, Lieber, Lieu, Ma, Mendoza, Mullin, Nava, Parra,
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Plescia, Portantino, Price, Sharon Runner, Ruskin, Salas,
Saldana, Smyth, Solorio, Soto, Swanson, Torrico, Tran,
Wolk, Nunez
NOES: Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, DeVore, Duvall,
Fuller, Gaines, Jeffries, Keene, La Malfa, Maze,
Nakanishi, Niello, Silva, Spitzer, Villines, Walters
NO VOTE RECORDED: Evans, Strickland, Vacancy
NC:nl 9/18/07 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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