BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Tom Torlakson, Chairman
405 (Steinberg)
Hearing Date: 05/31/07 Amended: 05/15/07
Consultant: Dan Troy Policy Vote: ED 6-1
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BILL SUMMARY: SB 405 would establish the College and Career
Opportunity Program (CCOP) for the purposes of providing
additional support and academic assistance for high schools that
are ranked in deciles 1 through 5 on the Academic Performance
Index (API) in order to ensure that pupils are offered a course
of study sufficiently rigorous to prepare students for
postsecondary education and/or for work through career technical
education. Schools receiving support shall meet certain
criteria as determined by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, who would also be required to conduct an evaluation
of the program. This program would become inoperative as of
January 1, 2014.
The bill would also require additional duties of school
counselors, including conferences with the parents of specified
pupils deemed at risk of failing a course or of not meeting the
curricular requirements for admission to the University of
California and the California State University.
The bill would also require additional duties of the county
superintendent of schools related to middle and high schools in
the decile 1-3 range, such as examining whether or not schools
are providing a course of study that prepares students for
postsecondary education, and providing assistance to those that
are not.
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Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 Fund
CCOP $25,000 $25,000 $25,000 General*
Local mandate on $200 $200 $200 General*
county superintendents
Counseling requirements$2,000 $2,000 $2,000 General*
SDE implementation $500 $200 $200 General
*Counts toward meeting the Proposition 98 minimum funding
guarantee
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STAFF COMMENTS: SUSPENSE FILE.
The bill provides that no more than 100 schools could
participate in CCOP and that each would receive $100 per pupil.
The bill further specifies that no more than $25 million would
annually be appropriated for this purpose.
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SB 405 (Steinberg)
The current Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling
Program is proposed to be funded at nearly $209 million as of
the May Revision. By increasing the requirements of counselors,
this bill would increase pressure for additional funding.
Assuming an increase of 1% of counseling activities and costs,
this bill would create a corresponding cost pressure of $2
million, annually.
The Department of Education reports that costs for identifying
qualifying schools, making grant awards, monitoring, reporting,
evaluating, and for revising the API, as specified, would cost
$500,000 initially and $200,000 for ongoing activities.
Further, the new required activities of the county school
superintendents would constitute a state reimbursable mandate.
There are over 450 high schools in deciles 1 through 3, and also
hundreds of middle schools. Assuming that enhanced activities
would cost $2,000 to $5,000 for each of the 58 counties, total
state costs would range from $116,000 to $290,000. Staff
assumes an average annual cost of $200,000 for purposes of this
analysis.