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                                 THIRD READING


          Bill No:  AB 1876
          Author:   Torlakson (D)
          Amended:  4/28/10 in Assembly
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE  :  5-2, 6/23/10
          AYES:  Romero, Alquist, Liu, Price, Simitian
          NOES:  Huff, Emmerson
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Hancock, Wyland

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  51-24, 5/13/10 - See last page for vote


           SUBJECT  :    After School Education and Safety Program

           SOURCE  :     Partnership for Children and Youth


           DIGEST  :    This bill authorizes state-funded after school  
          programs to operate on the weekends, within existing grant  
          funds, and gives priority for federal after school funds to  
          existing programs that have met specified pupil outcomes.

           ANALYSIS  :    Existing law establishes the After School  
          Education and Safety (ASES) Program for public and charter  
          schools to create incentives for establishing before and  
          after school enrichment programs that partner schools and  
          communities to provide academic and literacy support and  
          safe, constructive alternatives for youth.

          This bill makes changes in the ASES Program and the federal  
          21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC)  
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          program.  Specifically, this bill: 

          1. Authorizes weekend activities in the ASES Program and  
             specifies that costs associated with weekend activities  
             shall be paid from the program's maximum grant or  
             supplemental grant. 

          2. Provides that except for programs funded by the 21st  
             CCLC program, attendance in weekend activities shall not  
             be included in the program's attendance report to the  
             California Department of Education (CDE) for the purpose  
             of calculating maximum or supplemental grant levels. 

          3. Specifies that priority for 21st CCLC program funding  
             shall be given to programs with expiring grants if those  
             programs have satisfactorily met projected pupil  
             outcomes as required by the ASES Program specified in  
             Section 8484 of the Education Code. 

           Background  

           ASES  .  Proposition 49, passed in 2002, expanded before and  
          after school opportunities and funding, and renamed the  
          existing program as the ASES Program.  The ASES Program  
          provides state funding to local before and after school  
          programs, which are administered through partnerships  
          between schools and local community resources to provide  
          literacy, academic enrichment and safe constructive  
          alternatives for pupils in kindergarten through ninth  
          grade.  

          Relative to this bill, current law:

          1. Gives priority for ASES funding to schools where at  
             least 50 percent of pupils are eligible for free or  
             reduced price meals.  

          2. Requires grants made to public school to be awarded  
             before any other grants are funded, and grants to  
             elementary and middle school are given priority before  
             any new grant is awarded.  

          3. Until June 30, 2004, gave priority for funding to  
             current grant recipients.  Beginning July 1, 2005, ASES  







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             grantees receive direct funding; once a program is  
             awarded a grant it continues to receive funding unless  
             it does not earn attendance or otherwise fails to meet  
             the parameters of ASES.  

          4. Authorizes ASES programs to operate during any  
             combination of summer, intersession or vacation periods.

          The proposed 2010-11 budget allocates $547 million (General  
          Fund, Proposition 98) for the ASES Program.  Proposition 49  
          requires state funding for after school programs to be  
          continuously appropriated, thereby no longer requiring  
          approval by the Legislature as part of the annual Budget  
          Act.  ASES funding is not subject to categorical  
          flexibility or associated funding reductions.  The Senate  
          Budget and Fiscal Review Committee took action to place an  
          initiative on the ballot proposing to repeal Proposition  
          49.  If this initiative passes, ASES funding would be  
          subject to the K-12 categorical flexibility.  The Assembly  
          Budget Committee did not propose to place a repeal of  
          Proposition 49 on the ballot, and as such, this item is  
          before the Budget Conference Committee.

          21st CCLC program  .  California also administers the federal  
          21st CCLC before and after school program.  Fifty percent  
          of 21st Century funding must be dedicated to serving high  
          school pupils, and may only be awarded to programs that  
          primarily serve pupils attending Title I schools.   
          Competitive priority for funding is given to applicants  
          that serve pupils in Program Improvement schools, but  
          programs receiving a 21st Century grant are not assured of  
          grant renewal from future state or federal funding at the  
          conclusion of the grant period (five years). 

          21st Century and ASES programs are required to submit  
          annual outcome-based data for evaluation, including  
          schoolday attendance, after school program attendance,  
          positive behavioral changes, STAR test scores, homework  
          completion rates and skill development.  CDE may consider  
          these outcomes when determining eligibility for grant  
          renewal, and may terminate a program if it fails to  
          demonstrate measurable program outcomes for three  
          consecutive years.








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          This bill authorizes state-funded after school programs to  
          operate on the weekends, within existing grant funds, and  
          gives priority for federal after school funds to existing  
          programs that have met specified pupil outcomes.   
          Specifically, this bill, as it relates to the:

           ASES Program
           
          1. Authorizes the administrators of an ASES before and/or  
             after school program to provide activities on weekends.   
              

          2. Requires costs associated with weekend activities to be  
             paid from the program's maximum grant or supplemental  
             grant.

          3. Prohibits the participation of pupils in the weekend  
             activities from being counted toward attendance reported  
             to CDE for the calculation of the amounts for either the  
             maximum or supplemental grants. 

          4. Exempts federal 21st Century before and after school  
             programs from the prohibition detailed in #3 above,  
             because federal law currently allows those programs to  
             operate on weekends.  Therefore, pupils enrolled in the  
             21st Century programs on the weekend should be counted  
             as attendance for purposes of determining grant amounts.

           21st CCLC program

           5. Gives priority for 21st Century funding to programs with  
             expiring grants if those programs have satisfactorily  
             met projected pupil outcomes specified in current law  
             (schoolday attendance, after school program attendance,  
             positive behavioral changes, STAR test scores, homework  
             completion rtes and skill development).

           Related/Prior Legislation

           AB 983 (Skinner), 2009-10 Session, contained the ASES  
          weekend provisions that are identical to the provisions in  
          this bill.  The bill was held on the Senate Appropriations  
          Committee suspense file. 








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          SB 1674 (Torlakson), 2007-08 Session, is almost identical  
          to this bill.  The bill passed the Senate Floor (25-11) on  
          August 28, 2008, but was vetoed.  In his veto message,  
          Governor Schwarzenegger stated:  "As the primary author of  
          Proposition 49 that created the After School Education and  
          Safety Program (ASES) Act, I am very proud of the good work  
          that after school providers have done in serving kids over  
          the years. While providing students with educationally  
          enriching activities during weekend hours is a worthy goal,  
          this bill takes the program beyond the original scope of  
          the ASES program.  After school programs are intended to  
          provide students with access to quality tutoring, homework  
          assistance, and educational enrichment during weekday  
          non-school hours, when they are most at risk of being  
          involved in dangerous activities." 

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  No    
          Local:  No

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  6/23/10)

          Partnership for Children and Youth (source)
          After School All-Stars LA
          A World Fit For Kids!
          California Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
           California Association for Health, Physical Education,  
            Recreation and Dance
          California State Alliance of YMCAs
          Central Valley Children's Partnership
          Children Now
          Fight Crime:  Invest in Kids
          LA's BEST
          League of California Afterschool Providers
          Team-Up for Youth
          Woodcraft Rangers


           ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT  :    According to the author's office,  
          after school providers have long used public grants for  
          expenses related to occasional weekend activities, which  
          act as important incentives for pupils to attend and  
          successfully participate in after school activities.  In  
          2007, the CDE indicated that ASES base grants cannot be  
          used for weekend activities due to lack of statutory  







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          authorization. 

          The author states, "AB 1876 seeks to fill the gap in state  
          law by explicitly allowing after school base grants to be  
          used for weekend activities. However, the bill also  
          acknowledges that state-funded programs must meet certain  
          attendance goals in order to maintain their state grants;  
          therefore, the bill makes it clear that student  
          participation in weekend activities cannot be counted  
          toward a state-funded program's attendance goals." 


           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  : 
          AYES:  Ammiano, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Block, Blumenfield,  
            Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Charles Calderon, Carter,  
            Chesbro, Conway, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, Eng,  
            Evans, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Galgiani,  
            Hall, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jones,  
            Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Monning, Nava, V.  
            Manuel Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Smyth,  
            Solorio, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Yamada,  
            John A. Perez
          NOES:  Adams, Anderson, Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill,  
            Blakeslee, Cook, DeVore, Emmerson, Fletcher, Gaines,  
            Garrick, Gilmore, Harkey, Jeffries, Knight, Logue,  
            Miller, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, Silva, Audra  
            Strickland, Tran, Villines
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Caballero, Hagman, Norby, Skinner,  
            Vacancy


          PQ:mw  6/24/10   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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