BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: April 28, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 2178 (Torlakson) - As Amended: April 14, 2010
Policy Committee: Education
Vote:8-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill authorizes local education agency (LEA) grantees under
the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program to submit
specified pupil data (consistent with state and federal privacy
laws) to an operator of an ASES program with whom the LEA has a
contract. Specifically, this bill:
1)Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to develop
procedures and tools to collect annual data for the ASES
program that are consistent with the California Longitudinal
Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) reporting procedures
and program development.
2)Authorizes an LEA to submit the following pupil data to an
ASES program operator: (a) school day attendance, (b)
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program test scores,
(c) high school exit examination scores, (d) English language
development test scores, and (d) California Healthy Kids
Survey result data.
FISCAL EFFECT
GF administrative costs, likely between $125,000 and $150,000,
to the SDE to implement annual data collection via CALPADS.
The 2009 Budget Act allocated $547 million for the ASES program.
According to SDE, approximately 400,000 pupil slots statewide
are funded per day for ASES programs.
COMMENTS
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1)Purpose . In 2002, the voters approved Proposition 49, which
expanded before and after school programs and renamed them the
ASES program. Proposition 49 requires the state to allocate
$550 million annually for before and after school programs.
State funding for the ASES program is continuously
appropriated and no longer requires approval by the
Legislature as part of the annual budget act. The amount of
additional funding pursuant to Proposition 49 will be added to
the Proposition 98 base in future years. ASES, as modified by
Proposition 49, has two main goals: keeping students safe
after school and improving student academic outcomes.
Existing law requires ASES program grantees to submit annual
outcomes-based data to SDE, including attendance and academic
performance data. Statute also authorizes SDE to consider
these outcomes when determining eligibility for grant renewal.
Current law also requires SDE, in consultation with the ASES
advisory committee, to develop standardized procedures and
tools to collect specified data, including school and program
attendance, homework completion rates, behavioral changes, and
STAR scores. SDE reports that researchers at the University
of California, Davis and Irvine campuses have developed tools
to measure behavioral change and skills development. The
researchers are currently in the process of field testing
these tools and they are expected to be used by grantees in
the 2011-12 school year.
According to the author, "Some after school providers have
difficulty obtaining student academic performance data. Data
sharing allows after school providers to better serve an
English Learners students (ELs). For example, if an after
school provider is serving an ELs and the provider had access
to the student California English Language Development Test
(CELDT) score, the provider could give the student targeted
academic assistance. This bill also clarifies schools and
school districts sharing students' academic data with an after
school provider are in compliance with federal and state
privacy laws."
2)ASES data collection . SDE's website indicates that for annual
2009 data collection ASES grantees are required to use
Statewide Student Identifiers (SSIDs) for all reported
students. SSIDs are how LEAs report pupil data to SDE under
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CALPADS. SDE also states, "In the future the use of SSIDs may
eliminate the need for grantees to report assessment data
directly to the SDE. Instead, it will access assessment data
via SSIDs." The department, however, indicates that grantees
are still required to report the assessment data.
Analysis Prepared by : Kimberly Rodriguez / APPR. / (916)
319-2081