BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair
2178 (Torlakson)
Hearing Date: 08/02/2010 Amended: 05/28/2010
Consultant: Dan Troy Policy Vote: ED 8-0
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BILL SUMMARY: AB 2178 would authorize the sharing of pupil
data between schools and After School Education and Safety
(ASES) programs with which that school contracts, and requires
the California Department of Education to collect and maintain
after school program data that readily links to the California
Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System.
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Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Fund
ASES data Minor costs, likely less than
$50 General
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STAFF COMMENTS:
Current law establishes the ASES program, passed by voters as
Proposition 49 in 2002, which provides almost $550 million for
before and after school programs for students in kindergarten
through grade 9. In 2009-10, 371 grants were awarded
predominantly to districts and county offices of education, with
some grants going to local governments and nonprofit
organizations working in partnership with LEAs. After school
programs must commence right after school and at least until 6
p.m. for 15 hours per week.
ASES programs are required to include an educational and
literacy element in which tutoring or homework assistance is
provided in specified content areas, and an educational
enrichment element that may include fine arts, career technical
education, recreation, physical fitness, and prevention
activities.
ASES program providers are required to submit annual
outcome-based data for evaluation, including research-based
indicators and measurable pupil outcomes for academic
performance, attendance, and positive behavioral changes. The
California Department of Education (CDE) may consider these
outcomes when determining eligibility for grant renewal. The
CDE is required to develop standardized procedures and tools to
collect the indicators and to consult with the evaluation
committee of the Advisory Committee on Before and After School
Programs.
This bill requires the CDE to collect and maintain the annual
outcome-based data in a manner that enables the analysis of all
programs and the aggregation of state reports, and that readily
links to CALPADS.
This bill would also provide that local education agency (LEA)
grantees that receives ASES funding may, to the extent
consistent with federal and state privacy laws, submit specified
data to an after school program operators that contracts with
the LEA. The
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data would include attendance data, STAR test scores, high
school exit examination scores, CELDT scores, and California
Healthy Kids Survey data.
According to the Department of Education, the costs of this bill
are difficult to determine, as some of the effectiveness
measures this bill would seek to have included in CALPADS are
still under development, pursuant to an ASES evaluation project
being undertaken by UCLA. Determinations by that report will
determine the data required for collection. While costs may not
be precisely determined until the factors are developed, the
cost for maintaining them in a manner that would allow them to
be linked to CALPADS is not likely to be burdensome, given the
existence of unique student identifiers.