BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair
SB 612 (Steinberg)
Hearing Date: 05/26/2011 Amended: 05/04/2011
Consultant: Jacqueline Wong-HernandezPolicy Vote: Education 8-2
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BILL SUMMARY: SB 612 authorizes the establishment of three
additional California Subject Matter Projects (CSMPs), deletes
the sunset date on existing CSMPs, adds new areas of emphasis
for CSMPs, makes various changes to the concurrence committee
and project advisory boards, and makes various legislative
findings and declarations.
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Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 Fund
Repeals CSMP sunset Cost pressure; $6,000-$7,000
annually General
Expands CSMP areas $900 $1,800
$1,800 General
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STAFF COMMENTS: SUSPENSE FILE.
Existing law provides for the establishment and maintenance of
six CSMPs for the purpose of developing and enhancing teachers'
subject matter knowledge and pedagogical skills. CSMPs provide
intensive, content-rich and discipline-based professional
development designed to develop and enhance teachers' content
knowledge and instructional strategies for the purpose of
improving student learning and academic performance as measured
against the state's K-12 academic content standards. In
addition, the CSMP provide teachers with instructional
strategies for working with English learners and help teachers
use research and data to improve student learning and
achievement. In addition to the six subject matter projects
authorized in statute, the UC has established and maintains
three additional projects in art, physical education-health, and
foreign languages.
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Current law authorizes the following subject matter projects:
The California Writing Project; The California Reading and
Literature Project; The California Mathematics Project; The
California Science Project; The California History-Social
Science Project; The World History and International Studies
project. Existing law also authorizes the University of
California (UC) to establish other subject matter projects and
specifies that no funds allocated in the annual Budget Act shall
be used for subject matter projects in subjects not specifically
authorized in statute. (Education Code � 99201and 99201.5)
Existing law further requires the UC, with the approval of an
intersegmental Concurrence Committee, to establish and maintain
the projects and specifies the composition of the committee to
include representatives of the various segments of education.
The CSMP becomes inoperative on June 30, 2012, and the
authorizing statute is repealed on January 1, 2013, unless a
later enacted statute deletes or extends those dates. (EC �
99206)
This bill would repeal the sunset on the 6 statutorily
authorized projects, which are funded at $6-7 million annually
(currently with both state and federal funds). This bill would
statutorily authorize 3 additional projects (the California
Physical Education-Health Project, the California Arts Project,
and the California Foreign Language Project) already in
operation, which are currently being funded by UC's Office of
the President because statute prohibits Budget Act funding for
CSMPs that are not statutorily authorized. From 2006-10, these
three projects received a total of $8,226,747 in University
funds and grants; this bill creates cost pressure to fund them
in the Budget.
This bill also adds two new areas of emphasis for CSMP. This
bill seeks to provide teachers with: 1) Instructional
strategies for delivering career-oriented, integrated academic
and technical content in a manner that is linked to high
priority industry sectors identified in the California Career
Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards as adopted by the
State Board of Education; and 2) Instructional strategies for
ongoing collaboration on the delivery of career-oriented,
integrated academic and technical education content.
The UC indicates that implementing the new areas of emphasis, as
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specified, would require a Career Technical Educator support to
CSMP and would incur additional costs of $1,830,000. That
estimate includes increased costs for the project sites to
develop and support programs specific to the Career Technical
Educators needs, as well as stipends necessary to support
non-contract time to engage those educators in professional
development and support their leadership in the field.