BILL ANALYSIS �
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 885 (Simitian)
As Amended July 7, 2011
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :38-0
EDUCATION 10-0 APPROPRIATIONS 16-0
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|Ayes:|Brownley, Norby, Ammiano, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Harkey, |
| |Buchanan, Butler, Carter, | |Blumenfield, Bradford, |
| |Eng, | |Charles Calderon, Campos, |
| |Beth Gaines, Morrell, | |Donnelly, Gatto, Hall, |
| |Williams | |Hill, Lara, Mitchell, |
| | | |Nielsen, Norby, Solorio, |
| | | |Wagner |
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SUMMARY : Authorizes the California Department of Education
(CDE), California's three public higher education systems,
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), Employment
Development Department (EDD), State Board of Education (SBE),
and California School Information Services (CSIS) to enter into
a joint powers agreement for the purpose of implementing the
preschool through higher education (P-20) statewide educational
data system.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Authorizes California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data
System (CALPADS) and the California Longitudinal Teacher
Information Data Education System (CALTIDES) as parts of a
comprehensive longitudinal education data system.
2)Requires CDE, working with CSIS, to establish a process by
which local education agencies issue, maintain, and report
information using the unique Statewide Student Identifiers
(SSID), being used in CALPADS, for state and federally funded
center based child care and development programs administered
by the CDE, but prohibits requiring those programs to
implement or maintain the SSIDs until an appropriation for
this purpose is provided.
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3)Requires each of the three public higher education systems to
establish a process by which colleges and universities within
those systems issue, maintain and report information using
SSID, and to provide an annual report to the Governor and the
appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature
that includes a detailed timeline for the implementation,
maintenance, and use of the SSID.
4)Authorizes the CDE, the three public higher education systems,
CTC, EDD and CSIS to enter into interagency agreements in
order to facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive
longitudinal education data system.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, minor, absorbable costs to specified agencies to
enter into joint powers agreements for the purpose of
implementing a statewide educational data system.
COMMENTS : The comprehensive P-20 educational data system
envisioned by this bill and current law is the key to providing
policymakers the ability to ask, and have answered, questions
about the impacts of existing or pending policy so as to be able
to use that information in the policy making decision process.
It is also the key to providing the data necessary to tailor the
best instructional program for each student, and to providing
the most useful information to parents and to the public. There
is the potential for great benefits from this type of system;
there are also problems to overcome in moving from the multiple
educational data systems that exist now in the CDE, each of the
higher education segments, the CTC and EDD, to the coordinated
P-20 system envisioned here - not the least of which is
establishing the administrative or governance structure within
which numerous state and local entities, each with its own data
system, can cooperate in order to coordinate educational data
for California's pupils from pre-school through their education
career and into the workforce.
SB 1298 (Simitian), Chapter 561, Statutes of 2008, stated
legislative intent to convene a staff level working group to
make recommendations related to the governance of the
educational data system. The Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO)
convened this group, which included bipartisan representation
from the Assembly and Senate as well as representation from the
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Governor's office, LAO, Superintendent of Public Instruction
(SPI), Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges,
University of California, and the California State University.
To inform its deliberations, the working group also invited the
participation of an advisory group including teacher, school
administrator and school board associations, the CTC, California
Postsecondary Education Commission, Cal-PASS, and other
organizations, associations, and government entities. LAO
issued the working group report in December of 2009. Three of
the governance working group's recommendations are reflected in
this bill: 1) the data system should be governed by a single
entity that is educationally based; 2) the individual education
segments should continue to be responsible for data collection,
maintenance, security, and distribution of their segment-specic
data; and, 3) the single entity should maintain the
cross-segment data warehouse. The working group pointed out
that these recommendations could be implemented by the creation
of a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) without any additional changes
in state law.
A JPA is an institution permitted under state law whereby two or
more public authorities can operate collectively. A JPA can
employ staff and establish policies independently from the
member entities, but it derives its authority from its member
organizations. A JPA has an operating board (with member
directors), which can be given any of the powers inherent in the
constituent agencies. The JPA board often has a membership that
is composed of one representative from each of the contributing
member organizations, but the membership of the board is among
the elements that may be specified in the joint powers agreement
creating the JPA. Although a JPA is an extension of the member
organizations, a JPA generally has its own budget and an
independent staff, reporting to the JPA board, to complete its
assigned work. In the context of educational data governance, a
JPA could function as the governing entity coordinating the
cross-segment comprehensive data system. This bill establishes
the authority for the stakeholder state entities that are
involved in the collection, maintenance and reporting of P-20
educational data to enter into a joint powers agreement in order
to facilitate the implementation of the P-20 data system, the
transfer of data between educational segments, and the transfer
of workforce data to the educational segments.
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Analysis Prepared by : Gerald Shelton / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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