BILL NUMBER: SB 1385 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 10, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Senator Hancock
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
An act to amend Sections Section
8483.55 and 8483.9 of, and to add and repeal
Section 44394 of, the Education Code, relating to after school
programs.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1385, as amended, Hancock. After school programs: California
After School Teacher Pipeline Program.
(1) Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program
, Act of 2002, enacted by initiative statute,
establishes the After School Education and Safety Program to serve
pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating
public elementary, middle, junior high, and charter schools. The
existing act makes 1.5% of the funds appropriated for purposes
of that program available to the State Department of Education for
specified purposes.
This bill, commencing with for the
2013-14 fiscal year to the 2018-19 fiscal year, inclusive
, would require the department to annually transfer $150,000 of
those funds to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for purposes
of implementing the California After School Teacher Pipeline Program.
(2) Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program,
limits the amount of state funds a program participant may expend on
administrative costs to 15% of the participant's funding.
This bill would require a program participant that contracts with
another agency to provide some or all of the program's services to
ensure that the contract include funds for reasonable indirect and
administrative costs incurred by the contracting agency.
(3)
(2) Existing law establishes the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the purposes
purpose of recruiting paraprofessionals to
participate in a program designed to encourage them to enroll in
teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as
teachers in the public school.
This bill would establish the California After School Teacher
Pipeline Program, a pilot program, for the purposes
purpose of recruiting qualified after school
instructors to participate on a pilot basis in the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program. The bill would require the
commission Commission on Teacher
Credentialing to select up to 4 school districts or county
offices of education receiving program funds under the California
School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program to apply for pilot
program funds. The bill would require the commission to use the
$150,000 annually transferred by the department, as described in
paragraph (1) above, to award a grant to each selected
applicant, not to exceed $3,500 per pilot participant per year. The
bill would require the commission, before January 1, 2015, to report
to the Legislature regarding the pilot program, as specified. The
bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2019, and
repeal them on January 1, 2020.
(3) The After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002
authorizes the Legislature to amend certain of its provisions to
further its purposes by majority vote of each house.
(4) This
This bill includes a finding and declaration
of the Legislature that the bill's provisions further the purposes of
the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002
would set forth a legislative finding and declaration that this
bill furthers the purposes of that act .
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 8483.55 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
8483.55. (a) From the funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision
(b) of Section 8483.5, the department may spend 1.5 percent to cover
evaluation costs and to provide training and support to ensure
quality program implementation, development, and sustainability and
may pay its costs of awarding and monitoring grants.
(b) Beginning with the 2006-07 fiscal year, 1.5 percent of the
funds appropriated pursuant to this article shall be available to the
department for purposes of providing technical assistance,
evaluation, and training services, and for providing local assistance
funds to support program improvement and technical assistance.
(1) The department shall provide directly, or contract for,
technical assistance for new programs and any program that is not
meeting attendance or performance goals, or both, and requests
that technical assistance. The
department shall allocate an appropriate level of technical
assistance funds to the regional system of support to support program
startup within 45 days after grant awards to programs.
(2) (A) Training and support shall include, but is not limited to,
the development and distribution of voluntary guidelines for
physical activity programs established pursuant to paragraph (2) of
subdivision (c) of Section 8482.3, that expand the learning
opportunities of the schoolday.
(B) The department shall distribute these voluntary guidelines for
physical activity programs on or before July 1, 2009.
(c) The department shall contract for an independent statewide
evaluation of the effectiveness of programs funded pursuant to this
article to be prepared and submitted to the Legislature. The
evaluation shall include a comparison of outcomes for participating
pupils and similarly situated pupils who did not participate in the
program. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and the
Legislature on or before October 1, 2011, providing data that
includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Data collected pursuant to Section 8484.
(2) Data adopted through the process outlined in subdivision (b)
of Section 8421.5 and subdivision (g) of Section 8482.4.
(3) Number and type of sites and grantees participating in the
program.
(4) Pupil program attendance, as reported semiannually, and pupil
schoolday attendance, as reported annually.
(5) Pupil program participation rates.
(6) Quality of program drawing on the research of the Academy of
Sciences on critical features of programs that support healthy youth
development.
(7) The participation rates of local educational agencies.
(8) Local partnerships.
(9) The academic performance of participating pupils in English
language arts and mathematics, as measured by the results of the
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program established
pursuant to Section 60640.
(d) A final report shall be submitted to the Governor and the
Legislature on or before December 1, 2011. The final report shall
include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) Updated data on the measures specified in subdivision (b),
including, but not limited to, changes in those measures.
(2) The prevalence and frequency of activities included in funded
programs.
(e) Commencing with For the 2013-14
fiscal year to the 2018-19 fiscal year, inclusive , one
hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) of the funds appropriated
as described in subdivision (b) shall be transferred annually by the
department to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for purposes of
implementing the California After School Teacher Pipeline Program
established in Section 44394.
SEC. 2. Section 8483.9 of the Education Code, as
amended by Section 1 of Chapter 229 of the Statutes of 2010, is
amended to read:
8483.9. (a) A program participant receiving funding pursuant to
this article may expend on indirect costs no more than the lesser of
the following:
(1) The school district's indirect cost rate, as approved by the
department for the appropriate fiscal year.
(2) Five percent of the state program funding received pursuant to
this article.
(b) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this
article may expend no more than 15 percent of that funding on
administrative costs, which funding need not be earned through pupil
attendance. For purposes of this section, administrative costs shall
include indirect costs, as described in subdivision (a).
(c) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this
program shall ensure that no less than 85 percent of that funding is
allocated to schoolsites for direct services to pupils. The cost of
a program site supervisor selected pursuant to Section 8483.4 may be
included as direct services, provided that at least 85 percent of the
site supervisor's time is spent at the program site.
(d) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this
article that contracts with another agency to provide some or all of
the program's services shall ensure that the contract includes funds
for reasonable indirect and administrative costs incurred by the
contracting agency.
SEC. 3. SEC. 2. Section 44394 is
added to the Education Code, to read:
44394. (a) For purposes of this section, unless the context
clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
(1) "After school instructor" means an employee who meets the
minimum standards of the paraprofessional job classification as
defined by the applicant school district or county office of
education and who is employed in an after school program by a school
district, city, county, or nonprofit organization that receives funds
pursuant to the 21st Century High School After School Safety and
Enrichment for Teens program (Article 19 (commencing with Section
8420) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1), the After
School Education and Safety Program (Article 22.5 (commencing with
Section 8482) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1), or
the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program (Article 22.6
(commencing with Section 8484.7) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of Division 1
of Title 1) either as a grantee or through a school district
subcontract. This definition of "after school instructor" applies
only to this section.
(2) "Applicant" means a school district or county office of
education receiving program funds under the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program established in Section
44393 and applying for pilot program funds pursuant to the California
After School Teacher Pipeline Program established in subdivision
(b).
(3) "Postsecondary educational institutions" means the California
Community Colleges, the California State University, the University
of California, and private postsecondary educational institutions
that offer an accredited teacher training program.
(4) "Pilot" means the California After School Teacher Pipeline
Program.
(5) "Pilot participant" means an after school instructor who
elects to participate in the California School Paraprofessional
Teacher Training Program and the California After School Teacher
Pipeline Program.
(6) "Program" means the California School Paraprofessional Teacher
Training Program.
(7) "Teacher training program" means an undergraduate or graduate
program of instruction conducted by a campus of a postsecondary
educational institution that includes a developmentally sequenced
career ladder to provide instruction, coursework, and clearly defined
tasks for each level of the ladder, and that is designed to qualify
pupils enrolled in the program for a teaching credential authorizing
instruction in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
(b) The California After School Teacher Pipeline Program is hereby
established for the purpose of recruiting qualified after school
instructors to participate on a pilot basis in the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program established pursuant to
Section 44393.
(c) The commission shall select up to four applicants to
participate in the pilot project .
(d) In addition to satisfying all of the requirements of the
program, the commission shall require applicants for the pilot to
demonstrate all of the following:
(1) A screening process that will determine if a pilot participant'
s after school instruction experience ensures participant readiness
for the pilot.
(2) How the applicant will ensure professional support for pilot
participants, including, but not limited to, mentor teacher
oversight, classroom experience, and academic content instruction
experience.
(3) How the applicant will track pilot participants within the
program.
(4) That the applicant and pilot participants will meet all the
same requirements pursuant to Section 44393 for this pilot,
including, but not limited to, the requirements for participant
eligibility and commitments, program design, repayment
requirements, and program reporting.
(e) (1) From the funds transferred to the commission pursuant to
subdivision (e) of Section 8483.55, the commission shall award a
grant to each selected applicant, not to exceed three thousand five
hundred dollars ($3,500) per pilot participant per year. The
commission may award funding for after school instructors to
participate in the pilot only to the extent that the funds described
in this paragraph cover all of the costs associated with instructor
participation in the pilot and any costs incurred by the commission
pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) The commission shall include this pilot and pilot participants
in all the reporting requirements pursuant to Section 44393.
(3) Before January 1, 2015, the commission shall report to the
Legislature regarding the pilot. The report shall include the ability
of applicants to successfully integrate the pilot into their
existing program and the number of participants in the pilot who
receive teaching credentials.
(f) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2019, and, as
of January 1, 2020, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2020, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 4. SEC. 3. The Legislature
finds and declares that this act furthers the purposes of the After
School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002.