BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair
AB 2033 (Salas) - Agricultural Career Technical Education
Amended: August 4, 2014 Policy Vote: Education 6-0
Urgency: No Mandate: No
Hearing Date: August 11, 2014
Consultant: Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: AB 2033 provides a continuous appropriation of
$4,134,000 each year, beginning in 2015-16, for the Agricultural
Career Technical Education Incentive Program.
Fiscal Impact:
Continuous appropriation: The bill appropriates $4,134,000
(General Fund) for the Agricultural Career Technical
Education Incentive Program each year, outside of the annual
Budget process.
Background: In 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)
was enacted. The LCFF replaces almost all sources of state
funding, including most categorical programs, and uses new
methods to allocate these resources and future allocations to
school districts, charter schools, and county offices of
education. The LCFF allows local educational agencies (LEAs)
much greater flexibility to spend the funds than under the prior
system. This formula is designed to provide districts and
charter schools with the bulk of their resources in unrestricted
funding to support the basic educational program for all
students, plus supplemental funding, based on the enrollment of
educationally disadvantaged students (low-income students,
English learners, and foster youth), provided to increase or
improve services to these high-needs students.
The LCFF includes new requirements for local planning and
accountability, including the creation of a local control
accountability plan (LCAP) for each COE, school district and
charter school, which focus on improving student outcomes in
state educational priorities and ensuring engagement of parents,
students, teachers, school employees, and the public in the
local process. The LCAP must include locally determined goals,
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actions, services, and expenditures of LCFF funds for each
school year in support of the state educational priorities that
are specified in statute, as well as any additional local
priorities.
The Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program
provides local educational agencies with funds to improve the
quality of their agricultural vocational education programs. The
goal is to maintain a high-quality, comprehensive agricultural
vocational program in California's public school system to
ensure a constant source of employable, trained, and skilled
individuals. (Education Code � 52460)
The 2014 Budget Act provides $4,134,000 (Prop 98 General Fund)
to the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive
Program, as categorical funding.
Proposed Law: This bill provides a continuous appropriation of
$4,134,000, beginning in 2015-16, for the Agricultural Career
Technical Education Incentive Program. This bill requires a
participating school district to demonstrate how the expenditure
of grant funds will be consistent with its LCAP.
Staff Comments: This bill creates a continuous appropriation for
a particular state categorical program, removing its funding
determination from the annual Budget process. Earmarking $4.1
million in funds for the Agricultural Career Technical Education
Incentive Program creates cost pressure on future Prop 98 funds
that could otherwise be used for other educational purposes.
This bill requires a participating school district to
"demonstrate" to the Superintendent of Public Instruction "how
the expenditure of grant funds will be consistent with its
LCAP." Career technical education programs are already required
to be addressed in a school district's LCAP, so the requirement
to demonstrate consistency is unlikely to result in costs to the
school district.