BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair
AB 2341 (Quirk-Silva) - CALPADS: Pupils of Military Families
Amended: June 25, 2014 Policy Vote: Education 7-0
Urgency: No Mandate: Yes
Hearing Date: August 4, 2014
Consultant: Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: AB 2341 adds an indicator to the California
Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) to identify
pupils of military families, and requires local educational
agencies (LEAs) to report enrollment of pupils of military
families, as specified.
Fiscal Impact:
CALPADS - Minor costs to the California Department of
Education (CDE) to create a new indicator in CALPADS to
identify pupils of military families, and communicate the
new requirements to LEAs.
LEAs - Potentially significant one-time mandate on LEAs for
approximately 1,000 schools districts to develop and
implement a local process for asking families about their
military status, and inputting that information into
CALPADS. Likely minor, but potentially significant ongoing
mandate on LEAs for additional data entry to update CALPADS.
Background: Existing law establishes the CALPADS to accomplish
all of the following goals:
1) Provide school districts and the CDE access to data
necessary to comply with federal No Child Left Behind
reporting requirements.
2) Provide a better means of evaluating educational progress
and investments over time.
3) Provide LEAs information that can be used to improve pupil
achievement.
4) Provide an efficient, flexible, and secure means of
maintaining longitudinal statewide pupil level data.
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5) Facilitate the ability of the state to publicly report data
required by federal law.
6) Ensure compliance with the federal Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). (Education Code � 60900
et.seq.)
Proposed Law: This bill requires the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to add a reporting process within CALPADS requiring
LEAs to report the enrollment of pupils of military families by
July 1, 2015, and requires the CDE to include an indicator for
pupils of military families in CALPADS.
This bill defines "pupils of military families" to mean pupils
whose parent or legal guardian is an active duty member of the
Armed Forces of the United States.
Staff Comments: This bill enacts new state and local data
collection requirements. At the state level, CDE's addition of
an indicator in CALPADS for pupils of military families is
expected to cost approximately $15,000, which includes providing
guidance to LEAs on the compliance expectations.
This bill also imposes a state mandate on LEAs which is likely
to be deemed by the Commission on State Mandates to be
reimbursable. Schools districts will have to collect information
on whether or not pupils have a parent or legal guardian who is
an active duty member of the United States military and enter it
into CALPADS. This information will likely need to be collected
annually, because the pupil's status would change based on his
or her parent's service status. LEAs will be eligible for
reimbursement for staff time spent on training, data collection,
and data entry. If an employee at each of California's
approximately 10,000 schools spent 2 hours per school year
collecting and entering this data, at an average staff time cost
of $50 per hour including benefits, annual costs would be
approximately $1 million.