BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: June 11, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Joan Buchanan, Chair
SB 971 (Huff) - As Amended: April 9, 2014
SENATE VOTE : 34-0
SUBJECT : School finance: categorical programs
SUMMARY : Repeals or modifies the provisions of various
categorical programs that are no longer funded as a consequence
of the enactment of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)
Specifically, this bill :
1) Repeals the following categorical programs:
a. Microcomputer software grants;
b. Education Technology Grant Program;
c. Year-round School Demonstration Project;
d. Categorical Education Block Grant funding;
e. Pupil Retention Block Grant;
f. School Safety Consolidated Competitive Grant;
g. Teacher Credentialing Block Grant;
h. Professional Development Block Grant;
i. School and Library Improvement Block Grant;
j. Instructional Television;
aa. New Careers Program;
bb. Certificated Staff Mentoring Program;
cc. In-service Training-Personnel;
dd. Professional Development and Program
Improvement Act of 1968;
ee. Certificated Staff Performance Awards for
Improved Student Achievement in Underachieving
Schools;
ff. Classroom Teacher Instructional Improvement
Program;
gg. Training for Teachers of Mathematics Who Teach
Pupils in Grades 4 to 12, Inclusive;
hh. Teaching as a Priority Block Grant;
ii. Teacher Reading Instruction Development
Program: Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 3, Inclusive;
jj. Program to Reduce Class Size in Two Courses in
Grade 9;
aaa. Language Arts Enrichment Program in Grades 1
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to 3, Inclusive;
bbb. Class Size Reduction Program;
ccc. Gifted and Talented Pupil Program;
ddd. Digital High School Education Technology Grant
Programs;
eee. Education Technology and Professional
Development Grants;
fff. Supplemental School Counseling Program;
ggg. Summer Vocational education;
hhh. Institute for Computer Technology;
iii. Physical Education Specialist Pilot Program;
jjj. School-based Program Coordination Act;
aaaa. International Baccalaureate Diploma Program;
bbbb. Special Elementary School Reading Instruction
Program;
cccc. Tutoring and Homework Assistance Program;
dddd. State Instructional Materials Fund;
eeee. Core Reading Program Instructional Materials;
and
ffff. Obsolete Materials.
2) Modifies requirements related to the following programs
and provisions:
a. Community-based English Tutoring (removes
references to Budget Act funding and to conditions for
the receipt of funds);
b. County Community Schools (removes references
to revenue limit funding);
c. California School Finance Authority (replaces
references to revenue limit and categorical block
grant funding with a reference to LCFF funding);
d. Deferred Maintenance and School Facilities
Emergency Repair Account (deletes references to
categorical funding apportionments);
e. School Safety Plans (removes references to
grants);
f. School Maintenance (removes reference to state
deferred maintenance funding);
g. School Finance (removes reference to state
deferred maintenance funding);
h. Computation of Average Daily Attendance (ADA)
(removes reference to summer school ADA);
i. Charter School Operation (removes references
to revenue limit funding and the charter school
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categorical block grant and replaces them with
references to the LCFF);
j. Community Day Schools (removes requirements
related to apportionments, the minimum school day, and
calculation of ADA); and
aa. High School Exit Exam (removes a reference to
summer school categorical funding).
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate 28.8, negligible state costs.
COMMENTS : Last year the Legislature enacted the Local Control
Funding Formula (LCFF) as part of the 2013-14 state budget. The
LCFF replaces the former system of school finance, which was
comprised mainly by general purpose funding (provided through
the revenue limit) and funding that was targeted to specific
purposes (categorical program funding). Each categorical
program had specific requirements with which local education
agencies (LEAs) had to comply as a condition of receiving the
funds. However, funding for nearly all of those programs has
been rolled into the LCFF, and LEAs now receive them as
unrestricted funds. Accordingly, the statutory requirements for
the affected categorical programs no longer apply. This bill
deletes provisions for some categorical programs and modifies
provisions for other categorical programs that have become
inoperative as a result of the enactment of the LCFF. The
modifications delete funding-related references or change
references to revenue limits to references to the LCFF.
Staff recommendations. Staff recommends that Section 9 of the
bill, which repeals the Educational Technology Grant Program be
deleted, because that program has already been repealed. In
addition, staff recommends that Section 45 of the bill, which
repeals Education Section 48663, be deleted. EC 48663 contains
statutory provisions governing Community Day Schools, such as
the definition of the minimum school day, which are not affected
by the implementation of the LCFF and should be retained.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
California Association of School Business Officials
Riverside County Superintendent of Schools
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Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087