BILL NUMBER: AB 2556 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 19, 2000
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 14, 2000
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 31, 2000
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 26, 2000
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 10, 2000
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Hertzberg and Shelley
FEBRUARY 24, 2000
An act to add Chapter 5.6 (commencing with Section 58740) to Part
31 of , and to add and repeal Article 22.5 (commencing with
Section 8484.7) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of, the Education Code,
relating to school and community partnerships , and making an
appropriation therefor .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2556, as amended, Hertzberg. School and community partnership
collaborations.
Existing
(1) Existing law establishes the After School Learning and Safe
Neighborhoods Partnership Program to create incentives for
establishing after school enrichment programs for pupils in
kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating
schoolsites.
This bill would require the Office of Planning and Research to
establish the School Community Partnership Program to ensure that all
children and youths aged 5 to 18 years, inclusive, have access to
quality before school, after school, and out-of-school programs. The
bill would establish a 7-member School Community Partnership
Commission to oversee the program. The bill would require each
county to develop a countywide comprehensive results based strategic
plan to provide quality, comprehensive before school, after school,
and out-of-school programs and would allocate state funds in
accordance with a specified formula for this purpose.
(2) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school
district to provide school facilities.
This bill would establish a grant program, administered by the
Office of Planning and Research, to pay the cost of planning and
operating full-service school and community partnership collaboration
programs. The bill would prescribe the requirements for grant
eligibility, the purposes for which grant funds could be utilized,
and the process for applying for, and receiving, a grant under this
program. The bill would require the Office of Planning and
Research to collaborate with existing programs, such as the
Foundation Consortium, to provide technical assistance and fund
training programs. The bill would require grants awarded under
the bill to be matched by the school and community partnership
collaboration and its participating agencies.
(3) This bill would appropriate $8,000,000 to the Office of
Planning and Research for the purposes of funding the School
Community Partnership Program.
Vote: majority 2/3 .
Appropriation: no yes . Fiscal
committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(1) As California enters the 21st century, the projected increase
in the population of the state raises concerns about the quality of
life that will be experienced by citizens of the state in the future.
By the year 2020, the current population of the state of 33 million
is projected to reach 45.3 million; in other words, the population
of the state will increase by half the number of people it now has in
the next twenty years.
(2) The population growth the state is experiencing places a
burden on the financial resources and physical infrastructure of our
communities.
(3) Research shows that young people are more likely to develop
into healthy productive adults when they are provided with critical
supports and opportunities throughout their development.
(4) Social problems such as crime, drug abuse, juvenile
delinquency, and academic failure are closely linked to the
conditions in our communities. One in four adolescents are in
significant trouble, ranging from drug abuse and teenage pregnancy to
juvenile delinquency and more serious crimes. Of critical
importance is that research shows that juvenile crime and risky
behaviors spike in the afternoon hours of 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., when 55
percent of middle school children spend two or more hours each day at
home without an adult.
(5) It is crucial that the state address how local communities are
organized to promote the healthy development of youth and respond to
social problems. To this end, schools can serve as community
centers, places where young people and adults receive lifelong
instruction as well as having access to necessary social services.
(6) The Beacon schools program in New York City is a premier
example of the success that can be achieved when schools are used as
community centers. The program began in 10 schools in 1991 to fight
youth drug abuse. At these schools, staff workers use a youth
development framework to help young people with homework and conduct
after-school recreation programs. The schools are also home to
health clinics and social service centers to make these services more
accessible to local residents. These schools have become community
centers at which children and adults congregate every day of the
year. The Beacon schools program has grown to include 75 schools
that provide tens of thousands of youngsters with a safe structured
environment after school and on weekends.
(7) The Safe Haven after-school program operated by the city of
Madison, Wisconsin, is another example of the opportunity schoolsites
provide for improving the quality of life of our communities. The
program is conducted at elementary schools in communities with high
crime and poverty rates. Besides academic assistance and
recreational activities, the schools also provide instruction in
conflict resolution, such as peer mediation, to help pupils resolve
disputes. The Safe Haven schools report improved school attendance
and fewer conflicts among pupils during after-school hours.
(8) Healthy Start and other school and community partnerships are
demonstrating their effectiveness in raising school achievement,
strengthening families, and building strong communities. New school
and community partnership collaboration programs should build on the
experiences of these programs, particularly in the areas of training
and technical assistance, and evaluation.
(9) Launched in 1996, the San Francisco Beacon Initiative is a
collaboration of the City and County of San Francisco, the San
Francisco Unified School District, private foundations, and local
community organizations that oversee eight Beacon Centers housed in
public schools. Run by a local community agency, Beacon Centers
offer academic support, leadership and career development, arts and
recreation programs, and health services. All programs are designed
to offer support and opportunities for the healthy development of
youth. Beacon Centers provide youth with a safe place where they can
make positive connections with adults and peers, assume valued
leadership roles, and engage in challenging learning activities. All
Beacon Centers serve as platforms to attract and maintain numerous
programs for their communities.
(10) School and community partnership collaborations are necessary
to achieve positive results for child, youth, families, and
communities.
(11) School reform will not succeed without addressing the
holistic needs of children and students.
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(12) Parental involvement in youth activity and schooling
is critical to the prevention of juvenile crime and the attainment of
academic success.
(13) A consensus is arising that school and community partnership
collaborations offer a workable solution to an array of interrelated
problems such as deteriorating schools, troubled children,
overburdened families, at-risk communities, and fragmented service
systems.
(14) Research shows that school and community partnership
collaborations have the capacity to improve educational outcomes and
lower risky behaviors, particularly when these approaches involve
cities and counties.
(15) Schools should serve as community centers at which
individuals receive education throughout their lives. Schools should
be places where learning occurs "after school," in the evenings, in
out-of-school time, during intersession, and on weekends.
(16) Schools should support and provide a variety of social
services in partnership with public, civic, and private
organizations, as well as businesses. Any number of social services
should be provided at schoolsites.
(17) Most schools in the state, however, have been designed to
serve only as instructional facilities. In most cases, school
facilities are not available for use by the general public. Schools
should, instead, be designed to sustain the relationship between a
school and its community.
(18) Schools should be built to serve as the centers of their
communities. School gymnasiums and play fields should double as
community recreation centers and parks, school auditoriums should
also serve as community theaters, and the resources in school
libraries should be made available to members of the local community.
In addition, health clinics and other community services should be
provided at schoolsites to increase the availability of those
services to the residents of the community.
(b) Therefore, the Legislature finds and declares that the concept
of school and community partnership collaborations must be enhanced
and expanded so that all youth, children, families and communities
are provided with resources for success.
SEC. 2. Article 22.5 (commencing with Section 8484.7) is
added to Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Education Code, to read:
Article 22.5. School Community Partnership Program
8484.7. The Office of Planning and Research shall establish the
School Community Partnership Program, the purposes of which include,
but are not limited to, ensuring that all children and youths who are
5 to 18, inclusive, years of age have access to quality before
school, after school, and out-of-school programs that do the
following:
(a) Enrich and enhance their lives and development.
(b) Keep the children and youth out of trouble.
(c) Encourage schools and communities to work together to provide
services promoting healthy families.
8484.8. (a) There is hereby established the School Community
Partnership Commission to oversee the program.
(b) The commission shall be comprised of seven members, appointed
as follows:
(1) Three members appointed by the Governor.
(2) Two members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.
(3) Three members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.
(c) Commission members shall serve without compensation but shall
be entitled to a reasonable per diem and shall be reimbursed for
costs of travel.
(d) The commission shall be staffed by personnel from the program.
8484.9. The commission shall perform the following duties and
responsibilities:
(a) Develop guidelines for use by local organizations in the
development of result-based local strategic planning for
comprehensive services for youths and their families, including, but
not limited to, before school, after school, and out-of-school
programs.
(b) Assist local organizations in the development of school
community partnership program strategic plans for implementation in
that community.
(c) Work with the State Department of Education to develop a list
of technical assistants and a compilation of information to provide
technical assistance to local school community partnership programs.
(d) Local organizations shall review and update any strategic
plans developed pursuant to subdivision (a) on an annual basis.
8484.10. (a) Each county shall be allocated the amount of state
funds specified in Section 8484.12 for the purpose of developing a
countywide comprehensive results-based strategic plan to provide
quality, comprehensive before school, after school, and out-of-school
programs for children and youths aged 5 to 18 years, inclusive.
(b) The county board of supervisors of each county shall, in
consultation with the schools and cities in that county, identify and
award the school community partnership program funding to an
existing strategic planning body from the county.
(c) Each strategic planning body that receives funding pursuant to
this article shall include community representatives that include
representative from schools, county and city governments, private
nonprofit community groups, private individuals who are not
officially associated with programs involving services to children
and youth, law enforcement, and health care providers.
(d) Counties are encouraged to use existing collaborations for
this purpose. If no local strategic planning body exists, the county
board of supervisors may, in consultation with schools and cities in
that county, use part of the program funds to create a community
collaborative setting that involves community representatives
specified in subdivision (c).
8484.11. Each strategic plan created by the local strategic
planning body shall focus on the necessary steps for the successful
development of public and private before, after, and out-of-school
programs and family support services that research and experience
have shown to support effectively and efficiently the health,
development, and well-being of children between the ages of 5 to 18
years.
8484.12. School community partnership program funds shall be
allocated to the counties each fiscal year in accordance with the
following formula:
(a) Counties with a youth population over one million youths-six
hundred thousand dollars ($600,000).
(b) Counties with a youth population from 500,001 to 1,000,000
youths-three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000).
(c) Counties with a youth population from 300,001 to 500,000
youths-one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).
(d) Counties with a youth population from 150,001 to 300,000
youths-one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(e) Counties with a youth population of 150,000 or less
youths-seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000).
8484.13. The commission guidelines shall direct school community
partnership program funded local planning bodies to develop before,
after, and out-of-school programs strategic plans based on a
results-based accountability format that include the following:
(a) Clear and concise statements of intended results.
(b) Clear objectives.
(c) A plan to achieve the objectives.
(d) Performance and outcome measures that can be used to evaluate
local strategic plans and provide guidance to the local planning body
to annually update its strategic plan.
8484.14. This article shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2005, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2005, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 3. Chapter 5.6 (commencing with Section 58740) is added
to Part 31 of the Education Code, to read:
CHAPTER 5.6. SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS GRANT PROGRAM
58740. For the purposes of this chapter, the following
definitions apply:
(a) "Asset mapping" means a survey of geographically located
organizations providing support services to children, youth, and
families.
(b) "Community partnerships" mean locally-based programs that are
broad, comprehensive, integrated, culturally sensitive, and include a
local educational agency and at least four of the following
entities, with at least one being a nongoverning entity
nongovernmental entity or individuals :
(1) Cities.
(2) Counties.
(3) Philanthropic organizations.
(4) Nonprofit organizations.
(5) Community-based organizations.
(6) Park and recreation districts.
(7) Libraries.
(8) Other organizations that address the needs of
children, youth, families, and communities.
Pediatrician, family practice physician or other licensed child
health provider who provides a "medical home," as defined by the
American Academy of Pediatrics.
(9) Any of the above entities may be the organizing agency
in the community partnership and may apply for grant funding
available under this chapter. In forming community partnerships, the
school and community partnership shall include citizen
participation.
(c) "Community partnership coordinator" means a professional
working for the school and community partnership collaboration who
fosters community involvement, develops collaborative programs,
conducts fundraising, and works closely with school administrators,
city and county agencies, and other collaboratives.
(d) "Consortium" means two or more local educational agencies.
(e) "Cooperating agency" means any federal, state, or local public
or private nonprofit agency that agrees to offer support services at
a schoolsite or community facility through a program implemented
under this chapter.
(f) "School and community partnership collaboration" means the
integration of education, youth development, and family services.
This may include community based medical, and social human services
, provided after school that are beneficial to
meeting the needs of children, youth, and families on school grounds
or in locations that are easily accessible.
(g) "Local educational agency" means a school district or county
office of education.
(h) "Private partner" means a private business or foundation that
provides financial assistance or otherwise assists a support services
program operated under this chapter.
58741. (a) The Office of Planning and Research shall award grants
to school and community partnership collaborations to pay the cost
of planning and operating full-service school and community
partnership collaboration programs. The Office of Planning and
Research shall consult with the State Department of Education in
developing guidelines for awarding of funds. To prevent
duplication of effort and to promote ongoing training and technical
assistance to local community partnerships, consortiums, school and
community partnerships focused on providing after school programs, as
described in this chapter, the Office of Planning and Research shall
collaborate with existing programs, such as the public-private
partnership created by the State Department of Education and the
consortium of the state's private charitable foundations' supported
policy setting, Foundation Consortium, to provide technical
assistance and fund training programs. Grants applications and
funding may include three elements : (1) planning (2) operational
and (3) capital infrastructure funds. A school and community
partnership collaboration may apply for any or all of the grant
elements. The Office of Planning and Research shall issue those
grants as follows:
(1) Planning funds may be awarded to school and community
partnership collaborations that have demonstrated a need to implement
a program, but are not ready to begin the operation of the program,
or that are in need of additional planning to expand existing support
services programs. Planning grants shall not exceed fifty thousand
dollars ($50,000). Planning activities shall build on data
collection and planning efforts and may include, but are not limited
to, asset mapping of child, youth, and family resources in the
geographic area of the partnership, building school and community
partnership collaborations, defining communitywide results,
measurable indicators, and program performance measures, and
establishing a monitoring and evaluation system. Upon completion of
the planning phase, the school and community partnership
collaborations shall be eligible to use operational funds.
(2) Operational funds may be awarded to school and community
partnership collaborations that have met the following criteria:
(A) Utilized the planning funds to complete a school and community
partnership collaboration planning process.
(B) Demonstrated readiness to begin operation of a program or to
expand existing support services programs.
(3) Operational funds shall supplement, not supplant, existing
services and funds, and shall be awarded based on the following
schedule:
(A) Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) in the first year.
(B) One hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) in the second
year and each successive year.
Of the amount provided pursuant to this paragraph, the school and
community partnership collaborations shall annually expend an amount
necessary to retain the services of a community partnership
coordinator.
(4) Capital funds may be awarded to school and community
partnership collaborations that have developed plans for joint use of
facilities for the school and community partnership collaboration.
These grants may be up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars
($250,000). These programs may be located on a schoolsite or in a
community facility.
(b) All grants awarded pursuant to this section shall be matched
by the school and community partnership collaboration and its
participating agencies. In the first year, grants shall be matched
with one dollar ($1) for every four dollars ($4) awarded. In each
successive year grants shall be matched with one dollar ($1) for each
two dollars ($2) awarded. The match shall be contributed in cash or
as services or resources of comparable value.
(c) The Office of Planning and Research shall award grants
pursuant to this section and shall, to the extent possible, award
grants to programs representative of the ethnic and linguistic
diversity of schoolage children and their families. The Office of
Planning and Research shall develop and implement a plan to ensure
that grant funds are awarded to applicants representative of the
geographic, ethnic, and linguistic diversity of California.
(d) A school and community partnership collaboration is eligible
for a grant under this section if it demonstrates in its program plan
that it shall do at least two of the following:
(1) Give priority for services provided under this chapter to
pupils from low-income families.
(2) Assist families in responding to support service needs of
youth.
(3) Provide services to families such as English as a Second
Language courses, support in accessing health and human services
programs, and mentoring.
(4) Involve parents or guardians and teachers in the process of
identifying a pupil's service needs and in the planning for and
provision of support services.
(5) Submits or has submitted an application to the State
Department of Education and the State Department of Health Services
for certification as a Medi-Cal provider, pursuant to Chapter 7
(commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code.
(e) For purposes of this chapter, support services shall include
social, health, and academic support services benefiting children and
their families, and may include, but are not limited to:
(1) Health care, including:
(A) Immunizations.
(B) Vision and hearing testing and services.
(C) Dental services.
(D) Physical examinations, diagnostic, and referral services.
(E) Prenatal care.
(F) Case managed health. Medical, dental, and
mental health care that provide a "medical home" or is linked to a
child's "medical home" as defined by the American Academy of
Pediatrics.
(2) Mental health services, including primary prevention, crisis
intervention, assessments, and referrals, and training for teachers
in the detection of mental health problems.
(3) Substance abuse prevention and treatment services.
(4) Youth leadership and civic involvement opportunities.
(5) Activities which increase access and equity to technology.
(6) Career development and job preparedness programs.
(7) Family support and parenting education, including child abuse
prevention and schoolage parenting programs.
(8) Academic support services, including tutoring, mentoring,
employment, community service internships, and in-service training
for teachers and administrators. However, grants for these purposes
shall supplement, not supplant, existing resources in these areas.
(9) Counseling, including family counseling and suicide
prevention.
(10) Services and counseling for children who experience violence
in their communities.
(11) Programs to increase English literacy.
(12) Adult enrichment.
(13) Nutrition services.
(14) Youth development activities, including tutoring, mentoring,
recreation, and job placement.
(15) Case management services.
(16) Provision of onsite Medi-Cal and Healthy Families eligibility
workers.
58742. (a) Each community partnership seeking a grant under this
article shall submit an application to the Office of Planning and
Research that includes the information in subdivision (b) and any
additional information the Office of Planning and Research requests
as part of the application process.
(b) Each grant application submitted shall include all of the
following:
(1) Documentation of the need for participation in this program.
(2) Documentation of the need for planning assistance, program
operation support, or both.
(3) A description of the communitywide results for children and
their families, measurable indicators, and program performance
measures for the program.
(4) A description of the proposed programs, including two or more
support services expected to be provided at the schoolsite or at a
site near or adjacent to the school and how these programs will
contribute to the positive development of youth and how they will
contribute to achieving the identified communitywide results. The
amount and sources of required funding, the existing resources to be
used or redirected, the priorities for development and timing of the
program, the agencies responsible for the implementation of the
program, and the procedures for the evaluation of the program. The
program plan submitted with an operational fund application shall
include all of the following:
(A) Provisions for data collection and recordkeeping, including
records of the population served, the components of the service, the
results of the service, and costs, including startup, direct and
indirect costs, including those to other agencies, and cost savings.
(B) A service evaluation component, including input, process, and
program performance measures that include inputs, quality measures,
and program outcomes, quality assessment, and the process by which
these measures will be taken. In addition, the plan shall include
specific targets and outcome measures.
(C) A specific governing mechanism at the site level, that
includes parents, by which the plan will be implemented, including
local decisionmaking community development, organizational needs,
anticipated problems and procedures to solve them, and incentives for
collaboration and participation incentives to personnel.
(5) Documentation of any procedures that have been, or will be,
taken to designate the local educational agency as a Medi-Cal
provider pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of
Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(6) A plan for technical assistance and staff development to build
capacity to administer a growing center and to enhance the quality
of all programs, which include identified partners and resources for
its implementation.
(7) A description of the proposed plan for family involvement in
the program.
(8) A description of the population anticipated to be served.
(9) A plan describing how the proposed program will be sustained
over time.
58743. A school and community partnership collaboration may
contract with other entities, including county agencies and private
nonprofit organizations or private partners, to provide services to
youth and their families.
58744. (a) Grants awarded pursuant to this chapter may be used
for salaries of staff responsible for developing or implementing the
program plan and administrative support staff, equipment and
supplies, training, and insurance.
(b) (1) The Office of Planning and Research may use funds
appropriated pursuant to this chapter for state-level administration,
including evaluation and technical assistance.
(2) For purposes of this subdivision, "technical assistance"
includes, but is not limited to, establishing interagency
collaboration, providing information dissemination and referrals,
including information about appropriate program models, conducting
site visits, enhancing quality
programming, and convening workshops to assist in the
implementation of school and community partnership collaboration
programs developed pursuant to this chapter.
58745. Commencing in the 2000 calendar year, and each subsequent
year for which funding is available, grants shall be awarded by the
Office of Planning and Research according to the following schedule:
(a) The Office of Planning and Research shall issue requests for
applications on or before November 1.
(b) Grant applications shall be submitted to the Office of
Planning and Research on or before March 1.
(c) The Office of Planning and Research shall award grants on or
before May 15.
SEC. 4. The sum of eight million dollars ($8,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of Planning and
Research for the purposes of funding the School Community Partnership
Program, as set forth in Article 22.5 (commencing with Section
8484.10) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Education Code.