Bill Text: CA SB1385 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: After school programs: California After School Teacher
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-16 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB1385 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB1385-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1385 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 19, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 10, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Senator Hancock
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
An act to amend Section 8483.55 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, for the 2013-14 fiscal year to the 2018-19
2019-20 fiscal year, inclusive, would require
the department to annually transfer $150,000 of those funds to the
Commission on Teacher Credentialing through an interagency
agreement for purposes of implementing the California After
School Teacher Pipeline Program. The bill would state the intent
of the Legislature that the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and
school districts or county offices of education receiving program
funds, as described in (2), minimize administrative costs to ensure
the greatest number of pilot participant grants.
(2) Existing law establishes the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the 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
schools .
This bill would establish the California After School Teacher
Pipeline Program, a pilot program, for the purpose of
purposes of improving the quality and retention of
after school personnel and 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 on Teacher Credentialing , in consultation with the
State Department of Education, 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, 2017, to report
to the Legislature and the Superintendent of Public Instruction
regarding the pilot program, as specified. The bill would make
these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2019,
2020, and repeal them on January 1, 2020.
2021.
(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.
This bill 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
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) (1) For the 2013-14 fiscal year to the
2018-19 2019-20 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
through an interagency agreement for purposes of
implementing the California After School Teacher Pipeline Program
established in Section 44394.
(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Commission on
Teacher Credentialing and pilot applicants minimize administrative
costs to ensure the greatest number of pilot participant grants.
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.
(b) The California After School Teacher Pipeline Program is hereby
established for the purpose of purposes of
improving the quality and retention of after school personnel and
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 , in consultation with the department,
shall select up to four applicants to participate in the pilot.
The pilot applicants shall be selected from program
participants.
(d) In addition to satisfying all of the requirements of the
program pursuant to Section 44393 , 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 , including tracking each pilot participant's after
school site, school district, or county office of
education location changes during the pilot .
(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,
the need for specified certificated staff, 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) From the funds awarded each year by the commission to an
applicant, an applicant's administrative costs shall be limited to
the applicant's indirect cost rate, as approved by the department for
the applicable fiscal year.
(2)
(3) The commission shall include this pilot and pilot
participants in all the reporting requirements pursuant to
the annual report required by Section 44393
and the annual report shall include statistics regarding the
duration of time pilot participant's work at individual after school
sites. In addition to reporting to the Legislature, the commission
shall submit the annual report required by subdivision (g) of Section
44393, to the Superintendent .
(3)
(4) Before January 1, 2015,
2017, the commission shall report to the Legislature and
the Superintendent regarding the pilot. The report shall
include the ability of applicants to successfully integrate the pilot
into their existing program and , the
number of pilot participants in the pilot
who receive teaching credentials , and each pilot
participant's after school site, school district, or county
office of education location changes tracked during the pilot
.
(f) This section shall become inoperative on July 1,
2019, 2020, and, as of January 1, 2020,
2021, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1,
2020, 2021, deletes or extends the dates on
which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 3. The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers
the purposes of the After School Education and Safety Program Act of
2002.
