Bill Text: CA SB1385 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1385	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Sections 8483.55 and 8483.9 of, and to add and
repeal Section 44394 of, the Education Code, relating to after school
programs.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1385, as introduced, Hancock. After school programs: California
After School Teacher Pipeline Program.
   (1) Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program,
makes 1.5% of the funds appropriated for purposes of that program
available to the State Department of Education for specified
purposes.
   This bill, commencing with the 2013-14 fiscal year, would require
the department to annually transfer $150,000 of those funds to the
Commission on Teacher Credentialing for purposes of implementing the
California After School Teacher Pipeline Program.
   (2) Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program,
limits the amount of state funds a program participant may expend on
administrative costs to 15% of the participant's funding.
   This bill would require a program participant that contracts with
another agency to provide some or all of the program's services to
ensure that the contract include funds for reasonable indirect and
administrative costs incurred by the contracting agency.
   (3) Existing law establishes the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the purposes 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.
   This bill would establish the California After School Teacher
Pipeline Program, a pilot program, for the purposes of 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 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
(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, to report to the Legislature
regarding the pilot program, as specified. The bill would make these
provisions inoperative on July 1, 2019, and repeal them on January 1,
2020.
   (4) This bill includes a finding and declaration of the
Legislature that the bill's provisions further the purposes of the
After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002.
   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 that
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) Commencing with the 2013-14 fiscal year, 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 for purposes of implementing
the California After School Teacher Pipeline Program established in
Section 44394. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 8483.9 of the Education Code, as amended by
Section 1 of Chapter 229 of the Statutes of 2010, is amended to read:

   8483.9.  (a) A program participant receiving funding pursuant to
this article may expend on indirect costs no more than the lesser of
the following:
   (1) The school district's indirect cost rate, as approved by the
department for the appropriate fiscal year.
   (2) Five percent of the state program funding received pursuant to
this article.
   (b) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this
article may expend no more than 15 percent of that funding on
administrative costs, which funding need not be earned through pupil
attendance. For purposes of this section, administrative costs shall
include indirect costs, as described in subdivision (a).
   (c) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this
program shall ensure that no less than 85 percent of that funding is
allocated to schoolsites for direct services to pupils. The cost of
a program site supervisor selected pursuant to Section 8483.4 may be
included as direct services, provided that at least 85 percent of the
site supervisor's time is spent at the program site. 
   (d) A program participant receiving state funding pursuant to this
article that contracts with another agency to provide some or all of
the program's services shall ensure that the contract includes funds
for reasonable indirect and administrative costs incurred by the
contracting agency. 
  SEC. 3.  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.
   (7) "Teacher training program" means an undergraduate or graduate
program of instruction conducted by a campus of a postsecondary
educational institution that includes a developmentally sequenced
career ladder to provide instruction, coursework, and clearly defined
tasks for each level of the ladder, and that is designed to qualify
pupils enrolled in the program for a teaching credential authorizing
instruction in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
   (b) The California After School Teacher Pipeline Program is hereby
established for the purpose of 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 shall select up to four applicants to
participate in the pilot project.
   (d) In addition to satisfying all of the requirements of the
program, 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.
   (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, 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) The commission shall include this pilot and pilot participants
in all the reporting requirements pursuant to Section 44393.
   (3) Before January 1, 2015, the commission shall report to the
Legislature regarding the pilot. The report shall include the ability
of applicants to successfully integrate the pilot into their
existing program and the number of participants in the pilot who
receive teaching credentials.
   (f) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2019, and, as
of January 1, 2020, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2020, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 4.  The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers
the purposes of the After School Education and Safety Program Act of
2002.