BILL NUMBER: SB 1385AMENDED 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 the2018-192019-20 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 publicschoolschools . This bill would establish the California After School Teacher Pipeline Program, a pilot program, forthe purpose ofpurposes 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 inparagraph(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 the2018-192019-20 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 forthe purpose ofpurposes 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 inall the reporting requirements pursuant tothe 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 programand, the number of pilot participantsin the pilotwho 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.