Bill Text: CA AB1895 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School employees: substitute employees: Substitute Educator Support Grant Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-19 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1895 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1895-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1895
| Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia |
February 09, 2022 |
An act relating to school employees, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1895, as amended, Eduardo Garcia.
School employees: substitute employees: Substitute Teacher Educator Support Grant Program.
Existing law requires governing boards of school districts to classify as substitute employees persons employed in positions requiring certification qualifications, to fill positions of regularly employed persons absent from service, except as specified. Existing law permits the governing board of a school district to employ substitute employees of the school district as it deems necessary.
This bill, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, would appropriate $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to establish and administer the Substitute Teacher Educator Support Grant Program, which would
provide one-time competitive grants to local educational agencies to develop and implement new, or expand existing, locally identified solutions that address local substitute teacher educator shortages or needs for professional development for substitute teachers, educators, as provided. The bill would require a grant recipient to report its professional development activities and substitute educator recruitment and retention outcomes to the department. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to evaluate whether grant recipients
successfully addressed the substitute educator shortage through local recruitment, which allowable grant use was most successful in addressing that shortage, and the impact on neighboring local educational agencies. The bill would require the evaluation to be provided to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance by October 1, 2028.
Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) For the 2022–23 fiscal year, the sum of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Education to establish and administer the Substitute(b) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall provide a one-time grant to an applicant to establish new, or expand existing, substitute teacher educator professional support programs. A recipient shall develop new practices and strategies to develop its substitute teacher
educator pool to address immediate and long-term teacher educator shortages. Grant priority shall be given to an applicant that demonstrates any of the following:
(1) A commitment to implement more than one strategy listed among the allowable grant uses in subdivision (d). (e).
(2) A commitment to blend funding from the program, federal funds, and other state funds for purposes of this section.
(3) (A) A commitment to provide supported career pathways for substitute teachers educators into the teaching profession through programs, including, but not limited to, teacher residency programs.
(B) A local educational agency that has received or applied for teacher residency and classified school employee grants shall be deemed to meet the commitment described in subparagraph (A).
(c) A grant shall be up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for each recipient, and shall be determined based proportionally on the recipient’s
average daily attendance as follows:
(1) The grant for a recipient with average daily attendance of 250 or fewer pupils shall be seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000).
(2) The grant for a recipient with average daily attendance of more than 250, but less than 5,000, pupils shall be one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).
(3) The grant for a recipient with average daily attendance of 5,000 or more pupils shall be two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000).
(d) Of the one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) in grant funds appropriated under subdivision (a), award funds shall be
distributed as follows:
(1) Twenty-two million dollars ($22,000,000) to local educational agencies with average daily attendance of 250 or fewer pupils.
(2) Fifty-five million dollars ($55,000,000) to local educational agencies with average daily attendance of more than 250, but less than 5,000, pupils.
(3) Twenty-three million dollars ($23,000,000) to local educational agencies with average daily attendance of 5,000 or more pupils.
(d)
(e) (1) A recipient shall use a grant to create or expand any of the following:
(A) Professional development for substitute teachers. educators.
(B) Regional or countywide substitute teacher educator programs.
(C) Programs that guarantee substitute teachers
educators a minimum
number of work days per school year.
(D) Programs designed to provide stability to substitute teachers educators by hiring full-time substitute teachers educators as schoolsite staff.
(E) Programs that expand substitute teacher educator recruitment and outreach.
(2) (A) A recipient may also use a grant to increase its substitute teacher educator pay rate.
(B) A recipient may only use a grant to increase its substitute teacher educator pay rate if the recipient implements one or more of subparagraphs (A) to (E), inclusive, of paragraph (1).
(e)
(f) (1) A recipient shall not use more than 5 percent of a grant for program administrative costs.
(2) To ensure professional development provided pursuant to this section meets educator and pupil needs, recipients are encouraged to allow schoolsite and content staff to identify the topic or topics of professional learning.
(3) Professional development provided pursuant to this section may include, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(A) Management of the school environment, policies, and procedures.
(B) Support for serving pupils with disabilities, and pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or homeless youth.
(C) Instructional strategies for teaching the content area or areas in which substitute teachers educators are assigned to teach.
(g) A local educational agency awarded a grant under this section shall provide a report to the State Department of Education summarizing professional development activities undertaken by the local educational agency and the outcomes of the local educational agency on recruiting and retaining substitute educators.
(h) The Legislative Analyst’s Office shall evaluate whether local educational agencies awarded grants under this section succeeded in addressing the substitute educator shortage through local recruiting and which allowable grant use was most successful in addressing the substitute educator shortage. The evaluation shall also include the impact on neighboring local educational agencies. The Legislative Analyst’s Office shall provide a report of the evaluation to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance by October 1, 2028.
(f)
(i) As used
in this section, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Applicant” means a local educational agency that applies for a grant pursuant to this section.
(2) “Educator” means a certificated substitute teacher or a paraeducator.
(2)
(3) “Grant” means a grant awarded to a recipient pursuant to this section.
(3)
(4) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.
(4)
(5) “Program” means the Substitute Teacher
Educator Support Grant Program established pursuant to this section.
(5)
(6) “Recipient” means a local educational agency awarded a grant pursuant to this section.
