Bill Text: CA AB1895 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
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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
An act to amend Section 45030 of the Education Code, relating to school employees. An act relating to school employees, and making an appropriation therefor.
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Fiscal Committee:
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Local Program:
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SECTION 1. Section 45030 of the Education Code is amended to read: 45030. SEC. 2.
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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Amended
IN
Assembly
March 28, 2022 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1895
| Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia |
February 09, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1895, as amended, Eduardo Garcia.
School employees: substitute employees. employees: Substitute Teacher 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 instead would require the governing board of a school district to employ substitute employees of the school district as the governing board of the school district deems necessary. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes. To the extent this bill would require additional duties on school districts regarding the employment of substitute teachers, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The
California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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 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 shortages or needs for professional development for substitute teachers, as provided.
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:Bill 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 Teacher Support Grant Program. Under the program, one-time competitive grants shall be provided to local educational agencies to develop and implement new, or expand existing, locally identified solutions that address local substitute teacher shortages or needs for professional development for substitute teachers. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall apportion program funds to a local educational agency to professionalize its substitute teacher pool by providing professional development for substitute teachers or implementing innovative strategies to expand its substitute teacher pool. This funding shall be available for encumbrance through June 30, 2028.(b) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall provide a one-time grant to an applicant to establish new, or expand existing, substitute teacher professional support programs. A recipient shall develop new practices and strategies to develop its substitute teacher pool to address immediate and long-term teacher 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).
(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 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) (1) A recipient shall use a grant to create or expand any of the following:
(A) Professional development for substitute teachers.
(B) Regional or countywide substitute teacher programs.
(C) Programs that guarantee substitute teachers a minimum
number of work days per school year.
(D) Programs designed to provide stability to substitute teachers by hiring full-time substitute teachers as schoolsite staff.
(E) Programs that expand substitute teacher recruitment and outreach.
(2) (A) A recipient may also use a grant to increase its substitute teacher pay rate.
(B) A recipient may only use a grant to increase its substitute teacher pay rate if the recipient implements one or more of subparagraphs (A) to (E), inclusive, of paragraph (1).
(e) (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 are assigned to teach.
(f) 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) “Grant” means a grant awarded to a recipient pursuant to this section.
(3) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.
(4) “Program” means the Substitute Teacher Support Grant Program established pursuant to this section.
(5) “Recipient” means a local educational agency awarded a grant pursuant to this section.
(a)The governing board of a school district shall employ substitute employees of the
school district as the governing board of the school district deems necessary and shall adopt and make public a salary schedule setting the daily or pay period rate or rates for substitute employees.
(b)This section shall not be construed as modifying or repealing any law fixing a minimum annual salary for employees of
the school district.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
