Bill Text: CA AB776 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education data: pupil identifiers: early childhood education programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2020-01-21 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB776 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB776-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 26, 2019

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 776

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Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra

February 19, 2019

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An act to amend Section 8202 Sections 10801 and 10802 of the Education Code, relating to childcare. education data.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 776, as amended, Kalra. Childcare and development services. Education data: pupil identifiers: childcare and development services.

Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the design and implementation of a high-quality, comprehensive, and longitudinal education data system for California do certain things, including that it support a system of continuous learning, as provided.

This bill would state the intent the Legislature that the longitudinal education data system support a system of learning, from birth to higher education through career.

Existing law requires the State Department of Education to establish a process by which local educational agencies issue, maintain, and report information using a unique statewide pupil identifier for state and federally funded center-based childcare and development programs, as provided.

This bill would require the process described above to also enable a county office of education to issue and submit a unique statewide pupil identifier to the department on behalf of any applicant or contracting agency, as defined, that is not a local educational agency and that is operating a state-funded childcare and development program, as defined, within that county.

The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of childcare and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support service through full- and part-time programs. The act includes statements of legislative intent relating to childcare and development services.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that intent language.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 10801 of the Education Code is amended to read:

10801.

 It is the intent of the Legislature that the design and implementation of a high-quality, comprehensive, and longitudinal education data system for California will do all of the following:

(a) Support a system of continuous learning learning, from birth to higher education through career, by delivering timely, reliable, user-friendly, and relevant information to schoolsite and school district leaders, county offices of education, higher education leaders, early learning providers, teachers and faculty, education program providers, policymakers, researchers, parents, pupils, and the public at large.

(b) Provide educators and parents with the tools, reports, and assistance needed to inform instruction and learning.

(c) Integrate data from disparate sources.

(d) Anticipate and provide the technological capacity for the sharing of appropriate noneducation data from other state sources such as health, welfare, juvenile justice, corrections, and employment agencies, the analysis of which is necessary to fully understand critical education policy and education finance questions.

SEC. 2.

 Section 10802 of the Education Code is amended to read:

10802.

 (a) (1) The department shall establish a process by which local educational agencies issue, maintain, and report information using the unique statewide pupil identifiers specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 60900 for state and federally funded center-based child care childcare and development programs under their purview.

(2) The process described in paragraph (1) shall also enable a county office of education to issue and submit a unique statewide pupil identifier to the department on behalf of an applicant or contracting agency, as that term is defined in subdivision (c) of Section 8208, that is not a local educational agency and that is operating a state-funded childcare and development program, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 8208, within that county.

(b) In order to comply with the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) assurances delineated in Section 6401(e)(2) of the America COMPETES Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 9871), the department shall establish the process referenced in subdivision (a) no later than January 1, 2011.

(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that on or before January 1, 2011, the department, at a minimum, ensures that the data elements pertaining to preschool described in Section 6401(e)(2)(D) of the America COMPETES Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 9871) be collected for all preschool programs operated by a local educational agency.

(d) Except to the extent required by federal law, or as needed to ensure compliance with federal law, the department shall not require these center-based child care childcare and development programs to implement or maintain unique pupil identifiers specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 60900 until an appropriation for this purpose is provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

SECTION 1.Section 8202 of the Education Code is amended to read:

8202.

It is the intent of the Legislature that:

(a)All families have access to childcare and development services, through resource and referral services, where appropriate, regardless of ethnic status, cultural background, marital status, sexual orientation, economic status, or special needs. It is further the intent that subsidized childcare and development services be provided to persons meeting the eligibility criteria established under this chapter to the extent funding is made available by the Legislature and Congress.

(b)The healthy physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth and development of children be supported.

(c)Families achieve and maintain their personal, social, economic, and emotional stability through an opportunity to attain financial stability through employment, while maximizing growth and development of their children, and enhancing their parenting skills through participation in childcare and development programs.

(d)Community-level coordination in support of childcare and development services be encouraged.

(e)Families have a choice of programs that allow for maximum involvement in planning, implementation, operation, and evaluation of childcare and development programs.

(f)Parents and families be fully informed of their rights and responsibilities to evaluate the quality and safety of childcare programs, including, but not limited to, their right to inspect childcare licensing files.

(g)Planning for expansion of childcare and development programs be based on ongoing local needs assessments.

(h)The Superintendent, in providing funding to childcare and development agencies, promote a range of services that will allow parents the opportunity to choose the type of care most suited to their needs. The program scope may include the following:

(1)Programs located in centers, family day care homes, or in the child’s own home.

(2)Services provided part-day, full-day, and during nonstandard hours including weekend care, night and shift care, before and after school care, and care during holidays and vacation.

(3)Childcare services provided for infants, preschool, and schoolage children.

(i)The Superintendent be responsible for the establishment of a public hearing process or other public input process that ensures the participation of those agencies directly affected by a particular section or sections of this chapter.