Bill Text: CA SB956 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Workforce development: California School

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-24 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB956 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB956-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 956	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 17, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Romero
   (Coauthors: Senators Alquist and Oropeza)

                        FEBRUARY 5, 2010

   An act to add Section 14025 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to workforce development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 956, as amended, Romero. Workforce development: California
School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program.
   The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 makes funding
available to states that offer training and workforce development
services through the state and local workforce investment boards. The
California Workforce Investment Board, which is the entity
responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight,
and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment
system, is required to recommend strategies to the Governor for
strategic training investments of certain discretionary funding made
available under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

   Existing law also establishes the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the purpose of
recruiting school paraprofessionals to encourage them to enroll in
teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as
teachers in the public schools. 
   This bill would require the California Workforce Investment Board,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, to allocate $5,000,000 of the
Workforce Investment Act state reserve, as provided for by federal
law, to  the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to increase
spending for the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training
Program   local workforce investment boards to allocate
to school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools
to provide intensive examination preparation courses for the purpose
of retraining laid off and out-of-field teachers to meet subject
matter competency requirements, in accordance with specified
procedures  .
   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 14025 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   14025.  (a) In accordance with the policies and purposes of the
federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 2801 et
seq.), and its implementing regulations, and to the extent that
federal funding is made available to the state under the act, the
board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, shall allocate five
million dollars ($5,000,000) of the Workforce Investment Act state
reserve provided pursuant to Section 2853 of Title 29 of the United
States Code to  the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to
increase spending for the California School Paraprofessional Teacher
Training Program (Article 12 (commencing with Section 44390) of
Chapter 2 of Part 25 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code).
  local workforce investment boards to allocate to
school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools to
provide intensive examination preparation courses pursuant to Section
44401 of the Education Code for the purpose of retraining laid off
and out-of-field teachers to meet subject matter competency
requirements for teaching science, mathematics, or industrial and
technology education.  
   (b) (1) Preferences for examination preparation courses, as
prescribed in subdivision (a), shall be based on the following
priority system:  
   (A) First priority shall be for retraining laid off teachers in
order to prepare them for obtaining subject matter credentials in
science or mathematics.  
   (B) Second priority shall be for retraining teachers who have been
displaced and are currently working out of their field-of-expertise
or competency area.  
   (2) School districts, county offices of education, and charter
schools that receive funding from a local workforce investment board
pursuant to this section shall reimburse each teacher who
successfully passes his or her examination for the cost of that
examination.  
   (b) 
    (c)  Notwithstanding any other law, any Workforce
Investment Act funds allocated or expended by  the Commission
on Teacher Credentialing   local workforce investment
boards  pursuant to this section shall be expended for the
purposes of statewide employment and training activities, and shall
not be allocated or expended in any manner inconsistent with the
Workforce Investment Act.