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Adonai Mack, Legislative Advocate ACSA Negotiators' Planning Retreat

June 26, 2015

Topics We Will Cover Today

• 2015/16 State Budget Deal• Budget Cap Reserve Legislation• Educator Evaluation Legislation• Employee/Employer Legislation• Additional Legislation• ACSA Sponsored Legislation• Outlook on Political Climate 2015/2016• Q & A

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2015/16 State Budget Deal

• Prop 98 enormous growth $6.1 billion over 3 years:– $241 million in 2013/14

– $3.1 billion in 2014/15

– $2.7 million in 2015/16

• Prop 98 guarantee levels for those fiscal years:– $58.9 billion in 2013/14

– $66.3 billion in 2014/15

– $68.4 billion in 2015/16

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2015/16 State Budget Deal

• LCFF Funding – Just under $6 billion

– Closes the gap by 51.5%

• Career Technical Education – $400 million - 2015/16

– $300 million - 2016/17

– $200 million – 2017/18

– 4% for districts with ADA under 140

– 8% for districts with ADA between 140 and 550

– 88% for districts with ADA above 550

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2015/16 State Budget Deal

• Adult Education– $500 million Prop 98 funds

– $25 million for data collection

• Foster Youth– An additional $10 million (total $25 million) to expand

definition to include youth living with relatives

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2015/16 State Budget Deal

• Early Childhood Education/Child Care– Increases slots for preschool and child care by 23,000

– Provides an additional 2,900 part-time slots

– $423 million above last year

– Increase provided for State Preschool wrap-around services with Prop 98 funding

– CalWORKs stage 2 and 3 funding provided

– COLA for preschool programs provided

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2015/16 State Budget Deal

• Educator Effectiveness – $500 million professional development/educator

effectiveness

– Allocated per certificated employee

– Funding used for:1. New teacher and administrator training and mentoring

2. Professional development, coaching, support services for teacher needing improvement (PAR)

3. Professional development for teachers and administrators aligned to state content standards

4. Promote educator quality and effectiveness

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2015/16 State Budget Deal

• Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) claims reports from school districts are too often incomplete

• Attorney General’s Office concurs and charges the CTC for the cost of their investigation– Superintendent penalty for failing to report to local law

enforcement alleged misconduct

– ACSA proposes:• Develop emergency regulations• Strengthen reporting of certificated employee misconduct• Clarify definitions – misconduct, change in employment

status, “pending” as related to alleged misconduct

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2015/16 State Budget Deal

• Update current CTC forms • Develop clear guidelines & protocols for school districts• Stipulate that school employers do not submit info to

CTC that violates state or federal laws regarding student & employee privacy laws

• Develop penalty for non-credentialed school administrators who deliberately fail to report claims

• Develop process for superintendent that makes good-faith effort

• First issue notice before non-compliance is deemed unprofessional conduct

• ACSA to develop and provide training to the field on protocols for submission of misconduct to CTC

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Budget Cap Reserve Legislation

• AB 1048 (Baker) & SB 774 (Fuller): Budget cap reserve repeal

• AB 1318 (Gray & Olsen) – Hoped it would lead to a compromise

– Increases the cap

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Educator EvaluationLegislation

• Vergara driving a discussion on teacher dismissals and effectiveness.

• ACSA leading reforms to define educator effectiveness and how to measure effectiveness.

• Create model template for evaluation – consistent with teaching and professional standards.

• Ensure resources provided for professional development for both teachers & administrators.

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Educator Evaluation Legislation

• AB 575 (O’Donnell and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins) and SB 499 (Liu and Speaker Pro Tempore Kevin De Leon): – Requires teacher evaluation system be locally

negotiated by July 1, 2018, including performance standards on which teachers and administrators would be evaluated

– CTA is not publicly supporting the bill

– Supported by:• SSPI Tom Torlakson• Public Advocates

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Educator Evaluation Legislation

• AB 575 (O’Donnell and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins) and SB 499 (Liu and Speaker Pro Tempore Kevin De Leon): (continued)– Defines elements by which teachers would be evaluated– Employee organizations could insist upon compensation

increases or other costly benefits that in the long run would result in fewer resources being available to address the needs of students

– $500 million in budget could be used to develop evaluation rubrics and provide training on conducting evaluations

• AB 1495 Weber (D-San Diego) changes the Stull Act. Held in the Assembly Education Committee – now a two-year bill

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Employee/Employer Legislation

• ACSA followed 82 bills, of which 28 are still alive• Legislative top priorities:

– AB 215 (Alejo): reduces the Early Termination Clause from up to 18 months to up to 12 months for superintendents only

– AB 304 (Gonzalez): Sick leave clean-up bill. We are trying to get amendments into the bill that address:

• Student workers• Walk-on coaches• Dispute resolution• Permit employers to prescribe a process for employees

to follow for requesting and receiving sick leave

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Employee/Employer Legislation, continued

• AB 375 (Campos): Provides differential pay to include maternity and paternity leave for up to 12 weeks

• AB 915 (Holden): Permits a school employee who is on workers’ compensation leave to travel outside of the state without prior authorization

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Additional Legislation

• AB 141 (Bonilla): Requires LEAs to provide teacher induction programs– Prohibits charging the teacher for the training– Provides legislative intent that the $500 million in

budget is to be used for administrator induction also• AB 963 (Bonilla): Clarifies CalSTRS Creditable

Service– Defines service that can be reported to CalSTRS– Specifies CalSTRS membership for those in partial

certificated positions – Grandfathers in those in classified positions that were

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ACSA Sponsored Legislation

• SB 460 (Allen): Pupils redesignated as fluent English proficient– Allows districts to continue receiving LCFF

supplemental and concentration grant funding for two fiscal years after ELL students are reclassified as Fluent English Proficient (RFEP)

– Districts would receive 50 percent of their supplemental grant and concentration factor funding in the first year after reclassification

– 25 percent in the second year

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ACSA Sponsored Legislation

• SB 460 (Allen): (continued)– As a condition of receiving the additional funding,

districts would be required to identify any specialized programs and/or services provided to RFEP pupils that promote their success

– These changes would remain in law until July 1, 2019

– Bill passed out of Senate Appropriations but amended to state only operational if funding is appropriated in state budget

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Outlook for Political Climate 2015/2016

• Substantial new revenues in state budget• Great budget for public education • Social program advocates pushing hard• Liberal leadership both houses • 72 of 120 legislators less than 2 years policy experts • Moderate to conservative governor wins again • November 2016 elections playing role in 2015 cycle

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Questions and Answers

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Contact the ACSA Governmental Relations Team:1029 J Street, Suite 500Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 444-3216 or (800) 608-2272

For a copy of this presentation, go to: http://edservices.acsa.org/events/2015/6/24/negotiators-retreat