California After School Teacher Pipeline Program.

(1) The After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, enacted by the initiative measure Proposition 49, establishes the After School Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating public elementary, middle, junior high, and charter schools. The Wildman-Keeley-Solis Exemplary Teacher Training Act of 1997 establishes the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the purpose of recruiting paraprofessionals to participate in a program designed to encourage them to enroll in teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as teachers in the public schools. This bill would establish the California After School Teacher Pipeline Program, a pilot program, for the purpose of recruiting qualified after school instructors to participate on a pilot basis in the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program. The bill would require the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to select up to 4 school districts or county offices of education receiving program funds under the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program to apply for pilot program funds. The bill would require the commission to use the $150,000 annually transferred by the State Department of Education, as described in (2) below, to award a grant to each selected applicant, not to exceed $3,500 per pilot participant per year. The bill would require the commission, before January 1, 2015, to report to the Legislature regarding the pilot program, as specified. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2016, and repeal them on January 1, 2017. (2) The After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002 makes 1.5% of the funds continuously appropriated for purposes of that program available to the department for purposes of providing technical assistance, evaluation, and training services, and for providing local assistance funds to support program improvement and technical assistance. The act authorizes the Legislature to amend that funding provision by a majority vote if the amendment furthers the purposes of the act. This bill, commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal year, would require the department annually to transfer $150,000 of those funds to the commission for purposes of implementing the California After School Teacher Pipeline Program. (3) This bill also would include a finding and declaration of the Legislature that the bill's provisions further the purposes of the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002.