From the ECS State Policy Database Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Increases hours a participating program operated by a city, county, or nonprofit organization in the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program is permitted to operate without a license or special permit from 30 to 60 hours a week. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1087_bill_20120927_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 1087 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov IA Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 This section requires the director of the Department of Education to appoint members to a school instructional time task force. The task force is to review and submit findings and recommendations pertaining to school instructional time by October 15, 2012. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf Title: S.F. 2284 - Division X Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us MD Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Extends the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund Program to include summer programs. Provides that only nonpreofit organizations are eligible to receive a grant. Directs the executive committee to ensure funds are granted to nonprofit organizations in all geographic areas of the state as equitably as possible. Permits the executive committee to award a capacity building grant from the fund to assist nonprofit organizations to increase staff capacity, training, and sustainability of the programs.http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0886t.pdf Title: H.B. 886 Source: mlis.state.md.us GA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Repeals Section 20-2-312, relating to a state program for middle school children during nonschool hours. Page 7 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127649.pdf Title: H.B. 706 - Program for Middle School Children During Nonschool Hours Source: www.legis.ga.gov CA Vetoed 10/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Permits a participating program operated by a city, county or nonprofit organization in the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES) to operate for up to 60 hours per week without obtaining a license or special permit otherwise required (previously maximum was 30 hours per week). Provides that no individual child can be in care in the program for more than 30 hours per week. Title: S.B. 737 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Provides that any school that establishes a program pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program, or establishes a program with a before school program component pursuant to the program, is eligible to receive a supplemental grant to operate the program in excess of 180 regular schooldays or during any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation periods for a maximum of 30% of the total grant amount awarded, per school year, to the school. (Current provisions make a school that establishes a before school program component pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program eligible for a supplementary grant to operate the program in excess of 180 schooldays during any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation periods.) Allows supplemental grantees to change the location of the program and to open eligibility for the program. Requires a supplemental grantee operating a 6-hour extended day program to submit, for prior approval by the state department of education, a revised program plan. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_429_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 429 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CT Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Sec. 1 - Establishes a task force to address the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut by considering effective approaches to closing the achievement gaps in elementary, middle and high schools. Requires the task force to submit a master plan to the General Assembly by July 1, 2012. Provides that the task force must terminate on January 1, 2020. Sec. 2 - Establishes an Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap (the council) to assist the achievement gap task force, in the development of the master plan to eliminate the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut, implement the provisions of the master plan, and, if necessary, make recommendations for legislation relating to the master plan to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly. Directs the council to submit annual progress reports on the implementation of the master plan to the General Assembly. Sec. 3 - Permits local or regional boards of education for schools designated as low-achieving under state law to increase the number of school sessions each year and the number of school hours each day in order to improve student performance and remove the school from the list of low-achieving schools. Sec. 4 - Provides that the summer reading program required in priority school districts must be offered to children enrolled in kindergarten who are determined by their school to be substantially deficient in reading based on measures established by the State Board of Education. Directs each priority school district to require the schools under its jurisdiction to assess the reading level of students enrolled in kindergarten at the end of the school year and in grades 1-3 at the beginning, middles and end of the school year (assessment was previously only required in grades 1-3 at the middle and end of the school year). Required individual reading plans must be monitored by school literacy teams that will consist of, but not be limited to, teachers, school reading specialists, internal or external reading consultants, the school principal and the provider of the additional instruction. Adds kindergarten to the grade range for which priority school districts may require students found substantially deficient in reading to attend summer school. Sec. 5 - Permits the Commissioner of Education to identify schools to participate in a pilot study for the purposes of promoting best practices in early literacy and closing the academic achievement gaps. Sec. 6 - Provides that the required statement of educational goals (which identify specific expectations for students in terms of skills, knowledge and competence) prepared by the board of education be annually established. Sec. 7 - Requires, on and after July 1, 2011, any person applying for a certification in the endorsement area of elementary education to achieve a satisfactory evaluation on the appropriate State Board of Education approved mathematics assessment in order to be eligible for such elementary education endorsement. Sec. 8 - Requires, not later than July 1, 2012, the Department of Education to approve and make available model curricula and frameworks in reading and mathematics for grades prekindergarten to grade four, inclusive, for use by boards of education for school districts or individual schools identified by the department as having academic achievement gaps. Sec. 9 - Requires the Connecticut School Reform Resource Center (the Center) to provide a program of professional development activities for teachers to educate such students that includes research-based child development and reading instruction tools and practices. Requires the Center to develop strategies for assisting such students who are in danger of failing and develop culturally-relevant methods for educating students whose primary language is not English. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/PA/2011PA-00085-R00SB-00929-PA.htm Title: S.B. 929 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov NV Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Establishing the Interim Task Force on Out-of-School-Time Programs; requiring the Task Force to prescribe standards for out-of-school-time programs and to make certain recommendations relating to out-of-school-time programs; exempting out-of-school-time programs, out-of-school recreation programs and seasonal or temporary recreation programs from licensure and regulation as child care facilities; requiring certain out-of-school recreation programs to obtain a permit; establishing certain requirements for the operation of an out-of-school recreation program; authorizing an out-of-school-time program to report certain information to the Bureau of Services for Child Care of the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB362_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 362 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Extends for 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years a provision waiving the state from specified reimbursement for additional days of instruction for low-performing students. Page 8 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116810.pdf Title: H.B. 192 - Remediation Source: www.legis.ga.gov MT Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Allows for voluntary pupil instruction to occur on Saturday. Requires teachers who volunteer to teach on a Saturday to be compensated at the same rate as and in addition to their annual contract. Clarifies that such instructional time, since voluntary, does not count toward the minimum aggregate hours of pupil instruction. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011/billpdf/SB0208.pdf. Title: S.B. 208 Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov UT Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Identifies allowable expenditures of K-3 Reading Improvement Program funds, including, among other uses, focused reading remediations through before- and after-school programs and summer programs, or reading software. Directs the state board to annually report to the education interim committee a summary of reading improvement program expenditures by districts and charter schools. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0063.pdf Title: S.B. 63 Source: le.utah.gov CA Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Amends eligibility requirements for children to receive child care and development services. Existing law provides children must be at least 13 or younger. Under amendment, eligible children are: --Age 10 or younger --Children with exceptional needs --Children 12 years of age or younger who are recipients of child protective services or at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation --Children 12 years of age or younger who are provided services during nontraditional hours --Children 12 years of age or younger who are homeless --Children who are 11 and 12 years of age, as funding permits. From bill summary: Specifies that a child who is 11 or 12 years old and who is otherwise eligible for subsidized child care and development services, except for his or her age, must be given first priority for enrollment, and in cases of programs operating at full capacity, first priority on the waiting list for a before- or after-school program, and requires contractors to provide each family of an otherwise eligible 11- or 12-year-old with information about the availability of before- and after-school programs in the family's community. Removes provisions requiring contractors to report savings to the department. Amends definition of "income eligible" for purposes of participation in the Child Care and Development Services Act. Provides that an eligible family's adjusted monthly income is at or below 70% (formerly 75%) of the state median income. Provides for the reduction of child care and development services, and the disenrollment of specified families from subsidized child care services, in accordance with prescribed priorities. Pages 15-21 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 8201, 8208, 8263.1 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov AR Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Provides a framework for afterschool programs that promote positive youth development. Establishes the positive Youth Development Grant Program. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/SB138.pdf Title: S.B. 138 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ CA Signed into law 10/2010 P-12 From bill summary: Makes inoperative until July 1, 2013 the requirement that districts offer programs of direct, systematic and intensive supplemental instruction (during summer, before or after school, on Saturdays or during intersession--not during the regular instructional day) to pupils in grades 2-9 who have been recommended for retention or who have been retained at their grade for the next year. Provides that until July 2013, relieved from performing any activities under this provision that are deemed to be reimbursable state mandates. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1610_bill_20101019_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1610 - Supplemental Instruction Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 To the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws, authorizes local educational agency (LEA) grantees funded through to the After School Education and Safety Program and grants for 21st Century Community Learning Centers programs to submit the following information to afterschool program operators with which the LEA has a contract: (a) School attendance data (b) Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program test scores, and scores on individual California Standards Tests (c) High school exit exam scores (d) English language development test placement or reclassification scores (e) California Healthy Kids Survey results in aggregate form. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2178_bill_20100929_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2178 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 Primarily from bill summary: Requires, in any fiscal year in which the total state appropriation for that fiscal year under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program exceeds the total state appropriation for the 2008–09 fiscal year after certain funds have been allocated, that the excess amount be allocated for direct grants to community learning centers in accordance with the following schedule: 35% to community learning centers serving high school pupils; 50% to community learning centers serving elementary and middle school pupils; and 15% to summer programs serving elementary and middle school pupils. Requires priority for funds allocated to programs serving elementary and middle school pupils to be given to programs with expiring grants, subject to specified requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_798_bill_20100929_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 798 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 Applies specified background check procedures to heritage schools, which serve children between the ages of 5 and 18 who attend a public or private full-time school, and offer foreign language education or tutoring and cultural education relating to a foreign country. Requires heritage schools to maintain membership in a state or national cultural or language association, comply with relevant applicable local regulations, and not operate out of a residential home. Requires the director of a heritage school to undergo at least 15 hours of health and safety training, and requires employees and volunteers of the heritage school to be in good health, as verified by a health screening performed by a licensed physician and surgeon. Exempts a heritage school from licensure by the state department of social services as a child day care center. Requires a heritage school to provide a notice to the parent of a pupil enrolling in the school stating that the school is exempt from child care licensure and that attendance at a heritage school does not satisfy state compulsory education requirements. Establishes the Heritage Enrichment Resource Fund. Authorizes the superintendent to expend moneys deposited in the fund, upon appropriation by statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1116_bill_20100924_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 1116 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 From bill analysis: Specifies that for the After School Education and Safety (ASES) Program, the cost of a program site supervisor may be included as direct services, provided that at least 85% of the site supervisor's time is spent at the program site. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0401-0450/ab_434_bill_20100924_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 434 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 07/2010 P-12 Authorizes administrators of an After School Education and Safety Program to provide activities on weekends. Provides costs associated with weekend activities must be paid from a program's maximum grant or supplemental grant awarded. Provides that except for programs funded by the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, participation of pupils in the weekend activities should not be included in the attendance reported to the state department of education for the calculation of either the maximum grant amount or a supplemental grant amount. Authorizes before-school programs to operate on weekends. Provides that priority for After School Education and Safety Program funding must be given to programs with expiring grants if these programs have met projected pupil outcomes set forth in Section 8484 (i.e., http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=edc&group=08001-09000&file=8483.3-8484.5.duplicate). Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1876_bill_20100708_enrolled.pdf Governor's veto message: http://users.activatedirect.com/fs/distribution:letterFile/yvcee9xanplikz_files/z0v2ckbj1ppp4e Title: A.B. 1876 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov TN Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 As students participating in the pilot after school programs complete high school, requires the Commissioner of Education to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot after-school program, as it pertains to increasing ACT and SAT scores, eligibility for lottery scholarships, and enrollment in postsecondary institutions, as compared to students who did not participate in the pilot after-school program. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB1869.pdf Title: H.B. 1869 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 From the Fiscal Note: Requires the Commissioner of Education to report annually any findings and recommendations concerning the system of competitive grants and technical assistance for after-school education programs to the chairs of the Senate Education Committee and the House Education Committee. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB0980.pdf Title: S.B. 980 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Requires the commissioner of education to encourage Lottery for Education Afterschool programs to provide extended learning that is complementary to school curricula. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB3321.pdf Title: S.B. 3321 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Requires survey of extended learning programs to be disseminated by the Department of Education to all LEAs so that successful programs may be replicated. Chapter 737 http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB3415.pdf Title: H.B. 3415 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ RI Passed 11/2009 P-12 Creates a thirteen member special legislative task force whose purpose it would be to make a comprehensive study of summer learning programs and report back to the General Assembly. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/billtext09/housetext09/h5967aa.htm Title: H.B. 5967 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Defines "community school" as a school that partners with its community to provide enrichment and life skill opportunities for students, parents and community members. Subject to an appropriation or the availability of funding for such purposes, requires the state board of education to make grants available to fund community schools and to enhance programs at community schools. Requires a request- for-proposal process to be used in awarding grants. Provides that proposals may be submitted on behalf of a school, a school district, or a consortium of 2 or more schools or school districts. Establishes components a school must offer to qualify for a community school grant, including before- and after-school programming each school day to meet identified student needs, weekend programming and at least four weeks of summer programming. Adds "fostering innovative approaches to education" to the P-20 council's charge. Authorizes the creation of a P-20 council working group on community schools, community participation and other innovative approaches to education that foster community partnerships. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0684lv.pdf Title: H.B. 684 Source: www.ilga.gov CA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 The purpose of the After School Education and Safety Program is to create incentives for establishing before- and after-school enrichment programs (including during the summer) that partner public schools and communities to provide academic and literacy support and safe alternatives for youth. Adds section 8481 to the Education Code, to provide that article 22.5, "After School Education and Safety Program," will become inoperative on September 1, 2009 and is repealed as of January 1, 2010. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx4_2_bill_20090728_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2 - Section 8 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov RI Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to begin planning an initial, demonstration after school and summer learning program that meets high quality standards; includes child care. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law09/law09087.htm Title: H.B. 5802 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us RI Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to begin planning an initial, demonstration after school and summer learning program that meets high quality standards. Goal: Meets high quality standards, is age/grade appropriate, runs programming during the hours of 3:00 p.m. through 6:00 p.m. during the week, promotes the healthy development of youth, connects to the school day, builds on the existing after school and summer learning infrastructure in the state (including child care, 21st century community learning centers program, child opportunity zones, community-based organizations and public schools), incorporates experiential learning, social/emotional development and project-based activities and serves all children and youth from kindergarten to 12th grade with an emphasis on children and youth who attend high poverty, low performing schools. (Public Law No. 2009-93) http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law09/law09093.htm Title: S.B. 954 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us TN Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Authorizes local boards of education to cooperate with community organizations to provide extended learning opportunities. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB1320.pdf Title: S.B. 1320 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov NC Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Clarifies the meaning of public school buildings as related to after-school child care programs as "any building which is currently approved for school occupancy and which houses a public or private elementary school to include the playgrounds and athletic fields as part of the school building when that building is used to serve school-age children in after-school child care programs"; establishes procedures for approving education criteria for after-school child care program coordinators and group leaders. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1030v6.pdf Title: S.B. 1030 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 As introduced, requires the department of education to survey LEAs concerning extended learning opportunities in LEAs or communities and to include the results of the survey in the commissioner's annual report. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB0982.pdf Title: S.B. 982 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ TN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to study the Lottery for Education After-School Program (LEAP) for its effectiveness of providing complementary learning opportunities to the regular school curriculum and whether additional opportunities are needed. The DOE shall make a report of its findings to the Education Committees of the General Assembly by the second Tuesday of January 2010. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB0979.pdf Title: S.B. 979 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills MS Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Creates the After-School Initiative Task Force to develop a plan to ensure quality after-school programs for every school-age child in the state; establishes a task force to study and report on the graduation rates in the state institutions of higher learning and junior and community colleges; provides for the membership of the task force. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0488SG.htm Title: H.B. 488 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us NJ Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Requires the board of education of each former Abbott district, in conjunction with the local governing body of the municipality in which the district is located, to develop a plan for a comprehensive program of after school activities; provides for what shall be included within the plan. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/S1500/1175_I1.PDF Title: S.B. 1175 Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Creates a "lottery for education after school programs (LEAP) grant fund." This bill specifies that in any year that the lottery-funded scholarship program is funded and excess funds from net lottery proceeds are available in the after school account (instead of the lottery for education account) for other allowable purposes, the governor may recommend, and the general assembly may appropriate, such moneys to the LEAP grant fund. These changes would apply under the present law provisions regarding grants for eligible organizations providing pilot after school educational programs. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1175.pdf Title: S.B. 2809 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Creates the Quality Afterschool Opportunities Act to Reduce Childhood Obesity and Improve Academic Performance; directs the State Department of Health to establish certain grant program; directs the Department to develop application process, set eligibility requirements, and determine criteria for grants; directs the State Board of Health to promulgate rules. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/SB/SB1612_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 1612 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us ME Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Directs the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education, within existing resources, to gather information pertaining to ways to establish and fund after-school programs; directs the departments to seek input from the Maine Afterschool Network and report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education and cultural affairs by a certain date. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280022388&LD=63&Type=1&SessionID=7 Title: H.B. 61 Source: http://janus.state.me.us/legis/ VA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Allows local school boards to establish after school programs designed to prevent at risk youth from engaging in illegal or gang related activities for students who attend elementary, middle, or high schools; provides that local funds appropriated for K through 12 education may be used to support such programs. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0455 Title: S.B. 44 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us RI Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Creates a sixteen member special legislative commission whose purpose it would be to study transportation for afterschool and childcare programs. Title: H.B. 6313 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet RI Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Implements a voluntary quality rating system to increase the quality of early care and education of school-age child care. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law07/law07141.htm Title: H.B. 5862 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us CO Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Creates the Student Before-and After-School Project within the Tony Grampus Youth Service Program to provide funding for before-and-after school programs primarily for youth enrolled in grades 6 through 8; describes the programs that qualify for grants; creates a fund for the program; identifies the sources of moneys for the fund as gifts, grants, and donations and moneys collected from alcohol taxes. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/9FDF138237AD5CE387257251007B8717?open&file=1248_ren.pdf Title: H.B. 1248 Source: Colorado Legislture ME Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 (Resolve) Provides for review of various funding and accountability requirements for the range of programs providing before-school and after-school programming for school-age children; increases both the effectiveness and efficiency of those programs in meeting the broad needs of the children, families and communities in which they exist; creates a study group. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billpdfs/LD136901.pdf f Title: H.B. 961; LD 1369 Source: Maine Legislature CO Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Establishes the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") after-school education pilot grant program ("grant program") in the office of economic development. Allows a provider that coordinates STEM after-school education programs to apply for a grant to defray the administrative and personnel costs associated with coordinating the programs and to directly support secondary schools' participation in the programs. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/144854E94C771F3787257251007D5303?open&file=1243_ren.pdf Title: H.B. 1243 Source: Colorado Legislature MN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Establishes a competitive statewide after-school community learning grant program to provide grants to community or nonprofit organizations, political subdivisions, for-profit or nonprofit child care centers or school-based programs that serve youth after school or during nonschool hours. The commissioner shall develop criteria for after-school community learning programs. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2245.2.html&session=ls85 Title: H.F. 2245 [After School Programs] Source: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us MT Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Appropriates funds to the board of crime control to sustain funding for existing prevention and after-school programs for at-risk youth. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0677.htm Title: H.B. 677 Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov WA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Declares that the activities in this act revise and strengthen the state learning standards that implement the essential academic learning requirements, and improve alignment of school district curriculum to the standards. Directs the state board of education to appoint a mathematics advisory panel and a science advisory panel to advise the board regarding essential academic learning requirements, grade level expectations, and recommended curricula in mathematics and science and to monitor implementation of these activities. In conducting their work, the panels shall provide objective reviews of materials and information provided by any expert national consultants retained by the board and shall provide a public and transparent forum for consideration of mathematics and science learning standards and curricula. Creates the after-school mathematics support program to study the effects of intentional, skilled mathematics support included as part of an existing after-school activity program. Directs the office of the superintendent of public instruction to provide grants to selected community-based, nonprofit organizations that provide after-school programs and include support for students to learn mathematics. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to evaluate program outcomes and report to the governor and the education committees of the legislature on the outcomes of the grants and make recommendations related to program continuation, program modification, and issues related to program sustainability and possible program expansion. An interim report is due November 1, 2008. The final report is due December 1, 2009. Authorizes a mathematics and science instructional coach program, which shall consist of a coach development institute, coaching seminars, coaching activities in schools, and program evaluation. Directs the Washington state institute for public policy to conduct an evaluation of the mathematics and science instructional coach program in this act. Requires the institute for public policy to report its findings to the governor, the office of the superintendent of public instruction, and the education and fiscal committees of the legislature. Provides that, beginning September 1, 2007, through December 1, 2008, the state board of education shall provide a status report at the beginning of each calendar quarter on the activities and progress in completing the requirements under this act. The report shall be provided to the governor and the members of the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1906-S2.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 1906 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specifically including alternative schools and imposes a moratorium on new alternative schools recognized under the model during the review period; continues the summer school & extended day programs during school year 2007-2008; also requires the state superintendent to study and develop recommendations on distance education programs and to establish a task force for this purpose. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0115.pdf Title: H.B. 115 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm HI Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Appropriates funds to the department of education, the office of youth services, and each county's department of parks and recreation for extended day programs for students in grades K-12. Clarifies that funds are to supplement existing monies for extended day programs. Requires allocated funds to go to programs that demonstrate a commitment to partnering with the public and private sectors and involve youth as active participants in all phases of program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Requires all programs receiving allocations to meet each quarter with their community partners for the purposes of program evaluation and improvement. Requires the office of youth services, the department of education, and the counties' parks and recreation departments to convene annually to share information on best practices and outcomes. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb486_cd1_.htm Title: S.B. 486 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov MS Rule Adoption 06/2006 P-12 Amends rules regarding the NCLB consolidated state application. Revises the methodology for awarding competitive grants for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. Mississippi 10397 Title: Title IV, Part B Subpart 2 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2006 P-12 Establishes emergency rules concerning the Bridges summer school, enrichment, and extended day grant programs. Sets forth the grant requirements and application procedures for eligibility and application for financial assistance for the provision of intervention, remediation, and enrichment programs to students. Describes minimum programmatic requirements, time-frames for submitting the application, allocation of funds, and provides definitions. http://soswy.state.wy.us/RULES/6250.pdf Title: Chapter 33 Source: http://soswy.state.wy.us/Rule_Search_Main.asp OK Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Allows districts to adopt an extended day schedule for 9th-12th grades. Requires a public hearing and certain documentation; requires revocation of authorizaiton for a program if the student achievement is not documented; provides for denial of accreditation in certain circumstances. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06bills/HB/HB2367_ENR.RTF Title: H.B. 2367 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us TN Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Postsec. Concerns Lottery, Scholarships and Programs; creates pilot after school program for at-risk students to prepare for ACT and SAT examinations funded by net state lottery proceeds. Public Chaptered. Chapter No. 685 http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3113.pdf Title: S.B. 3113; H.B. 3249 Source: Tennessee Legislature TN Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Reduces number of hours of operations from 20 hours per week to 15 hours per week for after school programs to be eligible for technical assistance and grants. Deletes requirement that eligible programs offer computer literacy and skills development. Reduces requirement that programs serve 80% at risk students (with specific criteria) to serving 50% meeting designated "at risk" requirements. http://tennessee.gov/sos/acts/104/pub/pc0425.pdf Title: H.B. 838 Source: http://tennessee.gov CO Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Creates the dropout prevention activity grant program to fund before- and after-school arts-based and vocational activity programs for students in grades 6-12, with the goal of reducing the student dropout rate. Defines as schools eligible to participate public and charter schools serving any grades 6-12 and that received a "low" or "unsatisfactory" rating in the state accountability system for the school year preceding the school year in which the school is seeking a grant for the program. States that a qualified school seeking grant program funding must apply to its local board for permission to apply to the department for a grant. If the district board grants permission, directs the qualified school to submit an application to the department. Defines a "qualified community organization" as a nonprofit or not-for-profit, nonsectarian, community-based organization that provides before- and after-school, arts-based or vocational activity programs to low-income youth in grades 6-12. Allows a qualified community organization to seek a program grant by entering into a partnership agreement with a qualified school. Requires the department to review each grant application received and to make recommendations to the state board on the awarding of program grants. Specifies that first priority must be given to schools that have had high dropout rates for the 3 years prior to the submission of the application, and that the department must also fund schools with high percentages of minority and low-income students. Also requires the department to consider the format of the program and determine its cost-effectiveness, the number of students who will be able to participate, and the quality of the experience offered, with the goal of funding arts-based and vocational activity programs that offer a large number of students the opportunity to directly participate in and experience an arts-based or vocational activity. Encourages the department to fund programs that have a school-business or include a community service component, so that programs demonstrate a connection with the community outside the school and provide a benefit to that community. Creates the dropout prevention activity grant fund. Requires each qualified school that receives a program grant to report to the department, for each year in which it receives a grant, a description of the arts-based or vocational activity program, the projects accomplished through the program, and the number of participating students. Directs the department to annually report to the education committees of the general assembly and to the governor on the number and amounts of dropout prevention activity program grants awarded, a description of the programs that received funding, the number of students participating in the programs, and the dropout rates for the schools where the funded arts-based and vocational activity programs were operated. Requires that for income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2005, but before January 1, 2008, a voluntary contributor designation line for the program shall appear on individual income tax forms. Repeals voluntary contributor designation line for the program effective January 1, 2009. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/0AF7F5020FB4A25987256F5C007F669F?Open&file=1024_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1024 Source: www.leg.state.co.us CA Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Extends the Six-to-Six Before and After School Program for four years and repeals in on January 1, 2009. The program creates locally administered and locally funded before and after school enrichment programs that partner schools and communities to provide academic and literacy support and safe, constructive alternatives for youth in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1351-1400/ab_1393_bill_20040830_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1393 Source: California Legislative Web site HI Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 The education reform in this Act shall be known as the "Reinventing Education Act of 2004." The provisions include (1) establishing a weighted student formula; (2) providing additional information technology; (3) empowering principals through a Hawaii principals academy and other means; (4) strengthening community involvement through school community councils and parent-community networking centers; (5) providing more mathematics textbooks; (6) lowering class size in kindergarten, grade one, and grade two; (7) providing full-time, year-round, high school student activity coordinators; (8) providing support for students who need additional help to succeed in school; (9) establishing a national board certification incentive program for teachers; (10) enhancing teacher education; (11) reducing the bureaucracy that hampers the effectiveness of the department of education; (12) improving the educational accountability system; and (13) requiring board of education members to hold community meetings in their districts. Establishes the after-school plus program revolving fund.Creates a working group to create a plan for principal performance contracts. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=HB2002&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs Title: H.B. 2002 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site TN Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Authorizes a system of competitive grants for after school educational programs funded from the lottery for education account and administered through department of education. Grants and technical assistance shall supplement non-lottery educational resources for after school educational programs and purposes. An organization is eligible if such organization operates a program that is available to students at least 20 hours per week on a year round basis and is designed to address the needs of children five years old or older and enrolled in elementary or secondary grades. Such program shall maintain an enrollment that is at least 80% children who are low income, abused, neglected, members of dysfunctional families, enrolled in failing schools, enrolled in another public school instead of a failing school due to parent choice, or at risk of failing one or more school subjects. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Fiscal/SB3158.pdf Title: S.B. 3158 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/ AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Postsec. Establishes a coalition effort between the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and certain school districts to reduce academic disparities in the state delta; provides for standards-based curricula in mathematics, reading and English, faculty development, student assessment date and development of an after-school academic program. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1048.pdf Title: H.B. 1048 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site MD Rule Adoption 09/2003 P-12 Establishes requirements for the administration and operation of programs funded through the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund Program, which provides financial support for after-school enrichment activities for school-age children. MARYLAND REG 9534 (SN) Title: COMAR 07.04.12, 01 thru .08 Source: StateNet NY Vetoed 08/2003 P-12 Removes certain barriers to the operation of after school drop-in centers. Title: A.B. 2438 Source: StateNet IL Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Provides the state board of education should be the designated agency responsible for the administration of programs under Part I of Subchapter X of Chapter 70 of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Requires the state board of education to establish and implement a 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program to provide grants to support academically focused after-school programs for students who attend high-poverty, low-performing schools. Allows the state board of education to establish any other grant programs that are necessary to establish high-quality, academically based, after-school programs that include family-centered education activities. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=66&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=498&SessionID=3 Title: S.B. 66 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site CT Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Establishes a state "after-school committee" to make recommendations on a state-wide after school system through enhanced agency coordination, maximization of public and private funding and community partnerships. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=5723&which_year=2003&SUBMIT.x=10&SUBMIT.y=10 Title: H.B. 5723 Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site TN Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Under present law, a public school may be placed on notice or probation for failure to make adequate progress in meeting the rules, regulations, and performance standards of the state board of education. If a system or school on notice does not meet the standards for adequate yearly progress by the end of the first year of notice, the system or school may be placed on probation. This bill would allow the two school systems (whether city or county) with the greatest number of schools on notice or probation to establish an inner city educational enhancement pilot project upon advanced approval of the municipality's legislative body. Such project would provide after school programs at all or a significant portion of schools placed on notice or probation. Such project could also consist of before school, Saturday, and summer programs. The programs and services of such project would include, but not be limited, to: (1) Reading skills development and enhancement; (2) Math and science skills development and enhancement; (3) Computer literacy and skills development; (4) Tutoring and homework supervision and assistance; (5) Individual assessment and remedial instruction; (6) Academic mentoring; and (7) Life experiences and enrichment opportunities. Project programs and services would be primarily offered by qualified volunteers who are retired teachers, professors, law enforcement officers, armed forces veterans, or public employees. The municipality would be authorized to offer limited incentive grants to such volunteers. The receipt of such incentive grants would not affect, reduce, or in any way impair the volunteer's status or benefits under a retirement system of any state or local government. The department of education and the office of education accountability would monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of such project. Such entities would also file a joint report of findings and recommendations by January 15, 2004, with each member of the education oversight committee and the education committees of the senate and house. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB1665.pdf (H.B. 1665 prior to amendment stipulating two school systems (whether city or county) Title: H.B. 1665 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us TN Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Urges full funding of 21st Century Learning Centers Program in fiscal year 2004 federal budget. Provides for the Tennessee General Assembly to memorialize the U.S. Congress to fully fund the 21st Century Learning Centers Program in the Fiscal Year 2004 budget at 1.5 billion dollars as was previously authorized by law. Certified copies of this resolution shall be forwarded to the members of the Tennessee Congressional delegation, U.S. Secretary of Education Ron Paige and President George W. Bush. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HJR0597.pdf Title: H.J.R. 597 Source: StateNet NM Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Relates to juveniles; authorizes public support for public-private partnerships to develop after-school and other prevention programs for the youth of New Mexico; provides for fund distribution. Title: H.B. 700 Source: StateNet MI Signed into law 12/2002 P-12 Provides for the exemption of before and after school child care programs for school-age children and that are operated or contracted for by public schools from registration with the Department of Consumer and Industry Affairs under certain conditions. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2001-2002/publicact/pdf/2002-PA-0696.pdf Title: H.B. 5584 Source: StateNet CA Approved by voters 11/2002 P-12 Increases state grant funds available for before and after school programs providing tutoring, homework assistance, and educational enrichment. Establishes priority for continued funding level for schools already receiving grants. Makes public elementary, middle and junior high schools, including charter schools, eligible for grants ranging from $ 50,000 to $ 75,000. Provides priority for additional funding to schools with mainly low-income students. Funding for before and after school programs will be above Proposition 98 base funding and at least $85 million for the first year, increasing to $550 million annually if state revenues increase. http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm#2002General Title: Proposition 49 Source: California Secretary of State, NCSL CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Establishes the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program. Creates incentives for establishing locally driven after school enrichment programs for high school pupils in the hours after the regular school day. Requires the Department of Education to select a minimum of 10 programs to receive funding. Authorizes a successful applicant to receive a 5- year grant subject to certain conditions. Title: A.B. 1984 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Relates to existing law which provides incentives for schools and communities to partner together to establish after school enrichment programs. Authorizes nutrition education to be provided as part of the educational enrichment component. Title: A.B. 2024 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MA Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Permits districts to establish full-time or part-time preschool, after-school or summer school programs English language learners programs, although these programs may not substitute for English language learners programs provided during the regular school year. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/house/ht05010.htm Title: H.B. 5010 Source: http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/house/ht05010.htm OK Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Part of this bill directs the Office of Juvenile Affairs, Department of Human Services, State Department of Education, State Department of Health, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, State Arts Council, Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, 4-H Clubs, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service and other organizations identified by the Department of Juvenile Justice that provide services to children and youth to coordinate on the creation of an out-of-school resource center subject to the availability of funds. Title: H.B. 2850 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02HB/hb2850_enr.rtf GA Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Changes the method for calculating funding for certain after-school programs for students who have previously dropped out of school and students who have previously failed courses in a regular day time school; provides for related matters. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/Legis/2001_02/fulltext/sb384.htm Title: S.B. 384 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Eliminates subsection allowing districts to employ community education coordinators to promote, coordinate, organize, and administer community education programs. See bill section 239, page 596, line 17 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf Title: S.B. 20E Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Authorizes the commissioner of education to approve district requests for grant waivers that would allow the district to use grants for extended day/week/year through an "alternative service delivery option," including offering programs during the school day. Title: H.B. 626 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Allows any local school district to fund extended day and -year programs for kindergarten or compulsory age students through sources other than the adequate education program. Permits local boards to expend funds from any available sources to help defray costs of student field trips to public or private nonprofit museums. Allows local boards to enter into contracts or agreements with public or private individuals or entities to provide staff training or development. Requires School Executive Management Institute to issue certificates of completion to those school board members who complete the basic education course within the institute. Deletes language relating to required content and location of local board member basic training courses. Transfers responsibility for issuance of school board member continuing education courses from institute to state school boards association. Requires state school boards association to report annually to state board and assembly education committee chairs on activites and provide evaluation of continuing education programs offered by the association each year. Eliminates language mandating content of continuing education courses conducted by School Executive Management Institute for elementary and secondary school principals. Eliminates language requiring board members to file annually a certificate of completion of continuing education course conducted by postsecondary institutions but maintains same requirement for courses conducted by Mississippi School Boards Association. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2002/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0494SG.htm Title: H.B. 494 Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us MS Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Deletes the automatic repealer on the authority of local school boards to provide extended school day and extended school year programs and on local school district instructional home rule authority. Title: S.B. 2317 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY To governor 10/2001 P-12 Appropriations bill. One section states that for services and expenses of the youth-at-risk/community partnership program for the 2001-02 school year. Of the amounts appropriated, up to $ 325,500 may be made available for department administration of the 2001-02 school year youth-at-risk/community partnership program. Title: S.B. 5824; (NEW BILL) Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 10/2001 P-12 Chapter No.453, Relates to the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program. Establishes the Six-to-Six Before and After School Program to provide local before and after school enrichment programs. Permits such programs to operate for up to 30 hours per week without obtaining a license or special permit. Authorizes such programs to operate only with the authorization of the governing board of a school district. Title: A.B. 297 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2001 P-12 Permits schools to establish before and after school programs under the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program. Establishes maximum grants for before and after school programs and revises related funding priorities. Title: A.B. 6 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Establishes the Task Force on Out-of-School Programs; makes provisions for membership and reimbursement of task force members. Task Force is required to make recommendations regarding the cooperative and coordinated delivery of out-of-school programs and to conduct a review which includes, but is not limited to identification of all services currently offered and persons actually served; recommendations on the integration of services and identification of funding streams to ensure maximum outcomes; identification of components that produce a quality out-of-school program; strategies to overcome barriers to services; cost analysis of provided services and costs of services not currently provided; and identification of any other problem areas related to out-of-school programs, and submit any legislative proposals necessary to implement the findings of the task force on or before December 1, 2001. Title: H.B. 1359 Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site SD Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Makes an appropriation to provide grants to out-of-school time programs. Title: H.B. 1229 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Chapter No.582, Requires the State Department of Education when selecting schools to participate in the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnerships Program to also give primary emphasis to the capacity to facilitate better integration with the regular school day and with other extended learning opportunities. Title: S.B. 2188 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Approved by voters 06/2000 P-12 INITIATIVE 728: Shall school districts reduce class sizes, extend learning programs, expand teacher training, and construct facilities, funded by lottery proceeds, existing property taxes, and budget reserves? Title: Initiative 728 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 Relates to grants for before and after school programs; clarifies statutory language. Title: H.B. 2467 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Defines "Academic Intervention Programs" as those taking place before or after school, or on weekends, during holidays, vacations or summer break. Provides grants to county boards for programs meeting certain criteria. Requires evaluation of the status and success on an individual program and statewide basis. Title: S.B. 810 Source: Lexis-Nexis GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 The extended day program for students in grades 9-12 has been reinstated and funded. There are additional funds for an extra 20 days which local systems may use to either extend the school day or school year. However, these days are to be used for remediation of low performing students. Title: H.B. 1187 Source: Georgia Department of Education