Senator DeSaulnier’s Legislation Increases Flexibility in Use of ASES and 21st CCLC Funds

We’re very pleased to share that on Oct. 8, 2011, Governor Brown signed into law State Senator Mark DeSaulnier’s summer-learning legislation, Senate Bill 429.

SB 429 increases flexibility around the use of After School Education and Safety (ASES) and 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) summer supplemental grants in order to maximize student attendance and increase student learning.

Thank you to everyone for your crucial support for this bill as it made its way through the Legislature and to the Governor's desk.

SB 429 was sponsored by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and co-sponsored by Partnership for Children and Youth, and Children Now. Sen. DeSaulnier is a longtime partner in our efforts to expand access to summer-learning programs in California.

This is Sen. DeSaulnier’s third consecutive piece of legislation on summer learning, work for which he has received an honor from the National Summer Learning Association.

About SB 429

SB 429 increases flexibility around the use of summer ASES and 21st CCLC supplemental grants in order to maximize student attendance and increase student learning. SB 429 provides creative solutions to improving services to children in a time of diminished resources—with no additional cost to the state.

SB 429 was sponsored by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, and co-sponsored by Partnership for Children and Youth, and Children Now.

Senate Bill 429 is important to efforts to decrease the impact of summer learning loss by giving existing recipients of state and federal after school grants flexibility in how they spend summer supplemental grants. This legislation will:

• Allow programs to operate an extended program for six hours per day. The extended program hours are critical to provide a more comprehensive program that supports the needs of parents and students.
• Allow students from the entire district to enroll in the summer program. This will accommodate students at low-income schools that may not have supplemental grant funds to run summer programming.
• Clarify that programs may operate off-site. As schools become more likely to close their doors during the summer months, utilizing an alternate location is important to the success of the program.

Download an SB 429 fact sheet >>
Read the text of SB 429 as chaptered >>