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California's Budget Conference Committee's Latest Proposed Budget Would Eliminate the Latchkey Program
The latest Budget Conference Committee proposal recommends the elimination the Extended Day Care (Latchkey) program. The Latchkey program provides year-round before and after school child care to school-age children from low-income working families. The recent proposal would eliminate the Latchkey program, but retains funding for Latchkey services from July 1 until the start of school to ensure no children are immediately displaced, and adopts language to ensure that children receive priority placement in other subsidized programs.
Two After School Bills Pass Assembly Education Committee
AB 434 (Block) and AB 364 (Torlakson) recently passed the Assembly Education Committee and will now move to the Assembly appropriations committee. AB 434 (Block) proposes that 100% of the after school site coordinator's time spent at the after school program site would be recorded as direct service. AB 364 (Torlakson) would establish a Teacher Pipeline project for after school employees who are not directly employed by school districts. This bill would expand an existing teacher pipeline project that assists after school program staff to become teachers.
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Legislative Update on AB 1526 from the Network Policy Committee
In connection with the budget, the State Legislature passed by a large margin AB 1526, which, if signed into law by the Governor, would put an initiative on the ballot to repeal Proposition 49’s guarantee of after-school funding. Such a measure would give the legislature authority in future budgets to cut, or even eliminate, after-school funding.
This is a stand-alone measure that, while one of several budget “trailer” bills, is not technically linked to any other budget proposals.
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