
LCAP - League of California Afterschool Providers The LCAP Bay Area Policy Development Meeting is coming up! Tuesday, October 6 in Oakland, CA.

During the month of October, LCAP will be convening its members through regional meetings, held in several cities across the state...

August 27, 2009 Dear Colleagues, The after-school community was dealt a blow today when the Senate Appropriations Committee elected to hold both AB 434 (Block) and AB 983 (Skinner), claiming that both bills could result in "potentially millions" in General Fund cost pressures...

August 18, 2009Dear Colleagues,Yesterday, as expected, both AB 434 (Block) and AB 983 (Skinner), were referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee suspense file. The Committee has until next Friday, August 28, to release and send these bills to the Senate Floor...

July 16, 2009Dear Colleagues,Yesterday, the Senate Education Committee Passed AB 983 (Skinner); a bill to permit after-school programs to use their base grants to operate activities on weekends...

July 8, 2009Dear Colleagues,The Senate Education Committee unanimously passed AB 434 (Block) today; a bill to temporarily reduce the ASES match requirement from 33 percent to 15 percent through FY 10/11, and clarify the direct service status of site coordinators who spend at least 85 percent of...

July 1, 2009Dear Colleagues,Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg announced today that all Senate Policy Committee meetings would be deferred until a budget agreement has been reached. Both AB 434 (Block) and AB 983 (Skinner) were scheduled to be heard today but have been postponed as a result...

June 4, 2009Dear Colleagues,AB 434 (Block) seeks to clarify that the salaries of after-school program site coordinators who spend at least 85% of their time at the program site should be considered direct service expenditures, and temporarily reduce, from 33% to 15%, the match required for ASES...

June 3, 2009Dear Colleagues,AB 983 (Skinner), which would permit ASES and 21st CCLC programs to use their base grants to conduct weekend activities, passed the Assembly yesterday by a floor vote of 52 to 26...

May 29, 2009Dear Colleagues,Yesterday, Appropriations Committees in both houses of the Legislature considered a total of five bills with potential impacts on after-school programs...








