2023 Educator Effectiveness Funds Block Grant - Legislative Report

California Department of Education
Report to the Legislature and the Department of Finance: The Educator Effectiveness Funds Block Grant

Executive Summary

This report is required by California Education Code (EC) Section 41480 . The Educator Effectiveness Funds (EEF) Block Grant provides funding to county offices of education, school districts, charter schools, and state special schools to provide professional learning and to promote educator equity, quality, and effectiveness. Local educational agencies (LEAs) shall expend the EEF to provide professional learning for teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals who work with pupils, and classified staff who interact with pupils, with a focus on any of the 11 allowable use categories. EC Section 41480 specifies that the California Department of Education (CDE) shall summarize the reported information and submit the summary to the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance on or before January 1, 2024, and again on or before November 30, 2026. This report summarizes LEAs’ EEF spending for fiscal years (FYs) 2021–22 and 2022–23.

For FYs 2021–22 and 2022–23, a total of $316,886,484.42 was spent by LEAs using the EEF, with a total of 347,076 teachers; 36,714 administrators; 34,820 paraprofessionals; and 26,833 classified staff served. LEAs expenditures as reported are the following: $18,977,689.33 for books and materials; $89,520,357.10 for staffing and benefits, travel and per diem, stipends, substitutes, and indirect costs; and $108,498,046.43 for services and purchases. LEAs reported purchasing basic materials and supplies related to professional learning, travel costs for staff to attend conferences, stipends for teacher mentors, and staffing costs to cover positions that directly facilitate professional learning.

EC Section 41480 identifies 11 allowable uses for EEF LEA expenditures. Between FYs 2021–23, LEAs expended the greatest amounts on the following allowable use categories: Coaching and Mentoring at $93,289,754.76; Standards-Aligned Instruction at $53,653,511.45; and Practices to Promote a Positive School Climate at $17,855,532.25. Allowable uses in which the least amounts of EEF have been expended included Ethnic Studies Curricula at $1,592,080.22 and Early Childhood at $1,871,425.92.

You will find this report on the CDE Educator Effectiveness 2021–26 web page. If you have questions or need a copy of this report, please contact Alexis Clift, Education Programs Consultant, Teacher and Leader Policy Office, at 916-319-0452 or aclift@cde.ca.gov.

Report to the Legislative and the Department of Finance (DOCX)