Title EDC — California Educ. Code

Any school district within a junior high school or system of junior high schools, maintained by the governing board of a county, union, or joint union high school district, may withdraw from the junior high system when a majority of the qualified voters in the district voting the…

If a school district withdraws from a junior high school system pursuant to a vote in favor of withdrawal pursuant to Section 37085, there shall not be an election to reverse that action for at least three complete school years following the date the withdrawal occurs.

Election proceedings may be commenced upon by either of the following means: (a) A petition signed by thirty-five percent (35%) of the registered voters residing in the district shall be presented to the county superintendent of schools of the county in which the district is situ…

(a) The governing board of any school district may provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school whenever in the judgment of the board the transportation is advisable and good reasons exist therefor. The governing board may purchase or rent and provide for the upkee…

(a) As a condition of receiving apportionments under Section 41850.1, a local educational agency shall develop a plan describing the transportation services it will offer to its pupils, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for pupils in transitional kinderga…

(a) Any school district and any owner or operator of a private school that provides transportation for pupils that owns, leases, or otherwise has possession or control of a 15-passenger van, may not, on or after January 1, 2005, authorize the operation of that van for the purpose…

The governing board of any school district may contract with the county superintendent of schools to provide necessary transportation services. The county superintendent of schools, acting pursuant to the contract, shall have all the powers and duties granted to governing boards …

(a) The governing board of any school district may contract for the transportation of matriculated or enrolled adults, or provide transportation to adults in district-owned equipment for educational purposes other than to and from school. (b) Any district that contracts to provid…

In order to procure the service at the lowest possible figure consistent with proper and satisfactory service, the governing board shall, whenever an expenditure of more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is involved, secure bids pursuant to Sections 20111 and 20112 of the Publi…

(a) If a continuing contract for the furnishing of transportation of pupils in school districts to and from school is made it shall be made for a term not to exceed five years. A contract is renewable at the option of the school district and the party contracting to provide trans…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 39803 or any other law, this section shall apply to the furnishing of transportation of pupils in local educational agencies to and from school using schoolbuses that are zero-emission vehicles and for the lease or rental of schoolbuses that are zero-e…

In bidding on contracts to be made pursuant to Section 39803, bidders may include in their bids abstractions of their quotations indicating the pricing structure used to compute the annual lease or rental payments for the sole purpose of identifying that portion of each annual le…

In lieu of providing in whole or in part for the transportation of a pupil attending the schools of a district, the governing board may pay to the parents or guardian of the pupil a sum not to exceed the cost of actual and necessary travel incurred in transporting the pupil to an…

In lieu of furnishing transportation to pupils attending the schools of a school district, the governing board may pay to the parents or guardian of each pupil the cost of food and lodging of the pupil at a place convenient to the schools. The amount paid on account of each pupil…

(a) When a local educational agency provides for the transportation of pupils to and from schools, including the governing board of a school district pursuant to Section 39800, or between the regular full-time day schools they would attend and the regular full-time occupational t…

(a) The governing board of any school district may allow a pupil entitled to attend the school of the district, but who, under Section 48222, attends a school other than a public school to be transported upon the same terms, in the same manner, and over the same routes of travel …

(a) The sum of the state aid received and the parent fees collected in a fiscal year may not exceed actual operating cost of home-to-school transportation in that fiscal year. (b) If excess fees are collected due to errors in estimated costs, fees shall be reduced in succeeding y…

Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a school district may provide for the transportation to and from public school of pupils who have attained the age of three years and nine months and are enrolled in classes established pursuant to Chapter 4.45 (commencing wit…

A schoolbus is any motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of a school pupil at or below the grade 12 level to or from a public or private school or to or from public or private school activities, except the following: (a) A motor vehicle of any type ca…

A “school pupil activity bus” means any motor vehicle, other than a schoolbus, operated by a common carrier, or by and under the exclusive jurisdiction of a publicly owned or operated transit system, or by a passenger charter-party carrier, used under a contractual agreement betw…

(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt reasonable regulations relating to the use of schoolbuses by school districts and others. The regulations may not govern the safe operation of schoolbuses that shall be adopted instead by the Department of the California Highway Patrol…

The state board shall adopt regulations to require a passenger in a schoolbus equipped with passenger restraint systems in accordance with Section 27316 of the Vehicle Code to use a passenger restraint system so that the passenger is properly restrained by that system.

The state board shall adopt regulations to require a passenger in a school pupil activity bus equipped with passenger restraint systems in accordance with Section 27316.5 of the Vehicle Code to use a passenger restraint system so that the passenger is properly restrained by that …

(a) The county superintendent of schools, the superintendent of a school district, a charter school, or the owner or operator of a private school that provides transportation to or from a school or school activity shall prepare a transportation safety plan containing procedures f…

(a) All pupils in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in public or private school who are transported in a schoolbus or school pupil activity bus shall receive instruction in schoolbus emergency procedures and passenger safety. The county superintendent …

The name or names of the particular school or schools to which a schoolbus conveys pupils may be painted on the side of the bus, in the manner prescribed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol.

Any officer, agent, or employee of a school district, or any other person knowingly operating, or permitting or directing the operation of a schoolbus in violation of any regulation or order of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and any person knowingly operating a …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any officer, agent, or employee of a school district, office of the county superintendent of schools, or joint powers agency, or any other person, knowingly operating, or permitting or directing the operation of a schoolbus, when it is l…

(a) The governing board of any school district may use schoolbuses to transport persons for purposes of community recreation as provided in Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 10900) of Part 7. The transportation may be provided on any day or days throughout the school year. (b) …

During any national emergency declared by the President of the United States of America or during any war in which the United States of America is engaged, the governing board of a school district may operate any bus owned or under lease to the district for the transportation of …

The governing board of any school district may use and operate any bus owned or under lease to the district for the transportation of pupils to and from their places of employment during the summer in connection with any summer employment program for youth. The governing board sh…

The governing board of a school district may provide for the transportation on schoolbuses of employees of the school district, parents of pupils of the school district, and adult volunteers to and from educational activities authorized by the school district.

(a) Each schoolbus shall be equipped with one or more fire extinguishers bearing the approval of the laboratories of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, Underwriters’ Laboratories Incorporated, or any other nationally recognized testing laboratory, and located in an easily a…

Guide dogs, signal dogs, and service dogs trained to provide assistance to individuals with a disability may be transported in a schoolbus when accompanied by disabled pupils enrolled in a public or private school or by disabled teachers employed in a public or private school or …

The governing board of any school district may enter into a contract under the terms of which the school district grants the use of any schoolbus that is owned or leased by the school district to any federal, state, or local governmental agency for the purpose of providing transp…

The following requirements shall be included in any agreement entered into between a school district and a publicly owned transit system under which the school district grants the use of any schoolbus that is owned or leased by it to the transit system for public transportation p…

(a) Any person who enters a schoolbus or school pupil activity bus without prior authorization of the driver or other school official with intent to commit any crime and who refuses to disembark after being ordered to do so by the driver or other school official is guilty of a mi…

(a) The county superintendent of schools, the superintendent of a school district, a charter school, or the owner or operator of a private school that provides transportation to or from a school or school activity shall notify the Department of Motor Vehicles, in a form and manne…

(a) The governing board of a school district may contract for the transportation of pupils attending schools within the district to and from any exposition or fair, school activities, or other activities that the governing board of the school district determines to be for the ben…

(a) Except as provided pursuant to subdivisions (b) to (g), inclusive, this article shall apply to all drivers employed by a local educational agency, contracted by a local educational agency, or contracted by any entity with funding from a local educational agency, providing sch…

(a) A driver who provides transportation services for pupils in a vehicle with a maximum capacity of 10 or fewer persons, including the driver, shall: (1) Hold a valid California driver’s license for the appropriate class of vehicle. (2) Be at least 18 years of age. (3) Pass a cr…

A driver who provides transportation services for pupils in a vehicle with a capacity of more than 10 persons, including the driver, shall: (a) Hold a valid California commercial driver’s license for the appropriate class of vehicle, endorsed for passenger transportation pursuant…

(a) Any local educational agency contracting with a private entity to provide pupil transportation shall obtain from the private entity a written attestation to all of the following: (1) That it not have any applicable law violations at the time of applying for the contract. (2) …

(a) To the extent that the requirements of this article conflict with a contract entered into between a local educational agency and a private entity before January 1, 2024, this article shall not apply until the expiration or renewal of that contract. (b) As used in this section…

As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Applicable law” means applicable California laws within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency’s jurisdiction related to the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, including the failure to pay …

(a) Except as provided pursuant to subdivision (b), this article shall become operative on July 1, 2025. (b) Section 39880 shall become operative on January 1, 2024.

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There is in each county, except a county which is also a city and county, a county committee on school district organization. The number of members of the county committee in each county shall be determined as provided in this article.

If all of the territory of a county under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of the county is included in one unified school district, the governing board of the unified school district shall constitute the county committee.

Except as provided in Section 4001, if there are fewer than six school districts or community college districts in the territory under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of the county, he or she shall determine the number of, and appoint, the members of the …