Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) The Superintendent, the Controller, and the Director of Finance shall develop, on or before March 1, 1989, standards and criteria to be reviewed and adopted by the state board, and to be used by local educational agencies in the development of annual budgets and the managemen…

(a) The standards and criteria to be adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to Section 33127 shall include, but not be limited to, comparisons and reviews, including appropriate methods of projection, of all of the following: (1) Average daily attendance. (2) Revenues a…

Notwithstanding any other law, a local educational agency may recognize for budgetary and financial reporting purposes any amount of state appropriations deferred from the current fiscal year and appropriated from the subsequent fiscal year for payment of current year costs as a …

Notwithstanding any other law, a local educational agency may recognize for budgetary and financial reporting purposes any amount of state allocations described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of, or subparagraph (A) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of, Section 41206.04 in…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county unified school district with fewer than 3,000 units of average daily attendance may use up to 30 percent of its budget reserve to pay for utility costs, including propane, fuel, and electricity costs, in each of the 2000–01 and…

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, beginning with the first fiscal year following the adoption by the State Board of Education of standards and criteria developed pursuant to Section 33127, local educational agencies shall use the standards and criteria in deve…

The standards and criteria for fiscal accountability referred to in Section 33127 shall not be subject to Sections 11340 to 11356, inclusive, of the Government Code. However, any standards and criteria adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to Section 33127 shall be cod…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 51877, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall award educational technology competitive grants under this code with respect to each of the following categories based on a school district’s regular average daily attendance: (1) 1,000 and below. (…

(a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall develop information, and submit this information to the State Board of Education for its approval. This information shall be for distribution to school districts and, to the extent feasible, for posting on the State Department of…

(a) The Superintendent shall create a poster that notifies children of the appropriate telephone number to call to report child abuse or neglect. (b) The Superintendent may partner with other local, state, and federal agencies as well as nonprofit entities for purposes of the des…

The duties of the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction and of the associate superintendents of public instruction appointed by the State Board of Education under Section 2.1 of Article IX of the Constitution of this state shall be such as are assigned to them by the Superi…

The annual salaries of the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction and of the associate superintendents of public instruction appointed by the State Board of Education under Section 2.1 of Article IX of the Constitution of this state shall be fixed by the Superintendent of Pu…

(a) In addition to the positions authorized by Section 2.1 of Article IX of the California Constitution, the Governor, with the recommendation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall appoint five deputy superintendents of public instruction and five associate superinte…

Every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school instruction on the elementary or high school level shall between the first and 15th day of October of each year, commencing on October 1, 1967, file with the Superintendent of Publi…

(a) Commencing October 1, 1985, the affidavit or statement filed with the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to Section 33190 shall, under penalty of perjury, include a statement manifesting compliance with the provisions of Section 44237. (b) In the case of any privat…

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), if the employees of any entity that has a contract with a private school to provide any of the following services may have any contact with pupils, those employees shall submit or have submitted their fingerprints in a manner au…

(a) A private school contracting with an entity for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or repair of a school facility where the employees of the entity will have contact, other than limited contact, with pupils shall ensure the safety of the pupils by one or more o…

(a) Every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation operating a heritage school as defined in Section 33195.4 shall, between the 1st and 31st day of January of each year, commencing on January 1, 2011, file with the Superintendent an electronic registration form, und…

(a) Commencing January 1, 2011, the electronic registration form filed with the Superintendent pursuant to Section 33195 shall, under penalty of perjury, include a statement manifesting compliance with the following paragraph: (1) A person, firm, association, partnership, or corp…

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), if the employees of any entity that has a contract with a heritage school to provide any of the following services may have any contact with pupils, those employees shall submit or have submitted their fingerprints in a manner a…

(a) A heritage school contracting with an entity for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or repair of a school facility where the employees of the entity will have contact, other than limited contact, with pupils shall ensure the safety of the pupils by one or more …

For purposes of this article, “heritage school” means a school that serves children who are at least 4 years and 9 months of age and no older than 18 years of age, who attend a public or private full-time day school, that does all of the following: (a) Specifies regular hours of …

(a) The Heritage Enrichment Resource Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. Moneys deposited in the fund may be expended by the Superintendent upon appropriation by statute, for the purposes of this article. (b) The electronic registration form to be filed pursuant to …

(a) A director of a heritage school shall undergo at least 15 hours of health and safety training. The training shall include all of the following components: (1) Pediatric first aid. (2) Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). (3) A preventive health practices course or c…

Within 15 days after the action necessary for the formation of any elementary school district or high school district is completed, the county superintendent of schools shall appoint an interim governing board. Within 15 days after the action necessary for the formation of any jo…

In newly formed unified school districts there shall be no interim governing board, but the county superintendent of schools having jurisdiction over the particular district shall call an election for the purpose of choosing the first governing board of the district. The election…

Within 20 days after the appointment or election of the interim or initial governing board of any newly formed district, the county superintendent of schools having jurisdiction over the district shall call a meeting of the board, by giving each member of the board at least 10 da…

In newly formed districts for which an interim governing board is appointed by the county superintendent of schools, a governing board member election shall be held: (a) When the action necessary for the formation of a new school district is completed on or before the first of Ja…

Subject to the procedures prescribed by Section 1302.2 of the Elections Code with respect to newly formed unified school districts, the majority of members of the first elected board of any newly formed school district, the members of which majority received the highest number of…

When a member of the governing board of a school district which is being reorganized and which will cease to exist takes office as a member of the initial or interim governing board of a newly formed school district, he or she shall cease to be a member of the governing board of …

(a) Any person, regardless of sex, who is 18 years of age or older, a citizen of the state, a resident of the school district, a registered voter, and who is not disqualified by the Constitution or laws of the state from holding a civil office, is eligible to be elected or appoin…

When the membership of the governing boards of an elementary school district and a high school district is the same, and if the certificated employees in both districts have selected the same employee organization to be their exclusive representative for purposes of Chapter 10.7 …

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), when a governing board has adopted a resolution specified in Section 35110, the elementary school district and the high school district shall be deemed to be a single school district for all purposes, including, but not limited …

When a governing board has adopted a resolution pursuant to Section 35110, the school districts under its jurisdiction may transfer funds between the districts to the extent permitted by Section 6 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

When a governing board has adopted a resolution pursuant to Section 35110, the length of service of each employee shall be counted from the original date of employment by either school district under the jurisdiction of the governing board.

(a) (1) In a school district in which the average daily attendance for the prior school year exceeded 250,000, each regular member of the governing board of the school district who attends all meetings held may receive as compensation for the regular member’s services a salary as…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, any compensation awarded to a pupil member pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 35120 shall not be considered as income or resources when determining eligibility and benefit amount for any means-test…

In any school district organized under the provisions of Section 35502 and which is also a high school district, and which districts are governed by a board of school trustees, and which districts have an average daily attendance in the elementary school district of at least 800,…

The superintendent of schools of a unified school district that is coterminous with the boundaries of a city and county shall have all the powers and duties set forth in this code for a superintendent of any school district of the class of school that is included within the unifi…

Subject to the provisions of this article the governing board of any school district shall by rule and regulation fix the time and place for its regular meetings. Such action shall be proper notice to all members of the board of the regular meetings. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. …

The governing board of any union or joint union high school district, shall hold its regular meetings either monthly or quarterly. The governing board of any other high school district, shall hold its regular meetings monthly. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Subject to the provisions of Section 35141, the times at which the regular meetings of the governing board of a high school district are to be held shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations adopted by such board for its own government. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) The governing board of each school district shall hold an annual organizational meeting. In a year in which a regular election for governing board members is conducted, the meeting shall be held on a day within a 15-day period that commences with the second Friday in December…

A special meeting of the governing board of a school district may be called at any time by the presiding officer of the board, or by a majority of the members thereof, by delivering personally or by mail written notice to each member of the board, and to each local newspaper of g…

All meetings of the governing board of any school district shall be open to the public and shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code. All actions authorized or required by law of the governing b…

It is the intent of the Legislature that members of the public be able to place matters directly related to school district business on the agenda of school district governing board meetings. Every agenda for regular meetings shall provide an opportunity for members of the public…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 35145 of this code and Section 54950 of the Government Code, the governing body of a school district shall, unless a request by the parent has been made pursuant to this section, hold closed sessions if the board is considering the suspen…

(a) Except as specified in this section, any meeting of the councils or committees specified in subdivision (b) is exempt from the provisions of this article, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the…

The first meeting of any newly elected or appointed school district governing board, and any annual meeting required by law to be held by such board for purposes of its organization, shall be deemed a regular meeting of the board for purposes of any requirement of law that period…

(a) (1) The governing board of a school district shall not take action to terminate a superintendent or assistant superintendent of the school district, or both, without cause, at a special or emergency meeting of the governing board. (2) The governing board of a school district …