Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) A school district, county office of education, or charter school that provides intensive examination preparation courses for the purpose of preparing multiple or single subject credential holders or education specialist credential holders to demonstrate subject matter knowled…

(a) (1) For the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the commission to establish the Teacher Residency Grant Program. This funding shall be available for encumbrance until June 30, 2023. (2) Of …

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply for the Teacher Residency Grant Program: (1) “Experienced mentor teacher” means an educator who meets all of the following requirements: (A) Has at least three years of teaching experience and holds a clear credent…

(a) (1) For the 2022–23 fiscal year, the sum of one hundred eighty-four million dollars ($184,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to augment the Teacher Residency Grant Program pursuant to Section 44415.5 to support tea…

(a) For the 2022–23 fiscal year, the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the commission to select a local educational agency to serve as a statewide technical assistance center to support teacher residency programs, as descr…

(a) (1) For the 2025–26 fiscal year, the sum of seventy million dollars ($70,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to augment the Teacher Residency Grant Program pursuant to Section 44415.5 to support teacher residency pr…

(a) For the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the commission to establish the Local Solutions Grant Program to provide one-time competitive grants to local educational agencies to develop and implem…

The commission shall conduct an evaluation of the Teacher Residency Grant Program established in Section 44415 and the Local Solutions Grant Program established in Section 44416 to determine the effectiveness of these programs in recruiting, developing support systems for, and re…

The commission shall conduct an evaluation of the Teacher Residency Grant Program described in Section 44415.5 to determine the effectiveness of this program in recruiting, developing support systems for, and retaining teachers prepared to teach either in commission-designated sh…

This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.

The governing board of each school district shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, fix the length of the schoolday for the several grades and classes of the schools maintained by the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

No pupil in a kindergarten or in any grade of an elementary school shall be credited with more than one day of attendance in any calendar day and nothing in this article shall be construed to the contrary. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) (1) A pupil in a kindergarten shall not be kept in school in any day more than four hours excluding recesses except for pupils in Early Primary Programs, as set forth in Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 8970) of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1, kindergarten pupils in expand…

The minimum schoolday in grades 1, 2, and 3 in elementary schools, except in opportunity schools, classes, or programs, is 230 minutes, except where the governing board of a school district has prescribed a shorter length for the schoolday because of lack of school facilities whi…

The minimum schoolday in grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in elementary schools and in special day and evening classes of an elementary school district, except in opportunity schools, classes, or programs, is 240 minutes. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) The minimum schoolday in grades 1, 2, and 3 in elementary schools may be computed by determining the number of minutes of attendance in any 10 consecutive schooldays and dividing that number by 10. If the resulting quotient is 230 or more, the pupils shall be deemed to have c…

The minimum schoolday in kindergartens and in grades 1 to 8, inclusive, in elementary schools, is exclusive of noon intermissions and, except in kindergartens, exclusive of recesses. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The minimum schoolday for pupils in kindergartens is 180 minutes inclusive of recesses, and no units of average daily attendance shall be credited for attendance in kindergarten classes if the minimum schoolday of such classes is less than 180 minutes. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch…

A single-session kindergarten class shall meet all of the following criteria: (a) The class is maintained for a minimum of 180 minutes per schoolday. (b) The kindergarten class teacher is assigned to only one session of kindergarten daily as a principal teacher. (c) The kindergar…

The governing board of a school district which has fewer than 40 pupils enrolled in kindergarten classes may make application to the Superintendent of Public Instruction requesting approval to maintain two kindergarten classes of 150 minutes each inclusive of recesses on the same…

(a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that all local educational agencies offer all unduplicated pupils in classroom-based instructional programs access to comprehensive after school and intersessional expanded learning opportunities. (2) The Expanded Learning Opportunities…

No pupil in a high school, other than a pupil enrolled in a regional occupational center or program, evening high school, continuation high school, or continuation education class, shall be credited with more than one day of attendance in any calendar day and nothing in this arti…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the term “pupil in a vocational education program occupationally organized and conducted under federal approval,” as used in Section 46140 as it read prior to the enactment of Chapter 1230 of the Statutes of 1977, applies only to pupils in…

Any school district which was credited with attendance of pupils pursuant to Section 46140 under a vocational education program occupationally organized and conducted under federal approval in 1976–77, other than a regional occupational program or regional occupational center, ma…

The minimum schoolday in a high school is 240 minutes, except in an evening high school, an early college high school, a middle college high school, a regional occupational center, an opportunity school and in opportunity classes, a continuation high school, in continuation educa…

(a) The minimum schoolday in any junior high school or high school described in Section 46141 may be computed by determining the number of minutes of attendance in any two consecutive schooldays and dividing that number by two. If the resulting quotient is 240 or more, the pupils…

The minimum day in a special day or a Saturday vocational training program and for a pupil enrolled in a work experience education program approved under Article 7 (commencing with Section 51760) of Chapter 5 of Part 28, except for a pupil enrolled in a continuation school or cla…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing with the 2008–09 fiscal year, the minimum schoolday for a pupil concurrently enrolled in regular secondary school classes and classes operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement that became effective before January 1, 2008, is 180 …

Commencing with the first semester or quarter that begins after January 1, 1984, pupils in grade 12 shall be enrolled in at least five courses each semester or the equivalent number of courses per quarter. If any pupil in grade 12 is required by medical prescription to attend sch…

(a) A day of attendance in grades 11 and 12 is 180 minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled part time in classes of the California State University or the University of California for which academic credit will be provided upon satisfactory completion of enrolled cours…

(a) A day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in grade 11 or 12 at an early college high school or middle college high school is 180 minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled part time in courses of the California State University or the University of California for whic…

Notwithstanding the 180-minute minimum day requirement of Section 46144, the governing board of any school district may permit a 12th-grade pupil in his or her last semester or quarter, as the case may be, before graduation, who is enrolled in a work experience education program …

(a) (1) The schoolday for high schools, including high schools operated as charter schools, shall begin no earlier than 8:30 a.m. (2) The schoolday for middle schools, including middle schools operated as charter schools, shall begin no earlier than 8:00 a.m. (b) For purposes of …

It is the intent of the Legislature that efforts by high school faculty, staff, and students to improve student attendance at their schools be recognized. It is also the intent of the Legislature that this recognition shall be provided through a state high school attendance award…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a school district that maintains a junior high school or high school may schedule classes in these schools so that each pupil attends classes for at least 1,200 minutes during any five-schoolday period or 2,400 minutes…

If a pupil attends classes pursuant to a schedule adopted under the authority of this chapter, he shall be deemed to have complied with all of the requirements of this code relating to school attendance. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Prior to implementing a program under the provisions of this chapter in any school of the district, the school district governing board shall consult in good faith in an effort to reach agreement with the certificated and classified employees of the school, with the parents of pu…

(a) In continuation high schools and continuation education classes, a day of attendance is 180 minutes of attendance, but no pupil shall be credited with more than 15 hours of attendance per school week, proportionately reduced for those school weeks having weekday holidays on w…

The minimum day in an opportunity school or opportunity class is 180 minutes. A pupil may be enrolled in an opportunity program for not less than a class period of the school, nor more than 179 minutes per day. Attendance for a pupil enrolled in an opportunity program shall be cr…

(a) In classes for adults maintained for adults in any county jail, or any correctional facility, including any county industrial farm or county or joint county road camp, a day of attendance is 180 minutes of attendance; but no pupil in such a class shall be credited with more t…

For a school district that received an apportionment pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section, as it read on January 1, 2013, and that offers less than 180 days of instruction or, in multitrack year-round schools, fewer than the number of days required in subdivision (a) of th…

(a) For a county office of education that operates a special day class or special day classes pursuant to Section 56364.2 and that offers fewer than 180 days of instruction, or, in multitrack year-round schools, fewer than the 163 days of instruction, the Superintendent shall wit…

(a) For each school district that received an apportionment pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section, as it read on January 1, 2013, and that reduces the amount of instructional time offered below the minimum amounts specified in subdivision (b), the Superintendent shall withh…

(a) For a county office of education that operates a special day class or special day classes pursuant to Section 56364.2 and that reduces the amount of instructional time offered below the minimum amounts specified in subdivision (b), the Superintendent shall withhold from the c…

Any school district that elected not to participate in either or both of the longer-day and longer-year incentive funding programs set forth in this article may commence participation in, and begin receiving funding for, either or both of those programs in the 1998–99 or 1999–200…

If a school district that does not participate in the program set forth in Sections 46200 to 46206, inclusive, as those sections read on January 1, 2013, offers less instructional time in a fiscal year than the amount of instructional time fixed for the 1982–83 fiscal year, the S…

Amounts apportioned to school districts pursuant to this article shall supplement, and not supplant, apportionments received pursuant to any other provision of law.

(a) For purposes of this article, instructional time for school districts conducting early-late instructional programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, shall be computed by adding the total amount of instructional time provided in each portion of the early-late instr…

(a) The State Board of Education may waive the fiscal penalties set forth in this article for a school district or county office of education that fails to maintain the prescribed minimum length of time for the instructional school year, minimum number of instructional days for t…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 46200 to 46205, inclusive, upon a determination that a school district equals or exceeds its local control funding formula target computed pursuant to Section 42238.02 as determined by the calculation of a zero difference pursuant to paragraph (1) of …