Title EDC, California Educ. Code

The Superintendent shall issue a California high school equivalency certificate and an official score report, or an official score report only, to any person who has not completed high school and who meets all of the following requirements: (a) Is a resident of this state or is a…

(a) The Superintendent may charge a one-time only fee, established by the state board, to be submitted by an examinee when registering for the test sufficient in an amount not greater than the amount required to pay the cost of administering this article, including costs related …

(a) If, for purposes of this article, a contractor or testing center charges an examinee its own separate fee, the contractor or testing center shall not charge that fee to an examinee who meets all of the following criteria: (1) The examinee qualifies as a homeless child or yout…

Each scoring contractor shall provide the Superintendent with a set of results for each examinee who has taken all or a portion of a high school equivalency test that has been approved by the state board. Each scoring contractor shall forward to the Superintendent the fee establi…

(a) (1) The Superintendent may provide for the administration of a high school equivalency test that has been approved by the state board to persons confined to state or county hospitals or to institutions maintained by state or county correctional agencies. (2) Those agencies, u…

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall keep a permanent record of California high school equivalency certificates issued pursuant to this article. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 163, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2003.)

A California high school equivalency certificate shall be deemed to be a high school diploma for the purpose of meeting the requirements of employment by all state and local public agencies in this state. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Pursuant to Section 16370 of the Government Code, there is hereby authorized in the State Treasury a Special Deposit Fund Account, which shall consist of fees that may be prescribed by Sections 51421 and 51423. All of the fees collected are hereby appropriated without regard to f…

School district governing board or community college district governing board member elections for two or more districts of any type to be held in the same district or area on the same day shall be consolidated so that a person entitled to vote in both or all of such elections ma…

Whenever any school district election or community college district election is scheduled to be held on the same day, in the same territory, or in territory that is in part the same, as an election or elections called to be held by any other district, city, county, or other polit…

If any school district election or community college district election is completely or partially consolidated with any other election, the notice of election need not set forth the precincts, place or places of holding the election, or the names of the officers appointed to cond…

Within the territory affected by the order of consolidation the election precincts, polling places, voting booths and polling hours shall, in every case, be the same and there shall be only one set of election officers in each of the precincts. When the returns of elections conso…

In the event of consolidation of any school district election or community college district election with any other election the provisions of law governing such other election with respect to the manner of marking ballots shall also apply to the district election consolidated th…

Staff development programs shall be provided for regular and special education teachers, administrators, certificated and classified employees, volunteers, community advisory committee members and, as appropriate, members of the district and county governing boards. The programs …

Staff development programs shall include, but not be limited to, all the following: (a) Provision of opportunities for all school personnel, paraprofessionals, and volunteers to participate in ongoing development activities pursuant to a systematic identification of pupil and per…

It is the intent of the Legislature, pursuant to this article, that a local educational agency provide regular classroom teachers serving individuals with exceptional needs appropriate training each year relating to the needs of those individuals. (Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 56,…

The superintendent shall, to the extent possible using federal and state funds appropriated for this purpose, provide staff development to child care center staff and family day care providers to improve child care services to individuals with exceptional needs. (Added by Stats. …

The Legislature encourages the inclusion, in local in-service training programs for regular education teachers and special education teachers in local educational agencies, of a component on the recognition of, and teaching strategies for, specific learning disabilities, includin…

Pupils residing within California shall be accepted by a diagnostic center pursuant to criteria adopted by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1168, Sec. 67. Effective September 30, 2002.)

For the purpose of securing bids or proposals, the governing board of the community college district shall publish at least once a week for two weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the district, or if there is no such paper, then in some newspaper of genera…

Continuing contracts for work to be done, services to be performed, or for apparatus or equipment to be furnished, sold, built, installed, or repaired for the district, or for materials or supplies to be furnished or sold to the district may be made with an accepted vendor as fol…

The governing board of any community college district may contract with a party who has submitted one of the three lowest responsible competitive proposals or competitive bids for the acquisition, procurement, or maintenance of electronic data processing systems and equipment, el…

In addition to utilizing the procedures specified in Article 9 (commencing with Section 81450) of Chapter 2, any community college district may, by direct sale or otherwise, sell to a purchaser any electronic data-processing equipment or other major items of equipment owned by, o…

Nothing in this code shall preclude the governing board of a community college district from purchasing materials, equipment, supplies, or services under the same terms and conditions as are specified in a contract lawfully awarded by the University of California or the Californi…

The governing board of any community college district may purchase supplementary textbooks, library books, and educational films, audiovisual materials, test materials, workbooks, instructional computer software packages, or periodicals in any amount needed for the operation of t…

The governing board of any community college district may purchase from the federal government or any agency thereof any surplus property, as defined in the Surplus Property Act of 1944, in any amount needed for the operation of the schools of the district without taking estimate…

Wherever in this code the power to contract is invested in the governing board of the community college district or any member thereof, such power may by a majority vote of the board be delegated to its district superintendent, or to such persons as he may designate, or if there …

The governing board by majority vote may adopt a rule, delegating to any officer or employee of the district as the board may designate, the authority to purchase supplies, materials, apparatus, equipment, and services. No such rule shall authorize any officer or employee to make…

The board of governors shall adopt regulations providing for the payment of apportionments to districts on a schedule to include an advance apportionment and a first and second principal apportionment. Unless and until the dates related to these apportionments are amended in cons…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2003–04 fiscal year, warrants for the principal apportionments for the month of June, for general apportionments in the amount of one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) and for the Partnership for Excellence in the amount of fi…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law that governs the regulations adopted by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to disburse funds, the payment of apportionments to community college districts pursuant to Section 84320 shall be adjusted, for the 2020–21 fiscal year, …

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, including any law that governs the regulations adopted by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to disburse funds, the payment of apportionments to community college districts pursuant to Section 84320 shall be adjusted, for th…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law that governs the regulations adopted by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to disburse funds, the payment of apportionments to community college districts pursuant to Section 84320 shall be adjusted, for the 2024–25 fiscal ye…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law that governs the regulations adopted by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to disburse funds, the payment of apportionments to community college districts pursuant to Section 84320 shall be adjusted, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, …

(a) Commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year, up to thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) of the amount of the warrants for the principal apportionments for any of the months of February, March, April, May or June, that are instead to be drawn in the applicable months of the follow…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a community college district may recognize, for budgetary and financial reporting purposes, any amount of state appropriations deferred from the current fiscal year and appropriated in the subsequent fiscal year for payment of current-y…

Notwithstanding any other law, a community college district may recognize for budgetary and financial reporting purposes any amount of state allocations described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of, or subparagraph (B) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of, Section 41206.04 …

(a) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall certify each apportionment made by it to the Controller. (b) The board of governors shall furnish an abstract of each apportionment of the State School Fund to the Controller, the Department of Finance, and to …

Adult basic education is the responsibility of high school and unified school districts except in those instances where by mutual agreement the responsibility is assigned to a community college district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The high school diploma program is the responsibility of the high school and unified school districts, but courses leading to a high school diploma may be offered by a community college district pursuant to a mutual agreement. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Vocational and occupational training and retraining programs for adults may be made available in high school, unified, and community college districts by mutual agreement. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Adult continuing education, including but not limited to, parent education, consumer education, civic education, education in special fields, and education in the arts and the humanities, may be made available in high school, unified, and community college districts by mutual agr…

Programs for adults involving postsecondary programs that meet the standards prescribed by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for credit and noncredit courses are the responsibility of community college districts. (Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1372, Sec. 7…

(a) When governing boards agree to transfer an existing program all legal and contractual obligations of either or both districts under the program shall be clearly stated, with appropriate time requirements, in the written transfer agreement approved by the affected governing bo…

The governing board of every district affected by this chapter shall make all reasonable efforts to reach a mutual agreement when such an agreement is required and shall develop procedures for this purpose. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)