Title EDC, California Educ. Code

(a) The department shall use the funding the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act authorizes for administrative costs pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 7599.2 of the Government Code, which is no more than 5 percent of the annual funding the department receives from the Safe Ne…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Community school” means a public school that participates in a community-based effort to coordinate and integrate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-bas…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Community school” means a public school that participates in a community-based effort to coordinate and integrate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-bas…

This article shall not become operative unless funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act or another statute to the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund in accordance with the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act for the purposes specified in this article. (Added by Stats. 2016…

This article shall not become operative unless funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act or another statute to the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund in accordance with the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act for the purposes specified in this article. (Added by Stats. 2016…

The Legislature finds and declares that community college part-time faculty are required to fulfill the same teaching responsibilities as full-time faculty although students have little or no access to part-time faculty members outside of the classroom. It is the intent of the Le…

There is hereby established the Community College Part-Time Faculty Office Hours Program for the purpose of providing community college students equal access to academic advice and assistance and to encourage community college districts to provide opportunities by compensating pa…

For purposes of this article, “part-time faculty” means any person who is employed to teach for not more than the hours per week described in Section 87482.5. (Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 187, Sec. 9. (SB 511) Effective January 1, 2010.)

(a) The governing board of a community college district may provide compensation for office hours to part-time faculty. (b) The compensation paid to part-time faculty under this article shall equal at least one paid office hour for every two classes or more taught each week or 40…

(a) The governing board of each community college district that establishes a program pursuant to this article shall negotiate with the exclusive bargaining representative, or in instances where there is no bargaining unit shall meet and confer with the faculty, to establish a pr…

(a) The Part-Time Faculty Office Hours Program Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. (b) On or before June 15 of each year, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall apportion to each community college district that establishes a program pursuant to th…

All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code except as provided therein, or by other statutes or regulations expressly applicabl…

(a) The Legislature finds that as many as one million seven hundred thousand people could be granted amnesty and would seek permanent residency in California under the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-603). Under the act, eligible individuals woul…

(a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, shall develop a test or adopt an existing test, subject to the approval of the United States Attorney General pursuant to the federal Immigration Reform and Con…

For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “English learner” has the same meaning as defined in Section 306. (b) “Native speaker of English” has the same meaning as defined in Section 306. (c) “Dual language immersion program” is a program …

(a) The Pathways to Success Grant Program is hereby established with the goal of providing pupils in preschool, transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, with dual language immersion programs, developmental bilingual programs for English learners, or…

(a) (1) The department shall administer the Pathways to Success Grant Program, which shall be a three-year grant program. Commencing September 1, 2019, the department shall award a minimum of 10 one-time grants of up to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) per grant, to enti…

The department shall perform all of the following functions in the administration of the Pathways to Success Grant Program: (a) Review applications and award grants. (b) Provide technical assistance to school districts, county offices of education, or consortia implementing a dua…

The department shall consult with the following persons and entities in the development of the criteria for awarding the grants and in developing the professional development modules: (a) Professional organizations with demonstrated expertise and experience in developing, impleme…

(a) A grant recipient shall use the grant for any of the following purposes: (1) School administrator, teacher, and staff training specific to the implementation and maintenance of a dual language immersion program, developmental bilingual program for English learners, or early l…

On or before June 30, 2025, the department shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature detailing the successes, best practices, barriers or constraints, and outcomes of school district and consortium programs funded with grants pursuant to this article.…

This article shall be implemented only upon an appropriation for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or other statute. (Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 763, Sec. 2. (AB 2514) Effective January 1, 2019.)

It is the intent of the Legislature that governing boards establish a uniform system of evaluation and assessment of the performance of all certificated personnel within each school district of the state, including schools conducted or maintained by county superintendents of educ…

In the development and adoption of guidelines and procedures pursuant to this article, the governing board shall avail itself of the advice of the certificated instructional personnel in the district’s organization of certificated personnel; provided, however, that the developmen…

When developing and adopting objective evaluation and assessment guidelines pursuant to Section 44660, a school district may, by mutual agreement between the exclusive representative of the certificated employees of the school district and the governing board of the school distri…

(a) The governing board of each school district shall establish standards of expected pupil achievement at each grade level in each area of study. (b) The governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates …

(a) Evaluation and assessment made pursuant to this article shall be reduced to writing and a copy thereof shall be transmitted to the certificated employee not later than 30 days before the last schoolday scheduled on the school calendar adopted by the governing board for the sc…

(a) Evaluation and assessment of the performance of each certificated employee shall be made on a continuing basis as follows: (1) At least once each school year for probationary personnel. (2) At least every other year for personnel with permanent status. (3) At least every five…

For purposes of this article, “employing authority” means the superintendent of the school district in which the employee is employed, or his designee, or in the case of a district which has no superintendent, a school principal or other person designated by the governing board. …

(a) Each special education local plan area submitting a local plan to the Superintendent under this part shall ensure, in conformity with Sections 1412(a) and 1413(a)(1) of Title 20 of the United States Code, and in accordance with Section 300.201 of Title 34 of the Code of Feder…

(a) The superintendent or other chief administrator of a local educational agency shall post on the Internet Web site of the local educational agency any local plan, annual budget plan, annual service plan, and annual assurances support plan upon approval of the special education…

As a part of the local plan submitted pursuant to Section 56205, each special education local plan area shall describe how specialized equipment and services will be distributed within the local plan area in a manner that minimizes the necessity to serve pupils in isolated sites …

(a) No educational programs and services already in operation in school districts or a county office of education pursuant to Part 30 (commencing with Section 56000) shall be transferred to another school district or a county office of education or from a county office of educati…

A request by a charter school to participate as a local educational agency in a special education local plan area may not be treated differently from a similar request made by a school district. In reviewing and approving a request by a charter school to participate as a local ed…

This article shall apply to special education local plan areas that are submitting a revised local plan for approval pursuant to Section 56836.03 or that have an approved revised local plan pursuant to Section 56836.03. (Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 854, Sec. 15. Effective January 1…

As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Faculty diversity” means the representation of faculty members from different racial, ethnic, gender, and disability groups, and other underrepresented groups. (b) “Full-time faculty” means a faculty member who is emp…

(a) Each community college district shall report on or before March 31, 2024, and each March 31 thereafter, to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges on its progress in increasing the percentage of instruction by full-time faculty and in increasing facu…

(a) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall, on or before May 30, 2024, and each May 30 thereafter, synthesize the information received from community college districts pursuant to Section 87891 into a systemwide report to be posted on a public int…

(a) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall establish and implement a policy verifying that community districts are using full-time faculty funding appropriated in Item 6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the annual Budget Act for the designated purpo…

This article shall only apply to a community college district as a condition of receiving funds for the purpose of hiring new full-time faculty appropriated in Item 6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the annual Budget Act. (Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 50, Sec. 13. (SB 117) Effective …

The board of trustees of any union high school library district may, when in its judgment it is deemed advisable, and shall upon a petition of 50 or more taxpayers and residents of the library district, call an election and submit to the electors of the district the proposition o…

In determining the amount of bonds to be issued and sold, the board of trustees may include: (a) Legal or other fees incidental to or connected with the authorization, issuance and sale of the bonds. (b) The costs of printing the bonds and other costs and expenses incidental to o…

Voting shall be by ballot, without reference to the general election law in regard to form of ballot or manner of voting. The ballots shall have printed on them the words “Shall the measure (stating the nature thereof) be adopted?” To the right or below the statement of the measu…

If it appears that two-thirds of the votes cast at the election are in favor of issuing the bonds, the board shall cause an entry of the fact to be made upon its minutes and shall certify to the board of supervisors of the county all the proceedings had in the premises. (Enacted …

No error, irregularity, or omission which does not affect the substantial rights of the taxpayers within the district or the electors voting at any election at which bonds of any district are authorized to be issued shall invalidate the election or any bonds authorized by such el…

To the extent permitted by federal law, excludable restitution payments, as defined in Section 17131.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and excludable settlement payments, as defined in Section 17131.2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, are not included in the income or resources…