Title EDC — California Educ. Code

The Superintendent shall certify each apportionment made by him or her under Sections 41332 to 41340, inclusive, whichever are in effect, to the Controller.

Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 41339, 10 working days prior to the dates prescribed in Section 41330 and Section 41335, as Section 41335 reads on and after June 1, 2003, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and t…

Commencing with the first fiscal year after subdivision (g) of Section 42238.03 applies, the Superintendent, within three business days of the first principal, second principal, and annual apportionments for each fiscal year, shall publish on the department’s Internet Web site th…

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall furnish an abstract of each apportionment of the State School Fund to the State Controller, the Department of Finance and to the county and city and county auditors, county and city and county treasurers, and to the county superinten…

(a) (1) If, during any fiscal year, the amount apportioned to a school district or to any fund from Section A of the State School Fund differs either positively or negatively from the amount to which the school district or fund was entitled by an amount equal to the local control…

When any judgment has been rendered which requires the apportionment from the State School Fund to any school district, to any other agency, or to any fund for any fiscal year of more than the amount actually apportioned thereto during that fiscal year, the difference shall be ap…

Wherever the attendance of pupils is not included in the computation of the average daily attendance of a school district for any fiscal year because the certification document of the person employed by the district to instruct such pupils was not in force during the period of su…

(a) If, as the result of an audit or review, a local educational agency is required to repay an apportionment significant audit exception or to pay a penalty arising from an audit exception, the Superintendent and the Director of Finance, or their designees, jointly shall establi…

(a) The Education Audit Appeals Panel is hereby established as a separate state agency. Its membership shall consist of the Superintendent, the Director of Finance, and the Chief Executive Officer of the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team established pursu…

Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 41344 or any other provision of law, the State Board of Education may consider and act upon requests to retroactively waive any provision of this code or any regulation adopted by the State Board of Education that is the basis of an appo…

Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 41344 or any other provision of law, the State Board of Education may, upon a finding that violations were minor or inadvertent and the intent of Section 60119 was substantially met, consider and act upon requests to waive Section 60119 …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local educational agency is not required to repay an apportionment based on a significant audit exception related to the requirements specified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 14501 if the county superint…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 17456, 17457, 17462, and 17463, or any other law, from June 1, 2004, to June 30, 2015, inclusive, the Vallejo City Unified School District may sell property owned by the district and use the proceeds from the sale to reduce or retire the emergency loa…

(a) With the exception of those who receive reimbursement for meals only from the state, the State Department of Education shall make allowances to school food authorities and child care food program sponsors for the Child Nutrition Program on a monthly basis. Program providers s…

From funds appropriated for child nutrition the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall make the following expenditures: (a) Not to exceed 20 percent, for state administrative expenses. (b) Not to exceed 80 percent, for distribution to child nutrition entities, as defined by S…

(a) Loans may be made from moneys in the Public School District Organization Revolving Fund to newly organized elementary, high school, or unified school districts upon application of the governing board of any such school district, certified by the county superintendent of schoo…

(a) The Charter School Revolving Loan Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Charter School Revolving Loan Fund shall be composed of federal funds obtained by the state for charter schools and any other funds appropriated or transferred to the fund through the annual b…

(a) Moneys in the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund shall be loaned at (1) the rate paid on moneys in the Pooled Money Investment Account as of the date of disbursement of the funds or (2) a rate equal to 50 percent of the interest rate paid by the state on the most recent sale …

(a) The California School Finance Authority shall monitor the adequacy of the amount of funds in the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund and report annually to the Department of Finance and the Controller on the need, if any, to transfer funds from the Charter School Security Fund…

The Director of Finance shall monitor the adequacy of the amount of funds in the Charter School Security Fund and report annually to the Legislature on the need, if any, to adjust the interest rate set forth in Section 41366.5 or to revise any other aspect of the default recovery…

(a) The Charter School Security Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) Moneys in the fund shall be available for deposit into the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund in case of default on any loan made from the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund. (c) Commencing with the…

(a) The governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, and a county board of education shall, except as may otherwise be specifically provided by law, use all money apportioned to the school district, charter school, or county office of education fr…

If at the end of any fiscal year during which the schools of a school district have been maintained for the period required or permitted by law, there is standing to the credit of the district an unexpended balance of money received from the State School Fund, it may be expended …

For purposes of this section: (a) “Salaries of classroom teachers” and “teacher” shall have the same meanings as prescribed by Section 41011 provided, however, that the cost of all health and welfare benefits provided to the teachers by the school district shall be included withi…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, Section 41372 shall not apply to any elementary school district, high school district, or unified school district, which maintains no individual class session with pupils in attendance exceeding the numbers, for the part…

It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature to encourage, by every means possible, the reduction of class sizes and the ratio of pupils to teachers in all grade levels in the public schools, and to urge every effort to this end to be undertaken by the local school administrat…

(a) The Superintendent, in computing apportionments and allowances from the State School Fund for the second principal apportionment, shall determine the following for the regular day classes of the elementary schools maintained by each school district: (1) (A) For grades 1 to 3,…

(a) Commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, until the Superintendent determines that a school district is funded pursuant to Section 42238.02, and notwithstanding the requirement to decrease average daily attendance pursuant to paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of subdivision (a) of …

The Superintendent of Public Instruction, in computing apportionments and allowances from the State School Fund for the second principal apportionment, shall determine the following for the kindergarten classes maintained by each school district maintaining kindergarten classes. …

The State Board of Education may waive the minimum schoolday requirements of Section 46112 to enable school districts to establish experimental educational programs in reading and mathematics. A waiver shall be granted pursuant to this section only if: (a) The State Board of Educ…

The principal of any elementary school maintaining kindergarten classes or regular day classes in grades 1 to 3, inclusive, may recommend to the governing board of the school district, or the governing board may adopt a resolution determining, that an exemption should be granted …

It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature to improve public education in California by maximizing the allocation of existing resources, to discourage the growth of bureaucracy in the public schools, and to emphasize the importance and significance of the classroom teacher. …

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Administrative employee” means an employee of a school district, employed in a position requiring certification qualifications, who does not come within the definition of a “pupil services employee” or a “tea…

The maximum ratios of administrative employees to each 100 teachers in the various types of school districts shall be as follows: (a) In elementary school districts—9. (b) In unified school districts—8. (c) In high school districts—7. This section shall not apply to a school dist…

(a) The Superintendent shall determine, for each current fiscal year, for each school district in the state, to two decimal points, the following: (1) The total number of administrative employees, except those serving in positions that are supported by categorical grants from any…

(a) The Superintendent shall determine the reduction in state support resulting from excess administrative employees identified in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 41403 as follows: (1) Compute the ratio that total state support to the school district general fund bear…

(a) A school district with an average daily attendance of more than 400,000 as of the 2016–17 second principal apportionment shall be exempt from any reduction in state support pursuant to Section 41404 for the 2019–20 fiscal year to the 2021–22 fiscal year, inclusive. A school d…

Amounts allowable from the State School Fund but not transferred thereto because of the operation of Section 41404 and the provisions of subdivision (b) of Section 14002, shall be held in the General Fund and shall be expended for public school purposes pursuant to appropriations…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school district is subject, with regard to Section 41402, to audits conducted pursuant to Section 41020.

(a) Commencing with the 1988–89 fiscal year, and annually thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall determine the statewide average percentage of school district expenditures that are allocated to the salaries of administrative personnel, as that term is defined …

Each school district, except for school districts maintaining a single school to serve kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, shall include in the school accountability report card required under Section 35256 a statement that shall include the following information: (…

(a) No school district, other than one newly formed, shall, except as otherwise provided in this article, receive any apportionment based upon average daily attendance from the State School Fund unless it has maintained the regular day schools of the district for at least 175 day…

A school district is a newly formed district up to the close of the fiscal year in which its formation became effective for all purposes. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) A school district, county office of education, or charter school that is prevented from maintaining its schools during a fiscal year for at least 180 days for a school district or county office of education or 175 days for a charter school, or is required to operate sessions …

No money shall be apportioned to a district for the excess cost of educating pupils in a 24-hour elementary school of the district unless such school has met the requirements of the Superintendent of Public Instruction based upon educational standards and standards established by…

The Legislature finds that each year one or more school districts or county offices of education experience severe financial difficulty. In some cases these school districts or county offices of education request emergency apportionments from the state under the provisions of Art…

After receiving the advice of the Controller, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is authorized pursuant to Section 41450 to contract with consultants possessing financial and administrative expertise, including county offices of education, to examine the financial problems …

(a) If any person employed by a school district in a position requiring certification qualifications refuses, without good cause, to fulfill a valid contract of employment with the district or leave the service of the district without the consent of the superintendent, if any, or…

As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Institution of higher education” has the same meaning as used in Section 44203. (b) “Regionally accredited” has the same meaning as used in Section 44203.

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall privately admonish, publicly reprove, revoke or suspend for immoral or unprofessional conduct, or for persistent defiance of, and refusal to obey, the laws regulating the duties of persons serving in the public school system, or for a…