Title EDC — California Educ. Code

Any pupil who absents himself from any 24-hour elementary school without permission being first obtained from the principal shall be deemed an habitual truant within the meaning of Section 601 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and dealt with as such. Any person who contribute…

The course of study for the pupils and the methods used in enforcing the course of study shall be approved by the county superintendent or the governing board of the district, as the case may be. There shall also be provided in the schools the proper facilities and equipment for …

Each 24-hour school may conduct clinics for the diagnosis and observation of children and may advise parents and school authorities regarding courses of study or treatment in the interests of the normal development of any child and to prevent waywardness and delinquency. (Enacted…

The funding of the educational vocational program conducted in a 24-hour school shall be in the manner described by Section 41703 when maintained by the county superintendent of schools. Twenty-four-hour schools maintained by the county superintendent shall be considered a necess…

The county probation officer having management and control of a 24-hour school may enter into a contract with any other county or state agency to provide for the supervision, care and treatment of the minors placed in the 24-hour school. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The enrollment in each 24-hour school shall be limited to the standards established under Section 56615. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Opportunity schools established pursuant to this article by the county board of education shall be limited to counties which have an average daily attendance of less than 8,000. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. Note: The Jan. 1, 2006, article repeal date (in former Section 4864…

An opportunity school established by a county board of education in a county which has an average daily attendance of less than 8,000 shall be deemed to be in lieu of any continuation education program, and shall excuse the school districts within the county from complying with o…

The purpose of this article is to provide for the administration and operation of public schools in juvenile halls, juvenile homes, day centers, juvenile ranches, juvenile camps, regional youth educational facilities, or Orange County youth correctional centers in existence and p…

Public schools or classes in any juvenile hall, juvenile home, day center, juvenile ranch, juvenile camp, regional youth educational facility, or Orange County youth correctional center in existence and providing services prior to the effective date of the amendments to this sect…

The county board of education shall provide for the administration and operation of juvenile court schools established pursuant to Section 48645.1: (a) By the county superintendent of schools, provided that, in any county in which the board of supervisors is establishing or maint…

(a) Juvenile court schools shall be conducted in a manner as shall be prescribed by the county board of education to best accomplish the provisions of Section 48645. The minimum schoolday shall be 240 minutes. Minimum schooldays shall be calculated on the basis of the average num…

(a) Each public school district and county office of education shall accept for credit full or partial coursework satisfactorily completed by a pupil while attending a public school, juvenile court school, or nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency. The coursework shall be trans…

Plans for any juvenile court school classrooms, offices, or any other school structures in any juvenile hall, juvenile home, day center, juvenile ranch, or juvenile camp shall be approved by the county board of education. Upon approval of the board of supervisors and the county b…

(a) When a juvenile court school pupil qualifies for an exemption from local graduation requirements pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 48645.5, the county office of education shall notify the pupil, the person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, an…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all pupils, including the state’s justice-involved youth, have access to their constitutional right of a free and appropriate public education, and to reduce barriers incarcerated pupils may have to academic supports, career and colleg…

(a) Local educational agencies are strongly encouraged to enter into memoranda of understanding and create joint policies, systems, including data sharing systems, transition centers, and other joint structures that will allow for the immediate transfer of educational records, cr…

(a) Commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, the department shall annually report all of the following on its internet website: (1) The number and percentage of pupils who leave juvenile court schools or county community schools at any point in a given academic year, who did not …

(a) The department shall, within existing resources, enter into a contract for an independent evaluation of county juvenile court and county community schools. On or before November 1, 2025, the Superintendent shall, within existing resources, provide a report of the evaluation t…

(a) (1) The Superintendent shall convene a workgroup on meeting the needs of pupils with disabilities who enroll in juvenile court schools operated by county offices of education. (2) The workgroup shall include, but not be limited to, representatives of county offices education,…

(a) The governing board of a school district may establish one or more community day schools for pupils who meet one or more of the conditions described in subdivision (b) of Section 48662. A community day school may serve pupils in any of kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusiv…

It is the intent of the Legislature that school districts operating community day schools to the extent possible include the following program components: (a) School district cooperation with the county office of education, law enforcement, probation, and human services agencies …

(a) A community day school shall not be situated on the same site as an elementary, middle, junior high, comprehensive senior high, opportunity, or continuation school, except as follows: (1) When the governing board of a school district with 2,500 or fewer units of average daily…

(a) The governing board of a school district that establishes a community day school shall adopt policies that provide procedures for the involuntary transfer of pupils to a community day school. (b) A pupil may be assigned to a community day school only if he or she meets one or…

(a) The minimum schoolday in a community day school is 360 minutes of classroom instruction provided by a certificated employee of the district reporting the attendance of the pupils for apportionment funding. (b) A pupil enrolled in a community day school may not generate more t…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of a school district maintaining a community day school may establish attendance policies for the community day school that permit the community day school to require pupils to attend school for up to seven days each…

(a) (1) A teacher shall not give instruction and a school district shall not sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, or sexual orientation, or pursuant to a characteristic listed in Sec…

(a) The state board and any governing board shall not adopt any textbooks or other instructional materials for use in the public schools that contain any matter reflecting adversely upon persons on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, or sexu…

Except as to textbooks approved by the state board or a county board of education, no bulletin, circular, or publication may be used as the basis of study or recitation or to supplement the regular school studies if the material contained in the bulletin, circular, or publication…

Nothing in this code shall be construed to prevent, or exclude from the public schools, references to religion or references to or the use of religious literature, dance, music, theatre, and visual arts or other things having a religious significance when such references or uses …

The Legislature finds that the use by any person, including a pupil, of any electronic listening or recording device in any classroom of the elementary and secondary schools without the prior consent of the teacher and the principal of the school given to promote an educational p…

No test, questionnaire, survey, or examination containing any questions about the pupil’s personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, and religion, or any questions about the pupil’s parents’ or guardians’ beliefs and practices in sex, family life, morality, and …

If a local educational agency administers a voluntary survey that already includes questions pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity, the local educational agency shall not remove those questions.

(a) During school hours, and within one hour before the time of opening and within one hour after the time of closing of school, pupils of the public school shall not be solicited on school premises by teachers or others to subscribe or contribute to the funds of, to become membe…

No person shall solicit any other person to contribute to any fund or to purchase any item of personal property, upon the representation that the money received is to be used wholly or in part for the benefit of any public school or the student body of any public school, unless s…

No teacher giving instruction in any school, or on any property belonging to any agencies included in the public school system, shall advocate or teach communism with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism. In prohibiting th…

In the public elementary and high schools or in public elementary and high school school-sponsored activities and classes held elsewhere than on school premises, live vertebrate animals shall not, as part of a scientific experiment or any purpose whatever: (a) Be experimentally m…

This chapter may be cited as the McAteer Act. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The Legislature finds and declares that because of home, community, environmental and other conditions which give rise to language, cultural and economic disadvantages, the latent talents of many minors in the elementary and secondary schools in the state remain undiscovered and …

For purposes of this chapter, a “disadvantaged minor” is a minor who is potentially academically able but scholastically underachieving, and must compensate for inability to profit from the normal educational program. He is a minor who: (a) Is three years of age or more, but unde…

A “program of compensatory education” is an undertaking by any school district maintaining any of grades kindergarten through 12, in the form prescribed by Article 2 (commencing with Section 54420) of this chapter, which is over, above, and in addition to the regular educational …

Each county superintendent of schools is authorized, upon request, to provide consultative and coordination services for the school districts under his jurisdiction which have established programs of compensatory education under this chapter. Such activity shall be financed throu…

(a) The State Board of Education may establish programs of the following types: (1) Establishment of new curricula or modification of existing curricula in connection with the education and training of prospective teachers, to incorporate instruction in methods and techniques dev…

All compensatory preschool programs operated by school districts, regardless of source of funds, shall be subject to the regulations of the State Board of Education. The State Board of Education is authorized to establish standards for all compensatory preschool programs. (Enacte…

The governing board of a school district, in its application, may request waiver of the provisions of any section or sections of this code for any compensatory education program if such waiver is necessary to establish and operate a program for low-income children. The need for a…

The purpose of this article is to establish criteria to guide local school districts in making applications for federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as accepted in Sections 12400, 12402, 12403, 12404, Article 4 (commencing with Section 12030) of …

Each application of a local school district for federal funds or state funds shall include a comprehensive compensatory education plan which shall demonstrate that the district has fully utilized all other sources of funds, and the assistance of all volunteer aid offered by indiv…

For purposes of applications for federal funds a plan should be comprehensive in scope, and may include any or all of the program components set out below. The State Board of Education shall act, upon recommendation of the Advisory Compensatory Education Commission, to establish …

In addition, the district may propose other programs, subject to the approval of the Director of Compensatory Education, to include the following elements: (a) Employment of competent school-community coordinators, to secure effective coordination of the efforts of pupils, parent…

(a) Whenever a districtwide school advisory committee on compensatory education programs has been established pursuant to a compensatory education plan, the procedures adopted for the selection of the district advisory committee shall specify that parents shall constitute a major…