Title EDC — California Educ. Code

A community college district board may offer, subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and in accordance with rules and regulations to be adopted by the board of governors, courses under a flexible calendar.

The Adult Education Program is hereby established under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply, unless otherwise specified: (a) “Adult” means a person 18 years of age or older. (b) “Carryover” means the amount of unspent adult education program funds from the prior fiscal year, certified on or before Septe…

(a) The chancellor and the Superintendent are the state officials responsible for identifying and understanding the educational needs of adults in the state. (b) The chancellor and the Superintendent shall use the powers provided by this article to support the effective provision…

(a) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall divide the state into adult education regions and shall determine the physical boundaries of each region. (b) When determining the boundaries of the adult education regions, the chancellor…

(a) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall approve one adult education consortium in each adult education region. (b) Until otherwise determined by the chancellor and the Superintendent, the consortia to which planning and implemen…

The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall approve, for each consortium, rules and procedures that adhere to all of the following conditions: (a) Any community college district, school district, or county office of education, or any jo…

(a) (1) Commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, as a condition of receipt of an apportionment of funds from this program for a fiscal year, the members of a consortium shall have a consortium-approved three-year adult education plan that addresses a three-year fiscal planning cy…

No later than July 31, 2015, the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall certify, for each school district and county office of education, the amount of state funds required to be expended for adult education pursuant to paragraph (7) o…

(a) If the total amount certified for all school districts and county offices of education pursuant to Section 84907 is less than three hundred seventy-five million dollars ($375,000,000), the chancellor and the Superintendent shall do both of the following: (1) Apportion funds a…

(a) This section shall apply commencing with the 2016–17 fiscal year. (b) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall approve, no later than February 28 of the prior fiscal year, a preliminary schedule of allocations to each consortium …

The chancellor and the Superintendent shall, when approving a schedule of allocations for a fiscal year, also present preliminary projections for the amounts that would be allocated in the subsequent two fiscal years. This preliminary presentation shall not constitute a binding c…

To determine the need for adult education, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall consider, at a minimum, measures related to adult population, employment, immigration, educational attainment, and adult literacy.

The chancellor and the Superintendent shall apportion funds appropriated for the program in a given year in compliance with all of the following: (a) No more than one-twelfth of the total amount appropriated shall have been apportioned by the end of July. (b) No more than one-six…

(a) Funds apportioned for the program shall be used only for support of the following: (1) Programs in elementary and secondary basic skills, including programs leading to a high school diploma or high school equivalency certificate. (2) Programs for immigrants eligible for educa…

(a) As a condition of receipt of an apportionment from the program, a consortium shall approve a distribution schedule that includes both of the following: (1) The amount of funds to be distributed to each member of the consortium for that fiscal year. (2) A narrative justifying …

Program funds received by a participating school district shall be deposited in a separate fund of the school district to be known as the Adult Education Fund. Moneys in an Adult Education Fund shall be expended only for adult education purposes.

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to coordinate programs that support education and workforce services for adults. (b) No later than January 31, 2016, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall submit to the Director of Finance, to the State Board of Education, and, in con…

Commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, any community college district, school district, or county office of education or any joint powers authority consisting of community college districts, school districts, county offices of education, or a combination of these entities, that…

(a) To inform actions taken by the Governor and the Legislature related to adult education, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall report to the Director of Finance, the Statewide Director of Immigrant Integration, the state board, and, in compliance with Section 9795 of the…

(a) To the extent that one-time funding is made available in the Budget Act of 2015, consistent with the provisions of Section 84917, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall identify common measures for determining the effectiveness of members of each consortium in meeting th…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) A large and growing number of California’s children are not learning enough in school to prepare them for full economic, social, and civic participation in adult life, as evidenced by the following statistics: (1) Each …

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Consortium” means two or more local educational agencies. (b) “Cooperating agency” means any federal, state, or local public or private nonprofit agency that agrees to offer support services at a schoolsite t…

In order to encourage the integration of children’s services, it is the intent of the Legislature to promote interagency coordination and collaboration among the state agencies responsible for the provision of support services to children and their families. Therefore, the Legisl…

The superintendent shall award grants to a local educational agency or consortium to pay the costs of planning and operating, on behalf of one or more qualifying schools within the local educational agency or consortium, programs that provide support services to pupils and their …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that, as the number of planning and operational grants awarded pursuant to this chapter increases, additional local planning and coordinating efforts will be necessary among school districts, county offices of education, county governments, …

The Legislature finds that an evaluation of plan effectiveness is both desirable and necessary, and accordingly requires the following: (a) No later than January 1 of the year following a full year of operation, each local educational agency or consortium that receives an operati…

(a) Each local educational agency or consortium applying for a grant under this chapter shall establish procedures to ensure on-going consultation and collaboration with local agencies for the purposes set forth in subdivision (c). The consultation and collaboration process shall…

(a) The department is required to implement this chapter only to the extent that funds are apportioned for that purpose under the annual Budget Act, or are made available to the department for the purposes of this chapter from federal sources. It is the intent of the Legislature …

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the trustees shall provide by rule for the government of their appointees and employees, pursuant to this chapter and other applicable provisions of law, including, but not limited to: appointment; classification; terms; duties;…

(a) The trustees shall offer, on at least a semiannual basis, to each of the university’s filers, an orientation course on the relevant ethics statutes and regulations that govern the official conduct of university officials. (b) As used in this section, “filer” means each member…

(a) For the purpose of facilitating the recruitment of professional and technically trained persons to fill positions for which there is a shortage of qualified applicants, the trustees may authorize payment of all or a part of the travel expense of applicants who are called for …

(a) It is the policy of the state that the workweek of the employees of the California State University shall be 40 hours, and the workday of such employees eight hours, except that workweeks and workdays of a different number of hours may be established in order to meet the vary…

(a) The trustees may authorize payments into a private fund to provide health and welfare benefits to nonpermanent employees of the class specified in Section 19830 of the Government Code employed by the trustees, upon a finding by the trustees as to any position that the criteri…

(a) Upon separation from service without fault on his or her part, an employee is entitled to a lump-sum payment as of the time of separation for any unused or accumulated vacation or for any time off to which the employee is entitled by reason of previous overtime work where com…

The trustees, subject to such conditions as they may establish, may purchase annuity contracts for any of their employees, and shall reduce the salary of any such employee for whom such contract is purchased in the amount of the cost thereof; provided that each of the following c…

(a) Officers and employees of the California State University may participate in the deferred compensation plan established pursuant to Section 19993 of the Government Code upon compliance with the statutory prerequisites for participation in the plan. (b) If the provisions of th…

(a) The trustees, subject to such conditions as they may establish, may enter into contracts of group life insurance and contracts of group disability insurance or protection with respect to any class of their employees they may designate or with respect to all such employees, wi…

(a) The trustees, subject to any conditions which the trustees may impose, may establish programs of insurance with respect to any class of employees of the trustees which the trustees may designate or with respect to all of the employees of the trustees, with any insurer or insu…

(a) Each person holding a four-year term appointment under Section 80507 on June 30, 1961, regardless of when the term commenced, shall on that date be entitled to all personnel benefits and rights under the law which would have attached to the person’s position if he or she had …

(a) The trustees may grant a leave of absence without compensation to any nonacademic employee. (b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 o…

(a) (1) The California State University shall grant to any employee, upon a request that provides at least 30 days notice before commencement, a leave of absence without loss of compensation for the purpose of enabling the employee to serve as an elected officer of any California…

(a) Upon the expiration of the leave of absence granted pursuant to Section 89510 or 89511, the employee to whom the leave of absence was granted is entitled to reinstatement in the position the employee held at the time the leave of absence was granted, if the position is still …

(a) Every employee who has entered or who hereafter enters the active military service of the United States of America or of the State of California, including active service in any uniformed auxiliary of, or to, any branch of such military service created or authorized as such a…

(a) The time during which an employee of the trustees is on leave of absence without compensation shall not be credited toward retirement under any retirement system of the state. If such employee receives compensation during such leave of absence the time for which he receives s…

The trustees shall eliminate all policies which detrimentally and unreasonably affect the employment status of females hired by the California State University. To accomplish this purpose, the trustees shall do all of the following: (a) Review hiring, wages, job classifications, …

The trustees may establish rules and regulations which allow academic teaching employees, librarians, counselors, and student affairs officers to reduce their workload from full-time to part-time duties. Such regulations shall include but shall not be limited to the following if …

Whenever possible: (a) Part-time faculty should be informed of assignments at least six weeks in advance. (b) Part-time faculty should be paid for the first week of an assignment when class is canceled less than two weeks before the beginning of a semester. If a class meets more …

(a) The minimum and maximum salary limits for laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed on an hourly or per diem basis need not be uniform throughout the state, but the trustees shall ascertain, as to each such position, the general prevailing rate of such wages in the various lo…