Title EDC, California Educ. Code

It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to provide a means through repayable state loans for school districts not otherwise eligible for assistance under this chapter (consisting principally of school districts in the urban centers of the state), to house the…

The following terms, as used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the State Allocation Board finds a different meaning is essential for properly carrying out the purposes of this article, or finds that a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a…

The State Allocation Board shall administer this article. The Director of General Services shall provide the assistance to the board as it may require. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)

In addition to any other powers and duties granted to the board by Article 1 (commencing with Section 16000) of this chapter, the board shall: (a) Establish the qualifications that it deems will best serve the purposes of this article for determining the eligibility of districts …

The board, by the adoption of rules, shall give priority in allocating funds to districts which will benefit most from the reconstruction or replacement of schoolhouse facilities. This priority may be based on the age and structural safety of existing buildings at the school or s…

The board shall prescribe instructions specifying the manner in which property, real or personal, being replaced through the apportionment, shall be disposed of, and compliance with the instructions shall be a condition upon the making of the apportionment. The net proceeds deriv…

Apportionments under this article from the State School Building Aid Fund shall be made for the sole purpose of reconstructing or replacing existing substandard buildings that present a potential threat to the safety of schoolchildren and which do not comply with the requirements…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16319, apportionments under this article from the proceeds of bonds remaining from the authorization provided in the State School Building Aid Bond Law of 1966 may be made for the purpose of (1) reconstructing or replacing existing substa…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16319, apportionments under this article from the proceeds of bonds remaining from the authorization provided in the State School Building Aid Bond Law of 1966 may be made for the purpose of replacing school buildings severely damaged by …

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16319, apportionments may be made to a school district for the purpose of replacing an existing substandard building which formerly housed the district’s high school, and which was subsequently replaced by a new high school building using…

The State Department of Education shall provide the following services to school districts making applications for apportionments under this article: (a) It shall assist school districts in organizing a comprehensive planning effort. It shall guide a planning process through its …

Each school district which desires an apportionment shall submit through its governing board to the board an application therefor in the form and number of copies as the board shall prescribe. Each copy of the application shall be accompanied by a statement of the estimated cost …

A school district may at any time file an application or amend or supplement an application. Upon receipt of any application, the Director of General Services shall as promptly as possible prepare a report and recommendation with respect to the application after having received r…

The board may, upon approval of the application, in whole or in part, and subsequently from time to time, make a conditional apportionment or conditional apportionments not exceeding in the aggregate the total amount approved for the application from the State School Building Aid…

The amount of new building area for which an apportionment may be made for the purpose of replacing unsafe school buildings shall be computed in accordance with regulations adopted by the board. Such regulation shall be based upon the number of units of average daily attendance w…

No payment of funds may be made pursuant to an apportionment unless the district holds an election at which the electorate of the district approve the acceptance, expenditure, and repayment of at least the amount apportioned pursuant to this article. The election may be held prio…

No apportionment shall be made to a district for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, school buildings if the requirements prescribed by this code for the construction of school buildings are not met by the plans for the entire building program of t…

Payment shall be made in accordance with the terms of an apportionment, either directly or by way of reimbursement, to a school district for expenditures, or commitments therefor, which have been made by the district subsequent to the effective date of this article for any items …

The amount of the apportionment to a school district from the State School Building Aid Fund shall initially be computed by the board as follows: (a) Determining the ratio which the school district’s assessed valuation per pupil for the grade level of the project application bear…

Notwithstanding former Section 39230, as amended by Section 147 of Chapter 36 of the Statutes of 1977, or anything to the contrary in this article, whenever the State Allocation Board determines that state funds are not available to make an apportionment for an otherwise eligible…

A school district may obtain local funds to match the state assistance with any combination of funds available as follows: (a) Through the issuance of school district bonds. (b) Through the levy and collection of school district taxes. The proceeds of any increase in the maximum …

Whenever a school district determines that it is in its best interest to provide facilities on a given schoolsite in addition to those contained in the approved application, it may do so, with any excess funds it has available for capital outlay purposes, beyond those required un…

Whenever a school district has received an apportionment or apportionments of funds pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 15700) or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 16000) of this part, and, through the issuance of bonds, uses the bond proceeds as its source of funds t…

The interest on apportionments made under this article shall be established by the board, with the approval of the Director of General Services, as follows: (1) The interest rate applicable to apportionments made pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 16000) and determine…

Each district to which an apportionment or apportionments has been made under this article shall repay the principal amount of such apportionment or apportionments and the accrued interest thereon in 20 equal annual payments. The first payment shall be made in the second fiscal y…

Any apportionment made to the Marysville Joint Unified School District under Section 16339.8 shall be repaid through the continuance of the seventeen and one-half cents ($0.175) per one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation per grade level tax rate set forth in Section 163…

Notwithstanding any provisions of this article, any school district which has levied the entire amount permitted under former Section 39230, as amended by Section 147 of Chapter 36 of the Statutes of 1977, and has declared the entire proceeds therefrom available as local matching…

Notwithstanding any provisions of this article, where less than thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) has been apportioned or otherwise reserved by the board pursuant to Section 16336 on January 1, 1973, the board shall apportion as grants the remainder thereof under this section …

Notwithstanding any provisions of this article or Section 16336 thereof to the contrary, any school district which lacks sufficient matching funds for a particular project or projects, as required under this article, may file an application and the board may approve a project or …

Notwithstanding any provisions of this article to the contrary, any district which does not have sufficient matching funds for a particular project as required under this article may file an application under Section 16339, and the board may approve the project conditioned upon t…

Notwithstanding any provisions of this article or Sections 16336 and 16339 thereof to the contrary, any school district, which has issued at least thirty-seven million dollars ($37,000,000) in bonds for the purpose of replacing structurally unsafe buildings and which lacks suffic…

Notwithstanding any provisions of this article to the contrary, the State Allocation Board may appropriate to the Marysville Joint Unified School District a sum not to exceed seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) for costs incurred in repairing damage at Lindhurst High School…

Sections 16006, 16017, 16021, 16066, 16088, 16091, and 16093 to 16100, inclusive, shall be applicable to the administration of this article unless the context of this article as determined by the board, requires otherwise. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effe…

Whenever a school district receives or has received an apportionment under this article for the purchase of a site which contains existing improvements, the board may require the district to dispose of any existing improvements that a condition of receiving an apportionment in an…

To determine the effect of school housing aid for reorganized districts, the applicable portions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 16150) of this chapter shall apply. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)

Whenever a conditional apportionment has, prior to January 1, 1980, been made to an applicant school district pursuant to this chapter and thereafter the county superintendent of schools of the county having jurisdiction over such district has certified to the board and the Contr…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16319, if a school district otherwise eligible to receive an apportionment under this article operates sufficient continuous school programs (as defined in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 37600) of Part 22) to provide housing for stude…

(a) On or before June 1, 2024, the department shall develop evidence-based best practices for restorative justice practice implementation on a school campus and make these best practices available on the department’s internet website for use by local educational agencies to imple…

(a) Commencing with the 2024–25 school year, all of the following shall apply to recess provided by a public elementary school: (1) (A) Recess shall be at least 30 minutes on regular instructional days and at least 15 minutes on early release days and may be provided in one or mo…

(a) Each campus of the University of California is requested to be authorized to observe the date corresponding with the second new moon following the winter solstice, or the third new moon following the winter solstice should an intercalary month intervene, known as “Lunar New Y…

(a) The regents are urged to direct their Office of the Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) to do all of the following: (1) Use reasonable efforts to encourage diversity, such as implementing a hiring strategy that requires that candidates from underrepresented groups be given full c…

In order to provide elementary education for children residing in the county, or in order to provide elementary education for children of migratory laborers engaged in seasonal industries within the county, the county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county…

The county superintendent of schools shall draw requisitions upon the unobligated funds of any suspended school district under his jurisdiction to pay in whole or in part the expenses incurred for the maintenance of emergency schools in the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. …

The county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county board of education, insure all real and personal property constructed, purchased, or otherwise provided by him for emergency schools established by him. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county board of education, transfer or sell the real and personal property of any emergency school maintained by him to any elementary school district under his jurisdiction, or to any other political subdivision …

The units of average daily attendance for a fiscal year in an emergency school maintained by the county superintendent of schools shall be computed by dividing the total number of days of pupils’ attendance in the emergency school during the fiscal year by 175. (Enacted by Stats.…