Title EDC — California Educ. Code

The governing board of a school district and a county superintendent of schools may establish and maintain educational data processing centers. Such centers that meet the requirements of Section 10504 for eligible regional educational data processing centers are entitled to finan…

A regional educational data processing center may consist of any of the following: (a) One educational data processing center maintained by the governing board of any school district having an average daily attendance of 100,000 or more pupils. (b) One educational data processing…

The governing board of any school district may contract with any county superintendent of schools for the rendering to the schools of the district of data processing services and may pay for the services out of any funds of the district.

The functions of regional educational data-processing centers shall include the processing and reporting of information relating, among other things, to programs of instruction, school business administration, and pupil personnel data. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

An eligible regional educational data-processing center is one that meets the following requirements: (a) It possesses equipment, personnel and funds sufficient, as determined by regulations of the State Board of Education, to convert and correlate basic source material into data…

The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter, including rules and regulations that: (a) Establish minimum standards entitling regional educational data processing centers to receive an allowance under this ch…

The Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon proper application therefor made by a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining an eligible regional educational data processing center, shall allow to the applicant the amount specified in this section appropri…

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall make the allowances to school districts and county superintendents of schools pursuant to Section 10506 from any funds which may be provided for such purposes under any program established by or under authority of federal law.

This chapter may be cited as the State School Building Aid Law of 1952.

The Legislature hereby declares that it is in the interest of the state and of the people thereof for the state to aid school districts of the state in providing necessary schoolsites and buildings for the pupils of the public school system, this system being a matter of general …

As used in this chapter: (a) “Board” means the State Allocation Board. (b) “Director” means the Director of Education for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. (c) Notwithstanding any other law, the term “project” shall be deemed to include any or all of the purposes for wh…

For the purposes of this chapter, the term “basic bond requirement,” means 5 percent of the assessed valuation of taxable property of the district for each grade level maintained by a district, as shown by the last equalized assessment of the county or counties in which the distr…

With respect to applications filed on and after the effective date of this section by a unified district and any apportionments and repayments made under the applications, “grade level maintained by the district” means the kindergarten, if any, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, main…

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, the board shall review each application and shall take action to insure that apportionments are not made that will provide for construction of permanent facilities to meet temporary peak enrollments at any site or at …

The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide any assistance to the board that it may require.

The State Allocation Board is continued in existence for the purposes of this chapter. The members of the board and the Members of the Legislature meeting with the board shall receive no compensation for their services under this chapter but shall be reimbursed for their actual a…

The board by the adoption of rules shall give priority in allocating funds to districts to those districts where the children will benefit most from additional schoolhouse facilities. This priority shall be based on acuteness of overcrowding, on rapidity of growth in attendance, …

In allocating funds under this chapter, the board may give first priority to school districts for the replacement and repair of school buildings and necessary facilities appurtenant thereto damaged by any earthquake occurring subsequent to July 1, 1952. All of the provisions of t…

In addition to any other powers and duties that are granted the board by this chapter, the board shall: (a) Establish any qualifications not in conflict with other provisions of this chapter that it deems will best serve the purposes of this chapter for determining the eligibilit…

The State Department of Education, in addition to any responsibilities or approvals required under Sections 39000 to 39323, inclusive, shall provide the following services to school districts making applications for apportionments under this chapter: (1) It shall assist school di…

Each school district which desires an apportionment of funds under this chapter shall, unless specifically exempted by the board, prepare a long-range comprehensive master plan for the district prepared in accordance with acceptable planning procedures. Information relating to th…

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…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the board may grant priority in the apportioning of funds to school districts to those districts which have sold facilities replaced under a previous application and have applied the proceeds therefrom in reduction of prior ap…

Apportionment from the State School Building Aid Fund to school districts shall be made in the manner and subject to the conditions herein provided and in accordance with policies adopted by the board, for the following purposes, all of which purposes are hereby declared to be, a…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the board may make an apportionment to any school district for the cost of leasing portable classrooms during the period in which additional school facilities are being constructed by a previously approved project, provided th…

A leasehold or use permit interest held by a school district in land owned in fee simple by the government of the United States may, for all purposes of this chapter, be deemed a purchase of land by the district and to vest title and ownership in the district.

The board shall not make any apportionment with respect to an application for replacing inadequate school facilities unless it has first investigated and made a finding that it would not be economical or good practice to rehabilitate said facilities.

In addition to the purposes for which apportionments may be made to school districts under Section 16014, apportionments may also be made to school districts for the construction, repair, attachment or development of offsite facilities, utilities or improvements which the board d…

In making applications for, and in expending apportionments of funds under this chapter, a school district acts as an agent of the state and all sites purchased and improved, all equipment purchased, and all buildings constructed, reconstructed, altered, or added to through the e…

The board may require school districts to insure for the benefit of the state all sites, equipment, and buildings which are under Section 16019 the property of the state, against any risk and in any amounts that the board may deem necessary to protect the interests of the state. …

A school district shall not expend money apportioned under this chapter unless the contracts under which the funds are expended have been let after competitive bids thereafter pursuant to this code.

Funds apportioned to a school district under Section 16024 for a project, remaining unencumbered or unexpended one year from the date the application of the district for apportionment was approved, shall not be encumbered or expended except as provided in this section. The govern…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a district may apply, on a separate application, for an apportionment for the purchase of laboratory and vocational training equipment, whether or not the equipment is for use in connection with a construction project. All of …

Each school district that desires an apportionment for a grade level maintained by it, 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…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a school district otherwise eligible to receive a conditional apportionment under this chapter may apply for an adjustment of annual repayment obligations in lieu of receiving the conditional apportionment. The board may requi…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, any school district whose governing board has adopted and put into effect a year-round school operation plan or continuous school program, as defined in Section 16030, or has adopted a plan or program for operation in the foll…

In any fiscal year in which the school district is conducting a year-round school operation or continuous school program, as defined in Section 16030, utilizing a facility for which financial assistance was provided by the board under Section 16026, the Director of General Servic…

Any authorization of the proceeds derived from the sale of an unused site pursuant to Section 16026 shall constitute a conversion of the unpaid portion of the apportionment to the application for an air cooling system as if an apportionment had originally been made therefor. The …

Whenever a school district has received an increased building cost allowance pursuant to Section 16024 or 16026 for the purpose of providing facilities for year-round school operation as defined in Section 16030, and in any fiscal year subsequent to the fiscal year in which the f…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a school district qualifying for an adjustment of annual repayment obligations under Section 16025 or 15731 may apply for an apportionment under this chapter. The apportionment shall not exceed the “eligible facilities cost”, …

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, no school district shall be required, except as provided in this section, to contribute toward the cost of a project for which an application for an apportionment is filed, any of the following funds of the district: …

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, whenever the board makes a finding pursuant to Section 16031 that proceeds from the sale of district bonds have been expended or encumbered by a school district for purposes outside the scope and intent of this chapter the boa…

The expenditure by a school district, prior to the filing of an application for an apportionment under this chapter, of proceeds from the sale of district bonds for the construction of a swimming pool, shall not in and of itself constitute grounds for denying an apportionment, bu…

Before the board approves an application for a furniture or equipment project, or an application for a new construction project, including furniture and equipment, and after consultation with the State Department of Education, it shall establish current furniture and equipment co…

The board may approve, in whole or in part, an application submitted by a school district under Section 16024 and in such amount, not exceeding the amount applied for, as the board may deem appropriate. The board may, upon approval of the application, in whole or in part, and sub…

The board shall, after consultation with the State Department of Education, establish site cost standards which shall be used in evaluating the cost in relationship to the size of any site to be acquired wholly or partially with funds apportioned under this chapter. In determinin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, whenever the board has made an apportionment more than two years after the original approval of and apportionment for any construction project, and pursuant to Section 16035 has required the district to issue additional qualify…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16035, if the board has approved an application for a construction project and has made an apportionment therefor, the board may make an additional apportionment or apportionments for a period of time in excess of two years after the orig…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a district which applies for an apportionment for the purchase of a site or for the cost of the preparation of plans and specifications, which is not a part of a construction project, shall make a separate application for the …

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16039, if the board has made apportionments pursuant to the section for purchase of a site or preparation of plans and specifications and the district after January 1, 1977, (1) begins construction on the site of facilities which are just…