Title EDC, California Educ. Code

Any governing board or subboard may hold closed sessions to consider matters relating to litigation, collective bargaining, or the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, or dismissal of an employee, or to hear complaints or charges brought against an employee by anot…

No governing board or subboard shall take action on any issue until that issue has been publicly posted for at least one week. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1158, Sec. 2.)

Each auxiliary organization shall establish, by constitution, statute, bylaws, or resolution, provisions for elections of officers and board members. These provisions shall be designed to allow all those eligible to vote complete access to all information on issues and candidates…

Where the constitution or articles of incorporation of an associated students auxiliary organization provides for a judiciary or judicial council with powers separate from the governing board of the auxiliary organization, decisions rendered by the judiciary or judicial council s…

Each member of a governing board pursuant to this article who attends a meeting of the governing board where action is taken in violation of any provision of this article, with knowledge of the fact that the meeting is in violation of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ad…

This article is not applicable to either of the following: (a) Any entity formed or operating pursuant to Section 89300. (b) The governing board of any statewide student organization that represents the students of the California State University. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 330…

The board shall compute for each applicant school district the amount to which the district is entitled under this chapter in the manner prescribed by this article. The amount so computed shall be reduced by the amount received or to be received by the district under Public Law 8…

In the computation of the apportionments to applicant school districts, the board may utilize the facilities and services of any department or agency of the state and may delegate the performance of any duties or functions, except those specifically delegated by this chapter to t…

The board shall multiply: (a) The estimated number of project children in the district by the current construction cost per pupil in the area of the state project. (b) The estimated number of indirect project children in the district by the current construction cost per pupil in …

(a) The average per pupil cost of constructing complete school facilities in the area of the state project for the purposes of this article shall be determined by the board, after consultation with the department and the Department of General Services, on the basis of information…

Books may be taken from the California State Library by the Members of the Legislature and by other state officers during regular office hours. (Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 666, Sec. 20. (AB 486) Effective January 1, 2022.)

The Controller, when notified by the State Librarian that any officer or employee of the state for whom he or she draws a warrant for salary has failed to return any book taken by him or her, or for which he or she has given an order, within the time prescribed by the rules, or t…

In case of the neglect or refusal on the part of any officer or employee of the state to return a book for which he or she has given an order or a receipt or has in his or her possession, the State Librarian may purchase for the library a duplicate of the book, and notify the Con…

The State Librarian may bring suit in his or her official capacity for the recovery of any book, or for three times the value thereof, together with costs of suit, against any person who has the book in his or her possession or who is responsible therefor. If the department has p…

Every person who injures or fails to return any book taken is liable in three times its value. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

A permit to work full time may be issued to a minor under the age of 16 years and over the age of 14 years who holds a diploma of graduation from the prescribed elementary school course under both of the following circumstances: (a) The permit expires not later than the end of th…

Notwithstanding Section 49130, 49132, or 49134 or subdivision (d) of Section 49133, a permit to work full time may be issued to a minor over the age of 16 and under the age of 18. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) A permit shall not be issued until the minor accompanied by the minor’s parent or guardian appears before the person authorized to issue the permit and submits the minor’s application thereto. (b) A permit shall not be denied for noncompliance with subdivision (a) if all of t…

No permit shall be issued until the issuing authority has received, examined, approved, and filed, the following papers duly executed: (a) The school record of the minor giving age, grade, and attendance for the current term signed by the principal or teacher. (b) Evidence of age…

The parent, guardian, or custodian accompanying the minor shall make oath that his statement of the name, address, birthplace, and age of the minor as entered upon the application for the permit to work are true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. This section sh…

The authority issuing any permit to work full time shall immediately notify, in writing, the person in charge of the organization and maintenance of part-time continuation classes of the place of the minor’s prospective employment, and the parent or guardian of the minor shall se…

This article shall be known and may be referred to as the Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Education Act of 1976. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 36.)

The Legislature finds that there are more than 288,000 school age children who are limited English proficient and who do not have the English language skills necessary to benefit from instruction only in English at a level substantially equivalent to pupils whose primary language…

The State Board of Education shall adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary for the effective administration of this article. (Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1339, Sec. 6. Operative July 1, 1981, by Sec. 39 of Ch. 1339.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this article. (a) “Basic bilingual education” is a system of instruction that builds upon the language skills of the pupil and that consists of, but is not limited to…

Each of the program options defined in subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 52163 shall include structured activities which promote the pupil’s positive self-image and crosscultural understanding. The Legislature recognizes that language development is a continu…

The Legislature recognizes that for many languages there is a shortage of primary language textbooks, curriculum, teacher training programs, and bilingual personnel. The requirement for reading in the primary language may be waived by the board if the district documents the lack …

Each school district shall ascertain not later than the first day of March of each year, under regulations prescribed by the State Board of Education, the total number of pupils of limited English proficiency within the district, and shall classify them according to their primary…

The superintendent, with the approval of the State Board of Education, shall prescribe census-taking methods, applicable to all school districts in the state, which shall include, but need not be limited to, the following: (a) A determination of the primary language of each pupil…

The Department of Education shall review the results of the census each year. Where the information provided by a school district appears to be inaccurate or where parents, teachers, or counselors file a formal written complaint that the census is inaccurate, the department shall…

(a) Each school district shall reassess pupils whose primary language is other than English, whether they are designated as limited English proficient, or fluent English proficient, when a parent or guardian, teacher, or school site administrator claims that there is a reasonable…

If a previously untested pupil enrolling in a school for the first time speaks a language other than English in the home, such pupil shall be enrolled as a pupil of limited English proficiency in a bilingual program pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), (c), (e), or (f) of Section 52…

Pertinent information from the assessment of language skills for each pupil whose primary language is other than English shall be retained by the school district as long as the pupil is enrolled in the district. Each school district shall report annually to the Department of Educ…

Reclassification criteria shall be established by each school district in which pupils of limited English proficiency are enrolled. The criteria shall determine when pupils of limited English proficiency have developed the English language skills necessary to succeed in an Englis…

Each pupil of limited English proficiency enrolled in the California public school system in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, shall receive instruction in a language understandable to the pupil that recognizes the pupil’s primary language and teaches the pupil English.…

All teachers and aides providing instruction in programs established pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or, unless waived by the board, (c) of Section 52163, shall meet the criteria of subdivision (h) or (i) of Section 52163. In the event a school operates an individualized progra…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), in classes established pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (c) of Section 52165, not more than two-thirds nor less than one-third of the pupils shall be pupils of limited English proficiency. The remaining proportion of pupils in th…

(a) The superintendent shall ensure that funds appropriated for purposes of this article supplement and do not supplant categorical funds allocated from other local or state sources in meeting the needs of pupils of limited English proficiency. Categorical aid funds used for the …

(a) The requirements for establishing programs mandated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 52165 shall be in effect beginning with the 1977–78 school year. (b) Nothing contained in this section shall be interpreted to authorize school districts to reduce per pupil expenditure…

(a) Each school which has enrolled one or more pupils of limited English proficiency shall prepare a plan to meet the needs of pupils of limited English proficiency in attendance in the school. (1) Only those schools with 10 or more pupils with the same primary language in a grad…

Each district shall submit annually to the department an evaluation of pupil progress for every program that has been approved pursuant to this article in a form and manner prescribed by the superintendent. (Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 922, Sec. 125. Effective January 1, 1995.)

Teachers and teacher aides who are not bilingual-crosscultural teachers and aides, as defined by subdivisions (h) and (i) of Section 52163, shall not be permitted to teach in programs authorized pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or, unless waived by the board, (c) of Section 5216…

(a) Prior to the enrollment of any pupils in any program authorized pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d) of Section 52163, parents or guardians of pupils of all potential participants shall be provided the opportunity for consultation about the placement of their child o…

Nothing in this article shall preclude the participation by an individual school district in a consortium or a cooperative in order to provide support and contract services to school districts that receive funds for the purposes of this article. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1980…

A school district governing board may allow a nonresident pupil of limited English proficiency to enroll in or attend its program authorized pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d) of Section 52163 subject to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 46600) of Part 26, if the tuit…

(a) Each school district with more than 50 pupils of limited English proficiency shall establish a districtwide advisory committee on bilingual education. Parents or guardians, or both, of pupils of limited English proficiency who are not employed by the district shall constitute…