Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) The State Librarian may operate a telephonic reading system, fund the operation of telephonic reading systems operated by qualifying entities, or both. (b) Pursuant to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act and in accordance with Section 270 of the Public Utilities Code, t…

(a) The State Librarian may annually award a gold medal for excellence in the humanities and science to an individual or organization for publication of a work that has enriched the collection of the California State Library and enriched the state by significantly contributing to…

(a) In order to protect and preserve valuable and irreplaceable treasures of the state, the State Librarian may enter into an operating agreement with a private, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, currently known as the California State Library Foundation, as follows: (1) The Ca…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that Bernard E. Witkin’s legendary contribution to California law is deserving of a lasting tribute and an expression of gratitude from the state whose legal system, he, more than any other single individual in the 20th century, helpe…

Books may be taken from the California State Library by the Members of the Legislature and by other state officers during regular office hours.

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.)

This act shall be known and may be cited as the Reading Initiative Program.

The State Librarian shall establish the Reading Initiative Program with funds appropriated for that purpose and with funds received from private sources. The State Librarian shall administer the program, for which purpose he or she shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a lis…

The Local Public Library Partnership Program is hereby established under the administration of the State Librarian for purposes of ensuring that, by third grade, all pupils have access to a local public library.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school. (b) (1) “Local public library” means a public library formed pursuant to this part that is located within the elem…

(a) The State Librarian shall offer resources to assist each local public library to find student success card dispensing strategies that work best for their communities. (b) The State Librarian shall coordinate with each local public library to determine the most effective means…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the State Librarian shall, on or before January 1, 2029, and by each January 1 thereafter, report to the Legislature all of the following information: (1) The number of third grade pupils who have obtained a student succ…

Consistent with Section 99.37 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, a local educational agency may disclose directory information, as defined in Section 49061, to the State Librarian and a local public library for purposes of administering this article. The information …

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a local public library from partnering with a local educational agency to issue student success cards to pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive.

The Statewide Imagination Library Program is hereby established under the administration of the State Librarian for purposes of developing, implementing, promoting, and fostering a comprehensive statewide initiative for encouraging children from birth to five years of age, inclus…

(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund which shall be known as the Imagination Library of California Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all moneys deposited in the fund, including state General Fund appropriations, public or private bequ…

The State Librarian shall coordinate with a nonprofit entity, qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and organized solely to promote and encourage reading by the children of the state, for the purpose of implementing this article.

The State Librarian shall do all of the following: (a) Promote the statewide development of local Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library programs. (b) Advance and strengthen local Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library programs with the goal of increasing enrollment. (c) Recruit voluntee…

The California State Library may promulgate regulations as may be needed for the administration of the Statewide Imagination Library Program.

(a) For the 1984–85 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the county superintendent of schools shall determine a revenue limit for each school district in the county pursuant to this section. (b) The base revenue limit for a fiscal year shall be determined by adding to the…

For purposes of Section 42238.02, the following definitions shall apply: (a) (1) “Eligible for free or reduced-price meals” means determined to meet federal income eligibility criteria, either through completing an application for the federal National School Lunch Program, throug…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) According to 2023 findings from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), inflation-adjusted average weekly wages of teachers have been relatively flat since 1996, finding that the average weekly wages of public school t…

(a) The department shall, on or before July 1, 2026, create a data collection system for salary and benefits data for represented certificated and classified nonmanagement employees. The data collected shall include salary, benefits, and full-time equivalent employee counts for c…

In any fiscal year, if a decline in Education Protection Account revenue results in a nontransfer of funds into the Education Protection Account fourth-quarter payment, the Superintendent shall recover a local educational agency’s overpayment of Education Protection Account funds…

(a) The amount computed pursuant to this section shall be known as the school district and charter school local control funding formula. (b) (1) For purposes of this section “unduplicated pupil” means a pupil enrolled in a school district or a charter school who is either classif…

Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2020–21 fiscal year, the adjustments required pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 2574, subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 2574, subdivision (b) of Section 2575.1, paragraph (2) of subdivision…

Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, the adjustments required pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 2574, subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 2574, subdivision (b) of Section 2575.1, paragraph (2) of subdivision…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of calculating local control funding formula entitlements pursuant to Sections 42238.02, 42238.03, 2574, and 2576, as applicable, if the Superintendent determines that a local educational agency’s attendance yield in the 2019–20 fis…

(a) Commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, the sum of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000) is hereby appropriated each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionment in the man…

(a) In the 2013–14 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall compute an economic recovery target rate for each school district and charter school equal to the sum of the following: (1) (A) For each school district, the school district’s revenue limit in the 2012–13 fiscal year as com…

(a) On or before January 1, 2026, the Legislative Analyst’s Office shall submit a report to the Legislature, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on the effects of changing the pupil count methodology of the local control funding formula from average daily atte…

(a) Commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent shall calculate a base entitlement for the transition to the local control funding formula for each school district and charter school equal to the sum of the amounts computed pursuant…

Notwithstanding any other law, revenue limit funding for school districts and charter school block grant funding for charter schools for the 2012–13 fiscal year and prior fiscal years shall continue to be adjusted pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 42238), and Article…

(a) For purposes of Sections 42238.02, 42238.025, and 42238.03, the fiscal year average daily attendance for a school district shall be computed pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, as applicable. (1) The second principal apportionment regular average daily attendance fo…

(a) For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 42238.05, a sponsoring school district’s average daily attendance shall be computed as follows: (1) Compute the sponsoring school district’s regular average daily attendance in the current fiscal year, excluding the …

(a) Sections 42238.051 and 42238.052 do not apply to resident pupils in charter schools operating under the districtwide charter of a school district that has converted all of its schools to charter status pursuant to Section 47606. (b) For purposes of this section, “resident pup…

Commencing on July 1, 2013, except for Sections 42238, 42238.1, 42238.2, and 42238.5, or where the context requires otherwise, all of the following shall apply: (a) References to “revenue limit” shall instead refer to the “local control funding formula.” (b) References to “the re…

(a) On or before January 31, 2014, the state board shall adopt regulations that govern the expenditure of funds apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils pursuant to Sections 2574, 2575, 42238.02, and 42238.03. The regulations shall include, …

(a) For the 1986–87 fiscal year and each fiscal year up to and including the 1998–99 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall compute an inflation adjustment equal to the product of paragraphs (1) and (2): (1) Compute the sum of the following: (A) The statewide average base revenue …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, and in lieu of any inflation or cost-of-living adjustment otherwise authorized for the programs enumerated in subdivision (b), state funding for the programs enumerated in subdivision (b) shall be increased annually by the product of the followi…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, only those pupils enrolled in county office of education programs while detained in a juvenile hall, juvenile home, day center, juvenile ranch, juvenile camp, or regional youth educational facility established pursuant to Article 23 (commencing …

For federal audit actions that became final by entry of judgment or final administrative decision on or after July 1, 1987, and that require repayment of funds to the federal government by the State Department of Education for federal audit exceptions based on findings in any sch…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 42238.5 or any other law, a school district that meets any of the following conditions shall be entitled to an adjustment to its units of average daily attendance pursuant to this section: (A) The school district experiences a decline in the number…

Costs related to the salaries and benefits of teachers incurred by a school district or county office of education to provide the courses specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 51225.3 shall be offset by the amount of state funding apportioned to the district pu…

(a) For each year during the loan repayment period provided for in Section 42238.2, any district utilizing the adjustment pursuant to Section 42238.2 may adjust its revenue limit computed pursuant to Section 42238 to the statewide average revenue limit per unit of average daily a…

(a) For purposes of Section 42238, the fiscal year average daily attendance shall be computed pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2). (1) The second principal apportionment regular average daily attendance for either the current or prior fiscal year, whichever is greater. However, prio…

(a) For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 42238.5, a sponsoring school district’s average daily attendance shall be computed as follows: (1) Compute the sponsoring school district’s regular average daily attendance in the current year, excluding the attendan…