Title EDC — California Educ. Code

“Governing board” means board of school trustees, community college board of trustees, and city, and city and county board of education. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) (1) The governing board of a community college district, prior to establishing a vocational or occupational training program, shall conduct a job market study of the labor market area, as those terms are defined in Section 52301.5, in which it proposes to establish the progra…

(a) Every vocational or occupational training program offered by a community college district shall be reviewed every two years by the governing board of the district to ensure that each program, as demonstrated by the California Occupational Information System, including the Sta…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Agriculture is one of the most important industries in California, contributing over sixty-five billion dollars ($65,000,000,000) annually to the state’s economic activity. (b) Agricultural education programs within the…

(a) The California Community Colleges Agriculture and Natural Resources Advisory Committee shall identify and develop quality program criteria that may be used to uniformly evaluate the effectiveness of the agricultural education programs in community colleges throughout Californ…

(a) As a condition of federal funds provided under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.) or any successor thereof, and to the extent permitted by federal law, a community college shall develop a plan for enabling the devel…

For purposes of this article: (a) “Contract education” means those situations in which a community college district contracts with a public or private entity for the purposes of providing instruction or services or both by the community college. (b) “Credit” refers to any class o…

(a) The governing board of any community college district may establish, or with one or more community college districts may establish, contract education programs within or outside the state by agreement with any public or private agency, corporation, association, or any other p…

(a) Faculty in all credit and noncredit contract education classes shall be selected and hired according to procedures existing in a community college district for the selection of instructors for credit classes. (b) Faculty teaching credit and noncredit contract education classe…

(a) Nonprofit public benefit corporations that are not organized as auxiliary organizations pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 72670) of Chapter 6 of Part 45 and are conducting contract education programs shall not use the name of a community college district or of a …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Many community college students desire to attend, and do attend, community colleges outside their district of residence. (2) Prior to the passage of Proposition 13, interdistrict attendance restrictions were necessary to prov…

(a) Subject to Article 1 (commencing with Section 76000) of Chapter 1 of Part 47, a district resident, as defined for purposes of Part 41 (commencing with Section 68000), shall be admitted to a community college in another district without regard to district boundaries, unless th…

(a) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges may, pursuant to a finding that one or more of the following concerns in any community college district requires the restriction of interdistrict attendance, impose one or more restrictions upon interdistrict attenda…

Nothing in this act shall abrogate any contract existing between any school districts on the effective date of this chapter. Any contractual provision in any contract in effect on the effective date of this chapter shall prevail over any conflicting provision in this chapter unti…

(a) In addition to classification as a resident pursuant to Section 68040, each community college student shall be classified as either a district resident or a nondistrict resident. (b) For purposes of classification as a district resident or nondistrict resident, the following …

For purposes of this article, “district” means any community college district identified by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges as participating in the statewide baccalaureate degree program.

Notwithstanding Section 66010.4, and commencing January 1, 2015, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with the California State University and the University of California, may authorize the establishment of district baccalaureate degree pr…

(a) A district shall seek approval to offer baccalaureate degree programs through the appropriate accreditation body. (b) When seeking approval from the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, a district shall maintain the primary mission of the California Commun…

Baccalaureate degree programs approved by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges pursuant to this article before January 1, 2022, may continue to operate.

This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program.

The Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program is hereby established to reduce the overall cost of education for students and decrease the time it takes students to complete degree programs offered by community colleges.

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that community college districts develop and implement zero-textbook-cost degrees and develop open educational resources for courses to reduce the overall cost of education for students and decrease the time it takes students to complete de…

This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Act.

(a) The California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Program is hereby established for both of the following purposes: (1) To encourage accredited degree-granting institutions of higher education with a physical presence in this state to collaborate with o…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Justice-involved” means a person who is currently or formerly incarcerated in a California correctional facility, or currently or formerly detained in a juvenile facility. (b) “Rising Scholars Network” means the …

(a) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges may establish a program to enter into agreements with community colleges to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for justice-involved students. This program shall be known…

The board of governors shall adopt regulations for the Rising Scholars Network that fulfill the following goals and guidance: (a) Participating colleges designate a staff program director, coordinator, or liaison who has experience working with currently or formerly incarcerated …

The board of governors shall be responsible for the administration of funds for the Rising Scholars Network. To the extent possible, services provided under this article to justice-involved students shall be coordinated with, and shall not supplant, other services provided by the…

The board of governors may authorize the chancellor, consistent with the requirements the board may impose, to designate up to 5 percent of the funds allocated pursuant to this article for program administration, program development, and program accountability.

Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before December 31, 2023, and every two years thereafter, the board of governors shall submit a report to the Department of Finance and all relevant legislative policy and budget subcommittees describing its efforts to…

This article shall be operative in a fiscal year only if funds have been appropriated for purposes of this article for that fiscal year by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Hire UP Pilot Program.

(a) The Hire UP Pilot Program is hereby established, to be administered by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, for purposes of providing justice-involved individuals access to the credential programs and workforce support needed to enter, participat…

(a) (1) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before March 1, 2025, and annually thereafter until a final report is submitted on March 1, 2029, on the implementation of the pilot program, including, but not limited to, …

Funding for the Hire UP pilot program shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature for purposes of this article, up to a total of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000). Funding for the Hire UP pilot program shall not draw from, supplant, or redirect existing state or feder…

This article shall become inoperative on March 15, 2029, and as of January 1, 2030, is repealed.

(a) The Community College Student Access, Retention, and Debt Cancellation Program is hereby established. (b) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall allocate funds on a one-time basis to community college districts to support efforts to increase student retenti…

“City superintendent of schools” includes the superintendent of schools of a district lying wholly or partly within a city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons are construed as giving such authority to a majority of them, unless it is otherwise expressed in the provisions of the code giving the authority. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Any school district” and “all school districts” mean school districts of every kind or class, except a community college district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) There is, in the State Department of Education a career technical education staff responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of a basic integrated statewide information system for career technical education and technical training. The Board of Governors of th…

The system provided for in Section 8006, within the State Department of Education, shall be designed, implemented, and maintained in accordance with Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 10600) of Part 7.

The governing board of each school district participating in a career technical education program shall appoint a career technical education advisory committee to develop recommendations on the program and to provide liaison between the district and potential employers. The commi…

Any state agency, including but not limited to school districts, and any community organization organized pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (P.L. 452, 88th Congress (78 Stat. 508)) or any other similar training or retraining program authorized by the federal or sta…

Any state agency, including but not limited to local school districts, community college districts and any community organization organized pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Public Law 452, 88th Congress (78 Stat. 508)) or any other similar training or retraining …

(a) A school district or districts, a county superintendent or superintendents, or the governing body of any agency maintaining a regional occupational center or program may contract with a private postsecondary school that is authorized or approved pursuant to Chapter 3 (commenc…

(a) A community college district may contract with a public or private postsecondary educational institution in a neighboring state that borders on the district boundary to provide career technical skill training for district students authorized by this code. The contracts shall …

The provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 39140) of Chapter 2 of Part 23 of Division 3 of Title 2, or Article 7 (commencing with Section 81130) of Chapter 1 of Part 49 of Division 7 of Title 3 shall not apply to any building which is used by a private postsecondary sch…

“Union school district” means a district composed of two or more school districts situated in the same county. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall approve courses of career technical training for the purposes of loans authorized by Section 7185 of the Financial Code.