Title EDC, California Educ. Code

“Superintendent” or “superintendent” whenever used in this code means the Superintendent of Public Instruction, unless the context requires otherwise. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 896, Sec. 1. Effective September 29, 2004.)

“At-promise” has the same meaning as “at-risk,” as that term is generally understood, and consistent with federal law. (Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 800, Sec. 1. (AB 413) Effective January 1, 2020.)

The term “emotional disturbance,” as defined in Section 300.8(c)(4) of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and used throughout this code and the California Code of Regulations, as that term relates to the provision of special education services, may also be known as “emo…

The California State Library is hereby named and designated as the proper state entity to accept, receive and administer any and all funds, moneys or library materials, granted, furnished, provided, appropriated, dedicated or made available by the United States or any of its depa…

The board of supervisors by an order entered upon its minutes shall fix the time when the whole or any part of the principal of the bonds shall be payable, which shall not be more than 25 years from the date of the bonds. If the governing board of the district has prescribed in i…

The board of supervisors at the direction of governing board of the district may divide the principal amount of bonds authorized at any election into two or more series and may fix different dates for the bonds of each series, in which event the maximum maturity date of the bonds…

The board of supervisors may make the principal and interest of the bonds payable at the office of the treasurer of the county, or at any other place within the United States, including any office of a trustee or paying agent, which the board may designate, or at the office of th…

(a) The principal and interest on the bonds shall be paid by the county treasurer of the county, the superintendent of schools of which has jurisdiction of the district in behalf of which the bonds were issued, at the place required by the terms of the bonds, upon presentation an…

Any money remaining in the interest and sinking fund of any district after the payment of all bonds and coupons payable from the fund, or any money in excess of an amount sufficient to pay all unpaid bonds and coupons payable from the fund, shall be transferred to the general fun…

Any money paid into the county treasury of the county and credited to the interest and sinking fund of any district remaining after the payment of all bonds and coupons payable from the fund, or which is in excess of an amount sufficient to pay all unpaid bonds and coupons payabl…

(a) If the Superintendent determines that a school district has not provided sufficient textbooks or instructional materials pursuant to clause (i) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (i) of Section 1240 or subdivision (d) of Section 35186, the department shall ta…

(a) (1) If the Superintendent determines, pursuant to a complaint filed with the Superintendent directly or an appeal of a local educational agency decision regarding a complaint, that a local educational agency violated subdivision (a) of Section 244, the department shall notify…

(a) If a local educational agency or the Superintendent determines that, pursuant to a complaint filed directly with the Superintendent or on appeal of a local educational agency’s decision regarding a complaint, an organization contracted to provide any textbook, instructional m…

(a) A district may classify a student as a district resident if he or she lives with a parent who earns a livelihood primarily by performing agricultural labor for hire in California and other states and the parent has performed this labor in this state for at least two months pe…

A community college district may accept the determination of another community college district as to a student’s residency classification pursuant to a process established by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, or if all of the following conditions…

(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…

(a) The provisions of this article do not apply to an offsite building during the time the building is used wholly or in part for community college purposes if the building is neither owned by a community college district nor leased by a community college district under a lease c…

It is the intent of the Legislature to re-examine the progress under this article from time to time. To enable it to do so, and to expedite the provision of safe educational facilities for California community college students, the Legislature intends that the governing board of …

Whenever an examination of the structural condition of any school building of a community college district has been made by the Department of General Services, by any licensed structural engineer or licensed architect for the governing board of the district, or under the authoriz…

(a) No member of the governing board of a community college district shall be held personally liable for injury to persons or damage to property resulting from the fact that a school building was not constructed under the requirements of Article 7 (commencing with Section 81130),…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 81800), whenever a community college district does not have funds available to repair, reconstruct, or replace the school buildings referred to in this article or Section 16320, the communit…

(a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall be responsible for allocating funds for apprenticeship programs in good standing and approved pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 3070) of Division 3 of the Labor Code for the secondary education system. (b)…

Attendance of apprentices enrolled in any class maintained by a local educational agency, pursuant to Section 3074 of the Labor Code, shall be reimbursed pursuant to Section 8152 only if reported separately to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Attendance report…

An apprentice or preapprentice attending a local educational agency in classes of instruction pursuant to approved standards, as provided under Section 3074 of the Labor Code and in accordance with the requirements of subdivision (d) of Section 3078 of the Labor Code, or as autho…

(a) The reimbursement rate for related and supplemental instruction reimbursed pursuant to this article shall be established in the annual Budget Act and the rate shall be commonly applied to all providers of instruction specified in subdivision (d). (b) For purposes of this sect…

The Controller shall include instructions necessary to enforce this article in the audit guide required by Section 14502.1. The instructions shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, procedures for verifying if the hours for related and supplemental instruction reported t…

For purposes of the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program, classes of related and supplemental instruction that qualify for funding pursuant to Section 8152 include, but are not limited to, classes that meet both of the following requirements: (a) The classes are co…

(a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations, the California Apprenticeship Council, and the Superintendent, shall annually review the amount of state funding neces…

(a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations, in consultation with the Superintendent, shall jointly develop a model format for agreements between apprenticeship programs and local e…

It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article, consistent with the provisions added by Chapter 1284 of the Statutes of 1978, to provide greater oversight of, and to facilitate the scrutiny of, programs funded by moneys received from the federal government which are…

(a) Commencing with the 1979–80 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Finance, shall prepare a comprehensive state plan, to be submitted to the Legislature by January 1st, detailing the prospective expendit…

(a) Commencing with the 1979–80 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Education, in cooperation with the Department of Finance, shall prepare a comprehensive report to be submitted to the Legislature by January 1st which sets forth in detail the manner in…

The department shall submit to the Legislature, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, and the Governor the following two annual reports on federal funds for education in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive: (a) One report, to be submitted no later than February 15 of each year…

The board of supervisors of the county, the superintendent of schools of which has jurisdiction over any district, shall annually at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, levy a tax for that year upon the property in the district for the interest and redemptio…

(a) When collected, all taxes levied shall be paid into the county treasury of the county whose superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over the school district on behalf of which the tax was levied, to the credit of the interest and sinking fund of the school district, or com…

The board of supervisors of the county, the superintendent of schools which has jurisdiction over any school district, shall annually at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes estimate the amount of money required to meet the payment of the principal and interes…

If the bonds are declared invalid or are not issued for any reason, the tax levied and collected shall, if the school district or community college district has other bonds outstanding, be retained in the interest and sinking fund of the district to meet the interest and principa…

This article shall apply only to bonds of a school district or community college district which were approved by the electors prior to July 1, 1978, and to bonded indebtedness for the acquisition or improvement of real property approved by two-thirds of the voters on or after Jun…

(a) A community college district may admit, and shall charge a tuition fee to, nonresident students, except that a community college district may exempt from all or parts of the fee any person described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (6), or (8) and shall exempt from all of the fee …

(a) The Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges shall make available to the Legislative Analyst’s Office all of the following data, categorized by community college district and by academic year, commencing with the 2009–10 academic year: (1) The number of reside…

Notwithstanding Section 76140, a community college may classify a nonresident student who has been hired by a public agency, as a resident for purposes of enrollment in and completion of police academy training courses at a community college, if the student has passed all other r…

(a) In addition to the nonresident tuition fee established pursuant to Section 76140, a community college district may charge to nonresident students an amount not to exceed the amount that was expended by the district for capital outlay in the preceding fiscal year divided by th…

(a) A community college district may charge nonresident applicants who are both citizens and residents of a foreign country a processing fee not to exceed the lesser of: (1) the actual cost of processing an application and other documentation required by the federal government, o…

For purposes of the nonresident tuition fee, a community college district shall disregard the time during which a student living in the district resided outside the state, if: (1) The change of residence to a place outside the state was due to a job transfer and was made at the r…

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Credit for Prior Learning Initiative. (Added by Stats. 2026, Ch. 79, Sec. 16. (SB 135) Effective July 13, 2026.)

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Campus” means a campus of the California Community Colleges. (b) “Chancellor’s office” means the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. (c) “Credit for prior learning” means college credit…