Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) The Legislature recognizes that preschool programs have made valuable contributions towards ensuring that public assistance recipients will be able to accept and maintain employment or employment-related training. Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Superi…

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall publish the methodology and data used, including county-specific data if such data is used, for the allocation of preschool funds. The superintendent shall make this information available to the public, within 90 days of an allocatio…

(a) The department shall disburse augmentations to the base allocation for the expansion of preschool programs to promote equal access to preschool services across the state. (b) (1) In order to provide progress towards achieving access to full-day, full-year preschool services f…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the state makes a substantial, annual investment in preschool programs for eligible families. It is in the best interests of children and their families, and the taxpayers of California, to have information about the development and lea…

The governing board of any school district or a county superintendent of schools with the approval of the county board of education is authorized to establish and maintain preschool programs upon the approval of, and subject to the regulations of the Superintendent of Public Inst…

(a) The county superintendent of schools in each county, with the approval of the county board of education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall have the authority to establish and maintain preschool programs and centers in the same manner and to the same extent as…

The governing board of any school district or the county superintendent of schools may do the following: (a) Accommodate in a preschool facility maintained by it children residing in another district, upon terms and under conditions agreed upon by the governing boards of both dis…

The employees of school districts or community college districts, or county superintendents of schools in preschool services under this division shall have the same rights and privileges as are granted to employees of the same agencies in children’s centers.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a public or private agency, a school district, a community college district or a county superintendent of schools operating preschool facilities may enter into an agreement with the Employment Development Department that will …

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the governing board of a school district or community college district, county superintendent of schools, or other unit of local general purpose government may enter into agreements with any city, city and county, or other publ…

(a) The governing board of any school district or the county superintendent of schools shall establish in the county treasury a fund to be known as the “child development fund” into which shall be paid all funds received by the district or the county for, or from the operation of…

The governing board of any school district maintaining a preschool program may include in its budget the amount necessary to initiate, operate, and maintain a preschool program pursuant to this chapter and the board of supervisors shall levy a school district tax necessary to rai…

Community college districts that levied child development permissive override taxes pursuant to Section 8272 and former Section 8330 in the 1977–78 fiscal year and received fiscal relief pursuant to Chapter 282 of the Statutes of 1979 to compensate for the loss of permissive over…

(a) The California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program is hereby established as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs at local educational agencies. (b) For the 2021–22 fiscal year, th…

The City and County of San Francisco may develop and implement an individualized county childcare subsidy plan. The plan shall ensure that childcare subsidies received by the city and county are used to address local needs, conditions, and priorities of working families in the co…

Before implementing the local subsidy plan, the City and County of San Francisco, in consultation with the department, shall develop an individualized county childcare subsidy plan for the city and county that includes the following four elements: (a) An assessment to identify th…

(a) The plan shall be submitted to the local planning council, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 10480 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, for approval. Upon approval of the plan by the local planning council, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Franci…

(a) The City and County of San Francisco shall, at least once every three years, using the template developed by the department, prepare and submit to the Legislature, the State Department of Social Services, and the department a report that summarizes the success of the city and…

Any modifications to the plan shall be submitted in conformance with the procedures established in Article 9 (commencing with Section 8273).

A participating contractor shall receive any increase or decrease in funding that the contractor would have received if the contractor had not participated in the local subsidy plan established by this article.

Commencing on the effective date of the act that added this section, the components of the plan relating to preschool shall be overseen by the department and the components of the plan addressing all other childcare programs shall be overseen by the State Department of Social Ser…

On and after July 1, 2014, the individualized county childcare subsidy plan for the County of San Mateo that was developed as a pilot project pursuant to Article 15.3 (commencing with Section 8340), as that article read on January 1, 2013, may continue in existence and may be imp…

For purposes of this article, “county” means the County of San Mateo.

For purposes of this article, “plan” means an individualized county childcare subsidy plan developed and approved as described in Section 8289, which includes all of the following: (a) An assessment to identify the county’s goal for its subsidized childcare system. The assessment…

(a) Except as provided in this section, any modifications to the plan shall be submitted in accordance with the modification procedures described in Article 9 (commencing with Section 8273). (b) Within 30 days of receiving any modification to the plan, the department shall review…

(a) The county shall at least once every three years, using the template developed by the department, prepare and submit to the Legislature, the State Department of Social Services, and the department a report that summarizes the success of the county’s plan, and the county’s abi…

A participating contractor shall receive any increase or decrease in funding that the contractor would have received if the contractor had not participated in the plan.

Commencing on the effective date of the act that added this section, the components of the plan relating to preschool shall be overseen by the department and the components of the plan addressing all other childcare programs shall be overseen by the State Department of Social Ser…

(a) (1) Preschool programs shall include a career ladder program for classroom staff. Persons who are 18 years of age and older may be employed as aides and may be eligible for salary increases upon the completion of additional semester units in early childhood education or child…

Not later than 95 days after the governing board of a public agency sets the date a person employed by that board shall begin service in a position requiring a children’s center instructional permit or a children’s center supervision permit, that person shall file, on or before t…

(a) An entity operating preschool programs providing services to children at two or more sites, including through more than one contract or subcontract funded pursuant to this chapter, shall employ a program director who possesses one of the following: (1) A permit issued by the …

Notwithstanding any other law, a high school student or any other adult shall be selected by the governing board of a public or private agency to serve as nonteaching personnel to perform noninstructional work. A career ladder shall be utilized in the employment and promotion of …

The same fee as that prescribed for a credential provided in Section 44235 shall be charged for either the issuance or renewal of each child development permit authorizing service in the supervision and instruction of children in child development programs or authorizing service …

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall by rule or regulation establish the requirements for the following: (a) The issuance and the renewal of permits authorizing service in the care, development, and instruction of children in childcare and development programs, as well a…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 8295 and 8301, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing may issue an assistant teacher permit that authorizes the permitholder to assist in the care, development, and instruction of children, subject to the supervision requirements described in subdivi…

Notwithstanding Section 8301 of this code or Section 80111 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, on or before April 30, 2025, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall, by rule or regulation, authorize a holder of a Child Development Associate Teacher Permit to re…

Each county board of education, city and county board of education, or community college governing board may issue temporary certificates for the purpose of authorizing salary payments to preschool employees whose child development permit applications are being processed. The app…

(a) Each person employed by a public or private agency in a position requiring a child development permit for the supervision and instruction of children, or for service as a physician, dentist, or nurse, or in the supervision of the preschool program, shall be deemed to be emplo…

Every employee of a child development program who before their employment in such program was employed by the agency maintaining such program in a position entitling the employee to membership in, and who was a member of, the retirement system maintained by such district, and if …

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall establish standards for the issuance of the permits herein provided for. The standards may be changed from time to time, but changes therein shall not affect then valid permits issued to persons.

It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize an appeal process for the resolution of disputes between the department and local agencies which contract with the department pursuant to Section 8233 to provide preschool services or to furnish property, facilities, personnel, sup…

(a) The department shall provide an internal appeal procedure to resolve a dispute between the department and a contracting agency providing preschool services pursuant to Section 8233 regarding the interpretation or application of a term or condition of a contract, or to dispute…

(a) The department shall provide an independent appeal procedure to each contracting agency providing preschool services pursuant to Section 8233 that shall be conducted by the Office of Administrative Hearings and shall be provided upon an appeal petition of the contracting agen…

All hearings required by Section 8309 shall be conducted according to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), except as otherwise directed in this article.

The Office of Administrative Hearings shall, by June 30, 1982, adopt regulations governing the hearings, which shall include all of the following: (a) Deadlines for filing petitions, commencing hearings and rendering decisions. (b) Notice to affected parties. (c) The manner for m…

The determination of the hearing examiner shall be the final administrative determination to be afforded the local contracting agency.

All actions by the department, as defined in subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 8309 shall be preceded by a written notice of action to the local contracting agency which shall include the following: (a) A statement of the specific reasons for the action in the Statem…

(a) The Superintendent shall establish a contract classification system for purposes of identifying, monitoring, and providing technical assistance to contractors as follows: (1) Clear contract.This designation shall be given to a contract that is neither a provisional contract, …

(a) A contracting agency that evidences any of the following acts or omissions may have its contract or contracts immediately terminated if there is documented evidence of the acts or omissions, and upon review and recommendation of the general counsel of the department: (1) Frau…

(a) An agency that has in place or places a person in a position of fiscal responsibility or control who has been convicted of a crime involving misuse or misappropriation of state or federal funds, or a state or federal crime involving moral turpitude, may have its contract imme…