Title EDC, California Educ. Code

(a) Upon determining that any semiannual report to the State Department of Education, as required under Section 628.2 of the Penal Code, has not been submitted, or that a submitted report contains intentionally misleading data, the Superintendent of Public Instruction may withhol…

(a) An election held for purposes of this chapter shall be conducted as provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5300) of Part 4, except as otherwise provided in Sections 15100 to 15126, inclusive. (b) If an election is held for purposes of this chapter in a school district…

Any election called pursuant to Sections 15100 to 15141, inclusive, and Sections 15142 to 15261, inclusive, may be consolidated with any other election pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 10400) of Division 10 of the Elections Code. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch.…

(a) A brief statement of the proposition, setting forth the amount of the bonds to be voted upon, the maximum rate of interest, and the purposes for which the proceeds of the sale of the bonds are to be used, shall be printed upon the ballot. To the right of or below the statemen…

(a) Whenever an election is called on the question of whether bonds of a school district shall be issued and sold for the purposes specified in Section 15100 and the project to be funded by the bonds will require state matching funds for any phase of the project, the sample ballo…

The form and details of all ballots at school district or community college bond elections shall comply with ballot provisions of this code applicable to governing board member elections with additional requirements as provided for in this chapter. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1…

If it appears from the certificate of election results that two-thirds of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds of the district are in favor of issuing the bonds; or, a majority of the votes cast, if the election is held to repair, reconstruct or replace school build…

The proceedings relating to the authorization of bonds of a joint school district of any type need be certified only to the board of supervisors of the county whose superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over the district. The board of supervisors may issue and sell the bonds…

No error, irregularity, or omission which does not affect the substantial rights of the taxpayers within the district or the electors voting at any election at which bonds of any district are authorized to be issued shall invalidate the election or any bonds authorized. (Repealed…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 17455) of Chapter 4 and in addition to the requirements placed upon school districts pursuant to Section 54222 of the Government Code, the governing board of a school district may sell, for less than fair market…

The sale or transfer may be made for cash and other valuable consideration, or for other valuable consideration, as deemed appropriate by the governing board of the school district. The sale or transfer may be made without first taking a vote of the electors of the district. (Add…

A school district’s offer to sell or transfer the land shall be made to all park districts, cities, and counties in which the school district is wholly or partially situated pursuant to this article and shall remain open for not less than 60 days. The sale or transfer shall be ma…

Notwithstanding Article 4 (commencing with Section 17455) of Chapter 4 of this part, Article 8 (commencing with Section 54220) of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, or any other provision of law, any unimproved real property that was acquired by …

The failure to comply with any provision of this article shall not invalidate any sale or transfer of real property to a purchaser or encumbrancer for value. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)

All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued by this code shall continue to hold them according to their former tenure. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein shall conform to the provisions of this code so far as possible. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Any person intending in his lifetime or by will or trust deed, to operate after his death, to found, maintain, and perpetuate in this state a public library, museum, gallery of art, or any or all thereof, for the diffusion of mechanical, scientific, artistic, and general knowledg…

The gift or grant may also express and shall be construed to be a conveyance of the future additions and accretions thereof. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The grantor may also in like manner, convey by grant to the trustee or trustees any real property within this state belonging to him, which may be necessary or proper for the erection and maintenance of buildings suitable to the institution, and the buildings erected thereon, wit…

Any contributions or gifts by any other person than the founder, of any property suitable to the general plan or support of any institution mentioned in this article, shall immediately vest in the trustees, and become incorporated into and subject to the trust, and to all its ter…

The person making the gift, grant, or conveyance, as founder may therein designate: (a) The name by which the institution shall be known. (b) Its nature, object, and purposes. (c) The powers and duties of the trustees, which shall not be exclusive of other powers and duties that,…

The trustees named in the gift or grant, and their successors, may, in the name of the institution, sue and defend in relation to the trust property, and to all matters affecting the institution. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

By a provision in the gift or grant, the founder may elect, in respect to the personal and real property conveyed, and the additions and increase thereof, and in respect to the erection, maintenance, and management of any buildings auxiliary thereto, and in respect to any propert…

If he elects to veto, annul, or modify any act of the trustees, he shall, within 30 days after notice of the performance of the act, file in the office of the trustees, or deliver to their president or principal officer, a notice in writing, of the veto, annulment, or modificatio…

Upon a like notice, in conformity with a provision in the gift or grant, he may elect to perform during his life all the powers which, by the terms of the grant, are vested in or enjoined upon the trustees, and their successors. Upon the death or disability to act of the founder …

The founder may also reserve the right to alter, amend, or modify, at any time during his life, or by his last will and testament, the terms and conditions of the grant, and the trust created in respect to the institution, its buildings, and the property conveyed. (Enacted by Sta…

The founder may in the deed of trust name and describe the character and personality of any one or more of the immediate or future trustees, the librarian, and other officers, and name and impose any particular duty to be performed by any one or more trustees or other officers so…

The gift or grant shall be executed, acknowledged, and recorded in the manner provided by law for the execution, acknowledgment, and recording of grants of real property. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

No suit, action, or proceeding shall be commenced or maintained by any person to set aside, annul, or affect any gift, grant, or conveyance, or to affect the title to the property conveyed, or the right to the possession or to the rents, issues, and profits thereof, unless the ac…

Any founder, making a gift or grant for any of the purposes mentioned in this article, may, at any time thereafter, by last will or testament, devise or bequeath to the state all or any of the property, real and personal, mentioned in the gift or grant, or in any supplemental gra…

The provisions of this article shall be liberally construed, with a view to effect its objects and purposes. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

No rights given by any license or certificate under any act repealed by this code are affected by the enactment of this code or by such repeal, but such rights shall hereafter be exercised according to the provisions of this code. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, are entitled to a certificate or credential under any act repealed by this code, are thereby entitled to a certificate or credential under the provisions of this code so far as the provisions of this code are applicable. (E…

The governing board of every school district, and the governing authority of every private school, which maintains any building used for the instruction or housing of school pupils on land entirely enclosed (except for building walls) by fences or walls, shall, through cooperatio…

The board shall determine all questions of policy within its powers. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The board shall adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state (a) for its own government, (b) for the government of its appointees and employees, (c) for the government of the day and evening elementary schools, the day and evening secondary schools, an…

The board shall study the educational conditions and needs of the state. It shall make plans for the improvement of the administration and efficiency of the public schools of the state. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The State Board of Education may: (a) Establish at the request of the governing authorities of any state institution, courses of instruction for the inmates of the institution. (b) Examine under arrangements with the governing authorities of the institution the progress of studen…

The board shall issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses before the board, or any member thereof, in the same manner as any court in this state. Whenever the testimony of any witness upon any matter pending before it is material, the president shall cause the attenda…

The board shall adopt and use an official seal in authentication of its acts. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The board shall cause the Department of General Services to do any printing required by it. All orders for printing shall first be approved by the Department of General Services. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The board shall submit to the Governor biennially on or before the fifteenth day of September next preceding the regular session of the Legislature, a report of its transactions for the preceding two years, together with recommendations of its needs for the coming biennium, and s…

The State Board of Education shall develop guidelines which school districts may use in the development of teacher evaluation procedures pursuant to Article 11 (commencing with Section 44660) of Chapter 1 of Part 25 of Division 3 of this title, and shall distribute such guideline…

The State Board of Education and the governing bodies of any county, city, and fire protection district are authorized to enter into agreements providing for the assignment of employees of the fire departments of such counties, cities, and fire protection districts to serve as in…

The State Board of Education shall revise the health instruction framework adopted by the board in 1977 to include instructional guidelines on the following: (a) The relationship of proper health and nutritional practices during pregnancy to the health of the newborn child for pu…

The Legislature encourages school districts to comply with the State Board of Education’s English Language and Arts Writing Arts Strategies on cursive handwriting standards whereby pupils are expected to write fluidly and legibly. School districts are encouraged to teach methods …