Title EDC — California Educ. Code

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 …

(a) The Governor may appoint a total of six deputies to the executive director of the state board. A deputy to the executive director appointed pursuant to this section shall be exempt from state civil service pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 4 of Article VII of the Califor…

(a) The governing board of a school district or a county board of education, on a districtwide or countywide basis or on behalf of one or more of its schools or programs, after a public hearing on the matter, may request the state board to waive all or part of any section of this…

(a) The state board shall approve any and all requests for waivers except in those cases where the board specifically finds any of the following: (1) The educational needs of the pupils are not adequately addressed. (2) The waiver affects a program that requires the existence of …

Not less than 30 days prior to any public hearing it conducts pursuant to Section 33050 concerning a request to waive any provision of Article 5 (commencing with Section 39390) of Chapter 3 of Part 23, the State Board of Education shall provide written notice of the hearing to ea…

(a) If formal action by the State Board of Education on a waiver request is not taken by the second regular meeting of the board following receipt of a complete and documented waiver request by the State Department of Education, the waiver shall be deemed approved for one year, c…

For the purposes of improving the financial management and reporting practices of school districts and county offices of education, and developing and testing those practices prior to implementation, the Superintendent of Public Instruction may waive for up to three consecutive f…

For purposes of this article, “school district” shall include county offices of education.

The State Department of Education shall annually submit a report to the Governor, Legislature, State Board of Education, and make the report available to the superintendent and board president of each school district and county office of education. This report shall include a des…

(a) The first governing board of any new school district shall, at the first meeting of the governing board or as soon as practicable thereafter, name the school district. (b) The name of an elementary school district shall be in the form of “____ District” (using the name of the…

(a) Whenever a petition is presented to the governing board of a school district, signed by at least 15 qualified electors of that school district, asking that the name of the district be changed and stating the new name requested, the governing board shall designate a day upon w…

Notwithstanding Section 35001, the Richmond Unified School District is hereby renamed and shall be known as the “West Contra Costa Unified School District.”

(a) Every school district shall be under the control of a board of school trustees or a board of education. (b) The governing board of each school district shall prescribe and enforce rules not inconsistent with law, or with the rules prescribed by the State Board of Education, f…

(a) Except as otherwise provided, the governing board of a school district shall consist of five regular members elected at large by the qualified voters of the school district. The terms of the regular members shall, except as otherwise provided, be for four years and staggered …

The governing board of each school district shall fix and prescribe the duties to be performed by all persons in public school service in the school district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, any person, except a person required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal Code, may be permitted by the governing board of any school district to perform the duties specified in Section 44814 or 44815, or to serve a…

A school district or county office of education may request that a local law enforcement agency conduct an automated records check of a prospective nonteaching volunteer aide in order to ascertain whether the prospective nonteaching volunteer aide has been convicted of any sex of…

(a) When a school district or county office of education pursuant to Section 11105.3 of the Penal Code requests from the Department of Justice records involving criminal offenses committed by a prospective volunteer, the school district or county office of education may request t…

(a) A school district or a county office of education may establish a registry of volunteer after school physical recreation instructors and other before and after school program volunteers. (b) (1) To be included on a registry established pursuant to this section, a prospective …

(a) The governing board of a school district may establish a school police reserve officer corps to supplement a police department established pursuant to Section 38000. Any person deputized by a school district as a school police reserve officer shall complete the training presc…

Every school district governing board consisting of five or more members shall, at its initial meeting and at each annual meeting, elect a president from among its members. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of each school district of every kind or class shall annually at its initial meeting select one of its members as its representative who shall have one vote for each member to be elected to the county committee provided by Article 1 (commencing with Section 40…

The governing board of any school district may appoint an executive committee. In the case of a governing board which has appointed a clerk, the committee shall consist of the president, the clerk, and one other member of the board. In the case of a governing board which has not …

The governing board of any school district may employ a person not a member of the board to act as secretary and bookkeeper for the board, and may delegate to such secretary the duties prescribed in paragraphs (a) and (c) of Section 35250. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of any school district employing eight or more teachers may employ a district superintendent for one or more schools and may delegate to the district superintendent any of the duties provided for in Section 35250. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

A person shall not be eligible to hold a position as city superintendent, district superintendent, deputy superintendent, associate superintendent, or assistant superintendent of schools unless the person is the holder of both a valid school administration certificate and a valid…

A local governing board may waive any credential requirement for the chief administrative officer of the school district under its jurisdiction. Any individual serving as the chief administrative officer of a school district who does not hold a credential may be required by the l…

Notwithstanding Section 35029, a local governing board shall not hire an individual for the position of chief administrative officer of the school district under its jurisdiction whose credential has been revoked by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing pursuant to Sections 444…

No governing board or county superintendent of schools shall affix the title of deputy, associate or assistant superintendent to any position not defined by this code as a position requiring certification qualifications or which does not qualify under the provisions of Section 44…

Any district superintendent of schools, or deputy, associate, or assistant superintendent of schools, may be elected for a term of no more than four years. The governing board of any school district, with the consent of the employee concerned, may at any time terminate, effective…

Notwithstanding Section 35031, the governing board of a school district may at any time during any school year increase the salaries of any district superintendent of schools and deputy, associate, or assistant superintendent of schools without terminating the term of employment …

If a unified school district is formed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4200) of Part 3, of Division 1 of Title 1 to include all the territory of one or more elementary school districts, the governing board of the unified district may elect and reelect as district s…

(a) Where the entire area of a county is included within one unified school district or where the entire area of a county is included within one unified school district except for the portions of the county that are included in a school district that is under the jurisdiction of …

The superintendent of each school district shall, in addition to other powers and duties granted to or imposed upon him or her: (a) Be the chief executive officer of the governing board of the school district. (b) Except in a school district where the governing board has appointe…

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 35035, the superintendent of a school district may not transfer a teacher who requests to be transferred to a school offering kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that is ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, on the Acade…

In any district the governing board of which is required to elect a clerk, the superintendent of schools of the county shall appoint one of the members of the governing board to fill the office of district clerk if a clerk is not elected by the governing board on the date prescri…

If the clerk of the district refuses to perform the duties prescribed in Section 35250 or by the governing board, the board may at a regular meeting dismiss him and appoint another member clerk. It shall immediately notify the superintendent of schools of the county of its action…

Anything in a city, county, or city and county charter to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing board or boards of any school district may appoint an administrative adviser and fix and order paid his compensation. The duties of the administrative adviser are to render admin…

(a) A governing board of a school district should, but is not required to, make every reasonable effort to appoint a selective service registrar for each high school. The selective service registrar may be an employee of the high school where he or she is appointed or a school vo…

Anything in a city, county, or city and county charter to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing board or boards of any school district may, in lieu of appointing an administrative advisor pursuant to Section 35041, or any county board of education or any county superintende…

The governing board of each school district shall provide for the payment of the traveling expenses of any representatives of the board when performing services directed by the board. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of any school district having an average daily attendance of 10,000 or more may appoint a director of school building planning, who shall be a person qualified by training, experience and demonstrated ability to manage the building, construction and contractin…

(a) The governing board of a school district may award consultancy contracts to retired certificated employees of the school district or of the county superintendent of schools who have been employed by the school district or by the county superintendent of schools for at least 1…

The governing board of a county, a high school district, a union high school district, or a joint union high school district may establish a junior high school or a system of junior high schools.