Title EDC — California Educ. Code

As used in this article, “commission” means the Educational Management and Evaluation Commission. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) There is in state government the Advisory Commission on Special Education consisting of the following 19 members: (1) A Member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. (2) A Member of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. (3) Three public mem…

The Members of the Legislature appointed to the commission pursuant to Section 33590 shall have the powers and duties of a joint legislative committee on the subject of special education and shall meet with, and participate in, the work of the commission to the extent that such p…

The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, except they shall receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties and responsibilities, including traveling expenses. Reimbursement of other expenses, which are determined to b…

The Superintendent of Public Instruction or the superintendent’s designee shall serve as executive secretary to the commission.

(a) The commission shall study and provide assistance and advice to the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Legislature, and the Governor in new or continuing areas of research, program development, and evaluation in special education. The comm…

As used in this article, “commission” means the Advisory Commission on Special Education. The commission shall also serve as the State Advisory Panel required by paragraph (21) of subdivision (a) of Section 1412 of Title 20 of the United States Code.

An action to reorganize one or more districts is initiated upon the filing, with the county superintendent of schools, of a petition to reorganize one or more school districts signed by any of the following: (a) At least 25 percent of the registered voters residing in the territo…

(a) A county superintendent of schools may do any of the following, as necessary, with respect to the reorganization of school districts within the jurisdiction of a county superintendent of schools: (1) Before the initiation of an action to reorganize, a county superintendent of…

A petition filed under Section 35700 shall be required to reasonably identify the territory to be reorganized, which identification may include references to streets or prominent geographic features. The inclusion of legal descriptions or plat maps, or both, however, shall not be…

Before initiating proceedings to consider any reorganization plan, the county committee on school district organization shall provide written notice of the proposed action to the local agency formation commission for the affected area.

In any petition to reorganize school districts there shall be designated no more than three of the petitioners as chief petitioners for the purpose of receiving notice of any public hearings to be held on the petition.

The persons securing the signatures to a petition of electors to reorganize school districts shall attach thereto an affidavit that all persons who signed the petition did so in the presence of the affiant and that each signature is a genuine signature of the person whose name it…

Any petition filed under this article may include any of the appropriate provisions specified in Article 3 (commencing with Section 35730).

The county superintendent of schools, within 30 days after any petition for reorganization is filed, shall examine the petition and, if he or she finds it to be sufficient and signed as required by law, transmit the petition simultaneously to the county committee and to the State…

Within 60 days after receipt of the petition, the county committee shall hold one or more public hearings thereon at a regular or special meeting in each of the districts affected by the petition. Notice of the public hearing shall be given at least 10 days in advance thereof to …

(a) The county committee may add to the petition any of the appropriate provisions specified in Article 3 (commencing with Section 35730) that were not included in the petition as filed and may amend any such provision that was so included. (b) At least 10 days before the public …

(a) Within 120 days of the commencement of the first public hearing on the petition, the county committee shall recommend approval or disapproval of a petition to form one or more new districts or for the division of the entire territory of a school district into two or more new …

(a) No action to reorganize a school district shall be initiated or completed without the consent of a majority of all of the members of the governing board of the affected district if both of the following conditions apply to the school district: (1) It has obtained an emergency…

(a) Except for petitions for the transfer of territory, the county committee shall expeditiously transmit the petition to the State Board of Education together with its recommendations thereon. It shall also report whether any of the following, in the opinion of the committee, wo…

Except for a petition to form one or more new districts approved pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 35710, a petition transmitted pursuant to Section 35707, including the plans and recommendations included therein, if any, together with the recommended approval or disapproval…

If the following conditions are met, the county committee may approve the petition and order that the petition be granted, and shall so notify the county board of supervisors: (a) The county committee finds that the conditions enumerated in paragraphs (1) to (10), inclusive, of s…

(a) For all other petitions to transfer territory, if the county committee finds that the conditions enumerated in paragraphs (1) to (10), inclusive, of subdivision (a) of Section 35753 substantially are met, the county committee may approve the petition. If the petition is appro…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an election may not be called to vote on a petition to transfer territory if the election area for that petition, as determined pursuant to Section 35732, is uninhabited territory as described in Section 35517. The county committee, if …

A county committee shall be the lead agency, as defined in Section 21067 of the Public Resources Code, for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) for each petition it considers pursuant to Se…

(a) (1) An action by the county committee approving a petition pursuant to Section 35709, 35710, 35710.1, or paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 35722 may be appealed to the state board by the chief petitioners or one or more affected school districts. Except as pr…

(a) The county superintendent of schools, within 35 days after receiving the notification provided by Section 35710, shall call an election, in the manner prescribed in Part 4 (commencing with Section 5000), to be conducted at the next election of any kind in accordance with eith…

(a) A person questioning the finding of the county committee pursuant to Section 35709, 35710, or paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 35722 that the action to transfer territory or form one or more new districts will not adversely affect the racial or ethnic integr…

The State Board of Education may adopt rules and regulations for the implementation of this article, as it deems necessary.

Each county committee on school district organization shall, under the direction of the State Board of Education, formulate plans and recommendations for the organization of the districts in the county or any portion thereof including, if appropriate, a portion of one or more adj…

(a) The county committee shall adopt a tentative recommendation following which action it shall hold one or more public hearings in the area proposed for reorganization at least 30 days before submission of a final recommendation for unification or other reorganization to the sta…

(a) On receipt of a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the qualified electors residing in any district for a consideration of unification or other reorganization of any area, the county committee shall hold a public hearing on the petition at a regular or special meeting. …

Before initiating proceedings to consider any reorganization plan, the county committee on school district organization shall provide written notice of the proposed action to the local agency formation commission for the affected area.

(a) Following the public hearing, or the last public hearing, required by Section 35720.5 or subdivision (d) of Section 35721, the county committee may adopt a final recommendation for unification or other reorganization and shall take one of the following actions: (1) Transmit t…

When a county committee selects an area for study for possible recommendation for reorganization which includes territory of one or more school districts under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of another county, the county committee shall so notify the mem…

If plans and recommendations adopted by a county committee propose changes in the boundaries or status of school districts under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of any adjacent county, the county committee of each such adjacent county shall be requested in writing to concu…

The plans and recommendations, in connection with the proposed formation of a new unified school district to include within its boundaries a chartered city, may provide that the establishment and existence of the governing board of the district shall be governed by the charter of…

Any reorganization of a school district with more than 500,000 pupils in average daily attendance shall require that each new district created meets the following conditions: (a) Socioeconomic diversity. (b) Geographical compactness. (c) Equity of resource distribution. (d) Compl…

In any proposal for unification, plans and recommendations may include a provision for a governing board of seven members. In the absence of such a provision, any proposed new district shall have a governing board of five members.

Plans and recommendations may include a provision specifying the territory in which the election to reorganize the school districts will be held. In the absence of such a provision, the election shall be held only in the territory proposed for reorganization.

Whenever the recommendation is to divide the entire territory of an existing school district into two or more separate school districts, the recommendation may provide that the plans and recommendations be voted upon as a single proposition.

The plans and recommendations may include a provision for trustee areas that provide for representation in accordance with population and geographic factors of the entire area of the district. Any provision of that kind shall also specify the boundaries of the proposed trustee ar…

(a) Each proposal for the reorganization of school districts shall include a computation of the local control funding formula entitlement determined pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented by Section 42238.03, for the districts. That computation shall be an integral part of …

For purposes of paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 42238.02, reorganized districts shall have their percentages of unduplicated pupils calculated as follows: (a) (1) For a new district in the first fiscal year of operation, include only the current fiscal year unduplicat…

For the purpose of determining funding pursuant to subparagraph (D) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 42238.03, the following shall apply to districts affected by reorganization pursuant to Section 35511 or a lapse pursuant to Section 35780.1: (a) A new district shal…

For purposes of subdivisions (g) and (h) of Section 42238.02, paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 42238.03, and subdivision (e) of Section 42238.03, reorganized districts shall have categorical program funding determined as follows: (a) (1) A new district shall retain the…

(a) A new or acquiring district shall receive an economic recovery target payment pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 42238.025 that is equal to the sum of the amounts determined for each former district that was eligible to receive an economic recovery target…

For purposes of subdivision (d) of Section 42238.03, a reorganized district shall be deemed to have a zero difference in the prior fiscal year if one of the following conditions is met: (a) For a new district resulting from an action to reorganize pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), …

(a) For a new or acquiring district that has reorganized pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 35511 or subdivision (b) of Section 35511, the funding amount per unit of average daily attendance pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdiv…

(a) For a new or acquiring district that has reorganized pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 35511 or subdivision (b) of Section 35511, the funding amount per unit of average daily attendance pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdiv…