Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) The department shall, within existing resources, enter into a contract for an independent evaluation of county juvenile court and county community schools. On or before November 1, 2025, the Superintendent shall, within existing resources, provide a report of the evaluation t…

(a) (1) The Superintendent shall convene a workgroup on meeting the needs of pupils with disabilities who enroll in juvenile court schools operated by county offices of education. (2) The workgroup shall include, but not be limited to, representatives of county offices education,…

(a) The governing board of a school district may establish one or more community day schools for pupils who meet one or more of the conditions described in subdivision (b) of Section 48662. A community day school may serve pupils in any of kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusiv…

It is the intent of the Legislature that school districts operating community day schools to the extent possible include the following program components: (a) School district cooperation with the county office of education, law enforcement, probation, and human services agencies …

(a) A community day school shall not be situated on the same site as an elementary, middle, junior high, comprehensive senior high, opportunity, or continuation school, except as follows: (1) When the governing board of a school district with 2,500 or fewer units of average daily…

(a) The governing board of a school district that establishes a community day school shall adopt policies that provide procedures for the involuntary transfer of pupils to a community day school. (b) A pupil may be assigned to a community day school only if he or she meets one or…

(a) The minimum schoolday in a community day school is 360 minutes of classroom instruction provided by a certificated employee of the district reporting the attendance of the pupils for apportionment funding. (b) A pupil enrolled in a community day school may not generate more t…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing board of a school district maintaining a community day school may establish attendance policies for the community day school that permit the community day school to require pupils to attend school for up to seven days each…

(a) (1) A teacher shall not give instruction and a school district shall not sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, or sexual orientation, or pursuant to a characteristic listed in Sec…

(a) The state board and any governing board shall not adopt any textbooks or other instructional materials for use in the public schools that contain any matter reflecting adversely upon persons on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, or sexu…

Except as to textbooks approved by the state board or a county board of education, no bulletin, circular, or publication may be used as the basis of study or recitation or to supplement the regular school studies if the material contained in the bulletin, circular, or publication…

Nothing in this code shall be construed to prevent, or exclude from the public schools, references to religion or references to or the use of religious literature, dance, music, theatre, and visual arts or other things having a religious significance when such references or uses …

The Legislature finds that the use by any person, including a pupil, of any electronic listening or recording device in any classroom of the elementary and secondary schools without the prior consent of the teacher and the principal of the school given to promote an educational p…

No test, questionnaire, survey, or examination containing any questions about the pupil’s personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, and religion, or any questions about the pupil’s parents’ or guardians’ beliefs and practices in sex, family life, morality, and …

If a local educational agency administers a voluntary survey that already includes questions pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity, the local educational agency shall not remove those questions.

(a) During school hours, and within one hour before the time of opening and within one hour after the time of closing of school, pupils of the public school shall not be solicited on school premises by teachers or others to subscribe or contribute to the funds of, to become membe…

No person shall solicit any other person to contribute to any fund or to purchase any item of personal property, upon the representation that the money received is to be used wholly or in part for the benefit of any public school or the student body of any public school, unless s…

No teacher giving instruction in any school, or on any property belonging to any agencies included in the public school system, shall advocate or teach communism with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism. In prohibiting th…

In the public elementary and high schools or in public elementary and high school school-sponsored activities and classes held elsewhere than on school premises, live vertebrate animals shall not, as part of a scientific experiment or any purpose whatever: (a) Be experimentally m…

This chapter may be cited as the McAteer Act. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The Legislature finds and declares that because of home, community, environmental and other conditions which give rise to language, cultural and economic disadvantages, the latent talents of many minors in the elementary and secondary schools in the state remain undiscovered and …

For purposes of this chapter, a “disadvantaged minor” is a minor who is potentially academically able but scholastically underachieving, and must compensate for inability to profit from the normal educational program. He is a minor who: (a) Is three years of age or more, but unde…

A “program of compensatory education” is an undertaking by any school district maintaining any of grades kindergarten through 12, in the form prescribed by Article 2 (commencing with Section 54420) of this chapter, which is over, above, and in addition to the regular educational …

Each county superintendent of schools is authorized, upon request, to provide consultative and coordination services for the school districts under his jurisdiction which have established programs of compensatory education under this chapter. Such activity shall be financed throu…

(a) The State Board of Education may establish programs of the following types: (1) Establishment of new curricula or modification of existing curricula in connection with the education and training of prospective teachers, to incorporate instruction in methods and techniques dev…

All compensatory preschool programs operated by school districts, regardless of source of funds, shall be subject to the regulations of the State Board of Education. The State Board of Education is authorized to establish standards for all compensatory preschool programs. (Enacte…

The governing board of a school district, in its application, may request waiver of the provisions of any section or sections of this code for any compensatory education program if such waiver is necessary to establish and operate a program for low-income children. The need for a…

The purpose of this article is to establish criteria to guide local school districts in making applications for federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as accepted in Sections 12400, 12402, 12403, 12404, Article 4 (commencing with Section 12030) of …

Each application of a local school district for federal funds or state funds shall include a comprehensive compensatory education plan which shall demonstrate that the district has fully utilized all other sources of funds, and the assistance of all volunteer aid offered by indiv…

For purposes of applications for federal funds a plan should be comprehensive in scope, and may include any or all of the program components set out below. The State Board of Education shall act, upon recommendation of the Advisory Compensatory Education Commission, to establish …

In addition, the district may propose other programs, subject to the approval of the Director of Compensatory Education, to include the following elements: (a) Employment of competent school-community coordinators, to secure effective coordination of the efforts of pupils, parent…

(a) Whenever a districtwide school advisory committee on compensatory education programs has been established pursuant to a compensatory education plan, the procedures adopted for the selection of the district advisory committee shall specify that parents shall constitute a major…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) A significant number of children under 18 years of age whose parents are migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishermen reside in California for at least a part of each year. These children, from among the least …

The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the interpretation of this article. (a) “Currently migratory child” means a child who has moved with a parent, guardian, or other person having custody, from one school district to another, either within the State of Californ…

With the concurrence of the child’s parent, a child who has been identified as a “migrant child” may be deemed a migrant child for a period, not in excess of three years, during which the child resides in an area where programs are provided for migrant children. Priority for the …

The state board shall adopt a state master plan for services to migrant children. The plan shall include all of the following: (a) Instructional activities on a regular and extended year basis. These activities shall be designed to identify, assess, and provide treatment for acad…

(a) Migratory children shall be served according to their needs in the following order: (1) School-aged currently migratory children. (2) School-aged former migratory children. (3) Preschool currently migratory children. (4) Preschool former migratory children. (b) A project may …

Migrant education programs shall include all of the following: (a) An individual assessment of the educational and relevant health needs of each participating pupil within 30 days of enrollment. This assessment shall include assessments concurrently provided pursuant to compensat…

In implementing the plan adopted by the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is authorized to: (a) Contract with county superintendents of school or local educational agencies to supply services to migrant children residing within specified geographi…

(a) In implementing the state master plan for services to migrant children, the Superintendent shall establish the service regional system as the primary method for the delivery of services to migrant children. The Superintendent shall review and approve plans for the establishme…

(a) The Superintendent shall take the steps necessary to ensure effective parental involvement throughout the state migrant education program, which shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the following: (1) The Superintendent shall adopt rules and regulations requiring…

(a) Each operating agency receiving federal Title I Migrant Education funding shall conduct summer school programs for eligible migrant children in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. The summer school programs shall respond to the individual needs of participating pupils…

(a) The responsibilities of parent advisory councils at the district, regional, and state levels shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (1) The establishment of migrant education program goals, objectives, and priorities. (2) The review of annual needs and y…

The reorganization of service regions established pursuant to Section 54444.1 shall not affect the right to retain salary, leaves, and other benefits of persons employed in positions that do not require certification as follows: (a) An employee of a service region that is include…

The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) For purposes of this section, “newcomer pupil” has the same meaning as “immigrant children and youth,” as defined in Section 7011(5) of Title 20 of the United States Code. (b) The department shall conduct all of the following activities in support of the education of newcomer…

There is in the Department of Education the office of Director of Compensatory Education. The Director of Compensatory Education shall be appointed by the State Board of Education, upon nomination by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and he shall be subject to state civil…

The Director of Compensatory Education shall, under the policy direction of the State Board of Education and the administrative direction of the Director of Education, have overall supervision and control of programs of compensatory education provided throughout the state, and sh…

The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter, including rules and regulations which: (a) Prescribe the procedure by which a district shall identify disadvantaged minors. (b) Establish minimum standards for pr…

The State Board of Education, on the recommendation of the Director of Compensatory Education, shall, for purposes of this chapter, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education implementing the same, have the powe…