Title EDC — California Educ. Code

It is the intent of the Legislature that community college districts with noncredit programs recognize the importance of noncredit programs and that they will continue to support these offerings. It is also the intent of the Legislature that community college districts with noncr…

(a) For purposes of this chapter, the following noncredit courses, noncredit classes, and support services shall be eligible for funding: (1) Parenting, including parent cooperative preschools, classes in child growth and development and parent-child relationships. (2) Elementary…

(a) The chancellor’s office, in conjunction with the department, shall annually report on the number and types of courses being taught and the number of students being served with funding provided to the regional consortia established pursuant to Section 84830. The chancellor’s o…

Not later than May 15 of each year, the Department of Finance shall notify the Legislature and the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges of the amount of revenue estimated to be available to community college districts during the next fiscal year from local pro…

(a) As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) “CalWORKs recipient” means a recipient of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, or any successor program. (2) “Direct excess costs” means the fix…

(a) For purposes of this chapter, the following career development and college preparation courses and classes for which credit is not given, and courses that are offered in both face-to-face and distance education instructional methods, leading to a certificate of completion, th…

(a) (1) Open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors shall be waived for any governing board of a community college district for classes the district provides to inmates of any city, county, or city and county jail, road camp, farm for adults, or sta…

(a) On or before March 1, 2015, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall enter into an interagency agreement to expand access to community college courses that lead to degrees or certificates that…

(a) (1) Open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors shall be waived for any governing board of a community college district for community college courses the district provides to military personnel, their dependents, and authorized civilian employee…

Any lottery revenue allocated to a public education entity pursuant to Section 8880.5 of the Government Code shall not be reduced by more than one-half of 1 percent per year when that reduction is the direct result of any entity changing its method of computing workload units.

(a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the State Department of Education shall, pursuant to funding made available in the annual Budget Act, jointly provide two-year planning and implementation grants to regional consortia of community college districts and s…

(a) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall adopt rules and regulations for the administration and funding of educational programs and support services to be provided to disabled students by community college districts pursuant to Article 3 (commencing w…

A community college district board may offer, subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and in accordance with rules and regulations to be adopted by the board of governors, courses under a flexible calendar.

The Adult Education Program is hereby established under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply, unless otherwise specified: (a) “Adult” means a person 18 years of age or older. (b) “Carryover” means the amount of unspent adult education program funds from the prior fiscal year, certified on or before Septe…

(a) The chancellor and the Superintendent are the state officials responsible for identifying and understanding the educational needs of adults in the state. (b) The chancellor and the Superintendent shall use the powers provided by this article to support the effective provision…

(a) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall divide the state into adult education regions and shall determine the physical boundaries of each region. (b) When determining the boundaries of the adult education regions, the chancellor…

(a) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall approve one adult education consortium in each adult education region. (b) Until otherwise determined by the chancellor and the Superintendent, the consortia to which planning and implemen…

The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall approve, for each consortium, rules and procedures that adhere to all of the following conditions: (a) Any community college district, school district, or county office of education, or any jo…

(a) (1) Commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, as a condition of receipt of an apportionment of funds from this program for a fiscal year, the members of a consortium shall have a consortium-approved three-year adult education plan that addresses a three-year fiscal planning cy…

No later than July 31, 2015, the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall certify, for each school district and county office of education, the amount of state funds required to be expended for adult education pursuant to paragraph (7) o…

(a) If the total amount certified for all school districts and county offices of education pursuant to Section 84907 is less than three hundred seventy-five million dollars ($375,000,000), the chancellor and the Superintendent shall do both of the following: (1) Apportion funds a…

(a) This section shall apply commencing with the 2016–17 fiscal year. (b) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, shall approve, no later than February 28 of the prior fiscal year, a preliminary schedule of allocations to each consortium …

The chancellor and the Superintendent shall, when approving a schedule of allocations for a fiscal year, also present preliminary projections for the amounts that would be allocated in the subsequent two fiscal years. This preliminary presentation shall not constitute a binding c…

To determine the need for adult education, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall consider, at a minimum, measures related to adult population, employment, immigration, educational attainment, and adult literacy.

The chancellor and the Superintendent shall apportion funds appropriated for the program in a given year in compliance with all of the following: (a) No more than one-twelfth of the total amount appropriated shall have been apportioned by the end of July. (b) No more than one-six…

(a) Funds apportioned for the program shall be used only for support of the following: (1) Programs in elementary and secondary basic skills, including programs leading to a high school diploma or high school equivalency certificate. (2) Programs for immigrants eligible for educa…

(a) As a condition of receipt of an apportionment from the program, a consortium shall approve a distribution schedule that includes both of the following: (1) The amount of funds to be distributed to each member of the consortium for that fiscal year. (2) A narrative justifying …

Program funds received by a participating school district shall be deposited in a separate fund of the school district to be known as the Adult Education Fund. Moneys in an Adult Education Fund shall be expended only for adult education purposes.

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to coordinate programs that support education and workforce services for adults. (b) No later than January 31, 2016, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall submit to the Director of Finance, to the State Board of Education, and, in con…

Commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, any community college district, school district, or county office of education or any joint powers authority consisting of community college districts, school districts, county offices of education, or a combination of these entities, that…

(a) To inform actions taken by the Governor and the Legislature related to adult education, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall report to the Director of Finance, the Statewide Director of Immigrant Integration, the state board, and, in compliance with Section 9795 of the…

(a) To the extent that one-time funding is made available in the Budget Act of 2015, consistent with the provisions of Section 84917, the chancellor and the Superintendent shall identify common measures for determining the effectiveness of members of each consortium in meeting th…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) A large and growing number of California’s children are not learning enough in school to prepare them for full economic, social, and civic participation in adult life, as evidenced by the following statistics: (1) Each …

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Consortium” means two or more local educational agencies. (b) “Cooperating agency” means any federal, state, or local public or private nonprofit agency that agrees to offer support services at a schoolsite t…

In order to encourage the integration of children’s services, it is the intent of the Legislature to promote interagency coordination and collaboration among the state agencies responsible for the provision of support services to children and their families. Therefore, the Legisl…

The superintendent shall award grants to a local educational agency or consortium to pay the costs of planning and operating, on behalf of one or more qualifying schools within the local educational agency or consortium, programs that provide support services to pupils and their …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that, as the number of planning and operational grants awarded pursuant to this chapter increases, additional local planning and coordinating efforts will be necessary among school districts, county offices of education, county governments, …

The Legislature finds that an evaluation of plan effectiveness is both desirable and necessary, and accordingly requires the following: (a) No later than January 1 of the year following a full year of operation, each local educational agency or consortium that receives an operati…

(a) Each local educational agency or consortium applying for a grant under this chapter shall establish procedures to ensure on-going consultation and collaboration with local agencies for the purposes set forth in subdivision (c). The consultation and collaboration process shall…

(a) The department is required to implement this chapter only to the extent that funds are apportioned for that purpose under the annual Budget Act, or are made available to the department for the purposes of this chapter from federal sources. It is the intent of the Legislature …

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the trustees shall provide by rule for the government of their appointees and employees, pursuant to this chapter and other applicable provisions of law, including, but not limited to: appointment; classification; terms; duties;…

(a) The trustees shall offer, on at least a semiannual basis, to each of the university’s filers, an orientation course on the relevant ethics statutes and regulations that govern the official conduct of university officials. (b) As used in this section, “filer” means each member…

(a) For the purpose of facilitating the recruitment of professional and technically trained persons to fill positions for which there is a shortage of qualified applicants, the trustees may authorize payment of all or a part of the travel expense of applicants who are called for …

(a) It is the policy of the state that the workweek of the employees of the California State University shall be 40 hours, and the workday of such employees eight hours, except that workweeks and workdays of a different number of hours may be established in order to meet the vary…

(a) The trustees may authorize payments into a private fund to provide health and welfare benefits to nonpermanent employees of the class specified in Section 19830 of the Government Code employed by the trustees, upon a finding by the trustees as to any position that the criteri…

(a) Upon separation from service without fault on his or her part, an employee is entitled to a lump-sum payment as of the time of separation for any unused or accumulated vacation or for any time off to which the employee is entitled by reason of previous overtime work where com…

The trustees, subject to such conditions as they may establish, may purchase annuity contracts for any of their employees, and shall reduce the salary of any such employee for whom such contract is purchased in the amount of the cost thereof; provided that each of the following c…

(a) Officers and employees of the California State University may participate in the deferred compensation plan established pursuant to Section 19993 of the Government Code upon compliance with the statutory prerequisites for participation in the plan. (b) If the provisions of th…