Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) It is the policy of the State of California that all students enrolled in the state’s public elementary and secondary schools, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, geographic location, or socioecon…

The State Board of Education shall ensure that the state curriculum and framework, where appropriate, include instruction on Cesar Chavez and the history of the farm labor movement in the United States, and the role of immigrants, including Filipino Americans, in that movement, a…

The month of May is hereby deemed to be Labor History Month throughout the public schools, and school districts are encouraged to commemorate this month with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California a…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this part. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Educational program” means the entire school-sponsored offering for pupils of a district, including in-class and out-of-class activities. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Common state curriculum” means the basic curriculum which is prescribed by the proper authority for all elementary schools, or all secondary schools, or all elementary and secondary schools. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Curriculum” means the courses of study, courses, subjects, classes and organized group activities provided by a school. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Course of study” means the planned content of a series of classes, courses, subjects, studies, or related activities. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Course” means an instructional unit of an area or field of organized knowledge, usually provided on a semester, year, or prescribed length-of-time basis. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Class” means an organized group of pupils within a school who are pursuing a particular course, subject or activity. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Governing board” means that board of education or governing board of any county, city and county, city, or district which has the duty to prescribe the course of study for the schools of the county, city and county, city, or district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“State board” means the State Board of Education. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Philosophy” means a composite statement of the relationship between the individual and society based upon beliefs, concepts, and attitudes from which the goals and objectives of the district are derived. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Goal” means a statement of broad direction or intent which is general and timeless and is not concerned with a particular achievement within a specified time period. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

“Objective” means a devised accomplishment that can be verified within a given time and under specifiable conditions which, if attained, advances the system toward a corresponding goal. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of every school district shall prepare and shall keep on file for public inspection the courses of study prescribed for the schools under its jurisdiction. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of every school district shall evaluate its educational program, and shall make such revisions as it deems necessary. Any revised educational program shall conform to the requirements of this division. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The governing board of every school district shall enforce in its schools the courses of study and the use of textbooks and other instructional materials prescribed and adopted by the proper authority. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

The course of study for preschool, kindergarten, grades 1 through 6, and grades 7 and 8 of those elementary districts maintaining grades 7 and 8, shall be prescribed and enforced by the governing board. The governing board of any school district may cooperate with the county boar…

Except as provided in Section 51053, the course of study for grades 7 through 12 shall be prepared under the direction of the governing board having control thereof and shall be subject to approval as may be required by the state board. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Courses for continuation high schools shall be prepared under the direction of the governing board having control thereof. Insofar as possible courses shall meet the high school requirements set forth in Sections 51220 and 51222. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

A course of study for each adult school shall be prepared under the direction of the governing board of the district maintaining the adult school and shall be subject to approval of the Department of Education. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Upon request of the governing board of any school district, the State Board of Education may, for a number of years to be specified by the board, grant the district exemption from one or more of the course of study requirements set forth in this division. The exemption may be ren…

The secondary schools of the state are designated as high schools, technical schools, and adult schools.

The high schools of the state are designated as four-year high schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, continuation high schools, and evening high schools. Evening high schools may be designated as adult schools. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

Notwithstanding Section 1020 of the Government Code, any pupil attending a California public secondary school who is under the age of 18 years may serve on any board or commission established pursuant to this title or Title 2 (commencing with Section 33000) that includes members …

It is the intent of the Legislature to provide quality educational opportunities for all children in the public schools. The Legislature recognizes that a wide variety of factors such as low family income, pupil transiency rates, and large numbers of homes where a primary languag…

From the funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of this chapter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, shall administer this chapter and make apportionments to school districts to meet the total approved expen…

Under rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education, participating school district governing boards shall evaluate the effectiveness of participating schools and shall terminate entitlements to schools which are unsuccessful over a four-year period in substant…

For fiscal year 1979–80 and each year thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall apportion funds available for programs in accord with procedures specified in this chapter and rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education. Funds shall be alloca…

It is the intent of the Legislature to provide all districts receiving impact aid with sufficient flexibility to design and administer an intra-district allocation system for impact aid which reflects the distribution and the needs of the needy population and assures the provisio…

Under the rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education, school districts receiving entitlements for the 1979–80 year and thereafter under this chapter shall develop and submit to the Department of Education for approval an intra-district allocation plan for d…

The intradistrict allocation plan shall assure adequate support to any school to provide programs appropriate to the educational needs of limited- and non-English-speaking pupils as required by Section 52165 except that programs funded under Article 3 (commencing with Section 521…

The State Board of Education shall adopt regulations setting forth the standards and criteria to be used in the administration, monitoring, evaluation, and dissemination of programs submitted for consideration.

In approving projects pursuant to this chapter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the concurrence of the Director of Finance, may, upon the request of the applicant district, designate a portion of the district’s entitlement which may be expended for noninstructional…

Expenditures pursuant to this chapter shall be considered to be categorical program expenditures within the meaning of Section 52165 and therefore subject to the requirements of the Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Education Act of 1976 (Article 3 (commencing with Section 5216…

It is the intent of the Legislature that funds authorized pursuant to this chapter replace, as of July 1, 1979, funds previously authorized to support educationally disadvantaged youth programs and bilingual education. To that end, the purpose of this article is to provide a meth…

For the 2006–07 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall make the following calculations for each school district: (a) Using the methodology specified in Section 54023, determine the economic impact aid-eligible pupil count for each school district for the 2005–06 fiscal year as if …

(a) The Superintendent shall make the following calculations for each school district: (1) For the 2010–11 fiscal year, after calculating the economic impact aid allocation of each school district based on Section 54022, the Superintendent shall add to that allocation the amount …

(a) Commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, a juvenile court school operated by a county superintendent of schools shall be eligible to receive economic impact aid funding. (b) For the 2010–11 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall allocate to each…

For the 2006–07 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, each school district shall receive the amount of economic impact aid determined by the Superintendent pursuant to subdivision (b) or (c), whichever is greater, calculated for each school district according to all of the…

For each fiscal year, the economic impact aid-eligible pupil count shall be calculated for each school district as follows: (a) Determine the count of economically disadvantaged pupils, as defined in Section 54026. (b) Determine the count of English learners, as defined in subdiv…

The state board may, pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 33050) of Chapter 1 of Part 20, waive any statutory provision or regulation regarding the use of funds apportioned pursuant to this article, provided that the funds are used in the same schools, or in schools wit…

(a) A school district shall expend economic impact aid funds to serve and assist English learners and economically disadvantaged pupils and may not expend those funds at schoolsites that do not have English learners or economically disadvantaged pupils. (b) A school shall use fun…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Economically disadvantaged pupils” means either of the following, whichever is applicable: (1) Pupils described in Section 101 of Title I of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6333(c)(1)…

If a school district reorganizes either by unification or by consolidation with another school district of similar type, the Superintendent shall calculate an economic impact aid per pupil amount based on the respective per pupil amounts for each school district participating in …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of this article are subject to Sections 62002.5 and 62004, and to the portions of Section 62003 that relate to auditing the use of funds allocated for purposes of economic impact aid.

As a condition of the receipt of economic impact aid funds, a school district shall post in an easily accessible location on its Internet Web site data related to economic impact aid funding, for purposes of budget transparency, including all of the following: (a) The amount of e…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that all individuals with exceptional needs have a right to participate in free appropriate public education and special educational instruction and services for these persons are needed in order to ensure the right to an appropriate educati…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) Pupils with low-incidence disabilities, as a group, make up less than 1 percent of the total statewide enrollment for kindergarten through grade 12. (2) Pupils with low-incidence disabilities require highly specialized services, eq…