Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) All applications and records concerning any individual made or kept by any public officer or agency in connection with the administration of any provision of this code relating to free or reduced-price meal eligibility shall be confidential, and may not be open to examination…

(a) Any school food authority that participates in a federal child nutrition program and is reimbursed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 49501.5 for meals served pursuant to this article may be reimbursed at the current rate as determined by the State Department of Education…

The child nutrition programs operated pursuant to Section 49559 shall maintain a data base as specified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of program evaluation. From the funds appropriated in Section 4 of this act, an amount not to exceed 5 percent may be u…

(a) The department shall create a computerized data matching system using existing databases from the department and the State Department of Health Care Services to directly certify recipients of CalFresh, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program (the Ca…

(a) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, shall develop and implement a process to use the participation data from the Medi-Cal program administered pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the W…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Buy American provision” means the provision requiring a school food authority to purchase, to the maximum extent practicable, domestic commodities or products, as specified in subdivision (n) …

(a) For purposes of this section, a “high-poverty school” is a school that enrolls pupils in kindergarten or in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and is eligible to operate under the Community Eligibility Provision, pursuant to Section 1759a of Title 42 of the United States Code.…

In order to ensure optimal access to nutrition, facilitate the use of the federal Community Eligibility Provision (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1759a), and further reduce the burden of collecting annual unduplicated pupil income data through free and reduced-price school meal applications, a s…

Each school district, county superintendent of schools, and other public or private entity that participates in programs under the National School Lunch Act, as amended, and as prescribed by Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 1751) of Title 42 of the United States Code, may, if …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the state strives to serve National School Lunch Program meals of the highest quality and greatest nutritional value possible. (b) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, and contingent upon allocations provided by the federal Consolidat…

For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Food” has the same meaning as in Section 113781 of the Health and Safety Code. (b) “Food bank” has the same meaning as in Section 113783 of the Health and Safety Code. (c) “Nonprofit charitable or…

The department shall update its guidance on the donation of leftover food to allow a public school cafeteria to donate food to a food bank or to any other nonprofit charitable organization for distribution to persons free of charge or to make leftover food available to pupils dur…

The Legislature finds and declares that the State of California strives to serve food of the highest quality and greatest nutritional value possible. The department shall monitor schools participating in the federal National School Lunch Program or federal School Breakfast Progra…

In enacting this article, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide qualified students with the opportunity to attend a technical school or enroll in a career technical or technical training program, regardless of the geographical location of their residence in a county or r…

(a) (1) The county superintendent of schools of each county, with the consent of the state board, may establish and maintain, or with one or more counties may establish and maintain, a regional occupational center, or regional occupational program, in the county to provide educat…

Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 52301, the State Board of Education may grant permanent status to the Kern Union High School District to operate a single district regional occupational center or program, if that status is requested in writing by the county superintende…

For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “California Occupational Information System” means the statewide comprehensive labor market and occupational supply and demand information system described by Section 10530 of the Unemployment Insurance Code. (b) “State-Local Cooperative Labo…

(a) On or before July 1, 2010, the governing board of each regional occupational center or program shall ensure that at least 90 percent of all state-funded courses offered by the center or program, in occupational areas in which both the program or center and the community colle…

(a) The governing board of each regional occupational center or program shall establish and maintain an employer advisory board or boards pursuant to guidelines developed by the department. The advisory board shall do all of the following: (1) Assist in the development of skill c…

(a) Every career technical course or program offered by a school district or districts or county superintendent or superintendents sponsoring a regional occupational center or program shall be reviewed every two years by the appropriate governing body to assure that each course o…

A regional occupational center or regional occupational program shall do all of the following: (a) Provide individual counseling and guidance in career technical matters. (b) Provide a curriculum that includes a sequence of academic and skill instruction in specific occupational …

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that vocational training resources that are provided through regional occupational centers and programs are an essential component of the state’s secondary school system and the local system of providing occupational skills training t…

Regional occupational centers and programs may jointly establish, operate, and share the enrollments and costs of career technical education instruction with adult education programs offered by school districts serving the same geographic area. These programs shall be approved by…

“Regional occupational program,” as used in this chapter, means a sequence of career technical or technical training programs that meet the criteria and standards of instructional programs in regional occupational centers and are conducted in a variety of physical facilities that…

Subsequent to completing the survey required by Section 52302 and prior to establishing a regional occupational center or program authorized by Section 52301, the appropriate governing board, boards, or county superintendent of schools, as the case may be, shall determine whether…

The governing board of each school district maintaining a high school shall annually review and assess the participation of pupils in grades 11 and 12 in regional occupational centers and programs. The governing board shall prepare an annual plan to increase the participation of …

A regional occupational center or regional occupational program may: (a) Be established pursuant to Section 52301 to provide day, including Saturday and Sunday, and evening full-time and part-time career technical education programs for minors and adults, the year around. (b) Inc…

(a) Any business, commercial, trade, manufacturing, or construction activity referred to in subdivision (c) of Section 52305 may be undertaken as part of a regional occupational center or program provided all the following conditions have been complied with: (1) Any facility or p…

To the extent feasible, in establishing programs pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 52305, efforts shall be made to work cooperatively with sheltered workshops which are located in the area of such programs. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

A regional occupational center or program may lease buildings of not more than one story or equipment for a term not to exceed 10 years, subject to an extension for a period not to exceed 10 years, without complying with any other provision of this code relating to the lease of s…

(a) The curriculum initially provided by a regional occupational center or regional occupational program upon commencing operation shall be subject to the approval of the department and shall comply with all requirements and standards set forth in the State Plan for Career Techni…

Credits earned from courses completed in a regional occupational center or regional occupational program may be applied toward fulfillment of requirements for a high school diploma. A governing board of a district maintaining a regional occupational center may confer a high schoo…

(a) Each regional occupational program or center shall be maintained by, and subject to the authority and control of, its governing board. (b) The governing board of a regional occupational program or center maintained by a single school district is the governing board of the sch…

Each regional occupational center shall be established at a readily accessible place selected to serve the pupils who will attend the center. The county superintendent of schools or district or districts, as the case may be, maintaining, or participating in the operation of, the …

For the purposes of this chapter the county superintendent of schools, the governing board of the school district, or the governing boards of school districts establishing a regional occupational center, or regional occupational program, may acquire a site for each regional occup…

The county superintendent of schools or governing board of a school district or districts, as the case may be, maintaining a regional occupational center, or regional occupational program, may accept and expend grants from the federal government or from other public or private so…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any pupil eligible to attend a high school or adult school in a school district subject to the jurisdiction of a county superintendent of schools operating a regional occupational center or regional occupational program, and who resi…

A regional occupational center or program established and maintained by a county superintendent of schools, school districts, or joint powers agencies pursuant to Section 52301 shall admit youths between the ages of 15 to 18 years who are eligible to attend a high school in a sch…

(a) A visually impaired, orthopedically impaired, or deaf person who is not enrolled in a regular high school or community college program may attend a regional occupational center or regional occupational program pursuant to the requirements described in Section 52314.5. Additio…

Any pupil enrolled in grade 10, 11, or 12, and who is also attending a regional occupational center or regional occupational program may be excused from attending courses in physical education by the governing board of the school district maintaining grade 10, 11, or 12, and in w…

The governing board of any regional occupational center or program operated by a joint powers agency, a single district, or a county superintendent of schools maintaining a county regional occupational center or program, may admit to its programs or classes, on a full-time or par…

(a) Whenever the establishment and maintenance of a regional occupational center by two or more school districts has been undertaken pursuant to an agreement entered into in accordance with the provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of T…

For the purposes of receiving advances of funds from the county treasury only, a regional occupational center shall be deemed to be a school district. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) (1) Commencing in the 2009–10 fiscal year, a regional occupational center or program established and maintained by school districts or joint powers agencies pursuant to Section 52301 shall receive in annual operating funds directly from the county office of education in which…

The State Board of Education shall make provision in allocating any funds received from the federal government pursuant to Public Law 576 of the 90th Congress to include regional occupational centers and programs that comply with the requirements of this chapter. (Enacted by Stat…

No instruction shall be given in a regional occupational center except by a qualified teacher holding a certificate issued pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 44200) of Part 25 of Division 3 of this title. (Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

(a) Any regional occupational program shall be eligible to apply for apportionments as a necessary small regional occupational program under this section if it is a regional occupational program with an annual total average daily attendance of 350 or less in the prior fiscal year…

A day of attendance for pupils enrolled in a regional occupational center or program is 180 minutes of attendance.

(a) The governing board of a school district maintaining a regional occupational center may establish a bookstore on school district property for the purpose of offering for sale textbooks, workbooks, supplementary textbooks and workbooks, school supplies, stationery supplies, co…

Each governing board establishing or maintaining a regional occupational center or program pursuant to Section 52310.5 shall meet the requirements set forth in Sections 35145, 41010, 41011, 41015, 41020, 42103, 51040, 51041, 51050, and 51056.