Title EDC — California Educ. Code

The governing board of the school district may, as an alternative to the procedure provided for in Section 52703, establish an account for each such farm established in the district, or for all such farms established by the district, in one or more banks to be known as “The Schoo…

The governing board may designate an employee or employees of the district to have custody of the account or accounts established under Section 52704, who shall be responsible for the payment into the account or accounts of all moneys received for or to be paid into the account o…

The governing board may buy feed, livestock, and materials and supplies for a farm and may sell produce, livestock and other products of a farm in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board notwithstanding any provision of this code in conflict with such rules and…

In every public elementary school each day during the school year at the beginning of the first regularly scheduled class or activity period at which the majority of the pupils of the school normally begin the schoolday, there shall be conducted appropriate patriotic exercises. T…

(a) Providing instruction that promotes understanding the concepts of “pledge,” “allegiance,” “republic,” and “indivisible,” and understanding the importance of the pledge as an expression of patriotism, love of country, and pride in the United States of America shall satisfy the…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide accurate instructional materials to schools on all of the following topics: (1) The internment in the United States of persons of Japanese origin and its impact on Japanese American citizens. (2) The Armenian genocide. (3) The Wo…

The films or video recordings produced pursuant to this article shall be submitted to the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission for its review, and may be made available to schools, as provided by this article, only upon adoption by the Curriculum Developme…

The State Department of Education shall make available the films or video recordings produced pursuant to this article to schools.

(a) The student government of a school maintaining any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, may establish a committee of pupils and teachers to develop a survey by which pupils may provide feedback to teachers for the purpose of fostering improved communication between pupils and teache…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Career fair” means an event where multiple private businesses, governmental agencies, university representatives, or career technical school representatives are invited by a local educational agency to presen…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) be responsible for coordinating public, independent, and private postsecondary education in California and providing independent policy analyses and recommendations to the Legisl…

There is hereby created the California Postsecondary Education Commission, which shall be advisory to the Governor, the Legislature, other appropriate governmental officials, and institutions of postsecondary education. The commission shall be composed of the following members: (…

The commission shall have power to require the governing boards and the institutions of public postsecondary education to submit data on plans and programs, costs, selection and retention of students, enrollments, plant capacities and other matters pertinent to effective planning…

Unless otherwise specified, reports submitted to the Legislature by the California Postsecondary Education Commission shall be delivered to the Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees on education, the Senate education and Assembly higher education policy committees, the Legisla…

The commission has the following functions and responsibilities in its capacity as the statewide postsecondary education planning and coordinating agency and adviser to the Legislature and the Governor: (a) It shall require the governing boards of the segments of public postsecon…

To the extent that the functions and tasks assigned to the California Postsecondary Education Commission by state law cannot all be performed with the funding provided in the annual Budget Act, it is the intent of the Legislature that the commission prioritize its workload to ens…

The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall consult with the commission in the development by the office of its Health Manpower Plan and recommendations for meeting the needs in California for health science personnel. This consultation shall focus on whether he…

The commission may delegate to the executive director any power, duty, purpose, function, or jurisdiction that the commission may lawfully delegate, including the authority to enter into and sign contracts on behalf of the commission. The executive director may redelegate any of …

It is the intent of the Legislature that sites for new institutions or branches of the University of California and the California State University, and the classes of off-campus centers as the commission shall determine, shall not be authorized or acquired unless recommended by …

It is the intent of the Legislature that the California Postsecondary Education Commission annually review and fix the salary of its director according to a methodology established by the commission. This methodology shall take into consideration the salary of directors of coordi…

Each member of the commission shall receive a stipend of fifty dollars ($50) for each day in which he or she attends any meeting of the commission or any meeting of any committee or subcommittee of the commission, of which committee or subcommittee he or she is a member, and whic…

The trustees shall not be charged or otherwise assessed for Department of the California Highway Patrol services to the chancellor’s office or any state facility under the control of the chancellor’s office, except for those patrol services requested by the trustees.

This chapter may be cited as the “Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976.”

(a) The Legislature hereby declares that it is in the interest of the state and the people thereof for the state to reconstruct, remodel, or replace existing school buildings that are educationally inadequate or that do not meet present-day structural safety requirements, and to …

The following terms wherever used or referred to in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless a different meaning appears from the context: (a) “Apportionment” means a reservation of funds necessary to finance the cost of any project approved by the bo…

As used in this chapter, construction shall include, but not be limited to, reconstruction, modernization, and replacement of facilities, and the performance of deferred maintenance activities on facilities pursuant to rules and regulations regarding those activities as may be ad…

The Director of General Services shall administer this chapter and shall provide such assistance to the board as it may require.

The State Allocation Board is continued in existence for the purpose of this chapter. The members of the board and the Members of the Legislature meeting with the board shall receive no compensation for their services under this chapter but shall be reimbursed for their actual an…

In addition to all other powers and duties as are granted the board by this chapter, other statute, or the Constitution, the board shall have power to: (a) Establish any qualifications not in conflict with other provisions of this chapter, as it deems will best serve the purposes…

On or before June 30, 1981, and on or before June 30 of each year thereafter, the board shall approve a plan specifying (a) the amount of funds to be allocated in the forthcoming fiscal year for the purposes of deferred maintenance activities and (b) the manner in which such fund…

(a) Any school district with an average daily attendance of less than 2,501 pupils may apply to the board for a loan to cover the project activities of the first or second phase, as those phases were defined on July 1, 1993, of a project funded under this chapter. The loan shall …

The board may provide a loan to any school district from the proceeds of the sale of bonds pursuant to the School Facilities Bond Act of 1992, and the 1992 School Facilities Bond Act, to provide aid for school districts in accordance with this chapter, when those proceeds are ava…

(a) The board shall not enter into any lease with respect to an application for replacing inadequate school facilities unless it first has investigated and made a finding, or the governing board of a self-certifying district, as applicable, first certifies that it has investigate…

The State School Building Finance Committee, created by Section 15909 and composed of the Governor, Controller, Treasurer, Director of Finance, and Director of Education, all of whom shall serve thereon without compensation and a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, is con…

A fund is hereby created in the State Treasury to be known as the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund. All money in the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund, including any money deposited in that fund from any source whatsoever, and notwithstanding Section 13340 of the…

(a) The board may establish a revolving loan account within the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund, and may allocate from the fund to that account those amounts it determines to be necessary for the purposes of this section. (b) The board may apportion to any school distri…

The board may approve projects and make apportionments in amounts not exceeding those funds on deposit in the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund plus any amount of bonds authorized by the State School Building Finance Committee but not yet sold by the Treasurer. Disburseme…

(a) The county superintendent of schools or county office of education shall be eligible to receive any funds from the portion of the proceeds of the sale of any state bonds that are set aside for the construction, reconstruction, or modernization of, or deferred maintenance on f…

The board may not approve any projects pursuant to this chapter on and after November 4, 1998.

(a) Except as set forth in Section 17052, on and after November 4, 1998, the board shall only approve and fund school facilities construction projects pursuant to Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 17070.10). (b) A school district with a first priority project that has receive…

The board may construct any project, and may acquire all property necessary therefor, on any terms and conditions as it may deem advisable. When any part of the work is to be done or performed by any public body or the United States jointly or in conjunction with the board, the p…

The board may use for the payment of the costs of acquisition, construction or completion of any project any funds made available to the board by the State of California or any other funds provided by the board from any source, to be expended for accomplishing the purposes set fo…

The board has full charge of the acquisition, construction, completion, and control of all projects authorized by them and may proceed with such work forthwith.

Title to all property acquired, constructed, or improved by the board and the revenues and income therefrom, is in the State of California. All such property, and the income therefrom are exempt from all taxation by the State of California or by any county, city and county, city,…

(a) The board shall require the school district to make all necessary repairs, renewals, and replacements to ensure that a project is at all times kept in good repair, working order, and condition. All costs incurred for this purpose shall be borne by the school district. (b) In …

The board shall require the school district to insure against public liability or property damage in connection with any project.

(a) The board, by the adoption of rules, may establish priorities for the construction and leasing of projects to those school districts the pupils of which will benefit most. The board may make exceptions from established priorities when it determines that to do so will benefit …

Each school district that desires to lease a project for a grade level maintained by it, shall submit through its governing board an application therefor to the board in the form and number of copies that the board may prescribe. Immediately upon receipt of an application in the …

(a) The West Contra Costa Unified School District shall be ineligible for any state school facilities funding for a period of five years from June 30, 1993, or until the date of the final payment on its entire debt to the state, including both principal and interest, whichever is…

(a) The board may own, have maintained, and lease portable classrooms to any county superintendent of schools who provides a county community school program, as defined in Section 1986. These portable classrooms shall be adequately equipped to meet the educational needs of these …