Existing law sets forth the various authorized classes or courses of instruction for public schools.
This bill would establish the Instructional School Gardens Program for the promotion, establishment, and support of instructional school gardens, to be administered by the State Department of Education through the allocation of grants to applicant school districts and county offices of education and the provision of technical assistance to school districts and county offices of education.
This bill would require the California Integrated Waste Management Board to give preferential consideration during its annual discretionary grant funding process to providing an appropriate level of funding to the program and would provide that the program would be implemented only if funds become available from private donations, special fund money, or federal money, or any combination thereof, for those purposes.