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Education Code - EDC

TITLE 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION [33000 - 65001]

  ( Title 2 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. )

DIVISION 4. INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES [46000 - 65001]

  ( Division 4 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. )

PART 26. ATTENDANCE FOR COMPUTING APPORTIONMENTS [46000 - 46610]

  ( Part 26 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. )

CHAPTER 2. Attendance—Maximum Credit—Minimum Day [46100 - 46211]

  ( Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. )

ARTICLE 4. Alternative Schedule—Junior High and High School [46160 - 46162]
  ( Article 4 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. )

46160.
  

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a school district that maintains a junior high school or high school may schedule classes in these schools so that each pupil attends classes for at least 1,200 minutes during any five-schoolday period or 2,400 minutes during any 10-schoolday period.

(2) Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a school district that maintains an early college high school or middle college high school may schedule classes in these schools so that each pupil who satisfies subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 46146.5 attends classes for at least 900 minutes during any five-schoolday period or 1,800 minutes during any 10-schoolday period.

(b) Under a schedule pursuant to subdivision (a), any pupil may be authorized to attend school for less than the total number of days in which the school is in session as long as the pupil attends the required number of minutes per five-schoolday period or per 10-schoolday period to accommodate career technical education and regional occupational center and program courses and block or other alternative school class schedules.

(c) Computations authorized by this section shall not result in an increase in state apportionments to a school district.

(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 15, Sec. 27. (AB 99) Effective June 27, 2017.)

46161.
  

If a pupil attends classes pursuant to a schedule adopted under the authority of this chapter, he shall be deemed to have complied with all of the requirements of this code relating to school attendance.

(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

46162.
  

Prior to implementing a program under the provisions of this chapter in any school of the district, the school district governing board shall consult in good faith in an effort to reach agreement with the certificated and classified employees of the school, with the parents of pupils who would be affected by the change, and with the community at large. Such consultation shall include at least one public hearing for which the board has given adequate notice to the employees and to the parents of pupils affected.

(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

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