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DIVISION 4. INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES

PART 26. ATTENDANCE FOR COMPUTING APPORTIONMENTS

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 1. Records

ARTICLE 2. Absences

CHAPTER 2. Attendance—Maximum Credit—Minimum Day

ARTICLE 1. Generally

ARTICLE 2. Kindergarten and Elementary Schools

ARTICLE 3. Junior High School and High School

ARTICLE 3.5. State High School Attendance Awards

ARTICLE 4. Alternative Schedule—Junior High and High School

ARTICLE 5. Minimum Day—Continuation Schools

ARTICLE 6. Opportunity Schools

ARTICLE 7. Adult School

ARTICLE 8. Incentives for Longer Instructional Day and Year

ARTICLE 9. Attendance Recovery Programs

CHAPTER 3. Average Daily Attendance

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 6. County School Service Fund

ARTICLE 7. County School Tuition Fund

ARTICLE 8. Emergency Average Daily Attendance

CHAPTER 5. Interdistrict Attendance Computation

PART 26.8. CHARTER SCHOOLS

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

CHAPTER 2. Establishment of Charter Schools

CHAPTER 3. Charter School Operation

CHAPTER 4. Notice

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CHAPTER 5. University Charter Schools

ARTICLE 1. University of California at Los Angeles Elementary Charter School

ARTICLE 2. Employer

CHAPTER 6. Funding

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Charter School Block Grant

ARTICLE 3. Other Operational Funding Available to Charter Schools

ARTICLE 4. Special Education Funding

ARTICLE 5. Apportionment of Funds

ARTICLE 6. Computations Affecting Sponsoring Local Educational Agencies

PART 27. PUPILS

CHAPTER 1. Admission

ARTICLE 1. Kindergartens

ARTICLE 2. Elementary Schools

ARTICLE 4. High Schools

ARTICLE 6. Nonresidents

ARTICLE 7. Promotion and Retention

CHAPTER 2. Compulsory Education Law

ARTICLE 1. Persons Included

ARTICLE 2. Persons Excluded

ARTICLE 3. Pupils Exempt

ARTICLE 4. Supervisors of Attendance

ARTICLE 5. Truants

ARTICLE 6. Violations

ARTICLE 7. Pupil Attendance Alternatives

ARTICLE 8. School Attendance Review Boards

ARTICLE 9. Improvement of Pupil Attendance

ARTICLE 9.5. Local Educational Agency Instruction Collaboration Agreements

ARTICLE 10. Open Enrollment Act

CHAPTER 3. Compulsory Continuation Education

ARTICLE 1. Pupils Subject To

ARTICLE 2. Pupils Exempt

ARTICLE 3. Continuation Classes

ARTICLE 4. Violations

CHAPTER 4. Attendance at Adjustment Schools

ARTICLE 1. Twenty-four Hour Elementary Schools

ARTICLE 2. Opportunity Schools

ARTICLE 2.5. Juvenile Court Schools

ARTICLE 3. Community Day Schools

CHAPTER 5. Attendance at Community College

ARTICLE 1. Advanced Education

ARTICLE 1.5. College Promise Partnership Act

CHAPTER 5.5. Education of Pupils in Foster Care and Pupils Who Are Homeless

CHAPTER 6. Pupil Rights and Responsibilities

ARTICLE 1. Suspension or Expulsion

ARTICLE 1.5. Transfer of Pupil Convicted of Violent Felony or Misdemeanor

ARTICLE 2. Student Organizations

ARTICLE 3. Speech and Other Communication

ARTICLE 4. Notification of Parent or Guardian

ARTICLE 4.5. Guidelines for Filing Complaint of Child Abuse

ARTICLE 5. Prohibition of Corporal Punishment

ARTICLE 5.2. Restraint and Seclusion

ARTICLE 5.5. Pupil Fees

ARTICLE 6. Athletic Programs

ARTICLE 6.5. Performance-Enhancing Substances

ARTICLE 7. Registering to Vote

ARTICLE 8. Searches by School Employees

ARTICLE 9. Restorative Justice Practices

CHAPTER 6.5. Pupil Records

ARTICLE 1. Legislative Intent

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. General Provisions

ARTICLE 4. Rights of Parents

ARTICLE 5. Privacy of Pupil Records

ARTICLE 6. California School Information Services

CHAPTER 6.6. The Education Empowerment Act of 1998

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ARTICLE 1. Parental Review

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ARTICLE 2. Teacher Rights

CHAPTER 7. Employment of Minors

ARTICLE 1. Employment and Attendance

ARTICLE 2. Permits to Work

ARTICLE 3. Permits to Work Full Time

ARTICLE 4. Exceptions

ARTICLE 5. Compliance

ARTICLE 6. Duties of Employer

ARTICLE 7. Violations

ARTICLE 8. Permit to Work during Extended Emergency School Closure

CHAPTER 8. Pupil Safety

ARTICLE 1. School Safety Patrols

ARTICLE 2. Basic Work Station

ARTICLE 3. Injurious Objects

ARTICLE 4. Hazardous Materials Education

ARTICLE 6. Reporting of Missing Children

ARTICLE 7. Sexual Abuse and Sex Trafficking Prevention

ARTICLE 8. Threats of Homicide at School

CHAPTER 9. Pupil and Personnel Health

ARTICLE 1. General Powers—School Boards

ARTICLE 1.5. Office of School-Based Health Programs

ARTICLE 2. Employment of Medical Personnel

ARTICLE 2.5. The Pupil Nutrition, Health, and Achievement Act of 2001

ARTICLE 4. Physical Examinations

ARTICLE 4.5. Pupil Health Assessment

ARTICLE 4.6. The Seizure Safe Schools Act

ARTICLE 5. District Medical Services and Insurance

ARTICLE 6. Notice to School of Nonepisodic Condition

ARTICLE 7. School Breakfast and Lunch Program

ARTICLE 7.5. Breakfast and Morning Snacks for Nonschoolaged Children

ARTICLE 8. Meals

ARTICLE 9. Nutrition

ARTICLE 10. Child Nutrition Act of 1974

ARTICLE 10.5. Child Care Food Program

ARTICLE 10.7. Comprehensive Nutrition Services

ARTICLE 11. Meals for Needy Pupils in Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12

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ARTICLE 12. National School Lunch Act

ARTICLE 13. Food Recovery Program

ARTICLE 14. School Nutrition Report

CHAPTER 10. Educational Counseling

CHAPTER 11. Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children

PART 28. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS

CHAPTER 1. Education Program

ARTICLE 1. Legislative Intent

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Role of Local Agency

ARTICLE 4. Enforcement of Courses of Study

CHAPTER 1.5. Parental Involvement

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 3. Teresa P. Hughes Family-School Partnership Award and Grant Program

ARTICLE 4. Drowning Prevention

CHAPTER 2. Required Courses of Study

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Course of Study, Grades 1 to 6

ARTICLE 3. Courses of Study, Grades 7 to 12

ARTICLE 4. Exemptions from Requirements

ARTICLE 4.5. Schoolage Military Dependents

ARTICLE 5. Drug Education

ARTICLE 6. Primary Education Model Curriculum for Lifelong Health, Aging, and Financial Literacy

CHAPTER 3. Diplomas and Certificates

ARTICLE 1. Elementary School Diploma

ARTICLE 2. Diplomas

ARTICLE 3. High School Equivalency Certificates

ARTICLE 3.5. Retroactive High School Diplomas

ARTICLE 5. Golden State Seal Merit Diploma

ARTICLE 6. State Seal of Biliteracy

ARTICLE 7. State Seal of Civic Engagement

CHAPTER 4. Prohibited Instruction

ARTICLE 1. Prejudices

ARTICLE 2. Prohibited Materials

ARTICLE 3. Solicitations

ARTICLE 4. Advocacy or Teaching of Communism

ARTICLE 5. Humane Treatment of Animals

CHAPTER 5. Authorized Classes and Courses of Instruction

ARTICLE 1.5. The Online Classroom Pilot Program

ARTICLE 2. Mathematics Readiness Challenge

ARTICLE 3. Evening High School for Minors

ARTICLE 4. Elementary School Special Day and Evening Classes

ARTICLE 5. Instruction by Correspondence

ARTICLE 5.5. Independent Study

ARTICLE 6. Military Science and Tactics

ARTICLE 7. Work Experience Education

ARTICLE 7.3. Energy Education

ARTICLE 7.4. Work Experience Education Program Reviews

ARTICLE 7.5. Genetic Diseases and Disorders Instruction

ARTICLE 8. Aviation Education

ARTICLE 8.5. School Instructional Gardens

ARTICLE 9. Home Teaching

ARTICLE 10. Community Service Classes

ARTICLE 12. Consumer Economics Programs

ARTICLE 13. Driver Training

ARTICLE 14. Bicycle Safety Instruction

ARTICLE 14.5. California Distance Learning Policy

ARTICLE 16. Aquatic Safety

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CHAPTER 5.5. Comprehensive Health Education

ARTICLE 1. General

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Department of Education

ARTICLE 4. Comprehensive Health Education Plans

ARTICLE 5. In-Service Training

ARTICLE 6. Mandatory Mental Health Education

CHAPTER 5.6. California Healthy Youth Act

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Required Comprehensive Sexual Health Education and HIV Prevention Education

ARTICLE 3. In-Service Training

ARTICLE 4. Notice and Parental Excuse

CHAPTER 5.7. Prevention of Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries

CHAPTER 5.8. Sexual Abuse and Sex Trafficking Prevention Education

CHAPTER 6.1. Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999

ARTICLE 1. Legislative Findings and Intent

ARTICLE 2. Public School Performance Accountability Program

ARTICLE 3.7. Quality Education Investment Act of 2006

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ARTICLE 4.5. Local Control and Accountability Plans and the Statewide System of Support

CHAPTER 7. Bilingual Education

ARTICLE 3. Bilingual-Bicultural Education Act of 1976

ARTICLE 4. Bilingual Teacher Training Assistance Program

ARTICLE 5. Bilingual Teacher Professional Development Program

CHAPTER 8.3. Advanced Placement Program

CHAPTER 9. Career Technical Education

ARTICLE 1. Regional Occupational Centers

ARTICLE 1.5. Apportionment of Funds for Regional Occupational Centers

ARTICLE 1.7. Career Preparatory Program

ARTICLE 4. High School Career Technical Courses

ARTICLE 5. Summer Vocational Education

ARTICLE 6. Summer Environmental Internship Program

ARTICLE 7. Agricultural Career Technical Education

ARTICLE 7.5. Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program

CHAPTER 10. Adult Schools

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 3. Adult English Classes

ARTICLE 4. Classes in Citizenship

ARTICLE 5. Handicapped Adults

ARTICLE 6. Finances

ARTICLE 7. Advanced Scholastic and Vocational Training Program

CHAPTER 10.5. Immigrant Workforce Preparation Act

CHAPTER 11. Miscellaneous

ARTICLE 1. School Farms

ARTICLE 2. Patriotic Exercises and Instruction

ARTICLE 3. Educational Films or Video Tapes

ARTICLE 5. Pupil Survey of Instruction

ARTICLE 6. College and Career Fairs

CHAPTER 12.5. International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

CHAPTER 13. Science and Technology Education Improvement Programs

ARTICLE 1. Legislative Findings and Declarations, and Statewide Goals

ARTICLE 2. California Science Project

CHAPTER 15. Comprehensive Reading Leadership Program

CHAPTER 15.5. Screening for Risk of Reading Difficulties

CHAPTER 16. California Career Pathways Trust

CHAPTER 16.1. Golden State Pathways Program

CHAPTER 16.5. California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program

CHAPTER 17.5. California Career Resource Network

CHAPTER 18. Race to the Top

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Intervening in the Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools

ARTICLE 3. Parent Empowerment

PART 29. PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED PUPILS

CHAPTER 1. Educationally Disadvantaged Youth Programs

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Economic Impact Aid

CHAPTER 4. Compensatory Education Programs for Disadvantaged Children

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Compensatory Education

ARTICLE 3. Migrant Children

ARTICLE 3.5. Newcomer Pupils

ARTICLE 4. Administration

ARTICLE 5. Special Teacher Employment Programs

ARTICLE 6. Preschool Followthrough Programs

CHAPTER 9. Miscellaneous Programs

ARTICLE 4. Dream Resource Center Grant Program

ARTICLE 5. Partnership Academies

ARTICLE 6. University and College Opportunities Program

ARTICLE 7.1. California School Age Families Education Program

ARTICLE 7.5. Green Technology Partnership Academies

ARTICLE 7.7. Goods Movement Partnership Academies

ARTICLE 9. Supplemental Grants

ARTICLE 10. California Student Author Program

PART 30. SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 1. Intent

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. General Provisions

ARTICLE 3.5. Surrogate Parents

ARTICLE 3.7. Foster Parents

ARTICLE 3.9. Qualifications for Special Education Teachers

ARTICLE 4. Substitute Teachers

ARTICLE 5. Qualifications for Designated Instruction and Services Personnel, Related Services Personnel, and Paraprofessionals

CHAPTER 2. Administration

ARTICLE 1. State Board of Education

ARTICLE 2. Superintendent of Public Instruction

ARTICLE 3. County Offices

ARTICLE 3.5. Charter Schools

ARTICLE 4. Juvenile Court Schools

ARTICLE 5. Licensed Children’s Institutions and Foster Family Homes

ARTICLE 5.5. Public Hospitals, Proprietary Hospitals and Other Residential Medical Facilities

ARTICLE 5.6. Children Enrolled in Private Schools

ARTICLE 7. Community Advisory Committee

CHAPTER 2.5. Governance

ARTICLE 1. Local Plans

ARTICLE 2. Local Requirements

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CHAPTER 3. Elements of the Local Plan

ARTICLE 1.1. State Requirements

ARTICLE 1.5. Special Education Local Plan Areas with Small or Sparse Populations

ARTICLE 3. Staff Development

CHAPTER 4. Identification and Referral, Assessment, Instructional Planning, Implementation,and Review

ARTICLE 1. Identification and Referral

ARTICLE 2. Assessment

ARTICLE 2.4. Eligibility Criteria for Special Education and Related Services on the Basis of Other Health Impairment

ARTICLE 2.5. Eligibility Criteria for Special Education and Related Services on the Basis of Language and Speech Disorder or Specific Learning Disabilities

ARTICLE 2.6. Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders

ARTICLE 3. Instructional Planning and Individualized Education Program

ARTICLE 3.5. Individualized Education Program for Visually Impaired Pupils

ARTICLE 4. Implementation

ARTICLE 5. Review

ARTICLE 6. Participation in Statewide and Districtwide Assessment Programs

CHAPTER 4.1. Recognition for Educational Achievement or Completion of Program

CHAPTER 4.3. Family Empowerment Centers on Disability

CHAPTER 4.4. Early Education for Individuals with Exceptional Needs

CHAPTER 4.45. Special Education Programs for Individuals With Exceptional Needs Between the Ages of Three and Five Years, Inclusive

CHAPTER 4.5. Career and Vocational Education Programs, Transition Services, and Project Workability

ARTICLE 1. Career and Vocational Education Programs

ARTICLE 2. Transition Services

ARTICLE 3. Project Workability

CHAPTER 4.7. Interagency Cooperation

CHAPTER 5. Procedural Safeguards

CHAPTER 5.1. Confidentiality of Information About Individuals With Exceptional Needs

CHAPTER 5.5. Behavioral Interventions

CHAPTER 6. Evaluation, Audits, and Information

CHAPTER 7.2. Special Education Funding

ARTICLE 1. Administration

ARTICLE 2. Computation of Apportionments

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ARTICLE 2.2. Special Education Funding Formula

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ARTICLE 2.5. Computation of Adjustment

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ARTICLE 3. Licensed Children’s Institutions

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ARTICLE 4. Nonpublic, Nonsectarian School Contracts

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ARTICLE 5. Low Incidence Funding

ARTICLE 6. Program Specialists and Administration of Regionalized Operations and Services

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ARTICLE 6.5. Special Education Early Intervention Preschool Grant

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ARTICLE 7. Federal Funding Allocations

ARTICLE 8. Withholding of Payments

CHAPTER 7.5. Autism Training and Information

CHAPTER 8. Special Education Programs for Individuals With Exceptional Needs Residing in State Hospitals

PART 31. EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL PROGRAMS

CHAPTER 2. Individual Instruction

CHAPTER 3. Alternative Schools

CHAPTER 6. Specialized Secondary Programs

PART 32. STATE SPECIAL SCHOOLS AND CENTERS

CHAPTER 1. California Schools for the Deaf

ARTICLE 1. Administration

ARTICLE 2. Pupils

ARTICLE 3. Services

ARTICLE 4. Employment Qualifications

CHAPTER 2. California School for the Blind

ARTICLE 1. Administration

ARTICLE 2. Teaching Force

ARTICLE 3. Pupils

ARTICLE 4. Services and Courses

CHAPTER 2.5. Tuberculosis Testing in Special Schools

CHAPTER 3. Diagnostic Centers

ARTICLE 1. Administration

ARTICLE 2. Teaching Force

ARTICLE 3. Pupils

CHAPTER 4. Finance

ARTICLE 1. Local Contribution

PART 33. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND TESTING

CHAPTER 1. Instructional Materials

ARTICLE 1. Legislative Intent

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Requirements, Materials

ARTICLE 4. Requirements, Publishers and Manufacturers

ARTICLE 5. Prohibited Acts

ARTICLE 6. Reports

ARTICLE 6. Instructional Materials on Alcohol and Drug Education

ARTICLE 7. Public Hearings, Instructional Materials

ARTICLE 8. Fiscal Penalty

CHAPTER 2. Elementary School Materials

ARTICLE 1. Selection and Adoption

ARTICLE 2. Duties of Publishers and Manufacturers

ARTICLE 6. Other Uses

CHAPTER 3. High School Textbooks

ARTICLE 1. Adoption and Purchase

ARTICLE 2. Furnishing Textbooks to Pupils

CHAPTER 4. Obsolete Materials

ARTICLE 1. Donation or Sale

ARTICLE 2. Destruction

CHAPTER 5. California Assessment of Academic Achievement

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Program Provisions

ARTICLE 3. Program Evaluation and Analysis

ARTICLE 4. California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress

CHAPTER 5.5. Review of Electronic Resources Capable of Analyzing Pupil Assessment Data

CHAPTER 6. Physical Fitness Testing

CHAPTER 7. Assessment of Language Development

CHAPTER 10. California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System

CHAPTER 11. Preschool Data

PART 34. EVALUATION AND SUNSETTING OF PROGRAMS

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

PART 35. USE OF CATEGORICAL FUNDS

CHAPTER 1. Expenditure for Direct Services to Pupils

PART 36. CONSOLIDATED APPLICATION PROCESS

PART 37. SCHOOL PLANS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

PART 37.5. CATEGORICAL FUNDING

PART 38. SCHOOLSITE COUNCILS