41570-41573
EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 41570-41573
41570. (a) There is hereby established the school and library improvement block grant. Commencing with the 2005-06 fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall apportion block grant funds to a school district in the same relative statewide proportion that the school district received in the 2003-04 fiscal year for the programs listed in Section 41571. (b) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2), a school district may expend funds received pursuant to this article for any purpose authorized by the programs listed in Section 41571, as the statutes governing those programs read on January 1, 2004. (2) If a school district did not participate before January 1, 2004, in the school improvement program as set forth in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 52000) of Part 28, the school district shall use grant funds received pursuant to this article for school library materials as set forth in Article 7 (commencing with Section 18180) of Chapter 2 of Part 11, as that article read on January 1, 2004. (c) For purposes of this article, "school district" includes a county office of education if county offices of education are eligible to receive funds for the programs that are listed in Section 41571. The block grant of a county office of education shall be based only on those programs for which it was eligible to receive funds in the 2003-04 fiscal year. 41571. The school and library improvement block grant shall include funding previously apportioned to school districts for purposes of the following programs: (a) School library materials as set forth in Article 7 (commencing with Section 18180) of Chapter 2 of Part 11. (b) School improvement programs as set forth in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 52000) of Part 28. 41572. A school district that receives funds pursuant to this article shall have a school level advisory committee as required by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 52000) of Part 28, as it read on January 1, 2004, and shall have a single school plan that incorporates the requirements of Sections 18181, 52014, and 52015, as those sections read on January 1, 2004. 41573. Commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, the amount of funding a school district receives pursuant to this article shall be adjusted annually for inflation by the amount calculated pursuant to Section 42238.1 and for growth as measured by enrollment in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as reported in the CBEDS report, unless otherwise provided in the annual Budget Act. For purposes of this subdivision, "CBEDS report" means the report submitted by the school district to the department for purposes of the California Basic Education Data System.