52381-52391
EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 52381-52391
52381. The Legislature finds that it is urgently necessary to reduce the continuing high level of unemployment among the youth and young adults by broadening and strengthening the existing career technical education programs to provide them with the necessary work skills in order that they will be equipped to participate in a meaningful manner in our ever increasingly technical society. It is the intent of the Legislature by the provisions of this article to afford a means whereby school districts may broaden and strengthen the existing career technical education programs and to provide the districts with necessary financial support to enable them to implement career technical training and work programs during the summer months for the unemployed youth and young adults so that they may be trained in marketable work skills and earn funds as may be necessary to enable them to continue their education. 52382. A program of summer career technical and technical education may be established pursuant to this article by the governing board of any school district maintaining one or more high schools. Pupils who have completed grades 9 to 12, inclusive, may be permitted to participate in a program. Summer career technical and technical education programs shall consist of training and instruction in any skills and crafts in which ample opportunities for gainful employment are to be found. The program may include work experience involving the gainful employment of pupils. The provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 1940) of Chapter 2 of Part 7 of the Labor Code, limiting the employment of aliens by public agencies shall not be applicable to the employment of pupils under this article. 52383. Wages earned by pupils participating in a program of summer career technical and technical education, shall be paid weekly, or, if not reasonably possible, biweekly. 52384. Any program of summer career technical and technical education established pursuant to this article shall be subject to the prior approval of the State Department of Education, and no average daily attendance of pupils in such a program shall be credited to a district unless the program has been approved and is conducted pursuant to the rules, regulations, and standards prescribed by the department. School districts desiring to participate under the provisions of this article shall submit to the department applications which shall include plans for the establishment of a summer career technical and technical education program, and describing in detail its proposed content and operation. 52386. Upon approval by the department, the governing board of any school district may contract with and receive and expend funds from any other public or private agency, foundation, or corporation for the purposes of this article. The governing board of any school district may cooperate with public and private institutions of higher education in conducting programs pursuant to this article. 52387. The governing board of a school district whose program has been approved by the department, may, no more than 10 weeks prior to the beginning of the program for the forthcoming summer, employ sufficient staff to perform the administrative tasks necessary to implement the program. 52388. The department shall adopt rules and regulations that are necessary to implement the provisions of this article. The rules and regulations shall include standards for the career technical and technical education programs provided for under this article. 52389. The department in cooperation with the school districts shall develop curriculums for purposes of this article. 52391. From funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of this article, a school district, upon the approval of the department, shall be reimbursed for the current expense actually incurred by the district per pupil in average daily attendance participating in the program during the preceding fiscal year that is in excess of the foundation program amount for the district during such year for such pupil, plus any other state funds or federal funds received, or to be received, for operation of the program.