60420-60424
EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 60420-60424
60420. The Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program is hereby established and shall be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 60421. (a) The department shall apportion funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter to school districts on the basis of an equal amount per pupil enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in the prior year, excluding summer school, adult, and regional occupational center and regional occupational programs enrollment. Enrollment shall be certified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and based on data as reported by the California Basic Education Data System count. A school district in its first year of operation or of expanding grade levels at a schoolsite shall be eligible to receive funding pursuant to this chapter based on enrollment estimates provided to the department by the school district. As a condition of receipt of funding, a school district or charter school in its first year of operation or of expanding grade levels at a schoolsite shall provide enrollment estimates, as approved by the school district governing board and the county office of education in which the school district is located. These estimates and associated funding shall be adjusted for actual enrollment as reported by the subsequent California Basic Education Data System. (b) For the purposes of this chapter, the term "school district" means a school district or county office of education, and the term "local governing board" means the governing board of a school district or county board of education. (c) Allowances established pursuant to this chapter shall be apportioned to school districts in September of each fiscal year. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 60200, the State Board of Education may authorize a school district to use any state basic instructional materials allowance to purchase standards-aligned materials as specified within this part. 60422. (a) A local governing board shall use funding received pursuant to this chapter to ensure that each pupil is provided with a standards-aligned textbook or basic instructional materials, as adopted by the State Board of Education subsequent to the adoption of content standards pursuant to Section 60605 for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, or as adopted by the local governing board pursuant to Sections 60400 and 60411, for grades 9 to 12, inclusive. Pupils shall be provided with standards-aligned textbooks or basic instructional materials by the beginning of the first school term that commences no later than 24 months after those materials were adopted by the State Board of Education. (b) Once a governing board certifies compliance with subdivision (a) with regard to standards-aligned instructional materials in the core curriculum areas of reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and history/social sciences, and if the governing board of a school district has met the eligibility requirements of Section 60119, the remaining funds may only be used consistent with subdivision (a) of Section 60242 and pursuant to Section 60242.5. (c) The State Board of Education may grant the school district additional time to meet the purchasing requirements of subdivision (a) if the governing board of the school district demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the state board, that all of the following criteria apply to the district: (1) The school district has implemented a well-designed, standards-aligned basic instructional materials program. (2) The school district, at the time of its request for additional time pursuant to this subdivision, has sufficient textbooks or basic instructional materials for use by each pupil. (3) The school district has adopted a plan for the purchase of standards-aligned instructional materials in accordance with subdivision (a) but that plan indicated an alternative date for compliance that is declared in the request for additional time. (d) The funds provided for the purchase of instructional materials in Schedules 1 and 2 of Item 6110-189-0001 and paragraph 6 of Item 6110-485 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2002 shall be used for the purposes of, and allocated consistent with, this chapter. 60422.1. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 60200, Section 60422, or any other provision of law, for the 2008-09 to the 2012-13 fiscal years, inclusive, the governing board of a school district is not required to provide pupils with instructional materials by a specified period of time following adoption of those materials by the state board. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), this section does not relieve school districts of their obligations to provide every pupil with textbooks or instructional materials, as provided in Section 1240.3. (c) This section does not relieve school districts of the obligation to hold a public hearing or hearings pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 60119. (d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and, as of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed. 60422.1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local governing board may use funding received pursuant to this chapter to purchase state-adopted instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and state standards-aligned materials for grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in an electronic or hardbound format if it can ensure that each pupil will be provided with a copy of the instructional materials to use at school and at home. However, providing access to the materials at school and at home does not require the local educational agency to purchase two sets of materials. 60424. This chapter shall be administered for purposes of funding as if it had been operative at the beginning of the 2007-08 fiscal year and shall become operative on January 1, 2008. This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and, as of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes operative and is repealed.