California Education Code ARTICLE 1 - Regional Occupational Centers

  • Section 52300.
    In enacting this article, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide qualified students with the opportunity to attend a technical school or enroll...
  • Section 52301.
    (a) (1) The county superintendent of schools of each county, with the consent of the state board, may establish and maintain, or with one or more counties...
  • Section 52301.3.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 52301, the State Board of Education may grant permanent status to the Kern Union High School District to operate a...
  • Section 52301.5.
    For the purposes of this chapter:(a) “California Occupational Information System” means the statewide comprehensive labor market and occupational supply and demand information system described by Section...
  • Section 52302.
    (a) On or before July 1, 2010, the governing board of each regional occupational center or program shall ensure that at least 90 percent of all...
  • Section 52302.2.
    (a) The governing board of each regional occupational center or program shall establish and maintain an employer advisory board or boards pursuant to guidelines developed by...
  • Section 52302.3.
    (a) Every career technical course or program offered by a school district or districts or county superintendent or superintendents sponsoring a regional occupational center or program...
  • Section 52302.5.
    A regional occupational center or regional occupational program shall do all of the following:(a) Provide individual counseling and guidance in career technical matters.(b) Provide a curriculum that...
  • Section 52302.8.
    (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that vocational training resources that are provided through regional occupational centers and programs are an essential component of the...
  • Section 52302.9.
    Regional occupational centers and programs may jointly establish, operate, and share the enrollments and costs of career technical education instruction with adult education programs offered...
  • Section 52303.
    “Regional occupational program,” as used in this chapter, means a sequence of career technical or technical training programs that meet the criteria and standards of...
  • Section 52304.
    Subsequent to completing the survey required by Section 52302 and prior to establishing a regional occupational center or program authorized by Section 52301, the appropriate...
  • Section 52304.1.
    The governing board of each school district maintaining a high school shall annually review and assess the participation of pupils in grades 11 and 12...
  • Section 52305.
    A regional occupational center or regional occupational program may:(a) Be established pursuant to Section 52301 to provide day, including Saturday and Sunday, and evening full-time and...
  • Section 52306.
    (a) Any business, commercial, trade, manufacturing, or construction activity referred to in subdivision (c) of Section 52305 may be undertaken as part of a regional occupational...
  • Section 52307.
    To the extent feasible, in establishing programs pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 52305, efforts shall be made to work cooperatively with sheltered workshops which...
  • Section 52308.
    A regional occupational center or program may lease buildings of not more than one story or equipment for a term not to exceed 10 years,...
  • Section 52309.
    (a) The curriculum initially provided by a regional occupational center or regional occupational program upon commencing operation shall be subject to the approval of the department...
  • Section 52310.
    Credits earned from courses completed in a regional occupational center or regional occupational program may be applied toward fulfillment of requirements for a high school...
  • Section 52310.5.
    (a) Each regional occupational program or center shall be maintained by, and subject to the authority and control of, its governing board.(b) The governing board of a...
  • Section 52311.
    Each regional occupational center shall be established at a readily accessible place selected to serve the pupils who will attend the center. The county superintendent...
  • Section 52312.
    For the purposes of this chapter the county superintendent of schools, the governing board of the school district, or the governing boards of school districts...
  • Section 52313.
    The county superintendent of schools or governing board of a school district or districts, as the case may be, maintaining a regional occupational center, or...
  • Section 52314.
    (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any pupil eligible to attend a high school or adult school in a school district subject to the jurisdiction...
  • Section 52314.5.
    A regional occupational center or program established and maintained by a county superintendent of schools, school districts, or joint powers agencies pursuant to Section 52301...
  • Section 52315.
    (a) A visually impaired, orthopedically impaired, or deaf person who is not enrolled in a regular high school or community college program may attend a regional...
  • Section 52316.
    Any pupil enrolled in grade 10, 11, or 12, and who is also attending a regional occupational center or regional occupational program may be excused...
  • Section 52317.
    The governing board of any regional occupational center or program operated by a joint powers agency, a single district, or a county superintendent of schools...
  • Section 52319.
    (a) Whenever the establishment and maintenance of a regional occupational center by two or more school districts has been undertaken pursuant to an agreement entered into...
  • Section 52320.
    For the purposes of receiving advances of funds from the county treasury only, a regional occupational center shall be deemed to be a school district.(Enacted...
  • Section 52321.
    (a) (1) Commencing in the 2009–10 fiscal year, a regional occupational center or program established and maintained by school districts or joint powers agencies pursuant to Section...
  • Section 52322.
    The State Board of Education shall make provision in allocating any funds received from the federal government pursuant to Public Law 576 of the 90th...
  • Section 52323.
    No instruction shall be given in a regional occupational center except by a qualified teacher holding a certificate issued pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with...
  • Section 52324.6.
    (a) Any regional occupational program shall be eligible to apply for apportionments as a necessary small regional occupational program under this section if it is a...
  • Section 52325.
    A day of attendance for pupils enrolled in a regional occupational center or program is 180 minutes of attendance.(Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 730, Sec....
  • Section 52327.
    (a) The governing board of a school district maintaining a regional occupational center may establish a bookstore on school district property for the purpose of offering...
  • Section 52327.5.
    Each governing board establishing or maintaining a regional occupational center or program pursuant to Section 52310.5 shall meet the requirements set forth in Sections 35145,...
  • Section 52328.
    (a) Any school district, located in whole or in part in a county contiguous with the Republic of Mexico, or any county superintendent of schools of...
  • Section 52329.
    (a) The governing board of a school district located in a county, or the county superintendent of schools maintaining a regional occupational program in a county,...
  • Section 52330.
    The governing board of any school district or the county superintendent of schools that is operating or jointly operating a regional occupational center or program...
  • Section 52331.
    A regional occupational program or center, established pursuant to Section 52301, may contract with a community college district to provide career technical education instruction and...
  • Section 52334.
    (a) Indirect costs charged to regional occupational centers and programs may not exceed the school district or county office of education, as appropriate, prior year indirect...
  • Section 52334.5.
    (a) Within existing resources, the department shall conduct monitoring reviews of each regional occupational center or program at least once every four years for compliance with...
  • Section 52334.7.
    (a) The Superintendent may certify, by name, any regional occupational center or program, county office of education, or adult education program established pursuant to Section 52501...

Last modified: October 22, 2018