California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 1 - California Department of Education › Chapter 14.5 - Local Control Funding Formula › Subchapter 1 - Local Control Funding Formula Spending Regulations for Supplemental and Concentration Grants and Local Control and Accountability Plan Template › Article 1 - Local Control and Accountability Plan and Spending Requirements for Supplemental and Concentration Grants › Section 15495 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to those found in Education Code sections
						2574,
						42238.01,
						and
						42238.02,
						the following definitions are provided:
(a) "Consult with pupils," as used in
					 Education Code sections
					 52060,
					 52066, and
					 47606.5,
					 means a process to enable pupils, including unduplicated pupils and other
					 numerically significant pupil subgroups, to review and comment on the
					 development of the LCAP. This process may include surveys of pupils, forums
					 with pupils, pupil advisory committees, or meetings with pupil government
					 bodies or other groups representing pupils.
(b) "English learner parent advisory
					 committee," as used in Education Code sections
					 52063 and
					 52069 for
					 those school districts or schools and programs operated by county
					 superintendents of schools whose enrollment includes at least 15 percent
					 English learners and at least 50 pupils who are English learners, shall be
					 composed of a majority of parents, as defined in subdivision (e), of pupils to
					 whom the definition in Education Code section
					 42238.01(c)
					 applies. A governing board of a school district or a county superintendent of
					 schools shall not be required to establish a new English learner parent
					 advisory committee if a previously established committee meets these
					 requirements.
(c) "Local control
					 and accountability plan (LCAP)" means the plan created by an LEA pursuant to
					 Education Code sections
					 47606.5,
					 52060, or
					 52066.
(d) "Local educational agency (LEA)" means a
					 school district, county office of education, or charter school.
(e) "Parents" means the natural or adoptive
					 parents, legal guardians, or other persons holding the right to make
					 educational decisions for the pupil pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code
					 section
					 361
					 or
					 727
					 or Education Code sections
					 56028 or
					 56055,
					 including foster parents who hold rights to make educational
					 decisions.
(f) "Parent advisory
					 committee," as used in Education Code sections
					 52063 and
					 52069,
					 shall be composed of a majority of parents, as defined in subdivision (e), of
					 pupils and include parents of pupils to whom one or more of the definitions in
					 Education Code section
					 42238.01
					 apply. A governing board of a school district or a county superintendent of
					 schools shall not be required to establish a new parent advisory committee if a
					 previously established committee meets these requirements, including any
					 committee established to meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left
					 Behind Act of 2001 (Public
					 Law 107-110) pursuant to Section
					 1112 of Subpart 1 of Part A of
					 Title I of that act.
(g) "Prior
					 year" means one fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which an
					 LCAP is approved.
(h) "Services" as
					 used in Education Code section
					 42238.07
					 may include, but are not limited to, services associated with the delivery of
					 instruction, administration, facilities, pupil support services, technology,
					 and other general infrastructure necessary to operate and deliver educational
					 instruction and related services.
(i) "State priority areas" means the
					 priorities identified in Education Code sections
					 52060 and
					 52066. For
					 charter schools, "state priority areas" means the priorities identified in
					 Education Code section
					 52060 that
					 apply for the grade levels served or the nature of the program operated by the
					 charter school.
(j) "Subgroup"
					 means the numerically significant pupil subgroups identified pursuant to
					 Education Code section
					 52052.
(k) "to improve services" means to grow
					 services in quality.
(l) "to
					 increase services" means to grow services in quantity.
(m) "unduplicated pupil" means any of those
					 pupils to whom one or more of the definitions included in Education Code
					 section
					 42238.01
					 apply, including pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals, foster youth,
					 and English learner.
1. New
						section filed 2-6-2014 as an emergency; operative 2-6-2014 (Register 2014, No.
						6). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 8-5-2014 or
						emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
						day.
2. New section refiled 7-28-2014 as an emergency; operative
						7-28-2014 (Register 2014, No. 31). A Certificate of Compliance must be
						transmitted to OAL by 10-27-2014 or emergency language will be repealed by
						operation of law on the following day.
3. New section refiled
						10-27-2014 as an emergency; operative 10-27-2014 (Register 2014, No. 44). A
						Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-26-2015 or emergency
						language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
						day.
4. Certificate of Compliance as to 10-27-2014 order, including
						new subsections (a)-(b), (e)-(f) and (i), subsection relettering, amendment of
						newly designated subsection (c) and amendment of NOTE, transmitted to OAL
						11-21-2014 and filed 1-8-2015; amendments operative 1-8-2015 pursuant to
						Government Code section
						11343.4(b)(3)
						(Register 2015, No. 2).
5. Amendment of subsection (c) filed
						3-14-2017 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations. This regulatory action is exempt from the Administrative Procedure
						Act and OAL review pursuant to Education Code section
						52064(e)
						(Register 2017, No. 11).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  42238.07
						  and
						  52064,
						  Education Code. Reference: Sections
						  2574,
						  42238.01,
						  42238.02,
						  42238.07,
						  47606.5,
						  52052,
						  52060,
						  52061,
						  52062,
						  52063,
						  52064,
						  52066,
						  52067,
						  52068,
						  52069,
						  52070,
						  52070.5 and
						  64001,
						  Education Code; and 20
						  U.S.C. Section
						  6312.