State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > California > Edc > 41500-41503EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 41500-41503
41500. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school district and county office of education may expend in a fiscal year up to 15 percent of the amount apportioned for the block grants set forth in Article 3 (commencing with Section 41510), Article 5 (commencing with Section 41530), Article 6 (commencing with Section 41540), or Article 7 (commencing with Section 41570) for any other programs for which the school district or county office is eligible for funding, including programs whose funding is not included in any of the block grants established pursuant to this chapter. The total amount of funding a school district or county office of education may expend for a program to which funds are transferred pursuant to this section may not exceed 120 percent of the amount of state funding allocated to the school district or county office for purposes of that program in a fiscal year. For purposes of this subdivision, "total amount" means the amount of state funding allocated to a school district or county office for purposes of a particular program in a fiscal year plus the amount transferred in that fiscal year to that program pursuant to this section. (b) A school district that transfers funding, pursuant to this section, from the amount apportioned for the School and Library Improvement Block Grant, as set forth in Article 7 (commencing with Section 41570), shall utilize no less than 85 percent of the amount remaining after the transfer for direct services to pupils. (c) A school district and county office of education shall not, pursuant to this section, transfer funds from Article 2 (commencing with Section 41505) and Article 4 (commending with Section 41520). (d) Before a school district or county office of education may expend funds pursuant to this section, the governing board of the school district or the county board of education, as applicable, shall discuss the matter at a noticed public meeting. (e) A school district shall track transfers made pursuant to this section. 41501. (a) The reduction made to categorical education program funding received by a basic aid school district pursuant to Section 38 of Chapter 227 of the Statutes of 2003 or Section 31 of Chapter 216 of the Statutes of 2004, or for a fiscal year subsequent to the 2004-05 fiscal year shall be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of calculating the amount of block grants a basic aid school district shall receive pursuant to this chapter. (b) For purposes of this section, "basic aid school district" means a school district that does not receive from the state, for any fiscal year in which the section is applied, an apportionment of state funds pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 42238. 41502. By January 1, 2007, and subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, the Legislative Analyst's Office shall report and make recommendations on the effectiveness and distribution effects of this chapter on pupil achievement and recommendations on the continuation or elimination of categorical education programs whose funding is not part of the block grants established pursuant to this chapter. 41503. The department shall annually compile and update information for each state and federal categorical education program, including the distribution of funds from each program to each school district and county office of education, in a form similar to the November 2003 audit of the department performed by the Bureau of State Audits.
