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SECTION 52885-52887
52885. The State Board of Education shall: (a) Adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter. (b) Rule on requests to waive provisions of this code or the California Administrative Code pursuant to Section 33050. 52886. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall: (a) Assist districts and schools, upon request, to design, implement or evaluate school plans authorized by this chapter. (b) Apportion funds in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 52850). (c) Conduct program quality and fiscal reviews to: (1) Ensure that funds allocated pursuant to this chapter are expended for the purposes intended. (2) Provide information helpful to local schools in improving their programs. 52887. (a) Any two or more school districts, each of which receive funding for educational programs pursuant to a consolidated application form prepared by the State Board of Education, may join together or join together with one or more county superintendents of schools to apply to the State Department of Education to become a consortium for conducting program reviews of educational programs utilizing consolidated application funding or for providing program development assistance and reviewing school site plans, or both. (b) The State Board of Education shall prescribe the form and manner of the consortium application. (c) To ensure adequate program and plan review, consistency, or application of compliance and quality criteria, consortia review personnel shall use review instruments and processes and receive training approved by the State Department of Education. (d) The majority of persons participating in program reviews shall be persons who are not in the employment of the district under review.
