California Education Code

§ 1000

EDC § 1000 Effective Jan 1, 2024Div. 1 · Title 1 · Part 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Except in a city and county, there shall be a county board of education, which shall, except as provided in subdivision (b), consist of five or seven regular members to be determined by the county committee on school district organization. Each regular member of the board shall be an elector of the trustee area that the regular member represents, and shall be elected by the electors of the trustee area. In chartered counties, the manner of selection of the county board of education shall be prescribed in the county charter, or by the county board of supervisors. In a county unified school district or in a unified or elementary school district that includes all of the territory over which a county superintendent of schools has jurisdiction, the governing board of the district shall serve as the county board of education.

(b)(1) There may be submitted to the county board of education of a county maintaining one or more high schools a pupil petition requesting the county board of education to appoint one or more pupil members to the county board of education pursuant to this section.

(2)The petition shall contain the signatures of either (A) not less than 500 pupils regularly enrolled in high schools that are under the jurisdiction of the county board of education, or (B) not less than 10 percent of the number of pupils regularly enrolled in high schools that are under the jurisdiction of the county board of education, whichever is less. Each fiscal year, and within 60 days of receipt of a petition for pupil representation, or at its next regularly scheduled meeting if no meeting is held within those 60 days, the county board of education shall order the inclusion within the membership of the county board of education, in addition to the number of regular members otherwise prescribed, of at least one pupil member. The county board of education may order the inclusion of more than one pupil member.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 437, Sec. 1.5. (AB 417) Effective January 1, 2024.