California Education Code

§ 48857

EDC § 48857 Effective Jun 27, 2025Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 27 · Ch. 5.5

Statute text

(a)Pursuant to funding appropriated in Item 6100-135-0890 of the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024), the department shall allocate up to two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) to up to three county offices of education in different regions throughout the state for purposes of sustaining and enhancing the operations of technical assistance centers to foster relationships between community partners and local educational agencies in each region, including integration with local educational agency grantees and their county and regional assistance providers under the California Community Schools Partnership Program. The department shall determine the county offices of education that will be designated technical assistance centers through a competitive process that provides each county office of education with the opportunity to apply to become a technical assistance center. In making this determination, the department shall take into account geographic diversity and concentrations of homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths.

(b)Pursuant to funding appropriated in Item 6100-136-0001 of the annual Budget Act, commencing in the 2025–26 fiscal year, the department shall allocate these funds to the technical assistance centers described in subdivision (a).

(c)A technical assistance center described in subdivision (a) shall prioritize providing regional support, resources, and expertise to homeless education liaisons to ensure that local educational agencies meet all of the requirements specified in Section 11432(g)(3) of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.), which include, but are not limited to, all of the following responsibilities:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 8, Sec. 43. (AB 121) Effective June 27, 2025.