California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 4371

WIC § 4371 Effective Sep 15, 1992Div. 4 · Part 4 · Ch. 1

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Each year in California over 65,000 teenagers become adolescent mothers and 230 teenagers commit suicide. Each year more than 20 percent of California’s teenagers drop out of high school.

(b)Thirty percent of California’s elementary school pupils experience school adjustment problems, many of which are evident the first four years of school, that is, kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 722, Sec. 22. Effective September 15, 1992.