2005 California Education Code Sections 10500-10507 Article 1. Regional Data-Processing Centers

10500.  The governing board of a school district and a county
superintendent of schools may establish and maintain educational data
processing centers.  Such centers that meet the requirements of
Section 10504 for eligible regional educational data processing
centers are entitled to financial assistance from the state for the
purpose of such centers as provided herein.
10501.  A regional educational data processing center may consist of
any of the following:
   (a) One educational data processing center maintained by the
governing board of any school district having an average daily
attendance of 100,000 or more pupils.
   (b) One educational data processing center maintained by the
county superintendent of schools that provides data processing
services to two or more school districts within or without the
county, having a combined average daily attendance of not less than
100,000 nor more than 300,000 pupils.
10502.  The governing board of any school district may contract with
any county superintendent of schools for the rendering to the
schools of the district of data processing services and may pay for
the services out of any funds of the district.
10503.  The functions of regional educational data-processing
centers shall include the processing and reporting of information
relating, among other things, to programs of instruction, school
business administration, and pupil personnel data.
10504.  An eligible regional educational data-processing center is
one that meets the following requirements:
   (a) It possesses equipment, personnel and funds sufficient, as
determined by regulations of the State Board of Education, to convert
and correlate basic source material into data-processing form by use
of a basic data system.
   (b) It is a regional education data-processing center as defined
in Section 10501.
   (c) It meets the minimum standards established by the State Board
of Education.
10505.  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and
regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter,
including rules and regulations that:
   (a) Establish minimum standards entitling regional educational
data processing centers to receive an allowance under this chapter.
   (b) Prescribe the procedure by which applications for allowance
pursuant to this chapter shall be governed.
10506.  The Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon proper
application therefor made by a school district or county
superintendent of schools maintaining an eligible regional
educational data processing center, shall allow to the applicant the
amount specified in this section appropriate to the fiscal year for
which the application is made.
   (a) The amount of an allowance for which application may be made
shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the first,
twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the second and ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) for the third, fiscal year for which an allowance
is sought.
   (b) An allowance shall be made for each of any three fiscal years
for which a proper application is made by a school district or county
superintendent of schools maintaining an eligible regional
educational data processing center.
   (c) A school district or county superintendent of schools shall
not receive more than one allowance in any fiscal year nor more than
three such allowances altogether.
   (d) A new application shall precede such allowance.
10507.  The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall make the
allowances to school districts and county superintendents of schools
pursuant to Section 10506 from any funds which may be provided for
such purposes under any program established by or under authority of
federal law.