2005 California Education Code Sections 10600-10610 CHAPTER 7. CALIFORNIA EDUCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM

10600.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this
chapter to make complete, current, and reliable information relating
to education available to the Legislature and to all public
educational agencies in California at maximum efficiency and economy
through statewide compatibility in the development and application of
information systems and electronic data-processing techniques
insofar as they relate to data required in reports to the State
Department of Education.
   (b) It is the further intent of the Legislature to recognize the
importance and enhance the stature of the education profession
throughout the state.  The Legislature finds and declares that
according to recent studies, there is a shortage of qualified
teachers, particularly in the areas of math and science, throughout
California.  The Legislature also finds that it must continue to
support ways in which individuals will be attracted to the teaching
profession, in order that California may remain competitive with
other states. The Legislature recognizes that the teacher shortage
could be ameliorated through the availability of more extensive
information concerning the teaching profession. This vital goal may
be accomplished by establishing in the State Department of Education
a comprehensive state education data information system for compiling
data on the teacher shortage.
10601.  (a) There has been developed by the State Department of
Education the California Education Information System, hereinafter in
this chapter called "the system."  The function of the system is to
establish, conduct, and by continuous concern keep up to date a
basic, integrated, statewide information system for education.
   (b) The system shall include all of the following information for
the purposes of this chapter, and particularly to carry out the
legislative intent expressed in subdivision (b) of Section 10600, and
shall be subject to the appropriation of funds for the operation of
the system in the Budget Act for each fiscal year:
   (1) Age profile of teachers in the workforce.
   (2) Projections on the number of retirees in the education system
over the next 10 years throughout the state.
   (3) Identification of subject matter fields which have the
severest shortage of teachers.
   (4) Geographical distribution of teachers by credential type.
   (5) Present patterns of in-service education for teachers.
   (c) The Commission on Teacher Credentialing shall participate in
the system by providing available data regarding enrollment in
credential programs, credentials issued in each specialization, and
certificated persons in each specialty who are not employed in
education, and by collaborating with the State Department of
Education in the design and preparation of periodic reports of
teacher supply and demand in each specialty and region of the state.
10602.  In maintaining the system, the department shall:
   (a) Consult and cooperate with school districts, county
superintendents, advisory committees on integrated data processing,
task forces for implementing the utilization of a statewide
information system, intergovernmental boards on electronic data
processing and state electronic data processing policy committees
created by statute or by executive order of the Governor.
   (b) Cooperate with the Educational Management and Evaluation
Commission in all matters relating to program budgeting.
10603.  The department may consult and cooperate with public and
private agencies and with educators and information specialists at
the district, county, regional, state, and national levels.
   The department may enter into nonexclusive licenses with public
and private agencies within or outside of the state to permit the use
of the copyrighted system and may contract with such agencies to
perform any of the functions set forth in this article.
10604.  School districts maintaining kindergarten or any grade of
grades 1 through 12, county superintendents of schools, and the
department shall:
   (a) Cooperate and consult in the joint conduct of the system.
   (b) Coordinate information-processing activities to preclude
duplication of the developmental and operational aspects of the
system.
   (c) Conduct educational information-processing activities in
accordance with regulations of the State Board of Education adopted
pursuant to this chapter.
10606.  The department shall, among other things:
   (a) Develop for statewide educational use standards for:
   (1) Coding structures.
   (2) Common data base.
   (3) File layout and design.
   (4) Flow charts.
   (5) Identification of data items.
   (6) Input documentation and formats.
   (7) Output report formats, including those required by local,
county, state, and federal agencies.
   (8) Procedural manuals.
   (9) Terminology.
   (10) Other relevant material.
   (b) Make available, without charge, to school districts, county
superintendents, and other public agencies the system components,
described in subdivision (a), as they are completed.
   (c) Identify centers to develop or demonstrate the appropriate use
of the system and the system's procedures, those districts, county
superintendents, and other public agencies that are successfully
using the various components of the system.
   (d) Establish safeguards to assure only appropriate access to
confidential information.
   (e) Disseminate information about the system, and its use and
availability.
   (f) Adopt regulations to implement this chapter.
10607.  The regulations adopted pursuant to Section 10606 shall,
among other things:
   (a) Require that the department and school districts use the
system's standard terminology and formats specified in Section 10606
as the basis for all reports and other data specified in this code
and related administrative codes.
   (b) Provide departmental coordination in order to preclude costly
duplication of the developmental and operational aspects of
materials, equipment, programming, systems and procedures.
   (c) Recognize that wise and appropriate use of automatic
data-processing technology need not be restricted by school district
or other boundaries.
10608.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school
district or county office of education shall not be required to
comply with a requirement in any other section of this code that
information be reported to the State Department of Education with
regard to information that is reported to the department under the
CBEDS report.  For purposes of this section, "CBEDS report" means the
report that is transmitted by public educational agencies to the
State Department of Education for purposes of the California Basic
Education Data System and includes the information reported under
this chapter, and other information relating to school staff and
pupil enrollment.  However, the Legislature recognizes that there are
circumstances when more timely information is necessary prior to the
annual CBEDS collection.  Under this condition, the State Department
of Education may require the districts and county offices of
education to provide the necessary information.
10609.  The department may accept federal or other funds for the
purpose of financing activities pursuant to this article.  School
districts and county offices of education may assign to the
department funds or other resources which may be identified in their
budgets for planning, developing, or coordinating activities related
to this article.
10610.  The State Board of Education shall make recommendations to
the Legislature as the state board deems appropriate concerning
appropriate or necessary legislation related to this article.