2005 California Education Code Sections 35294.20-35294.25 Article 10.41. Double Your Cash Program

35294.20.  (a) The California "Double Your Cash"--"CCAASSHH"
--program is hereby established within the Safe Schools and Violence
Prevention Office of the State Department of Education to lead and
encourage the development of an individualized smart comprehensive
strategic action plan for preventing school violence at each
California public school, consistent with the provisions of this
article.
   (b) This program shall be known as the California "Double Your
Cash"--"CCAASSHH"--program.
   (c) The "Double Your Cash" designation is derived from the program
being based upon the following four essential interdependent
ingredients:
   (1) Californians Committed (to).
   (2) Academic Achievement.
   (3) School Safety, (and).
   (4) Healthy Humans.
35294.21.  (a) When a schoolsite council next reviews and updates
its school safety plan pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section
32280) of Chapter 2.5 of Part 19 and to the extent it implements its
plan, the schoolsite council is encouraged to recognize that there
are these three essential components of a successful comprehensive
strategic action program for preventing school violence, and it is
further encouraged to consider incorporating each of them into its
plan:
   (1) Assuring each pupil a safe physical environment.
   (2) Assuring each pupil a safe, respectful, accepting, and
emotionally nurturing environment.
   (3) Providing each pupil resiliency skills.
   (b) To assure a safe physical environment, a schoolsite council is
encouraged to consider including in its school safety plan all of
the following:
   (1) A no tolerance for violence policy and practice.
   (2) An immediate effective response to violence plan and
implementation.
   (3) A no guns allowed policy.
   (4) Disallow and discourage the possession of drugs.
   (5) Provide for smaller schools.
   (6) Ensure that all staff and pupils, including, but not limited
to, pupils with disabilities, know how to report incidents of
violence, discrimination, harassment, and abuse.
   (c) To assure a safe, respectful, accepting, and emotionally
nurturing environment, a schoolsite council is encouraged to consider
incorporating strategies to achieve all of the following goals:
   (1) A school that welcomes the whole child.
   (2) A nurturing classroom environment.
   (3) A discipline policy that includes teaching respect and
constructive resolution of conflicts.
   (4) A discipline policy that aims at restoration of mutual
respect, relationships, and a sense of community that seeks
reintegration of pupils who become alienated through conflict or
misbehavior.
   (5) Administrators, teachers, and classified employees who are
prepared through preservice and inservice training to appreciate
their critical capacities for constructively engaging pupils.
   (6) Professional education staff who are sensitive to the needs of
pupils of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic and
cultural backgrounds, and pupils with disabilities.
   (7) Parents who are invited and accepting to become meaningfully
involved.
   (8) More emotional support service personnel, including
counselors.
   (9) An adult coach for each pupil.
   (10) No bullying.
   (d) To provide each child resiliency skills, a schoolsite council
is encouraged to consider incorporating strategies that will provide
each pupil all of the following:
   (1) Resiliency.
   (2) Authentic self-esteem.
   (3) Moral education.
   (4) An environment free from harassment, discrimination, and
violence on any of the bases enumerated in the prohibition of
discrimination contained in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 200)
of Part 1.
   (5) Anger management.
   (6) Conflict resolution.
   (7) Peer counseling.
   (8) Peer mediation.
35294.22.  (a) Before a school safety plan is approved pursuant to
subdivision (a) of Section 32288, the school safety plan shall be
presented at a regularly scheduled public meeting of the governing
board of the school district or county office of education and the
adoption of the school safety plan shall not be an item for consent
at that meeting.  The governing board of the school district or
county office of education shall discuss both of the following:
   (1) How the school safety plan addresses the needs of the school
and pupils within that school.
   (2) How the schoolsite council considered the three essential
components provided pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 35294.21
when writing the school safety plan.
   (b) The governing board of the school district or county office of
education is encouraged to notify, in writing, the persons and
entities specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (b) of
Section 32288, if available, of the public meeting required pursuant
to this section.
35294.23.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that any funds
appropriated to implement existing school safety laws shall be
available for expenditure to develop, implement, review, and update
school safety plans pursuant to this article.
   (b) State and federal funds appropriated in support of school
safety and violence prevention programs, including, but not limited
to, funds made available through Item 6110-228-0001 of Section 2.00
of the annual Budget Act, shall be considered additional revenues in
accordance with subdivision (e) of Section 17556 of the Government
Code and shall be used to offset any state-mandated costs incurred by
school districts when complying with this article.
35294.25.  This article shall become inoperative on June 1, 2007,
and as of January 1, 2008, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute that is enacted before January 1, 2008, deletes or extends
the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.