2007 California Education Code Article 1.5. Special Education Local Plan Areas With Small Or Sparse Populations

CA Codes (edc:56211-56213)

56211.  A special education local plan area submitting a local plan,
pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 56195.1, which includes all
of the school districts located in the county or counties submitting
the plan, except those participating in a countywide special
education local plan area located in an adjacent county, and which
meets the criteria for special education local plan areas with small
populations set forth in Section 56212, is eligible to request that
designation in its local plan application.
   This section shall become operative on July 1, 1998.




56212.  An eligible special education local plan area, which submits
a local plan under the provisions of Section 56211, may request
designation as a necessary small special education local plan area if
its total reported units of average daily attendance in kindergarten
and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, is less than 15,000, and if it
includes all of the school districts located in the county or
counties participating in the local plan, except those districts
participating in a countywide special education local plan area
located in an adjacent county that also meets the criteria of this
section.
   This section shall become operative on July 1, 1998.



56213.  If the computation made pursuant to Section 56836.15 results
in a reduction in the funding of a necessary small special education
local plan area pursuant to Section 56212, compared to that local
plan area's funding in the prior year, the local plan area may claim,
in addition to the current year funding, an amount equal to 40
percent of the reduction.