2007 California Education Code Article 6. Program Specialists And Administration Of Regionalized Operations And Services

CA Codes (edc:56836.23-56836.30)

56836.23.  Funds for regionalized operations and services and the
direct instructional support of program specialists shall be
apportioned to the special education local plan areas.  As a
condition to receiving those funds, the special education local plan
area shall ensure that all functions listed below are performed in
accordance with the description set forth in its local plan adopted
pursuant to Section 56205:
   (a) Coordination of the special education local plan area and the
implementation of the local plan.
   (b) Coordinated system of identification and assessment.
   (c) Coordinated system of procedural safeguards.
   (d) Coordinated system of staff development and parent and
guardian education.
   (e) Coordinated system of curriculum development and alignment
with the core curriculum.
   (f) Coordinated system of internal program review, evaluation of
the effectiveness of the local plan, and implementation of a local
plan accountability mechanism.
   (g) Coordinated system of data collection and management.
   (h) Coordination of interagency agreements.
   (i) Coordination of services to medical facilities.
   (j) Coordination of services to licensed children's institutions
and foster family homes.
   (k) Preparation and transmission of required special education
local plan area reports.
   (l) Fiscal and logistical support of the community advisory
committee.
   (m) Coordination of transportation services for individuals with
exceptional needs.
   (n) Coordination of career and vocational education and transition
services.
   (o) Assurance of full educational opportunity.
   (p) Fiscal administration and the allocation of state and federal
funds pursuant to Section 56836.01.
   (q) Direct instructional program support that may be provided by
program specialists in accordance with Section 56368.



56836.24.  Commencing with the 1998-99 fiscal year and each year
thereafter, the superintendent shall make the following computations
to determine the amount of funding for the purposes specified in
Section 56836.23 to apportion to each special education local plan
area for the fiscal year in which the computation is made:
   (a) For the 1998-99 fiscal year the superintendent shall make the
following computations:
   (1) Multiply the total amount of state General Fund money
allocated to the special education local plan areas in the 1997-98
fiscal year, for the purposes of Article 9 (commencing with Section
56780) of Chapter 7, as that chapter existed on December 31, 1998, by
one plus the inflation factor computed pursuant to subdivision (b)
of Section 42238.1 for the 1998-99 fiscal year.
   (2) Divide the amount calculated in paragraph (1) by the units of
average daily attendance, exclusive of average daily attendance for
absences excused pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 46010 as that
subdivision read on July 1, 1997, reported for the special education
local plan area for the 1997-98 fiscal year.
   (3) To determine the amount to be allocated to each special
education local plan area in the 1998-99 fiscal year, the
superintendent shall multiply the amount computed in paragraph (2) by
the number of units of average daily attendance reported for the
special education local plan area for the 1998-99 fiscal year, except
that a special education local plan area designated as a necessary
small special education local plan area in accordance with Section
56212 and reporting fewer than 15,000 units of average daily
attendance for the 1998-99 fiscal year shall be deemed to have 15,000
units of average daily attendance, and no special education local
plan area shall receive less than it received in the 1997-98 fiscal
year.
   (b) For the 1999-2000 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter,
the superintendent shall make the following calculations:
   (1) Multiply the amount determined in paragraph (2) of subdivision
(a) by one plus the inflation factor computed pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 42238.1 for the current fiscal year.
   (2) Multiply the amount determined in paragraph (1) by the number
of units of average daily attendance reported for the special
education local plan area for the current fiscal year, except that a
special education local plan area designated as a necessary small
special education local plan area in accordance with Section 56212
and reporting fewer than 15,000 units of average daily attendance for
the current fiscal year shall be deemed to have 15,000 units of
average daily attendance.



56836.25.  Funds received pursuant to this article shall be expended
for the purposes specified in Section 56836.23.



56836.30.  If special education local plan areas reorganize,
including any mergers or divisions, the department shall adjust rates
for payments to and from the resulting plan areas so that overall
funding neither increases nor decreases from what it would have been
prior to the reorganization.  The effect of this section may be
modified for any specific reorganization by enactment of legislation.