2007 California Education Code Article 1. Definitions

CA Codes (edc:8499)

8499.  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply:
   (a) "Block grant" means the block grant contained in Title VI of
the Child Care and Development Fund, as established by the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L.
104-193).
   (b) "Child care" means all licensed child care and development
services and license-exempt child care, including, but not limited
to, private for-profit programs, nonprofit programs, and publicly
funded programs, for all children up to and including 12 years of
age, including children with exceptional needs and children from all
linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
   (c) "Child care provider" means a person who provides child care
services or represents persons who provide child care services.
   (d) "Community representative" means a person who represents an
agency or business that provides private funding for child care
services, or who advocates for child care services through
participation in civic or community-based organizations but is not a
child care provider and does not represent an agency that contracts
with the State Department of Education to provide child care and
development services.
   (e) "Consumer" means a parent or person who receives, or who has
received within the past 36 months, child care services.
   (f) "Department" means the State Department of Education.
   (g) "Local planning council" means a local child care and
development planning council as described in Section 8499.3.
   (h) "Public agency representative" means a person who represents a
city, county, city and county, or local educational agency.