2011 California Code
Education Code
TITLE 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION [33000 - 64100]
ARTICLE 8. Records and Reports
Section 35256

School Accountability Report Card

The governing board of each school district maintaining an elementary or secondary school shall develop and cause to be implemented for each school in the school district a School Accountability Report Card.

(a) The School Accountability Report Card shall include, but is not limited to, the conditions listed in Section 33126.

(b) Not less than triennially, the governing board of each school district shall compare the content of the School Accountability Report Card of the school district to the model School Accountability Report Card adopted by the state board. Variances among school districts shall be permitted where necessary to account for local needs.

(c) The governing board of each school district annually shall issue a School Accountability Report Card for each school in the school district, publicize those reports, and notify parents or guardians of pupils that a hard copy will be provided upon request. Commencing with the 2008 09 school year, each school district shall make hard copies of its annually updated report card available, upon request, on or before February 1 of each year.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 530, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2008. Note: This section was added Nov. 8, 1988, by initiative Prop. 98. Prop. 98 allows (under conditions in Sec. 13) the Legislature to directly amend its provisions by 2/3 vote.)