SECTIONS 35250-35258 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 35250-35258

35250. The governing board of every school district shall:
(a) Certify or attest to actions taken by the governing board
whenever such certification or attestation is required for any
purpose.
(b) Keep an accurate account of the receipts and expenditures of
school moneys.
(c) Make an annual report, on or before the first day of July, to
the county superintendent of schools in the manner and form and on
the blanks prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(d) Make or maintain such other records or reports as are required
by law.

35251. Whenever in any school year the school register of any
teacher, or other records of any school district are destroyed by
conflagration or public calamity, preventing the teacher and school
officers from making their annual reports in the usual manner and
with accuracy, affidavits of the teacher, the school principals, or
other officers of the school district, certifying as to the contents
of the destroyed register or other records, shall be accepted by all
school authorities for all school purposes appertaining to the school
district, except that of average daily attendance.

35252. Whenever the average daily attendance of any school district
has been materially affected in any school year by conflagration,
public calamity, or epidemic of unusual duration and prevalence, the
regular annual reports of the teacher, the school principal, or
officers of the school district, shall be accepted by all school
officers for all school matters appertaining to the school district,
except that of average daily attendance.

35253. Whenever the destruction of records of a district is not
otherwise authorized or provided for by law, the governing board of
the district may destroy such records of the district in accordance
with regulations of the Superintendent of Public Instruction which he
is herewith authorized to adopt.

35254. The governing board of any school district may make
photographic, microfilm, or electronic copies of any records of the
district. The original of any records of which a photographic,
microfilm, or electronic copy has been made may be destroyed when
provision is made for permanently maintaining the photographic,
microfilm or electronic copies in the files of the district, except
that no original record that is basic to any required audit shall be
destroyed prior to the second July 1st succeeding the completion of
the audit.

35255. In any joint school district, all returns, reports,
certificates, estimates, petitions, and other papers of any kind
relating to schools and school districts, required by law to be filed
with or presented to the board of supervisors or county
superintendent of schools, shall be filed with or presented to the
supervisors or superintendent of schools of each county in which any
portion of the district is situated.

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.

35256.1. In addition to the information required under Section
35256, each School Accountability Report Card shall include the
information required under Section 41409.3.

35258. (a) Each school district that is connected to the Internet
shall make the information contained in the School Accountability
Report Card developed pursuant to Section 35256 accessible on the
Internet. The School Accountability Report Card information shall be
updated annually. Commencing with the 2008-09 school year, each
school district connected to the Internet shall make its annually
updated report card available on the Internet on or before February 1
of each year.
(b) Commencing with the 2008-09 school year, each school district
not connected to the Internet shall make hard copies of its annually
updated School Accountability Report Card available, pursuant to
subdivision (c) of Section 35256, on or before February 1 of each
year.