SECTIONS 44730-44731 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 44730-44731

44730. (a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allocate
funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter to school districts
for the purposes of funding the Education Technology Staff
Development Program in an equal amount per pupil in grades 4 to 8,
inclusive, based upon the enrollment in all eligible schools in those
grades, as determined by the State Department of Education, as of
October of the prior fiscal year, but the total amount allocated to
an eligible school district shall not be greater than an amount equal
to twenty dollars ($20) per pupil in grades 4 to 8, inclusive, in
the eligible schools in the school district.
(b) The State Department of Education shall monitor this program
to ensure that an equitable share of the funding allocated pursuant
to this chapter serves low-income disadvantaged pupils.

44731. A school district shall certify all of the following to the
State Department of Education as a condition of each applicant school
in the district being eligible to receive funding pursuant to this
chapter:
(a) Each school maintaining any of grades 4 to 8, inclusive, that
is applying for funding under this chapter has access, for
instructional purposes, to the Internet in its classrooms and has a
sufficient number of up-to-date computers or other devices that
provide Internet access in its classrooms for instructional use.
(b) The funds received pursuant to this chapter shall be expended
by the eligible schools for the purpose of providing in-service
training to their schoolsite administrators, appropriate
instructional classified employees, and certificated employees who
provide direct instructional services to pupils in grades 4 to 8,
inclusive, in the use of education technology to support the daily
instruction of pupils and the recordkeeping necessary to support that
instruction.
(c) The funds received pursuant to this chapter shall be expended
for in-service training programs in education technology that meet or
exceed the proficiency standards developed by the Commission on
Teacher Credentialing pursuant to Section 44259.
(d) Each applicant school has developed an action plan that
provides for a program of in-service training in education technology
for its schoolsite administrators, appropriate instructional
classified employees, and all certificated employees who provide
direct instructional services to pupils in grades 4 to 8, inclusive.
In the action plan, the applicant school shall, to the extent
feasible and appropriate, integrate training in educational
technology with all of the following:
(1) Staff development days authorized pursuant to Section 44670.6
or 52854.
(2) Staff development funds available from all state and federal
funding sources.
(3) Involvement of the parents and guardians of pupils enrolled in
the school district.
(e) In-service training provided pursuant to this chapter shall be
coordinated and integrated with any other in-service training,
including staff development offered pursuant to Article 7.5
(commencing with Section 44579) of Chapter 3.