SECTIONS 44740-44741 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 44740-44741

44740. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that effective school
district personnel management, recruitment, and hiring processes are
essential to the placement of qualified teachers in our public
schools and particularly important to secure qualified teachers for
high priority schools that are often characterized as hard to staff.
The Legislature therefore intends to establish personnel management
assistance teams to provide technical assistance to school districts
in establishing and maintaining effective personnel management,
recruitment, and hiring processes. It is the intent of the
Legislature that personnel management assistance teams not modify or
contradict policy that falls within the scope of any collective
bargaining agreement.
(b) (1) The Superintendent shall designate up to six regions of
the state so that all school districts are located within a region.
(2) (A) The Superintendent shall select a county office of
education, from among those offices that apply pursuant to
subparagraph (B), within each region that is most likely to have the
capacity to serve all school districts within the region, to
establish and house a personnel management assistance team to assist
and serve school districts within that region.
(B) A county office of education may apply to the Superintendent
to establish a personnel management assistance team by showing how
the county will address the personnel management needs of school
districts within its region.
(c) From funds appropriated for purposes of this section, the
Superintendent may grant funds to county offices that are selected to
provide personnel management services through personnel management
assistance teams and may provide further technical assistance to the
selected county offices.
(d) Each personnel management assistance team shall consist of
persons having extensive experience in school district personnel
administration, including recruitment, selection, organization, and
staffing.
(e) The superintendent of any school district, or county
superintendent of schools, may request that the regional personnel
management assistance team review the personnel practices of a school
district under his or her jurisdiction and recommend practices or
organizational functions to facilitate the timely hiring and
placement of qualified teachers consistent with the personnel
policies established by agreement with the exclusive representatives
of employee organizations.

44741. The Superintendent may select one county office of education
from among those county offices that have a personnel management
assistance team pursuant to Section 44740 to serve as a clearinghouse
of effective personnel management and hiring practices.