SECTIONS 51140-51143 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 51140-51143

51140. The Tom Hayden Community-Based Parent Involvement Grant
Program is hereby established, whereby state funds appropriated for
purposes of the program shall be directed to nonprofit
community-based organizations through a grant program administered by
the State Department of Education. The state funds shall be
allocated to school districts for the purpose of contracting with
nonprofit community-based organizations to offer training courses for
parents and guardians of schoolage children to enhance parent and
guardian involvement in the education of their children in the public
schools.

51141. The State Department of Education shall select, through a
competitive process, the school districts that shall be awarded
training grants under this article. At least 70 percent of the
available funding shall be granted to school districts that contract
with nonprofit community-based organizations that demonstrate each of
the following:
(a) Ability to recruit and retain parent populations with
traditionally low participation rates, including, but not limited to,
immigrant and low-income parents.
(b) Ability to conduct parent training in various languages to
meet the specific cultural and linguistic needs of the school
communities to be served.
(c) Experience in collaborating with school districts, individual
schools, local agencies, and community educational resources in
implementing parent involvement programs.
(d) Ability to retain a high percentage of parent participants in
their training course.

51142. (a) A parent involvement training course offered pursuant to
this article shall include training on school governance and how
parents and guardians can effectively participate in the
decisionmaking process at the school and school district level. In
addition, the training course shall include at least six of the
following subject areas:
(1) Home-school collaboration, including educational compacts.
(2) Child development.
(3) Child motivational skills.
(4) Developing study habits.
(5) Parent-teacher conferencing.
(6) Gang, violence, and drug prevention in the school.
(7) College preparation.
(8) Children's health and nutrition.
(9) Parenting.
(b) A school district that receives a grant pursuant to this
article may provide ways to involve schoolage children in the
training courses and may encourage parents to involve their schoolage
children in the courses.
(c) When developing a training course for a particular school
community, a school district receiving a grant pursuant to this
article shall solicit the input and participation of parents and
guardians from that school community to ensure that the course
offered for that school community is aligned to the needs of those
parents and guardians.

51143. The amount of grant funding available pursuant to this
article shall be determined by the State Department of Education but
shall not exceed forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per schoolsite.