SECTIONS 51430-51442 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 51430-51442

51430. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a high
school district, unified school district, or county office of
education, may retroactively grant a high school diploma to a person
who has not received a high school diploma if he or she meets either
of the following conditions:
(1) The person was interned by order of the federal government
during World War II and was enrolled in a high school operated by the
school district or under the jurisdiction of the county office of
education immediately preceding his or her internment and did not
receive a high school diploma because his or her education was
interrupted due to his or her internment during World War II.
(2) The person is a veteran of World War II, the Korean War, or
the Vietnam War, was honorably discharged from his or her military
service, was enrolled in a high school operated by the school
district or under the jurisdiction of the county office of education
immediately preceding his or her military service in those wars, and
did not receive a high school diploma because his or her education
was interrupted due to his or her military service in those wars.
(b) A high school district, unified school district, or county
office of education may retroactively grant a high school diploma to
a deceased person who meets the conditions of paragraph (1) or (2) of
subdivision (a), to be received by the next of kin of the deceased
person.

51440. (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject
to regulations that the state board shall prescribe, a high school
district, unified school district, or county office of education
maintaining a four-year high school or senior high school, may, for a
person who has not received a high school diploma included in
paragraph (2), evaluate classes completed in any high school,
community college, or state college; grant credit toward graduation
for military service and training received while in the military
service of the United States, and if satisfied that that person has
completed the equivalent of the requirements for graduation from high
school, grant him or her a diploma of graduation.
(2) Persons who may be granted a diploma pursuant to paragraph (1)
are:
(A) A former member of the Armed Forces who is a resident of this
state and who has received an honorable discharge.
(B) A member of the Armed Forces who is, and on the date he or she
entered the Armed Forces was, a resident of this state.
(b) A veteran who entered the military service of the United
States while a pupil in grade 12 of a high school and who at the time
of his or her entrance into military service had satisfactorily
completed the first half of the work required for grade 12 shall be
granted a diploma of graduation from that high school.

51442. For purposes of this article, "veteran" means a person who
has served 90 days or more in the military service of the United
States during a war with a foreign power or during any national
emergency declared by the President of the United States and who has
received an honorable discharge from that service.