SECTIONS 51935-51936 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 51935-51936

51935. (a) A school district shall cooperatively plan and conduct
in-service training for all school district personnel that provide
HIV/AIDS prevention education, through regional planning, joint
powers agreements, or contract services.
(b) In developing and providing in-service training, a school
district shall cooperate and collaborate with the teachers of the
district who provide HIV/AIDS prevention education and with the State
Department of Education.
(c) In-service training shall be conducted periodically to enable
school district personnel to learn new developments in the scientific
understanding of HIV/AIDS. In-service training shall be voluntary
for school district personnel who have demonstrated expertise or
received in-service training from the State Department of Education
or federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(d) A school district may expand HIV/AIDS in-service training to
cover the topic of comprehensive sexual health education in order for
school district personnel who provide comprehensive sexual health
education to learn new developments in the scientific understanding
of sexual health.

51936. School districts may contract with outside consultants with
expertise in comprehensive sexual health education or HIV/AIDS
prevention education, or both, including those who have developed
multilingual curricula or curricula accessible to persons with
disabilities, to deliver the instruction or to provide training for
school district personnel.