SECTIONS 8390-8397 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 8390-8397

8390. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may, with funds
appropriated for such purpose, enter into agreements with school
districts or community college districts or county superintendents of
schools for the establishment and maintenance of programs for the
care and development of infants, and the training of students in
their roles as parents, as part of the high school program.

8391. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and
regulations for the administration of such programs.

8392. Infant care and development services include, but are not
limited to, the following:
(a) Supervision and group care, providing for the physical and
emotional needs of the infant in a manner which conveys concern and
engenders trust.
(b) Educational stimulation from the earliest development stages
onward.
(c) Health screening and treatment.

8393. Services available to parents, in which other students may
participate on an elective basis, shall include, but are not limited
to, the following:
(a) Providing supervised infant care, designed to facilitate
completion of the parents' high school program.
(b) The teaching of parenthood education by staff and trained
volunteers.
(c) The teaching of family planning.
(d) The development in student parents, and in other participating
students, of reasonable expectations regarding infant behavior in
order to minimize parental frustration and consequent child abuse.

8394. In school districts maintaining more than one high school,
the governing board, after soliciting the opinions of student parents
and other interested persons, shall determine the location of the
infant care and development center.
Infant care and development centers shall be located within high
school buildings or within that proximity to high school buildings as
would ensure convenient access by student parents and other
students.

8395. To the extent funds are available, federal reimbursement
shall be claimed for any child receiving services in the infant care
and development program.

8396. The Department of Education may accept funds from school
districts or county superintendents of schools as matching funds to
maximize the funds available for the program.

8397. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, infants whose parent or
parents are high school students may attend infant care and
development centers while their parents attend high school.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing January 1, 1986, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction may enter into an agreement
pursuant to Section 8390 permitting infants whose parent or parents
are students in grades 7 and 8 to attend infant care and development
centers while their parents attend school.