Article 8. Aviation Education of California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 28. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 8.

The Department of Education shall aid and assist local school districts in the development and conduct of a program of aviation education. The Department of Aeronautics may aid and assist in the selection of airports and pilots used by the local school districts in flight indoctrination and instruction.

The governing board of each district is encouraged to develop aims and purposes of aviation education designed to include: (a) integration of appropriate aviation concepts throughout the elementary school with units of instruction in science, social studies, and arithmetic; (b) aviation experiences in junior high schools in the areas of social studies, science, and arithmetic; and (c) elective courses in senior high schools and four-year high schools including air transportation, vocational training, economic, social and political implications of aviation, the science of flight, history of aviation, and flight experience where appropriate airports, planes, and pilots are available, and the need for this instruction is indicated.

The Department of Aeronautics is authorized to make available to public schools offering actual flight experience as part of the regular curriculum a basic insurance program and to assure that adequate supervision and precautionary measures are taken by the flight school operators contracted to provide services for public school students. The governing board of any school district offering actual flight experience as part of the regular curriculum may participate in the basic insurance program provided by the commission and pay from the funds of the district a pro rata share of the cost of the insurance program.