Chapter 6. Data-processing Centers of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 7. >> Chapter 6.

The governing board of a school district and a county superintendent of schools may establish and maintain educational data processing centers. Such centers that meet the requirements of Section 10504 for eligible regional educational data processing centers are entitled to financial assistance from the state for the purpose of such centers as provided herein.

A regional educational data processing center may consist of any of the following:
  (a) One educational data processing center maintained by the governing board of any school district having an average daily attendance of 100,000 or more pupils.
  (b) One educational data processing center maintained by the county superintendent of schools that provides data processing services to two or more school districts within or without the county, having a combined average daily attendance of not less than 100,000 nor more than 300,000 pupils.

The governing board of any school district may contract with any county superintendent of schools for the rendering to the schools of the district of data processing services and may pay for the services out of any funds of the district.

The functions of regional educational data-processing centers shall include the processing and reporting of information relating, among other things, to programs of instruction, school business administration, and pupil personnel data.

An eligible regional educational data-processing center is one that meets the following requirements:
  (a) It possesses equipment, personnel and funds sufficient, as determined by regulations of the State Board of Education, to convert and correlate basic source material into data-processing form by use of a basic data system.
  (b) It is a regional education data-processing center as defined in Section 10501.
  (c) It meets the minimum standards established by the State Board of Education.

The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter, including rules and regulations that:
  (a) Establish minimum standards entitling regional educational data processing centers to receive an allowance under this chapter.
  (b) Prescribe the procedure by which applications for allowance pursuant to this chapter shall be governed.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon proper application therefor made by a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining an eligible regional educational data processing center, shall allow to the applicant the amount specified in this section appropriate to the fiscal year for which the application is made.
  (a) The amount of an allowance for which application may be made shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the first, twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the second and ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the third, fiscal year for which an allowance is sought.
  (b) An allowance shall be made for each of any three fiscal years for which a proper application is made by a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining an eligible regional educational data processing center.
  (c) A school district or county superintendent of schools shall not receive more than one allowance in any fiscal year nor more than three such allowances altogether.
  (d) A new application shall precede such allowance.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall make the allowances to school districts and county superintendents of schools pursuant to Section 10506 from any funds which may be provided for such purposes under any program established by or under authority of federal law.