Section 16322 Of Article 9. School Housing Aid For Rehabilitation And Replacement Of Structurally Inadequate School Facilities From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 10. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 9.
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. The State Department of Education shall provide the
following services to school districts making applications for
apportionments under this article:
(a) It shall assist school districts in organizing a comprehensive
planning effort. It shall guide a planning process through its
appropriate steps and, when requested by a school district, it shall
provide the school district with sources of expertise, either public
or private, which may be able to contribute to the development of
plans to find solutions for specific problems a school district may
have.
(b) It shall provide continuing research in relation to all phases
of educational programs and the school facilities that are required
to implement these educational programs.
(c) It shall provide a review and evaluation service to school
districts to assure the effectiveness of the facilities that have
been provided in accommodating educational programs.
(d) It shall provide communication media through publications and
seminars, and prepare planning guides and procedures containing
recommendations, which guides shall be used to disseminate
educational planning information to all school districts.
Unless specifically exempted by the State Allocation Board, each
school district which files an application for an apportionment of
funds under this article after July 1, 1973, shall prepare and submit
to the board either, (1) a long-range comprehensive master plan
justifying the application, prepared in accordance with acceptable
planning procedures, or (2) a certification to the effect that
replacement school buildings for which application has been made will
all be located on existing schoolsites containing a school building
or buildings, or (3) a certification that the applicant school
maintains only one school. Specific information relating to the
following factors must be included in the master plan:
(a) A statement of the educational programs and goals of the
district in relation to its programs, both current and future.
(b) A comprehensive evaluation and report of the utilization of
the school facilities now existing in the district together with
preliminary plans of the facilities to be reconstructed or replaced
under this article, prepared in accordance with the requirements of
Section 17302 or 81138.
(c) A comprehensive demographic study of the district, as it
currently exists and as projected into the future.
(d) A policy statement regarding actual or potential human
problems.
(e) A policy statement as to the priority in which the district
proposes to solve its school housing problems.
(f) A policy statement regarding cooperation with other local
public agencies to achieve total community development.
(g) A policy to insure continuous review so that plans will be
kept up to date and changing conditions will be reviewed and
accommodated by appropriate revision of plans.
The director shall review the long-range master plan and project
development plan and shall report his findings and recommendations
thereon to the board. The board shall in no instance approve an
application or make an apportionment therefor until it has determined
to its satisfaction that the facility for which the apportionment is
sought is justified by an appropriate estimate of average daily
attendance and location within the district.