Article 15. Emergency Schools of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 15.

In order to provide elementary education for children residing in the county, or in order to provide elementary education for children of migratory laborers engaged in seasonal industries within the county, the county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county board of education, when funds are not available from other sources and in his judgment it is necessary, do any one or more of the following acts:
  (a) Establish and maintain one or more emergency elementary schools for children.
  (b) Provide one or more emergency teachers for the regular elementary schools of the districts in the county for the pupils.
  (c) Provide transportation for the children to an elementary school. In lieu of providing transportation of any pupil, the county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county board of education, pay to the parents or guardian of the pupil the cost of food and lodging for the pupil at a place convenient to an elementary school. The amount so paid shall not exceed the cost of providing for the transportation of the pupil to and from his home and the school. The county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county board of education, pay the expenses incurred in providing all the facilities and services authorized in this section, including necessary capital outlays, from the county school service fund. All emergency schools shall be maintained in accordance with standards prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The county superintendent of schools shall draw requisitions upon the unobligated funds of any suspended school district under his jurisdiction to pay in whole or in part the expenses incurred for the maintenance of emergency schools in the district.

The county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county board of education, insure all real and personal property constructed, purchased, or otherwise provided by him for emergency schools established by him.

The county superintendent of schools may, with the approval of the county board of education, transfer or sell the real and personal property of any emergency school maintained by him to any elementary school district under his jurisdiction, or to any other political subdivision of the state within which the school is located, upon such terms and conditions as are agreed upon by the county superintendent of schools, with the approval of the county board of education, and the governing board or authority of the district or other political subdivision. Districts and other political subdivisions may enter into such agreements and acquire such property. Any funds received by the county superintendent of schools under this section shall be paid by him into the county school service fund.

The units of average daily attendance for a fiscal year in an emergency school maintained by the county superintendent of schools shall be computed by dividing the total number of days of pupils' attendance in the emergency school during the fiscal year by 175.