Section 58400 Of Chapter 2. Individual Instruction From California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 31. >> Chapter 2.
58400
. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that several
schools have developed programs of individualized instruction based
upon performance criteria, including the integration of vocational
education with the regular coursework, which have greatly improved
their students' achievement and that the success of such programs
offers great promise for improving the effectiveness of education
throughout the state. The Legislature intends to extend the use of
individualized instruction programs on a large scale and to
immediately organize a comprehensive program of individualized
instruction based upon performance criteria in a major urban school
district. Such a comprehensive program shall:
(a) Address the range of socioeconomic-educational problems of
urban school children which will be faced by other urban school
districts which may desire to develop individualized instruction
programs.
(b) Convert the entire curriculum for kindergarten through 12th
grade and articulate the curriculum with a community college.
(c) Fully integrate vocational education with the regular
curriculum in order to acquaint students with a variety of career
alternatives and to provide them with flexible opportunities to
acquire the combination of vocational and academic skills required
for their individual educational and career objectives.
(d) Draw together existing experience, techniques, and material in
the field of individualized instruction, and produce an increased
fund of economically reproducible instructional resources to
accelerate large-scale conversion of schools in other school
districts of the state.
(e) Provide a careful evaluation of the effectiveness of
individualized instruction and the problems of conversion, including
teacher training, curriculum design and production, integration of
vocational education with the regular coursework, and plant
utilization. Such an evaluation will help other school districts
avoid pitfalls and unnecessary expenditures and permit their programs
of individualized instruction to be developed with maximum
efficiency and effectiveness.
(f) Provide a major opportunity to design and test the criteria
and tools for measuring educational performance. Such an opportunity
shall contribute essential information and experience to efforts to
set goals and measure performance in all the schools of this state.
(g) Provide the Governor and the Legislature with more precise
information on the fiscal requirements for converting schools in this
state to programs of individualized instruction.