Section 58805 Of Chapter 6. Specialized Secondary Programs From California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 31. >> Chapter 6.
58805
. (a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction may enter into
an interagency agreement with a consortium of two or more school
districts to establish an academy of visual and performing arts to
operate specialized secondary school programs in visual and
performing arts that are conducted outside the regular schoolday,
subject to this chapter.
(b) The governing boards of any two or more school districts or
county offices of education may enter into the consortium described
in subdivision (a). The academy established by this section shall be
governed, subject to the interagency agreement provided for by
subdivision (a), by a five-member governing board which shall be made
up of 3 members representing the consortium who shall be
superintendents or their designees of school districts or county
offices of education with the largest student participation; and two
members appointed by the Foundation for the Academy of Performing and
Visual Arts. The authority of the board to operate the academy shall
include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) The appointment of a director to develop and administer the
academy and the specialized secondary school programs operated by the
academy.
(2) The execution of an agreement with any urban campus of a
college or university with a means for assisting in the development
of similar programs at other campuses or universities on a statewide
basis, for the use of the educational resources of that campus for
the purposes of this section.
(3) Responsibility over the fiscal accountability of the academy.
(c) For the purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 46300, the
off-campus participation, by a pupil in any of the grades 9 to 12,
inclusive, in any program of visual or performing arts operated under
this section may be authorized as an independent study program in
accordance with Article 5.5 (commencing with Section 51745) of
Chapter 5 of Part 28. In no event shall a pupil concurrently enrolled
in an independent study program and in a regular comprehensive high
school or junior high school generate, for the purposes of Section
46300, more than one unit of average daily attendance per school
year.