Section 78030 Of Article 2. Interdistrict Attendance From California Education Code >> Division 7. >> Title 3. >> Part 48. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 2.
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. (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
(1) Many community college students desire to attend, and do
attend, community colleges outside their district of residence.
(2) Prior to the passage of Proposition 13, interdistrict
attendance restrictions were necessary to provide for payments from
the district of residence to a district of attendance whenever
significant numbers of students were involved.
(3) The fact that community colleges are now substantially reliant
upon the state for financial resources rather than upon local
residents compels a reexamination of the concern over subsidization
of the attendance of nondistrict residents.
(4) Community college district boundaries are often irregular in
configuration and require many students to attend community colleges
in less convenient locations when interdistrict attendance
restrictions are imposed.
(5) Transportation is the most significant cost facing community
college students with regard to college attendance.
(6) It is not in the best interests of the people of the State of
California that attendance at a community college be restricted to a
person's district of residence.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article
to provide for the unrestricted enrollment and attendance of students
at community colleges, thereby providing each resident of the state
an equal opportunity to attend the community college of his or her
choice.