California Education Code

§ 8263

EDC § 8263 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 1 · Title 1 · Part 6 · Ch. 2 · Art. 6

Statute text

(a)The department shall disburse augmentations to the base allocation for the expansion of preschool programs to promote equal access to preschool services across the state.

(b)(1) In order to provide progress towards achieving access to full-day, full-year preschool services for all income-eligible four-year-old children and to promote access for all income-eligible four-year-old children to attend at least a part-day California state preschool program, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, in awarding new funding appropriated by the Legislature, in any fiscal year, for the expansion of California state preschool programs, use the formula developed pursuant to subdivision (c) and may use the priorities identified by local childcare and development planning councils, as provided for in Section 10486 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and other high-quality data resources available to the department.

(2)Expansion funding awarded pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be apportioned at the rate described in Section 8242 and as determined in the annual Budget Act.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 923, Sec. 5. (SB 1047) Effective January 1, 2023.