Cal. Educ. Code § 51141
Drowning Prevention
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2011
The State Department of Education shall select, through a competitive process, the school districts that shall be awarded training grants under this article. At least 70 percent of the available funding shall be granted to school districts that contract with nonprofit community-based organizations that demonstrate each of the following:
(a) Ability to recruit and retain parent populations with traditionally low participation rates, including, but not limited to, immigrant and low-income parents.
(b) Ability to conduct parent training in various languages to meet the specific cultural and linguistic needs of the school communities to be served.
(c) Experience in collaborating with school districts, individual schools, local agencies, and community educational resources in implementing parent involvement programs.
(d) Ability to retain a high percentage of parent participants in their training course.
(a) A drowning or injury prevention organization that provides informational materials to a public school pursuant to this article shall adhere to both of the following:
(1) Provide written evidence, in the form of a letter or document, either of which shall be no longer than one page, to a school administrator that demonstrates that the informational materials provided by the drowning or injury prevention organization align with the drowning, drowning prevention, water safety, rescue, and swim skills lesson information found on the drowning prevention web page of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which includes evidence-based water safety and drowning prevention information vetted through such authorities on drowning and drowning prevention as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Red Cross, among other sources.
(2) Provide informational materials at no cost to the public school and allow the school to offer copies of the materials to pupils and parents and decide how the materials are made available.
(b) A school administrator or school entity authorized by the school district or school, which also may include the school’s parent-teacher association or an equivalent association, that engages with a drowning or injury prevention organization pursuant to this article shall not be responsible for confirming the drowning or injury prevention organization’s compliance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).
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