A local educational agency shall actively and systematically seek out all individuals with exceptional needs, from birth to 21 years of age, inclusive, including children not enrolled in public school programs, who reside in a school district or are under the jurisdiction of a special education local plan area or a county office of education.
Cal. Educ. Code § 56300
Identification and Referral
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case E.M. v. Pajaro Valley Unified School District Office of Administrative Hearings (2011)
Most recently applied in S.H. v. Mount Diablo Unified School District (July 2017)
Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 179, Sec. 56
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.