Cal. Educ. Code § 8220
Program Administration
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2021
As of January 1, 2011
Upon the approval of the State Department of Education, funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter may be used for alternative payment programs to allow for maximum parental choice. Various methods of reimbursement for parental costs for child care may be utilized. All payment arrangements shall conform to the eligibility criteria and the parent fee schedule established pursuant to Sections 8263 and 8265.
To provide for maximum parental choice, alternative payment programs may include the following:
(a) A subsidy that follows the family from one provider to another within a given alternative payment program.
(b) Choices, whenever possible, among hours of service including before and after school, evenings, weekends, and split shifts.
(c) Child care and development services according to parental choice, including use of family day care homes, general center based programs, and other state-funded programs to the extent that those programs exist in the general service area and are in conformity with the purposes and applicable laws for which those programs were established, but excluding state preschool programs.
As a condition of receipt of funds pursuant to Section 8221, a participating part-day preschool program shall coordinate the provision of all of the following:
(a) Opportunities for parents and legal guardians to work with their children on interactive literacy activities. For purposes of this subdivision, “interactive literacy activities” means activities in which parents or legal guardians actively participate in facilitating the acquisition by their children of prereading skills through guided activities such as shared reading, learning the alphabet, and basic vocabulary development.
(b) Parenting education for parents and legal guardians of children in participating classrooms to support the development by their children of literacy skills. Parenting education shall include, but not be limited to, instruction in all of the following:
(1) Providing support for the educational growth and success of their children.
(2) Improving parent-school communications and parental understanding of school structures and expectations.
(3) Becoming active partners with teachers in the education of their children.
(4) Improving parental knowledge of local resources for the identification of and services for developmental disabilities, including, but not limited to, contact information for school district special education referral.
(c) Referrals, as necessary, to providers of instruction in adult education and English as a second language in order to improve the academic skills of parents and legal guardians of children in participating classrooms.
(d) Staff development for teachers in participating classrooms that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Development of a pedagogical knowledge, including, but not limited to, improved instructional and behavioral strategies.
(2) Knowledge and application of developmentally appropriate assessments of the prereading skills of children in participating classrooms.
(3) Information on working with families, including the use of onsite coaching, for guided practice in interactive literacy activities.
(4) Providing targeted interventions for all young children to improve kindergarten readiness upon program completion.
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