BILL NUMBER: SB 1094	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Murray

                        JANUARY 8, 2004

   An act to add Section 56158 to the Education Code, relating to
special education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1094, as introduced, Murray.  Special education:  foster
children.
   Existing law makes each school district, special education local
plan area, or county office of education responsible for providing
appropriate education to individuals with exceptional needs residing
in a licensed children's institution or foster family home located in
the geographical area covered by the local plan.  Existing law
requires the district, special education local plan area, or county
office, in providing appropriate programs, to first consider services
in programs operated by a public education agency.  Under existing
law, if those programs are not appropriate, special education and
related services are required to be provided by contract with a
nonpublic, nonsectarian school.
   This bill would require a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that
provides special education and related services to an individual with
exceptional needs residing in a licensed children's institution or
foster family home to comply with all applicable curriculum and
facility requirements imposed on a public school in educating an
individual with exceptional needs.  The bill would also require the
school to require its teachers to hold special education teaching
credentials for the subjects they teach.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 56158 is added to the Education Code, to read:

   56158.  A nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special
education and related services to an individual with exceptional
needs residing in a licensed children's institution or foster family
home shall comply with all applicable curriculum and facility
requirements imposed on a public school in educating an individual
with exceptional needs.  The school shall also require its teachers
to hold special education teaching credentials for the subjects they
teach.