In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to
encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [
local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.»
Challenged by deep funding cuts and the need to keep pace with requirements that the Legislature was not prepared to relax,
local educational agencies were actually
encouraged by the Schwarzenegger administration to seek flexibility through the wavier process beginning in 2008.
In fact, Brown wants to eiminate the current requirement for
local educational agencies to join Special Education Local Planning Areas, instead, authorizing them to and develop new ways to encourage regionalized services and cost pooling arrangem
local educational agencies to join Special Education
Local Planning Areas, instead, authorizing them to and develop new ways to encourage regionalized services and cost pooling arrangem
Local Planning Areas, instead, authorizing them to and develop new ways to
encourage regionalized services and cost pooling arrangements.