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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(a) “Arts education program” includes, but is not limited to, instruction and training, supplies, materials, and arts educational partnership programs, for instruction in: dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts, including folk art, painting, sculpture, photography, and craft arts, creative expressions, including graphic arts and design, computer coding, animation, music composition and ensembles, and script writing, costume design, film, and video.
(b) “Economically disadvantaged pupil” means a pupil who is eligible for the federal National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1751 et seq.) or any successor program.
(c) “Enrollment” means every preschool, transitional kindergarten, and K-12 pupil enrolled in a local educational agency and schoolsite. A “preschool pupil” means a pupil enrolled in the California state preschool program or a pupil three years of age through five years of age enrolled in a preschool program for pupils with exceptional needs in a local educational agency.
(d) “Local educational agency” includes K-12 school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the California school for the blind and the California school for the deaf.
(e) “Supplement” means that the funds appropriated by this chapter shall be used by local educational agencies to increase funding of arts education programs and not to supplant existing funding for those programs.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - California Code, Education Code - EDC § 8821 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/education-code/edc-sect-8821/
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