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CHAPTER 4. Prohibited Instruction [51500. - 51540.]

Chapter 4 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.

§§ 51500–51540 · 11 sections

  1. ARTICLE 1. Prejudices §§ 51500–51501 · 2 sections
    • § 51500 (a) (1) A teacher shall not give instruction and a school district shall not sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias on the basis of race or…
    • § 51501 (a) The state board and any governing board shall not adopt any textbooks or other instructional materials for use in the public schools that contain any…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Prohibited Materials §§ 51510–51514 · 5 sections
    • § 51510 Except as to textbooks approved by the state board or a county board of education, no bulletin, circular, or publication may be used as the basis of study or…
    • § 51511 Nothing in this code shall be construed to prevent, or exclude from the public schools, references to religion or references to or the use of religious…
    • § 51512 The Legislature finds that the use by any person, including a pupil, of any electronic listening or recording device in any classroom of the elementary and…
    • § 51513 No test, questionnaire, survey, or examination containing any questions about the pupil’s personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, and…
    • § 51514 If a local educational agency administers a voluntary survey that already includes questions pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity, the local…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Solicitations §§ 51520–51521 · 2 sections
    • § 51520 (a) During school hours, and within one hour before the time of opening and within one hour after the time of closing of school, pupils of the public school…
    • § 51521 No person shall solicit any other person to contribute to any fund or to purchase any item of personal property, upon the representation that the money…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Advocacy or Teaching of Communism § 51530 · 1 section
    • § 51530 No teacher giving instruction in any school, or on any property belonging to any agencies included in the public school system, shall advocate or teach…
  5. ARTICLE 5. Humane Treatment of Animals § 51540 · 1 section
    • § 51540 In the public elementary and high schools or in public elementary and high school school-sponsored activities and classes held elsewhere than on school…