ARTICLE 6. Personnel in Reorganized Districts [35555. - 35559.]

Cal. Education Code - EDC 6.

in effect

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 35555. Section 35555.

(a) The reorganization of any school district or school districts shall not affect the classification of certificated employees already employed by any school district affected. Those employees have the same status with respect to their classification by the school district, including time served as probationary employees of the school district, after the reorganization as they had before it. If the reorganization results in the school or other place in which the employee is employed being maintained by another school district, the employee, if a permanent employee of the school district that formerly maintained the school or other place of employment, shall be employed as a permanent employee of the school district that thereafter maintains the school or other place of employment, unless the employee elects before February 1 of the year in which the action will become effective for all purposes to continue in the employ of the first school district. (b) If the employee is a probationary employee of the school district that formerly maintained the school or other place of employment, he or she shall be employed by the school district that thereafter maintains the school or other place of employment, unless the probationary employee is terminated by the school district pursuant to Section 44929.21, 44948, 44948.3, 44949, or 44955, and, if not so terminated, his or her status with respect to classification by the school district shall be the same as it would have been had the school or other place of employment continued to be maintained by the school district that formerly maintained it. As used in this paragraph, “the school or other place in which the employee is employed” and all references thereto, includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the school services or school program that, as a result of any reorganization of a school district, will be provided by another school district, irrespective of whether any particular building or buildings in which the schoolwork or school program was conducted is physically located in the reorganized district and irrespective of whether any reorganized district elects to provide for the education of its pupils by contracting with another school district until the reorganized district constructs its own facilities.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 35556. Section 35556.

(a) The reorganization of any school district, or school districts, shall not affect the rights of persons employed in positions not requiring certification qualifications to retain the salary, leaves, and other benefits that they would have had if the reorganization had not occurred. These persons shall be treated in the manner provided in this section. (b) All employees of every school district that is included in any other school district, or all school districts included in a new district, shall become employees of the new district. (c) (1) When a portion of the territory of any school district becomes part of another school district, employees regularly assigned to perform their duties in the territory affected shall become employees of the acquiring district unless, in a manner consistent with relevant provisions of this code and with any applicable collective bargaining agreement, one of the following events occurs: (A) An employee elects to accept a vacant position, for which he or she qualifies, that the original district elects to fill. (B) An employee elects to fill, by exercise of his or her rights of seniority under existing law or the collective bargaining agreement with the original district, a position, for which he or she qualifies, in the original district. (C) An employee elects to have his or her name entered on a reemployment list of the original district. (2) Employees whose assignments pertained to the affected territory, but whose employment situs was not in that territory, may elect to remain with the original district or become employees of the acquiring district. (d) When the territory of any school district is divided between, or among, two or more new or acquiring districts, and the original district ceases to exist, employees of the original district regularly assigned to perform their duties in any specific territory of the school district shall become employees of the school district acquiring the territory. Employees not assigned to specific territory within the original district shall become employees of any acquiring district at the election of the employees. (e) An employee regularly assigned by the original district to any school in the school district shall be an employee of the school district in which the school is located unless that employee elects to continue in the employ of the original district pursuant to subdivision (c). (f) Except as otherwise provided in this section, nothing in this section shall be construed to deprive the governing board of the new or acquiring district from making reasonable reassignments of duties. (g) The amendments to this section made during the 1999–2000 Regular Session of the Legislature shall apply only to school district reorganizations commenced on or after January 1, 2000.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 35557. Section 35557.

(a) Notwithstanding Section 5000, whenever, in a district that has been wholly absorbed into one or more other districts and continues in existence as a district until the reorganization in which it has been included is effective for all purposes and a governing board member election is otherwise required to be held prior to the effective date of the reorganization, no election shall be held. Instead, the county superintendent of schools shall appoint successors to the members whose terms expire on the first Friday in December following the date upon which the election would otherwise have been held. The appointees shall hold office until the reorganization becomes effective for all purposes. (b) Subdivision (a) shall apply to any school district governed by a city board of education whenever the school district has been included with other school district territory within a unification effected pursuant to this chapter, where both of the following apply: (1) The charter of the city involved requires an election of city school district governing board members to be held prior to the date the new unified district becomes effective for all purposes. (2) The governing board of the new unified school district is organized to be subject to the provisions of this code rather than the provisions of the city charter.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 35558. Section 35558.

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 35105 and 5000, in the case of a unified school district formed in an even-numbered year, where in connection with the formation of which the first governing board was elected in that even-numbered year, all of the members of the first elected governing board shall serve until the first Friday in December of the second succeeding odd-numbered year. Their successors shall be elected at an election conducted on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the second succeeding odd-numbered year. The majority of successors receiving the highest number of votes shall serve until the first Friday in December of the second odd-numbered year thereafter succeeding. The other members’ terms shall expire on the first Friday in December of the first odd-numbered year thereafter succeeding. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the governing board of a unified school district formed in an even-numbered year may provide, pursuant to an appropriate resolution adopted by the governing board, that the majority of the members of the governing board who received the highest number of votes in the first election of governing board members for the district shall serve until the first Friday in December of the third odd-numbered year succeeding that first election, and that the other members’ terms shall expire on the first Friday in December of the second odd-numbered year succeeding that first election. The resolution described in this subdivision shall be adopted on or before March 15 of the second odd-numbered year succeeding the first election of the governing board.

Cal. Education Code - EDC § 35559. Section 35559.

Notwithstanding Sections 5000 and 35105, when the first elected board of any new district is elected on the same date that the election is held for adopting the proposal for the formation of the new district and when the terms of several members of the first governing board would expire before the date on which the school district becomes effective for all purposes, no election shall be held in November of that odd-numbered year, but the several members whose terms expire shall serve until April 30 of the next succeeding even-numbered year. A governing board election shall be held on the second Tuesday in April of that even-numbered year to fill the offices of the members whose terms expire on the April 30 next succeeding the election. The terms of office of the members so elected shall expire on the first Friday in December of the second succeeding odd-numbered year. Their successors shall be elected pursuant to Section 5000.

Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026