Education Code section 8251
(a)
(1)An agency contracting with the department to provide California state preschool program services may schedule up to five days of staff training, per contract period, using state reimbursement funding on the topics including procedures for emergencies in preschool programs, licensing regulations relating to preschool programs, recognition and reporting of suspected abuse of children in preschool programs, managing challenging behaviors and preventing expulsion of children, meeting the staff professional development requirements under Section 17704 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, improving program quality in alignment with state standards and regulations, including, but not limited to, the California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations (PTKLF) and the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), supporting early literacy and math development, and addressing items on the program’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Quality plan.(2)
Training days may be used as full days or as partial days. Partial days may add up to a maximum of 40 hours of professional development claimed on different days throughout the year.(b)
(1)A day of staff training as described in this section that is scheduled during a contractor’s regular hours of operation without children in attendance shall be considered a day of operation for purposes of meeting the minimum days of operation for part-day and full-day California state preschool programs required pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 8207.(2)
For purposes of reimbursement, contractors may report the child days of enrollment and attendance on days in which the contractor was closed for staff training and children were not in attendance.(c)
(1)Family childcare home providers participating in the California state preschool program family childcare home education network pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 8205 who use the staff training days pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be paid based on the maximum certified hours of care pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 8245.5 during the time in training.(2)
Family childcare home providers participating in the California state preschool program family childcare home education network pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 8205 may use the training days or partial training days to access training offered by the family childcare home education network or training offered by the Joint Child Care Providers United - State of California Training Partnership Fund established pursuant to Section 10277.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
Source:
Section 8251, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=EDC§ionNum=8251. (updated Sep. 18, 2026; accessed Sep. 28, 2026).
