Cal. Const., art. IX, § 6 · Article IX. EDUCATION
Cal. Const., art. IX, § 6
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Each person, other than a substitute employee, employed by a school district as a teacher or in any other position requiring certification qualifications shall be paid a salary which shall be at the rate of an annual salary of not less than twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) for a person serving full time, as defined by law.
The Public School System shall include all kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, technical schools, and state colleges, established in accordance with law and, in addition, the school districts and the other agencies authorized to maintain them. No school or college or any other part of the Public School System shall be, directly or indirectly, transferred from the Public School System or placed under the jurisdiction of any authority other than one included within the Public School System.
The Legislature shall add to the State School Fund such other means from the revenues of the State as shall provide in said fund for apportionment in each fiscal year, an amount not less than one hundred eighty dollars ($180) per pupil in average daily attendance in the kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, and technical schools in the Public School System during the next preceding fiscal year.
The entire State School Fund shall be apportioned in each fiscal year in such manner as the Legislature may provide, through the school districts and other agencies maintaining such schools, for the support of, and aid to, kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, and technical schools except that there shall be apportioned to each school district in each fiscal year not less than one hundred twenty dollars ($120) per pupil in average daily attendance in the district during the next preceding fiscal year and except that the amount apportioned to each school district in each fiscal year shall be not less than twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400).
Solely with respect to any retirement system provided for in the charter of any county or city and county pursuant to the provisions of which the contributions of, and benefits to, certificated employees of a school district who are members of such system are based upon the proportion of the salaries of such certificated employees contributed by said county or city and county, all amounts apportioned to said county or city and county, or to school districts therein, pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be considered as though derived from county or city and county school taxes for the support of county and city and county government and not money provided by the State within the meaning of this section.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
Sec. 6 amended Nov. 5, 1974, by Prop. 8. Res.Ch. 70, 1974.
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Cited by 84 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Cal. Const., art. IX, § 6; the first 50 in book order. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Revenue and Taxation Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.5Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.7Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.71Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
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- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.82Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.83Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.85Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.86Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.88Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.89Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.91Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.92Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.94Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.95Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.97Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.98Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.100Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.101Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.103Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.104Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.106Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.107Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.109Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.110Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.112Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.116Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.118Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.120Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.122Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.123Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.125Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.128Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.130Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.131Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.133Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.134Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.136Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.137Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.139Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.140Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.142Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.143Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.145Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.164Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.166Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.167Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 195.169Printed as Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution
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