Creating the Instructional School Gardens Program

A.B. 1535 establishes the Instructional School Gardens Program to include a grant program, advisory group, interagency working group, and appropriations. The Program provides grants and technical assistance to charter schools, school districts, and county offices of education to develop and maintain instructional school garden programs. The bill directs the state Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene an interagency working group to determine effective and efficient means to establish and maintain instructional school gardens. It also authorizes an advisory group to work with the Superintendent and appropriates money for the Program.