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Formal Complaint Procedures

UNIFORM COMPLAINT PROCEDURES (UCP)

Pursuant to California Education Code § 35186:

Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP) govern complaints of discrimination, harassment, violence, intimidation, and bullying on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnic group identification, race, ancestry, national origin, religion color, or mental or physical disability or on a person’s association with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics in any program or activity that receives or benefits from state financial assistance.
 

The UCP is also used when addressing complaints alleging failure to comply with state and/or federal laws in Career Technical Education, Child Care and Development Programs including state preschool, Consolidated Categorical Programs, Foster and Homeless Youth, Local Control Funding Formula and Local Control Accountability Plans, Nutrition Services – USDA Civil Rights, Special Education, and Tobacco-Use Prevention Education Program. The UCP Form is available at Marin County Office of Education – office of the Deputy Superintendent, Human Resource department, as well as in the main office of Marin’s Community School.
 

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WILLIAMS ACT COMPLAINTS

  • Pursuant to California Education Code § 35186:

    There should be sufficient textbooks and instructional materials. Each pupil, including English learners, must have a textbook or instructional materials, or both, to use in class and to take home.
     

    School facilities must be clean, safe, and maintained in good repair.
     

    There should be no teacher vacancies or misassignments. There should be a teacher assigned to each class and not a series of substitutes or other temporary teachers. The teacher should have the proper credential to teach the class, including the certification required to teach English learners if present.
     

    Teacher vacancy means a position to which a single designated certificated employee has not been assigned at the beginning of the year for an entire year or, if the position is for a one-semester course, a position to which a single designated certificated employee has not been assigned at the beginning of a semester for an entire semester.
     

    Misassignment means the placement of a certificated employee in a teaching or services position for which the employee does not hold a legally recognized certificate or credential or the placement of a certificated employee in a teaching or services position that the employee is not otherwise authorized by statute to hold.
     

    See below for access to a complaint form. A form may also be requested from the office of the Deputy Superintendent or Personnel Department at Marin County Office of Education as well as in the main office of Marin’s Community School.