Existing law, the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, authorizes a school district to establish and maintain programs, as provided, that address the housing needs of teachers and school district employees who face challenges in securing affordable housing. The act defines the term “local public employees” for these purposes to include employees of a city, county, city and county, charter city, charter county, charter city and county, special district, or any combination of the above. “teacher or school district employee” to mean any person employed by a unified school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, an elementary school district maintaining prekindergarten,
transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, or a high school district maintaining grades 9 to 12, inclusive, including, but not limited to, certificated and classified staff.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that definition. expand the definition of a teacher or school district employee to include a person employed by a nonprofit organization operating early childhood, prekindergarten, or school-aged childcare classrooms and programs on school district property with funding from the State Department of Education, the federal Head Start program, or other public funding targeted to children from families of low and moderate income.