Section 44636.

(a) Satellite schools shall be designated and approved as those schools which meet all of the following criteria:

(1) The schools which have designated one or more master teachers to act as resource teachers in reading and mathematics and to work with other teachers in the strengthening of instructional techniques and program improvements.

(2) The schools which have the largest concentration of teachers who will assure the district that they will continue to teach in the satellite schools for the second school year following their participation in the center program.

(b) Priority shall be given to those schools which have the largest concentration of pupils whose achievement scores in reading or mathematics, or both, fall below the first quartile, as measured by the latest administered standardized achievement test in reading or mathematics, or both.

(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1136, Sec. 6.)