Who We Are

The Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office is the Administrative Unit for the Kern County Consortium SELPA. The policy-making body is the Superintendents’ Executive Council (SEC). There are two advisory groups for the SELPA: The Special Education Administrators Committee (SEAC), and the Community Advisory Committee (CAC). The Kern County Consortium SELPA is a multi-district/county office SELPA that serves over 12,000 children identified as having special needs. There are 49 members of the Kern County Consortium SELPA. There are also three other SELPAs located in Kern County that are single-district SELPAs:

Bakersfield City School District
Kern High School District
Sierra Sands Unified School District