BILL NUMBER:  SB 908
  VETOED	DATE: 07/25/2008




To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am returning Senate Bill 908 without my signature.

While I am supportive of encouraging "climate change" education
curriculum, I have consistently vetoed legislation that has attempted
to mandate specific details or events into areas of instruction.
The State Board of Education adopted content standards are developed
by a diverse group of experts and are intentionally broad in order to
allow coverage of various events, developments, and issues.  I
continue to believe that the State should refrain from being overly
prescriptive in specific school curriculum, beyond establishing
rigorous academic standards and frameworks.

Moreover, in this particular case, the California Integrated Waste
Management Board's Office of Education and Environment, in
conjunction with the California Environmental Protection Agency is
already well into the process of incorporating the "climate change"
issue in the creation of an environment-based K-12 model curriculum.

For these reasons, I am unable to sign this bill.

Sincerely,



Arnold Schwarzenegger