BILL NUMBER: AB 1719 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 25, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 28, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Fuentes
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Brownley)
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
An act to add and repeal Section 60605.87 of the Education Code,
relating to instructional materials.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1719, as amended, Fuentes. Supplemental instructional
materials: English language development.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic
instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8,
inclusive, and authorizes the state board to establish criteria for
that purpose. Existing law requires the state board in reviewing and
adopting instructional materials to use specified criteria and ensure
that, in its judgment, the submitted instructional materials meet
all of the specified criteria.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to
recommend, and the state board to approve, evaluation criteria to
guide the development and review of supplemental instructional
materials for English language arts and mathematics to provide a
bridge between the California common core academic content standards
and the standards-aligned instructional materials currently being
used by local educational agencies. Existing law requires the state
board to perform specified reviews and to approve or reject all, or a
portion, of the list of supplemental instructional materials
proposed by the department and authorizes the state board to add an
item to that list, as specified. Existing law also permits the
governing board of a school district to approve supplemental
instructional materials other than those approved by the state board
if the governing board performs specified reviews and determines that
other supplemental instructional materials are aligned with the
California common core academic content standards and meet the needs
of the pupils of the district. Existing law requires supplemental
instructional materials approved by the state board and the governing
board of a school district to be reviewed by content review experts,
as specified.
This bill would require the department to recommend, and the state
board to approve, evaluation criteria to guide the development and
review of supplemental instructional materials for English learners.
The bill would require the department to develop a list by January 1,
2014, of supplemental instructional materials that are aligned with
the California common core academic content standards for
language arts and the revised English language
development standards. The bill would require content review experts,
who are recommended by the department and approved by the state
board, to review the supplemental instructional materials. The bill
would require the state board to approve or reject supplemental
instructional materials, as specified. The bill would authorize the
governing boards of school districts and county boards of education
to approve supplemental instructional materials other than those
approved by the state board if the governing board of a school
district or county board of education performs specified reviews and
determines that other supplemental instructional materials are
aligned with the California common core academic content
revised English language development standards
and meet the needs of the pupils who are
English learners of the district.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) California and 40 other states have adopted common core
academic standards for language arts and mathematics to provide
consistent and clear expectations of what pupils need to learn to
compete in a global economy.
(b) Eighty-five percent of the standards are common across the
nation, with 1.5 percent unique to California.
(c) In 1999, California adopted the English language development
standards for the purpose of stating what pupils must know and be
able to do as they move toward full fluency in the English language.
The standards are to work in tandem with the language arts academic
standards; however, they have not been revised or aligned to the
approved common core language arts standards.
(d) Chapter 605 of the Statutes of 2011 (A.B. 124)
(Assembly Bill 124) requires the revision and
alignment of the English language development standards as specified.
(e) There are currently 1.4 million pupils who are English
learners and enrolled in California public schools.
(f) It is critical that "bridge" supplemental instructional
materials be available to English learners that reflect both the
common core language arts and English language development standards
in order for pupils to be held accountable to the common core
language arts standards via assessments.
(g) School districts, county offices of education, and charter
schools, at a minimum, need supplemental English language development
instructional materials to ensure teachers and pupils have the
proper tools to begin to bridge the curriculum between the state's
current content standards in language arts to the English language
development standards.
SEC. 2. Section 60605.87 is added to the Education Code, to read:
60605.87. (a) The department shall recommend, and the state board
shall approve, evaluation criteria to guide the development and
review of supplemental instructional materials for English learners.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, and on a one-time basis, the
department, on or before January 1, 2014, shall develop a list of
supplemental instructional materials for use in kindergarten and
grades 1 to 8, inclusive, that are aligned with the
California common core academic content standards for language arts
and the revised English language development
standards adopted pursuant to Section 60811.3 . The
supplemental instructional materials shall provide a bridge between
the revised and aligned English language development standards to the
California common core academic language arts
content standards and the
standards-aligned instructional materials currently being used by
local educational agencies .
(c) (1) The department shall recommend, and the state
boardshall board shall approve, content review
experts to review, in an open and transparent process, supplemental
instructional materials submitted for approval in the subject area of
English language development.
(2) The majority of content review experts approved
pursuantto pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be
elementary and secondary school teachers who are
credentialed in Englishlanguage English
language arts, possess the appropriate state English learner
authorization, and have five years of classroom experience
instructing English learners. The content review experts also shall
include appropriate persons possessing English learner expertise from
postsecondary institutions and school and school district curriculum
administrators possessing English learner expertise, and other
persons who are knowledgeable in English language arts and English
language development.
(3) The content review experts shall serve without compensation.
(d) (1) On or before June 30, 2014, the state board shall do the
following:
(A) Approve all, or a portion, of the list of supplemental
instructional materials proposed by the department, taking into
consideration the review of the content review experts and any other
relevant information, as appropriate.
(B) Reject all, or a portion, of the list of supplemental
instructional materials proposed by the department, taking into
consideration the review of the content review experts and any other
relevant information, as appropriate.
(2) If the state board rejects all, or a portion, of the list of
supplemental instructional materials proposed by the department, or
adds an item to the list, the state board, in a public meeting held
pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing
with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2
of the Government Code), shall provide written reasons for the
removal or addition of an item on the list. The state board shall not
approve a supplemental instructional material it adds to the list at
the same time it provides its written reason for adding the
material; instead, the state board shall approve the added material
at a subsequent public meeting.
(e) (1) The governing board of a school district and a county
board of education may approve supplemental instructional materials
other than those approved by the state board pursuant to subdivision
(d) if the governing board of a school district or county board of
educationdetermines education determines
that other supplemental instructional materials are aligned
with the California common core academic content and
revised English language development standards
adopted pursuant to Section 60811.3 and meet the needs of
pupils who are English learners of the district. The governing board
of a school district or the county board of education may only
approve supplemental instructionalmaterials
instructional materials that comply with all of the following:
(A) The evaluation criteria approved pursuant to subdivision (a).
(B) Section 60226.
(C) Subdivision (h).
(D) Article 4 (commencing with Section 60060) of Chapter 1.
(2) (A) A supplemental instructional material approved by a
governing board of a school district or county board of education
pursuant to this subdivisionthat subdivision
that is in the subject area of English language development
shall be reviewed by content review experts chosen by the governing
board.
(B) The majority of the content review experts chosen pursuant to
subparagraph (A) shall be elementary and secondary school
teachers who are credentialed in English language arts, possess the
appropriate state English learner authorization, and have five years
of classroom experience instructing English learners.
(C) The content review experts also shall include appropriate
persons possessing English learner expertise from postsecondary
institutions and school and school district curriculum administrators
possessing English learner expertise, and other persons who are
knowledgeable in English language arts and English language
development.
(D) The content review experts shall serve without compensation.
(f) Publishers choosing to submit supplemental instructional
materials for approval by the state board shall submit standards
maps.
(g) (1) Before approving supplemental instructional materials
pursuant to this section, the state board shall review those
instructional materials for academic content, social content, and
instructional support to teachers and pupils. Supplemental
instructional materials approved by the state board pursuant to this
section shall meet required program criteria for grade-level programs
and shall include materials for use by teachers.
(2) Before approving supplemental instructional materials pursuant
to this section, the governing board of a school district or county
board of educationshall education shall
review those instructional materials for academic content and
instructional support to teachers and pupils who are English
learners. Supplemental instructional materials approved by the
governing board of a school district or county board of education
pursuant to this section shall meet required program criteria for
grade-level programs and shall include materials for use by teachers.
(h) Supplemental instructional materials approved pursuant to this
section shall comply with the social content review requirements
pursuant to Section 60050.
(i) The department shall maintain on its Internet Web site the
list of supplemental instructional materials approved by the state
board pursuant to subdivision (d).
(j) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2014, and, as
of July 1, 2015, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
becomes operative on or before July 1, 2015, deletes or extends the
dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.