AB 146, as amended, Cristina Garcia. Pupil instruction: social sciences: deportations to Mexico.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law requires the instruction in social sciences, for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to provide instruction in, among other things, human rights issues, with particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust, and contemporary issues.
Existing law encourages the State Department of Education to incorporate into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources materials that are age appropriate and consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science that deal with specified genocides. Existing law states that the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, the Holocaust, and genocide, as specified, and encourages professional development activities to provide teachers with content background and resources to assist in teaching about civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, the Armenian Genocide, and the Holocaust.
This billbegin delete would encourage the incorporation into those publications of, andend deletebegin insert would, for purposes of encouragingend insert the incorporation of survivor and witness testimony into the teachingbegin delete of,end deletebegin insert of human rights, includeend insert the unconstitutional deportation to Mexico
during the Great Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the Unitedbegin delete States, andend deletebegin insert Statesend insertbegin insert within the definition of human rights. The billend insert would encourage professional development activities to provide teachers with content background and resources to assist in teaching about that deportation. The bill would require the State Board of Education to consider providing for the inclusion of the study of that deportation when the curriculum frameworks for history-social science are revised on or after January 1, 2016.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 51226.3 of the Education Code is
2amended to read:
(a) (1) The department shall incorporate into
4publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for
5teacher use those materials developed by publishers of nonfiction,
6trade books, and primary sources, or other public or private
7organizations, that are age appropriate and consistent with the
8subject frameworks on history and social science that deal with
9civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the
10begin delete Holocaust.end deletebegin insert Holocaust.end insert
11(2) The Legislature encourages the department to incorporate
12into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources
13for teacher use those materials developed by publishers of
14nonfiction, trade books, and primary sources, or other public or
15private organizations, that are age appropriate and consistent with
16the subject frameworks on history and social science that deal with
17the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandanbegin delete genocides and begin insert genocides.end insert
18the unconstitutional deportation to Mexico during the Great
19Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United
20States.end delete
P3 1(b) (1) The
Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor,
2rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of
3human rights, the Holocaust, and genocide, including, but not
4limited to, the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan
5genocides.
6(2) As used in this subdivision, “oral testimony” means the
7firsthand accounts of significant historical events presented in a
8format that includes, but is not limited to, in-person testimony,
9video, or a multimedia option, such as a DVD or an online video.
10(c) The Legislature encourages all state and local professional
11development activities to provide teachers with content background
12and resources to assist them in teaching about civil rights, human
13rights violations, genocide, slavery, the Armenian Genocide, and
14thebegin delete Holocaust.end deletebegin insert
Holocaust.end insert
15(d) The Legislature encourages all state and local professional
16development activities to provide teachers with content background
17and resources to assist them in teaching about the Great Irish
18Famine of 1845-50.
19(e) The Great Irish Famine of 1845-50 shall be considered in
20the next cycle in which the history-social science curriculum
21framework and its accompanying instructional materials are
22adopted.
23(f) When the history-social science curriculum framework is
24revised as required by law, the Instructional Quality Commission
25shall consider including the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and
26Rwandan genocides in the recommended history-social science
27curriculum
framework.
28(g) The Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide
29adopted by the state board, pursuant to Section 51226, shall be
30made available to schools in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as soon as
31funding is available for this purpose. In addition, the department
32shall make the curriculum available on its Internet Web site.
33(h) For purposes of this article, “Armenian Genocide” means
34the torture, starvation, and murder of 1,500,000 Armenians, which
35included death marches into the Syrian desert, by the rulers of the
36Ottoman Turkish Empire and the exile of more than 500,000
37innocent people during the period from 1915 to 1923, inclusive.
38(i) When the state board revises and adopts the curriculum
39framework for history-social
science on or after January 1, 2016,
40the state board shall consider providing for the inclusion, in that
P4 1curriculum framework, evaluation criteria, and accompanying
2instructional materials, of instruction on the unconstitutional
3deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens and
4lawful permanent residents of the United States.
5(j) As used in subdivisions (b) and (c), “human rights” and
6“human rights violations” include the unconstitutional deportation
7to Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens and lawful
8permanent residents of the United States.
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