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          SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                             Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
                            2015 - 2016  Regular  Session

          AB 146 (Cristina Garcia) - Pupil instruction: social sciences:  
          deportations to Mexico.
          
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          |Version: February 25, 2015      |Policy Vote: ED. 6 - 0          |
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          |Urgency: No                     |Mandate: No                     |
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          |Hearing Date: July 13, 2015     |Consultant: Jillian Kissee      |
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          This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.


          Bill  
          Summary:  This bill requires the State Board of Education  
          (Board) to consider including in the history-social science  
          curriculum framework, instruction on the unconstitutional  
          deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the  
          United States to Mexico during the Great Depression.  This bill  
          also provides encouragement from the Legislature for the  
          California Department of Education (CDE) to incorporate this  
          topic into curriculum resources for teachers.


          Fiscal  
          Impact:  
           Approximately $160,000 one-time General Fund (cost pressure of  
            $138,000 and direct costs of $19,000) to the CDE and the  
            Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) within the CDE,  
            respectively. 









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          Background:  Current law establishes the IQC as an advisory body to the  
          Board.  The IQC is responsible for recommending curriculum  
          frameworks to the Board, developing criteria for the evaluation  
          of instructional materials, and evaluating and recommending  
          adoption of instructional materials.  (Education Code § 33530  
          and § 60204)
          The revision to the history-social science framework was  
          suspended in July 2009, and subsequently resumed in July 2014.   
          The draft revision was released for field review in September  
          2014, and is expected to be presented to the Board in November  
          2015, and expected to be adopted in May 2016.  The existing  
          draft framework includes some references to the deportation to  
          Mexico during the Great Depression in grades four and 11.  


          Proposed Law:  
            This bill adds to the list of items that the Legislature  
          encourages the CDE to incorporate into publications that provide  
          examples of curriculum resources for teachers, the  
          unconstitutional deportation of citizens and lawful permanent  
          residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great  
          Depression.  This bill also requires the Board to consider  
          including this subject when it revises and adopts the  
          history-social science curriculum framework, evaluation  
          criteria, and instructional materials.

          Finally, this bill includes the unconstitutional deportation to  
          Mexico during the Great Depression within the meaning of "human  
          rights" and "human rights violations."  In existing law, the  
          Legislature encourages the incorporation of oral testimony into  
          the teaching of human rights and that all professional  
          development activities provide teachers with background and  
          resources to assist them in teaching about human rights  
          violations.


          Related  
          Legislation:  SB 551 (Cedillo, 2007) and SB 1214 (Cedillo, 2008)  
          both required the Board to include the unconstitutional  
          deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression in the next  
          revision of the history-social science framework.  SB 551 was  
          held in this committee and SB 1214 was vetoed by the Governor at  
          that time.
          SB 1575 (Dunn, 2006) expanded the course of study for grades  








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          7-12 to include instruction on the unconstitutional deportation  
          to Mexico during the Great Depression, and required the CDE to  
          include this instruction in curriculum resources for teachers.   
          SB 1575 was vetoed by the Governor at that time.




          Staff  
          Comments:  This bill encourages the CDE to incorporate the  
          unconstitutional deportation of citizens and lawful permanent  
          residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great  
          Depression into teacher curriculum resources.  This provision  
          results in cost pressures to the CDE of about $138,000 to  
          incorporate such material.

          To the extent it is decided to provide additional information on  
          this topic in the curriculum framework, beyond what is already  
          included, costs would be about $19,000.


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