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                                   THIRD READING 


          Bill No:  AB 146
          Author:   Cristina Garcia (D), et al.
          Amended:  9/1/15 in Senate
          Vote:     21  

           SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE:  6-0, 7/1/15
           AYES:  Liu, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan, Vidak
           NO VOTE RECORDED:  Runner, Block, Hancock

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:  5-2, 8/27/15
           AYES:  Lara, Beall, Hill, Leyva, Mendoza
           NOES:  Bates, Nielsen

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  62-9, 6/2/15 - See last page for vote

           SUBJECT:   Pupil instruction:  social sciences:  deportations  
                     to Mexico


          SOURCE:    Author


          DIGEST:  This bill requires the State Board of Education (SBE)  
          to consider including instruction on the unconstitutional  
          deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression to the  
          history-social science framework.


          ANALYSIS:   


          Existing law:









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          1)Establishes the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC),  
            formerly known as the Curriculum Commission, as an advisory  
            body to the SBE.  The IQC is responsible for recommending  
            curriculum frameworks to the SBE, developing criteria for the  
            evaluation of instructional materials, and evaluating and  
            recommending adoption of instructional materials.  (Education  
            Code § 33530 and § 60204)

          2)Prohibits the SBE from adopting instructional materials or  
            undertaking the work of the IQC until the 2015-16 school year.  
             (EC § 60200.7)

          3)Specifically authorizes the SBE to consider the adoption of a  
            revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for  
            history-social science.  (EC § 60200.8)

          4)Requires IQC to consider incorporating into the history-social  
            science framework content on specific historical events,  
            including the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan  
            genocides and the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1850.   
            Existing law also encourages the California Department of  
            Education (CDE) to incorporate into curriculum resources for  
            teachers, age-appropriate materials on the Armenian,  
            Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides. (EC § 51226.3)

          5)Requires the IQC, whenever the history-social science  
            framework is revised, to do all of the following (as  
            appropriate and based on the subject matter of the course):

             a)   Receive input from civics learning experts for purposes  
               of integrating civics learning content, concepts and skills  
               with the standards.

             b)   Consider how civics and history instruction includes the  
               application of that content to develop the competence and  
               skills needed for civic engagement.

             c)   Ensure that voter education information is included in  
               the American government and civics curriculum at the high  
               school level.  

             d)   Ensure that specified historical documents are  
               incorporated into the framework.  (EC § 33540)








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          6)States legislative intent that when the history-social science  
            framework is revised after January 1, 2015, the IQC consider  
            whether and how to incorporate the College, Career, and Civic  
            Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards into that  
            framework.  (EC § 33540)

          7)Requires the IQC, during the next revision of the  
            history-social science framework, to consider including and  
            recommending for adoption by the SBE, instruction on the  
            election of President Barack Obama and the significance of the  
            United States electing its first African American President.   
            (EC § 33543)

          This bill:


       1)Requires the SBE, when it revises and adopts the curriculum  
            framework for history-social science after January 1, 2016, to  
            consider providing for the inclusion of instruction on the  
            unconstitutional deportation to Mexico during the Great  
            Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the  
            United States into the history-social science framework,  
            evaluation criteria, and accompanying instructional materials.

       2)Specifies that "human rights" and "human rights violations"  
            include the deportation to Mexico, in regards to existing law  
            that encourages the incorporation of testimony into  
            instruction and professional development activities.

          Comments
          
          Current revision of the history-social science framework.  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, is  
          expected to be presented to the SBE in November 2015, and  
          expected to be adopted by the SBE in May 2016.  

          The draft generated extensive public comment (nearly 700  
          comments).  The IQC also determined that more subject matter  
          expertise was needed for certain areas (including some mandated  
          for inclusion by legislation), and submitted a budget request  
          for $124,000 to hire experts through an interagency agreement.   
          These events have caused significant delays in the production of  







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          the revised framework, which was originally scheduled for  
          adoption in May 2015.

          A schedule once existed for the revision and updating of  
          curricular frameworks.  That schedule was suspended in 2009 when  
          the prohibition on that process was imposed.  Current law  
          continues to reference an eight-year cycle for revisions to  
          frameworks and the adoption of instructional materials.  It is  
          likely that the next revision of the history-social science  
          framework will occur in several years.

          Some information is in the draft framework.  The existing draft  
          framework includes some references to the deportation to Mexico.  
           In the chapter of course descriptions for grades kindergarten  
          through grade five, the following reference is included in a  
          section on Modern California:  "Students can also learn about  
          other important events in California's civil rights history,  
          such as ? the forced repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican  
          Americans to Mexico that took place during the Great  
          Depression."  In the chapter of course descriptions for grades  
          nine through 12, the following reference is made in a section on  
          the Great Depression:  "The economic crisis also led to the  
          Mexican Repatriation Program, in which the Secretary of Labor  
          directed government agents to force nearly 400,000 Mexican  
          migrants (both legal and illegal) out of the country."

          FISCAL EFFECT:   Appropriation:    No          Fiscal  
          Com.:YesLocal:   No


          According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, this bill  
          imposes one-time costs to the CDE of approximately $19,000 to  
          the extent that additional information is included in the  
          history-social science curriculum framework on this subject.   
          (General Fund)




          SUPPORT:   (Verified8/31/15)


          None received








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          OPPOSITION:   (Verified8/31/15)


          None received

          ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  62-9, 6/2/15
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Baker, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brown,  
            Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley,  
            Cooper, Dababneh, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Cristina  
            Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,  
            Gordon, Gray, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer,  
            Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, McCarty,  
            Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, O'Donnell, Olsen, Perea, Quirk,  
            Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth,  
            Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood,  
            Atkins
          NOES:  Bigelow, Brough, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Harper, Jones,  
            Mathis, Mayes, Waldron
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Travis Allen, Chávez, Dahle, Grove, Hadley,  
            Melendez, Obernolte, Patterson, Wagner

          Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105
          9/1/15 21:30:48


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