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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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