BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 13, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
AB
1204 (Chau) - As Amended May 4, 2015
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill adds a voting student member to the Instructional
Quality Commission (IQC) and increases the number of appointed
classroom teachers from seven to eight. Specifically, this
bill:
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1)Expands the IQC membership from 18 to 19 members, by
increasing the number of public members from 13 to 14.
2)Requires, so far as it is practical and consistent with the
duties assigned to the IQC by the SBE, that one of the 14
public members be a student. Requires the student member to be
chosen from among the two finalist candidates not chosen for
nomination as the student member on the State Board of
Education. Provides the student member to be a voting member
with full rights and duties as other members of the IQC.
Further, requires the student member to be enrolled in good
standing in a public high school and be appointed for a
single, one-year term.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Minor General Fund costs to the California Department of
Education to add an additional student member to the IQC and to
cover substitute teacher costs for the additional teacher
member.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. According to the author, the current membership
structure of IQC does not include student participation as
members. Students are the largest stakeholders in the state's
education system and deserve an opportunity to participate in
the development of curriculum, standards, and instructional
material recommendations through representation on the IQC.
Adding one student member to the IQC will recognize the
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students' perspective on how and what they are taught.
Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)
319-2081