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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1204
Author: Chau (D)
Amended: 5/4/15 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 8-0, 6/17/15
AYES: Liu, Runner, Block, Hancock, Leyva, Monning, Pan, Vidak
NO VOTE RECORDED: Mendoza
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/22/15 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Instructional Quality Commission: membership:
pupil members
SOURCE: Association of California School Administrators
DIGEST: This bill expands the membership of the Instructional
Quality Commission to include a student member.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Establishes the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) for the
purpose of recommending curriculum frameworks to the State
Board of Education (SBE), developing criteria for evaluating
instructional materials, and evaluating and recommending
instructional materials for adoption to the SBE. (Education
Code § 33530 and § 60204)
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2)Provides the membership of the IQC is as follows:
a) A member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly.
b) A member of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee
on Rules.
c) One public member appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly.
d) One public member appointed by the Senate Committee on
Rules.
e) One public member appointed by the Governor.
f) Thirteen public members appointed by the SBE upon the
recommendation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
or the members of the SBE. (EC § 33530)
3)Requires that at least seven of the 13 public members
appointed by the SBE be recognized authorities or experienced
practitioners in their fields. (EC § 33530)
4)Requires that at least seven of the public members be current
K-12 classroom or mentor teachers. (EC § 33530)
5)Requires the Governor to appoint a student member to the SBE,
with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senate, and
establishes a process for selecting the student member. The
term of office of the student member is set at one year,
beginning on August 1, and is limited to one term. The
student must be, at the time the student's term on the SBE
begins, enrolled in good standing in grade 12 in a public high
school. (EC § 33000.5)
6)Authorizes the SBE, whenever it is authorized by law to
appoint members to a board, commission, or other statutorily
created body, to also appoint a nonvoting student member to
that body. (EC § 33011)
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This bill:
1)Expands the membership of the IQC 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.
3)Requires the student member to be enrolled in good standing in
a public high school.
4)Requires the student to be chosen from among the two finalist
candidates who were not chosen for nomination as the student
member on the SBE.
5)Requires that the student member be a voting member with full
rights and duties as other members of the IQC.
6)Requires that student members be appointed for a single,
one-year term, and prohibits the student from being eligible
to serve more than one full term.
7)Increases, from seven to eight, the number of current
classroom teachers appointed to the IQC.
Comments
Currently authorized. Existing law authorizes the SBE, whenever
it is authorized by law to appoint members to a board,
commission, or other statutorily created body, to also appoint a
nonvoting student member to that body. This bill requires the
appointment of a student member to the IQC, chosen from among
the two finalist candidates who were not chosen for nomination
as the student member on the SBE.
Selection of a student member on the SBE. Existing law
establishes the process for selecting the student member for the
SBE, as follows:
1)The SBE notifies every school district governing board,
district superintendent, high school principal, high school
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student activities director, and student body president by
September 15 of each year that applications are being accepted
for the student member's position.
2)Applications for the student member's position are submitted
to the SBE no later than October 31 of each year.
3)A screening committee of the SBE selects 12 semifinalists.
4)Student members of local school boards select six candidates
from the 12 semifinalists.
5)The SBE, by December 31 of each year, selects three finalists
for the Governor's consideration and ranks the finalists
according to their preference. The Governor then chooses the
student to appoint and submits the name to the Senate for
confirmation. (EC § 33000.5)
A one-year appointment to a multi-year process. This bill
establishes a one-year term for the student representative to
the IQC. Many of the IQC's projects span many years, such as
the revisions to curriculum frameworks.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/25/15)
Association of California School Administrators (source)
California Association of Student Councils
California School Boards Association
California Teachers Association
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/25/15)
None received
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ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT: According to the Association of
California School Administrators, "Currently, the student member
on the SBE provides the student perspective to the board.
However, this perspective is not included, aside from public
comment, in the development of curriculum and instructional
materials by the IQC. We believe that it is important to have
genuine input of our students as the IQC develops and recommends
new curriculum, instructional materials, and standards to the
SBE."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/22/15
AYES: Achadjian, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla,
Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau,
Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly,
Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina
Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,
Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low,
Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
Nazarian, Obernolte, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark
Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Alejo, Jones, O'Donnell, Olsen, Waldron,
Weber
Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105
6/30/15 13:58:17
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