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                                   THIRD READING 


          Bill No:  AB 2290
          Author:   Santiago (D) 
          Amended:  6/22/16 in Senate
          Vote:     21 

           SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE:  9-0, 6/15/16
           AYES:  Liu, Block, Hancock, Huff, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan,  
            Vidak

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:  6-1, 8/11/16
           AYES:  Lara, Bates, Beall, Hill, McGuire, Mendoza
           NOES:  Nielsen

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  77-3, 6/1/16 - See last page for vote

           SUBJECT:   Pupil instruction:  world languages:  revision of  
                     content standards


          SOURCE:    California Language Teachers Association

          DIGEST:   This bill authorizes the Superintendent of Public  
          Instruction (SPI) to recommend to the State Board of Education  
          (SBE) revisions to the world language content standards, and  
          requires the SBE to adopt, modify or reject any revisions by  
          January 31, 2019.

          ANALYSIS:  
          
          Existing law:

          1)Authorizes the SPI to recommend, and for the SBE to approve,  
            modifications to the common core academic content standards in  








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            mathematics, as specified.  

          2)Requires the SBE to adopt statewide academic content standards  
            in the core curriculum areas of reading, writing, and  
            mathematics, and requires the Academic Content Standards  
            Commission to develop academic content standards in language  
            arts and mathematics.

            Academic content standards define the knowledge, concepts, and  
            skills that students should acquire at each grade level.   
            Curricular frameworks are the blueprint for implementing the  
            standards, and include criteria by which instructional  
            materials are evaluated.

            Standards in several subject areas were adopted by the SBE  
            beginning in the late 1990s.  There is no statutory authority  
            for the review or updating of standards.  A schedule once  
            existed for the review and update of frameworks and  
            instructional materials in many subject areas, but those  
            processes were suspended on July 28, 2009 due to budget  
            constraints.  Specific authority has since been provided to  
            develop new standards in specific subjects (statutory  
            authority was also provided to develop frameworks and  
            instructional materials in some of these subjects).

            The SBE has adopted, or is scheduled to adopt, the following  
            standards:

             a)   The California Common Core Standards in English language  
               arts and mathematics were adopted on August 2, 2010.   
               (Education Code § 60605.8)

             b)   English language development standards that are aligned  
               with the common core standards in English language arts in  
               November 7, 2012.  (Former EC § 60811.3)

             c)   A modification of the previously adopted common core  
               standards in mathematics in January 2013.  (EC § 60605.11)

             d)   Revised Career Technical Education Model Curriculum  
               Standards on January 16, 2013.  (EC § 51226)

             e)   The Next Generation Science Standards on September 4,  
               2013.  (Former EC § 60605.85)







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             f)   English language development standards that are aligned  
               with the common core standards in mathematics and science.   
               The resource, Integrating the CA ELD Standards into K-12  
               Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning, was released  
               in December 2015.  (EC § 60811.4)

             g)   The Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) is required  
               to consider developing and recommending to the SBE  
               standards in computer science by July 31, 2019.  (EC §  
               60605.4)

          This bill: 

          1)Authorizes the SPI to recommend to the SBE revisions to the  
            world language content standards that were adopted by the SBE  
            in 2009.

          2)Requires the SBE, by January 31, 2019, to adopt, reject, or  
            modify any revisions recommended by the SPI.

          3)Requires the SPI, in consultation with the SBE, to select a  
            group of experts in this subject area for purposes of  
            assisting the SPI in developing recommendations for revisions  
            to the standards.  This bill requires a majority of this group  
            to be current public school elementary or secondary classroom  
            teachers who have a valid professional teaching credential.

          4)Requires the SPI to hold a minimum of two public hearings in  
            order for the public to provide input on the recommended  
            revisions, and requires the SBE to adopt, reject, or modify  
            those recommendations at a subsequent public meeting.

          5)Requires the SBE, if it modifies any revisions recommended to  
            these content standards, to explain in writing to the Governor  
            and the Legislature the reasons for modifying the recommended  
            revised content standards.

          6)Requires the IQC to ensure any revisions to the world  
            languages content standards are incorporated into that  
            curriculum framework and evaluation criteria (for  
            instructional materials) by July 31, 2020.

          7)Requires the public hearings and meetings to be held pursuant  







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            to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.

          Comments
          
          Comprehensive approach stalled.  There is no statutory authority  
          for the regular review or updating of standards.  Statutory  
          authority has been provided to develop new standards in specific  
          subjects, such as the California common core standards in  
          English language arts and mathematics, and the Next Generation  
          Science standards.  The Legislature has made several  
          unsuccessful attempts to require updates to the standards in  
          additional subject areas.  AB 740 (Weber, 2015) requires the SPI  
          to recommend to the SBE a schedule for the regular update of  
          academic content standards.  AB 740 stalled in the Senate  
          Appropriations Committee due to a disagreement with the  
          Administration over which entity should update the standards, a  
          panel of subject matter experts for each standard or the IQC.   
          AB 740 provides a comprehensive and thoughtful approach to the  
          revision of all standards and frameworks, a better approach than  
          one-off measures that address one subject area at a time.


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


          According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:


           The California Department of Education anticipates costs of  
            between $95,000 to $176,000 General Fund to recommend  
            revisions to the world language content standards to the SBE.   
            These costs include funding to support an advisory committee  
            with subject matter experts, a primary writer contract, and  
            press editing.


           Cost pressure in the millions General Fund/Proposition 98 to  
            make corresponding revisions to the world language curriculum  
            framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials.  
             Significant cost pressures also related to the implementation  
            of instructional materials and providing professional  
            development to implement the revised content standards.








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          SUPPORT:   (Verified8/13/16)


          California Language Teachers Association (source)
          State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson
          California Teachers Association
          Californians Together Coalition
          Los Angeles Unified School District


          OPPOSITION:   (Verified8/12/16)


          None received


          ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  77-3, 6/1/16
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, 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, Hadley, Roger  
            Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey,  
            Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mayes, McCarty,  
            Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell,  
            Olsen, Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,  
            Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner,  
            Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon
          NOES:  Grove, Harper, Mathis

          Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105
          8/16/16 9:17:09


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