BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2290| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 2290 Author: Santiago (D) Amended: 8/19/16 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 the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to recommend to the State Board of Education (SBE) revisions to the world language content standards by January 31, 2019, and requires the SBE to adopt, modify or reject any revisions by March 31, 2019. Senate Floor Amendments of 8/19/16 require, rather than authorize, the SPI to recommend revisions to the world language standards, require consultation with the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC), and recast provisions to mirror those in AB 2862 (O'Donnell) relating to revisions to the visual and performing arts standards. AB 2290 Page 2 ANALYSIS: Existing law: 1)Authorizes the SPI to recommend, and for the SBE to approve, modifications to the common core academic content standards in 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 AB 2290 Page 3 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) 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 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)Require the SPI, in consultation with the IQC, to recommend to the SBE revisions to the world language content standards that were adopted by the SBE in 2009. 2)Requires the SPI, in consultation with the IQC and SBE, to select a group of experts in this subject area to assist the SPI in developing recommended 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. 3)Requires the SPI, in consultation with the IQC, before presenting the recommended revisions to the SBE to hold a minimum of two public hearings in order for the public to provide input on the recommended revisions. 4)Requires the SPI, in consultation with the IQC, to present his or her recommended revisions to the SBE by January 31, 2019. 5)Requires the SBE, by March 31, 2019, to adopt, reject, or modify any revisions recommended by the SPI. 6)Requires the SBE, if it modifies any revisions recommended to these content standards, to do both of the following: AB 2290 Page 4 a) Explain in writing to the Governor and the Legislature the reasons for the modifications. b) In a meeting conducted pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, provide written reasons for its modifications. This bill prohibits from adopting its modified revisions at the same meeting it provides its written reasons, and instead requires these modified revisions at a subsequent meeting conducted by May 31, 2019. 7)Requires the SBE, if it rejects the recommended revisions, to transmit to the SPI, the Governor and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a detailed written explanation of its reasons for rejecting the recommended revisions. 8)Requires the SBE, if it adopts revisions to the world language standards, to consider adopting curriculum framework and evaluation criteria that are aligned to the revised standards by September 30, 2020, based on any recommendations the IQC may make. 9)Authorizes the SBE, if it adopts revisions to the world language standards, to adopt instructional materials for K-8 that are aligned to the revised standards by January 31, 2022, based on any recommendations the IQC may make. 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 AB 2290 Page 5 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. SUPPORT: (Verified8/19/16) California Language Teachers Association (source) OPPOSITION: (Verified8/19/16) 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, AB 2290 Page 6 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 8/22/16 23:01:10 **** END ****