BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 2862 (O'Donnell) - Pupil instruction: visual and performing
arts: revision of content standards
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|Version: August 1, 2016 |Policy Vote: ED. 9 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: August 1, 2016 |Consultant: Jillian Kissee |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: This bill authorizes the Superintendent of Public
Instruction (Superintendent), in consultation with the
Instructional Quality Commission (Commission), to recommend to
the State Board of Education (Board) revisions to the visual and
performing arts standards and requires the Board to adopt,
reject, or modify any revisions by January 1, 2019.
Fiscal
Impact:
Costs to the California Department of Education (CDE) of
approximately $660,000 General Fund if the Superintendent
chooses to recommend to the Board revisions to the standards.
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These costs are attributable to selecting and consulting with
a group of subject matter experts in developing the standards
and for expert writer contracts.
Cost pressure in the millions General Fund/Proposition 98 to
make corresponding revisions to the visual and performing arts
curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional
materials. Cost pressure also related to the implementation
of instructional materials and providing professional
development to implement the revised content standards.
Background: 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. The Commission advises the Board on curriculum
and instruction matters.
The visual and performing arts content standards were last
updated in 2001. The history-social science standards are the
only other standards that are older as they were adopted in
1998. There is no statutory authority for the review or
updating of standards. Specific authority, and one-time
funding, has historically been provided to develop new standards
in specific subjects.
A schedule once existed for the review and update of frameworks
and instructional materials in many subject areas, but those
processes were suspended in 2009, due to budget constraints,
through the 2015-16 fiscal year. During the suspension special
authority and one-time funding has been provided to develop
certain curriculum frameworks and adopt instructional materials.
Proposed Law:
This bill authorizes the Superintendent, in consultation with
the Commission, to recommend to the Board revisions to the
visual and performing arts standards in the subjects of dance,
theater, music, and visual arts.
The Superintendent and the Commission are required, in
consultation with the Board, to select a group of subject matter
experts, mostly teachers, to assist in the development of
recommendations. The Superintendent, in consultation with the
Commission, is also required to hold a minimum of two public
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hearings to obtain public input.
This bill requires the National Core Arts Standards in the
subjects of dance, theater, music, and visual arts to serve as
the basis for deliberations for the revisions to the visual and
performing arts content standards.
By November 30, 2018, the Superintendent is required to present
to the Board the revised standards. By January 31, 2019, the
Board is required to adopt, reject, or modify any revisions to
the standards. If the Board makes modifications, the Board is
required to explain, in writing, to the Governor and the
Legislature the reasons for those changes and wait to adopt the
revised standards in a subsequent meeting but before March 31,
2019. If the Board rejects the standards, it is required to
notify the Governor and the Legislature the reasons for the
rejection.
Related
Legislation: AB 2290 (Santiago, 2016) authorizes the
Superintendent to recommend to the Board revisions to the world
language content standards by January 31, 2019. AB 2290 is
pending in this committee.
AB 1539 (Hagman, Chapter 876, Statutes of 2014) requires the
Instructional Quality Commission and the Board to consider
developing computer science content standards by July 31, 2019.
Staff
Comments: Revising academic content standards triggers the need
to update the corresponding the curriculum frameworks and
evaluation criteria for the instructional materials adoption so
that they are all in alignment. Similarly, there would be a
state and local cost pressure to provide and purchase
instructional materials and to provide professional development
to implement the new content standards.
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