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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2862
Author: O'Donnell (D), et al.
Amended: 8/1/16 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: 7-0, 8/11/16
AYES: Lara, Bates, Beall, Hill, McGuire, Mendoza, Nielsen
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 80-0, 6/1/16 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT: Pupil instruction: visual and performing arts:
revision of content standards
SOURCE: California Art Education Association
California Music Educators Association
DIGEST: This bill requires the Superintendent of Public
Instruction (SPI) to recommend to the State Board of Education
(SBE) revisions to the visual and performing arts content
standards by January 1, 2019.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1) Authorizes the SPI to recommend, and for the SBE to approve,
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modifications to the common core academic content standards
in mathematics, as specified.
2) Required 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,
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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 Instructional Quality Commission is required to
consider developing and recommending to the SBE standards
in computer science by July 31, 2019. (EC § 60605.4)
This bill:
1) Requires 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 the subjects of dance,
theater, music, and visual arts.
2) Requires the SPI, by November 30, 2018, to present to the
SBE the revised visual and performing arts standards, based
on the work of the group of experts, conducted in
consultation with the IQC.
3) Requires the SBE, by January 31, 2019, to adopt, reject, or
modify and revisions recommended by the SPI.
4) Requires the SPI, in consultation with the IQC and the SBE,
to select a group of experts in visual and performing arts
for purposes of assisting the SPI in developing
recommendations for revisions to the standards. This bill
requires a majority of this group of experts to be current
public school elementary or secondary classroom teachers who
have a valid California professional teaching credential.
5) Requires the National Core Arts Standards in the subjects of
dance, theater, music, and visual arts, developed by the
National Coalition for Core Arts Standards, to serve as the
basis for deliberations regarding revisions to the visual and
performing arts content standards.
6) Requires the SPI, in consultation with the IQC, to hold a
minimum of two public hearings in order for the public to
provide input on the recommended revisions, and requires the
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SBE to adopt, reject, or modify those recommendations at a
subsequent public meeting.
7) 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.
8) Requires the SBE, if it modifies the visual and performing
arts standards recommended by the SPI, in a meeting conducted
pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, provide
written reasons for its revisions. This bill prohibits the
SBE from adopting revised standards at the same meeting it
provides its written reasons, but must adopt the revisions at
a subsequent meeting conducted no later than March 31, 2019.
9) Requires the SBE, if it rejects the visual and performing
arts standards recommended by the SPI, to transmit to the
SPI, the Governor, and the appropriate policy and fiscal
committees of the Legislature a specific written explanation
of the reasons for the rejection of the standards presented
by the SPI.
10)Requires the public hearings and meetings to be held
pursuant 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
Superintendent of Public Instruction 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
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one subject area at a time.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Costs to the California Department of Education of
approximately $660,000 General Fund if the SPI chooses to
recommend to the SBE revisions to the standards. 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.
SUPPORT: (Verified8/13/16)
California Art Education Association (co-source)
California Music Educators Association (co-source)
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson
Association of California School Administrators
California Alliance for Arts Education
California Association for Bilingual Education
California Association for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance
California Dance Education Association
California Federation of Teachers
California School Boards Association
California State PTA
California Teachers Association
Los Angeles Unified School District
National Association of Music Merchants
San Diego Unified School District
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San Francisco Unified School District
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/12/16)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 80-0, 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, Grove, Hadley, Harper,
Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim,
Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis,
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
Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105
8/15/16 20:30:07
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