BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2862| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 2862 Author: O'Donnell (D), et al. 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: 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. Senate Floor Amendments of 8/19/16 require the SBE to consider the adoption of a curriculum framework and evaluation criteria, and instructional materials based on the recommendations of the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC). ANALYSIS: AB 2862 Page 2 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 standards in mathematics in January 2013. (EC § 60605.11) d) Revised Career Technical Education Model Curriculum AB 2862 Page 3 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) 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. AB 2862 Page 4 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 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 SBE, if the visual and performing arts standards are adopted, to consider the adoption of a curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials that are aligned to the standards by July 31, 2020, based on recommendations of the IQC. 11)Authorizes the SBE, if the visual and performing arts standards are adopted, to adopt instructional materials for K-8 that are aligned to the standards by November 30, 2021, based on recommendations of the IQC. 12)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 AB 2862 Page 5 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: 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: (Verified8/19/16) California Art Education Association (co-source) California Music Educators Association (co-source) AB 2862 Page 6 OPPOSITION: (Verified8/19/16) 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 8/22/16 23:10:20 **** END ****