BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
SB 725 (Hancock) - Pupil instruction and services: visual and
performing arts content standards.
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|Version: April 28, 2015 |Policy Vote: ED. 9 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: May 28, 2015 |Consultant: Jillian Kissee |
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SUSPENSE FILE. AS AMENDED.
Bill
Summary: This bill requires, by June 30, 2017, the State Board
of Education (Board) to adopt, reject, or modify visual and
performing arts content standards submitted by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction (Superintendent).
Fiscal Impact (as approved on May 28, 2015):
To the extent the Board adopts a schedule to regularly update
content standards, this bill creates costs to the California
Department of Education (CDE) of $1.2 million General Fund
over two years. This estimate includes costs for the advisory
committee as specified in this bill, and for additional staff
(5.7 positions) to support committees and draft the standards.
Updating visual and performing arts content standards could
create a cost pressure in future years to update corresponding
curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, professional
development, and assessments.
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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.
Standards in several subject areas were adopted by the Board
beginning in the late 1990s; standards in visual and performing
arts were adopted in January 2001. 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).
Proposed Law:
This bill requires, by June 30, 2017, the Board to adopt,
reject, or modify visual and performing arts content standards
submitted by the Superintendent. Specifically, this bill:
1. Requires the Board to adopt visual and performing arts
content standards pursuant to the following requirements:
A. Requires the Superintendent, in consultation
with the Board, to convene a panel of visual and
performing arts experts, as specified.
B. Requires the Superintendent and expert panel
to recommend visual and performing arts content
standards for adoption to the Board and use the
National Core Arts Standards developed by the National
Coalition for Core Arts Standards as the basis for
their deliberations.
C. Requires the Superintendent to hold at least
two public meetings in order for the public to provide
input on the visual and performing arts content
standards.
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2. Requires the Superintendent to submit the recommended
visual and performing arts standards to the Board by
January 30, 2017.
3. Requires the Board, by June 30, 2017, to adopt, reject,
or modify the visual and performing arts standards
submitted by the Superintendent.
4. Requires the Board, if it modifies the visual and
performing arts standards, to provide written reasons for
its modifications in a public meeting and requires the
Board to adopt the modifications, no sooner than, at the
next regularly scheduled public Board meeting.
5. Requires the Superintendent and the Board to present to
the Governor and appropriate policy and fiscal committees
of the Legislature a schedule and implementation plan for
integrating the visual and performing arts content
standards into the state educational system.
6. States that nothing in this bill is to be construed as
mandating an assessment of students in visual or performing
arts.
Related
Legislation:1. AB 740 (Weber, 2015) requires the Superintendent, by January 1,
2017, to recommend to the Board a schedule for the regular
update of academic content standards in all subjects for which
standards have been adopted by the Board. AB 740 is pending in
the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 711 (Santiago, 2015) requires the Board to adopt World
Languages content standards that are in accordance with the
World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. AB 711 is
pending in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 652 (Allen, 2015) delays by one year, until January 31, 2017,
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the date by which the Board is required to consider the adoption
of a revised framework for science. SB 652 is pending in this
committee.
SB 1057 (Corbett) requires the Superintendent to recommended
history-social science content standards to the Board on or
before March 30, 2018, and requires the Board to adopt, reject,
or modify the history-social science content standards by July
30, 2018.
Committee amendments (as adopted on May 28, 2015): Amendments:
(1) make implementation of this bill contingent upon the Board
adopting a schedule for the regular update of academic content
standards and (2) eliminate the requirement that the
Superintendent and Board present to the Governor and Legislature
a schedule and plan to implement standards into the educational
system.
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