BILL NUMBER: AB 1056 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 23, 2006
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 17, 2006
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 9, 2006
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 4, 2006
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Chu
FEBRUARY 22, 2005
An act to add and repeal Section 60605.4 to
Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 60620) to Chapter 5 of Part
33 of the Education Code, relating to public school
curriculum.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1056, as amended, Chu Education Finance: categorical
programs. Public school curriculum: tolerance and
intergroup relations instruction.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt
statewide academically rigorous content standards in core curriculum
areas, including, but not limited to, history/social science,
and requires the board to review and modify existing curriculum
frameworks where appropriate to bring them into alignment with these
content standards.
This bill would establish the Tolerance Education Pilot Program,
to be administered by the State Department of Education, to promote
instruction in public schools on tolerance and intergroup relations
as part of the instruction in the history/social science content
standards, as specified. The bill would require the department to
select 10 schools to participate in the program and receive onetime
grants of $25,000 each. The bill would repeal those provisions
inoperative on January 1, 2011, and it would repeal them as of that
date.
This bill would require the State Board of Education to integrate
instruction on intergroup relations and tolerance into existing
English language arts, and social science curriculum frameworks where
appropriate, as a component of the specified review, with certain
additional requirements. The bill would set forth the intent of the
Legislature to establish these requirements as a pilot program in the
county of Los Angeles and would limit the requirements to that
county.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Article 2.5 (commencing with Section
60620) is added to Chapter 5 of Part 33 of the Education
Code , to read:
Article 2.5. Tolerance Education Pilot Program
60620. This article shall be known, and may be cited as, the
Tolerance Education Pilot Program.
60621. (a) The Tolerance Education Pilot Program is hereby
established, and shall be administered by the department.
(b) The purpose of the program is to promote instruction on
tolerance and intergroup relations as part of the instruction in the
history/social science content standards, as adopted by the state
board pursuant to Section 60605.
(c) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article
that funding provided to schools pursuant to the program be used to
supplement instruction in the history/social science content
standards, as adopted by the state board pursuant to Section 60605.
(d) For purposes of this article, the term "school" means any
public school that provides instruction in kindergarten or any of
grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
60622. (a) A school may apply to the department to receive funds
pursuant to the program. The department shall select 10 schools to
participate in the program and to receive onetime grants of
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) each.
(b) Funding provided pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be used by
schools for either of the following purposes:
(1) Purchasing supplemental instructional materials that promote
tolerance and intergroup relations.
(2) Providing professional development for teachers on tolerance
and intergroup relations.
(c) In developing any professional development training on
tolerance and intergroup relations pursuant to the program, schools
are encouraged, prior to providing instructional materials to pupils
and in order to integrate instruction on tolerance and intergroup
relations, to consult with human relations commissions and civil
rights organizations that are involved in addressing discrimination
based on actual or perceived gender, ethnic group identification,
race, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability,
sexual orientation, immigrant status, or association with a person or
group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
(d) Each school that is selected to participate in the program and
that receives funding pursuant to this article shall, three years
after its initial receipt of funding, submit a report to the
department on the effectiveness of the program and the use of program
funds by the school.
(e) Implementation of the program is contingent upon funding made
available for this purpose in the annual Budget Act.
60623. This article shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2011, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2011, deletes or extends
that date.
SECTION 1. Section 60605.4 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
60605.4. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish the
requirements of this section as a pilot program.
(b) As part of the process required by Section 60200 and
subdivision (e) of Section 60605, the state board shall integrate
instruction on intergroup relations and tolerance into existing
English language arts and social science curriculum frameworks, where
appropriate.
(c) Prior to performing the requirements of subdivision (b), the
state board shall, to the extent feasible, consult with civil rights
organizations and human relations commissions that are involved in
addressing discrimination on the basis of characteristics identified
in subdivision (a) of Section 422.55 of the Penal Code and
immigration status; to obtain their recommendations.
(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute
that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends that
date.