BILL NUMBER: AB 1056	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 24, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 2, 2006
	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
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Chan, Dymally, Hancock, Jerome
Horton, Jones, Karnette, Laird, Lieber, and Pavley)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to add and repeal 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, Chu  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, as defined, 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 one-time grants of $25,000 each for one of 2 specified
purposes. The bill would require each school selected to participate
in the program that receives funding through the program to submit a
report to the department on the effectiveness of the program and the
use of program funds 3 years after the school receives its initial
funding. The bill would require each participating school to develop
a plan to implement a tolerance and intergroup relations curriculum.
The bill would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2011.


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.
   (e) For purposes of this article, "tolerance" means attitudes and
behaviors that convey respect toward individuals and groups,
especially those individuals and groups that have been, and continue
to be, systematically and historically marginalized. Tolerance does
not mean a passive allowance or indulgence of the beliefs or
practices of another individual.
   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 one-time 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 and partner 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, familial 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) Each school that is selected to participate in the program
shall develop a plan to implement a tolerance and intergroup
relations curriculum.
   (f) 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.