BILL NUMBER: SB 232	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Ducheny and Florez

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2007

   An act to amend Sections 99201 and 99206 of the Education Code,
relating to instructional strategies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 232, as introduced, Ducheny. Instructional strategies: subject
matter projects.
   Existing law provides for the establishment and maintenance of 6
subject matter projects by the Regents of the University of
California with the approval of the Concurrence Committee. Existing
law provides that these subject matter projects are to create
opportunities for researchers, higher education faculty, and
elementary and secondary school faculty to work together to identify
exemplary teaching practices, examine and develop research on
learning, knowledge, and educational materials, and to provide
support to teachers to develop and enhance content knowledge and
pedagogical skills. Under existing law, these projects become
inoperative on June 30, 2007, and are repealed on January 1, 2008.
   This bill would add The California Arts Project, the California
Foreign Language Project, and the California Physical
Education-Health Project to the subject matter projects authorized
under existing law. The bill would extend the inoperative date of the
projects to June 30, 2014, and the repeal date to January 1, 2015,
thus extending the existence of these programs by 7 years.
   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.  Section 99201 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   99201.  The following subject matter projects shall be authorized
pursuant to this chapter:
   (a) The California  Writing   Arts 
Project.
   (b) The California  Reading and Literature  
Foreign Language  Project.
   (c) The California  Mathematics  
History-Social Science  Project.
   (d) The California Science   Mathematics
 Project.
   (e) The California  History-Social Science  
Physical Education-   Health  Project. 
   (f) The California Reading and Literature Project.  
   (g) The California Science Project.  
   (h) The California Writing Project.  
   (f) 
    (i)    The World History and International
Studies Project.
  SEC. 2.  Section 99206 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   99206.  This article shall become inoperative on June 30, 
2007   2014  , and, as of January 1,  2008
  2015  , is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute that is enacted before January 1,  2008 
 2015  , deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes
inoperative and is repealed.