BILL NUMBER: SB 232 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 292
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 5, 2007
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 5, 2007
PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 31, 2007
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 4, 2007
INTRODUCED BY Senators Ducheny and Florez
FEBRUARY 14, 2007
An act to amend Sections 99200 and 99206 of the Education Code,
relating to instructional strategies.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 232, 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inoperative on June 30, 2007, and are repealed on January 1, 2008.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 require the Concurrence Committee to provide a
final report to the Governor and to appropriate policy and fiscal
committees of the Legislature on or before January 1, 2011, including
specified information relating to the subject matter projects. The
bill would delete obsolete language relating to an independent note
changes of the subject matter projects that was required to be
completed prior to February 1, 2006. The bill would extend the date
on which those projects become inoperative to June 30, 2012, and the
repeal date to January 1, 2013, thus extending the existence of these
projects by 5 years.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 99200 of the Education Code is amended to read:
99200. (a) With funds appropriated therefor, and with the
approval of the Concurrence Committee, the Regents of the University
of California shall establish and maintain cooperative endeavors
designed to accomplish the following:
(1) Develop and enhance teachers' subject matter and content
knowledge in the subject matter areas specified in Section 99201.
(2) Develop and enhance teachers' instructional strategies to
improve student learning and academic performance as measured against
State Board of Education standards adopted pursuant to Section 60605
and, where applicable, to standards adopted pursuant to Section
60811.
(3) Provide teachers with instructional strategies for working
with English learners.
(4) Provide teachers with access to and opportunity to examine
current research that is demonstrably linked to improved student
learning and achievement as measured by performance levels on state
tests administered pursuant to Section 60605 or on English language
development assessments developed, pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing
with Section 60810) of Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2, for English
language learners.
(5) Maintain subject-specific professional communities that create
and encourage ongoing opportunities for teacher learning and
research.
(6) Develop and deploy as teacher leaders, teachers with
demonstrated levels of expertise in the classroom and certifiable
levels of content knowledge.
(b) The duties of the Concurrence Committee shall include, but
need not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) Ensuring that the statewide and local subject matter projects
comply with requirements of this chapter.
(2) Developing rules and regulations for the statewide subject
matter projects.
(3) Providing a final report to the Governor and to appropriate
policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before January
1, 2011, on the subject matter projects. The report shall include,
but need not be limited to, all of the following information,
compiled for a four-year period:
(A) The number, and level of experience, of participants in each
subject matter project.
(B) The total amount of funds expended, on an annual basis, for
each subject matter project.
(C) An explanation of the type of professional development
activities offered pursuant to each subject matter project.
(D) A list including the name and location of each school
affiliated with a subject matter project.
(c) Grants to establish local sites of statewide subject matter
projects shall be available to institutions of higher education,
county offices of education and school districts, or any combination
thereof, with a subject matter proposal approved pursuant to this
article. Once established, each subject matter project shall be
administered by the University of California in cooperation with the
Concurrence Committee. Local sites of statewide subject matter
projects shall be distributed throughout the state so that
elementary, secondary, and postsecondary school personnel located in
rural, urban, and suburban areas may avail themselves of subject
matter projects.
(d) The Concurrence Committee shall be composed of individuals who
are affiliated with leadership, management, or instruction, in
education or education policy entities and shall be selected as
follows:
(1) One representative selected by the Regents of the University
of California.
(2) One representative selected by the Board of Trustees of the
California State University.
(3) Two representatives selected by the State Board of Education,
at least one of whom has significant experience with direct classroom
instruction.
(4) One representative selected by the Governor.
(5) One representative selected by the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing.
(6) One representative selected by the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission.
(7) One representative of the California Community Colleges
selected by the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges.
(8) One representative of an independent postsecondary institution
selected by the Association of Independent California Colleges and
Universities.
SEC. 2. Section 99206 of the Education Code is amended to read:
99206. This article shall become inoperative on June 30, 2012,
and, as of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends
the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.