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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                           1922 (Davis)
          
          Hearing Date:  08/02/2010           Amended: 06/29/2010
          Consultant:  Dan Troy           Policy Vote: ED 5-2
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          BILL SUMMARY:   AB 1922 would establish the California Civil  
          Rights Education Advisory Committee within the Department of  
          Education for purposes of advising the State Board of Education  
          and the Curriculum Development Commission on the inclusion of  
          civil rights education in the history-social science curriculum  
          framework and criteria for evaluating instructional materials.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions         2010-11      2011-12       2012-13     Fund
                                                                  
          Committee                         $200 for each year of  
          operation                   General
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          STAFF COMMENTS: This bill meets the criteria for referral to the  
          Suspense File.
          
          The process of adopting instructional materials begins with the  
          review and update of the curriculum framework for seven subject  
          areas.  Frameworks are the blueprints for implementing the  
          academic content standards.  The framework development process  
          typically takes 24 months from initiation to approval by the  
          State Board of Education (SBE).  Once the framework for a  
          particular subject is adopted by the SBE, the instructional  
          material adoption process begins, which includes submissions  
          from publishers, review by the Instructional Materials Advisory  
          Reviewer and Content Review Expert (both are appointed by the  
          SBE), Curriculum Commission hearings and SBE adoption.  The  
          adoption process typically takes 30 months.  

          Schools were required to provide pupils with instructional  
          materials within 24 months of adoption by SBE, but this  
          requirement is suspended from the 2008-09 to 2012-13 fiscal  
          year.  The processes for reviewing frameworks and adopting  










          instructional materials has been suspended since July 2009,  
          pursuant to AB 2 of the Fourth Extraordinary Session (Ch. 2,  
          July 2009), which among other things, prohibited the SBE from  
          reviewing frameworks and adopting instructional materials until  
          the 2013-14 school year.

          Prior to the suspension of these activities, a revision of the  
          framework in history-social science was nearing completion.  SB  
          1278 (Wyland, 2010), awaiting hearing in the Assembly  
          Appropriations Committee, would allow for the Department of  
          Education to complete that work, reportedly at minimal cost.  

          This bill would establish a committee to advise the SBE and the  
          Curriculum Commission on matters regarding civil rights  
          instruction.  Costs for operating the committee could run over  
          $200,000 for each year it is in operation.  As it maybe many  
          years before the history-social science curriculum is reviewed  
          again, the appropriate timeframe to establish the committee is  
          unclear.