BILL ANALYSIS
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.