BILL NUMBER: SB 234	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 18, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 6, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland
   (Coauthor: Senator Romero)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2009

   An act to add Section 33543 to the Education Code, relating to
curriculum.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 234, as amended, Wyland. Curriculum: history-social science
curriculum framework: oral histories: genocide.
   Existing law provides that there is in the state government the
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to study
problems of courses of study in the schools of the state and, upon
request of the State Board of Education, recommend the adoption of
minimum standards for courses of study in preschool, kindergarten,
elementary, and secondary schools. Existing law also requires the
commission to recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board.
   This bill would require the commission to consider and vote on
whether to include an oral history component specifically related to
genocides in the proposed changes to the 2014 history-social science
curriculum framework as part of its regular process of developing and
revising curriculum frameworks as requested by the state board. 
The bill would specify that the oral history   component,
if included by the commission, would not require the inclusion of
oral history materials in the frameworks, but instead require the
inclusion of a listing of where those materials can be found and how
to use them in a history course. 
   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 33543 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   33543.   (a)    As part of its regular process
of developing and revising curriculum frameworks as requested by the
state board, the commission shall consider and vote on whether to
include an oral history component specifically related to genocides,
including, but not limited to, the Darfur, Rwandan, Cambodian, Jewish
Holocaust, or Armenian genocides in the proposed changes to the 2014
history-social science curriculum framework.  As 
 The oral history component, if included by the Curriculum
Commission, shall not require the inclusion of oral history 
 materials in the frameworks, but instead require the inclusion
of a listing of where those materials can be found and how to use
them in a history course. 
    (b)     As  used in this section,
"oral history component" includes, but is not necessarily limited to,
in-person testimony, video, or a multimedia option, such as a DVD or
online video.