BILL NUMBER: SB 234	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 15, 2009
	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)
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Krekorian   ) 

                        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  , as defined, 
specifically related to genocides in the proposed changes to the
 2014   2015  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  in an appendix
to the updated framework  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  necessarily  limited to, the Darfur, Rwandan,
Cambodian, Jewish Holocaust, or Armenian genocides in the proposed
changes to the  2014  2015  history-social
science curriculum framework. 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  in
an appendix to the updated framework  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"
  testimony incorporated into an "oral history component"
shall consist only of first-hand accounts of significant historical
events, presented in a format that  includes, but is not
necessarily limited to, in-person testimony, video, or a multimedia
option, such as a DVD or online video.