BILL NUMBER: SB 426	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 31, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Yee

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to add Section 60006 to the Education Code, relating to
public school instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 426, as amended, Yee. Public school instruction: curriculum
frameworks.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt the
content of curriculum frameworks  and   , 
evaluation criteria  ,  and worksheets developed to
supplement curriculum frameworks in accordance with regulations it
adopts to govern the development of curriculum frameworks and the
adoption of instructional materials.
   This bill would require  the state board to establish a
procedure in which the member of the Senate appointed to 
the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission
 would present changes to curriculum frameworks proposed by
the Legislature to the state board for its consideration 
 ,   as part of its regular process of developing and
revising curriculum frameworks as requested by the state board, to
consider and vote on whether to adopt each concurrent resolution
passed by the Legislature that proposes changes to curriculum
frameworks. The bill would require the commission biannually to
present the adopted resolutions to the state board  . The bill
would require the state board to consider  each of  the
 changes proposed   resolutions presented 
by the  Legislature   commission  as part
of  its   the board's  regular process of
developing and revising curriculum frameworks  and to respond
in writing to the Legislature regarding its conclusions on the
proposed changes  .
   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 60006 is added to the  Education Code, to read:

   60006.  (a) As part of its regular process of developing and
revising curriculum frameworks as requested by the state board, the
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission shall
consider and vote on whether to adopt each concurrent resolution
passed by the Legislature that proposes changes to curriculum
frameworks. The commission biannually shall present each of the
resolutions it adopts pursuant to this subdivision to the state
board.
   (b) The state board shall consider each of the resolutions
presented by the commission pursuant to subdivision (a) as part of
the board's regular process of developing and revising curriculum
frameworks.  
   60006.  (a) The state board shall establish a procedure in which
the member of the Senate appointed to the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission pursuant to Section 33530 shall
present changes to curriculum frameworks proposed by the Legislature
to the state board for its consideration.
   (b) The state board shall consider the changes proposed by the
Legislature as part of its regular process of developing and revising
curriculum frameworks and shall respond in writing to the
Legislature regarding its conclusions on the proposed changes.