BILL NUMBER: SB 1278	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to repeal Section 60200.7 of, and to repeal and add Section
60200.1 of, the Education Code, relating to instructional materials,
and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1278, as introduced, Wyland. Instructional materials: adoption.

   Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic
instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8,
inclusive, for governing boards. Existing law sets forth a schedule
for the submission of instructional materials to the board for
adoption. Notwithstanding this schedule, existing law prohibits the
state board from adopting instructional materials or following the
procedures related to that adoption until the 2013-14 school year.
   This bill would repeal the delay of the adoption of instructional
materials and replace the schedule for adoption by allowing
instructional materials for specified subjects to be submitted in
each year from 2012 to 2018, inclusive. The bill would require the
state board to adopt a revised curriculum framework and evaluation
criteria for instructional materials in history-social science and
science in 2011.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 60200.1 of the Education Code is repealed.

   60200.1.  (a) (1) The instructional materials described in
paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 60200 shall be submitted
to the state board for adoption in 2008.
   (2) The instructional materials for foreign languages shall be
submitted to the state board for adoption in 2012.
   (3) The instructional materials for health shall be submitted to
the state board for adoption in 2013.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the requirement in
paragraph (6) of subdivision (c) of Section 60200 that other
criteria be approved at least 30 months before the date that the
materials are to be approved for adoption shall not apply if all of
the following conditions are met:
   (1) The criteria adopted are consistent with the content standards
adopted by the state board in each of the four core content areas
for which standards are adopted.
   (2) The schedule for the adoption of instructional materials
requires instructional materials for history-social science to be
adopted in November 2011, and instructional materials for science to
be adopted by November 2012.
   (3) The state board approves criteria for the adoption of
instructional materials in history-social science at least 18 months
before the state board adopts instructional materials in
history-social science.
   (4) The state board approves the criteria for the adoption of
instructional materials for science at least 24 months before the
state board adopts instructional materials in science. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 60200.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   60200.1.  (a) Instructional materials for the following subjects
shall be submitted for adoption by the state board as follows:
   (1) Mathematics in 2012.
   (2) English language arts in 2013.
   (3) History-social science in 2014.
   (4) Health in 2015.
   (5) Science in 2016.
   (6) World languages in 2017.
   (7) Visual and performing arts in 2018.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the state board shall adopt a
revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for
instructional materials in history-social science and science in
2011.
  SEC. 3.  Section 60200.7 of the Education Code is repealed.

   60200.7.  Notwithstanding Sections 60200 and 60200.1, the state
board shall not adopt instructional materials or follow the
procedures adopted pursuant to Sections 60200 and 60200.1 until the
2013-14 school year. 
  SEC. 4.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure that the instructional materials adoption
process is revived as quickly as possible so that pupils and
educators benefit from the revised curriculum frameworks and
instructional materials, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.