BILL NUMBER: AB 580	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 12, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to  add   amend  Section 
51204.8 to   60200.6 of  the Education Code,
relating to pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 580, as amended, Davis. Pupil instruction: curriculum: civil
rights. 
   Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt at
least 5 basic instructional materials in specified subject areas,
including social science, for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8,
inclusive. A provision of existing law requires instructional
materials adopted for social science to include, among other things,
information designed to instruct pupils on the civil rights movement.
 
   This bill would authorize the state board to develop a social
science curriculum pursuant to that provision, as specified. 

   Existing law establishes courses of study to be provided to
elementary and secondary school pupils. The State Department of
Education is required to incorporate, into publications that provide
examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, those materials
that are age appropriate and consistent with subject frameworks on
history and social science that deal with, among other things, civil
rights.  
   This bill would provide that the Legislature encourages the State
Board of Education to develop curriculum that teaches pupils about
the importance of the civil rights movement, as specified. 

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 60200.6 of the   
 Education Code   is amended to read: 
   60200.6.   (a)    Instructional materials
adopted pursuant to this chapter for the category of social science
as specified in paragraph  (5)   (4)  of
subdivision (a) of Section 60200 shall include information designed
to instruct pupils on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights
movement, and contributions made by ethnic minority groups to the
history of the United States. The state board shall ensure that the
materials present the information in a manner consistent with the
instruction provided in each grade level. The state board shall
endeavor to see that this objective is accomplished in the evaluation
of instructional materials for educational content. 
   (b) The curriculum developed pursuant to this section may include,
but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following:  
   (1) Issues related to social justice, power relations, diversity,
mutual respect, and civic engagement.  
   (2) The definition of civil rights and the modern civil rights
movement and the tactics used by civil rights activists to achieve
social change.  
   (3) A focus on the modern civil rights era and the events that
took place in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including, but not
limited to, demonstrations, resistance, organizing, nonviolent civil
disobedience, and collective action and unity in the pursuit of fair
and equal treatment for all Americans.  
   (4) A review of significant court cases, legislation,
organizations, events, monuments, literature, arts, and contributions
of men, women, and other significant figures of the modern civil
rights era.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 51204.8 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
   51204.8.  The Legislature encourages the state board to develop
curriculum to teach pupils about the importance of the civil rights
movement in American history and the lives of all Americans. The
curriculum developed under this section may include, but not
necessarily be limited to, all of the following:
   (a) Issues related to social justice, power relations, diversity,
mutual respect, and civic engagement.
   (b) The definition of civil rights and the modern civil rights
movement and the tactics used by civil rights activists to achieve
social change.
   (c) A focus on the modern civil rights era and the events that
took place in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including, but not
limited to, demonstrations, resistance, organizing, nonviolent civil
disobedience, and collective action and unity in the pursuit of fair
and equal treatment for all Americans.
    (d) A review of significant court cases, legislation,
organizations, events, monuments, literature, arts, and contributions
of men, women, and other significant figures of the modern civil
rights era.