BILL NUMBER: AB 2116	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lara

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to add Section 60605.10 to the Education Code, relating to
academic content standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2116, as introduced, Lara. Academic content standards:
implementation: study.
   Existing law, until July 1, 2014, establishes the Academic Content
Standards Commission and requires the commission to develop
internationally benchmarked academic content standards in language
arts, and mathematics, at least 85% of which are required to be the
common core academic standards developed by the Common Core State
Standards Initiative consortium or another specified interstate
collaboration. Existing law requires the commission to present its
recommended academic content standards to the State Board of
Education and requires the state board by August 2, 2010, to either
adopt the standards proposed by the commission or reject them.
Existing law also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
and the state board to present to the Governor and the appropriate
policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a schedule and
implementation plan for integrating these academic content standards
into the state educational system.
   This bill would require the State Department of Education, with
the approval of the state board, to contract for a multiyear
independent study of those academic content standards and any
subsequent common core academic content standards developed by the
Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium, or other
interstate collaboration, and adopted by the state board. The bill
would require that the study examine and publicly report on the
progress of the implementation of the academic content standards in a
representative sample of schools and school districts across the
state, as specified.
   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 60605.10 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   60605.10.  (a) The department, with the approval of the state
board, shall contract for a multiyear independent study of the
implementation of the academic content standards adopted by the state
board pursuant to Section 60605.8, as well as any subsequent common
core academic content standards developed by the consortium or
interstate collaboration set forth in Section 60605.7 and adopted by
the state board. The scope of the work and the final contract for
this study shall be approved by the state board.
   (b) The study shall examine and publicly report on the progress of
the implementation of the academic content standards described in
subdivision (a) in a representative sample of schools and school
districts across the state, with a focus on whether implementation is
proceeding in a manner that promotes equal opportunities for all
pupils to learn the academic content developed pursuant to the
standards and to be successful on related state assessments.