BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: May 2, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 2592 (Furutani) - As Amended: March 29, 2012
Policy Committee: Education
Vote:10-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(SPI) and the State Board of Education (SBE) to consider persons
who teach career technical education (CTE) for membership on the
Instructional Quality Commission (IQC).
FISCAL EFFECT
1)Minor, absorbable GF cost to implement this bill. According
to the SBE, IQC serve without compensation except for
reimbursement of authorized travel costs in attending meetings
and participating in other activities.
2)In 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed $700,000 GF for the
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission
(now the IQC), which eliminated all GF support for the
commission. To date, this funding has not been restored.
COMMENTS
1)Background . The IQC, formerly the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission, is an 18-member advisory
board to SBE. 13 of the members are appointed by the SBE and
the remaining members are: one member each of the Assembly and
Senate, one public member appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly, one by the Senate Rules Committee, and one by the
governor. Commissioners tend to be recognized authorities in
a specific subject matter, professors, curriculum experts,
K-12 teachers, or community members.
The IQC advises SBE on the K-12 curriculum frameworks and K-8
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instructional materials (IM). In doing so, it serves as an
intermediary between the field experts and SBE. The commission
holds a public hearing on a framework after the Subject Matter
Committee hearing and before the SBE hearing on the framework.
It also holds a public hearing on IM after content panel
members develop their evaluation report and before SBE holds a
hearing to adopt the materials.
2)Purpose . Current law requires IQC members to represent the
following subjects taught in public schools: English, social
sciences, foreign languages, science, mathematics, visual and
performing arts, applied arts, and conservation education.
According to the author, "�CTE] is not included on the list of
subjects. Since the committee serves as an advisory committee
to the SBE, it is important that all subjects taught in public
schools have the same opportunity to serve on the commission.
It is important that the commission is representative of all
the subjects taught in order to ensure the highest level of
course standards."
3)Recent IQC appointments . In March 2012, the SBE approved 13
appointments to the IQC. According to the SBE, "Individuals
appointed to the �IQC] will serve staggering terms of up to
but no more than four years commencing in March 2012. At any
one time, at least 7 of the members must be current classroom
teachers, or mentor teachers, or both, who are assigned to
teach in grades K-12. All appointments should be broadly
representative of various ethnic groups and types of school
districts in California."
4)Limited duties of IQC until 2014-15 . AB 2 X4 (Evans), Chapter
2, Statutes of 2009, specified that local education agencies
(LEAs) are not required to purchase IM through the 2012-13 FY.
Consistent with the non-purchasing requirement, Chapter 2 also
suspended the requirement for SBE to adopt IM or conduct other
procedures associated with adoption (i.e., adopting curriculum
frameworks) until the 2013-14 school year. SB 70 (Committee on
Budget and Fiscal Review), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2011,
extended this suspension until the 2014-15 FY. As a result,
there is not any need for the IQC to conduct work related to
the adoption of IM.
AB 250 (Brownley), Chapter 608, Statues of 2011, renamed the
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Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission
the IQC and lifted the moratorium on the development of
curriculum frameworks only for the purposes of developing
frameworks for the Common Core Standards in English language
arts and mathematics. In light of this exemption, the SBE
decided to appoint members to complete this work. Prior to
2012, the SBE had not appointed IQC members to fill vacancies
due to the IM moratorium referenced above.
Analysis Prepared by : Kimberly Rodriguez / APPR. / (916)
319-2081