Amended in Assembly January 6, 2014

Amended in Assembly March 19, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 659

Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian

February 21, 2013

An act to amend Section begin delete 1620 end delete begin insert 51226.3 end insert of the Education Code, relating to begin delete county educational agencies end delete begin insert pupil instruction end insert .

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 659, as amended, Nazarian. begin delete County educational agencies: county school service fund budgets: posting online. end delete begin insert Pupil instruction: Armenian Genocide. end insert

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Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate materials relating to civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources, consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science and other requirements. Under existing law, the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness testimony into the teaching of human rights, genocide, and the Holocaust.

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This bill would also require the incorporation of materials related to the Armenian Genocide into those publications, and would require the Armenian Genocide to be considered in the next cycle in which the history/social science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are adopted. The bill would also specify that the Legislature encourages the incorporation of an oral history component specifically related to genocide, including, but not limited to, the Darfur, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Armenian genocides, and the Jewish Holocaust, and would require testimony incorporated into an oral history component to consist only of first-hand accounts of significant historical events presented in a specified format.

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Existing law requires the county board of education to hold a public hearing on the proposed county school service fund budget for that fiscal year. Existing law further requires that the agenda for that hearing be posted at least 72 hours prior to the hearing and that it include the location where the budget will be available for inspection.

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This bill would authorize the county board of education to post the proposed budget on its Internet Web site for public inspection.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 51226.3 of the end insert begin insert Education Code end insert begin insert is amended
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51226.3.  

(a) The begin delete State Department of Education end delete begin insert department end insert
shall begin delete incorporate, end delete begin insert incorporate end insert into publications that provide
examples of curriculum resources for teacher begin delete use, end delete begin insert use end insert those
materials developed by publishers of nonfiction, trade books, and
primary sources, or other public or private organizations, that are
age-appropriate and consistent with the subject frameworks on
history and social science that deal with civil rights, human rights
violations, genocide, slavery, begin delete and end delete the Holocaust begin insert , and the Armenian
Genocide end insert .

(b) The Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor,
rescuer, liberator, and witness testimony into the teaching of human
rights, genocide, begin delete and end delete the Holocaust begin insert , and the Armenian Genocide end insert .

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(c) (1) The Legislature encourages the incorporation of an oral
history component specifically related to genocide, including, but
not limited to, the Darfur, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Armenian
genocides, and the Jewish Holocaust.

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(2) As used in this subdivision, testimony incorporated into an
oral history component shall consist only of first-hand accounts
of significant historical events presented in a format that includes,
but is not limited to, in-person testimony, video, or a multimedia
option, such as a DVD or online video.

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(c)

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begin insert (d) end insert  The Legislature encourages all state and local professional
development activities to provide teachers with content background
and resources to assist in teaching about civil rights, human rights
violations, genocide, slavery, begin delete and end delete the Holocaust begin insert , and the Armenian
Genocide end insert .

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(d)

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begin insert (e) end insert  The Legislature encourages all state and local professional
development activities to provide teachers with content background
and resources to assist in teaching about the Great Irish Famine of
1845-50.

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(e)

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begin insert (f) end insert  The Great Irish Famine of 1845-50 begin insert and the Armenian
Genocide end insert shall be considered in the next cycle in which the
history/social science curriculum framework and its accompanying
instructional materials are adopted.

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(f)

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begin insert (g) end insert  The Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide
adopted by the begin delete State Board of Education, end delete begin insert state board, end insert pursuant to
Section 51226, shall be made available to schools in grades 7 to
12, inclusive, as soon as funding is available for this purpose. In
addition, the begin delete State Department of Education end delete begin insert department end insert shall make
the curriculum available on its begin insert Internet end insert Web site.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 1620 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

1620.  

On or before July 1 of each fiscal year, the county board
of education shall hold a public hearing on the proposed county
school service fund budget for that fiscal year (the “budget year”).
The public hearing shall be held before the adoption of the budget
by the county board of education, and shall occur not less than
three days following the availability of the proposed budget for
public inspection. The agenda for that hearing shall be posted at
least 72 hours before the hearing and shall include the location of
where the budget will be available for inspection. The county board
of education may post the proposed budget on its Internet Web
site for public inspection. At the hearing, a taxpayer directly
affected by the county school service fund budget may appear
before the county board of education and speak on the proposed
budget or an item therein.

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