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          Date of Hearing:   April 9, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                   AB 1912 (Holden) - As Amended:  March 18, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              EducationVote:6-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to  
          consider including instruction on the election of President  
          Barack Obama and the significance of the United States electing  
          its first African American President, in the History-Social  
          Science curriculum framework, as appropriate, in the next  
          adoption cycle.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor, absorbable GF costs for the Instructional Quality  
          Commission (IQC) to consider incorporating the election of  
          President Barack Obama into the History-Social Science  
          Frameworks, to the extent this can be achieved through the  
          regular process.   

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose.   The findings and declarations of the bill note the  
            historical significance of electing the first African-American  
            President of the United States.  Incorporating this event into  
            the History-Social Science Frameworks is consistent with the  
            recognition given to other recent presidencies.  

           2)Background  . California curriculum is based on state-adopted  
            content standards.  The curriculum frameworks are guidelines  
            for implementing standards developed by the IQC and approved  
            by the State Board of Education (SBE). The history/social  
            science standards were developed in 1998 and the  
            history/social science curriculum framework was last revised  
            in 2005.  A review and update of the History-Social Science  
            Framework was underway and nearly complete when the state  








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            suspended the process in 2009 due to fiscal constraints.  

            SB 1540 (Hancock), Chapter 288, Statutes of 2012, authorizes  
            the SBE to consider the adoption of a revised curriculum  
            framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials  
            in history/social science, but prohibits the CDE from  
            conducting any such work until after CDE has completed work  
            related to the development of curriculum frameworks for the  
            common core content standards, which is anticipated to be  
            2015.

           
           Analysis Prepared by  :    Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081