Amended in Assembly August 22, 2014

Amended in Senate April 30, 2014

Amended in Senate April 10, 2014

Senate Bill No. 1380

Introduced by Senator Wyland

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(Coauthor: Assembly Member Nazarian)

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February 21, 2014

An act to amend Section 51226.3 of, and to add begin delete Sections 51221.45 and end delete begin insert Section end insert 51226.4 to, the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1380, as amended, Wyland. Pupil instruction: social science: begin delete military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq: end delete genocide.

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(1) Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in certain areas of study, including, among others, social sciences.

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This bill would provide that the Legislature encourages instruction in social sciences in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction on the American military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for that instruction to include a component drawn from personal testimony, as specified.

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(2) Existing

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begin insert Existing end insert 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 for teacher use, 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. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.

This bill would require the commission to consider begin insert including end insert the Armenian Genocide begin delete for inclusion end delete in the begin insert recommended end insert history-social science curriculum framework when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised as required by law. The bill would specify that the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, the Holocaust, and genocide, including the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides. The bill would define oral testimony to mean firsthand accounts of significant historical events presented in a specified format. The bill would provide that the Legislature encourages certain actions relating to the instruction of genocide, including, among others, that content providers and teachers promote pupil analysis of genocides, including the ethnic, religious, and political causes.

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This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 51226.3 of the Education Code, proposed by AB 1915, to be operative only if AB 1915 and this bill are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last.

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

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

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SECTION 1.  

Section 51221.45 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 51221.4, to read:

51221.45.  

(a) The Legislature encourages the instruction in
social science in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction
on the American military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq,
including Operation Desert Storm.

(b) The Legislature encourages the instruction described in
subdivision (a) to include a component drawn from personal
testimony, especially in the form of oral or video histories of
military veterans who were involved in those conflicts.

(c) Any oral histories used as part of the instruction described
in subdivision (a) should exemplify the personal sacrifice, courage,
and sense of duty of those who were called upon to serve.

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Section 51226.3 of the Education Code is
amended to read:

51226.3.  

(a) The department shall incorporate into publications
that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use
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, and the Holocaust.

(b) (1) The Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor,
rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of
human rights, the Holocaust, and genocide, including, but not
limited to, the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan
genocides.

(2) As used in this subdivision, “oral testimony” means the
firsthand 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 an online video.

(c) 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, and the Holocaust.

(d) 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) When the history-social science curriculum framework is
revised as required by law, the Instructional Quality Commission
shall consider including the Great Irish Famine of 1845-50 and
the Armenian Genocide in the history-social science curriculum
framework.

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(e) The Great Irish Famine of 1845-50 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) When the history-social science curriculum framework is
revised as required by law, the Instructional Quality Commission
shall consider including the Armenian Genocide in the
recommended history-social science curriculum framework.

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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 state board, 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 department
shall make the curriculum available on its Internet Web site.

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begin insert SEC. 1.5. 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
to read: end insert

51226.3.  

(a)  begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert The begin delete State Department of Education shall
incorporate, end delete begin insert department shall 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, and the Holocaust.

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(2) The Legislature encourages the department to incorporate
into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources
for teacher use 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 the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan
genocides.

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(b)  begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert The Legislature encourages the incorporation of
survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness begin insert oral end insert testimony into the
teaching of human rights, begin delete genocide, and the Holocaust. end delete begin insert end insert begin insert the
Holocaust, and genocide, including, but not limited to, the
Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides. end insert

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(2) As used in this subdivision, “oral testimony” means the
firsthand 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 an online video.

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

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

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

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(f) When the history-social science curriculum framework is
revised as required by law, the Instructional Quality Commission
shall consider including the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and
Rwandan genocides in the recommended history-social science
curriculum framework.

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(f)

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begin insert ( end insert 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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(h) For purposes of this article, “Armenian Genocide” means
the torture, starvation, and murder of 1,500,000 Armenians, which
included death marches into the Syrian desert, by the rulers of the
Ottoman Turkish Empire and the exile of more than 500,000
innocent people during the period from 1915 to 1923, inclusive.

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Section 51226.4 is added to the Education Code, to
read:

51226.4.  

Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 51226.3, the
Legislature encourages all of the following:

(a) Instruction in the origins of genocide as a phenomenon
throughout history that continues to the present day.

(b) Content providers and teachers to promote pupil analysis of
genocides, including the ethnic, religious, and political causes.

(c) Content providers and teachers to incorporate instructional
materials for pupils that examine the possible means of preventing
and halting genocide policies or interventions by the United
Nations, other groups of nations, or the United States.

(d) Examinations of interventions to prevent genocides should
include arguments and evidence for and against intervention, the
role of public support for the intervention, and the possible
consequences of such interventions.

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Section 1.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to
Section 51226.3 of the Education Code proposed by both this bill
and Assembly Bill 1915. It shall only become operative if (1) both
bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1,
2015, (2) each bill amends Section 51226.3 of the Education Code,
and (3) this bill is enacted after Assembly Bill 1915, in which case
Section 1 of this bill shall not become operative.

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