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Bill No: SB 1380
Author: Wyland (R)
Amended: 8/22/14
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 8-0, 4/24/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Galgiani, Hancock, Hueso, Huff,
Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Correa
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 6-0, 5/5/14
AYES: De Le�n, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Padilla
SENATE FLOOR : 33-0, 5/12/14
AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Cannella, Corbett,
Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Fuller, Galgiani, Hancock,
Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson, Lara, Leno, Lieu, Liu,
Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Padilla, Pavley, Roth, Steinberg,
Torres, Vidak, Walters, Wolk, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Evans, Gaines, Knight, Nielsen,
Wright, Yee
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not available
SUBJECT : Pupil instruction: genocide
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the Instructional Quality
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Commission (IQC) to consider including the Armenian Genocide in
the history-social science framework, and encourages instruction
to include specific components.
Assembly Amendments delete provisions which encouraged
instruction in social sciences in grades 7-12 to include
instruction on the American military conflicts in Afghanistan
and Iraq, including Operation Desert Storm, as specified; add a
coauthor; and add double-jointing language with AB 1915
(Nazarian).
ANALYSIS : Academic content standards define the knowledge,
concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade
level. Curricular frameworks are the blueprint for implementing
the standards, and include criteria by which instructional
materials are evaluated.
The history-social science framework was last adopted in 2005.
A review of this framework was underway and nearly complete when
the state suspended the process due to budget constraints. The
process for reviewing frameworks has been suspended since July
28, 2009. The State Board of Education is specifically
prohibited from reviewing frameworks and adopting instructional
materials until the 2015-16 school year. However, the Board is
authorized to revise the history-social science framework but
only upon completion of work related to the development of
frameworks for the common core standards in English language
arts and mathematics.
This bill:
1.Requires the IQC, when the history-social science framework is
revised, to consider including the Armenian Genocide in the
history-social science framework.
2.Encourages instruction in the origins of genocide and
encourages content providers and teachers to promote pupil
analysis of genocides, including the ethnic, religious, and
political cause.
3.Encourages 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,
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or the United States, including arguments and evidence for and
against intervention, the role of public support for the
intervention, and the possible consequences of such
interventions.
4.Encourages incorporating survivor, rescuer, liberator, and
witness oral testimony when teaching about genocide, including
the Armenia, Cambodia, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides.
5.Defines the term "oral testimony" to mean only those firsthand
accounts of significant historical events and provides
examples of the formats of such testimony.
6.Requires the IQC to consider including the Armenian Genocide
when the history-social science curriculum framework is
revised.
7.Includes double-jointing language to avoid chaptering-out
conflicts with AB 1915 (Nazarian).
8.Makes technical and non-substantive changes.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
History-social science framework: No new costs for the IQC,
because the current (2009) draft of the history-social science
framework already covers the Armenian genocide.
"Encouraging" instruction: Minor costs pressure on schools to
teach specific additional topics, and to incorporate oral
histories into their instruction, to the extent they are not
already doing so.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/26/14)
Veterans Caucus of the Democratic Party
PQ:nl 8/26/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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