Bill Text: CA AB659 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: Armenian Genocide.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-11 - Re-referred to Com. on ED. [AB659 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB659-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 659	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 5, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 23, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 16, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 8, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Achadjian)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Fox, Gatto, and Wilk)
   (Coauthor: Senator Wyland)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 51226.3 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 659, as amended, Nazarian. Pupil instruction: Armenian
Genocide.
   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.
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  encourage   require 
the department to incorporate materials related to the Armenian
Genocide into those publications, and would require the commission to
 consider   include  the Armenian Genocide
 for inclusion  in the  recommended 
history-social science curriculum framework when the history-social
science framework is revised as required by law. The bill would also
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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 51226.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   51226.3.  (a)  (1)    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,  the Armenian Genocide,  and the Holocaust.

   (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 Genocide. 
   (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, the Holocaust, and the Armenian
Genocide.
   (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. 
   (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.
 
   (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.  
   (f) When the history-social science curriculum framework is
revised as required by law, the Instructional Quality Commission
shall include the Armenian Genocide in the recommended history-social
science curriculum framework.  
   (f) 
    (   g)  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.