Bill Text: CA SB1380 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Pupil instruction: social science: genocide.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 441, Statutes of 2014. [SB1380 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1380-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1380	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  441
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 26, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 30, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Nazarian)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 51226.3 of, and to add Section 51226.4 to,
the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1380, Wyland. Pupil instruction: social science: 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 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 including the
Armenian Genocide in the recommended 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.
   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.



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) 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.
   (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 consider including the Armenian Genocide in the recommended
history-social science curriculum framework.
   (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.
  SEC. 1.5.  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, 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, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides.
   (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 them in teaching about civil rights, human
rights violations, genocide, slavery, the Armenian Genocide, and the
Holocaust.
   (d) The Legislature encourages all state and local professional
development activities to provide teachers with content background
and resources to assist them 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 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 consider including the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan
genocides in the recommended history-social science curriculum
framework.
   (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.
   (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.
  SEC. 2.  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.
  SEC. 3.  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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