Bill Text: CA SR57 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to Education Equality Month.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-08-13 - Re-referred to Com. on ED. [SR57 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SR57-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SR 57	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff

                        AUGUST 11, 2014

   Relative to Education Equality Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
             HOUSE OR SENATE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT CONTAIN A DIGEST



   WHEREAS, Sixty years ago in Brown v. Board of Education ((1954)
347 U.S. 483) the United States Supreme Court noted that "education
is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments"
; and
   WHEREAS, A Los Angeles County Superior Court issued a tentative
ruling in Vergara, et al. v. State of California, et al. (Case Number
BC484642) (Vergara) that found California's public education system
to be unfair to low-income and minority students, who "bear the brunt
of staffing inequalities"; and
   WHEREAS, The Los Angeles County Superior Court also found that the
teacher dismissal statutes "impose a real and appreciable impact on
students' fundamental right to equality of education"; and
   WHEREAS, Teachers and students deserve motivating and challenging
schools that set high standards and support teachers and students in
reaching their goals; and
   WHEREAS, Teachers are an important component of a student's
success; and
   WHEREAS, The Los Angeles County Superior Court in Vergara noted
that students faced with ineffective teachers become economically
disadvantaged in comparison to their peers; and
   WHEREAS, Current research shows that replacing 5 to 8 percent of
the least effective teachers with an average teacher would provide
long-term benefits to the economy through enhanced productivity; and
   WHEREAS, The gains from increased student achievement according to
historical economic patterns, would be measured in trillions of
dollars; and
   WHEREAS, The State of California bears the ultimate authority and
responsibility to ensure that its district-based system of common
schools provides basic equality of educational opportunity; and
   WHEREAS, It is the duty of the Legislature to enact laws that
appropriately recognize and respond to the ruling in Vergara; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California,That the Senate
proclaims June 2014 as Education Equality Month; and be it further
   Resolved,That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.