Bill Text: CA AB1399 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: recognition of study in genocide, atrocities, and human rights.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-01-12 - Stricken from file. [AB1399 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1399-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: recognition of study in genocide, atrocities, and human rights.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-01-12 - Stricken from file. [AB1399 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1399-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill | No. 1399 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian |
February 17, 2017 |
An act relating to pupil instruction.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1399, as introduced, Nazarian.
Pupil instruction: genocide.
Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state. Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in social sciences, including instruction in human rights issues, with particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use those materials that are age appropriate and consistent with subject frameworks on history and social science that deal with civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust. Existing law also requires the Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide adopted by the State Board of Education to be made available to schools in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as soon as
funding becomes available and the department to make the curriculum available on its Internet Web site.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would promote the accurate instruction of genocide in public elementary and secondary schools in this state.