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


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.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 It is 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.
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