Bill Text: CA AB146 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Pupil instruction: social sciences: deportations to
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-10-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 392, Statutes of 2015. [AB146 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB146-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 146 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 392
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 1, 2015
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 1, 2015
PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 25, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Cristina Garcia
(Coauthor: Senator Lara)
JANUARY 13, 2015
An act to amend Section 51226.3 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 146, Cristina Garcia. Pupil instruction: social sciences:
deportations to Mexico.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to
6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in
specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law
requires the instruction in social sciences, for grades 7 to 12,
inclusive, to provide instruction in, among other things, human
rights issues, with particular attention to the study of the
inhumanity of genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust, and contemporary
issues.
Existing law encourages the State Department of Education to
incorporate into publications that provide examples of curriculum
resources materials that are age appropriate and consistent with the
subject frameworks on history and social science that deal with
specified genocides. Existing law states that the Legislature
encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and
witness oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, the
Holocaust, and genocide, as specified, and encourages professional
development activities to provide teachers with content background
and resources to assist in teaching about civil rights, human rights
violations, genocide, slavery, the Armenian Genocide, and the
Holocaust.
This bill would, for purposes of encouraging the incorporation of
survivor and witness testimony into the teaching of human rights,
include the unconstitutional deportation to Mexico during the Great
Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United
States within the definition of human rights. The bill would
encourage professional development activities to provide teachers
with content background and resources to assist in teaching about
that deportation. The bill would require the State Board of Education
to consider providing for the inclusion of the study of that
deportation when the curriculum frameworks for history-social science
are revised on or after January 1, 2016.
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, 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.
(i) When the state board revises and adopts the curriculum
framework for history-social science on or after January 1, 2016, the
state board shall consider providing for the inclusion, in that
curriculum framework, evaluation criteria, and accompanying
instructional materials, of instruction on the unconstitutional
deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens and
lawful permanent residents of the United States.
(j) As used in subdivisions (b) and (c), "human rights" and "human
rights violations" include the unconstitutional deportation to
Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens and lawful permanent
residents of the United States.
