Bill Text: CA AB1476 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: required courses of study.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1476 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1476-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1476	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brown

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 51210 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1476, as introduced, Brown. Pupil instruction: required courses
of study.
   Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to
6, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among
others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, and visual
and performing arts, as specified.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 51210 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   51210.  The adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive,
shall include instruction, beginning in grade 1 and continuing
through grade 6, in the following areas of study:
   (a) English, including knowledge of, and appreciation for
literature and the language, as well as the skills of speaking,
reading, listening, spelling, handwriting, and composition.
   (b) Mathematics, including concepts, operational skills, and
problem solving.
   (c) Social sciences, drawing upon the disciplines of anthropology,
economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and
sociology, designed to fit the maturity of the pupils. Instruction
shall provide a foundation for understanding the history, resources,
development, and government of California and the United States of
America; the development of the American economic  system
  system,  including the role of the entrepreneur
and labor; the relations of persons to their human and natural
environment; eastern and western cultures and civilizations;
contemporary issues; and the wise use of natural resources.
   (d) Science, including the biological and physical aspects, with
emphasis on the processes of experimental inquiry and on the place of
humans in ecological systems.
   (e) Visual and performing arts, including instruction in the
subjects of dance, music,  theatre,   theater,
 and visual arts, aimed at the development of aesthetic
appreciation and the skills of creative expression.
   (f) Health, including instruction in the principles and practices
of individual, family, and community health.
   (g) Physical education, with emphasis upon the physical activities
for the pupils that may be conducive to health and vigor of body and
mind, for a total period of time of not less than 200 minutes each
10 schooldays, exclusive of recesses and the lunch period.
   (h) Other studies that may be prescribed by the governing board.