Bill Text: CA AB2864 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Pupil instruction: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-09-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 648, Statutes of 2016. [AB2864 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2864-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2864 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 648
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 15, 2016
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY MAY 12, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 27, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Chau
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to amend Section 51226.3 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2864, Chau. Pupil instruction: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:
Chinese Americans' contributions to establishment of transcontinental
railroad.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to
incorporate materials relating to civil rights, human rights
violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust into publications
that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use,
consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science
and other requirements. Under existing law, the Legislature
encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and
witness oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, genocide,
and the Holocaust. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality
Commission and requires the commission to, among other things,
recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.
This bill would encourage all state and local professional
development activities to provide teachers with content background
and resources to assist them in teaching about the Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882 and the contributions of Chinese Americans to the
establishment of the transcontinental railroad. The bill would
require those topics to be considered for inclusion, as provided,
when the state board revises and adopts the history-social science
curriculum framework on or after January 1, 2017.
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) (1) 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 Chinese
Exclusion Act of 1882 and the contributions of Chinese Americans to
the establishment of the transcontinental railroad.
(2) When the state board revises and adopts the curriculum
framework for history-social science on or after January 1, 2017, the
state board shall consider providing for the inclusion, in that
curriculum framework, evaluation criteria, and accompanying
instructional materials, of instruction on the Chinese Exclusion Act
of 1882 and the contributions of Chinese Americans to the
establishment of the transcontinental railroad.
(g) 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.
(h) 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.
(i) 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.
(j) 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.
(k) 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.
