Bill Text: CA AB526 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Pupil instruction: financial literacy: instructional materials: professional development.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB526 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB526-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 526
| Introduced by Assembly Member Ta |
February 08, 2023 |
An act to add Section 51284.6 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 526, as introduced, Ta.
Pupil instruction: financial literacy: instructional materials: professional development.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for governing boards of school districts in specified subjects and any other subject, discipline, or interdisciplinary area for which the state board determines the adoption of instructional materials to be necessary or desirable, and requires the governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high schools to adopt instructional materials for use in the high schools under its control, consistent with specified conditions.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer instruction in specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the
commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board. Existing law requires the state board, concurrently with, but not before, the next revision of textbooks or curriculum frameworks in the social sciences, health, and mathematics curricula, to ensure that these academic areas integrate components of, among other things, financial literacy. Notwithstanding that requirement on the state board, existing law requires the commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised after January 1, 2017, to consider including age-appropriate information for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, regarding certain topics on financial literacy.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, to allocate funding for the purchase of standards-aligned instructional materials in financial literacy
for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and for professional development in that content, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate these funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools on the basis of an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance, as those numbers were reported at the time of the first principal apportionment for the 2021–22 fiscal year. The bill would require a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school to expend allocated funds for professional development or instructional materials in financial literacy that is aligned to the history-social science curriculum framework adopted by the state board and the financial literacy subject matter recommended considered by the commission, as provided.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 51284.6 is added to the Education Code, to read:51284.6.
(a) Subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the Superintendent shall allocate funding for the purchase of standards-aligned instructional materials in financial literacy for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and for professional development in that content.(b) The Superintendent shall allocate funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools on the basis of an equal amount per unit of regular average daily attendance, as those numbers were reported at the time of the first principal apportionment for the 2021–22 fiscal year.
(c) Funding appropriated pursuant to this section shall be available for encumbrance through the 2026–27 fiscal year.
(d) A school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school shall expend funds allocated pursuant to this section for either or both of the following purposes:
(1) Professional development for teachers, administrators, and paraprofessional educators or other classified employees involved in the direct instruction of pupils on financial literacy that is aligned to the history-social science curriculum framework adopted by the state board and the subject matter specified in subdivision (a) of Section 51284.5.
(2) Instructional materials aligned to the history-social science curriculum framework adopted by the state
board and the subject matter specified in subdivision (a) of Section 51284.5.
(e) Funding allocated pursuant to this section is subject to the annual audits required by Section 41020.
