Bill Text: CA AB580 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: curriculum: civil rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB580 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB580-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 580	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 28, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 12, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to amend Section 60200.6 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 580, as amended, Davis. Pupil instruction: curriculum: civil
rights.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt at
least 5 basic instructional materials in specified subject areas,
including social science, for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8,
inclusive. A provision of existing law requires instructional
materials adopted for social science to include, among other things,
information designed to instruct pupils on the civil rights movement.

   This bill would  authorize   require 
the state board to develop a social science curriculum pursuant to
that provision, as specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 60200.6 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   60200.6.  (a) Instructional materials adopted pursuant to this
chapter for the category of social science as specified in paragraph
(4) of subdivision (a) of Section 60200 shall include information
designed to instruct pupils on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil
rights movement, and contributions made by ethnic minority groups to
the history of the United States. The state board shall ensure that
the materials present the information in a manner consistent with the
instruction provided in each grade level. The state board shall
endeavor to see that this objective is accomplished in the evaluation
of instructional materials for educational content.
   (b) The curriculum developed pursuant to this section  may
  shall  include, but not necessarily be limited
to, all of the following:
   (1) Issues related to social justice, power relations, diversity,
mutual respect, and civic engagement.
   (2) The definition of civil rights and the modern civil rights
movement and the tactics used by civil rights activists to achieve
social change.
   (3) A focus on the modern civil rights era and the events that
took place in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including, but not
limited to, demonstrations, resistance, organizing, nonviolent civil
disobedience, and collective action and unity in the pursuit of fair
and equal treatment for all Americans.
   (4) A review of significant court cases, legislation,
organizations, events, monuments, literature, arts, and contributions
of men, women, and other significant figures of the modern civil
rights era.