Bill Text: CA AB659 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: Armenian Genocide.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-11 - Re-referred to Com. on ED. [AB659 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB659-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 659	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section  1620   51226.3 
of the Education Code, relating to  county educational
agencies   pupil instruction  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 659, as amended, Nazarian.  County educational
agencies: county school service fund budgets: posting online.
  Pupil instruction: Armenian Genocide.  
   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, 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 testimony
into the teaching of human rights, genocide, and the Holocaust. 

   This bill would also require the incorporation of materials
related to the Armenian Genocide into those publications, and would
require the Armenian Genocide to be considered in the next cycle in
which the history/social science curriculum framework and its
accompanying instructional materials are adopted. The bill would also
specify that the Legislature encourages the incorporation of an oral
history component specifically related to genocide, including, but
not limited to, the Darfur, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Armenian
genocides, and the Jewish Holocaust, and would require testimony
incorporated into an oral history component to consist only of
first-hand accounts of significant historical events presented in a
specified format.  
   Existing law requires the county board of education to hold a
public hearing on the proposed county school service fund budget for
that fiscal year. Existing law further requires that the agenda for
that hearing be posted at least 72 hours prior to the hearing and
that it include the location where the budget will be available for
inspection.  
   This bill would authorize the county board of education to post
the proposed budget on its Internet Web site for public inspection.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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) The  State Department of Education 
 department  shall  incorporate,  
incorporate  into publications that provide examples of
curriculum resources for teacher  use,   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  , and the Armenian Genocide  .
   (b) The Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor,
rescuer, liberator, and witness testimony into the teaching of human
rights, genocide,  and  the Holocaust  , and the
Armenian Genocide  . 
   (c) (1) The Legislature encourages the incorporation of an oral
history component specifically related to genocide, including, but
not limited to, the Darfur, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Armenian
genocides, and the Jewish Holocaust.  
   (2) As used in this subdivision, testimony incorporated into an
oral history component shall consist only of first-hand 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 online video.  
   (c) 
    (d)  The Legislature encourages all state and local
professional development activities to provide teachers with content
background and resources to assist in teaching about civil rights,
human rights violations, genocide, slavery,  and 
the Holocaust  , and the Armenian Genocide  . 
   (d) 
    (e)  The Legislature encourages all state and local
professional development activities to provide teachers with content
background and resources to assist in teaching about the Great Irish
Famine of 1845-50. 
   (e) 
    (f)  The Great Irish Famine of 1845-50  and the
Armenian Genocide  shall be considered in the next cycle in
which the history/social science curriculum framework and its
accompanying instructional materials are adopted. 
   (f) 
    (g)  The Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide
adopted by the  State Board of Education,  
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  State
Department of Education   department  shall make
the curriculum available on its  Internet  Web site.

  SECTION 1.    Section 1620 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
   1620.  On or before July 1 of each fiscal year, the county board
of education shall hold a public hearing on the proposed county
school service fund budget for that fiscal year (the "budget year").
The public hearing shall be held before the adoption of the budget by
the county board of education, and shall occur not less than three
days following the availability of the proposed budget for public
inspection. The agenda for that hearing shall be posted at least 72
hours before the hearing and shall include the location of where the
budget will be available for inspection. The county board of
education may post the proposed budget on its Internet Web site for
public inspection. At the hearing, a taxpayer directly affected by
the county school service fund budget may appear before the county
board of education and speak on the proposed budget or an item
therein.