Bill Text: CA SB993 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School curriculum: social sciences: Bracero program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 211, Statutes of 2012. [SB993 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB993-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 993	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator De León
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Cedillo and Mendoza)

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2012

   An act to add Section 51221.6 to the Education Code, relating to
school curriculum.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 993, as introduced, De León. School curriculum: social
sciences: Bracero program.
   Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to
12, inclusive, to include instruction in social sciences, and
requires that instruction to provide a foundation for understanding
the history, resources, development, and government of California and
the United States of America.
   This bill would authorize instruction in social sciences for
grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction on the Bracero
program, and would express the encouragement of the Legislature for
that instruction to include a component drawn from personal
testimony, as provided. The bill would specify that this instruction
shall be carried out in a manner that does not result in new duties
or programs being imposed on school districts.
   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 51221.6 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   51221.6.  (a) Instruction in the area of social sciences, as
required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 51220, may include
instruction on the Bracero program.
   (b) The Legislature encourages the instruction described in
subdivision (a) to include, but not be limited to, a component drawn
from personal testimony, especially in the form of oral or video
histories of individuals who were involved with the Bracero program.
The oral histories used as part of the instruction regarding the
Bracero program are encouraged to do all of the following:
   (1) Exemplify the economic and cultural effects of the Bracero
program, including, but not limited to, its effects on the railroad
system, agriculture, and immigration in the United States of America.

   (2) Contain the views and comments of their subjects regarding the
reasons for their participation in the Bracero program and their
immigrant story, generally.
   (c) This section shall be carried out in a manner that does not
result in new duties or programs being imposed on the school
district. In that regard, the Legislature finds and declares that
this section does not mandate costs to local agencies or school
districts and that materials used to comply with this section shall
be part of normal curriculum materials purchased by school districts
in their normal course of business and purchasing cycles.