Bill Text: CA AB1033 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Academic content standards: standards review commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1033 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1033-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1033	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Feuer

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act  to add Sections 60605.10 and 60605.11 to the Education
Code,  relating to academic content standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1033, as amended, Feuer. Academic content standards. 
    Existing 
    (1)     Existing  law requires the
State Board of Education to adopt statewide content and performance
standards in the core curriculum areas of reading, writing,
mathematics, history/social science, and science, as specified.
Existing law authorizes the state board to modify any proposed
content standards or performance standards prior to adoption, and to
adopt content and performance standards in individual core curriculum
areas as those standards are submitted to the state board. 
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to permit the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
recommend to the state board a process for the ongoing update of
content standards in the areas of science, history/social science,
and other subjects.  
   Existing law requires the state board also to adopt standards for
school library services, visual and performing arts, physical
education, foreign languages, and English language development.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
coordinate the development of model curriculum standards for the
course of study required for high school graduation and for a career
technical education course of study necessary to assist school
districts with complying with existing law.  
   This bill would authorize the Superintendent to recommend to the
state board a schedule for reviewing and modifying the standards
described above and to recommend modifications to those standards.
The bill would authorize the state board to approve or modify the
schedule recommended by the Superintendent and to modify the
standards. If the state board modifies the standards, the bill would
require the state board to explain, in writing, to the Governor and
the Legislature the reasons for making modifications. The bill would
require the state board to ensure that the rigor of the standards is
maintained. The bill would make implementation of these provisions
contingent on an appropriation of funding for that purpose in the
annual Budget Act.  
   (2) Existing law establishes the Academic Content Standards
Commission and requires the commission to develop internationally
benchmarked academic content standards, at least 85% of which are
required to be the common core academic standards developed by the
Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium or another
specified interstate collaboration. Existing law requires the
commission to present its recommended academic content standards to
the state board and requires the state board by August 2, 2010, to
either adopt the standards proposed by the commission or reject them.
 
   This bill would require the Superintendent to recommend to the
state board, and the state board to approve, modifications to the
state-adopted common core standards. If the state board modifies
those standards, the bill would require the state board to explain,
in writing, to the Governor and the Legislature the reasons for
making those modifications. The bill would require the state board to
ensure the rigor of the state common core standards is maintained
and that all of the common core standards developed by the consortium
or interstate collaboration be adopted. The bill would require that
modifications, including additions and revisions, amount to no more
than 15% of the common core standards adopted by the state board.

   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 60605.10 is added to the 
 Education Code  , to read:  
   60605.10.  (a) The Superintendent may recommend to the state board
a schedule for reviewing the standards adopted pursuant to Sections
18101, 51226, 60605, 60605.1, 60605.2, 60605.3, and 60811 and may
recommend modifications to those standards. The state board may
approve or modify the schedule recommended by the Superintendent and
may modify the standards. If the state board modifies the standards,
it shall explain, in writing, to the Governor and the Legislature the
reasons for making those modifications.
   (b) The recommendations of the Superintendent and modifications
made by the state board shall ensure that the rigor of the standards
listed in subdivision (a) is maintained.
   (c) Implementation of this section is contingent on an
appropriation of funding for that purpose in the annual Budget Act.

   SEC. 2.    Section 60605.11 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   60605.11.  (a) The Superintendent may recommend to the state
board, and the state board may approve, modifications to the common
core standards adopted by the state board pursuant to Section
60605.8. If the state board modifies the common core standards
recommended by the Academic Content Standards Commission, it shall
explain, in writing, to the Governor and the Legislature the reasons
for making those modifications.
   (b) The recommendations of the Superintendent and modifications of
the common core standards that are approved by the state board shall
ensure all of the following:
   (1) The rigor of the state common core standards is maintained so
that all high school graduates are prepared for college and careers,
as specified in the common core standards.
   (2) All of the common core standards developed by the consortium
or interstate collaboration set forth in Section 60605.7 are adopted.

   (3) Modifications, including additions and revisions, amount to no
more than 15 percent of the common core standards adopted by the
state board.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation to permit the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to recommend to the State Board of Education a process
for the ongoing update of content standards in the areas of science,
history/social science, and other subjects.