Bill Text: CA SB232 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Instructional materials: legislative intent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB232 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB232-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 232	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2011

   An act to amend Section 60000 of the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 232, as introduced, Wyland. Instructional materials:
legislative intent.
   Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to provide for
the adoption and selection of quality instructional materials for use
in the elementary and secondary schools and recognizes that the
governing boards of school districts have the responsibility to
establish courses of study and that they must have the ability to
choose instructional materials that are appropriate to their courses
of study.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   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 60000 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   60000.  (a) It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature in
enacting this part to provide for the adoption and selection of
quality instructional materials for use in the elementary and
secondary schools.
   (b) The Legislature hereby recognizes that, because of the common
needs and interests of the citizens of this state and the nation,
there is a need to establish broad minimum standards and general
educational guidelines for the selection of instructional materials
for the public schools, but that because of economic, geographic,
physical, political, educational, and social diversity, specific
choices about instructional materials need to be made at the local
level.
   (c) The Legislature further recognizes that the governing boards
of school districts have the responsibility to establish courses of
study and that they  must   sh   ould
 have the ability to choose instructional materials that are
appropriate to their courses of study.