This measure would recognize each 2nd week of February hereafter as African American Mental Health Awareness Week.
This measure would designate the Harbor Avenue Overcrossing over State Highway Route 4 in Contra Costa County as the Officer Larry Lasater Memorial Overcrossing. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program for public and charter schools to create incentives for establishing before and after school enrichment programs that partner schools and communities to provide academic and literacy support and safe, constructive alternatives for youth. This bill would authorize administrators of an After School Education and Safety Program to provide activities on weekends. Costs associated with weekend activities would be paid from a program's maximum grant or supplemental grant, as specified. Except as provided, participation of pupils in the weekend activities would not be included in the attendance reported to the State Department of Education for the calculation of either the maximum grant amount or a supplemental grant amount. Existing law makes specified federal funds available for expenditure for specified educational purposes in the annual Budget Act. One purpose authorized is the funding of programs serving elementary and middle school pupils that may operate during regular schooldays for a minimum of 15 hours per week and any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation periods for a minimum of 3 hours per day for the regular school year. A program receiving a grant is not assured of grant renewal from future state or federal funding at the conclusion of the grant period. This bill would require that priority for funding to replace expiring grants be given to programs that have satisfactorily met projected pupil outcomes, as specified.
This measure would call upon the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to develop common core state standards in the core academic disciplines of English-language arts, mathematics, history-social science, and science, request that they replicate the process used to develop English-language arts and mathematics common core state standards to now develop common core state standards for social studies and science, and examine the viability of developing common standards in foreign language, visual and performing arts, physical education, career technical education, and other subject areas.
This measure would memorialize the United States Senate to ratify, and the President to sign, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and would memorialize the Congress of the United States and the President to enact appropriate legislation that addresses the concerns expressed in this measure.
This measure would specify principles for repairing the nation's broken immigration system and would urge Congress and the President of the United States to take a comprehensive and workable approach to improving the nation's immigration system using those principles.
This measure would proclaim the 3rd Monday of each September as California Memorial Project Remembrance Day in California, to honor and restore dignity to individuals who lived and died in California institutions.
This measure would urge the United States Congress to pass the International Violence Against Women Act, and establish the offices and policies therein.
This measure would recognize May 10, 2010, and each May 10 thereafter, as Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day, and acknowledge the importance of raising awareness about mental health in the Asian Pacific American community.
This measure would continue the existence and set forth the membership of the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness, to perform duties to promote fitness and health in schools and workplaces. It would permit the task force to accept private funds and in-kind donations, require the task force to submit a report on its work to the Legislature on or before June 30, 2012, and provide that the task force would cease to exist on July 1, 2014, unless its existence is extended by a later enacted resolution.
