Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education. This bill would require the commission to develop, and the state board to adopt, reject, or modify, a model curriculum in media literacy for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require the commission to submit the model curriculum to the state board on or before January 1, 2019, and would require the state board to adopt, reject, or modify the model curriculum on or before March 31, 2019, in accordance with specified procedural requirements. The bill would require the State Department of Education to make available on its Internet Web site a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy, including media literacy professional development programs for teachers.
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law requires moneys from the fund to be allocated for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in this state and satisfying other purposes. Existing law authorizes specified investments, including land and natural resource conservation and management, if the investment furthers the regulatory purposes of the act and is consistent with law. This bill would authorize the use of the moneys in the fund for wetland restoration projects that may make use of dredged material if the investment furthers the regulatory purposes of the act and is consistent with law.
Under existing law, the California Workforce Development Board is the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law prescribes specific tasks with which the board assists the Governor, including the development and updating of comprehensive state performance accountability measures, including state-adjusted levels of performance, to assess the effectiveness of the core programs in the state as required under specific federal law. As part of that task, the board is required to develop a workforce metrics dashboard, to be updated annually, that measures the state's human capital investments in workforce development to better understand the collective impact of these investments on the labor market. The dashboard is required to be produced using existing available data and resources that are currently collected and accessible to state agencies. Existing law requires the dashboard, among other things, to measure the performance of specific workforce programs. This bill would require the board to determine the approach for measuring labor market impacts, provided that, to the extent feasible, the board uses statistically rigorous methodologies to estimate, assess, and isolate the impact of programs on participant outcomes. The bill would modify the requirement that the workforce metrics dashboard be produced using existing available data and resources that are currently collected and accessible to state agencies, to require that it be done to the extent feasible. The bill would additionally require the dashboard to measure the performance of workforce programs included in the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014. Existing law requires the workforce metrics dashboard, among other things, to provide a status report on credential attainment, training completion, degree attainment, and participant earnings from workforce education and training programs. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Education to collect the social security numbers of adults participating in adult education programs so that accurate participation in those programs can be represented in the report. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to keep this information confidential, with the exception of authorizing the State Department of Education to share this information, unless prohibited by federal law, with the Employment Development Department, which is required to keep the information confidential and use it only to track the labor market outcomes of program participants in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws and mandates. Existing law requires specified participating workforce programs to provide participant data in a standardized format to the Employment Development Department. Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to aggregate data provided by participating workforce programs and to report the data, organized as prescribed, to the board to assist the board in producing the dashboard. This bill would expand the authorized recipients of that confidential information to include the board or the board's designee. The bill also would expand the use of the confidential information to include using it to track, for program participants, credential attainment, training completion, degree attainment, and participant earnings from workforce education and training programs. The bill would require participating workforce programs, including but not limited to, specified programs, to provide participant data in a standardized format to the Employment Development Department, the board, or the board's designee. The bill also would require the board or the board's designee to aggregate and report data as described above. The bill would require the board to ensure that a designee has the technical and operational capability of meeting appropriate privacy and security requirements.
This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate 680 in the City of San Ramon in the County of Contra Costa as the Detective Sergeant Thomas A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Highway. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
This measure would urge the United States Congress to propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States by the popular vote of all eligible citizens of the United States.
This measure would mark May 6, 2017, as the 135th anniversary of the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in order to recognize the harm caused by racially discriminatory immigration measures, and to honor the contributions of all immigrants and refugees who have enriched our communities. The measure would also declare the opposition of the Legislature to recent executive orders signed by President Trump relating to immigration, call upon the President to revoke those orders, condemn the expansion of deportations being undertaken under the current presidential administration, and reaffirm that the state is open and welcoming to immigrants and refugees who are integral to life in our state.