(1) Existing law requires the development of curriculum frameworks and adoption of instructional materials for use in elementary and secondary schools to be conducted in accordance with specified policies and procedures adopted by the State Board of Education. This bill would require that those state board policies ensure that the curriculum frameworks for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, include English language development standards and strategies in the 4 core subjects that address English language development and the needs of pupils with disabilities. (2) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and to ensure that basic instructional materials in mathematics and reading are based on fundamental skills required by those subjects. This bill would require the materials in mathematics and reading also to be based on English language development for pupils for whom English is a 2nd language. (3) The Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission is required to develop criteria for evaluating instructional materials submitted for adoption. This bill would require the criteria to include directions to publishers to align lessons and teacher's editions to address the needs of English learners and pupils with disabilities. (4) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more high schools to adopt instructional materials for use in high schools under its control. This bill would require those governing boards to ensure that English learners and pupils with disabilities are provided appropriate instructional materials in all 4 core subjects. (5) Existing law establishes the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program and states legislative intent regarding this statewide testing program. Existing law requires each school district, charter school, and county office of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, a standards-based achievement test as part of the program. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the reauthorized Standardized Testing and Reporting Program meet specified requirements regarding performance measures, the assessment of English learners and pupils with disabilities, and accommodations for the assessment of English learners and pupils with disabilities. (6) Existing law establishes the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program, administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, under which a local educational agency is eligible to apply for and receive incentive funding to provide teachers, instructional aides, and paraprofessionals with instruction and training in the areas of mathematics and reading. This bill would authorize eligible elementary and secondary teachers to participate in 40 hours of instruction in specified training and instructional strategies as an option for fulfilling a specified percentage of training hours under the program.
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Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop prekindergarten learning development guidelines, focusing on preparing 4- and 5-year-old children for kindergarten. The guidelines are required to identify appropriate developmental milestones for each age, how to assess where children are in relation to the milestones, and suggested methods for achieving the milestones. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that California establish a statewide kindergarten readiness data collection tool, or set of tools. The bill would require that if the State Department of Education commences the process for the development of a data collection tool or tools, that certain components be included and that a plan for implementation of the tool or tools address specified issues. The bill would establish a group of representatives to collaborate with the department on the development of the data collection tool or tools.
This measure would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
This measure would declare April 2010 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
(1) Existing law requires the publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials to furnish those materials at a price that does not exceed the lowest price the publisher offers those materials, to automatically reduce the price of materials to the extent that reductions in price are made elsewhere, and to provide any materials free of charge to the same extent as they are provided elsewhere. This bill would require publishers or manufacturers of instructional materials to provide any equipment or technology associated with the use of instructional materials under consideration for purchase free of charge to the same extent as they are provided elsewhere. The bill would also require publishers or manufacturers to furnish instructional materials offered by the publisher in an electronic format at a price that is less than the price charged for the printed version and would require the electronic version of any textbook to contain at least the same content as the printed version. (2) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive. This bill would require the state board to hold a publicly noticed informational meeting prior to the meeting at which it is scheduled to adopt instructional materials. (3) Existing law provides that upon making an adoption of basic instructional materials, the state board is required to make available to listed publishers and manufacturers and all school interests, a list of those instructional materials by subject and grade level. Items placed upon lists are required to be accessible, as specified, from the date of the adoption of the item until a date established by the state board. This bill would require the list of materials to be made available to school districts and to be posted on the State Department of Education's Internet Web site by subject and grade level. It would require the list to also include the final assessments or reports of findings and recommendations developed by expert reviewers and evaluators of instructional materials involved in the review process that includes alignment of standards, program organization, pupil assessments, teacher support, and support for English language learners. Items placed upon lists would be required to be accessible, as specified, for at least 3 years following the next adoption of new materials based upon a new or revised curriculum framework, whichever is later. (4) Existing law establishes the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction under which school districts are apportioned funds to ensure that each pupil is provided with a standards-aligned textbook or basic instructional materials, as adopted by the state board or the local governing board. Existing law requires that pupils be provided with standards-aligned textbooks or basic instructional materials by the beginning of the first school term that commences no later than 24 months after those materials were adopted by the state board. However, the state board is authorized to grant school districts additional time to meet this requirement if specified criteria are met. This bill would authorize a school district receiving specified funding to submit recommendations of individuals to serve in the review and evaluation of instructional materials submitted for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, who, as verified by the Superintendent, meet specified qualifications. This bill would require the Superintendent, through a random lottery, to select and appoint instructional materials reviewers and content review experts from the recommendations made by school districts. The Superintendent would be required to ensure that a majority of selected instructional materials reviewers and content review experts are credentialed classroom instructors. Local governing boards would be required to use the funding provided to ensure that each pupil is provided with standards-aligned textbooks or basic instructional materials by the beginning of the first school term that commences no later than 36 months after those materials were adopted by the state board. Local governing boards also would be authorized to use the funding to purchase state adopted textbooks or basic instructional materials in an electronic format, if they can ensure that each pupil will be provided with a copy of the instructional materials to use at school and at home, as specified.
(1) Existing law, the California Constitution, prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (A) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (B) has been passed by a 23 vote of all the members elected to each house of the Legislature, (C) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (D) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election. The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (Greene Act) requires the State Allocation Board (board) to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. This bill would enact the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2010, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election, and would provide for the submission of that act to the voters at that election. The bond act, if approved by the voters, would provide for the issuance of $6,100,000,000 of the general obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts, county superintendents of schools, and county boards of education, the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program and prescribes requirements for classes of related and supplemental instruction in order to qualify for funding, including that the person providing instruction is qualified, by means of education or experience, as a journeyman, and shares the responsibility for supervision of the apprentices participating in the classes with the certified community college or adult education coordinator. This bill would provide, for purposes of issuing credentials to instructors who are required to obtain a specified credential in order to provide instruction as part of the program, that completion of a specified training instructor course and certification as an EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P meet certain of the requirements for that credential.
(1) The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs. Existing law authorizes funds appropriated for purposes of the act to be used for child care resource and referral programs, which may be operated by public or private nonprofit entities and are required to provide certain information and services to parents and child care providers relating to child care services in a defined geographic area. This bill would require a child care resource and referral program to provide specified additional services, including providing training and workshops relating to child care services, community resource assistance, and collaborating with and assisting other community agencies in planning, coordinating, and improving child care. The bill would delete provisions authorizing a resource and referral program to provide short-term respite care, as defined. The bill would require a resource and referral program to provide basic child care referrals, as defined, at no cost. The bill would require a child care resource and referral program to include additional information in the documentation that a resource and referral program is required to maintain. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to prevent the use of lists containing names, addresses, and other identifying information of facilities identified as small family day care homes, with certain exceptions. This bill, in addition, would require a child care resource and referral program to limit the distribution of lists of small family day care homes except when necessary to collaborate with federal, state, and local emergency response organizations for emergency preparedness and response efforts. (3) Existing law establishes the California Child Care Initiative Project for certain purposes, including increasing the availability of qualified child care programs in the state. This bill would instead establish 2 projects, to be known as the California Child Care Initiative Project - State Program, and the California Child Care Initiative Project - Quality Plan Program. (4) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a trustline registry for purposes of conducting background checks for specified child care service providers, and imposes certain responsibilities on resource and referral programs in the administration of the trustline. This bill would impose additional requirements on resource and referral programs relating to the trustline, including reviewing trustline applications for in-home or license-exempt home-based child care providers who are being paid through state-funded child care subsidies, and facilitating the trustline automated registration process or the trustline Web-based application process. The bill would make other conforming changes.
Existing law establishes the Early Learning Quality Improvement System Advisory Committee for the purpose of developing a policy and implementation plan for an Early Learning Quality Improvement System for the state. Existing law requires the committee to submit to the Legislature and the Governor an interim report by December 31, 2009, and a final report by December 31, 2010. The report is required to address various issues relating to early care and education programs that serve children from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive. This bill would, contingent upon the receipt of federal funds for this purpose, require the State Department of Education to implement a quality rating scale, including a pilot program, based on the committee's recommendations for the purposes of measuring the quality of early care and education providers and facilities. The bill would also require the California State Advisory Council on Early Childhood Education and Care to conduct an annual review of the pilot program, provide ongoing recommendations for improvement of the quality rating scale, select an evaluator to conduct an evaluation, and to submit the evaluation to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature on or before January 1, 2016. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on June 30, 2017, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2018.
This measure would commend the Girl Scouts for 98 years of service and for inspiring millions of girls with the highest ideals of confidence, courage, and character.