CA AB 1354

Title: Pupil instruction: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Author: Albert Y. Muratsuchi

Summary
AB 1354, Mike Fong. Pupil instruction: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate materials relating to civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science and other requirements. 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, when the history-social science curriculum framework is next revised, to consider providing for inclusion of, in its recommended history-social science curriculum framework, related evaluation criteria, and accompanying instructional materials, instruction on both (1) the historical, social, economic, and political contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the United States and (2) examples of racism, discrimination, and violence perpetrated against Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the United States, as provided.

Status
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.

Bill Documents
CA AB 1354 - 08/21/23 - Enrolled
08/21/23 - CA AB 1354 (08/21/23 - Enrolled)