Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends curriculum code standards to add holocaust and genocide education in California.

Highlights:

• Establishes the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, to be responsible for establishing a statewide teacher professional development program on genocide, including the Holocaust, for school district, county office of education, and charter school teachers (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the collaborative, under the State Department of Education’s direction, to consist of leading genocide and Holocaust education organizations and institutions, genocide survivors, and community leaders (Sec. 1). 

• Establishes that the collaborative’s mission is to ensure that genocide, including Holocaust, education is taught consistent with, among other things, the content standards, curriculum frameworks, and instructional materials adopted by the State Board of Education, in ways that are interdisciplinary and age-appropriate to pupils of different grade levels (Sec. 1). 

• Establishes the duties of the collaborative, including, among others, providing, as determined by the department, annual verbal or written reports to the department and the Legislature on the collaborative’s achievement of its mission (Sec. 1).

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