AB 1988

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and authorizes the state board to establish criteria for that purpose. Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to recommend to the state board curriculum frameworks and criteria for evaluating instructional materials submitted for adoption by the state board. Under existing law, the commission is required to include in the criteria for English language arts instructional materials directions to publishers to incorporate instructional strategies to address the needs of English learners at every grade level, as specified. Existing law requires the Academic Content Standards Commission to develop internationally benchmarked academic content standards, at least 85% of which are required to be the common core academic standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium or another specified interstate collaboration. Existing law requires the state board to adopt revised curriculum frameworks and evaluation criteria that are aligned to the common core academic content standards developed by the consortium and adopted by the state board for mathematics and English language arts no later than May 30, 2013, and May 30, 2014, respectively. Existing law requires that the state board policies ensure that the English language arts curriculum frameworks and instructional materials for specified grades include, among other things, English language development strategies in the core subjects of mathematics, science, and history-social science. This bill would require that the state board policies ensure that the English language arts curriculum framework for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, include strategies to address the language and literacy needs of pupils who use African American vernacular English. The bill would also require the Instructional Quality Commission to include in the criteria for evaluating English language arts instructional materials directions to publishers to incorporate instructional strategies to address the language and literacy needs of pupils who use African American vernacular English, at every grade level and subject.