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Common State Standards | Three C-s of Education Petition Campaign | CA History/Social Studies Framework The Campaign works with state and local governments, school boards, and other agencies to examine existing policies addressing civic education and generates and supports new policies to strengthen civic education statewide. Senate Bill 1458 introduced by Darrel Steinberg was signed into law by Governor Brown on September 25, 2012. In summary, beginning in 2016, a high school’s Academic Performance Index (API) will be comprised of no more than 60 percent of standardized tests scores and more weight is to be given to Science and History. This provides an opportunity for civic education to play a larger role in how schools are assessed. For the full text of the bill click here. Civic Education in California: Policy Recommendations: A report on the status of civic-education policy in California and recommendations. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 30, introduced by Assembly Member McCarthy, was signed into law in June, 2005. The bill urges the State Board of Education and all local school governing bodies in California to examine current practice and develop plans to increase and broaden emphasis on principles and practices of democracy. The California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools supports the development of state standards in History/Social Studies and Science. For more information please contact Marshall Croddy (marshall@crf-usa.org or 213.316.2113). Below you will find letters that were sent to the National Governor’s Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers asking them to replicate the process used to adopt Common Core State Standards for English and Mathematics for the adoption of standards for the other two academic disciplines, Social Studies and Science. Letters of Support for Common State Standards
Remind all policymakers of the essential and historic role schools play in providing the knowledge, skills and disposition for informed and engaged citizenship!
CA History/Social Studies Framework Update The California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools would like to state its support of Senate Bill1278 sponsored by Senator Mark Wyland. The Campaign believes that it is critical to get the History/Social Studies framework revision process back on track. Therefore we support SB 1278 which requires the state board to adopt a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science and science in 2011. Sample Letter: Senate Bill 1278 CA History/Social Studies Framework Letters of Support
We are disappointed to report that AB 2544, sponsored by Assembly Members Mullins and DeSaulnier, requiring the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to create a model civic education professional development plan for California was not enacted in this legislative session. Though it passed the Assembly easily by 71-3, sailed through Senate Education Committee with a 9-0 vote, and enjoyed broad support from more than a dozen statewide education groups, representing thousands of members, it died in the Senate Appropriations Suspense file with many other bills as a result of the state budget crisis. We are actively working to learn more and to evaluate next steps.
Resolutions passed in support of the California campaign:
Testimony to Commission on No Child Left Behind, April 2006:
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A project of Constitutional Rights Foundation in collaboration with the Center for Civic Education and the Alliance for Representative Democracy. This project is made possible by generous grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Skirball Foundation |
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