Health curriculum framework: human trafficking and online safety.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill requires the Instructional Quality Commission to 'consider providing' recommendations, not mandate them.

Health Curriculum Framework: Human Trafficking and Online Safety

This law requires California schools to include lessons on preventing human trafficking, staying safe from exploitative materials online, and digital citizenship skills in their health curriculum.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider adding recommendations for annual lessons on preventing human trafficking and online safety into the health curriculum framework by January 1, 2027.
• Recommends that these lessons cover how to prevent human trafficking, exploitation for labor or services, staying safe from sexually exploitative materials and deepfakes online, foundational digital citizenship skills, and protective factors.
• Requires these lessons to be age-appropriate and cumulative, starting from kindergarten through grade 12.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts
• County offices of education
• Charter schools

Terms To Know

Instructional Quality Commission

A group that develops model curriculum frameworks for California's educational system.

Local Educational Agency (LEA)

An organization responsible for providing public education, such as a school district or charter school.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the exact content of the lessons.
• It is unclear how these requirements will be enforced and what consequences there might be for non-compliance.
• The effective date has not been set, so it's uncertain when schools must start implementing these changes.

Official Summary Text

AB 1766, as introduced, Krell.
Health curriculum framework: human trafficking and online safety.
Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, modify, or revise, model curriculum frameworks, as specified. Existing law requires the commission, when the health curriculum framework is next revised on or after January 1, 2025, to consider providing for inclusion, in that curriculum framework, content on sextortion, as defined.
Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts, defined to include county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, the California School for the Blind, and charter schools, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention
education from instructors trained in the appropriate courses, at least once in junior high or middle school and at least once in high school. Under the act, this instruction includes, among other things, information about human trafficking. Existing law requires school districts, as part of the requirement of the California Healthy Youth Act that pupils receive comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education from instructors trained in the appropriate courses, to ensure the periodic conduction of continuation training to enable school district personnel to learn about new developments in the understanding of, among other things, human trafficking, and to receive instruction on current prevention resources, as provided.
This bill would require the commission, when the health curriculum framework is next revised on or after January 1, 2027, to consider providing for inclusion in that framework recommendations related to school districts, county
offices of education, and charter schools providing annual, developmentally appropriate lessons for each grade served by the local educational agency about how to prevent human trafficking, how to prevent exploitation for labor and services, how to stay safe from sexually exploitative materials and deepfakes online, foundational digital citizenship skills, and skills-based content that builds protective factors, as provided. The bill would require the recommended lessons to follow a cumulative, age-appropriate progression from kindergarten to grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided.
The bill would also require the commission, when the health curriculum framework is next revised on or after January 1, 2027, to consider providing for inclusion in that framework recommendations related to a local educational agency providing at least 3 staff members, as provided, with annual training related to the above-described content related to human trafficking and online safety,
as provided.

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