AB-908 • 2026

Instructional materials: compliance review.

Education

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Solache
Last action: 2025-09-09
Official status: Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Menjivar.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about yearly reviews of teaching effectiveness or additional review requirements beyond the current law.

Reviewing School Materials for Fairness

AB-908 requires the State Department of Education to check if schools are following rules on adopting instructional materials that fairly represent different groups and include lessons about diverse contributions in social sciences.

What This Bill Does

Requires the State Department of Education to monitor compliance with existing laws regarding instructional materials adoption requirements as part of its annual review process.

Who It Names or Affects

School districts across California
The State Department of Education

Terms To Know

Instructional materials: Books and resources used in schools to teach students.
Compliance review: Checking if rules are being followed correctly.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if a school district is found not following the rules.
It's unclear how this will be funded or enforced beyond existing compliance monitoring processes.
There is no effective date provided for when these requirements start.

Bill History

2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Menjivar.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).
2025-08-18 California Legislative Information
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
2025-07-17 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-07 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.
2025-06-13 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-11 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 1865.)
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 23).
2025-05-14 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-21 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2025-04-10 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 9).
2025-03-13 California Legislative Information
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-03 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-02-20 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2025-02-19 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 908, as amended, Solache.
Sex discrimination: social sciences instruction:
Instructional materials:
compliance review.
Existing law requires governing boards of school districts, when adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, to include materials that accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity of our society, including, among others, the contributions of people of all genders in all types of rolls, and the role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other ethnic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic status groups to the total development of California and the United States.
This bill would
require the State Department of Education to monitor compliance with the above-described instructional materials adoption requirement as part of its annual compliance monitoring of state and federal programs.
Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls pupils who receive state student financial aid. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually review 20 school districts for compliance with those sex discrimination provisions and regulations adopted pursuant
to those provisions. Existing law requires instruction in social sciences to include a study of the role and contributions of, among others, people of all genders, Latino Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans, and members of other ethnic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic status groups.
This bill would require the above-described required instruction in social sciences to be included in the compliance review.

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