Pupil instruction: Holocaust and genocide education: notice, survey, and grant program.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify how much funding will be provided or when the law becomes effective.

Holocaust and Genocide Education Program

This law establishes a grant program to fund Holocaust and genocide education in California's middle and high schools.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the State Department of Education to provide information about teaching Holocaust and genocide to schools with students from grades 7 to 12.
• Allows the department to ask these schools how they teach about the Holocaust and other genocides.
• Creates a fund in the state treasury for grants to help school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools provide Holocaust and genocide education.

Who It Names or Affects

• Schools with students in grades 7 to 12
• The State Department of Education

Terms To Know

Grant Program

A program that gives money to schools to help them teach about the Holocaust and other genocides.

Holocaust

The genocide of Jewish people by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how much money will be given to schools.
• Does not provide a start or end date for the law.
• Does not outline consequences if schools do not comply with requirements.

Official Summary Text

SB 472, Stern.
Pupil instruction: Holocaust and genocide education: notice, survey, and grant program.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate age-appropriate materials relating to, among other things, genocide and the Holocaust into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science. Under existing law, the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of genocide and the Holocaust. Existing law, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establishes the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education to establish a statewide teacher professional development program on genocide, including the Holocaust, for school district, county office of education, and charter school teachers, and provides that the collaborative’s mission is to ensure that genocide, including Holocaust,
education is taught consistent with, among other things, 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.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Holocaust and Genocide Education Grant Program to provide direct allocations to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for the purposes of providing Holocaust and genocide education and professional development on Holocaust and genocide education, as provided. The bill would establish the Holocaust and Genocide Education Grant Program Fund in the State Treasury, and would require moneys in the fund to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the Superintendent for purposes of the grant program. The bill would require the department to issue a notice to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools serving pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, regarding genocide and Holocaust instruction, and would authorize the department to issue a survey to these local educational agencies on the status of Holocaust and genocide instruction at their schools, as provided.

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