Bill Text: CA SB789 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public School Performance Accountability Program:

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-16 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB789 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB789-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 789	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 33600) to Chapter
4 of Part 20 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
relating to education.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 789, as introduced, Price. Advisory Committee on Creative and
Innovative Education.
   Existing law sets forth the adopted course of study for grades 1
to 12, inclusive, and includes in that course of study the visual and
performing arts, including instruction in the subjects of dance,
music, theater, and visual arts, aimed at the development of
aesthetic appreciation and the skills of creative expression.
Existing law includes in the course of study for grades 7 to 12,
inclusive, the applied arts, including instruction in the areas of
consumer and homemaking education, industrial arts, general business
education, or general agriculture.
   This bill would establish the Advisory Committee on Creative and
Innovative Education for the purpose of developing an Index of
Creative and Innovative Education and making related recommendations
to the Superintendent. The bill would require the Governor, Senate
Committee on Rules, and Speaker of the Assembly, by April 1, 2012, to
appoint the 15 members who would be required to be experts in or
have experience in the fields of education, public policy, artistic
development, workforce development, or cultural development. The bill
would require the committee, by June 1, 2013, to submit a report to
the Superintendent on the factors to be considered in an Index on
Creative and Innovative Education and the funding necessary to
implement the index.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article 8 (commencing with Section 33600) is added to
Chapter 4 of Part 20 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
to read:

      Article 8.  Advisory Committee on Creative and Innovative
Education


   33600.  There is hereby established the Advisory Committee on
Creative and Innovative Education for the purpose of developing an
Index of Creative and Innovative Education and making related
recommendations to the Superintendent.
   33602.  (a) The Advisory Committee on Creative and Innovative
Education shall have 15 members, each of whom shall be an expert in
or have experience in the field of education, public policy, artistic
development, workforce development, or cultural development. The
members shall be appointed by April 1, 2012, as follows:
   (1) The governor shall appoint seven members who shall reside in
different geographic regions of the state.
   (2) The Senate Committee on Rules shall appoint three members.
   (3) The Speaker of the Assembly shall appoint three members.
   (4) The chairperson of the California Alliance for Arts Education.

   (5) The Superintendent of Public Instruction.
   (b) The members shall be appointed in a manner to ensure that the
diversity of disciplines is represented, including theater arts,
dance, and the visual arts.
   (c) Members shall serve two-year terms.
   33604.  (a) In the course of its deliberations, the committee
shall examine strategies on how to produce an Index of Creative and
Innovative Education that rates every public school on teaching,
encouraging, and fostering creativity in pupils. The index shall be
based in part on the creative opportunities in each school as
measured by the availability of classes, before and after school
programs that provide creative opportunities for pupil, including
arts education, debate clubs, science fairs, theater performances,
concerts, and filmmaking.
   (b) The committee may hold public hearings to assist in the
collection and evaluation of data and testimony.
   (c) The committee shall develop recommendations on what should be
included in the Index on Creative and Innovative Education, how an
index should be produced and implemented, the funding necessary to
implement the index, and ways to foster creative and innovative
education in the public schools.
   33606.  By June 1, 2013, the committee shall submit a report to
the Superintendent on the factors to be considered in an Index on
Creative and Innovative Education and the funding necessary to
implement the index.