California Senate Bill SB199 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 199INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Ducheny FEBRUARY 23, 2009 An act to amend Sections 99200.5, 99201, and 99202 of, and to repeal Section 99206 of, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 199, as introduced, Ducheny. Postsecondary education: instructional strategies: subject matter projects. (1) Existing law authorizes the Regents of the University of California to establish and maintain cooperative endeavors designed to develop and enhance teachers' subject matter and content knowledge in 6 subject matter project areas. Existing law provides goals to be accomplished by the subject matter projects. Among these is the goal to provide support to teachers to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to implement State Board of Education standards. This bill would provide that this support may include assistance to teachers to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to develop and deliver instruction in multiple pathway programs and career technical education. The bill would also authorize 3 additional subject matter projects: the California Physical Education-Health Project, the California Arts Project, and the California Foreign Language Project. (2) Existing law establishes a project advisory board in each subject matter project area to set guidelines, make recommendations, and monitor activities for compliance with existing law. Each project advisory board is composed of representatives who are selected, in varying numbers, by various individuals and entities. This bill would change the composition of each project advisory board to consist of only one representative selected by each appointing entity to the respective board. (3) Under existing law, the above provisions become inoperative on June 30, 2012, and are repealed on January 1, 2013. This bill would delete these inoperative and repeal dates, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (4) Existing law prohibits any of the provisions related to instructional strategies from applying to the University of California unless the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make those provisions applicable. This bill would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by resolution, make these provisions applicable. 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. Section 99200.5 of the Education Code is amended to read: 99200.5. The statewide subject matter projects shall accomplish all of the following goals: (a) Create opportunities for researchers, higher education faculty, and elementary and secondary school faculty to work together to accomplish all of the following: (1) Identify exemplary teaching practices. (2) Examine and develop research on learning, knowledge, and educational materials. (3) Provide support to teachers to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to implement State Board of Education standards adopted pursuant to Section 60605.  The support may include assistance to academic teachers and career technical education teachers to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to develop and deliver instruction in multiple pathway programs and career technical ed   ucation.  (b) Collect the necessary data to perform the evaluation required by subdivision (c) of Section 99200. SEC. 2. Section 99201 of the Education Code is amended to read: 99201. The following subject matter projects shall be authorized pursuant to this chapter: (a) The California Writing Project. (b) The California Reading and Literature Project. (c) The California Mathematics Project. (d) The California Science Project. (e) The California History-Social Science Project. (f) The World History and International Studies Project.  (g) The California Physical Education-Health Project.   (h) The California Arts Project.   (i) The California Foreign Language Project.  SEC. 3. Section 99202 of the Education Code is amended to read: 99202. (a) Within each subject matter project, a project advisory board shall be established to do all of the following: (1) Set guidelines for project sites. (2) Review and recommend site proposals for funding. (3) Monitor project activities to ensure that they adequately reflect the priorities of the project and that projects comply with the requirements of this chapter. (4) Perform other duties as determined by the Concurrence Committee rules and regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 99200. (b) The composition of each advisory board shall be as follows: (1) One representative selected by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. (2)  Two representatives   One representative,  selected by the President of the University of California,  one of whom   who  is a member of the faculty in the discipline addressed by the project. (3)  Two representatives   One   representative,  selected by the Chancellor of the California State University,  one of whom     who  is a member of the faculty in the discipline addressed by the project. (4)  Three representatives   One representative,  selected by the Superintendent of Public Instruction,  one of whom  who  is a classroom teacher in the subject areas addressed by the project. (5)  Two representatives   One representative    of the State Board of Education,  one of whom  who is a classroom teacher in the subject areas addressed by the  subject   project  . (6) One representative selected by the Governor. (7) One representative selected by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. (8) One representative of the statewide professional organization of teachers in the subject matter addressed by the project, to be selected by the president of that organization. If there is more than one statewide professional organization of teachers in that subject area, the members of the advisory board may choose which organization shall select the representative and may choose to include a representative of one or more of the other organizations as nonvoting members of the advisory board. (9)  Two representatives   One representative  of the California community colleges  ,  selected by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges,  one of whom   who  is a faculty member in the subject matter area addressed by the project. (10)  Two representatives   One  representative  of an independent postsecondary institution  ,  selected by the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities,  one of whom   who  is a member of the faculty in the discipline addressed by the project. SEC. 4. Section 99206 of the Education Code is repealed.  99206. This article shall become inoperative on June 30, 2012, and, as of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.