BILL NUMBER: SB 232INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Wyland FEBRUARY 9, 2011 An act to amend Section 60000 of the Education Code, relating to instructional materials. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 232, as introduced, Wyland. Instructional materials: legislative intent. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to provide for the adoption and selection of quality instructional materials for use in the elementary and secondary schools and recognizes that the governing boards of school districts have the responsibility to establish courses of study and that they must have the ability to choose instructional materials that are appropriate to their courses of study. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 60000 of the Education Code is amended to read: 60000. (a) It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature in enacting this part to provide for the adoption and selection of quality instructional materials for use in the elementary and secondary schools. (b) The Legislature hereby recognizes that, because of the common needs and interests of the citizens of this state and the nation, there is a need to establish broad minimum standards and general educational guidelines for the selection of instructional materials for the public schools, but that because of economic, geographic, physical, political, educational, and social diversity, specific choices about instructional materials need to be made at the local level. (c) The Legislature further recognizes that the governing boards of school districts have the responsibility to establish courses of study and that theymustsh ould have the ability to choose instructional materials that are appropriate to their courses of study.