Bill > AB2615

This bill aims to strengthen educational equity by revising how discrimination complaints are handled and what constitutes discriminatory instructional materials. It clarifies that when a person files a complaint of discrimination with a local educational agency (which includes school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools), that agency must inform them that civil legal options may also be available. The bill also modifies the process for appealing a local educational agency's failure to issue an investigation report, requiring the State Department of Education to first notify the agency to produce the report within 20 days before the Superintendent intervenes. Furthermore, it removes the requirement that teacher instruction and materials must be consistent with "accepted standards of professional responsibility," focusing instead on factual accuracy and alignment with curriculum and standards, and it mandates that if instructional materials are found to be discriminatory, the Superintendent must ensure that all offending portions are removed from use.