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Under this bill, the Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education, is directed to appoint a Core Curriculum Content Standards Advisory Council to assist and advise the State Board in the ongoing review of core curriculum content standards. The advisory council will consist of 15 members chosen from among the K-12 education, higher education, and business communities and shall also include student and parent representatives. The bill directs the Core Curriculum Content Standards Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee for each of the subject areas of the core curriculum content standards. The bill directs each subcommittee to review the existing standards for its subject area. Under the bill, the subcommittee will: (1) review relevant research on the subject area and identify areas in the standards where revision is appropriate; (2) examine curriculum standards for the subject area adopted by other states, countries, and entities; (3) collect feedback on the existing State standards from teachers, parents, and other stakeholders through the development of an online survey and make feedback available to the public via Internet posting; (4) solicit feedback from appropriate content related professional organizations, associations, and societies; and (5) write a report detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the standards. Under the bill, each subcommittee will revise the standards to reflect its research findings. In lieu of revisions, a subcommittee may recommend the adoption of a highly-regarded set of standards from another state or country or by working with a consortium of states to revise and develop a set of standards. The subcommittee will then submit the revised standards to the Core Curriculum Content Standards Advisory Council for its review and approval. Upon the receipt of revised standards from a subcommittee, the Core Curriculum Content Standards Advisory Council will review and finalize the standards before forwarding them to the Commissioner of Education for consideration and adoption by the State Board of Education. The Commissioner of Education may submit standards to the State Board of Education that are different than those submitted by the Core Curriculum Content Standards Advisory Council, along with a written justification and explanation of any changes that were made.

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Benjie Wimberly (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 02/08/2018)