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Letters to the Assembly and Committee
Each member from our group has wrote letters to both to the Assembly and the Committee. In each of the letters, we wrote about the Bill that most interest us. These letters were also mailed out specifically to a member of the Assembly and the Committee.
Click on our names to see what we each wrote about!
Sacramento Trip 2014
Here are the bills that the Senate will be discussing about education:
Public postsecondary education: community college districts: baccalaureate degree pilot program
Standardized testing: inadequate or improper test conditions
Community colleges: funding: San Francisco Community College District
Taxation: Oil Severance Tax Law
Education finance: budgets: long-term obligations
Pupil curriculum: history-social science content standards
Student Tuition Recovery Fund: claims
Pupils: involuntary transfer: county community schools
Pupil instruction: independent study
Pupil instruction: sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education
California Collaborative for Educational Excellence
Community colleges: Disability Services Program
Pupil instruction: genocide
Community colleges: inmate education programs: computation of apportionments
Community colleges: retroactive awarding of degrees
Missed the Assembly Education Committee yesterday?
No worries! Here are some notes that our group took on the following bills!
State, Capitol Room 126
Assembly Education Sub Committee Hearing
Room 126: 8 Bills to be heard
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
AB 1993: bullying related and pertains to teacher training programs to improve school climates, provides schools with support and resources to create and improve schools, “be an upstander”, creating a caring community in classroom and school, focuses on prevention and solution, vote was cast, and it is moving onward
AB 1442: monitor online postings in schools, the bill will set reasonable standards for privacy, will inform parents, limit collections, give children access to data, and students date will be deleted when they reach age of 18, vote was cast, and it is moving onward
AB 1946: necessary small school funding, community involvement, will affect 7 unified school districts in California, MaryAnn and one student spoke in favor of this bill, vote was cast, and it is moving onward
AB 2341: add indicator to calpads to report pupils of military families, track families, provide a basis to collect data on children of military families, vote was cast, and it is moving onward
AB 1902: provide preschoolers greater access to quality education by eliminating enrollment fees for part day attendance, MaryAnn and eight students spoke in favor of this bill, vote was cast, and it is moving onward
AB 2125: early childhood education standard reimbursement rate adjustment, compensation for current cost of care in programs, competitive salaries can further support children and families, MaryAnn and eight students spoke in favor of this bill, vote was cast, and it is moving onward
AB 2706: health care coverage in schools, vote was cast, and it is moving onward
AB 1581: vote was cast, and it is moving onward
Assembly Education Finance Sub Committee
Room 126
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
It’s happening now! Go check it out!
Are you watching the Assembly Education Committee?
Today April 23, 2014, the Assembly will be discussing the following bills at 1:30 pm
Click on any of the following topics to get more information on each bill!
Model curriculum: computer science.
School facilities: construction contracts.
California State Preschool Program: part-day preschool: fees.
School finance: necessary small high schools.
Pupils: bullying: teacher training.
Child care: standard reimbursement rates.
California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System: pupils of military families.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Our Child Development 479 (Policy and Advocacy) class will be in Sacramento from Tuesday, April 22, 2014 until Thursday, April 24, 2014. On Wednesday we have a full agenda of activities and informational hearings that we will attend. Each member of the class has the flexibility to choose their activities for the day and what to advocate for.
The entire class, however, will be attending two sub-committee hearings on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at the California State Capitol. Those sub-committee hearings are as follows:
- California State Senate Education Committee, which meets Wednesday at 9 AM in room 4203.
Their jurisdiction includes bills relating to education, higher education, and certificated educational personnel.
- California State Assembly on Education, which meets on Wednesday at 1:30 PM in room 126.
Their jurisdiction includes education generally, certificated employees of schools, school finance, and school facilities.
Our advocacy group is researching the bills that will be heard in these sub-committee hearings on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. We are preparing letters that advocate for children and families in relation to education that we will present to the committee members of both the California State Senate and the Assembly.
Child Development Advocacy 