This article shall be known, and may be cited as, the California Indian Education Act.
Article 7California Indian Education Act
Section § 33390
This law section gives the name of the legislation as the California Indian Education Act, which pertains to initiatives or regulations around education for Native American students in California.
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Section § 33391
This law encourages schools and educational authorities in California to work with local Native American tribes to form task forces aimed at improving education related to Native American history and culture. These task forces are to develop and share accurate curriculum materials, identify and address achievement gaps for Native American students, and encourage schools to adopt these new materials. They must report their findings and progress annually. The state's education department will also report on these efforts to legislative committees, including any challenges faced. Schools and task forces can also contribute to a statewide model curriculum on Native American studies.
(a)CA Education Code § 33391(a) The Legislature encourages local educational agencies to form California Indian Education Task Forces with California Indian tribe’s local to their region or tribes historically located in the region. Participants in these meetings are encouraged to discuss issues of mutual concern and to work to do all of the following:
(1)CA Education Code § 33391(a)(1) Develop a thorough, shared understanding of accurate, high-quality curricular materials about the history, culture, and government of local tribes, and develop curricular materials for use within local educational agencies that include tribal experiences and perspectives and teach about the history, culture, and government of local tribes.
(2)CA Education Code § 33391(a)(2) Develop a
shared understanding of proper or improper instructional material when these materials use depictions of Native Americans.
(3)CA Education Code § 33391(a)(3) Encourage local educational agencies to adopt curriculum developed by the California Indian Education Task Forces, in order to ensure that all pupils learn about the history, culture, government, and experiences of their Indian peers and neighbors, and to ensure that Indian pupils are more engaged and learn more successfully.
(4)CA Education Code § 33391(a)(4) Identify the extent and nature of the achievement gap between Indian pupils and other pupils, and identify the strategies necessary to close it.
(b)CA Education Code § 33391(b) California Indian Education Task Forces shall submit, within one year of formation and annually thereafter, a report of findings to the department, including a finding on the progress of the work described in paragraphs
(1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (a).
(c)CA Education Code § 33391(c) The department shall submit, within one year of receiving task force reports pursuant to subdivision (b) and annually thereafter, a report to the Senate Education Committee and the Assembly Committee on Education regarding the progress made in the narrowing of the achievement gap, and the identification and adoption of curriculum regarding tribal history, culture, and government. The report shall include information about any obstacles encountered, and any strategies under development to overcome those obstacles.
(d)CA Education Code § 33391(d) California Indian Education Task Forces may submit curricular materials developed pursuant to subdivision (a) to the county office of education, or consortium of county offices of education, that has contracted to develop a model curriculum related to Native American studies pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
51226.9. The county office of education, or consortium of county offices of education, shall consider these submitted materials for inclusion in the model curriculum.
(e)CA Education Code § 33391(e) For purposes of this article, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
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