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60605.8
. (a) There is hereby established the Academic Content
Standards Commission. The commission shall consist of 21 members,
appointed as follows:
(1) Eleven members appointed by the Governor.
(2) Five members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.
(3) Five members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.
(b) Members of the commission shall serve at the pleasure of the
appointing authority.
(c) Not less than half of the members appointed by each of the
appointing authorities pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be current
public school elementary or secondary classroom teachers.
(d) The commission shall develop academic content standards in
language arts and mathematics. The standards shall be internationally
benchmarked and build toward college and career readiness by the
time of high school graduation. Unless otherwise allowed by the
Secretary of the United States Department of Education, at least 85
percent of these standards shall be the common core academic
standards developed by the consortium or interstate collaboration set
forth in Section 60605.7.
(e) Pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Act, Article 9 (commencing with
Sec. 11120) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, all
meetings and hearings of the commission shall be open and available
to the public.
(f) On or before July 15, 2010, the commission shall present its
recommended academic content standards to the state board.
(g) On or before August 2, 2010, the state board shall do either
of the following:
(1) Adopt the academic content standards as proposed by the
commission.
(2) Reject the academic content standards as proposed by the
commission. If the state board rejects the standards it shall provide
a specific written explanation to the Superintendent, the Governor,
and the Legislature of the reasons why the proposed standards were
rejected.
(h) The Superintendent and state board shall present to the
Governor and to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the
Legislature a schedule and implementation plan for integrating the
academic content standards adopted pursuant to this section into the
state educational system.