Policy Committee

The Policy Committee's role in the campaign is to work with state and local governments, school boards, and other agencies to examine existing policies addressing civic education and to generate new policies to strengthen civic education statewide.

Gary Dei Rossi - Chair
San Joaquin County Office of Education

Action Alert! By May 23rd!

California Assembly Bill 2544 introduced by Assembly Education Committee Chair, Gene Mullin, requires the State Superintendent of Education to develop a model civic education staff development plan for California, focused on the six promising practices in Civic Education identified in the Carnegie Foundation of New York’s Civic Mission of Schools Report.

The bill has passed the Assembly Education Committee, and needs letters of support by May 23rd keep it alive!

Letters should be written to:

Assemblymember Mark Leno, Chair
Assembly Appropriations Committee
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0013
Fax # 916-319-2181

Links:

California Assembly Bill 2544

Sample Letter of Support for AB 2544 (MS Word)

Letter of Support – from California PTA

 

 

Six Promising Approaches in Civic Education

Civic Mission of Schools Report from the Carnegie Foundation of New York

Democracy for Some: The Civic Opportunity Gap in High School

San Francisco Chronicle (March 9, 2008): Voter turnout spotlights educational need

California Survey of Civic Education

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 30, introduced by Assembly Member McCarthy, was signed into law in June, 2005. The bill urges the State Board of Education and all local school governing bodies in California to examine current practice and develop plans to increase and broaden emphasis on principles and practices of democracy

Resolutions passed in support of the California campaign:

Testimony to Commission on No Child Left Behind, April 2006:



A project of Constitutional Rights Foundation in collaboration with the
Center for Civic Education and the Alliance for Representative Democracy.
This project is made possible by generous grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Skirball Foundation