SB 1540 Summary

• Authorizes the State Board of Education to consider adoption of a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for history-social science instructional materials.
• Requires the State Department of Education to complete work on Common Core academic content standards curriculum frameworks before beginning work on the history-social science framework revision.
• Notes that the K-12 History-Social Science Framework was last adopted in 2003 and an updated draft was suspended in 2009 due to state budget actions.
• Clarifies that adoption of an updated curriculum framework does not mandate purchase of new instructional materials and does not result in automatic costs to the state or local educational agencies.