CA AB1805

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider including content on Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County in evaluation criteria when the State Board adopts new history-social science instructional materials on or after January 1, 2025.

Establishes legislative findings that the Mendez case (1945-1947) was a landmark civil rights lawsuit filed by Latino families against four Orange County school districts for denying Mexican American children school enrollment based on ethnicity.

Notes that the successful Mendez case led California to repeal school segregation statutes in 1947, making it the first state to end school segregation and setting legal precedent for Brown v. Board of Education.

Contains a conditional provision that Section 2.5 becomes operative only if both AB 1805 and AB 1821 are enacted before January 1, 2025, with AB 1805 enacted last; otherwise Section 2 applies.