California
LEGISLATION
Legislation mandating genocide education:
UNFUNDED MANDATE
Bill number: AB1273
Title: Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide
Date: 1985
Sponsored by: Assemblymembers Calderon and Roos (authors) and Senators Deddeh and Torres (coauthors)
Legislation:
“… the State Department of Education shall develop a model curriculum for use by school districts maintaining grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to be incorporated into existing history or social studies courses offered by these districts relating to the issue of genocide. The model curriculum shall prescribe a separate course of study for grades 7 to 9, inclusive, and grades 10 to 12, inclusive. The model curriculum shall be offered by school districts to meet the mandatory course requirements of sections 51210 and 51225.3 of the Education Code- Prior to dissemination of the model curriculum to school districts, the model curriculum shall be approved by the State Board of Education.”
Contact: Lynda Nichols, Education Programs Consultant
California Department of Education, Professional Development and Curriculum Support
1430 N Street, Suite 5408
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916.323.5822
E-mail: lnichols@cde.ca.gov
Legislation establishing a commission:
Bill number: AB 1175
Title: The Holocaust and genocide
Date: 2004
Sponsored by: Assembly Member Paul Koretz
Legislation:
Existing law, known as the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education Act of 2003, establishes the California Taskforce on Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, Contact: Dr. Samuel M. Edelman, Center Director & Taskforce Liaisonand Tolerance Education, as an advisory body, and establishes the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance as a pilot program at the California State University, Chico, to promote education regarding the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, and tolerance. Existing law requires the center to work cooperatively with designated California State University campuses, as specified, to offer training, curricular materials, and resources, for teachers to effectively instruct on the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, and tolerance. Existing law repeals the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education Act of 2003 on January 1, 2005.
This bill would expand the center to the California State University generally, and remove references to the pilot program , and . The bill would require the center to work cooperatively with interested faculty members of the California State University to offer training, curricular materials, and resources, for teachers to effectively instruct on the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, and tolerance. The bill would delete the repeal date of the act, thereby extending the operation of the act indefinitely. The bill would enact restrictions concerning the receipt of state funding for the center.
Contact: Dr. Samuel M. Edelman, Center Director & Taskforce Liaison, The Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance
California State University
25 Main Street
Chico, CA 95929-0265
Phone: 530.898.4874
E-mail: sedelman@csuchico.edu
Bill number: AB 2003
Title: Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education Act of 2003
Date: 2003
Sponsored by: Assembly Member Paul Koretz
Legislation:
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate into prescribed materials, frameworks on history and social science that deal with civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust, and encourages all state and local professional development activities to provide teachers with content background and resources to assist in teaching about civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust.
This bill would declare that the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, and liberator testimony into the teaching of human rights, genocide, and the Holocaust. The bill would also require the Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide to be made available to schools in grades 7 to 12 as soon as funding is available and would require the State Department of Education to make the curriculum available on its Web site.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to designate nonprofit agencies to serve as regional social tolerance resource centers and provides one-time funding for support of the centers. Existing law requires that the agencies selected have demonstrated success in prescribed activities, including, but not limited to, providing teacher training activities and curricular materials.
This bill would, in addition, until January 1, 2005, establish the California Taskforce on Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education, as an advisory body, and would establish the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance as a pilot program at the California State University, Chico to promote education regarding the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, and tolerance, including, but not limited to, providing teachers with the knowledge and training to effectively teach pupils about the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, and tolerance.
The bill would authorize the use of certain funds made available pursuant to the Budget Act of 2002 for purposes of the CSU Centers for Excellence to be used to establish the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance, as a pilot program at California State University, Chico.
Contact: Dr. Samuel M. Edelman, Center Director & Taskforce Liaison
The Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance
California State University
25 Main Street
Chico, CA 95929-0265
Phone: 530.898.4874
E-mail: sedelman@csuchico.edu
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ACADEMIC STANDARDS
History-Social Science Framework for California Public Schools (2005):
Grade Ten-World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World
Standard 10.5.5:
Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman government’s actions against Armenian citizens.
Standard 10.8.5:
Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
Standard 10.9.6:
Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs.
These standards are mandatory in California.
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STATE RESOURCES
Sigi Ziering Institute - Exploring the Ethical & Religious Implications of the Holocaust
A University of Judaism Think Tank
15600 Mulholland Dr.
Bel-Air. California 90077
Phone: 1.888.853.6763 or 310.476.9777
URL: http://www.uj.edu/
Contact: Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Director
Phone: 310.476.9777, ext. 576
E-mail: mberenbaum@uj.edu
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
2107 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone: 415.563.2244
Contact: Mitch Braff
E-mail: mitch@jewishpartisans.org
The mission of the Foundation is to develop and distribute effective educational materials about the Jewish partisans, bringing the celebration of heroic resistance against tyranny into educational and cultural organizations.
Holocaust Study and Social Justice Center of Sacred Heart Schools
150 Valparaiso Avenue
Atherton, CA 94027
Contact: Mark Davis
Phone: 650.473.4093
E-mail: mdavis@shschools.org
The Holocaust Study and Social Justice Center of the Sacred Heart Schools is a vital resource for exploring issues of the past, and for developing a sense of social responsibility and justice for the future.
State of California Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance at California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico
25 Main Street
Chico, CA 95929-0265
URL: http://www.csuchico.edu/mjs/center/index.shtml
Contact: Dr. Samuel M. Edelman, Center Director & Taskforce Liaison
Phone: 530.898.4874
E-mail: sedelman@csuchico.edu
The mission of the Center is to educate social science, history, language arts and other interested teachers about the context and background of the Holocaust and other genocides around the globe.
The “1939″ Club
8950 West Olympic Boulevard, #437
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
URL: http://www.1939club.com/
Phone: 310.491.7802
E-mail: info@1939club.com
The “1939″ Club is “dedicated to Holocaust education, documentation, justice and the memory of the six million Jews who perished, the millions of other victims who lost their lives, and the righteous persons who stood up for human rights - so that it will never happen again!”
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
650 W. 35th Street, Suite 114
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571
Phone: 213.740.6001
E-mail: vhi-web@usc.edu
Their mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry - and the suffering they cause - through the educational use of the Foundation’s visual history testimonies.
Leavey Library
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education
Chapman University
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92866
URL: http://www.chapman.edu/holocausteducation/default.asp
Contact: Dr. Marilyn Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Founding Director
Phone: 714.628.7377
E-mail: cioffi@chapman.edu
Simon Wiesenthal Center
1399 South Roxbury
Los Angeles, CA 90035
URL: http://www.wiesenthal.com
The Center’s mission is to generate changes through the Snider Social Action Institute and education by confronting anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, defending the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaching the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations.
The Holocaust Center of Northern California
121 Steuart Street, Suite 10
San Francisco CA 94105
URL: http://www.hcnc.org/
Phone: 415.777.9060
Contact: Morgan N. Blum, Director of Education
Phone: 415.777.9060, x203
E-mail: mblum@hcnc.org
The Holocaust Center of Northern California is dedicated to the education, documentation, research, and remembrance of the Holocaust.
Claremont McKenna College, The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
850 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711-6420
URL: http://holocaustcenter.claremontmckenna.edu/
Phone: 909.607.2775
Contact: Professor Jonathan Petropoulos, Director
E-mail: jonathan.petropoulos@claremontmckenna.edu
Their mission is to instill in students the knowledge, skills, and moral insight needed to intervene constructively in a world rife with genocidal conflict, terrorism, and human rights violations.
Chambon Foundation
8033 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90046
URL: www.chambon.org
Phone: 323.650.1774
Contact: Pierre Sauvage, President
E-mail: sauvage@chambon.org
Their mission is to explore the necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust’s unavoidable lessons of despair.
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
6435 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 303
Los Angeles, Ca 90048
Website: www.lamoth.org
Tel: (323) 651-3704
Fax: (323) 651-3706
Museum of Tolerance
9786 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: (310) 553-8403
Website: http://www.museumoftolerance.com
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
California Department of Education
1430 N Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916.319.0800
URL: http://www.cde.ca.gov
