Section 51226.3.

(a) The State Department of Education shall incorporate, into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, those materials developed by publishers of nonfiction, trade books, and primary sources, or other public or private organizations, that are age-appropriate and consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science that deal with civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust.

(b) The Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness testimony into the teaching of human rights, genocide, and the Holocaust.

(c) The Legislature 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.

(d) The Legislature encourages all state and local professional development activities to provide teachers with content background and resources to assist in teaching about the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50.

(e) The Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 shall be considered in the next cycle in which the history/social science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are adopted.

(f) The Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide adopted by the State Board of Education, pursuant to Section 51226, shall be made available to schools in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, as soon as funding is available for this purpose. In addition, the State Department of Education shall make the curriculum available on its Web site.

(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 62, Sec. 59. Effective January 1, 2004.)