California Education Code

§ 221.2

EDC § 221.2 Effective Jan 1, 2016Div. 1 · Title 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 2 · Art. 3.5

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The use of racially derogatory or discriminatory school or athletic team names, mascots, or nicknames in California public schools is antithetical to the California school mission of providing an equal education to all.

(b)Certain athletic team names, mascots, and nicknames that have been used and remain in use by other teams, including school teams, in other parts of the nation are discriminatory in singling out the Native American community for the derision to which mascots or nicknames are often subjected.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 767, Sec. 1. (AB 30) Effective January 1, 2016.