California Education Code

§ 52951

EDC § 52951Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 28 · Ch. 13 · Art. 1

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares as follows:

(a)California is a national and international leader in scientific and technological development. California employs 45 percent of the nation’s computer specialists and 21 percent of its engineers. The economic growth of California and the nation will depend in a large part upon its ability to remain competitive with other states and with foreign nations. Maintaining our preeminence will be dependent upon persons who have a solid foundation in science.

(b)There is growing concern about science illiteracy within the state’s adult population. A National Science Foundation Report shows that less than half of all high school juniors and one-third of high school seniors take a science course. As a result, American high school students receive only one-half to one-third the exposure to science as their counterparts in other developed countries, such as Japan, West Germany, East Germany, and the Soviet Union.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1486, Sec. 1.