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Assembly committee advances bill to strengthen students' opt-out rights for animal dissection
Summary
The Assembly Education Committee voted to send AB 347 (the CLASS Act) to appropriations after hearing testimony from students, educators and scientists about alternatives to animal dissection and classroom impacts.
Assemblymember Carlra, author of AB 347, told the Assembly Education Committee that the Compassionate Learning Advancement for Science Students Act (CLASS Act) would require schools to give students written notice of their right to opt out of animal dissection and guarantee a comparable alternative assignment. The committee voted to pass the bill as amended to the Appropriations Committee.
The bill would add requirements that students be informed in writing about their right to decline participation in animal dissections and that districts provide an alternative assignment to achieve the same learning outcomes. The author said the measure preserves an existing agricultural exemption for classes that provide instruction in…
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