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AR HB1736
Bill
Status
5/1/2023
Primary Sponsor
Scott Richardson
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AI Summary
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Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, all Arkansas public schools must teach education concerning the perils of communism and autocratic governments in a manner appropriate to student grade levels
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Curriculum must cover the record of mass murder and oppression by communist and autocratic governments, economic structures and their collapses, failures of communist economic systems, and the influence of the Soviet Union/Russia, People's Republic of China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Argentina
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The State Board of Education shall develop and distribute grade-appropriate curricula, standards, materials, and units for grades 7-12 in consultation with local, statewide, and national experts in communism and autocratic government education
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"Communism and autocratic government" is defined as a system where absolute power is concentrated in one individual without external legal constraints or mechanisms of popular control, and has resulted in the murder of approximately 100 million citizens
Legislative Description
To Require The Perils Of Communism And Autocratic Governments Be Taught In All Public Schools.
Last Action
Died in Senate Committee at Sine Die adjournment.
5/1/2023