HB 2120 Summary

• Prohibits K-12 school districts and charter schools from offering courses, classes, events, or activities that promote overthrow of the U.S. government, division or resentment toward people based on race, gender, religion, political affiliation, social class, or ethnicity.

• Prohibits courses designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or that advocate solidarity or isolation based on ethnicity, race, religion, gender, or social class instead of treating students as individuals.

• Applies same prohibitions to universities and community colleges in Arizona, with enforcement through state funding withholding up to 10 percent of monthly apportionments if violations are not corrected within 60 days of notice.

• Exempts courses on accurate ethnic history open to all students, Native American programs required by federal law, academic grouping by performance, discussion of controversial historical aspects, and instruction on the Holocaust, genocide, or historical oppression of groups.

• Establishes that the legislature intends Arizona not to educate or judge individuals based on religion, political affiliation, social class, gender, ethnicity, race, or skin color, but on character.