WY HJ0007

Requests the Wyoming State Board of Education amend social studies content and performance standards to include teaching benchmarks analyzing negative consequences of communism, fascism, and socialism in the 20th and 21st centuries

Cites national surveys indicating favorable views of these ideologies are significantly higher among young adults than older generations in the United States

Suggests curriculum cover documented human rights abuses including mass repression, murder, concentration camps, forced labor, political imprisonment, and seizure of private property

Recommends comparing these ideologies with U.S. founding principles such as democracy, individual rights, private property, merit-based advancement, and free enterprise

Directs the Secretary of State to transmit copies of the resolution to the state superintendent of public instruction and the Wyoming State Board of Education