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Relating to the Iowa core standards for social studies, providing for regular review and revision of the related administrative rules, and requiring that human growth and development instruction provided by school districts include age-appropriate and research-based instruction inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health practices
Topics:K–12 educationLGBTQIA+
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 4, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires the director of the department of education to review and revise the Iowa core standards for social studies by May 1, 2022; requires the state board of education to adopt rules by July 1, 2022, to include the history, contributions, and perspectives of populations specified in the bill; and modifies the requirements for human growth and development in grades through 12. The director must ensure that the content anchor standards for United States history, geography, economics, civics, and government include the histories, contributions, and perspectives of Native Americans; people of African, Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Latino, or Middle Eastern heritage; women; persons with disabilities; immigrants or refugees; and persons who are or who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Read the full explanation
The director must also provide technical assistance and implementation strategies to school districts if the revisions require curriculum and instruction changes. The director is further tasked with regularly reviewing and recommending administrative rule changes as necessary relating to the Iowa core standards for social studies and the populations which must be included in such standards. The bill provides that age-appropriate and research-based instruction in human growth and development, which each school board must provide to students enrolled in grades through 12, must include instruction inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health practices.3.16.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill.
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Lobbying
5 for · 2 against · 0 undecided · Who →
Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2348 Relating to the Iowa core standards for social studies and providing for regular review an…88th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
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