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Requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to offer and teach in grades nine through twelve one unit of the history of refugee migration in and to the United States
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 21, 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
AI summary Iowa schools would be required to teach one unit about the history of refugees and immigration to the United States. This new requirement applies to students in grades 7 through 12 in both public and private schools. Local school districts would use their state foundation aid to pay for this instruction.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires, within the five units of social studies required under Iowa’s educational standards, school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to offer and teach one unit of instruction in the history of refugee migration within and immigration to the United States in grades through 12. Currently, high school students are required to take three years of social studies, including one-half unit of United States government and a unit of United States history.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.
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§256.11
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