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Senate committee holds first hearing on bill to require historic documents in every classroom
Summary
Senate Bill 34, sponsored by Senator Johnson, received its first hearing before the Senate Education Committee. The bill would require each public school classroom in Ohio to display at least one listed historical document and an accompanying explanatory description.
Senator Johnson, sponsor of Senate Bill 34, told the Senate Education Committee that the bill would "require public schools to display 1 of a variety of historical documents in each classroom" to expose students to texts the sponsor described as "the backbone of our legal and moral traditions." The legislation lists allowable items including the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, the mottos of the United States and the State of Ohio, the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution and the Articles of Confederation, and would require each display to be accompanied by a description explaining the historical importance of the document.
The bill, as explained in…
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