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Committee backs bill to add instruction on constitutional republic and failures of autocratic systems to social studies standards
Summary
House Bill 1060 would order a review of social studies standards for grades 7–12 to incorporate instruction comparing the resilience of the United States’ constitutional republic with failures of communism and autocratic governments.
House Bill 1060, sponsored in the House by Scott Richardson, received extended debate in the Senate Education Committee before the committee voted to advance the measure.
Scott Richardson, identifying himself as "Scott Richardson, House District 13," told the committee the bill would "revise the instruction" of social studies standards for grades 7 through 12 to "incorporate the teaching of resiliency of The United States Constitutional Republic compared to the repeated failures of autocratic government systems, communism, and even democracies." Richardson said he found no explicit reference to the United States as a "constitutional republic" in his review of current standards and said the bill aims to…
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