Bill Text: CT SB00963 | 2015 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning A Labor And Free Market Capitalism Curriculum.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-04 - Signed by the Governor [SB00963 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00963-Chaptered.html
Substitute Senate Bill No. 963
AN ACT CONCERNING A LABOR AND FREE MARKET CAPITALISM CURRICULUM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (d) of section 10-16b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2015):
(d) The State Board of Education shall make available curriculum materials and such other materials as may assist local and regional boards of education in developing instructional programs pursuant to this section. The State Board of Education, within available appropriations and utilizing available resource materials, shall assist and encourage local and regional boards of education to include: (1) Holocaust and genocide education and awareness; (2) the historical events surrounding the Great Famine in Ireland; (3) African-American history; (4) Puerto Rican history; (5) Native American history; (6) personal financial management; (7) training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automatic external defibrillators; (8) labor history and law, including organized labor, the collective bargaining process, existing legal protections in the workplace, the history and economics of free market capitalism and entrepreneurialism, and the role of labor and capitalism in the development of the American and world economies; and [(8)] (9) topics approved by the state board upon the request of local or regional boards of education as part of the program of instruction offered pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.