Bill Text: MI SB0315 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; curricula; certain content requirements concerning labor history in America; incorporate into history curriculum. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1164.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-03 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0315 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0315-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 315

 

 

March 3, 2009, Introduced by Senator GLEASON and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1164.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1164. A school district that teaches United States

 

history in a middle school or high school grade is encouraged to

 

focus the content of instruction regarding labor history in the

 

United States on at least 1 or more of the following subjects:

 

Detroit topographical society, Detroit trades assembly,

 

establishment of the American federation of labor, establishment of

 

the Michigan federation of labor, congress of industrial

 

organizations, establishment of the united automobile workers, the

 

great Flint sitdown, "arsenal of democracy", Walter Reuther, the

 

merger of the American federation of labor and congress of

 

industrial organizations, or the effect of the North American free

 

trade agreement on labor. This section is not intended to prohibit

 

or limit teaching about other areas of labor history in the United

 

States.