Bill Text: TX HB4509 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to instruction on informed American patriotism in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB4509 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4509-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to instruction on informed American patriotism in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB4509 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4509-Introduced.html
By: Bonnen | H.B. No. 4509 |
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relating to instruction in informed patriotism in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 4.001, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 4.001. Public Education Mission and Objectives. (b) | ||
The objectives of public education are: | ||
OBJECTIVE 1: Parents will be full partners with education | ||
in the education of their children | ||
OBJECTIVE 2: Students will be encouraged and challenged to | ||
meet their full educational potential. | ||
OBJECTIVE 3: Through enhanced dropout prevention efforts, | ||
all students will remain in school until they obtain a high school | ||
diploma. | ||
OBJECTIVE 4: A well-balanced and appropriate curriculum | ||
will be provided to all students. Through that curriculum, | ||
students will be prepared to succeed in a variety of postsecondary | ||
activities, including employment and enrollment in institutions of | ||
higher education. | ||
OBJECTIVE 5: Educators |
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students an informed patriotism, which consists primarily of | ||
leading students through close study of America's and Texas' | ||
founding documents. This objective's purpose is to: | ||
(A) |
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state's deepest and noblest purposes, | ||
(B) enhance students' intellectual independence, in order | ||
that they become thoughtful, |
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appreciation for the |
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our state and national heritage, and | ||
(C)guide students toward |
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productively functioning in a free enterprise society. | ||
OBJECTIVE 6: Qualified and highly effective personnel will | ||
be recruited, developed, and retained. | ||
OBJECTIVE 7: The state's students will demonstrate | ||
exemplary performance in comparison to national and international | ||
standards. | ||
OBJECTIVE 8: School campuses will maintain a safe and | ||
disciplined environment conducive to student learning. | ||
OBJECTIVE 9: Educators will keep abreast of the development | ||
of creative and innovative techniques and instruction and | ||
administration using those techniques as appropriate to improve | ||
student learning. | ||
OBJECTIVE 10: Technology will be implemented and used to | ||
increase the effectiveness of student learning, instructional | ||
management, staff development, and administration. | ||
OBJECTIVE 11: The State Board of Education, the agency, and | ||
the commissioner, shall assist school districts and charter schools | ||
in providing career and technology education to students. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.002. Required Curriculum. (h) The State Board of | ||
Education and each school district shall require |
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American patriotism and Texas history and the free enterprise | ||
system |
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adoption of instructional materials for kindergarten through grade | ||
12. A primary purpose of the public school curriculum is to prepare | ||
thoughtful, |
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of patriotism and can function productively in a free enterprise | ||
society with appreciation for the basic democratic |
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principles of our state and national heritage. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (h-1) to read as follows: | ||
(h-1) In adopting the essential knowledge and skills for the | ||
social studies curriculum, the State Board of Education shall adopt | ||
essential knowledge and skills that develop each student's civic | ||
knowledge, including an understanding of: | ||
(1) the fundamental moral, political, and | ||
intellectual foundations of the American experiment in | ||
self-government, as well as the history, qualities, traditions, and | ||
features of civics in the United States; | ||
(2) the structure, function, and processes of | ||
government institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; | ||
and | ||
(3) the Founding documents of the United States, | ||
including the Declaration of Independence, the United States | ||
Constitution, the Federalist Papers (including but not limited to | ||
Essays 10 and 51), excerpts from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy | ||
in America, the first Lincoln-Douglas debate, and the writings of | ||
the Founding Fathers of the United States. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |