Bill Text: NY A10810 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to develop and implement an expanded curriculum or instruction on the history of the labor movement in the United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - referred to education [A10810 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10810-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10810

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 15, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the commis-
          sioner of education to develop and implement an expanded curriculum or
          instruction on the history of the labor movement in the United States

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 804-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 804-e. History of the labor movement curriculum or  instruction.  1.
     4  The  commissioner,  in  consultation  with any appropriate agency, shall
     5  establish  and/or  revise  the  curriculum  or  instruction  for  school
     6  districts  in the history of both organized and unorganized labor in the
     7  United States,  expanding  any  current  curriculum  or  instruction  to
     8  include a more complete picture of labor history and information on what
     9  the  labor movement looks like currently. The content of such curriculum
    10  or instruction shall be age appropriate and shall be developed according
    11  to the needs and abilities of pupils at successive grade levels in order
    12  to provide information and understanding of the history of  both  organ-
    13  ized and unorganized labor in the United States.
    14    2.  Schools  may  include  the above materials as a component of their
    15  social studies curriculum or any other way the school deems appropriate.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021 and shall apply to school
    17  years commencing on or after such date. Effective immediately, the addi-
    18  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
    19  the  implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and
    20  directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16865-01-0
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