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SB289
GMFR262-1
By Senator Orr
RFD: Finance and Taxation Education
First Read: 01-Apr-25
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First Read: 01-Apr-25
SYNOPSIS:
This bill would require the State Board of
Education to develop and local boards of education to
implement a success sequence curriculum appropriate for
all grades which focuses on sequential milestones shown
to help young adults achieve economic prosperity.
This bill would provide parameters for the
curriculum of the program and for the selection and
training of instructors.
This bill would also authorize local boards of
education to determine how often and in what format to
provide the curriculum to students.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to public K-12 education; to require the State
Board of Education to develop and local boards of education to
implement a success sequence curriculum appropriate for all
grades; to provide parameters for the curriculum and the
selection and training of instructors; and to authorize local
boards of education to determine the presentation of the
curriculum to students.
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curriculum to students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of
the following:
(1) Couples who have children within marriage have
higher family incomes and lower poverty rates than their
unmarried counterparts, and children reared by a single parent
are more than three times as likely to live in poverty.
(2) Approximately 25 percent of all children today do
not have married parents and are twice as likely to be
incarcerated before reaching 30 years of age.
(3) Children reared in stable, married-parent families
are more likely to excel in school and generally earn higher
grade point averages than children who are not.
(4) Among millennials who completed high school,
entered the workforce, and were married before having
children, 97 percent did not live in poverty upon reaching
adulthood.
Section 2. (a) For purposes of this section, the
following terms have the following meanings:
(1) BOARD. The State Board of Education.
(2) SUCCESS SEQUENCE. A three-pronged framework for
youths and young adults based on research from diverse
institutions that individuals who complete at least a high
school education, obtain full-time employment, and marry
before having children are overwhelmingly less likely to live
in poverty in adulthood.
(b) Commencing with the 2026-2027 school year, all
students shall receive instruction in the success sequence at
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students shall receive instruction in the success sequence at
least twice before they graduate from high school.
(c) The board shall develop standards and a model
curriculum to be adopted and implemented by local boards of
education that describe the positive personal and societal
outcomes associated with the success sequence. The curriculum
may be presented in an age-appropriate manner through an
assembly, a series of assemblies, or incorporated into
existing curriculum, and shall incorporate evidence drawn from
seminal academic studies on the success sequence including,
but not limited to, the following:
(1) "Creating an Opportunity Society" by Ron Haskins
and Isabel Sawhill of The Brookings Institution.
(2) "The Millennial Success Sequence" by Wendy Wang and
Brad Wilcox of the American Enterprise Institute and the
Institute for Family Studies.
(3) "Assessing the Benefits of the Success Sequence for
Economic Self-Sufficiency and Family Stability" by Hande
Inanc, Ariella Spitzer, and Brian Gosling for the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
(d) The board, by rule, shall develop a process to
recruit, select, and train instructors to administer the
curriculum.
(e) The board shall adopt rules to implement and
administer this section.
Section 3. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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