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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7083
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 3491
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E INCLUSION OF PUERTO RICAN AND
LATINO STUDIES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURR ICULUM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 10-16b of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 2
1, 2019): 3
(a) In the public schools the program of instruction offered shall 4
include at least the following subject matter, as taught by legally 5
qualified teachers, the arts; career education; consumer education; 6
health and safety, including, but not limited to, human growth and 7
development, nutrition, first aid, including cardiopulmonary 8
resuscitation training in accordance with the provisions of section 10-9
16qq, disease prevention and cancer awareness, including, but not 10
limited to, age and developmentally appropriate instruction in 11
performing self-examinations for the purposes of screening for breast 12
cancer and testicular cancer, community and consumer health, 13
physical, mental and emotional health, including youth suicide 14
prevention, substance abuse prevention, including instruction relating 15 Raised Bill No. 7083
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to opioid use and related disorders, safety, which shall include the safe 16
use of social media, as defined in section 9-601, and may include the 17
dangers of gang membership, and accident prevention; language arts, 18
including reading, writing, grammar, speaking and spelling; 19
mathematics; physical education; science, which may include the 20
climate change curriculum described in subsection (d) of this section; 21
social studies, including, but not limited to, citizenship, economics, 22
geography, government, history, [and] Holocaust and genocide 23
education and awareness in accordance with the provisions of section 24
10-18f, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies; computer programming 25
instruction; and in addition, on at least the secondary level, one or 26
more world languages and vocational education. For purposes of this 27
subsection, world languages shall include American Sign Language, 28
provided such subject matter is taught by a qualified instructor under 29
the supervision of a teacher who holds a certificate issued by the State 30
Board of Education. For purposes of this subsection, the "arts" means 31
any form of visual or performing arts, which may include, but not be 32
limited to, dance, music, art and theatre. 33
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 10-16b(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To include Puerto Rican and Latino studies in the social studies
component of the public school curriculum.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]