| 29 | | - | (d) The State Board of Education shall make available curriculum 9 |
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| 30 | | - | materials and such other materials as may assist local and regional 10 |
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| 31 | | - | boards of education in developing instructional programs pursuant to 11 |
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| 32 | | - | this section. The State Board of Education, within available 12 |
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| 33 | | - | appropriations and utilizing available resource materials, shall assist 13 |
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| 34 | | - | and encourage local and regional boards of education to include: (1) 14 |
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| 35 | | - | Holocaust and genocide education and awareness; (2) the historical 15 |
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| 36 | | - | events surrounding the Great Famine in Ireland; (3) African-American 16 |
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| 37 | | - | history; (4) Puerto Rican history; (5) Native American history; (6) 17 Substitute Bill No. 7111 |
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| 34 | + | (a) In the public schools the program of instruction offered shall 9 |
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| 35 | + | include at least the following subject matter, as taught by legally 10 |
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| 36 | + | qualified teachers, the arts; career education; consumer education; 11 |
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| 37 | + | health and safety, including, but not limited to, human growth and 12 |
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| 38 | + | development, nutrition, first aid, including cardiopulmonary 13 Raised Bill No. 7111 |
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| 44 | | - | personal financial management, including, but not limited to, financial 18 |
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| 45 | | - | literacy as developed in the plan provided under section 10-16pp; (7) 19 |
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| 46 | | - | training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automatic 20 |
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| 47 | | - | external defibrillators; (8) labor history and law, including organized 21 |
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| 48 | | - | labor, the collective bargaining process, existing legal protections in the 22 |
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| 49 | | - | workplace, the history and economics of free market capitalism and 23 |
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| 50 | | - | entrepreneurialism, and the role of labor and capitalism in the 24 |
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| 51 | | - | development of the American and world economies; (9) climate 25 |
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| 52 | | - | change consistent with the Next Generation Science Standards; (10) 26 |
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| 53 | | - | topics approved by the state board upon the request of local or 27 |
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| 54 | | - | regional boards of education as part of the program of instruction 28 |
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| 55 | | - | offered pursuant to subsection (a) of this section; [and] (11) instruction 29 |
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| 56 | | - | relating to the Safe Haven Act, sections 17a-57 to 17a-61, inclusive; and 30 |
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| 57 | | - | (12) instruction relating to the dangers and health consequences of 31 |
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| 58 | | - | using electronic nicotine delivery systems and vapor products. The 32 |
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| 59 | | - | Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall be available 33 |
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| 60 | | - | to each local and regional board of education for the development of 34 |
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| 61 | | - | curriculum on climate change as described in this subsection. 35 |
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| 42 | + | LCO No. 4114 2 of 3 |
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| 44 | + | resuscitation training in accordance with the provisions of section 10-14 |
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| 45 | + | 16qq, disease prevention and cancer awareness, including, but not 15 |
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| 46 | + | limited to, age and developmentally appropriate instruction in 16 |
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| 47 | + | performing self-examinations for the purposes of screening for breast 17 |
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| 48 | + | cancer and testicular cancer, community and consumer health, 18 |
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| 49 | + | physical, mental and emotional health, including youth suicide 19 |
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| 50 | + | prevention, substance abuse prevention, including instruction relating 20 |
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| 51 | + | to opioid use, the dangers of vaping and related disorders, safety, 21 |
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| 52 | + | which shall include the safe use of social media, as defined in section 9-22 |
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| 53 | + | 601, and may include the dangers of gang membership, and accident 23 |
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| 54 | + | prevention; language arts, including reading, writing, grammar, 24 |
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| 55 | + | speaking and spelling; mathematics; physical education; science, 25 |
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| 56 | + | which may include the climate change curriculum described in 26 |
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| 57 | + | subsection (d) of this section; social studies, including, but not limited 27 |
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| 58 | + | to, citizenship, economics, geography, government, history and 28 |
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| 59 | + | Holocaust and genocide education and awareness in accordance with 29 |
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| 60 | + | the provisions of section 10-18f; computer programming instruction; 30 |
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| 61 | + | and in addition, on at least the secondary level, one or more world 31 |
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| 62 | + | languages and vocational education. For purposes of this subsection, 32 |
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| 63 | + | world languages shall include American Sign Language, provided 33 |
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| 64 | + | such subject matter is taught by a qualified instructor under the 34 |
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| 65 | + | supervision of a teacher who holds a certificate issued by the State 35 |
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| 66 | + | Board of Education. For purposes of this subsection, the "arts" means 36 |
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| 67 | + | any form of visual or performing arts, which may include, but not be 37 |
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| 68 | + | limited to, dance, music, art and theatre. 38 |
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