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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7075
January Session, 2025
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY OF ISLAMIC AND ARAB
STUDIES CURRICULUM MATERIAL FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (d) of section 10-16b of the general statutes, as 1
amended by section 32 of public act 22-80, section 3 of public act 23-21, 2
section 7 of public act 23-150 and section 19 of public act 23-160, is 3
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 4
2025): 5
(d) The State Board of Education shall make available curriculum 6
materials and such other materials as may assist local and regional 7
boards of education in developing instructional programs pursuant to 8
this section. The State Board of Education, within available 9
appropriations and utilizing available resource materials, shall assist 10
and encourage local and regional boards of education to include: (1) 11
Holocaust and genocide education and awareness; (2) the historical 12
events surrounding the Great Famine in Ireland; (3) African-American 13
and black studies; (4) Puerto Rican and Latino studies; (5) Native 14
American studies; (6) Asian American and Pacific Islander studies; (7) 15
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personal financial management, including, but not limited to, financial 16
literacy as developed in the plan provided under section 10-16pp; (8) 17
training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automatic 18
external defibrillators; (9) labor history and law, including organized 19
labor, the collective bargaining process, existing legal protections in the 20
workplace, the history and economics of free market capitalism and 21
entrepreneurialism, and the role of labor and capitalism in the 22
development of the American and world economies; (10) climate change 23
consistent with the Next Generation Science Standards; (11) topics 24
approved by the state board upon the request of local or regional boards 25
of education as part of the program of instruction offered pursuant to 26
subsection (a) of this section; [and] (12) instruction relating to the Safe 27
Haven Act, sections 17a-57 to 17a-61, inclusive; and (13) Islamic and 28
Arab studies. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection 29
shall be available to each local and regional board of education for the 30
development of curriculum on climate change as described in this 31
subsection. 32
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 10-16b(d)
Statement of Purpose:
To require the State Board of Education to make available to school
districts curriculum materials concerning Islamic and Arab Studies.
[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.]