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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | October 26, 2023 12:10 PM |
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| From: | Representative Ryan E. Mackenzie |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Requiring Public School Instruction Relating to Victims of Communism |
| In the near future, I will be introducing legislation to provide instruction on Communism, including how victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech in our children’s secondary education. Pennsylvania school children are already required to have at least four semesters of study in American government and history during 7th through 12th grade. My legislation would require that such instruction, beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, include instruction on Communism and how individuals struggled under these repressive governments. My legislation suggests relevant topics of instruction and requires the State Board of Education to adopt revised academic standards pertaining to this instruction. This legislation is modeled off of a Florida law. Please join me in cosponsoring this legislation to educate our children on this system of government that is diametrically opposed to all that the United States stands for and represents. |
Introduced as HB1884