Bill Text: IA HF2545 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to education, including by requiring the director of the department of education to review the state's high school graduation requirements, core curriculum, core content standards, and educational standards, requiring the state board of education to review and revise the state's social studies standards, requiring that the social studies instruction provided to students enrolled in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools in grades seven and eight include instruction related to civics, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2329.) Effective date: 05/15/2024, 07/01/2024.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-15 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 938. [HF2545 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2023-HF2545-Enrolled.html
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AN
ACT
RELATING
TO
EDUCATION,
INCLUDING
BY
REQUIRING
THE
DIRECTOR
OF
THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
EDUCATION
TO
REVIEW
THE
STATE’S
HIGH
SCHOOL
GRADUATION
REQUIREMENTS,
CORE
CURRICULUM,
CORE
CONTENT
STANDARDS,
AND
EDUCATIONAL
STANDARDS,
REQUIRING
THE
STATE
BOARD
OF
EDUCATION
TO
REVIEW
AND
REVISE
THE
STATE’S
SOCIAL
STUDIES
STANDARDS,
REQUIRING
THAT
THE
SOCIAL
STUDIES
INSTRUCTION
PROVIDED
TO
STUDENTS
ENROLLED
IN
SCHOOL
DISTRICTS
AND
ACCREDITED
NONPUBLIC
SCHOOLS
IN
GRADES
SEVEN
AND
EIGHT
INCLUDE
INSTRUCTION
RELATED
TO
CIVICS,
AND
INCLUDING
EFFECTIVE
DATE
PROVISIONS.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
House
File
2545,
p.
2
DIVISION
I
STATE
BOARD
OF
EDUCATION
——
COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW
OF
EDUCATIONAL
STANDARDS
Section
1.
DEPARTMENT
OF
EDUCATION
——
COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW
OF
IOWA
EDUCATIONAL
STANDARDS
——
RECOMMENDED
REVISIONS.
1.
The
director
of
the
department
of
education
shall
conduct
a
comprehensive
review
of
the
high
school
graduation
requirements
and
core
curriculum
established
pursuant
to
section
256.7,
subsection
26,
the
core
content
standards
established
pursuant
to
section
256.7,
subsection
28,
and
the
educational
standards
established
in
section
256.11.
The
comprehensive
review
shall
be
designed
to
generate
recommendations
for
policy
changes
to
be
included
in
the
reports
required
under
subsection
4.
The
recommendations
for
policy
changes
shall
include
all
of
the
following:
a.
A
plan
to
regularly
review
and
revise
the
core
content
standards
focused
on
English
language
arts,
mathematics,
science,
and
social
studies,
with
a
focus
on
United
States
history,
western
civilization,
and
civics.
b.
A
plan
to
make
Iowa’s
educational
standards
the
best
in
the
nation.
c.
Input
from
relevant
stakeholders,
including
parents
and
teachers.
d.
A
plan
to
increase
the
quality
of
the
instructional
curriculum.
e.
A
plan
to
maximize
local
flexibility
in
graduation
requirements
and
course
offerings
while
maintaining
a
goal
that
all
high
school
graduates
have
necessary
skills
at
graduation.
f.
Identification
of
opportunities
to
equip
high
school
graduates
with
sufficient
knowledge
of
civics
and
United
States
history,
including
the
principles
reflected
in
the
Constitution
of
the
United
States,
so
that
high
school
graduates
are
capable
of
discharging
the
responsibilities
associated
with
United
States
citizenship.
g.
A
statewide
literacy
plan
to
increase
student
proficiency
using
systematic
and
sequential
approaches
to
teaching
phonetic
awareness,
phonics,
vocabulary,
fluency,
and
text
comprehension.
The
statewide
literacy
plan
shall
address
standards
for
practitioner
preparation
programs
House
File
2545,
p.
3
established
under
section
256.16
that
promote
evidence-based
reading
instruction
and
practical
application
that
are
direct,
systematic,
explicit,
responsive,
and
that
consist
of
phonetic
awareness,
phonics,
vocabulary,
fluency,
and
text
comprehension.
Such
standards
shall
not
include
instruction
or
practical
application
that
is
designed
to
teach
students
using
the
instructional
model
commonly
known
as
the
three-cueing
system.
2.
The
director
of
the
department
of
education
shall
ensure
that
the
core
curriculum
established
pursuant
to
section
256.7,
subsection
26,
the
core
content
standards
established
pursuant
to
section
256.7,
subsection
28,
and
the
educational
standards
established
in
section
256.11,
comply
with
section
279.74.
3.
The
comprehensive
review
described
in
subsection
1
shall
include
all
of
the
following:
a.
Providing
the
opportunity
for
the
public
and
interested
stakeholders
to
provide
comments
related
to
the
comprehensive
review,
including
comments
related
to
each
graduation
requirement,
core
content
standard,
and
educational
requirement
by
grade
level,
at
each
committee
meeting
convened
pursuant
to
this
subsection.
b.
Collecting
and
considering
the
comments
provided
pursuant
to
paragraph
“a”.
c.
(1)
Convening
committees
to
assist
in
the
comprehensive
review
and
provide
recommendations
related
to
the
subject
areas
in
the
educational
standards
established
in
section
256.11.
(2)
The
director
of
the
department
of
education
shall
determine
the
membership
of
each
committee;
provided,
however,
that
each
committee
shall
include
four
members
of
the
general
assembly
with
one
member
designated
by
each
of
the
following:
the
president
of
the
senate,
the
minority
leader
of
the
senate,
the
speaker
of
the
house
of
representatives,
and
the
minority
leader
of
the
house
of
representatives.
A
legislative
member
serves
in
an
ex
officio,
nonvoting
capacity.
4.
a.
The
director
of
the
department
of
education
shall
submit
an
initial
report,
including
initial
findings
and
recommendations
for
policy
changes,
to
the
governor
and
the
general
assembly
on
or
before
December
31,
2024.
b.
The
director
of
the
department
of
education
shall
submit
House
File
2545,
p.
4
a
final
report,
including
findings
and
recommendations
for
policy
changes,
to
the
governor
and
the
general
assembly
on
or
before
July
1,
2025.
Sec.
2.
EFFECTIVE
DATE.
This
division
of
this
Act,
being
deemed
of
immediate
importance,
takes
effect
upon
enactment.
DIVISION
II
STATE
BOARD
OF
EDUCATION
——
CORE
CURRICULUM
Sec.
3.
Section
256.7,
subsection
26,
paragraph
a,
unnumbered
paragraph
1,
Code
2024,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
Adopt
rules
that
establish
a
core
curriculum
and
adopt
rules
that
establish
high
school
graduation
requirements
for
all
students
in
school
districts
and
accredited
nonpublic
schools
that
include
at
a
minimum
satisfactory
completion
of
four
years
of
English
and
language
arts,
three
years
of
mathematics,
three
years
of
science,
and
three
years
of
social
studies.
Sec.
4.
Section
256.7,
subsection
26,
paragraph
a,
subparagraph
(3),
Code
2024,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
(3)
The
rules
establishing
a
core
curriculum
shall
address
the
core
content
standards
in
subsection
28
and
the
skills
and
knowledge
students
need
to
be
successful
in
the
twenty-first
century.
The
core
curriculum
shall
include
social
studies
and
twenty-first
century
learning
skills
which
include
but
are
not
limited
to
civic
literacy,
health
literacy,
financial
literacy,
family
life
and
consumer
sciences,
and
employability
skills;
and
shall
address
the
curricular
needs
of
students
in
kindergarten
through
grade
twelve
in
those
areas.
The
state
board
shall
further
define
the
twenty-first
century
learning
skills
components
by
rule
.
Sec.
5.
STATE
BOARD
OF
EDUCATION
——
RULES
ESTABLISHING
A
CORE
CURRICULUM.
Rules
adopted
by
the
state
board
of
education
on
or
before
the
effective
date
of
this
division
of
this
Act
relating
to
the
core
curriculum
shall
remain
effective
until
modified
or
rescinded
by
action
of
the
state
board
of
education.
DIVISION
III
STATE
BOARD
OF
EDUCATION
——
SOCIAL
STUDIES
STANDARDS
Sec.
6.
STATE
BOARD
OF
EDUCATION
——
REVIEW
AND
REVISION
OF
SOCIAL
STUDIES
STANDARDS.
House
File
2545,
p.
5
1.
The
state
board
of
education
shall
complete
a
review
and
revision
of
the
state
social
studies
standards
contained
in
the
core
content
standards
established
pursuant
to
section
256.7,
subsection
28,
with
a
focus
on
United
States
history,
government,
founding
philosophies
and
principles,
important
historical
figures,
western
civilization,
and
civics.
At
a
minimum,
the
revised
social
studies
standards
shall
include
instruction
related
to
all
of
the
following
topics
in
grade
one
through
grade
twelve,
in
such
a
manner
that
is
both
relevant
and
appropriate
for
the
age
of
the
student
receiving
instruction:
a.
The
United
States
federal
and
republican
form
of
government,
including
the
branches
and
structure
of
the
United
States
federal
government,
the
division
of
power
between
branches
of
government
and
between
federal
and
state
governments,
a
comparison
to
alternative
forms
of
government,
and
the
crimes
against
humanity
that
have
occurred
under
communist
regimes
since
1917.
b.
The
rights
and
responsibilities
of
citizens
of
the
United
States
and
the
state
of
Iowa,
including
civic
virtues
displayed
in
the
lives
of
exemplary
Americans.
c.
The
history
of
the
United
States
and
the
state
of
Iowa,
including
all
of
the
following:
(1)
The
political,
diplomatic,
and
military
history
of
the
United
States,
including
exemplary
Americans
important
to
such
events,
beginning
with
the
discovery
of
the
western
hemisphere
through
the
present,
including
but
not
limited
to
the
founding
fathers,
the
American
Revolutionary
War,
the
War
of
1812,
the
Civil
War,
World
War
I,
World
War
II,
the
Vietnam
War,
the
Korean
War,
and
the
War
on
Terrorism,
including
the
attacks
on
September
11,
2001.
(2)
The
founding
of
Iowa,
and
famous
Iowans
and
their
involvement
in
important
events
in
history.
(3)
The
secular
and
religious
ideals
and
institutions
of
liberty,
including
political,
religious,
economic,
social,
and
cultural
liberty,
in
western
civilization,
the
United
States,
and
the
state
of
Iowa.
d.
Exemplary
figures
and
important
events
in
western
civilization,
the
United
States,
and
the
state
of
Iowa,
House
File
2545,
p.
6
including
but
not
limited
to
the
history
of
ancient
Israel,
the
free
Greek
city-states,
the
Roman
Republic,
the
Roman
Empire,
medieval
Europe,
Columbus
and
the
Age
of
Discovery,
World
War
I,
World
War
II
and
instruction
related
to
the
Holocaust,
and
the
Cold
War.
e.
Important
historical
and
founding
documents
to
the
United
States
and
the
state
of
Iowa,
including
but
not
limited
to
the
Mayflower
Compact,
the
Declaration
of
Independence,
the
Constitution
of
the
United
States
and
the
amendments
to
the
Constitution,
the
Federalist
Papers,
and
the
Emancipation
Proclamation.
2.
The
director
of
the
department
of
education,
or
the
director’s
designee,
shall
present
the
revised
social
studies
standards
to
the
state
board
of
education
for
adoption
on
or
before
December
31,
2025.
DIVISION
IV
EDUCATIONAL
STANDARDS
FOR
GRADES
SEVEN
AND
EIGHT
Sec.
7.
Section
256.11,
subsection
4,
Code
2024,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
4.
The
following
shall
be
taught
in
grades
seven
and
eight:
English-language
arts;
social
studies
,
including
instruction
related
to
civics
;
mathematics;
science;
health;
age-appropriate
and
research-based
human
growth
and
development;
career
exploration
and
development;
physical
education;
music;
and
visual
art.
Computer
science
instruction
incorporating
the
standards
established
under
section
256.7,
subsection
26
,
paragraph
“a”
,
subparagraph
(4),
shall
be
offered
in
at
least
one
grade
level
commencing
with
the
school
year
beginning
July
1,
2023.
Career
exploration
and
development
shall
be
designed
so
that
students
are
appropriately
prepared
to
create
an
individual
career
and
academic
plan
pursuant
to
section
279.61
,
incorporate
foundational
career
and
technical
education
concepts
aligned
with
the
six
career
and
technical
education
service
areas
as
defined
in
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“h”
,
incorporate
relevant
twenty-first
century
skills
to
facilitate
career
readiness,
and
introduce
students
to
career
opportunities
within
the
local
community
and
across
this
state.
The
health
curriculum
shall
include
age-appropriate
and
research-based
information
House
File
2545,
p.
7
regarding
the
characteristics
of
sexually
transmitted
diseases.
The
state
board
as
part
of
accreditation
standards
shall
adopt
curriculum
definitions
for
implementing
the
program
in
grades
seven
and
eight.
However,
this
subsection
shall
not
apply
to
the
teaching
of
career
exploration
and
development
in
nonpublic
schools.
______________________________
PAT
GRASSLEY
Speaker
of
the
House
______________________________
AMY
SINCLAIR
President
of
the
Senate
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
House
and
is
known
as
House
File
2545,
Ninetieth
General
Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN
NELSON
Chief
Clerk
of
the
House
Approved
_______________,
2024
______________________________
KIM
REYNOLDS
Governor
