Supplement: MO SB918 | 2024 | Regular Session | Summary: Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes provisions relating to public school curriculum and instruction
Status: 2024-03-05 - Hearing Conducted S Select Committee on Empowering Missouri Parents and Children Committee [SB918 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2024-SB918-Summary_Introduced.html
In adopting the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for each grade level from kindergarten through 12th grade, each school district shall develop each student's civic knowledge as set forth in the act.
School districts shall not accept private funding for the purposes of teaching any curriculum substantially similar to critical race theory or The 1619 Project.
The Attorney General may investigate school districts for compliance with the act. Any school district that violates the provisions of the act shall have 50% of the district's state aid withheld until the district presents evidence to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that the district is no longer in violation of the act.
This act is similar to SB 770 (2024), identical to provisions in SB 42 (2023) and in SB 694 (2022), and similar to SB 172 (2023), SB 638 (2022), SB 676 (2022), SB 734 (2022), and SB 1184 (2022).
OLIVIA SHANNON