Bill Text: MS HB503 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Cursive writing; direct the State Board of Education to incorporate into elementary education curriculum.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2017-02-09 - Died On Calendar [HB503 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2017-HB503-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2017 Regular Session

To: Education

By: Representative Henley

House Bill 503

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO INCORPORATE INSTRUCTION IN CURSIVE WRITING AS A PART OF THE BASIC ELEMENTARY EDUCATION CURRICULUM; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to require all public school districts to meet the following elementary education curriculum standard:  The education curriculum for Grades K-6 shall include the requirement that the public schools provide instruction in cursive writing, implemented across the curriculum, so that students create consistent readable documents through legible cursive handwriting by the end of Grade 4.  These requirements shall be applicable beginning with the 2018-2019 school year.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.