Bill Text: NY S05963 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - referred to education [S05963 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05963-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5963--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  CHU,  COONEY,  THOMAS, GOUNARDES, KAVANAGH,
          STAVISKY, ADDABBO, BAILEY, CLEARE, COMRIE, FELDER, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ,
          HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KENNEDY, RAMOS, RIVERA,  SALAZAR,  SANDERS  --
          read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to requiring public
          elementary schools and high schools to provide  instruction  in  Asian
          American history and civic impact

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  801-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 801-b.  Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander histo-
     4  ry and civic impact curriculum or instruction. 1. The commissioner shall
     5  establish    Asian American,   Native   Hawaiian,  and  Pacific Islander
     6  history and civic impact curriculum or instruction for school districts.
     7  The contents shall be age appropriate and shall be  developed  according
     8  to  the  needs  and  abilities of students at successive grade levels to
     9  provide robust Asian American,  Native  Hawaiian,  and  Pacific Islander
    10  history and civic impact instruction. The contents  shall  include,  but
    11  shall not be limited to, instruction in the following:
    12    a.  The  history of diaspora of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and
    13  Pacific Islanders in New York and the Northeast;
    14    b. The movements and policies that impacted the Asian American, Native
    15  Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community in the United States;
    16    c. The contributions made by the Asian American, Native Hawaiian,  and
    17  Pacific  Islander  communities  in  government,  the  arts,  humanities,
    18  science and the economic, cultural, social and political development  of
    19  the United States;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06038-03-3
        S. 5963--A                          2

     1    d.  The  structures  and historical events that have limited or harmed
     2  the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and other  histor-
     3  ically  marginalized  communities especially as it pertains to the civil
     4  rights movement; and
     5    e.  The  solidarity  between  Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific
     6  Islander and other historically marginalized communities  especially  as
     7  it pertains to the civil rights movement.
     8    2.    Schools  may  include the above materials as  components  of its
     9  history or social studies curriculum, or any other way the school  deems
    10  appropriate.
    11    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    12  the date on which it shall have become a law.