Ginny Burdick voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Requires School Districts to Teach About the Holocaust and Genocide
Signed by Governor Kate Brown
Title: Requires School Districts to Teach About the Holocaust and Genocide
Title: Requires School Districts to Teach About the Holocaust and Genocide
Vote to pass a bill that requires school districts to teach about the Holocaust and genocide.
Requires that by the 2020-21 school year, school districts within the state of Oregon provide instruction about the Holocaust and genocide (Sec 2-3).
Specifies that instruction required under this act is designed to do the following, including, but not limited to (Sec. 2):
Confront the immorality of the Holocaust, genocide and other acts of mass violence and to reflect on the causes of related historical events;
Promote students understanding of how the Holocaust contributed to the need for the term “genocide”;
Stimulate students reflection on the roles and responsibilities of citizens to combat misinformation through tools of resistance; and
Provide students with opportunities to contextualize and analyze patterns of human behavior.
Establishes that this act shall become effective July 1, 2020 (Sec. 3).
Title: Requires School Districts to Teach About the Holocaust and Genocide