Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires public school teachers to post their lesson plans and materials online for parents to review.

Highlights:

• Requires that public school districts and teachers post their lesson plans and materials online for parents to review within 14 days after being found in noncompliance (Sec. 1).

• Requires the department of education notify the board of directors of a school district within 14 days if it found a school district as being in noncompliance (Sec. 2).

• Requires the board of directors of a school district adopt policy procedures for parents or legal guardians of a student to review the instructional materials and post the procedures on their publicly accessible website (Sec. 4).

• Requires the board of directors of school districts to adopt protocols for the selection, review, reconsideration, and removal of materials from libraries, including a process for parents and legal guardians to request specific library materials not be checked out by the student (Sec. 5).

• Requires that social studies instruction cover the following unit topics, including, (Sec. 7):

• Instruction on voting statutes and procedures related to registration and the use of paper ballots;

• A study of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, and 

• An civics test assesment of the student’s knowledge of United States government and civics that includes the;

• Nature;

• Purpose;

• Structure;

• Function; and

• History of theUnited States government.

• Specifies that the aforementioned civics test assessment shall be the most recent version of the civics test developed by the United States citizenship and immigration services (Sec. 7).

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