HB7 Alabama 2021 Session

This bill would require public K-12 schools to include in their curriculums a semester-long course in Black American history

This bill would also require the State Board of Education to adopt rules for its implementation and enforcement

Relating to education; to require public K-12 schools to include in their curriculums a semester-long course in Black American history; and to require the State Board of Education to adopt rules for its implementation and enforcement.

Section 1

(a) Beginning in the 2021 school year, every public elementary school, public middle school, and public high school shall require the completion, at a minimum, of a semester-long course studying the events of Black American history, including the history of slavery in America and its vestiges. Topics of instruction shall include contributions made by individual African-Americans in American government and in the arts, humanities, and sciences, as well as the economic, cultural, and political development of the United States and Africa and the socioeconomic struggle that African-Americans have collectively experienced and continue to experience in striving to achieve fair and equal treatment in this nation. (b) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules for the implementation and enforcement of this section.

Section 2

This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.