Bill > SB420

This bill, known as the Holocaust Education Act, mandates that school districts in Kansas provide instruction on the Holocaust as part of the social studies curriculum for students in grades six through twelve. The State Board of Education will develop age-appropriate curriculum, materials, and guidelines to ensure students receive this education, aiming to foster an understanding of human value and prevent future atrocities. The instruction must include historical context on how and why the Holocaust occurred, opportunities for learning projects, and may utilize resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum or the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. The bill defines the Holocaust as the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, also encompassing the targeting of other groups like Roma and Sinti people, individuals with disabilities, Polish people, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and those targeted based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or political beliefs.

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https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/sb420/