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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6215. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. . DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF CIVIC EDUCATION
CURRICULUM AND ORAL HISTORY RESOURCES.
(a) Purposes.—The purposes of this section are the
following:
(1) To help families, civic institutions, local
communities, local educational agencies, high schools, and
State educational agencies to prepare high school students to
be civically responsible and knowledgeable adults.
(2) To ensure that high school students in the United
States—
(A) learn that communism has led to the deaths of more than
100,000,000 victims worldwide;
(B) understand the dangers of communism and similar
political ideologies; and
(C) understand that 1,500,000,000 people still suffer under
communism.
(b) Development and Dissemination of Civic Education
Curriculum and Oral History Resources.—The independent
entity created under section 905(b)(1)(B) of the FRIENDSHIP
Act (Public Law 103-199; 107 Stat. 2331), also known as the
“Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation”, shall—
(1) develop a civic education curriculum for high school
students that—
(A) includes a comparative discussion of certain political
ideologies, including communism and totalitarianism, that
conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy that
are essential to the founding of the United States;
(B) is accurate, relevant, and accessible, so as to promote
the understanding of such political ideologies; and
(C) is compatible with a variety of courses, including
social studies, government, history, and economics classes;
(2) develop oral history resources that may be used
alongside the curriculum described in paragraph (1) and that
include personal stories, titled “Portraits in Patriotism”,
from diverse individuals who—
(A) demonstrate civic-minded qualities;
(B) are victims of the political ideologies described in
paragraph (1)(A); and
(C) are able to compare the political ideologies described
in paragraph (1)(A) with the political ideology of the United
States; and
(3) engage with State and local educational leaders to
assist high schools in using the curriculum described in
paragraph (1) and the resources described in paragraph (2).
(c) Definitions.—The terms in section 8101 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
7801) shall apply to this section.