Reference is to Printer's Date 2/28/-19-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, page 3759-77, immediately after SECTION 56, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:
/ SECTION __. Section 59-29-55 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 59-29-55.
(A) The State Board of
Education shall examine the current status of the teaching of
South Carolina History. By the 1989-1990 school year,
each Every school year, each public school of
the State must instruct students in the history of the
black African-American people as a
regular part of its history and social studies courses. The
State Board of Education shall establish regulations for the
adoption of history and social studies textbooks which
incorporate black African-American
history and shall, through the State Department of Education,
assist the school districts in developing and locating suitable
printed materials and other aids for instruction in
black African-American history. The
State Board of Education shall examine curricular material for
grades 1-6 to determine the level of emphasis on the
relationship of agriculture and other industries to the South
Carolina economy.
(B) As part
of the required instruction in African-American history as
required by subsection (A), the instruction in grades 3 through
12 must include a cultural sensitivity component educating
students about how they should interact with and be respectful
of the beliefs and practices of people of a different race or
creed. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.