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GOVERNOR SIGNS GENOCIDE EDUCATION BILL
Providence Eyewitness News
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/wpri-providence-governor-signs-genocide-education-bill
June 22 2011
RI
Curriculum materials will be posted online
PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI) - Governor Lincoln Chafee signed legislation
Wednesday instructing the Department Of Education to aid local schools
teach students about genocides as part of civic education.
This legislation, which was passed by the General Assembly earlier this
month, directs the state Department Of Education to post materials on
it's website about genocides. These materials cover the topics of the
Holocaust and genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda, and Darfur.
Sponsors of the bill stated that they recognize that schools are
struggling for funding and that teachers are pressed for time. By
making the curriculum available online, they believe the information
would be accessible to students.
The bill was sponsored by Senator Joshua Miller (D-Dist. 28, Cranston,
Warwick) and Representative Anastasia P. Williams (D-Dist. 9,
Providence).
Providence Eyewitness News
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/wpri-providence-governor-signs-genocide-education-bill
June 22 2011
RI
Curriculum materials will be posted online
PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI) - Governor Lincoln Chafee signed legislation
Wednesday instructing the Department Of Education to aid local schools
teach students about genocides as part of civic education.
This legislation, which was passed by the General Assembly earlier this
month, directs the state Department Of Education to post materials on
it's website about genocides. These materials cover the topics of the
Holocaust and genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda, and Darfur.
Sponsors of the bill stated that they recognize that schools are
struggling for funding and that teachers are pressed for time. By
making the curriculum available online, they believe the information
would be accessible to students.
The bill was sponsored by Senator Joshua Miller (D-Dist. 28, Cranston,
Warwick) and Representative Anastasia P. Williams (D-Dist. 9,
Providence).