REFERENCE TITLE: high schools; U.S. history course

State of Arizona House of Representatives Forty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session 2010

HB 2685

Introduced by Representatives Gowan, Antenori, Montenegro, Murphy, Seel, Senator Pearce R: Representatives Driggs, Goodale, Stevens, Senators Allen S, Gray C, Melvin, Verschoor

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 15‑710, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to school curriculum.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 15-710, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE15-710.  Instruction in state and federal constitutions, American institutions and history and Arizona history

A.  All schools shall give instruction in the essentials, sources and history of the Constitutions of the United States and Arizona and instruction in American institutions and ideals and in the history of Arizona, including the history of Native Americans in Arizona.  The instruction shall be given in accordance with the state course of study for at least one year of the common school grades and high school grades respectively.

B.  In addition to the instruction provided in subsection A, high schools shall provide two years of mandatory instruction during grades ten and eleven that is devoted exclusively to the history of the united states, including one full semester of instruction devoted to the people who founded the United States. END_STATUTE