New York A 10790: Requires a course of instruction on the provisions of the federalist papers and the United States constitution to be provided to high school students

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A10790 Summary:

BILL NOA10790 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03722

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SPONSORBlumencranz

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §801, Ed L

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Requires a course of instruction on the provisions of the federalist papers and the United States constitution to be provided to high school students.

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04/01/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10790

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 1, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BLUMENCRANZ -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to courses of instruction
 on the constitution of the United States and the federalist papers

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 801 of the education law,
 2 subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 481 of the laws of 1949 and subdivi-
 3 sion 3 as amended by section 27 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of
 4 2020, are amended and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
 5 2. The regents shall prescribe courses of instruction in the history,
 6 meaning, significance and effect of the provisions of the constitution
 7 of the United States, the amendments thereto, the federalist papers, the
 8 declaration of independence, the constitution of the state of New York
 9 and the amendments thereto, to be maintained and followed in all of the
 10 schools of the state. The boards of education and trustees of the
 11 several cities and school districts of the state shall require instruc-
 12 tion to be given in such courses, by the teachers employed in the
 13 schools therein. All pupils attending such schools, in the eighth and
 14 higher grades, shall attend upon such instruction.
 15 Similar courses of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained in
 16 private schools in the state, and all pupils in such schools in grades
 17 or classes corresponding to the instruction in the eighth and higher
 18 grades of the public schools shall attend upon such courses. If such
 19 courses are not so established and maintained in a private school,
 20 attendance upon instruction in such school shall not be deemed substan-
 21 tially equivalent to instruction given to pupils in the public schools
 22 of the city or district in which such pupils reside.
 23 3. The regents shall determine the subjects to be included in such
 24 courses of instruction in patriotism, citizenship, civic education and
 25 values, our shared history of diversity, the role of history of diversi-
 26 ty, the role of religious tolerance in this country, and human rights
 27 issues, with particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of
 28 genocide, slavery (including the freedom trail and underground rail-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07440-01-5

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 1 road), the Holocaust, and the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 to
 2 1850, and in the history, meaning, significance and effect of the
 3 provisions of the constitution of the United States, the amendments
 4 thereto, the federalist papers, the declaration of independence, the
 5 constitution of the state of New York and the amendments thereto, and
 6 the period of instruction in each of the grades in such subjects. They
 7 shall adopt rules providing for attendance upon such instruction and for
 8 such other matters as are required for carrying into effect the objects
 9 and purposes of this section. The commissioner shall be responsible for
 10 the enforcement of such section and shall cause to be inspected and
 11 supervise the instruction to be given in such subjects. The commissioner
 12 may, in [his] such commissioner's discretion, cause all or a portion of
 13 the public school money to be apportioned to a district or city to be
 14 withheld for failure of the school authorities of such district or city
 15 to provide instruction in such courses and to compel attendance upon
 16 such instruction, as herein prescribe