忘却からの帰還〜Intelligent Design

州法案	Florida Sebate Bill 966, 2018 Regular Session
提案者	Dennis Baxley (R-District 12) 州上院議員
提案	2017/11/17
状況	2017/12/04 州上院Education; Appropriationsへ送付 2018/03/10 会期切れ廃案

「 Controversial theories and concepts must be taught in a factual, objective, and balanced manner.（論争理論と概念を事実、客観的かつバランスの取れた方法で）」及び「"equivalent to or more rigorous than the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards"(新世代フロリダ州教育基準と同等あるいは厳格な)」基準の採用という表現で、Denialismを持ち込めそうにも読める規定を導入する提案である。

このSB966は、Charlie Stone (R-District 22) 州下院議員提案の2018年 フロリダ州反科学州法案 HB825とペアとなる州上院法案である。

Florida Senate Bill 966

A bill to be entitled An act relating to educational standards for K-12 public schools; amending s. 1003.41, F.S.; revising the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; providing that such standards are the minimum baseline core content standards for K-12 public schools; requiring each school district to adopt standards equivalent to or better than these standards; revising the content requirements for such standards; amending s. 1006.283, F.S.; revising the requirements for instructional materials that a district school superintendent annually certifies; amending s.13 1000.21, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 1003.41, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
1003.41 Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.—
(1) Next Generation Sunshine State Standards establish the minimum baseline standards for core content of the curricula to be taught in the state and specify the core content knowledge and skills that K-12 public school students are expected to acquire. The standards adopted by each school district must meet all of the following requirements:
(a) Be equivalent to or more rigorous than the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards, or courses offered in the district for the International Baccalaureate Program. Instructional materials adopted pursuant to these standards must be consistent with school district goals and objectives and the course descriptions established in rule by the State Board of Education.
(b) Be rigorous and relevant and provide for the logical, sequential progression of core curricular content that incrementally increases a student's core knowledge. Curricular content for all subjects must integrate knowledge-based learning, critical-thinking, and problem-solving; communication, reading, and writing skills; mathematics skills; collaboration skills; contextual and applied-learning skills; technology-literacy skills; information and media-literacy skills; and the demonstrable, in-depth understanding of the founding values and principles of the United States as required by s. 1003.42.
(c) Include distinct grade-level expectations for the core knowledge and skills that a student is expected to have acquired by each individual grade level from kindergarten through grade 8. The standards for grades 9 through 12 may be organized by grade clusters of more than one grade level except as otherwise provided for visual and performing arts, physical education, health, and foreign language standards.
(2) Whether a school district chooses to adopt the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards or standards that are more rigorous than these minimum state standards, all such standards must meet the following requirements:
(a) English Language Arts standards must establish specific curricular content for, at a minimum, reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language which significantly improves student outcomes.
(b) Science standards must establish specific curricular content for, at a minimum, the nature of science, earth and space science, physical science, and life science. Controversial theories and concepts must be taught in a factual, objective, and balanced manner.
(c) Mathematics standards must establish specific curricular content for, at a minimum, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability, number and quantity, functions, and modeling.
(d) Social Studies standards must establish specific curricular content for, at a minimum, geography, United States and world history, government, civics, humanities, and economics, including financial literacy. Financial literacy includes the knowledge, understanding, skills, behaviors, attitudes, and values that will enable a student to make responsible and effective financial decisions on a daily basis. Government and civics content must strictly adhere to the founding values and principles of the United States as required under s. 1003.42. Financial literacy instruction must shall be an integral part of instruction throughout the entire economics course to and include the study of at least Keynesian and Hayekian economic theories, in addition to understanding the basics of information regarding earning income; buying goods and services; saving and financial investing; taxes; the use of credit and credit cards; budgeting and debt management, including student loans and secured loans; banking and financial services; planning for one's financial future, including higher education and career planning; credit reports and scores; and fraud and identity theft prevention.
(e) Visual and performing arts, physical education, health, and foreign language standards must establish specific curricular content and include distinct grade level expectations for the core content knowledge and skills that a student is expected to have acquired by each individual grade level from kindergarten through grade 5. The standards for grades 6 through 12 may be organized by grade clusters of more than one grade level.

Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 1006.283, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
1006.283 District school board instructional materials review process.—
(4) Instructional materials that have been reviewed by the district instructional materials reviewers and approved must have been determined to align with all applicable state standards pursuant to s. 1003.41 and the requirements in s. 107 1006.31. The district school superintendent shall annually certify to the department that all instructional materials for core courses used by the district are aligned with all applicable state standards, including those that are equivalent to or more rigorous than the applicable state standards or are aligned with courses offered in the district for the International Baccalaureate Program, and have been reviewed, selected, and adopted by the district school board in accordance with the school board hearing and public meeting requirements of this section.

Section 3. Subsection (7) of section 1000.21, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
1000.21 Systemwide definitions.—As used in the Florida K-20 Education Code:
(7) "Next Generation Sunshine State Standards" means the state's minimum baseline public K-12 curricular standards adopted under s. 1003.41.
Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.

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