The Illinois House of Representatives passed the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History Act on Wednesday, which would require public elementary and high schools to teach Asian-American history as part of their curriculum.
The bill, HB0376, states that this action would take effect in the 2022-2023 school year, and says that “every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of Asian American history…” This includes the history of Asian-Americans in Illinois and the Midwest, as well as the “contributions of Asian Americans toward advancing civil rights from the 19th century onward.” The bill states that this includes contributions of individual Asian-Americans in topics such as government, the arts, humanities, and sciences, but also involves contributions made by the Asian-American communities to the “economic, cultural, social, and political development of the United States.”
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