2015 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 70. Schools
§70-11-103.6i. State Board of Education – Adoption of Oklahoma City bombing to curriculum.
A. The State Board of Education shall adopt a social studies core curriculum with courses of instruction in Oklahoma history for all students enrolled in the public schools that incorporates information about the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the role it played in the history of Oklahoma and the nation from April 19, 1995, to the present. A study of the bombing and its aftermath can help students learn the impact of violence, the senselessness of using violence to solve problems or change their government, and the importance of personal responsibility.
B. The State Department of Education may make program materials and resources concerning the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City provided by the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum available to the public schools of this state.
C. The State Textbook Committee, when adopting textbooks, shall incorporate the provisions of subsection A of this section into the criteria used to evaluate United States history and Oklahoma history textbooks.
Added by Laws 2010, c. 36, § 1, eff. July 1, 2010.
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