{"id":19704,"date":"2018-03-14T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19704"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:30:05","slug":"the-massachusetts-civics-bill-macivicsforall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19704","title":{"rendered":"the Massachusetts Civics Bill #MAcivicsforall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts legislature is considering S. 2306, An Act to Promote and Enhance Civic Engagement. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ma-civics-s-2306\/ma-civic-learning-coalition\">Massachusetts Civic Learning Coalition<\/a>&#8216;s summary, the bill:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"n8H08c UVNKR\">\n<li id=\"h.p_UwE5JowNDNvT\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d\">Requires that all public schools teach American history and civics education.<\/li>\n<li id=\"h.p_O_w9emWRDNvU\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d\">Promotes comprehensive, project-based civic education integrated into existing curricula and focused on local communities, reflecting best practices for high-quality civic learning.<\/li>\n<li id=\"h.p_DhiVSCVeDNvU\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d\">Authorizes funding necessary to support implementation through the Civics Project Fund.<\/li>\n<li id=\"h.p_peGmvnDNDNvU\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d\">Encourages voting and other vital forms of participation alongside important political learning outcomes through the High School Voter Challenge and Edward Moore Kennedy and Edward William Brooke III Civics Challenge.<\/li>\n<li id=\"h.p_sHj53kjfDNvU\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d\">Maintains local control and classroom decision-making.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is an <a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthmagazine.org\/opinion\/tufts-officials-explain-their-civics-research\/#.Wqha4yvPg0k.twitter\">article<\/a>\u00a0in <em>Commonwealth Magazine<\/em> by Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and me, defending the bill. Information about a &#8220;lobby day&#8221; and how to write your representative is <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ma-civics-s-2306\/take-action\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts legislature is considering S. 2306, An Act to Promote and Enhance Civic Engagement. According to the Massachusetts Civic Learning Coalition&#8216;s summary, the bill: Requires that all public schools teach American history and civics education. Promotes comprehensive, project-based civic education integrated into existing curricula and focused on local communities, reflecting best practices for high-quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19716,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704\/revisions\/19716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}