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“Federally supported history and civics academies should include Black history in teacher training and in student programs.”
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“Federal American history and civics grants should treat Black history as part of American history when they fund programs, materials, or activities.”
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“The national guide for NAEP United States history assessments should include Black history, while specific test questions, textbooks, and classroom lessons are handled separately.”
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“Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center should be available on April 23, 2025, for a ceremony remembering victims of the Holocaust.”
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“African American history education funds should be available for the museum to acquire, preserve, organize, staff, and digitize collections, and to test and evaluate evidence-based ideas for improving museum work.”
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“The museum director should publish yearly reports on how African American history education funds are used, brief specified congressional committees after money first goes out and each year after that, and have those special reporting and briefing job tasks end on September 30, 2030.”
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“The council should collect current information on African American history and culture, study museums and cultural organizations, assess whether national policy should support them, review NEH programs, and report each year to NEH leadership.”
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“The federal government should create a 12-member advisory council inside the National Endowment for the Humanities to study African American history and culture, write reports, and make recommendations without directly running programs or awarding grants.”
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“Congress should formally support federal leadership in teaching African American, Hispanic and Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Native American history, and support Smithsonian museums creating and sharing educational materials in their areas of expertise.”
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“Federally supported African American history education should cover slavery, abolition, Reconstruction, civil rights movements, African American achievements, and African American roles in U.S. history, art, culture, and society.”
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“Congress should authorize up to $4 million each year from fiscal year 2027 through fiscal year 2031 for Smithsonian African American history education, public programming, collections, translation, oversight, and related museum work.”
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“Federal history and civics education efforts should work with the National Museum of African American History and Culture so educators and students can use the museum's programs and resources.”
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“The 12 council seats should be split evenly between Democratic-affiliated and Republican-affiliated members, and the chair and vice chair should come from different political parties.”
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“Federal, state, and local leaders should be urged to help the public learn about Jewish American history, contributions, stories, and voices.”
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“The National Museum of African American History and Culture should train teachers, support teacher fellows, and work with school districts, certain independent schools, early childhood programs, and education leaders to encourage use of African American history resources in different subjects.”
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“The National Museum of African American History and Culture should use a social justice and anti-bias approach when it holds expert discussions, creates public programs, posts online content, supports audiences, and develops African American history materials.”
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