[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[S. Res. 66 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 66

     To prevent the adoption of certain national history standards.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 20 (legislative day, January 10), 1995

   Mr. Gorton (for himself, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Gramm, and Mr. Byrd) 
 submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     To prevent the adoption of certain national history standards.

    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that (a) The National 
Education Goals Panel should disapprove, and the National Education 
Standards and Improvement Council should not certify, any voluntary 
national content standards, voluntary national student performance 
standards, or criteria for the certification of such content and 
student performance standards, on the subject of world and United 
States history, developed prior to February 1, 1995.
    (b) Voluntary national content standards, voluntary national 
student performance standards, and criteria for the certification of 
such content and student performance standards, on the subject of world 
and United States history, established under title II of the Goals 
2000: Educate America Act should not be based on standards developed 
primarily by the National Center for History in the Schools prior to 
February 1, 1995; and
    (c) If the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the 
Humanities, or any other Federal agency provides funds for the 
development of the standards and criteria described in paragraph (d), 
the recipient of such funds should have a decent respect for the 
contributions of western civilization, and United States history, 
ideas, and institutions, to the increase of freedom and prosperity 
around the world.
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