A House bill aims to create standards for teaching anti-racism in Vermont K-12 schools.
The bill, H.584, proposes to “create an anti-racism certification program for schools that recognize fully the history, contributions and perspectives of ethnic groups and social groups.”
Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun, D-Westminster, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, said the bill grew out of a class she taught at the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Global Issues and Youth Action program last summer in which students learned how the legislative process works. As part of the class, students developed legislation on issues they were passionate about, which included an early draft of H.584.
