A bill under consideration in the Kansas Legislature calls for students in the state to pass an American civics test in order to graduate and requires “instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist and socialist regimes and ideologies.”
In introducing Senate Bill 381 in a hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Brad Starnes, a Riley Republican and former teacher, coach and school district superintendent, shared statistics sourced from the Cicero Institute, a conservative public policy organization based in Texas. Starnes said that 19% of Americans younger than 45 can pass an American civic literacy test, that 34% of Americans in the 18-29-year-old age group have a “favorable view” of communism and that nearly two-thirds in that age group (62%) share the same view on socialism.
The bill Starnes introduced would have the curriculum requirements in place for “all accredit schools, whether public, private or parochial.”
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