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Proposed law would require Maine schools to teach African American history The measure, which would also require schools to teach about the history of genocide, comes as states across the U.S. are examining how they re teaching about racial and social injustice. Share A bill before the Maine Legislature would require schools to teach about African American history and the history of genocide as part of American history. The proposal comes as states and schools across the country examine how to teach Black history amid a national reckoning on issues of racial justice. “Education is so important in stopping things like racism, discrimination and hate that in my view it’s serious enough to require it to be taught in the law,” Sen. Louis Luchini, D-Hancock, the bill’s sponsor, said Tuesday.

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