Curriculum and Instruction Action Item |
DATE: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
TO: School Board Members
FROM: MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent
SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Celebrate Freedom Week activities include a minimum of three hours of appropriate in-depth instruction in each K-12 social studies class on the intent, meaning, and importance of the Declaration of Independence. The statute requires that students recite a portion of the Declaration of Independence daily during this commemoration.
Pursuant to federal law enacted under the 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Section III(b), all schools that receive federal funds are required to celebrate Constitution Day and Citizenship Day on September 17 of each year. This date commemorates the signing of the Constitution in 1787 and all students in Kindergarten through Grade 12 participate in activities commemorating this day. This requirement is fulfilled by conducting a social studies lesson on citizenship or the United States Constitution.
Student recitation of the following statement will serve to reaffirm the American ideals of individual liberty:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the governed."
ANNUAL DISTRICT GOAL(S) AND CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S)
FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted: Yes)
EVALUATION
SUBMITTED BY:
Daryl Saunders, Supervisor/Generalist, Elementary Social Studies and Alternative Education
Martha Ford, Supervisor, Middle School Social Studies
Dennis Holt, Supervisor, Secondary Social Studies and Driver Education
David J. Steele, Ph.D.
General Director, Secondary Education (813) 272-4451 |
Wynne A. Tye
Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction (813) 272-4221 |
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Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20080916_300 * Section A Item# 1.07 |