Relates to requirements for a course of instruction relating to the Holocaust and genocide

Bill S 8191 amends the education law to establish specific requirements for instruction on the Holocaust and genocide in New York schools. It mandates that all public elementary and high schools include a unit of instruction on the Nazi atrocities of 1933-1945, known as the Holocaust. Additionally, schools must incorporate an instruction unit studying other acts of genocide, such as the Armenian Genocide, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The Commissioner of Education may provide instructional materials, but individual school boards will determine the minimum instruction time for these units.