HRES 615 United States House · 118th Congress

Condemning revisionist education and revisionist history as it relates to the African-American experience.

HRES 615 is a symbolic congressional resolution condemning Florida's 2023 African-American history standards for public schools. It specifically targets standards the resolution claims erroneously suggest "slavery could have been beneficial" for enslaved people and downplay slavery's horrors. The resolution calls on Congress to denounce these standards as racist, demands the Florida Board of Education reverse its decision, and asserts that students deserve an unfiltered account of slavery's brutality. It does not create new laws but expresses the House's position against what it describes as "revisionist history" that omits slavery's central role in U.S. history. The resolution directly affects Florida's public school curriculum and its implementation of history standards.
Sub-Topics: Curriculum
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jul 26, 2023 Last action Jul 26, 2023