Structure Day is on September seventeenth, so it is usually time to find out what your federally-funded academic establishment plans to do, to adjust to Public Legislation 108-447, signed by President George W. Bush, on December 8, 2004.
Inside Part 111, of that regulation, we’re knowledgeable that federal division or company heads shall present every new worker with info on the US Structure and in addition that: “Every academic establishment that receives Federal funds for a fiscal yr shall maintain an academic program on the USA Structure on [or about] September 17 of such yr for the scholars served by the tutorial establishment.”
You’re right in questioning what will likely be taught concerning the sacred doc, for Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William Johnson (1823) reminded us: “”On each query of building carry ourselves again to the time when the Structure was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested within the debates and as a substitute of making an attempt what which means could also be squeezed out of the textual content or invented in opposition to it, conform to the possible one by which it was handed.”
Federally funded faculties in the complete United States, are invited to publicly reply and inform taxpayers how they’re complying with this regulation, together with the supply and the contents of such materials, associated to the US Structure. If college officers don’t reply, then dad and mom or guardians ask them by electronic mail, telephone, or at a Board assembly.
Leo Lindquist
Vice President
Unbiased American Patriots