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North Carolina has a bill that would require state public colleges to give a 3 credit hours class on American government, the U.S. Constitution, and other American founding documents like the Declaration of Independence , the Federalits Papers , and the Gettysburg Address ,and MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail. It is called 'Reach Act' . (HB 96) The bill passed by 90% of the state legislature.

H96-SMTC-38(e2)-v-2 (ncleg.gov)

Pretty take stuff . Civics education in this country is severely inadequate .

North Carolina Representative John Hardister said the goal was enable young people to “engage more constructively as it relates to civil debates.”“Right now, we're in a time where…people shout each other down. They want to cancel the other side if they don't agree and that's not really how this country was founded” ...“We're founded in part on the idea that we are a democratic republic where you can…share ideas, you can debate ideas, and then you have a democratic process you go through to elected representatives, who you then can hold accountable.”

Campus Reform | UNC faculty protest proposed state civics requirement as 'undue interference in university affairs'

Who could object to that ? Students will learn that Judge Judy is not a member of SCOTUS .
Poll: 10% of college graduates think Judge Judy on SCOTUS | CNN Politics

Today, 60% of college graduates cannot name a single step necessary to ratify a constitutional amendment; half don’t know how long the terms are for representatives or senators. Two out of five don’t know that Congress has the power to declare war.
The First Amendment prohibits an “establishment of religion” and guarantees the “free exercise of religion,” yet a majority of Americans believe that the Constitution established a Christian nation. One in 10 think Congress could actually “outlaw atheism because the United States is one country under God."

Is America Turning Into a Nation of Dunces? | The Heritage Foundation

673 faculty members of the state University signed a petition against the bill .

The bill is in the State Senate ;and that is where the faculty is taking their fight .

The State taxpayers support the university system with $ billions of dollars . The state universities belong to them . If they decide through their representatives to teach a very basic civics class to the students then any faculty member that opposes it is free to seek employment elsewhere .