'A watershed moment': Illinois becomes first state to mandate Asian American history in public schools [usatoday.com]
By Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, July 9, 2021 Amid a dramatic rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic , the governor of Illinois signed a law Friday requiring public schools to teach a unit of Asian American history – a move education experts said is the first of its kind nationwide. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act, which mandates "a unit of instruction studying the events of Asian American...