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SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today that he has signed AB 199 – School curriculum: social sciences: Filipinos in World War II by Assembly member Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco)
AB 199 expresses the encouragement of the Legislature that instruction in social sciences includes the role of Filipinos in World War II. Specifically, it encourages the instruction to include a component drawn from personal testimony, especially in the form of oral or video histories of Filipinos who were involved in World War II and those men and women who contributed to the war effort on the home front.
AB 199 helps ensure that our children and future generations learn of the contributions and sacrifice of these brave Filipino soldiers before we lose them in history. Filipino community to celebrate the victory with a luncheon at the Veterans War Memorial & Performing Arts Center on A-DAY, October 20, 2011. AB199 Historical Artifacts, military records and personal writings of Filipino soldiers during WWII to be presented to the public by members of the Curriculum Development Committee on A-DAY.
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This hit home for me. I wish my grandpa tatay was alive to hear about this. He’d be so happy. He fought in the war and...
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textbooks and taught in schools is one of...most amazing sights. Hopefully this isn’t the...
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Hopefully some day we’ll be able to learn so much about our history in the classroom that we won’t even need a month....
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I love how this happens during FAHM! :)
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