S 227
PEACE Act of 2025
Summary
Protect Equality And Civics Education Act of 2025 or the PEACE Act of 2025 This bill prohibits the use of federal funding made available for the American History and Civics Education program to fund a curriculum, teaching, or counseling that promotes a divisive concept (e.g., race stereotyping or scapegoating) under the priorities noticed in the Department of Education's proposed rule titled Proposed Priorities-American History and Civics Education , published on April 19, 2021.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Sen. James E. Risch [R-ID]
- Cosponsors
- 3
- Policy area
- Education
- Introduced
- 2025-01-23
- Latest action
- 2025-01-23: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-01-23: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2025-01-23: Introduced in Senate