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Summary
The bill orders the State Board of Education to create open‑source instructional resources for social studies and civics that meet Utah’s core standards. It also requires schools to teach topics like American exceptionalism, comparative government systems, and the Bible as a literary and historical text, and lets districts decide if applied crafts and technical arts count for fine‑arts credit. The changes impact teachers, students, local school boards and the state education board.
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