Labor History, Headed To A School Near You? (Maybe--if you live in Connecticut)

More Connecticut schoolchildren may soon learn in the classroom about how the U.S. came to have a 40-hour work week and workplace safety protections.

That’s because the state Senate this week passed “An Act Concerning the Inclusion of the Labor Movement and Free Market Capitalism in Public School Curriculum.” The 25-10 vote took place Wednesday. Now the bill heads to the state House of Representatives.

The bill directs the state Department of Education to draw up a curriculum on the subject and to make it available to local school boards for optional use.