By Jack Richards
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana students may have one more thing to recite in their morning homerooms if House Bill 1035, which gets a full hearing before the House of Representatives next week, passes into law.
The chamber’s Education Committee voted 6-2 to approve a bill that requires fourth through sixth grade students to memorize and recite a 56-word passage from the Declaration of Independence.
Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, said she brought the bill because her daughter could not tell her what the Declaration, adopted on July 4, 1775, announcing to King George III the 13 colonies were breaking away from England, said even after studying it in school.
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