Enacting the Holocaust education act to require school districts to provide instruction on Holocaust education and awareness as part of the social studies curriculum for students in grades six through 12.

SB 420, the Holocaust Education Act, requires all Kansas public school districts to include Holocaust education in the social studies curriculum for students in grades six through twelve. The bill mandates that the state board of education develop age-appropriate curriculum, materials, and guidelines covering the historical context of the Holocaust (including persecution of Jewish people, Roma, people with disabilities, and others), learning projects, and resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum or Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. School districts must provide this instruction to meet the goal of fostering awareness of human value and preventing future atrocities. The law defines "Holocaust" broadly to include the systematic persecution and murder of multiple groups by Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.