Dive Brief:

• The Pennsylvania House unanimously (197-0) passed a Holocaust education bill that "strongly encourages" the state's schools to implement Holocaust and genocide curriculum.  
• The fact that the bill does not require Holocaust education was initially a point of contention, but the bill's bipartisan support has pushed that concern to the background.  
• The vote was also unanimously passed by the state's Senate last week, and Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to sign it into law.  

Dive Insight:

The bill was introduced by Rep. Paul Clymer (R-Bucks County), who proposed many layers for the Holocaust education. Among them: professional development for educators teaching the Holocaust; the creation of a statewide study to find out which schools are actually teaching the Holocaust; and a condition that the Holocaust become required curriculum if the statewide study finds in two years that less than 90% of Pennsylvania schools are teaching it.  

The Department of Education and organizations like the Shoah Foundation are expected to create the curriculum for schools to use.