In a much-needed move, Nebraska State Sen. Dave Murman (R-Glenvil), who is the chair of the Education Committee, introduced Legislative Bill 1024 (LB1024) on January 13, 2026, requiring K-12 schools to teach the history and “evils” of communism starting in the 2026-2027 or 2027-2028 school year.
For context, the new curriculum would cover global atrocities, such as the Cultural Revolution, the horrors of the Soviet Union, U.S. communist threats, religious persecution, comparisons to American democracy, and mass killings under communist regimes, the sorts of leftist-committed horrors that liberal teachers rarely want to cover.
Additionally, the new bill mandates that the State Board of Education adopt standards by January 1, 2027, that civics committees align with those standards, and that a written civics test be administered before 8th/12th grade. Murman cited youth support for socialism and communism as evidence of educational failure. However, the Woke Nebraska State Education Association opposes the standards, calling them poor and urging teacher-led development.
According to legal sources, the new bill “would require each Nebraska school district, starting next school year, to make time to teach the history of communism — worldwide and in the U.S.” Bill 1024 was written in response to “the increasing threat of communism in the United States and its allies through the 20th century.”
The new standards would also draw attention to “mass killings that have occurred under communist regimes,” while they would also “be age-appropriate and cover topics such as the history of communism in the United States, atrocities committed in its name globally, a comparison of political ideologies like communism and totalitarianism with American democratic principles.”
Likewise, the authors wanted to warn of “The historical threat of communism through the 20th century, including specific events like the Cultural Revolution in China and the history of the Soviet Union, the persecution of religious faiths under communist regimes, and the economic and political factors leading to communist revolutions.”
“Additionally, the bill requires the State Board of Education to adopt academic content standards for the history of communism by January 1, 2027, and amends existing law to ensure that committees on American civics examine and approve social studies curricula that align with these new requirements, reinforcing the importance of civic knowledge and patriotic education,” the legal document added.
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Explaining the situation, Dave Murman stated, “There are a lot of students, especially in college, and kids that are out of the K-12 school system, who seem to support socialism and even communism nowadays. I think we just have to be diligent that the risks and dangers, bad things that happen under communism, are taught in our schools.”
However, Tim Royers, the president of the Nebraska State Education Association, disagreed. “These aren’t good standards,” he whined, “This isn’t the right way to teach history. Let teachers write the social studies standards.” When the news reached social media, other radical leftists reacted with impotent rage. A Nebraska state senator introduced a bill requiring public schools to teach ‘anti-communism’. They must have gotten the radical right memo,” a post to X, formerly Twitter, read.
Another liberal whined, “Capitalists fear communism, but I think the constitution leans very heavily toward being for and by the citizens, which has similarities with communism. The fact that communist countries become dictatorships isn’t unique. This country is obviously heading in that direction too.”
Watch protesters protest the “communism” of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: