---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 5982"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "5982"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/5982"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — National Education Reform"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Minority-Focused Civics Education"
---

# §5982. Purposes


It is the purpose of this subchapter—

- (1) to encourage improved instruction for minorities and Native Americans in American government and civics through a national program of accredited summer teacher training and staff development seminars or [institutes](/usc/20/9101.md?p=6) followed by academic year inservice training programs conducted on college and university campuses or other appropriate sites, for—
  - (A) social studies and other teachers responsible for American history, government, and civics classes; and
  - (B) other educators who work with minority and Native American youth; and
- (2) through such improved instruction to improve minority and Native American student knowledge and understanding of the American system of government.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–227, title VIII, § 802, Mar. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 209.)