As of Sept. 11, 2023, only 14 states required students to be educated on the events of Sept. 11, 2001: New York, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Arizona, and Maryland.

            The U.S. Department of Education cannot legally supervise or direct any curriculum. Education is largely left to the states to decide. For any resolution to mandate education to succeed, all 50 states would have to agree individually to include Sept. 11 in school curriculums.

            Since then, action in the states to educate those who were born after that day has been, somewhat, moving in the right direction.

            Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed a bill in June that instructs public and private schools to hold a moment of silence on Sept. 11.

            All students across Pennsylvania paused for a moment of silence on Wednesday to reflect on the tragic events of September 11, 2001.  It was the first in what is now a mandated annual observance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the nation that left 2,996 people dead in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa.

            But, they have to know about it first.

            The new law also directs Pennsylvania's Department of Education to identify and make available, starting next year, a model curriculum to teach students about the significance of what transpired that day.

            There are way too many of us alive who experienced that day, so academia will need to be careful about the curriculum and history they put together.  The truth has been documented clearly and officially and still lives in the minds of those who were there and others.

            It is a good start for those who were born after that day.