RALEIGH, N.C. – A movement to help North Carolina learn more about thousands of people who were sterilized under a state program in the mid-20th century is getting another chance to be heard.

A House committee scheduled debate Tuesday on legislation that would order the public schools to teach about the eugenics program. Students at University of North Carolina campuses also would be directed to interview program victims so future generations know what happened.

About one-third of the 7,600 people sterilized by choice or coercion are still alive. The program ended in the 1970s.

The state unveiled a roadside marker in downtown Raleigh two weeks ago recalling the program.

It’s unclear whether a separate effort to pay survivors will wind up in the state budget.