Bill Text: IL SB1601 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. With regard to the required history of the United States course, provides that, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the course must also include instruction on the history of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0341 [SB1601 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB1601-Chaptered.html
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Public Act 101-0341 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||
27-21 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
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Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United | ||||
States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other | ||||
educational institutions in this State supported or
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maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching | ||||
of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to | ||||
pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of | ||||
government and the principles
for which our government stands | ||||
as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place | ||||
of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders | ||||
thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
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ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching | ||||
of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions | ||||
of African Americans and
other ethnic groups including but not | ||||
restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, | ||||
Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, | ||||
Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this
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country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and |
contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the | ||
study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal | ||
deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great | ||
Depression. The teaching of history also shall include a study | ||
of the
role of labor unions and their interaction with | ||
government in achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise | ||
system. Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching | ||
of history must also include instruction on the history of | ||
Illinois. No pupils shall be graduated
from the eighth grade of | ||
any
public school unless he has received such instruction in | ||
the history of the
United States and gives evidence of having a | ||
comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
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(Source: P.A. 96-629, eff. 1-1-10.)
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