Full Text of SB1601 101st General Assembly
SB1601eng 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| | 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| | 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| | 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | | 5 | | 27-21 as follows:
| | 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
| | 7 | | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United | | 8 | | States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other | | 9 | | educational institutions in this State supported or
| | 10 | | maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching | | 11 | | of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to | | 12 | | pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of | | 13 | | government and the principles
for which our government stands | | 14 | | as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place | | 15 | | of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders | | 16 | | thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
| | 17 | | ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching | | 18 | | of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions | | 19 | | of African Americans and
other ethnic groups including but not | | 20 | | restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, | | 21 | | Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, | | 22 | | Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this
| | 23 | | country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and |
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| | 1 | | contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the | | 2 | | study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal | | 3 | | deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great | | 4 | | Depression. The teaching of history also shall include a study | | 5 | | of the
role of labor unions and their interaction with | | 6 | | government in achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise | | 7 | | system. Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching | | 8 | | of history must also include instruction on the history of | | 9 | | Illinois. No pupils shall be graduated
from the eighth grade of | | 10 | | any
public school unless he has received such instruction in | | 11 | | the history of the
United States and gives evidence of having a | | 12 | | comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
| | 13 | | (Source: P.A. 96-629, eff. 1-1-10.)
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