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Public Act 094-0478
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LRB094 05143 RAS 35183 b |
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AN ACT concerning schools.
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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 |
27-20.3 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/27-20.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.3)
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Sec. 27-20.3. Holocaust and Genocide Study. Every public |
elementary school and
high school shall include in its |
curriculum a unit of instruction studying
the events of the |
Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945. This period in world
history |
is known as the Holocaust, during which 6,000,000 Jews and |
millions
of non-Jews were exterminated. One of the universal |
lessons of the Holocaust is that national, ethnic, racial, or |
religious hatred can overtake any nation or society, leading to |
calamitous consequences. To reinforce that lesson, such |
curriculum shall include an additional unit of instruction |
studying other acts of genocide across the globe. This unit |
shall include, but not be limited to, the Armenian Genocide, |
the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and more recent atrocities in |
Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The studying of this |
material is a
reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples |
from all nations to never
again permit the occurrence of |
another Holocaust and a recognition that crimes of genocide |
continue to be perpetrated across the globe as they have been |
in the past and to deter indifference to crimes against |
humanity and human suffering wherever they may occur.
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The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make |
available to
all school boards instructional materials which |
may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of |
instruction under this Section; provided,
however, that each |
school board shall itself determine the minimum amount
of |
instruction time which shall qualify as a unit of instruction |