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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section 27-1.
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
5 Section 27-1 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/27-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-1)
7 Sec. 27-1. Areas of education taught - discrimination on
8 account of sex. The State of Illinois, having the
9 responsibility of defining requirements for elementary and
10 secondary education, establishes that the primary purpose of
11 schooling is the transmission of knowledge and culture
12 through which children learn in areas necessary to their
13 continuing development and entry into the world of work.
14 Such areas include the language arts, mathematics, the
15 biological, physical and social sciences, the fine arts and
16 physical development and health.
17 Each school district shall give priority in the
18 allocation of resources, including funds, time allocation,
19 personnel, and facilities, to fulfilling the primary purpose
20 of schooling.
21 The State Board of Education shall establish goals
22 consistent with the above purposes and define the knowledge
23 and skills which the State expects students to master and
24 apply as a consequence of their education.
25 Each school district shall establish learning objectives
26 consistent with the primary purpose of schooling, shall
27 develop appropriate testing and assessment systems for
28 determining the degree to which students are achieving the
29 objectives and shall develop reporting systems to apprise the
30 community and State of the assessment results.
31 Each school district shall submit upon request its
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1 objectives and assessment results, plans for improvement, and
2 reporting systems to the State Board of Education, which
3 shall promulgate rules and regulations for the approval of
4 the objectives and systems. Each school district shall make
5 available to all students academic and vocational courses for
6 the attainment of learning objectives.
7 No student shall be refused admission into or be excluded
8 from any course of instruction offered in the common schools
9 by reason of that person's sex. No student shall, solely by
10 reason of that person's sex, be denied equal access to
11 physical education and interscholastic athletic programs or
12 comparable programs supported from school district funds.
13 This Section is violated when a high school subject to this
14 Act participates in the post-season basketball tournament of
15 any organization or association that does not conduct
16 post-season high school basketball tournaments for both boys
17 and girls, which tournaments are identically structured.
18 Conducting identically structured tournaments includes having
19 the same number of girls' teams as boys' teams playing, in
20 their respective tournaments, at any common location chosen
21 for the final series of games in a tournament; provided, that
22 nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit the
23 selection for the final series of games in the girls'
24 tournaments of a common location that is different than the
25 common location selected for the final series of games in the
26 boys' tournaments. Except as specifically stated in this
27 Section, equal access to programs supported by school
28 district funds and comparable programs will be defined in
29 rules promulgated by the State Board of Education in
30 consultation with the Illinois High School Association.
31 No later than July 1, 2000, and every 2 years thereafter,
32 each school district shall submit to the State Board of
33 Education a report on its student's participation in
34 interscholastic athletics. This report shall be submitted on
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1 a form supplied by the State Board of Education and shall
2 present information for each of the district's schools
3 showing which interscholastic sports were offered during the
4 school year just ended and the number of students
5 participating in each of these sports, by gender. The State
6 Board of Education shall compile the information supplied by
7 school districts and, no later than January 1, 2001, and
8 every 2 years thereafter, provide the compiled report to the
9 members of the General Assembly.
10 The State Board of Education shall investigate the
11 potential for the creation of an annual report showing
12 students' participation in specified academic courses by
13 gender. No later than January 1, 2001, the State Board of
14 Education shall submit to the General Assembly a report on
15 the results of this investigation, including at least a
16 discussion of the usefulness of this information, the cost to
17 school districts of providing this information, the cost to
18 the State of compiling this information, and any technical
19 issues that may be involved in collecting and reporting this
20 information.
21 (Source: P.A. 87-934; 87-1215; 88-45.)
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