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Public Act 102-0411
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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 Sections |
24-2 and 27-21 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/24-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-2)
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Sec. 24-2. Holidays. |
(a) Teachers shall not be required
to teach on Saturdays, |
nor, except as provided in subsection (b) of this Section, |
shall teachers or other school
employees, other than |
noncertificated school employees whose presence is
necessary |
because of an emergency or for the continued operation and
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maintenance of school facilities or property, be
required to |
work on legal school
holidays, which are January 1, New Year's |
Day; the third Monday in
January, the Birthday of Dr. Martin |
Luther King, Jr.; February 12, the
Birthday of President |
Abraham Lincoln; the
first Monday in March (to be known as |
Casimir Pulaski's birthday); Good
Friday; the day designated |
as Memorial Day by federal law; July 4,
Independence Day; the |
first Monday in September, Labor Day; the second Monday
in |
October, Columbus Day; November 11, Veterans' Day; the |
Thursday in
November commonly called Thanksgiving Day; and |
December 25, Christmas Day.
School boards may grant special |
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holidays whenever in their judgment such
action is advisable. |
No deduction shall
be made from the time or
compensation of a |
school employee on account of any legal
or special holiday.
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(b) A school board or other entity eligible to apply for |
waivers and modifications under Section 2-3.25g of this Code |
is authorized to hold school or schedule teachers' institutes, |
parent-teacher conferences, or staff development on the third |
Monday in January (the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, |
Jr.); February 12 (the Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln); |
the first Monday in March (known as Casimir Pulaski's |
birthday); the second Monday in October (Columbus Day); and |
November 11 (Veterans' Day), provided that: |
(1) the person or persons honored by the holiday are |
recognized through instructional activities conducted on |
that day or, if the day is not used for student attendance, |
on the first school day preceding or following that day; |
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(2) the entity that chooses to exercise this authority |
first holds a public hearing about the proposal. The |
entity shall provide notice preceding the public hearing |
to both educators and parents. The notice shall set forth |
the time, date, and place of the hearing, describe the |
proposal, and indicate that the entity will take testimony |
from educators and parents about the proposal.
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(c) Commemorative holidays, which recognize specified |
patriotic, civic,
cultural or historical persons, activities, |
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or events, are regular school
days. Commemorative
holidays |
are: January 17 (the birthday of Muhammad Ali), January 28 (to |
be known as Christa McAuliffe Day and
observed as a |
commemoration of space exploration), February 15 (the
birthday |
of Susan B. Anthony), March 29 (Viet Nam War Veterans' Day),
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September 11 (September 11th Day of Remembrance), the school |
day
immediately preceding Veterans' Day (Korean War Veterans'
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Day), October 1 (Recycling Day), October 7 (Iraq and |
Afghanistan Veterans Remembrance Day), December 7 (Pearl |
Harbor Veterans' Day), and
any day so appointed by the |
President or
Governor. School boards may establish |
commemorative holidays whenever in
their judgment such action |
is advisable.
School boards shall include instruction relative |
to commemorated persons,
activities, or
events on the |
commemorative holiday or at any other time during the school
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year and at any point in the curriculum when such instruction |
may be deemed
appropriate. The State Board of Education shall |
prepare and make available
to school boards instructional |
materials relative to commemorated persons,
activities,
or |
events which may be used by school boards in conjunction with |
any
instruction provided pursuant to this paragraph.
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(d) City of Chicago School District 299 shall observe |
March 4 of each year as
a commemorative holiday. This holiday |
shall be known as Mayors' Day which
shall be a day to |
commemorate and be reminded of the past Chief Executive
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Officers of the City of Chicago, and in particular the late |
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Mayor Richard
J. Daley and the late Mayor Harold Washington. |
If March 4 falls on a
Saturday or Sunday, Mayors' Day shall be |
observed on the following Monday. |
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of State law to |
the contrary, November 3, 2020 shall be a State holiday known |
as 2020 General Election Day and shall be observed throughout |
the State pursuant to this amendatory Act of the 101st General |
Assembly. All government offices, with the exception of |
election authorities, shall be closed unless authorized to be |
used as a location for election day services or as a polling |
place.
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(Source: P.A. 101-642, eff. 6-16-20.)
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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 |
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of African Americans and
other ethnic groups, including, but |
not restricted to, Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, |
Irish, Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
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French, Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the |
history of this
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. In public schools only, |
the teaching of history shall include a study of the roles and |
contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender |
people in the history of this country and this State. 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. The teaching of history shall include the |
contributions made to society by Americans of different faith |
practices, including, but not limited to, Muslim Americans, |
Jewish Americans, Christian Americans, Hindu Americans, Sikh |
Americans, Buddhist Americans, and any other collective |
community of faith that has shaped America. No pupils shall be |
graduated
from the eighth grade of any
public school unless he |
or she has received such instruction in the history of the
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United States and gives evidence of having a comprehensive |