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Public Act 096-0629
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LRB096 08639 NHT 19197 b |
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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 |