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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB2676 Introduced 10/14/2025, by Sen. Willie Preston SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, the cursive writing instruction offered by public elementary schools must be offered to students in grades 3 through 5 (rather than requiring school districts to determine at what grade level or levels students are to be offered cursive writing, provided that such instruction must be offered before students complete grade 5). |
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| | SB2676 | | LRB104 14343 LNS 27476 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 27-20.7 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.7) |
| 7 | | Sec. 27-20.7. Cursive writing. Beginning with the |
| 8 | | 2018-2019 school year, public elementary schools shall offer |
| 9 | | at least one unit of instruction in cursive writing. School |
| 10 | | districts shall, by policy, determine at what grade level or |
| 11 | | levels students are to be offered cursive writing, provided |
| 12 | | that such instruction must be offered before students complete |
| 13 | | grade 5; however, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, |
| 14 | | the cursive writing instruction must be offered to students in |
| 15 | | grades 3 through 5. |
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 100-548, eff. 7-1-18.) |