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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,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 27-20.8 and by changing Section 27-21 as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.8 new) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 27-20.8. Asian American history study. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) Beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, every public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | elementary school and high school shall include in its | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of Asian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | American history, including the history of Asian Americans in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Illinois and the Midwest, as well as the contributions of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Asian Americans toward advancing civil rights from the 19th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | century onward. These events shall include the contributions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | made by individual Asian Americans in government and the arts, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | humanities, and sciences, as well as the contributions of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Asian American communities to the economic, cultural, social, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | and political development of the United States. The studying | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | of this material shall constitute an affirmation by students | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | of their commitment to respect the dignity of all races and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | peoples and to forever eschew every form of discrimination in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | their lives and careers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | (b) The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and |
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1 | make available to all school boards instructional materials, | ||||||
2 | including those established by the Public Broadcasting | ||||||
3 | Service, that may be used as guidelines for development of a | ||||||
4 | unit of instruction under this Section. However, each school | ||||||
5 | board shall itself determine the minimum amount of | ||||||
6 | instructional time that qualifies as a unit of instruction | ||||||
7 | satisfying the requirements of this Section. | ||||||
8 | (c) The regional superintendent of schools shall monitor a | ||||||
9 | school district's compliance with this Section's curricular | ||||||
10 | requirements during his or her annual compliance visit. | ||||||
11 | (d) A school may meet the requirements of this Section | ||||||
12 | through an online program or course.
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13 | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
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14 | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the | ||||||
15 | United States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all | ||||||
16 | other educational institutions in this State supported or
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17 | maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching | ||||||
18 | of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to | ||||||
19 | pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of | ||||||
20 | government and the principles
for which our government stands | ||||||
21 | as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place | ||||||
22 | of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders | ||||||
23 | thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
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24 | ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching | ||||||
25 | of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions |
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1 | of African Americans and
other ethnic groups, including, but | ||||||
2 | not restricted to, Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, | ||||||
3 | Irish, Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
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4 | French, Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the | ||||||
5 | history of this
country and this
State. To reinforce the study | ||||||
6 | of the role and contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum | ||||||
7 | shall include the study of the events related to the forceful | ||||||
8 | removal and illegal deportation of Mexican-American U.S. | ||||||
9 | citizens during the Great Depression. Beginning with the | ||||||
10 | 2022-2023 school year, the teaching of history shall also | ||||||
11 | include the study of the wrongful incarceration of Japanese | ||||||
12 | Americans during World War II pursuant to United States | ||||||
13 | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's signed Executive Order | ||||||
14 | 9066, the heroic service of the 100th Infantry Battalion and | ||||||
15 | the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army | ||||||
16 | during World War II, the subsequent legal challenges by | ||||||
17 | Japanese Americans to Executive Order 9066, the resettlement | ||||||
18 | of Japanese Americans in Illinois following incarceration, and | ||||||
19 | the formal apology and redress for the incarceration issued by | ||||||
20 | the United States government in 1988. In public schools only, | ||||||
21 | the teaching of history shall include a study of the roles and | ||||||
22 | contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender | ||||||
23 | people in the history of this country and this State. The | ||||||
24 | teaching of history also shall include a study of the
role of | ||||||
25 | labor unions and their interaction with government in | ||||||
26 | achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise system. |
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1 | Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching of | ||||||
2 | history must also include instruction on the history of | ||||||
3 | Illinois. No pupils shall be graduated
from the eighth grade | ||||||
4 | of any
public school unless he or she has received such | ||||||
5 | instruction in the history of the
United States and gives | ||||||
6 | evidence of having a comprehensive knowledge
thereof, which | ||||||
7 | may be administered remotely.
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8 | (Source: P.A. 101-227, eff. 7-1-20; 101-341, eff. 1-1-20; | ||||||
9 | 101-643, eff. 6-18-20.)
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