Full Text of HB0376 102nd General Assembly
HB0376eng 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 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 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.
| 13 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
| 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
| 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
| 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,
| 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.
| 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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