Full Text of SB1557 96th General Assembly
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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 | 5 |
| 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 | 8 |
| States shall be taught in all public schools and
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| educational institutions in this State supported or
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| maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching | 11 |
| of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to | 12 |
| pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of | 13 |
| government and the principles
for which our government stands | 14 |
| as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place | 15 |
| of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders | 16 |
| thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
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| ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching | 18 |
| of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions | 19 |
| of African Americans and
other ethnic groups including but not | 20 |
| restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, | 21 |
| Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, | 22 |
| 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 |
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| contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the | 2 |
| study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal | 3 |
| deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great | 4 |
| Depression. The teaching of history also shall include a study | 5 |
| of the
role of labor unions and their interaction with | 6 |
| government in achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise | 7 |
| system. No pupils shall be graduated
from the eighth grade of | 8 |
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public school unless he has received such instruction in | 9 |
| the history of the
United States and gives evidence of having a | 10 |
| comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-27, eff. 7-1-01; 93-406, eff. 1-1-04.)
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