Full Text of SB2682 98th General Assembly
SB2682 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB2682 Introduced 1/21/2014, by Sen. Michael E. Hastings SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 105 ILCS 5/27-21 | from Ch. 122, par. 27-21 |
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Amends the School Code. Requires the study of the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process to be included in the teaching of the history of the United States. Effective July 1, 2014.
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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 changing Section | 5 | | 27-21 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
| 7 | | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United | 8 | | States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other | 9 | | educational institutions in this State supported or
| 10 | | 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
| 17 | | 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
| 23 | | country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and |
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| 1 | | 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 history of organized labor in America, the
role of labor | 6 | | unions and their interaction with government in achieving the
| 7 | | goals of a mixed free enterprise system , and the collective | 8 | | bargaining process . No pupils shall be graduated
from the | 9 | | eighth grade of any
public school unless he has received such | 10 | | instruction in the history of the
United States and gives | 11 | | evidence of having a comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 96-629, eff. 1-1-10.)
| 13 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 14 | | 2014.
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