Full Text of HB3776 99th General Assembly
HB3776 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB3776 Introduced , by Rep. Monique D. Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/27-1 | from Ch. 122, par. 27-1 |
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Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning instruction.
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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 | | 27-1 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-1)
| 7 | | Sec. 27-1. Areas of education taught - discrimination
on | 8 | | account of sex. The State of Illinois, having the the | 9 | | responsibility of
defining requirements for elementary and | 10 | | secondary education, establishes
that the primary purpose of | 11 | | schooling is the transmission of knowledge and
culture through | 12 | | which children learn in areas necessary to their continuing
| 13 | | development and entry into the world of work. Such areas | 14 | | include the language
arts, mathematics, the biological, | 15 | | physical and social sciences, the fine
arts and physical | 16 | | development and health.
| 17 | | Each school district shall give priority in the allocation | 18 | | of resources,
including funds, time allocation, personnel, and | 19 | | facilities, to fulfilling
the primary purpose of schooling.
| 20 | | The State Board of Education shall establish goals and | 21 | | learning standards consistent with the
above purposes and | 22 | | define the knowledge and skills which the State expects
| 23 | | students to master and apply as a consequence of their |
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| 1 | | education.
| 2 | | Each school district shall establish learning objectives | 3 | | consistent with
the State Board of Education's goals and | 4 | | learning standards for the areas referred to in this Section, | 5 | | shall develop appropriate testing and
assessment systems for | 6 | | determining the degree to which students are
achieving the | 7 | | objectives, and shall develop reporting systems to apprise the
| 8 | | community and State of the assessment results.
| 9 | | Each school district shall make available to all
students | 10 | | academic and vocational courses for the attainment of learning
| 11 | | objectives.
| 12 | | No student shall be refused admission into or be excluded | 13 | | from any
course of instruction offered in the common schools by | 14 | | reason of that
person's sex. No student shall, solely by reason | 15 | | of that person's sex,
be denied equal access to physical | 16 | | education and interscholastic
athletic programs or comparable | 17 | | programs supported from school district
funds. This Section is | 18 | | violated when a high school subject to this Act
participates in | 19 | | the post-season basketball tournament of any organization
or | 20 | | association that does not conduct post-season high school | 21 | | basketball
tournaments for both boys and girls, which | 22 | | tournaments are identically
structured. Conducting identically | 23 | | structured tournaments includes having
the same number of | 24 | | girls' teams as boys' teams playing, in their respective
| 25 | | tournaments, at any common location chosen for the final series | 26 | | of games in
a tournament; provided, that nothing in this |
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| 1 | | paragraph shall be deemed to
prohibit the selection for the | 2 | | final series of games in the girls'
tournaments of a common | 3 | | location that is different than the common location
selected | 4 | | for the final series of games in the boys' tournaments. Except
| 5 | | as specifically stated in this Section, equal access
to | 6 | | programs supported by school district funds and comparable | 7 | | programs will
be defined in rules promulgated by the State | 8 | | Board of Education in
consultation with the Illinois High | 9 | | School Association.
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 94-875, eff. 7-1-06.)
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