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105 ILCS 5/27-20.5

(105 ILCS 5/27-20.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.5)

Sec. 27-20.5.

Study of the History of Women.

Every public elementary
school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of
instruction studying the events of the history of women in America.  These
events shall include not only the contributions made by individual women in
government, the arts, sciences, education, and in the economic, cultural,
and political development of Illinois and of the United States, but shall
also include a study of women's struggles to gain the right to vote and to
be treated equally as they strive to earn and occupy positions of merit in
our society.

The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make available to
all school boards instructional materials that may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of instruction under this Section.  Each school
board shall determine the minimum amount of instructional time that shall
qualify as a unit of instruction satisfying the requirements of this Section.

(Source: P.A. 86-1256.)