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90_HB0116 105 ILCS 5/21-2c new Amends the School Code. Requires recognized teacher training institutions to offer gender equity in education instruction to all students who enter an approved teacher education program after July 1, 1998, and requires each student entering such a program after that date to successfully complete, as a prerequisite to receiving an early childhood, elementary, special, or high school certificate, course work that includes the required gender equity instruction. Adds procedures relative to implementation of the gender equity in education requirements. Effective January 1, 1998. LRB9000926THpk LRB9000926THpk 1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by adding Section 21-2c. 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 21-2c as follows: 6 (105 ILCS 5/21-2c new) 7 Sec. 21-2c. Gender Equity. Each recognized teacher 8 training institution shall offer, to all students who enter 9 an approved teacher education program on or after July 1, 10 1998, instruction relative to concepts, principles, and 11 applications of gender equity in education, and each student 12 who enters an approved teacher education program on or after 13 that date shall be required, as a prerequisite to receiving 14 an early childhood, elementary, special, or high school 15 certificate, to successfully complete course work that 16 includes the required instruction in concepts, principles, 17 and applications of gender equity in education. The State 18 Board of Education, in consultation with the State Teacher 19 Certification Board, shall develop guidelines relative to (i) 20 the general nature of the gender equity instruction required 21 to be offered under this Section and (ii) the minimum amount 22 of course work that includes the required instruction that 23 must be successfully completed by students to whom this 24 Section applies. Each recognized teacher training 25 institution shall submit to the State Teacher Certification 26 Board its program for implementation of this Section. 27 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect 28 January 1, 1998.