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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.