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Public Act 101-0227
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
2-3.155 and 27-21 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/2-3.155) |
Sec. 2-3.155. Textbook block grant program. |
(a) The provisions of this Section are in the public |
interest, for the public benefit, and serve secular public |
purposes. |
(b) As used in this Section, "textbook" means any book or |
book substitute that a pupil uses as a text or text substitute, |
including electronic textbooks. "Textbook" includes books, |
reusable workbooks, manuals, whether bound or in loose-leaf |
form, instructional computer software, and electronic |
textbooks and the technological equipment necessary to gain |
access to and use electronic textbooks intended as a principal |
source of study material for a given class or group of |
students. "Textbook" also includes science curriculum |
materials in a kit format that includes pre-packaged consumable |
materials if (i) it is shown that the materials serve as a |
textbook substitute, (ii) the materials are for use by the |
pupils as a principal learning source, (iii) each component of |
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the materials is integrally necessary to teach the requirements |
of the intended course, (iv) the kit includes teacher guidance |
materials, and (v) the purchase of individual consumable |
materials is not allowed. |
(c) Beginning July 1, 2011, subject to annual appropriation |
by the General Assembly, the State Board of Education is |
authorized to provide annual funding to public school districts |
and State-recognized, non-public schools serving students in |
grades kindergarten through 12 for the purchase of selected |
textbooks. The textbooks authorized to be purchased under this |
Section are limited without exception to textbooks that have |
been preapproved and designated by the State Board of Education |
for use in any public school and that are secular, |
non-religious, and non-sectarian, and non-discriminatory as to |
any of the characteristics under the Illinois Human Rights Act. |
Textbooks authorized to be purchased under this Section must |
include the roles and contributions of all people protected |
under the Illinois Human Rights Act. The State Board of |
Education shall annually publish a list of the textbooks |
authorized to be purchased under this Section. Each public |
school district and State-recognized, non-public school shall, |
subject to appropriations for that purpose, receive a per pupil |
grant for the purchase of secular and non-discriminatory |
textbooks. The per pupil grant amount must be calculated by the |
State Board of Education utilizing the total appropriation
made |
for these purposes divided by the most current student
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enrollment data available. |
(d) The State Board of Education may adopt rules as |
necessary for the implementation of this Section and to ensure |
the religious neutrality of the textbook block grant program, |
as well as provide for the monitoring of all textbooks |
authorized in this Section to be purchased directly by |
State-recognized, nonpublic schools serving students in grades |
kindergarten through 12.
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(Source: P.A. 97-570, eff. 8-25-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12.)
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(105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
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Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United |
States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other |
educational institutions in this State supported or
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maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching |
of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to |
pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of |
government and the principles
for which our government stands |
as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place |
of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders |
thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
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ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching |
of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions |
of African Americans and
other ethnic groups including but not |
restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, |
Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, |
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Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this
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country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and |
contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the |
study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal |
deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great |
Depression. In public schools only, the teaching of history |
shall include a study of the roles and contributions of |
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history |
of this country and this State. The teaching of history also |
shall include a study of the
role of labor unions and their |
interaction with government in achieving the
goals of a mixed |
free enterprise system. No pupils shall be graduated
from the |
eighth grade of any
public school unless he or she has received |
such instruction in the history of the
United States and gives |
evidence of having a comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
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(Source: P.A. 96-629, eff. 1-1-10.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
2020. |