Bill Text: IL HB1559 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that, with respect to the Chicago school district only, collective bargaining between an educational employer and an exclusive representative of its employees may include decisions to determine the length of the work and school day and the length of the work and school year. Provides that the Act takes effect upon becoming law, but does not take effect at all unless House Bill 2275 of the 101st General Assembly, in the form in which it passed the House on March 28, 2019, becomes law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2021-01-13 - Passed Both Houses [HB1559 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB1559-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
| 5 | 27-20.08 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.08 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 27-20.08. Media literacy. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) In this Section, "media literacy" means the ability to | ||||||
| 9 | access, analyze, evaluate, create, and communicate using a | ||||||
| 10 | variety of forms, including, but not limited to, print, visual, | ||||||
| 11 | audio, interactive, and digital texts. | ||||||
| 12 | (b) Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, every public | ||||||
| 13 | high school may include in its curriculum a unit of instruction | ||||||
| 14 | on media literacy. The unit of instruction shall include, but | ||||||
| 15 | is not limited to, analyzing: | ||||||
| 16 | (1) the purpose of media messages and how they are | ||||||
| 17 | constructed; | ||||||
| 18 | (2) explicit and implicit media messages; | ||||||
| 19 | (3) values and points of view that are included and | ||||||
| 20 | excluded in the media; | ||||||
| 21 | (4) how the media may influence ideas and behaviors; | ||||||
| 22 | and | ||||||
| 23 | (5) the importance of obtaining information from | ||||||
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| 1 | multiple media sources. | ||||||
| 2 | (c) The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and | ||||||
| 3 | make available to school boards instructional materials that | ||||||
| 4 | may be used as guidelines for development of a unit of | ||||||
| 5 | instruction under this Section.
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| 6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 7 | becoming law.
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