Bill Text: IL HB5261 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching of the history of women must include instruction on the significant advancements, discoveries, and contributions made by women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5261 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5261-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5261 Introduced , by Rep. Mary Edly-Allen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-20.5 from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.5
Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching of the history of women must include instruction on the significant advancements, discoveries, and contributions made by women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
27-20.5 as follows:
(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.
Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching of
the history of women must include instruction on the
significant advancements, discoveries, and contributions made
by women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM).
The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make
available to all school boards instructional materials that may

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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.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.