Bill Text: IL HB5333 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires a school district, at the end of each school year, to file a report with the State Board of Education that summarizes each school's instruction on Black History for that school year. Provides that, on or before August 1 of each year, the State Board of Education shall compile these reports into a statewide report and file the statewide report with the General Assembly.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-04 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Recede Referred to Assignments; 3-9(b) [HB5333 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5333-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires a school district, at the end of each school year, to file a report with the State Board of Education that summarizes each school's instruction on Black History for that school year. Provides that, on or before August 1 of each year, the State Board of Education shall compile these reports into a statewide report and file the statewide report with the General Assembly.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-04 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Recede Referred to Assignments; 3-9(b) [HB5333 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5333-Introduced.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 changing Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 27-20.4 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.4) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.4)
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7 | Sec. 27-20.4. Black History Study. Every public elementary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | school and
high school shall include in its curriculum a unit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | of instruction studying
the events of Black History, including | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | the history of the African slave trade, slavery in America, and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | the vestiges of slavery in this country. These events shall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | include not only the
contributions made by individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | African-Americans in government and in the
arts, humanities and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | sciences to the economic, cultural and political
development of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | the United States and Africa, but also the socio-economic
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16 | struggle which African-Americans experienced collectively in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | striving to
achieve fair and equal treatment under the laws of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | this nation. The
studying of this material shall constitute an | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | affirmation by students of
their commitment to respect the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | dignity of all races and peoples and to
forever eschew every | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | form of discrimination in their lives and careers.
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22 | The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | available to
all school boards instructional materials, |
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1 | including those established by the Amistad Commission, which | ||||||
2 | may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of | ||||||
3 | instruction under this Section; provided,
however, that each | ||||||
4 | school board shall itself determine the minimum amount
of | ||||||
5 | instruction time which shall qualify as a unit of instruction | ||||||
6 | satisfying
the requirements of this Section.
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7 | At the end of each school year, a school district must file | ||||||
8 | a report with the State Board of Education that summarizes each | ||||||
9 | school's instruction on Black History for that school year. On | ||||||
10 | or before August 1 of each year, the State Board of Education | ||||||
11 | shall compile these reports into a statewide report and file | ||||||
12 | the statewide report with the General Assembly as provided in | ||||||
13 | Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act. | ||||||
14 | (Source: P.A. 94-285, eff. 7-21-05.)
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