Bill Text: IL SB1469 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to adopt a policy to ensure that the parent or guardian of a student is provided with an opportunity to review the curricula and learning material used in the student's classroom at any point during the school year if the parent or guardian requests to review the curricula and learning material. Requires the policy to be published in the student handbook and on the school district's Internet website if one is maintained. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-03 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Andrew S. Chesney [SB1469 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1469-Introduced.html


103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1469

Introduced 2/7/2023, by Sen. Tom Bennett

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/10-20.85 new
105 ILCS 5/34-18.82 new

Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to adopt a policy to ensure that the parent or guardian of a student is provided with an opportunity to review the curricula and learning material used in the student's classroom at any point during the school year if the parent or guardian requests to review the curricula and learning material. Requires the policy to be published in the student handbook and on the school district's Internet website if one is maintained. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
510-20.85 and 34-18.82 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/10-20.85 new)
7 Sec. 10-20.85. Parental review of learning material.
8 (a) A school board shall adopt a policy to ensure that the
9parent or guardian of a student is provided with an
10opportunity to review the curricula and learning material used
11in the student's classroom at any point during the school year
12if the parent or guardian requests to review the curricula and
13learning material.
14 (b) The policy adopted under subsection (a) must be
15published in the student handbook and on the school district's
16Internet website if one is maintained.
17 (105 ILCS 5/34-18.82 new)
18 Sec. 34-18.82. Parental review of learning material.
19 (a) The board shall adopt a policy to ensure that the
20parent or guardian of a student is provided with an
21opportunity to review the curricula and learning material used
22in the student's classroom at any point during the school year

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1if the parent or guardian requests to review the curricula and
2learning material.
3 (b) The policy adopted under subsection (a) must be
4published in the student handbook and on the school district's
5Internet website.
6 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.
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