Bill Text: IL SB1557 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires every public elementary school and high school to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events related to the forceful removal and illegal deportation of almost 2,000,000 Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great Depression, beginning in 1929 and ending in the mid-1940's. Allows the State Superintendent of Education to prepare and make available to all school boards instructional materials. Provides that each school board shall itself determine the minimum amount of instruction time that shall qualify as a unit of instruction. Effective January 1, 2010.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2009-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0629 [SB1557 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SB1557-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 changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 27-21 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
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| 7 | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United | ||||||
| 8 | States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other | ||||||
| 9 | educational institutions in this State supported or
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| 10 | maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching | ||||||
| 11 | of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to | ||||||
| 12 | pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of | ||||||
| 13 | government and the principles
for which our government stands | ||||||
| 14 | as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place | ||||||
| 15 | of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders | ||||||
| 16 | thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
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| 17 | ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching | ||||||
| 18 | of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions | ||||||
| 19 | of African Americans and
other ethnic groups including but not | ||||||
| 20 | restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, | ||||||
| 21 | Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, | ||||||
| 22 | Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this
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| 23 | country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and | ||||||
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| 1 | contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the | ||||||
| 2 | study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal | ||||||
| 3 | deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great | ||||||
| 4 | Depression. The teaching of history also shall include a study | ||||||
| 5 | of the
role of labor unions and their interaction with | ||||||
| 6 | government in achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise | ||||||
| 7 | system. No pupils shall be graduated
from the eighth grade of | ||||||
| 8 | any
public school unless he has received such instruction in | ||||||
| 9 | the history of the
United States and gives evidence of having a | ||||||
| 10 | comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
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| 11 | (Source: P.A. 92-27, eff. 7-1-01; 93-406, eff. 1-1-04.)
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