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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 Sections |
5 | | 2-3.155 and 27-21 as follows:
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6 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.155) |
7 | | Sec. 2-3.155. Textbook block grant program. |
8 | | (a) The provisions of this Section are in the public |
9 | | interest, for the public benefit, and serve secular public |
10 | | purposes. |
11 | | (b) As used in this Section, "textbook" means any book or |
12 | | book substitute that a pupil uses as a text or text substitute, |
13 | | including electronic textbooks. "Textbook" includes books, |
14 | | reusable workbooks, manuals, whether bound or in loose-leaf |
15 | | form, instructional computer software, and electronic |
16 | | textbooks and the technological equipment necessary to gain |
17 | | access to and use electronic textbooks intended as a principal |
18 | | source of study material for a given class or group of |
19 | | students. "Textbook" also includes science curriculum |
20 | | materials in a kit format that includes pre-packaged consumable |
21 | | materials if (i) it is shown that the materials serve as a |
22 | | textbook substitute, (ii) the materials are for use by the |
23 | | pupils as a principal learning source, (iii) each component of |
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1 | | the materials is integrally necessary to teach the requirements |
2 | | of the intended course, (iv) the kit includes teacher guidance |
3 | | materials, and (v) the purchase of individual consumable |
4 | | materials is not allowed. |
5 | | (c) Beginning July 1, 2011, subject to annual appropriation |
6 | | by the General Assembly, the State Board of Education is |
7 | | authorized to provide annual funding to public school districts |
8 | | and State-recognized, non-public schools serving students in |
9 | | grades kindergarten through 12 for the purchase of selected |
10 | | textbooks. The textbooks authorized to be purchased under this |
11 | | Section are limited without exception to textbooks that have |
12 | | been preapproved and designated by the State Board of Education |
13 | | for use in any public school and that are secular, |
14 | | non-religious, and non-sectarian , and non-discriminatory as to |
15 | | any of the characteristics under the Illinois Human Rights Act. |
16 | | Textbooks authorized to be purchased under this Section must |
17 | | include the roles and contributions of all people protected |
18 | | under the Illinois Human Rights Act . The State Board of |
19 | | Education shall annually publish a list of the textbooks |
20 | | authorized to be purchased under this Section. Each public |
21 | | school district and State-recognized, non-public school shall, |
22 | | subject to appropriations for that purpose, receive a per pupil |
23 | | grant for the purchase of secular and non-discriminatory |
24 | | textbooks. The per pupil grant amount must be calculated by the |
25 | | State Board of Education utilizing the total appropriation
made |
26 | | for these purposes divided by the most current student
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1 | | enrollment data available. |
2 | | (d) The State Board of Education may adopt rules as |
3 | | necessary for the implementation of this Section and to ensure |
4 | | the religious neutrality of the textbook block grant program, |
5 | | as well as provide for the monitoring of all textbooks |
6 | | authorized in this Section to be purchased directly by |
7 | | State-recognized, nonpublic schools serving students in grades |
8 | | kindergarten through 12.
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9 | | (Source: P.A. 97-570, eff. 8-25-11; 97-813, eff. 7-13-12.)
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10 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
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11 | | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United |
12 | | States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other |
13 | | educational institutions in this State supported or
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14 | | maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching |
15 | | of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to |
16 | | pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of |
17 | | government and the principles
for which our government stands |
18 | | as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place |
19 | | of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders |
20 | | thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and
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21 | | ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching |
22 | | of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions |
23 | | of African Americans and
other ethnic groups including but not |
24 | | restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, |
25 | | Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, |
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1 | | Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this
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2 | | country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and |
3 | | contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the |
4 | | study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal |
5 | | deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great |
6 | | Depression. In public schools only, the teaching of history |
7 | | shall include a study of the roles and contributions of |
8 | | lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history |
9 | | of this country and this State. The teaching of history also |
10 | | shall include a study of the
role of labor unions and their |
11 | | interaction with government in achieving the
goals of a mixed |
12 | | free enterprise system. No pupils shall be graduated
from the |
13 | | eighth grade of any
public school unless he or she has received |
14 | | such instruction in the history of the
United States and gives |
15 | | evidence of having a comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
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16 | | (Source: P.A. 96-629, eff. 1-1-10.)
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