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Sen. Natalie Toro
Filed: 3/27/2024
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 456
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 456 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
| 5 | | 27-20.9 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.9 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 27-20.9. Latina, Latino, and Latin American History |
| 8 | | study. |
| 9 | | (a) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, every public |
| 10 | | elementary school and high school shall include in its |
| 11 | | curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of |
| 12 | | Latina, Latino, and Latin American history, including the |
| 13 | | history of Latin Americans in Illinois and the Midwest, as |
| 14 | | well as the contributions of Latin Americans toward advancing |
| 15 | | civil rights from the 19th century onward. These events shall |
| 16 | | include the contributions made by individual Latin Americans |
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| 1 | | in government and the arts, humanities, and sciences, as well |
| 2 | | as the contributions of Latin American communities to the |
| 3 | | economic, cultural, social, and political development of the |
| 4 | | United States. The studying of this material shall constitute |
| 5 | | an affirmation by students of their commitment to respect the |
| 6 | | dignity of all races and peoples and to forever eschew every |
| 7 | | form of discrimination in their lives and careers. |
| 8 | | (b) The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and |
| 9 | | make available to all school boards instructional materials, |
| 10 | | including those established by the Public Broadcasting |
| 11 | | Service, that may be used as guidelines for development of a |
| 12 | | unit of instruction under this Section. However, each school |
| 13 | | board shall itself determine the minimum amount of |
| 14 | | instructional time that qualifies as a unit of instruction |
| 15 | | satisfying the requirements of this Section. |
| 16 | | (c) The regional superintendent of schools shall monitor a |
| 17 | | school district's compliance with this Section's curricular |
| 18 | | requirements during the regional superintendent's annual |
| 19 | | compliance visit. |
| 20 | | (d) A school may meet the requirements of this Section |
| 21 | | through an online program or course. |
| 22 | | (e) Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education |
| 23 | | shall finance educational workshops designed to assist |
| 24 | | teachers in the development and integration of the unit of |
| 25 | | instruction under this Section into the curriculum. Teachers |
| 26 | | shall receive a stipend for attending such a workshop.
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