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| AN ACT concerning schools.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 27-20.3 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/27-20.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.3)
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| Sec. 27-20.3. Holocaust and Genocide Study. Every public |
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| elementary school and
high school shall include in its |
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| curriculum a unit of instruction studying
the events of the |
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| Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945. This period in world
history |
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| is known as the Holocaust, during which 6,000,000 Jews and |
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| millions
of non-Jews were exterminated. One of the universal |
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| lessons of the Holocaust is that national, ethnic, racial, or |
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| religious hatred can overtake any nation or society, leading to |
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| calamitous consequences. To reinforce that lesson, such |
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| curriculum shall include an additional unit of instruction |
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| studying other acts of genocide across the globe. This unit |
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| shall include, but not be limited to, the Armenian Genocide, |
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| the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and more recent atrocities in |
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| Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The studying of this |
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| material is a
reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples |
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| from all nations to never
again permit the occurrence of |
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| another Holocaust and a recognition that crimes of genocide |
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| continue to be perpetrated across the globe as they have been |
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| in the past and to deter indifference to crimes against |
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| humanity and human suffering wherever they may occur.
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| The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make |
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| available to
all school boards instructional materials which |
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| may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of |
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| instruction under this Section; provided,
however, that each |
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| school board shall itself determine the minimum amount
of |
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| instruction time which shall qualify as a unit of instruction |