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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5333
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5333 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 27-20.4 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.4) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.4)
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| 7 | Sec. 27-20.4. Black History Study. Every public elementary | ||||||
| 8 | school and
high school shall include in its curriculum a unit | ||||||
| 9 | of instruction studying
the events of Black History, including | ||||||
| 10 | the history of the African slave trade, slavery in America, and | ||||||
| 11 | the vestiges of slavery in this country. These events shall | ||||||
| 12 | include not only the
contributions made by individual | ||||||
| 13 | African-Americans in government and in the
arts, humanities and | ||||||
| 14 | sciences to the economic, cultural and political
development of | ||||||
| 15 | the United States and Africa, but also the socio-economic
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| 16 | struggle which African-Americans experienced collectively in | ||||||
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| 1 | striving to
achieve fair and equal treatment under the laws of | ||||||
| 2 | this nation. The
studying of this material shall constitute an | ||||||
| 3 | affirmation by students of
their commitment to respect the | ||||||
| 4 | dignity of all races and peoples and to
forever eschew every | ||||||
| 5 | form of discrimination in their lives and careers.
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| 6 | The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make | ||||||
| 7 | available to
all school boards instructional materials, | ||||||
| 8 | including those established by the Amistad Commission, which | ||||||
| 9 | may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of | ||||||
| 10 | instruction under this Section; provided,
however, that each | ||||||
| 11 | school board shall itself determine the minimum amount
of | ||||||
| 12 | instruction time which shall qualify as a unit of instruction | ||||||
| 13 | satisfying
the requirements of this Section.
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| 14 | The State Board of Education shall prepare and file with | ||||||
| 15 | the General Assembly a statewide report on the instruction of | ||||||
| 16 | Black History in Illinois public schools no later than December | ||||||
| 17 | 31, 2014. | ||||||
| 18 | (Source: P.A. 94-285, eff. 7-21-05.)
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| 19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 20 | becoming law.".
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