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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 | | 2-3.191, 27-20.3, and 27-21 and by adding Section 27-20.05 as |
6 | | follows:
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7 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.191)
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8 | | Sec. 2-3.191. State Education Equity Committee. |
9 | | (a) The General Assembly finds that this State has an |
10 | | urgent and collective responsibility to achieve educational |
11 | | equity by ensuring that all policies, programs, and practices |
12 | | affirm the strengths that each and every child brings with |
13 | | diverse backgrounds and life experiences and by delivering the |
14 | | comprehensive support, programs, and educational opportunities |
15 | | children need to succeed. |
16 | | (b) The State Education Equity Committee is created within |
17 | | the State Board of Education to strive toward ensuring equity |
18 | | in education for all children from birth through grade 12. |
19 | | (c) The Committee shall consist of the State |
20 | | Superintendent of Education or the State Superintendent's |
21 | | designee, who shall serve as chairperson, and one member from |
22 | | each of the following organizations appointed by the State |
23 | | Superintendent: |
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1 | | (1) At least 2 educators who each represent a |
2 | | different statewide professional teachers' organization. |
3 | | (2) A professional teachers' organization located in a |
4 | | city having a population exceeding 500,000. |
5 | | (3) A statewide association representing school |
6 | | administrators. |
7 | | (4) A statewide association representing regional |
8 | | superintendents of schools. |
9 | | (5) A statewide association representing school board |
10 | | members. |
11 | | (6) A statewide association representing school |
12 | | principals. |
13 | | (7) A school district serving a community with a |
14 | | population of 500,000 or more. |
15 | | (8) A parent-led organization. |
16 | | (9) A student-led organization. |
17 | | (10) One community organization that works to foster |
18 | | safe and healthy environments through advocacy for |
19 | | immigrant families and ensuring equitable opportunities |
20 | | for educational advancement and economic development. |
21 | | (11) An organization that works for economic, |
22 | | educational, and social progress for African Americans and |
23 | | promotes strong sustainable communities through advocacy, |
24 | | collaboration, and innovation. |
25 | | (12) One statewide organization whose focus is to |
26 | | narrow or close the achievement gap between students of |
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1 | | color and their peers. |
2 | | (13) An organization that advocates for healthier |
3 | | school environments in this State. |
4 | | (14) One statewide organization that advocates for |
5 | | partnerships among schools, families, and the community, |
6 | | provides access to support, and removes barriers to |
7 | | learning and development, using schools as hubs. |
8 | | (15) One organization that advocates for the health |
9 | | and safety of Illinois youth and families by providing |
10 | | capacity building services. |
11 | | (16) An organization dedicated to advocating for |
12 | | public policies to prevent homelessness. |
13 | | (17) Other appropriate State agencies as determined by |
14 | | the State Superintendent. |
15 | | (18) An organization that works for economic, |
16 | | educational, and social progress for Native Americans and |
17 | | promotes strong sustainable communities through advocacy, |
18 | | collaboration, and innovation. |
19 | | Members appointed to the Committee must reflect, as much |
20 | | as possible, the racial, ethnic, and geographic diversity of |
21 | | this State. |
22 | | (d) Members appointed by the State Superintendent shall |
23 | | serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed for |
24 | | reasonable and necessary expenses, including travel, from |
25 | | funds appropriated to the State Board of Education for that |
26 | | purpose, subject to the rules of the appropriate travel |
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1 | | control board. |
2 | | (e) The Committee shall meet at the call of the |
3 | | chairperson, but shall meet no less than 3 times a year. |
4 | | (f) The Committee shall recognize that, while progress has |
5 | | been made, much remains to be done to address systemic |
6 | | inequities and ensure each and every child is equipped to |
7 | | reach the child's fullest potential and shall: |
8 | | (1) guide its work through the principles of equity, |
9 | | equality, collaboration, and community; |
10 | | (2) focus its work around the overarching goals of |
11 | | student learning, learning conditions, and elevating |
12 | | educators, all underpinned by equity; |
13 | | (3) identify evidence-based practices or policies |
14 | | around these goals to build on this State's progress of |
15 | | ensuring educational equity for all its students in all |
16 | | aspects of birth through grade 12 education; and |
17 | | (4) seek input and feedback on identified |
18 | | evidence-based practices or policies from stakeholders, |
19 | | including, but not limited to, parents, students, and |
20 | | educators that reflect the rich diversity of Illinois |
21 | | students. |
22 | | (g) The Committee shall submit its recommendations to the |
23 | | General Assembly and the State Board of Education no later |
24 | | than January 31, 2022. By no later than December 15, 2023 and |
25 | | each year thereafter, the Committee shall report to the |
26 | | General Assembly and the State Board of Education about the |
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1 | | additional progress that has been made to achieve educational |
2 | | equity.
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3 | | (h) As part of the report required under subsection (g), |
4 | | by no later than December 15, 2024, the Committee shall |
5 | | provide recommendations that may assist the State Board of |
6 | | Education in identifying diverse subject matter experts to |
7 | | help inform policy through task forces, committees, and |
8 | | commissions the State Board oversees. |
9 | | (i) On and after January 31, 2025, subsection (h) is |
10 | | inoperative. |
11 | | (Source: P.A. 102-458, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
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12 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.05 new) |
13 | | Sec. 27-20.05. Native American history study. |
14 | | (a) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, every public |
15 | | elementary school and high school social studies course |
16 | | pertaining to American history or government shall include in |
17 | | its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of |
18 | | the Native American experience and Native American history |
19 | | within the Midwest and this State since time immemorial. These |
20 | | events shall include the contributions of Native Americans in |
21 | | government and the arts, humanities, and sciences, as well as |
22 | | the contributions of Native Americans to the economic, |
23 | | cultural, social, and political development of their own |
24 | | nations and of the United States. The unit of instruction must |
25 | | describe large urban Native American populations in this |
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1 | | State, including the history and experiences of contemporary |
2 | | Native Americans living in this State. Instruction in grades 6 |
3 | | through 12 shall include the study of the genocide of and |
4 | | discrimination against Native Americans, as well as tribal |
5 | | sovereignty, treaties made between tribal nations and the |
6 | | United States, and the circumstances around forced Native |
7 | | American relocation. This unit of instruction may be |
8 | | integrated as part of the unit of instruction required under |
9 | | Section 27-20.03 or 27-21 of this Code. |
10 | | (b) The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and |
11 | | make available to all school boards instructional materials |
12 | | and professional development opportunities that may be used as |
13 | | guidelines for development of a unit of instruction under this |
14 | | Section. However, each school board shall itself determine the |
15 | | minimum amount of instructional time that qualifies as a unit |
16 | | of instruction satisfying the requirements of this Section. |
17 | | (c) The regional superintendent of schools shall monitor a |
18 | | school district's compliance with this Section's curricular |
19 | | requirements during the regional superintendent's annual |
20 | | compliance visit and make recommendations for improvement, |
21 | | including professional development.
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22 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-20.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-20.3)
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23 | | Sec. 27-20.3. Holocaust and Genocide Study. |
24 | | (a) Every public elementary school and
high school shall |
25 | | include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying
the |
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1 | | events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945. This period in |
2 | | world
history is known as the Holocaust, during which |
3 | | 6,000,000 Jews and millions
of non-Jews were exterminated. One |
4 | | of the universal lessons of the Holocaust is that national, |
5 | | ethnic, racial, or religious hatred can overtake any nation or |
6 | | society, leading to calamitous consequences. To reinforce that |
7 | | lesson, such curriculum shall include an additional unit of |
8 | | instruction studying other acts of genocide across the globe. |
9 | | This unit shall include, but not be limited to, the Native |
10 | | American genocide in North America, the Armenian Genocide, the |
11 | | Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and more recent atrocities in |
12 | | Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The studying of this |
13 | | material is a
reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples |
14 | | from all nations to never
again permit the occurrence of |
15 | | another Holocaust and a recognition that crimes of genocide |
16 | | continue to be perpetrated across the globe as they have been |
17 | | in the past and to deter indifference to crimes against |
18 | | humanity and human suffering wherever they may occur.
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19 | | (b) The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and |
20 | | make available to
all school boards instructional materials |
21 | | which may be used as guidelines
for development of a unit of |
22 | | instruction under this Section; provided,
however, that each |
23 | | school board shall itself determine the minimum amount
of |
24 | | instruction time which shall qualify as a unit of instruction |
25 | | satisfying
the requirements of this Section.
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26 | | Instructional materials that include the addition of |
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1 | | content related to the Native American genocide in North |
2 | | America shall be prepared and made available to all school |
3 | | boards on the State Board of Education's Internet website no |
4 | | later than January 1, 2025. |
5 | | Instructional materials related to the Native American |
6 | | genocide in North America shall be developed in consultation |
7 | | with members of the Chicago American Indian Community |
8 | | Collaborative who are members of a federally recognized tribe, |
9 | | are documented descendants of Indigenous communities, or are |
10 | | other persons recognized as contributing community members by |
11 | | the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative and who |
12 | | currently reside in this State or their designees. |
13 | | (Source: P.A. 94-478, eff. 8-5-05.)
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14 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
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15 | | Sec. 27-21. History of United States. |
16 | | (a) History of the United States shall be taught in all |
17 | | public schools and
in all other educational institutions in |
18 | | this State supported or
maintained, in whole or in part, by |
19 | | public funds. |
20 | | The teaching of history
shall have as one of its |
21 | | objectives the imparting to pupils of a
comprehensive idea of |
22 | | our democratic form of government and the principles
for which |
23 | | our government stands as regards other nations, including the
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24 | | studying of the place of our government in world-wide |
25 | | movements and the
leaders thereof, with particular stress upon |
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1 | | the basic principles and
ideals of our representative form of |
2 | | government. |
3 | | The teaching of history
shall include a study of the role |
4 | | and contributions of African Americans and
other ethnic |
5 | | groups, including, but not restricted to, Native Americans, |
6 | | Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, Bohemian, |
7 | | Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, Scots, |
8 | | Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this
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9 | | country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and |
10 | | contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the |
11 | | study of the events related to the forceful removal and |
12 | | illegal deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during |
13 | | the Great Depression. |
14 | | The teaching of history shall also include teaching about |
15 | | Native American nations' sovereignty and self-determination, |
16 | | both historically and in the present day, with a focus on urban |
17 | | Native Americans. |
18 | | In public schools only, the teaching of history shall |
19 | | include a study of the roles and contributions of lesbian, |
20 | | gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this |
21 | | country and this State. |
22 | | The teaching of history also shall include a study of the
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23 | | role of labor unions and their interaction with government in |
24 | | achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise system. |
25 | | Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching of |
26 | | history must also include instruction on the history of |
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1 | | Illinois. |
2 | | The teaching of history shall include the contributions |
3 | | made to society by Americans of different faith practices, |
4 | | including, but not limited to, Native Americans, Muslim |
5 | | Americans, Jewish Americans, Christian Americans, Hindu |
6 | | Americans, Sikh Americans, Buddhist Americans, and any other |
7 | | collective community of faith that has shaped America. |
8 | | (b) No pupils shall be graduated
from the eighth grade of |
9 | | any
public school unless the pupils have he or she has received |
10 | | such instruction in the history of the
United States as |
11 | | provided in this Section and give gives evidence of having a |
12 | | comprehensive knowledge
thereof, which may be administered |
13 | | remotely.
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14 | | (c) The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and |
15 | | make available to all school boards instructional materials |
16 | | that may be used as guidelines for the development of |
17 | | instruction under this Section; however, each school board |
18 | | shall itself determine the minimum amount of instructional |
19 | | time required for satisfying the requirements of this Section. |
20 | | Instructional materials that include the addition of |
21 | | content related to Native Americans shall be prepared and made |
22 | | available to all school boards on the State Board of |
23 | | Education's Internet website no later than January 1, 2025. |
24 | | Instructional materials related to Native Americans shall |
25 | | be developed in consultation with members of the Chicago |
26 | | American Indian Community Collaborative who are members of a |
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1 | | federally recognized tribe, are documented descendants of |
2 | | Indigenous communities, or are other persons recognized as |
3 | | contributing community members by the Chicago American Indian |
4 | | Community Collaborative and who currently reside in this |
5 | | State. |
6 | | (Source: P.A. 101-227, eff. 7-1-20; 101-341, eff. 1-1-20; |
7 | | 101-643, eff. 6-18-20; 102-411, eff. 1-1-22 .)
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8 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
9 | | becoming law.
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