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Public Act 92-0027
SB109 Enrolled LRB9202793NTdv
AN ACT relating to education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
Section 27-21 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the
United States shall be taught in all public schools and in
all other educational institutions in this State supported or
maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The
teaching of history shall have as one of its objectives the
imparting to pupils of a comprehensive idea of our democratic
form of government and the principles for which our
government stands as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place of our government in world-wide
movements and the leaders thereof, with particular stress
upon the basic principles and ideals of our representative
form of government. The teaching of history shall include a
study of the role and contributions of African Americans
American Negroes and other ethnic groups including but not
restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German, Hungarian, Irish,
Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
Czechoslavakian, French, Scots, Hispanics, etc., in the
history of this country and this State. The teaching of
history also shall include a study of the role of labor
unions and their interaction with government in achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise system. No pupils shall be
graduated from the eighth grade of any public school unless
he has received such instruction in the history of the United
States and gives evidence of having a comprehensive knowledge
thereof.
(Source: P.A. 84-126.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
July 1, 2001.
Passed in the General Assembly April 25, 2001.
Approved June 28, 2001.
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