Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 5/6/2009
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1557




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1557 by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:



 
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    "Section 5. The School Code is amended  by changing Section 
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27-21 as follows:
 



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    (105 ILCS 5/27-21)  (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)



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    Sec. 27-21. History of United States. History of the United 
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States shall be taught in all public schools and
in all other 
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educational institutions in this State supported or

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maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds. The teaching 
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of history
shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to 
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pupils of a
comprehensive idea of our democratic form of 
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government and the principles
for which our government stands 
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as regards other nations, including the
studying of the place 
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of our government in world-wide movements and the
leaders 
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thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and

 


 






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ideals of our representative form of government. The teaching 
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of history
shall include a study of the role and contributions 
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of African Americans and
other ethnic groups including but not 
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restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, 
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Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, 
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Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this

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country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and 
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contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the 
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study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal 
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deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great 
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Depression. The teaching of history also shall include a study 
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of the
role of labor unions and their interaction with 
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government in achieving the
goals of a mixed free enterprise 
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system.  No pupils shall be graduated
from the eighth grade of 
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any
public school unless he has received such instruction in 
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the history of the
United States and gives evidence of having a 
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comprehensive knowledge
thereof. 

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(Source: P.A. 92-27, eff. 7-1-01; 93-406, eff. 1-1-04.)".