Public Act 101-0341
 
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    AN ACT concerning 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 and
other ethnic groups including but not 
restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German,
Hungarian, Irish, 
Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak,
French, 
Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this

country and this
State. To reinforce the study of the role and 
contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the 
study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal 
deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great 
Depression. 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.  Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the teaching 
of history must also include instruction on the history of 
Illinois. 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. 96-629, eff. 1-1-10.)