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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 239
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 239, AS AMENDED, by
3 replacing the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
5 27-1."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
9 Section 27-1 as follows:
10 (105 ILCS 5/27-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-1)
11 Sec. 27-1. Areas of education taught - discrimination on
12 account of sex. The State of Illinois, having the
13 responsibility of defining requirements for elementary and
14 secondary education, establishes that the primary purpose of
15 schooling is the transmission of knowledge and culture
16 through which children learn in areas necessary to their
17 continuing development and entry into the world of work.
18 Such areas include the language arts, mathematics, the
19 biological, physical and social sciences, the fine arts and
20 physical development and health.
21 Each school district shall give priority in the
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1 allocation of resources, including funds, time allocation,
2 personnel, and facilities, to fulfilling the primary purpose
3 of schooling.
4 The State Board of Education shall establish goals
5 consistent with the above purposes and define the knowledge
6 and skills which the State expects students to master and
7 apply as a consequence of their education.
8 Each school district shall establish learning objectives
9 consistent with the primary purpose of schooling, shall
10 develop appropriate testing and assessment systems for
11 determining the degree to which students are achieving the
12 objectives and shall develop reporting systems to apprise the
13 community and State of the assessment results.
14 Each school district shall submit upon request its
15 objectives and assessment results, plans for improvement, and
16 reporting systems to the State Board of Education, which
17 shall promulgate rules and regulations for the approval of
18 the objectives and systems. Each school district shall make
19 available to all students academic and vocational courses for
20 the attainment of learning objectives.
21 No student shall be refused admission into or be excluded
22 from any course of instruction offered in the common schools
23 by reason of that person's sex. No student shall, solely by
24 reason of that person's sex, be denied equal access to
25 physical education and interscholastic athletic programs or
26 comparable programs supported from school district funds.
27 This Section is violated when a high school subject to this
28 Act participates in the post-season basketball tournament of
29 any organization or association that does not conduct
30 post-season high school basketball tournaments for both boys
31 and girls, which tournaments are identically structured.
32 Conducting identically structured tournaments includes having
33 the same number of girls' teams as boys' teams playing, in
34 their respective tournaments, at any common location chosen
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1 for the final series of games in a tournament; provided, that
2 nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit the
3 selection for the final series of games in the girls'
4 tournaments of a common location that is different than the
5 common location selected for the final series of games in the
6 boys' tournaments. Except as specifically stated in this
7 Section, equal access to programs supported by school
8 district funds and comparable programs will be defined in
9 rules promulgated by the State Board of Education in
10 consultation with the Illinois High School Association.
11 No later than July 1, 2000, and every 2 years thereafter,
12 each school district shall submit to the State Board of
13 Education a report on its student's participation in
14 interscholastic athletics. This report shall be submitted on
15 a form supplied by the State Board of Education and shall
16 present information for each of the district's schools
17 showing which interscholastic sports were offered during the
18 school year just ended and the number of students
19 participating in each of these sports, by gender. The State
20 Board of Education shall compile the information supplied by
21 school districts and, no later than January 1, 2001, and
22 every 2 years thereafter, provide the compiled report to the
23 members of the General Assembly.
24 The State Board of Education shall investigate the
25 potential for the creation of an annual report showing
26 students' participation in specified academic courses by
27 gender. No later than January 1, 2001, the State Board of
28 Education shall submit to the General Assembly a report on
29 the results of this investigation, including at least a
30 discussion of the usefulness of this information, the cost to
31 school districts of providing this information, the cost to
32 the State of compiling this information, and any technical
33 issues that may be involved in collecting and reporting this
34 information.
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1 (Source: P.A. 87-934; 87-1215; 88-45.)".