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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 Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 27-1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-1)
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7 | Sec. 27-1. Areas of education taught - discrimination
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8 | account of sex. The State of Illinois, having the the | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | responsibility of
defining requirements for elementary and | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | secondary education, establishes
that the primary purpose of | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | schooling is the transmission of knowledge and
culture through | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | which children learn in areas necessary to their continuing
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13 | development and entry into the world of work. Such areas | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | include the language
arts, mathematics, the biological, | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | physical and social sciences, the fine
arts and physical | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | development and health.
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17 | Each school district shall give priority in the allocation | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | of resources,
including funds, time allocation, personnel, and | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | facilities, to fulfilling
the primary purpose of schooling.
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20 | The State Board of Education shall establish goals and | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | learning standards consistent with the
above purposes and | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | define the knowledge and skills which the State expects
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23 | students to master and apply as a consequence of their |
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1 | education.
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2 | Each school district shall establish learning objectives | ||||||
3 | consistent with
the State Board of Education's goals and | ||||||
4 | learning standards for the areas referred to in this Section, | ||||||
5 | shall develop appropriate testing and
assessment systems for | ||||||
6 | determining the degree to which students are
achieving the | ||||||
7 | objectives, and shall develop reporting systems to apprise the
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8 | community and State of the assessment results.
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9 | Each school district shall make available to all
students | ||||||
10 | academic and vocational courses for the attainment of learning
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11 | objectives.
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12 | No student shall be refused admission into or be excluded | ||||||
13 | from any
course of instruction offered in the common schools by | ||||||
14 | reason of that
person's sex. No student shall, solely by reason | ||||||
15 | of that person's sex,
be denied equal access to physical | ||||||
16 | education and interscholastic
athletic programs or comparable | ||||||
17 | programs supported from school district
funds. This Section is | ||||||
18 | violated when a high school subject to this Act
participates in | ||||||
19 | the post-season basketball tournament of any organization
or | ||||||
20 | association that does not conduct post-season high school | ||||||
21 | basketball
tournaments for both boys and girls, which | ||||||
22 | tournaments are identically
structured. Conducting identically | ||||||
23 | structured tournaments includes having
the same number of | ||||||
24 | girls' teams as boys' teams playing, in their respective
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25 | tournaments, at any common location chosen for the final series | ||||||
26 | of games in
a tournament; provided, that nothing in this |
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1 | paragraph shall be deemed to
prohibit the selection for the | ||||||
2 | final series of games in the girls'
tournaments of a common | ||||||
3 | location that is different than the common location
selected | ||||||
4 | for the final series of games in the boys' tournaments. Except
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5 | as specifically stated in this Section, equal access
to | ||||||
6 | programs supported by school district funds and comparable | ||||||
7 | programs will
be defined in rules promulgated by the State | ||||||
8 | Board of Education in
consultation with the Illinois High | ||||||
9 | School Association.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 94-875, eff. 7-1-06.)
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