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91_HB2599
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1 AN ACT concerning education, amending named Acts.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
5 2-3.126 and 27-23.6 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.126 new)
7 Sec. 2-3.126. Sex equity coordinator. The State Board
8 of Education shall employ a sex equity coordinator to monitor
9 school districts' compliance with Title IX of the Education
10 Amendments of 1972 and State rules concerning sex equity.
11 (105 ILCS 5/27-23.6 new)
12 Sec. 27-23.6. Education on careers. Pupils in grades 3,
13 6, and 8 shall be educated on all career clusters, including
14 those non-traditional for their gender.
15 Section 10. The Vocational Education Act is amended by
16 changing Section 2 as follows:
17 (105 ILCS 435/2) (from Ch. 122, par. 697)
18 Sec. 2. Upon the effective date of this amendatory Act
19 of 1975 and thereafter, any reference in this Act or any
20 other Illinois statute to the Board of Vocational Education
21 and Rehabilitation, as such reference pertains to vocational
22 and technical education, means and refers to the State Board
23 of Education. Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act or
24 statute to the contrary, upon the effective date of this
25 amendatory Act of 1975, the State Board of Education shall
26 assume all powers and duties pertaining to vocational and
27 technical education. The State Board of Education shall be
28 responsible for policy and guidelines pertaining to
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1 vocational and technical education and shall exercise the
2 following powers and duties:
3 (a) To co-operate with the federal government in the
4 administration of the provisions of the Federal Vocational
5 Education Law, to the extent and in the manner therein
6 provided;
7 (b) To promote and aid in the establishment of schools
8 and classes of the types and standards provided for in the
9 plans of the Board, as approved by the federal government,
10 and to co-operate with State agencies maintaining such
11 schools or classes and with State and local school
12 authorities in the maintenance of such schools and classes;
13 (c) To conduct and prepare investigations and studies in
14 relation to vocational education and to publish the results
15 of such investigations and studies;
16 (d) To promulgate reasonable rules and regulations
17 relating to vocational and technical education;
18 (e) To report, in writing, to the Governor annually on
19 or before the fourteenth day of January. The annual report
20 shall contain (1) a statement to the extent to which
21 vocational education has been established and maintained in
22 the State; (2) a statement of the existing condition of
23 vocational education in the State; (3) a statement of
24 suggestions and recommendations with reference to the
25 development of vocational education in the State; (4) a
26 statement of recommendations on programs and policies to
27 overcome sex bias and sex stereotyping in vocational
28 education programming and an assessment of the State's
29 progress in achieving such goals prepared by the state
30 vocational education sex equity coordinator pursuant to the
31 Federal Vocational Education Law; and (5) an itemized
32 statement of the amounts of money received from Federal and
33 State sources, and of the objects and purposes to which the
34 respective items of these several amounts have been devoted;
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1 and
2 (f) To make such reports to the federal government as
3 may be required by the provisions of the Federal Vocational
4 Education Law, and by the rules and regulations of the
5 federal agency administering the Federal Vocational Education
6 Law.
7 (g) To make grants subject to appropriation and to
8 administer and promulgate rules and regulations to implement
9 a vocational equipment program. The use of such grant funds
10 shall be limited to obtaining equipment for vocational
11 education programs, school shops and laboratories. The State
12 Board of Education shall adopt appropriate regulations to
13 administer this paragraph.
14 The State Plan for Vocational Education shall include
15 goals and programs to increase women's participation in
16 non-traditional training and employment.
17 (Source: P.A. 86-560.)