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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 890

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 890,  AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 4    following:

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

 7        (105 ILCS 5/27-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-21)
 8        Sec.  27-21.   History  of  United States. History of the
 9    United States shall be taught in all public  schools  and  in
10    all other educational institutions in this State supported or
11    maintained,  in  whole  or  in  part,  by  public  funds. The
12    teaching of history shall have as one of its  objectives  the
13    imparting to pupils of a comprehensive idea of our democratic
14    form   of   government  and  the  principles  for  which  our
15    government stands as regards  other  nations,  including  the
16    studying  of  the  place  of  our  government  in  world-wide
17    movements  and  the  leaders  thereof, with particular stress
18    upon the basic principles and ideals  of  our  representative
19    form  of  government. The teaching of history shall include a
20    study of the role and contributions of African Americans  and
21    other  ethnic  groups including but not restricted to Polish,
22    Lithuanian,  German,  Hungarian,  Irish,  Bohemian,  Russian,
 
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 1    Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak, French,  Scots,  Hispanics,
 2    Asian  Americans,  etc.,  in  the history of this country and
 3    this State. The teaching of  history  also  shall  include  a
 4    study  of the role of labor unions and their interaction with
 5    government in achieving the goals of a mixed free  enterprise
 6    system.   No  pupils shall be graduated from the eighth grade
 7    of any public school unless he has received such  instruction
 8    in  the  history  of  the United States and gives evidence of
 9    having a comprehensive knowledge thereof.
10    (Source: P.A. 92-27, eff. 7-1-01.)

11        Section 99. Effective date.  This  Act  takes  effect  on
12    January 1, 2004.".