Full Text of HR0028 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION 28
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois State Board of Education has been | 3 | | granted a waiver to No Child Left Behind that mandates that | 4 | | each race will have a separate standard to meet over the time | 5 | | frame from 2011 to 2017 to raise reading and math scores for | 6 | | grades 3 through 8; the standards amongst Caucasians, | 7 | | African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans are not | 8 | | equal, with African-Americans and Hispanics being held to a | 9 | | lesser standard than Caucasians and Asian-Americans; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois State Board of Education has | 11 | | determined certain races are not as smart or as capable of | 12 | | learning as others in its use of race-based standards, the end | 13 | | result being that basing standards on race across the State of | 14 | | Illinois eliminates the ability of students to transfer to | 15 | | better schools since all schools have the same standards, which | 16 | | traps the students in poor performing schools where they will | 17 | | receive a substandard education based solely on their race; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Instituting race-based education is a violation | 19 | | of the United States and Illinois Constitutions, which | 20 | | guarantee equal protection and forbid discrimination; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, In the cases of home-schooled African-American | 22 | | children, the racial achievement gap is virtually eliminated |
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| 1 | | with African-American students scoring almost twice what their | 2 | | public school counterparts are scoring; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, When African-American children are given high | 4 | | expectations for learning and are shown respect from their | 5 | | teachers, the racial achievement gap is virtually eliminated; | 6 | | and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The United States is continuing to drop in | 8 | | international education rankings, ranking about 35 when it used | 9 | | to be ranked number one, in part due to race-based standards; | 10 | | and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The more the United States federalizes education, | 12 | | spends money, and increases education bureaucracy while | 13 | | reducing local parental control, the more the State of Illinois | 14 | | lowers its expectations of certain races and the more the | 15 | | rankings fall; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 | | urge the State Board of Education to promote the same | 19 | | educational standards for students of all races so that they | 20 | | receive equal access to, and rights in, education, without any | 21 | | distinction being made regarding the testing capabilities of | 22 | | any one race; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That the members of this body pledge to review | 2 | | State policies and support current State programs that address | 3 | | the distinction made among the races when it comes to equal | 4 | | access to and rights in education; and be it further
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the State Board of Education to | 6 | | support our young people by fully funding quality neighborhood | 7 | | schools, which should include mentoring programs, | 8 | | state-of-the-art library media centers, rigorous science, | 9 | | literature, social sciences and math, youth guidance programs, | 10 | | smaller class sizes, music, drama, visual arts, world | 11 | | languages, and athletics; and be it further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That we urge our public servants and community | 13 | | leaders to address the underlying racial, social, economic, and | 14 | | historical inequities faced by young African-Americans; and be | 15 | | it further | 16 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the State Board of Education to | 17 | | abolish any race-based standards in its policies and | 18 | | procedures; and be it further | 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | delivered to the State Board of Education.
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