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91_HB0239eng HB0239 Engrossed LRB9100061NTsb 1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section 27-1. 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 changing 5 Section 27-1 as follows: 6 (105 ILCS 5/27-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-1) 7 Sec. 27-1. Areas of education taught - discrimination on 8 account of sex. The State of Illinois, having 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 12 through which children learn in areas necessary to their 13 continuing development and entry into the world of work. 14 Such areas include the language arts, mathematics, the 15 biological, physical and social sciences, the fine arts and 16 physical development and health. 17 Each school district shall give priority in the 18 allocation of resources, including funds, time allocation, 19 personnel, and facilities, to fulfilling the primary purpose 20 of schooling. 21 The State Board of Education shall establish goals 22 consistent with the above purposes and define the knowledge 23 and skills which the State expects students to master and 24 apply as a consequence of their education. 25 Each school district shall establish learning objectives 26 consistent with the primary purpose of schooling, shall 27 develop appropriate testing and assessment systems for 28 determining the degree to which students are achieving the 29 objectives and shall develop reporting systems to apprise the 30 community and State of the assessment results. 31 Each school district shall submit upon request its HB0239 Engrossed -2- LRB9100061NTsb 1 objectives and assessment results, plans for improvement, and 2 reporting systems to the State Board of Education, which 3 shall promulgate rules and regulations for the approval of 4 the objectives and systems. Each school district shall make 5 available to all students academic and vocational courses for 6 the attainment of learning objectives. 7 No student shall be refused admission into or be excluded 8 from any course of instruction offered in the common schools 9 by reason of that person's sex. No student shall, solely by 10 reason of that person's sex, be denied equal access to 11 physical education and interscholastic athletic programs or 12 comparable programs supported from school district funds. 13 This Section is violated when a high school subject to this 14 Act participates in the post-season basketball tournament of 15 any organization or association that does not conduct 16 post-season high school basketball tournaments for both boys 17 and girls, which tournaments are identically structured. 18 Conducting identically structured tournaments includes having 19 the same number of girls' teams as boys' teams playing, in 20 their respective tournaments, at any common location chosen 21 for the final series of games in a tournament; provided, that 22 nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit the 23 selection for the final series of games in the girls' 24 tournaments of a common location that is different than the 25 common location selected for the final series of games in the 26 boys' tournaments. Except as specifically stated in this 27 Section, equal access to programs supported by school 28 district funds and comparable programs will be defined in 29 rules promulgated by the State Board of Education in 30 consultation with the Illinois High School Association. 31 No later than July 1, 2000, and every 2 years thereafter, 32 each school district shall submit to the State Board of 33 Education a report on its student's participation in 34 interscholastic athletics. This report shall be submitted on HB0239 Engrossed -3- LRB9100061NTsb 1 a form supplied by the State Board of Education and shall 2 present information for each of the district's schools 3 showing which interscholastic sports were offered during the 4 school year just ended and the number of students 5 participating in each of these sports, by gender. The State 6 Board of Education shall compile the information supplied by 7 school districts and, no later than January 1, 2001, and 8 every 2 years thereafter, provide the compiled report to the 9 members of the General Assembly. 10 The State Board of Education shall investigate the 11 potential for the creation of an annual report showing 12 students' participation in specified academic courses by 13 gender. No later than January 1, 2001, the State Board of 14 Education shall submit to the General Assembly a report on 15 the results of this investigation, including at least a 16 discussion of the usefulness of this information, the cost to 17 school districts of providing this information, the cost to 18 the State of compiling this information, and any technical 19 issues that may be involved in collecting and reporting this 20 information. 21 (Source: P.A. 87-934; 87-1215; 88-45.)