Appendix A
21
Type
State Law
Amount of Time
Instructional Mandate
ILS Reference
30
Topic
Law: 105 ILCS 27-20.5
Rule: 23 1.420(r)(6); 1.440(a)(4)
Local decision on allocation of minutes dedicated to subject.
Study of the History of Women: Every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of the history of women in America. These events shall include not only the contributions made by individual women in government, the arts, sciences, education, and in the economic, cultural, and political development of Illinois and of the United States, but shall also include a study of women’s struggles to gain the right to vote and to be treated equally as they strive to earn and occupy positions of merit in our society.
Goal 16
Standard D
Goal 18
Standard B
Goal 14
Standard C, D and F
31
Topic
Law: 105 ILCS 5/27-21
Rule: 23 IAC 1.420(r)(1)
1.420(r)(2)
1.420(r)(7)
1.420(r)(3)
History topics; 8th grade graduation requirement.
History of the United States. History of the United States shall be taught in all public schools and in all other educational institutions in this State supported or maintained, in whole or in part, by public funds.
The teaching of history shall have as one of its objectives the imparting to pupils of a comprehensive idea of our democratic form of government and the principles for which our government stands as regards other nations, including the studying of the place of our government in world-wide movements and the leaders thereof, with particular stress upon the basic principles and ideals of our representative form of government.
The teaching of history shall include a study of the role and contributions of African Americans and other ethnic groups including but not restricted to Polish, Lithuanian, German, Hungarian, Irish, Bohemian, Russian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovak, French, Scots, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc., in the history of this country and this State.
To reinforce the study of the role and contributions of Hispanics, such curriculum shall include the study of the events related to the forceful removal and illegal deportation of Mexican-American U.S. citizens during the Great Depression.
The teaching of history also shall include a study of the role of labor unions and their interaction with government in achieving the goals of a mixed free enterprise system.
No pupils shall be graduated from the eighth grade of any public school unless he has received such instruction in the history of the United States and gives evidence of having a comprehensive knowledge thereof.
Goal 14
Standards A-F
Goal 16
Standards B-D
Goal 18
Standard A and B
