Bill Text: IL HB1864 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. By no later than December 31, 2021, requires the State Board of Education to establish learning standards for mathematics that do not incorporate the mathematics standards of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Requires these learning standards for mathematics to be implemented in all public schools beginning with the 2022-2023 school year. Effective July 1, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1864 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB1864-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB1864 Introduced , by Rep. Chris Miller SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-1 from Ch. 122, par. 27-1
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. By no later than December 31, 2021, requires the State Board of Education to establish learning standards for mathematics that do not incorporate the mathematics standards of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Requires these learning standards for mathematics to be implemented in all public schools beginning with the 2022-2023 school year. Effective July 1, 2021.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
27-1 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-1)
Sec. 27-1. Areas of education taught - discrimination on
account of sex. The State of Illinois, having the
responsibility of defining requirements for elementary and
secondary education, establishes that the primary purpose of
schooling is the transmission of knowledge and culture through
which children learn in areas necessary to their continuing
development and entry into the world of work. Such areas
include the language arts, mathematics, the biological,
physical and social sciences, the fine arts and physical
development and health.
Each school district shall give priority in the allocation
of resources, including funds, time allocation, personnel, and
facilities, to fulfilling the primary purpose of schooling.
The State Board of Education shall establish goals and
learning standards consistent with the above purposes and
define the knowledge and skills which the State expects
students to master and apply as a consequence of their

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education. By no later than December 31, 2021, the State Board
shall establish learning standards for mathematics that do not
incorporate the mathematics standards of the Common Core State
Standards Initiative. These learning standards for mathematics
shall be implemented in all public schools beginning with the
2022-2023 school year.
Each school district shall establish learning objectives
consistent with the State Board of Education's goals and
learning standards for the areas referred to in this Section,
shall develop appropriate testing and assessment systems for
determining the degree to which students are achieving the
objectives, and shall develop reporting systems to apprise the
community and State of the assessment results.
Each school district shall make available to all students
academic and vocational courses for the attainment of learning
objectives.
No student shall be refused admission into or be excluded
from any course of instruction offered in the common schools
by reason of that person's sex. No student shall, solely by
reason of that person's sex, be denied equal access to
physical education and interscholastic athletic programs or
comparable programs supported from school district funds. This
Section is violated when a high school subject to this Act
participates in the post-season basketball tournament of any
organization or association that does not conduct post-season
high school basketball tournaments for both boys and girls,

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which tournaments are identically structured. Conducting
identically structured tournaments includes having the same
number of girls' teams as boys' teams playing, in their
respective tournaments, at any common location chosen for the
final series of games in a tournament; provided, that nothing
in this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit the selection
for the final series of games in the girls' tournaments of a
common location that is different than the common location
selected for the final series of games in the boys'
tournaments. Except as specifically stated in this Section,
equal access to programs supported by school district funds
and comparable programs will be defined in rules promulgated
by the State Board of Education in consultation with the
Illinois High School Association.
(Source: P.A. 94-875, eff. 7-1-06.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2021.