Bill Text: IL HB2258 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. With regard to the prerequisites to receiving a high school diploma, provides that a pupil must complete one year chosen from music, art, foreign language, vocational education, or speech (rather than music, art, foreign language, or vocational education).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [HB2258 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2258-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 27-22 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-22) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-22)
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| 7 | Sec. 27-22. Required high school courses.
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| 8 | (a) (Blank).
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| 9 | (b) (Blank). | ||||||
| 10 | (c) (Blank). | ||||||
| 11 | (d) (Blank). | ||||||
| 12 | (e) As a prerequisite to receiving a high school diploma, | ||||||
| 13 | each pupil
entering the 9th grade in the 2008-2009 school year | ||||||
| 14 | or a subsequent
school year must, in addition to other course | ||||||
| 15 | requirements, successfully
complete all of the following | ||||||
| 16 | courses: | ||||||
| 17 | (1) Four years of language arts. | ||||||
| 18 | (2) Two years of writing intensive courses, one of | ||||||
| 19 | which must be English and the other of which may be English | ||||||
| 20 | or any other subject. When applicable, writing-intensive | ||||||
| 21 | courses may be counted towards the fulfillment of other | ||||||
| 22 | graduation requirements.
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| 23 | (3) Three years of mathematics, one of which must be | ||||||
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| 1 | Algebra I, one of which must include geometry content, and | ||||||
| 2 | one of which may be an Advanced Placement computer science | ||||||
| 3 | course if the pupil successfully completes Algebra II or an | ||||||
| 4 | integrated mathematics course with Algebra II content. | ||||||
| 5 | (4) Two years of science. | ||||||
| 6 | (5) Two years of social studies, of which at least one | ||||||
| 7 | year must be history of the United States or a combination | ||||||
| 8 | of history of the United States and American government | ||||||
| 9 | and, beginning with pupils entering the 9th grade in the | ||||||
| 10 | 2016-2017 school year and each school year thereafter, at | ||||||
| 11 | least one semester must be civics, which shall help young | ||||||
| 12 | people acquire and learn to use the skills, knowledge, and | ||||||
| 13 | attitudes that will prepare them to be competent and | ||||||
| 14 | responsible citizens throughout their lives. Civics course | ||||||
| 15 | content shall focus on government institutions, the | ||||||
| 16 | discussion of current and controversial issues, service | ||||||
| 17 | learning, and simulations of the democratic process. | ||||||
| 18 | School districts may utilize private funding available for | ||||||
| 19 | the purposes of offering civics education. | ||||||
| 20 | (6) One year chosen from (A) music, (B) art, (C) | ||||||
| 21 | foreign language, which shall be deemed to include American | ||||||
| 22 | Sign Language, or (D) vocational education, or (E) speech. | ||||||
| 23 | (f) The State Board of Education shall develop and inform | ||||||
| 24 | school districts of standards for writing-intensive | ||||||
| 25 | coursework.
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| 26 | (f-5) If a school district offers an Advanced Placement | ||||||
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| 1 | computer science course to high school students, then the | ||||||
| 2 | school board must designate that course as equivalent to a high | ||||||
| 3 | school mathematics course and must denote on the student's | ||||||
| 4 | transcript that the Advanced Placement computer science course | ||||||
| 5 | qualifies as a mathematics-based, quantitative course for | ||||||
| 6 | students in accordance with subdivision (3) of subsection (e) | ||||||
| 7 | of this Section. | ||||||
| 8 | (g) This amendatory Act of 1983 does not apply to pupils | ||||||
| 9 | entering the 9th grade
in 1983-1984 school year and prior | ||||||
| 10 | school years or to students
with disabilities whose course of | ||||||
| 11 | study is determined by an individualized
education program.
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| 12 | This amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly does not | ||||||
| 13 | apply
to pupils entering the 9th grade in the 2004-2005 school | ||||||
| 14 | year or a prior
school year or to students with disabilities | ||||||
| 15 | whose course of study is
determined by an individualized | ||||||
| 16 | education program.
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| 17 | (h) The provisions of this Section are subject to the | ||||||
| 18 | provisions of
Section
27-22.05 of this Code and the | ||||||
| 19 | Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 99-434, eff. 7-1-16 (see P.A. 99-485 for the | ||||||
| 21 | effective date of changes made by P.A. 99-434); 99-485, eff. | ||||||
| 22 | 11-20-15; 99-674, eff. 7-29-16; 100-443, eff. 8-25-17.)
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