Board Report December 2025

6:60, Curriculum Content  Revisions to Policies, Administrative Procedures, and Exhibits — continued

The policy, Legal References and footnotes are updated in response to: 1. P.A. 104-391, renumbering, reorganizing, and repealing citations throughout 105 ILCS 5/27 (substantive changes detailed below); 2. 105 ILCS 5/27-215, added by P.A. 104-391 and replacing, in part, the Comprehensive Health Education Program, 105 ILCS 110/3, repealed by P.A. 104-391; 3. 105 ILCS 5/27-510, added by P.A. 104-391 and replacing in part 105 ILCS 5/27 3 and 5/27-3.10, both repealed by P.A. 104-391, requiring instruction on patrio tism, principles of representative government, and elementary civics education to be provided as part of civics education for students in grades 6, 7, or 8, and requiring instruction on the method of voting at elections by means of the Australian ballot system be included in civics education in grades 6-8 (formerly grades were not specified for this topic and the method of counting votes for candidates is no longer a required topic); 4. 105 ILCS 5/27-605, amended by P.A. 104-387, and renumbered by P.A. 104 391, allowing students to choose one year of vocational career and technical education to meet high school graduation requirements; 5. 105 ILCS 5/27-255, added by P.A. 104-391, requiring specific drug abuse pre vention education in grades K-4, 5-12, and 6-12. This new section replaces, in part, 105 ILCS 5/27-13.2 and the Comprehensive Health Education Program, 105 ILCS 110/3, both repealed by P.A. 104-391; 6. 105 ILCS 5/27-405(b), added by P.A. 104-391, requiring age- and developmen tally appropriate online safety instruction for grades 3-8 beginning in the 2027 2028 school year; 7. 105 ILCS 5/27-12, repealed by P.A. 104-391, eliminating the requirement that character education be taught; 8. 105 ILCS 5/27-105, added by P.A. 104-391, replacing the provision on the dan gers of abduction formerly at 105 ILCS 5/27-13.2, repealed by P.A. 104-391, and no longer specifying that such education be provided annually in grades K-8; 9. 105 ILCS 5/27-250, added by P.A. 104-391, requiring students in grades 9-12 receive training on CPR and use of an AED (grades not previously specified for CPR training); 10. 105 ILCS 5/27-405, added by P.A. 104-391, requiring media literacy and Internet safety instruction in grades 9-12 beginning in the 2027-2028 school year (consolidating and amending media literacy and internet safety instruc tion under 105 ILCS 5/27-410 and 415, both renumbered by P.A. 104-391 and scheduled for repeal on 7-1-27); 11. 105 ILCS 5/27-3.5, repealed by P.A. 104-391, removing the requirement to show students a Congressional Medal of Honor film in grade 7 and high school history courses. The footnotes are also updated in response to: 1. 105 ILCS 5/2-3.206, added by P.A. 104-399, eff. 1-1-26, encouraging districts to collect K-8 teaching resources to support American Sign Language programs; 2. 105 ILCS 5/14D, added by P.A. 104-266, eff. 1-1-26, requiring ISBE to: (1) pro vide guidance to districts on dual language education programs, (2) integrate dual language education into the Equity Journey Continuum, and (3) establish recognition pathways for biliteracy in certain grades before high school; 3. 105 ILCS 5/27-515, amended and renumbered by P.A. 104-391, requiring not less than one hour of each school week, or an amount of time equal to one hour per school week through the school year, to be spent on the study of patriotism, principles of representative government, and elementary civics edu cation in grades 7-8; 4. 105 ILCS 5/27-1020, amended and renumbered by P.A. 104-391, removing the 16-hour instruction requirement for safety education, if offered by a board; 5. ISBE’s Native American and Indigenous Peoples Resource Guide (March 2025), assisting districts with implementation of instruction on Native American history; 6. 105 ILCS 5/27-1030, renumbered by P.A. 104-391, allowing districts to include a unit of instruction on the Irish Famine (see Footnote 48 for a new option to list such instruction if a board offers it); and 7. Continuous improvement.

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