Chapter 105, SCHOOLS

(105 ILCS 5/26A-10) Sec. 26A-10. Definitions. In this Article: "Confidential" means information or facts expected and intended to be kept private or protected by an existing privilege in the Code of Civil Procedure. Confidential information may be disclosed by a school or school …

(105 ILCS 5/26A-20) Sec. 26A-20. Review and revision of policies and procedures. (a) No later than July 1, 2026 and every 2 years thereafter, each school district must review all existing policies and procedures and must revise any existing policies and procedures that may act as…

(105 ILCS 5/26A-25) Sec. 26A-25. Complaint resolution procedure. (a) On or before July 1, 2026, each school district must adopt one procedure to resolve complaints of violations of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly. The respondent must be one or more of the follow…

(105 ILCS 5/26A-30) Sec. 26A-30. Confidentiality. (a) Each school district must adopt and ensure that it has and implements a policy to ensure that all information concerning a student's status and related experiences as a parent, expectant parent, or victim of domestic or sexual…

(105 ILCS 5/26A-35) Sec. 26A-35. Domestic or sexual violence and parenting resource personnel. (a) Each school district shall designate or appoint at least one staff person at each school in the district who is employed at least part time at the school and who is a school social …

(105 ILCS 5/26A-40) Sec. 26A-40. Support and services. (a) To facilitate the full participation of students who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence, each school district must provide those students with in-school support services and informat…

(105 ILCS 5/26A-45) Sec. 26A-45. Verification. (a) For purposes of students asserting their rights under provisions relating to domestic or sexual violence in Sections 10-21.3a, 10-22.6, 10-22.6a, 26-2a, 26A-40, and 34-18.24, a school district may require verification of the clai…

(105 ILCS 5/26A-5) Sec. 26A-5. Purpose. The purpose of this Article is to ensure that Illinois schools have policies, procedures, or both, in place that enable children and students who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence to be identified by …

(105 ILCS 5/26A-50) Sec. 26A-50. Prohibited practices. No school or school district may take any adverse action against a student who is a parent, expectant parent, or victim of domestic or sexual violence because the student or his or her parent or guardian (i) exercises or atte…

(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…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1005) Sec. 27-1005. General permissive education. No school or school board is required to administer any curriculum or instruction contained in the following Sections of this Article. The curriculum and instruction contained in the following Sections of this Artic…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1010) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-9.1b) Sec. 27-1010. Consent education. (a) In this Section: "Age and developmentally appropriate" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 27-1015 of this Code. "Consent" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 27-1015 of t…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1015) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-9.1a) Sec. 27-1015. Comprehensive personal health and safety and comprehensive sexual health education. (a) In this Section: "Adapt" means to modify an evidence-based or evidence-informed program model for use with a particular demographic,…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1020) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-17) Sec. 27-1020. Safety education. School boards of public schools and all boards in charge of educational institutions supported wholly or partially by the State may provide instruction in safety education in all grades and include such i…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1025) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-20.1) Sec. 27-1025. Illinois Law Week. The first full school week in May is designated "Illinois Law Week". During that week, the public schools may devote appropriate time, instruction, study, and exercises in the procedures of the legisla…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1030) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-20.6) Sec. 27-1030. "Irish Famine" study. Every public elementary school and high school may include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the causes and effects of mass starvation in mid-19th century Ireland. This period in worl…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1035) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-22.3) Sec. 27-1035. Volunteer service credit program. (a) A school district may establish a volunteer service credit program that enables secondary school students to earn credit towards graduation through performance of community service. …

(105 ILCS 5/27-1040) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.1) Sec. 27-1040. Parenting education. (a) The State Board of Education must assist each school district that offers an evidence-based parenting education model. School districts may provide instruction in parenting education for grades 6…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1045) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.5) Sec. 27-1045. Organ/tissue and blood donor and transplantation programs. Each school district that maintains grades 9 and 10 may include in its curriculum and teach to the students of either such grade one unit of instruction on organ…

(105 ILCS 5/27-105) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-13.2 in part) Sec. 27-105. Abduction education. In every public school there shall be instruction, study, and discussion of effective methods by which pupils may recognize the danger of and avoid abduction. (Source: P.A. 104-391, eff. 8-15-2…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1050) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.6) Sec. 27-1050. Anti-bias education. (a) The General Assembly finds that there is a significant increase in violence in the schools and that much of that violence is the result of intergroup tensions. The General Assembly further finds …

(105 ILCS 5/27-1055) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.10) Sec. 27-1055. Gang resistance education and training. (a) The General Assembly finds that the instance of youth delinquent gangs continues to rise on a statewide basis. Given the higher rates of criminal offending among gang members,…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1060) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.13) Sec. 27-1060. Hunting safety. A school district may offer its students a course on hunting safety as part of its curriculum during the school day or as part of an after-school program. The State Board of Education may prepare and mak…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1065) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.14) Sec. 27-1065. Workplace preparation course. A school district that maintains any of grades 9 through 12 may include in its high school curriculum a unit of instruction on workplace preparation that covers legal protections in the wor…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1070) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.16) Sec. 27-1070. Study of the process of naturalization. Every public high school may include in its curriculum a unit of instruction about the process of naturalization by which a citizen of a country other than the United States or fo…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1075) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.17) Sec. 27-1075. Workplace Readiness Week. (a) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, all public high schools, including charter schools, may designate and annually observe a week known as "Workplace Readiness Week". During that week…

(105 ILCS 5/27-1080) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.18) Sec. 27-1080. Relaxation activities. Each school district may provide to students, in addition to and not substituting recess, at least 20 minutes a week of relaxation activities to enhance the mental and physical health of students …

(105 ILCS 5/27-110) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.11) Sec. 27-110. Traffic injury prevention; policy. The school board of a school district that maintains any of grades kindergarten through 8 shall adopt a policy on educating students on the effective methods of preventing and avoiding t…

(105 ILCS 5/27-115) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.4) Sec. 27-115. Violence prevention and conflict resolution education. School districts shall provide instruction in violence prevention and conflict resolution education for grades kindergarten through 12 and may include such instruction…

(105 ILCS 5/27-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-2) Sec. 27-2. Instruction in English language. Instruction in all public elementary and secondary schools of the State shall be in the English language except in second language programs and except in conjunction with programs which the sc…

(105 ILCS 5/27-205) (was 105 ILCS 110/1) Sec. 27-205. Short title. This Section and the following Sections preceding Section 27-235 shall be known and may be cited as the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. (Source: P.A. 104-391, eff. 8-15-25.)

(105 ILCS 5/27-210) (was 105 ILCS 110/2) Sec. 27-210. Definition of term. The following term has the following meaning, except as the context otherwise requires: "Comprehensive health education program" means a systematic and extensive educational program designed to provide a va…

(105 ILCS 5/27-215) (Text of Section from P.A. 104-391) Sec. 27-215. Comprehensive health education program. (a) In this subsection (a): "Age and developmentally appropriate" means suitable to particular ages or age groups of children or adolescents, based on the developing cogni…

(105 ILCS 5/27-220) (was 105 ILCS 110/4) Sec. 27-220. Powers of the State Board of Education. In order to carry out the purposes of this Act, the State Board of Education is empowered to do all of the following: (1) Establish the minimum amount of instruction time to be devoted t…

(105 ILCS 5/27-225) (was 105 ILCS 110/5) Sec. 27-225. Advisory committee. An advisory committee consisting of 11 members is hereby established as follows: the Director of Public Health or his or her designee, the Secretary of Human Services or his or her designee and an additiona…

(105 ILCS 5/27-230) (was 105 ILCS 110/6) Sec. 27-230. Rules and regulations. In carrying out the powers and duties of the State Board of Education and the advisory committee established by this Act, the State Board and such committee are authorized to promulgate rules and regulat…

(105 ILCS 5/27-235) (was 105 ILCS 110/3.5) Sec. 27-235. Nutrition and physical activity best practices database. (a) The State Board of Education shall develop and maintain a nutrition and physical activity best practices database. The database shall contain the results of any we…

(105 ILCS 5/27-240) (was 105 ILCS 110/3.10) Sec. 27-240. Policy on teen dating violence. (a) As used in this Section: "Dating" or "dating relationship" means an ongoing social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature between 2 persons. "Dating" or "dating relationship" does …

(105 ILCS 5/27-245) (was 105 ILCS 110/3 in part) Sec. 27-245. Allergy education. The curriculum in grades 9 through 12 shall include instruction, study, and discussion on the dangers of allergies. Information for the instruction, study, and discussion shall come from information …

(105 ILCS 5/27-250) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-678) Sec. 27-250. High school CPR and AED training for pupils. All secondary schools in this State shall include training on how to properly administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation and how to use an automated exte…

(105 ILCS 5/27-255) Sec. 27-255. Drug, alcohol, and anabolic steroid abuse prevention education. (a) Every public school maintaining any of grades kindergarten through 4 shall include in its curriculum age and developmentally appropriate instruction, study, and discussion of effe…

(105 ILCS 5/27-260) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-13.1) Sec. 27-260. Environmental education. (a) In every public school there shall be instruction, study and discussion of current problems and needs in the conservation of natural resources, including but not limited to air pollution, water…

(105 ILCS 5/27-265) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-14) Sec. 27-265. Experiments upon animals. No experiment upon any living animal for the purpose of demonstration in any study shall be made in any public school. No animal provided by, or killed in the presence of any pupil of a public schoo…

(105 ILCS 5/27-305) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-12.1) Sec. 27-305. Consumer education. (a) Pupils in the public schools in grades 9 through 12 shall be taught and be required to study courses which include instruction in the area of consumer education, including but not necessarily limite…

(105 ILCS 5/27-310) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-23.15) Sec. 27-310. Computer science. (a) In this Section, "computer science" means the study of computers and algorithms, including their principles, their hardware and software designs, their implementation, and their impact on society. "C…

(105 ILCS 5/27-315) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-20.7) Sec. 27-315. Cursive writing. Beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, public elementary schools shall offer at least one unit of instruction in cursive writing. School districts shall, by policy, determine at what grade level or leve…

(105 ILCS 5/27-320) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-22.2) Sec. 27-320. Career and technical education elective. Whenever the school board of any school district which maintains grades 9 through 12 establishes a list of courses from which secondary school students each must elect at least one …

(105 ILCS 5/27-405) Sec. 27-405. Online safety and media literacy. (a) As used in this Section: "Media literacy" means the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and communicate using a variety of objective forms, including, but not limited to, print, visual, audio, intera…

(105 ILCS 5/27-410) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-13.3) (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2027) Sec. 27-410. Internet safety education curriculum. (a) The purpose of this Section is to inform and protect students from inappropriate or illegal communications and solicitation and t…

(105 ILCS 5/27-415) (was 105 ILCS 5/27-20.08) (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2027) Sec. 27-415. Media literacy. (a) In this Section, "media literacy" means the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and communicate using a variety of objective forms, includin…