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(105 ILCS 5/27-12.1)
(from Ch. 122, par. 27-12.1)
Sec. 27-12.1. Consumer education. (a) Subject to the provisions
of subsection (b) of this Section, 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 limited to installment
purchasing, budgeting, comparison of prices and an understanding
of the roles of consumers interacting with agriculture, business,
labor unions and government in formulating and achieving the
goals of the mixed free enterprise system. The State
Board of Education shall devise or approve the consumer education
curriculum for grades 9 through 12 and specify the minimum
amount of instruction to be devoted thereto.
(b) Prior to the commencement of the 1986-1987 school year and
prior to the commencement of each school year thereafter, the
State Board of Education shall devise, develop and furnish to
each school district within the State a uniform Annual Consumer
Education Proficiency Test to be administered by each school
district to those pupils of the district in grades 9 through
12 who elect to take the same, provided that no pupil shall
be permitted to take the test more than once in any school year.
Each year the State Board of Education shall by rule prescribe
the date or dates during the school year on which school districts
shall administer the test devised and developed for that school
year, together with the uniform standards which all districts
shall apply in scoring that test. The test shall be devised
and developed by the State Board of Education each year in a
standardized manner to allow any pupil who takes the same and
who achieves a score thereon which is not less than the minimum
score established by the State Board of Education for the test
so taken to thereby demonstrate sufficient proficiency in the
area of consumer education as shall excuse such pupil from the
necessity of receiving, as a prerequisite to graduation from
high school and receipt of a high school diploma, the minimum
amount of instruction in a consumer education curriculum otherwise
required by subsection (a) and the rules or regulations promulgated
thereunder. For purposes of this subsection, “proficiency”
is defined to mean that a pupil is competent in and has a well
advanced knowledge of consumer education so that study of the
course of instruction required by this Section would not be
substantially educationally beneficial as determined by the
State Board of Education when developing the uniform standards
and minimum score requirements of this Section.
(Source: P.A.
86-300.)
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