Bill > HJR0071

Introduced Session

Urges the State Board of Education to conduct a study on the number of schools, school districts, and other public school associations across the State that currently utilize Native American names, logos, and mascots. Urges the State Board of Education, through conversations with local schools and school districts, to collect findings on what the cost would be for these individual schools and districts to remove and change Native American names, mascots, and logos. Urges the State Board of Education to include its findings in a written report to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2024. Urges schools, school districts, and other public school associations to consider and plan for changing these harmful Native American names, mascots, and logos. Urges the State Board of Education to use all tools available to work towards the immediate end of the practice of using racial slurs as team names in Illinois schools.

Committee Categories

Maurice West (D)*,  Carol Ammons (D),  Diane Blair-Sherlock (D),  Mary Beth Canty (D),  Kelly Cassidy (D),  Dan Didech (D),  Laura Faver Dias (D),  Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar (D),  Matt Hanson (D),  Maura Hirschauer (D),  Lilian Jiménez (D),  Joyce Mason (D),  Anna Moeller (D),  Anne Stava-Murray (D), 

Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason (on 05/24/2024)

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