100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5895

 

Introduced , by Rep. Fred Crespo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/14-6.01  from Ch. 122, par. 14-6.01

    Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that for the Chicago school district only and within one month of the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year, a school board shall develop and distribute to each parent or guardian of a student attending the schools of the school district a one-page summation of the rights of each parent or guardian of a child with an individualized education program. Requires the State Board of Education to approve the content of the summation before distribution by the school board. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
514-6.01 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/14-6.01)  (from Ch. 122, par. 14-6.01)
7    Sec. 14-6.01. Powers and duties of school boards. School
8boards of one or more school districts establishing and
9maintaining any of the educational facilities described in this
10Article shall, in connection therewith, exercise similar
11powers and duties as are prescribed by law for the
12establishment, maintenance and management of other recognized
13educational facilities. Such school boards shall include only
14eligible children in the program and shall comply with all the
15requirements of this Article and all rules and regulations
16established by the State Board of Education. Such school boards
17shall accept in part-time attendance children with
18disabilities of the types described in Sections 14-1.02 through
1914-1.07 who are enrolled in nonpublic schools. A request for
20part-time attendance must be submitted by a parent or guardian
21of the child with a disability and may be made only to those
22public schools located in the district where the child
23attending the nonpublic school resides; however, nothing in

 

 

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1this Section shall be construed as prohibiting an agreement
2between the district where the child resides and another public
3school district to provide special educational services if such
4an arrangement is deemed more convenient and economical.
5Special education and related services must be provided in
6accordance with the student's IEP no later than 10 school
7attendance days after notice is provided to the parents
8pursuant to Section 300.503 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal
9Regulations and implementing rules adopted by the State Board
10of Education. Transportation for students in part time
11attendance shall be provided only if required in the child's
12individualized educational program on the basis of the child's
13disabling condition or as the special education program
14location may require.
15    A school board shall publish a public notice in its
16newsletter of general circulation or in the newsletter of
17another governmental entity of general circulation in the
18district or if neither is available in the district, then in a
19newspaper of general circulation in the district, the right of
20all children with disabilities to a free appropriate public
21education as provided under this Code. Such notice shall
22identify the location and phone number of the office or agent
23of the school district to whom inquiries should be directed
24regarding the identification, assessment and placement of such
25children.
26    School boards shall immediately provide upon request by any

 

 

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1person written materials and other information that indicates
2the specific policies, procedures, rules and regulations
3regarding the identification, evaluation or educational
4placement of children with disabilities under Section 14-8.02
5of the School Code. Such information shall include information
6regarding all rights and entitlements of such children under
7this Code, and of the opportunity to present complaints with
8respect to any matter relating to educational placement of the
9student, or the provision of a free appropriate public
10education and to have an impartial due process hearing on the
11complaint. The notice shall inform the parents or guardian in
12the parents' or guardian's native language, unless it is
13clearly not feasible to do so, of their rights and all
14procedures available pursuant to this Act and federal Public
15Law 94-142; it shall be the responsibility of the State
16Superintendent to develop uniform notices setting forth the
17procedures available under this Act and federal Public Law
1894-142, as amended, to be used by all school boards. The notice
19shall also inform the parents or guardian of the availability
20upon request of a list of free or low-cost legal and other
21relevant services available locally to assist parents or
22guardians in exercising rights or entitlements under this Code.
23    For a school district organized under Article 34 of this
24Code only and within one month of the beginning of the
252018-2019 school year, a school board shall develop and
26distribute to each parent or guardian of a student attending

 

 

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1the schools of the school district a one-page summation of the
2rights of each parent or guardian of a child with an
3individualized education program. The State Board of Education
4must approve the content of the summation before distribution
5by the school board.
6    Any parent or guardian who is deaf, or does not normally
7communicate using spoken English, who participates in a meeting
8with a representative of a local educational agency for the
9purposes of developing an individualized educational program
10shall be entitled to the services of an interpreter.
11    No student with a disability or, in a school district
12organized under Article 34 of this Code, child with a learning
13disability may be denied promotion, graduation or a general
14diploma on the basis of failing a minimal competency test when
15such failure can be directly related to the disabling condition
16of the student. For the purpose of this Act, "minimal
17competency testing" is defined as tests which are constructed
18to measure the acquisition of skills to or beyond a certain
19defined standard.
20    Effective July 1, 1966, high school districts are
21financially responsible for the education of pupils with
22disabilities who are residents in their districts when such
23pupils have reached age 15 but may admit children with
24disabilities into special educational facilities without
25regard to graduation from the eighth grade after such pupils
26have reached the age of 14 1/2 years. Upon a pupil with a

 

 

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1disability attaining the age of 14 1/2 years, it shall be the
2duty of the elementary school district in which the pupil
3resides to notify the high school district in which the pupil
4resides of the pupil's current eligibility for special
5education services, of the pupil's current program, and of all
6evaluation data upon which the current program is based. After
7an examination of that information the high school district may
8accept the current placement and all subsequent timelines shall
9be governed by the current individualized educational program;
10or the high school district may elect to conduct its own
11evaluation and multidisciplinary staff conference and
12formulate its own individualized educational program, in which
13case the procedures and timelines contained in Section 14-8.02
14shall apply.
15(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-592, eff. 7-22-16;
16100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.