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 1                     AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 66

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill  66  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
 5    2-3.61a as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/2-3.61a new)
 7        Sec. 2-3.61a.  21st  Century  Community  Learning  Center
 8    Grant Program.
 9        (a)  The State Board of Education shall be the designated
10    agency  responsible  for the administration of programs under
11    Part  I  of  Subchapter  X  of  Chapter  70  of  the  federal
12    Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
13        (b)  The State Board of  Education  shall  establish  and
14    implement  a  21st  Century  Community  Learning Center Grant
15    Program, in accordance with federal  guidelines,  to  provide
16    grants  to support academically focused after-school programs
17    for students who attend high-poverty, low-performing schools.
18    These grants shall be used to help those students who  attend
19    high-poverty,  low-performing  schools  meet  State and local
20    performance standards in core academic subjects and to  offer
21    families of participating students opportunities for improved
22    literacy and related educational development.
 
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 1        The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  award  grants to
 2    applicants that are of sufficient size and scope  to  support
 3    high-quality,  effective  after-school  programs,  to  ensure
 4    reasonable  success  of achieving the goals identified in the
 5    grant application, and to offer  those  activities  that  are
 6    necessary to achieve these goals.
 7        (c)  Using State funds, subject to appropriation, and any
 8    federal  funds  received for this purpose, the State Board of
 9    Education may establish any other  grant  programs  that  are
10    necessary  to  establish  high-quality,  academically  based,
11    after-school  programs that include family-centered education
12    activities.
13        (d)  The State Board of Education  may  adopt  any  rules
14    necessary to implement this Section.

15        Section  99.  Effective  date. This Act takes effect upon
16    becoming law.".