Full Text of SB2352 100th General Assembly
SB2352sam001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford Filed: 4/13/2018
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2352
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2352 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 2-3.162 as follows: | 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.162) | 7 | | Sec. 2-3.162. Student discipline report; school discipline | 8 | | improvement plan. | 9 | | (a) On or before October 31, 2015 and on or before October | 10 | | 31 of each subsequent year, the State Board of Education, | 11 | | through the State Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a | 12 | | report on student discipline in all school districts in this | 13 | | State, including State-authorized charter schools. This report | 14 | | shall include data from all public schools within school | 15 | | districts, including district-authorized charter schools. This | 16 | | report must be posted on the Internet website of the State |
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| 1 | | Board of Education. The report shall include data on the | 2 | | issuance of out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and | 3 | | removals to alternative settings in lieu of another | 4 | | disciplinary action, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, | 5 | | gender, age, grade level, whether a student is an English | 6 | | learner, whether a student qualifies for services under the | 7 | | federal
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, incident | 8 | | type, and discipline duration. The report shall
also include | 9 | | data on the number of law enforcement
officers assigned to | 10 | | schools within each district and the
number of arrests made by | 11 | | law enforcement officers of
students on school grounds, in | 12 | | school vehicles, at school
activities or school-sponsored | 13 | | events, or as a result of
referrals by school officials, | 14 | | disaggregated by race and
ethnicity, gender, age, grade level, | 15 | | whether a student is
an English learner, whether a student | 16 | | qualifies for
services under the federal Individuals with | 17 | | Disabilities Education
Act, the offense for which the student | 18 | | was
arrested, and the final disposition of the arrest. | 19 | | (a-5) In compiling the report under subsection (a) of this | 20 | | Section, the
State Board of Education shall use the same | 21 | | disclosure
avoidance standards used by the U.S. Department of | 22 | | Education in
its public reporting of the data submitted by each | 23 | | school
district as part of the Civil Rights Data Collection. | 24 | | The State Board of Education shall disaggregate the data by | 25 | | each
individual grade level and shall disaggregate the data by | 26 | | duration of less than or equal to one day, 2 days, 3
days, 4 |
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| 1 | | days, 5 days, 6 days, 7 days, 8 days, 9 days, 10 days,
and | 2 | | greater than 10 days. The State Board of Education shall also | 3 | | disaggregate the data, at a
minimum, by the following incident | 4 | | types: (i) disruption,
disrespect, or defiance of authority, | 5 | | (ii) truancy, tardiness, cutting of class,
alcohol, threat, | 6 | | fighting, or other violent offense, and (iii)
bullying or | 7 | | harassment, dress code, drug or controlled
substance, theft, | 8 | | property damage, tobacco, dangerous weapon, trespassing, or | 9 | | any other similar incident. The
State Board of Education shall | 10 | | ensure that cross-tabulation by
the various categories of | 11 | | disaggregation is possible. | 12 | | (b) The State Board of Education shall analyze the data | 13 | | under subsection (a) of this Section on an annual basis and | 14 | | determine the top 20% of school districts for the following | 15 | | metrics: | 16 | | (1) Total number of out-of-school suspensions divided | 17 | | by the total district enrollment by the last school day in | 18 | | September for the year in which the data was collected, | 19 | | multiplied by 100. | 20 | | (2) Total number of out-of-school expulsions divided | 21 | | by the total district enrollment by the last school day in | 22 | | September for the year in which the data was collected, | 23 | | multiplied by 100. | 24 | | (2.5) Total number of
school-based arrests divided
by | 25 | | the total district
enrollment by the last school
day in | 26 | | September for the year
in which the data was
collected, |
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| 1 | | multiplied by 100. | 2 | | (3) Racial disproportionality, defined as the | 3 | | overrepresentation of students of color or white students | 4 | | in comparison to the total number of students of color or | 5 | | white students on October 1st of the school year in which | 6 | | data are collected, with respect to the use of | 7 | | out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, which must be | 8 | | calculated using the same method as the U.S. Department of | 9 | | Education's Office for Civil Rights uses. | 10 | | The analysis must be based on data collected over 3 | 11 | | consecutive school years, beginning with the 2014-2015 school | 12 | | year. | 13 | | The Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, the State | 14 | | Board of Education shall require each of the school districts | 15 | | that are identified in the top 20% of any of the metrics | 16 | | described in this subsection (b) for 3 consecutive years to | 17 | | submit a plan identifying the strategies the school district | 18 | | will implement to reduce the use of exclusionary disciplinary | 19 | | practices school-based arrests, or racial disproportionality | 20 | | or both , if applicable. School districts that no longer meet | 21 | | the criteria described in any of the metrics described in this | 22 | | subsection (b) for 3 consecutive years shall no longer be | 23 | | required to submit a plan. | 24 | | This plan may be combined with any other improvement plans | 25 | | required under federal or State law. | 26 | | The calculation of the top 20% of any of the metrics |
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| 1 | | described in this subsection (b) shall exclude all school | 2 | | districts, State-authorized charter schools, and special | 3 | | charter districts that issued fewer than a total of 10 | 4 | | out-of-school suspensions , or expulsions, or school-based | 5 | | arrests, whichever is applicable, during the school year. The | 6 | | calculation of the top 20% of the metric described in | 7 | | subdivision (3) of this subsection (b) shall exclude all school | 8 | | districts with an enrollment of fewer than 50 white students or | 9 | | fewer than 50 students of color. | 10 | | The plan must be approved at a public school board meeting | 11 | | and posted on the school district's Internet website. Within | 12 | | one year after being identified, the school district shall | 13 | | submit to the State Board of Education and post on the | 14 | | district's Internet website a progress report describing the | 15 | | implementation of the plan and the results achieved.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 98-1102, eff. 8-26-14; 99-30, eff. 7-10-15; | 17 | | 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; revised 9-25-17.)
| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 | | becoming law.".
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