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Public Act 096-1300
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| SB3705 Enrolled | LRB096 20562 MJR 36252 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by |
changing Section 2-25 as follows:
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(110 ILCS 805/2-25) |
Sec. 2-25. College and Career Readiness Pilot Program. |
(a) The General Assembly finds that there is a direct and |
significant link between academic preparation of students |
being academically prepared for college and success in |
postsecondary education and careers. Many students enter |
college unprepared for the academic rigors of college and |
require noncredit remedial courses to attain skills and |
knowledge needed for regular, credit coursework. Remediation |
lengthens time to degree, imposes additional costs on students |
and colleges, and uses student financial aid for courses that |
will not count toward a degree. All students entering college |
take a college entrance exam or a placement test. These tests |
All high school juniors take the Prairie State Achievement |
Examination, which contains the ACT college assessment exam. |
ACT test elements and scores can be correlated to specific |
course placements in community colleges. Customized ACT test |
results can be used in collaboration with high schools to |
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assist high school students to identify areas for improvement |
and help to them close skill gaps during students' their senior |
year. College Greater college and career readiness reduces will |
reduce the need for remediation, lowers lower educational |
costs, shortens shorten time to degree, and increases increase |
the overall success rate of Illinois college students. |
(b) Subject to appropriation, the State Board shall create |
a 3-year pilot project, to be known as the College and Career |
Readiness Pilot Program. Subject to appropriation, on July 1, |
2010, the State Board shall extend the current program for an |
additional 3 years and include an additional 7 sites (or as |
many as are allowed by available funding), as evidenced by the |
effectiveness of the current program. If in any of these 3 |
additional years, money is not appropriated for the program, |
then the State Board shall extend the program for an additional |
year. The goals of the program are as follows: |
(1) To diagnose college readiness by developing a |
system that aligns to align ACT scores or college placement |
examinations to specific community college courses in |
developmental and freshman curriculums. |
(2) To reduce remediation by decreasing the need for |
remedial coursework in mathematics, reading, and writing |
at the college level through (i) increasing the number of |
students enrolled in a college-prep core curriculum, (ii) |
assisting students in improving college readiness skills, |
and (iii) increasing successful student transitions into |
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postsecondary education. |
(3) To align high school and college curriculums. |
(4) To provide resources and academic support to |
students to enrich the junior and senior year of high |
school through remedial or advanced coursework and other |
interventions. |
(5) To develop an appropriate evaluation process to |
measure the effectiveness of readiness intervention |
strategies. |
(c) The first year of the program extended created under |
this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General |
Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2011 and the |
high school class of 2012 (or such later classes if money is |
not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2008. |
(1) In addition to the community colleges |
participating in the program before July 1, 2010, the The |
State Board shall select 7 additional 4 community colleges |
(or as many as are allowable by available funding) to |
participate in the program based on all of the following: |
(A) The percentage of students in developmental |
coursework. |
(B) Demographics of student enrollment, including |
socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and |
enrollments of first-generation college students. |
(C) Geographic diversity. |
(D) The willingness of the community college to |
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submit developmental and introductory courses to ACT |
for analysis of college placement. |
(D) (E) The ability of the community college to |
partner with local high schools to develop college and |
career readiness strategies and college readiness |
teams. |
(2) The State Board shall work with ACT to analyze up |
to 10 courses at each participating community college for |
purposes of determining student placement and college |
readiness. |
(2) (3) Each participating community college shall |
establish an agreement with a high school or schools to do |
all of the following: |
(A) Create a data-sharing agreement. |
(B) Create a Readiness Plan Prescription for each |
student, showing all of the following: |
(i) The readiness status for college-level |
work. |
(ii) Course recommendations for remediation or |
for advanced coursework in Advanced Placement |
classes or dual credit and dual enrollment |
programs. |
(iii) Additional academic support services, |
including tutoring, mentoring, and college |
application assistance. |
(C) Create college and career readiness teams, |
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which shall include the chief academic officer, the |
chief student services officer, an institutional |
researcher, faculty, and counselors or advisers |
comprised of faculty and counselors or advisers from |
the community college and high school, the college and |
career readiness coordinator from the community |
college, and other members as determined by the high |
school and community college. The teams may include |
local business or civic leaders. The teams shall |
develop intervention strategies as follows: |
(i) Use the Readiness Plan Prescription to |
develop a contract with each student for remedial |
or advanced coursework to be taken during the |
senior year. |
(ii) Monitor student progress. |
(iii) Provide readiness support services. |
(D) Retest students upon the completion of the |
appropriate intervention in the spring of 2008 to |
assess progress and college readiness. |
(3) (4) The State Board shall work with participating |
community colleges and high schools to develop an |
appropriate evaluation process to measure effectiveness of |
intervention strategies, including all of the following: |
(A) Baseline data for each participating school. |
(B) Baseline data for the Illinois system. |
(C) Comparison of college entrance exams or |
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college placement scores, or both, within each group of |
students ACT scores from March 2007 to March 2008. |
(D) Student enrollment in each applicable |
intervention college in the fall of 2008. |
(E) Placement of college and career readiness |
students in developmental and regular courses upon the |
completion of the intervention and subsequent |
enrollment in additional courses in the fall of 2008. |
(F) Retention of college and career readiness |
students in the spring semester after enrollment of |
2009. |
(G) Other measures as selected by the State Board. |
(5) The State Board shall work with participating |
community colleges and high schools to establish |
operational processes and a budget for college and career |
readiness pilot programs, including all of the following: |
(A) Employment of a college and career readiness |
coordinator at each community college site. |
(B) Establishment of a budget. |
(C) Creation of college and career readiness |
teams, resources, and partnership agreements. |
(d) The second year of the program extended created under |
this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General |
Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2012 and the |
high school class of 2013 (or such later classes if money is |
not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2009. |
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In the second year of the extended program, the State Board |
shall have all of the following duties: |
(1) Analyze courses at 3 new community college sites. |
(1) (2) Undertake intervention strategies through |
college and career readiness teams with students of in the |
classes class of 2012 and 2013 2009. |
(2) (3) Monitor and assist college and career readiness |
graduates from the class of 2011 2008 in college. |
(e) The third year of the program extended created under |
this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General |
Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2013 and the |
high school class of 2014 (or such later classes if money is |
not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2010. |
In the third year of the extended program, the State Board |
shall have all of the following duties: |
(1) Analyze courses at 5 new community college sites. |
(2) Add college and career readiness teams at 3 new |
sites (from year 2 of the program). |
(1) (3) Undertake intervention strategies through |
college and career readiness teams with students of the |
classes class of 2013 and 2014 2010 at 7 sites. |
(2) (4) Monitor and assist students from the classes of |
2011 2008 and 2012 2009 in college. |
(f) At the end of the 3-year extension of the program, the |
State Board shall prepare and submit a report outlining its |
findings and recommendations to the Senate and the House of |