HB5330 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB5330

Introduced 2/10/2026, by Rep. Laura Faver Dias

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 302/15
105 ILCS 302/25

Amends the College and Career Success for All Students Act. Requires an International Baccalaureate teacher to obtain appropriate training, subject to appropriation. Provides that International Baccalaureate training to teachers in Illinois high schools must provide teachers of International Baccalaureate courses with the necessary content knowledge and instructional skills to prepare students for success in International Baccalaureate courses and examinations and provide administrators, including principals and counselors, with professional development that will enable them to create strong and effective International Baccalaureate programs in their schools. Provides that the AP exam fee reduction program also applies to fees charged for an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme subject.

STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The College and Career Success for All Students Act is amended by changing Sections 15 and 25 as follows:

(105 ILCS 302/15)

Sec. 15. Teacher training.

(a) Subject to appropriation, a teacher of an Advanced Placement course or an International Baccalaureate teacher must obtain appropriate training. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall establish clear, specific, and challenging training guidelines that require teachers of Advanced Placement courses to obtain recognized Advanced Placement training endorsed by the College Board.

(b) Advanced Placement and Pre-Advanced Placement training to teachers in Illinois high schools must do all of the following:

(1) Provide teachers of Advanced Placement and teachers in courses that lead to Advanced Placement with the necessary content knowledge and instructional skills to prepare students for success in Advanced Placement courses and examinations and other advanced course examinations and mastery of postsecondary course content.

(2) Provide administrators, including principals and counselors, with professional development that will enable them to create strong and effective Advanced Placement programs in their schools.

(3) Provide middle grade, junior high, and high school teachers with Advanced Placement Vertical Team training and other Pre-Advanced Placement professional development that prepares students for success in Advanced Placement courses.

(4) Support the implementation of an instructional program for students in grades 6 through 12 that provides an integrated set of instructional materials, diagnostic assessments, and teacher professional development in reading, writing, and mathematics that prepares all students for enrollment and success in Advanced Placement courses and in college.

(c) International Baccalaureate training to teachers in Illinois high schools must provide teachers of International Baccalaureate courses with the necessary content knowledge and instructional skills to prepare students for success in International Baccalaureate courses and examinations and provide administrators, including principals and counselors, with professional development that will enable them to create strong and effective International Baccalaureate programs in their schools.

(Source: P.A. 94-534, eff. 1-1-06.)

(105 ILCS 302/25)

Sec. 25. Fee AP exam fee reduction program. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall create, under the College and Career Success for All Students program set forth in this Act, a program in public schools where any student who qualifies for free or reduced-price lunches will have fees charged by the College Board for Advanced Placement exams or fees charged for an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme subject, as defined in Section 30, reduced, via State subsidy, to the greatest extent possible based on the appropriation.

(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-894, eff. 5-20-22.)