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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 27-22.10 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-22.10) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 27-22.10. Course credit for high school diploma. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the | ||||||
| 9 | school board of a school district that maintains any of grades | ||||||
| 10 | 9 through 12 is authorized to adopt a policy under which a | ||||||
| 11 | student enrolled in grade 7 or 8 who is enrolled in the unit | ||||||
| 12 | school district or would be enrolled in the high school | ||||||
| 13 | district upon completion of elementary school, whichever is | ||||||
| 14 | applicable, may enroll in a course required under Section 27-22 | ||||||
| 15 | of this Code, provided that the course is offered by the high | ||||||
| 16 | school that the student would attend, and (i) the student | ||||||
| 17 | participates in the course at the location of the high school, | ||||||
| 18 | and the elementary student's enrollment in the course would not | ||||||
| 19 | prevent a high school student from being able to enroll, or | ||||||
| 20 | (ii) the student participates in the course where the student | ||||||
| 21 | attends school as long as the course is taught by a high school | ||||||
| 22 | teacher who holds a professional educator license issued under | ||||||
| 23 | Article 21B of this Code and endorsed for the grade level and | ||||||
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| 1 | content area of the course certified in accordance with Article | ||||||
| 2 | 21 of this Code who teaches in a high school of the school | ||||||
| 3 | district where the student will attend when in high school and | ||||||
| 4 | no high school students are enrolled in the course. | ||||||
| 5 | (b) A school board that adopts a policy pursuant to | ||||||
| 6 | subsection (a) of this Section must grant academic credit to an | ||||||
| 7 | elementary school student who successfully completes the high | ||||||
| 8 | school course, and that credit shall satisfy the requirements | ||||||
| 9 | of Section 27-22 of this Code for that course. | ||||||
| 10 | (c) A school board must award high school course credit to | ||||||
| 11 | a student transferring to its school district for any course | ||||||
| 12 | that the student successfully completed pursuant to subsection | ||||||
| 13 | (a) of this Section, unless evidence about the course's rigor | ||||||
| 14 | and content shows that it does not address the relevant | ||||||
| 15 | Illinois Learning Standard at the level appropriate for the | ||||||
| 16 | high school grade during which the course is usually taken, and | ||||||
| 17 | that credit shall satisfy the requirements of Section 27-22 of | ||||||
| 18 | this Code for that course. | ||||||
| 19 | (d) A student's grade in any course successfully completed | ||||||
| 20 | under this Section must be included in his or her grade point | ||||||
| 21 | average in accordance with the school board's policy for making | ||||||
| 22 | that calculation.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 95-299, eff. 8-20-07; 96-412, eff. 8-13-09.)
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| 24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 25 | becoming law.
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