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Rep. Esther Golar
Filed: 4/16/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 806
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 806 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 27-22.10 as follows:
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| 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 |
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| 1 | | participates in the course at the location of the high school, |
| 2 | | and the elementary student's enrollment in the course would not |
| 3 | | prevent a high school student from being able to enroll, or |
| 4 | | (ii) the student participates in the course where the student |
| 5 | | attends school as long as the course is taught by a high school |
| 6 | | teacher who holds a professional educator license issued under |
| 7 | | Article 21B of this Code and endorsed for the grade level and |
| 8 | | content area of the course certified in accordance with Article |
| 9 | | 21 of this Code who teaches in a high school of the school |
| 10 | | district where the student will attend when in high school and |
| 11 | | no high school students are enrolled in the course. |
| 12 | | (b) A school board that adopts a policy pursuant to |
| 13 | | subsection (a) of this Section must grant academic credit to an |
| 14 | | elementary school student who successfully completes the high |
| 15 | | school course, and that credit shall satisfy the requirements |
| 16 | | of Section 27-22 of this Code for that course. |
| 17 | | (c) A school board must award high school course credit to |
| 18 | | a student transferring to its school district for any course |
| 19 | | that the student successfully completed pursuant to subsection |
| 20 | | (a) of this Section, unless evidence about the course's rigor |
| 21 | | and content shows that it does not address the relevant |
| 22 | | Illinois Learning Standard at the level appropriate for the |
| 23 | | high school grade during which the course is usually taken, and |
| 24 | | that credit shall satisfy the requirements of Section 27-22 of |
| 25 | | this Code for that course. |
| 26 | | (d) A student's grade in any course successfully completed |