Rep. Sonya M. Harper
Filed: 3/23/2017
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2369
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2369 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections | ||||||
5 | 10-20.60 and 34-18.53 and by changing Section 27A-5 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (105 ILCS 5/10-20.60 new) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 10-20.60. Breastfeeding accommodations for pupils. | ||||||
8 | (a) Each public school shall provide reasonable | ||||||
9 | accommodations to a lactating pupil on a school campus to | ||||||
10 | express breast milk, breastfeed an infant child, or address | ||||||
11 | other needs related to breastfeeding. Reasonable | ||||||
12 | accommodations under this Section include, but are not limited | ||||||
13 | to, all of the following: | ||||||
14 | (1) Access to a private and secure room, other than a | ||||||
15 | restroom, to express breast milk or breastfeed an infant | ||||||
16 | child. |
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1 | (2) Permission to bring onto a school campus a breast | ||||||
2 | pump and any other equipment used to express breast milk. | ||||||
3 | (3) Access to a power source for a breast pump or any | ||||||
4 | other equipment used to express breast milk. | ||||||
5 | (4) Access to a place to store expressed breast milk | ||||||
6 | safely. | ||||||
7 | (b) A lactating pupil on a school campus must be provided a | ||||||
8 | reasonable amount of time to accommodate her need to express | ||||||
9 | breast milk or breastfeed an infant child. | ||||||
10 | (c) A public school shall provide the reasonable | ||||||
11 | accommodations specified in subsections (a) and (b) of this | ||||||
12 | Section only if there is at least one lactating pupil on the | ||||||
13 | school campus. | ||||||
14 | (d) A public school may use an existing facility to meet | ||||||
15 | the requirements specified in subsection (a) of this Section. | ||||||
16 | (e) A pupil may not incur an academic penalty as a result | ||||||
17 | of her use, during the school day, of the reasonable | ||||||
18 | accommodations specified in this Section and must be provided | ||||||
19 | the opportunity to make up any work missed due to such use. | ||||||
20 | (f) In instances where a student files a complaint of | ||||||
21 | noncompliance with the requirements of this Section, the public | ||||||
22 | school shall implement the grievance procedure of 23 Ill. Adm. | ||||||
23 | Code 200, including appeals procedures.
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24 | (105 ILCS 5/27A-5)
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25 | (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 99-927 )
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1 | Sec. 27A-5. Charter school; legal entity; requirements.
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2 | (a) A charter school shall be a public, nonsectarian, | ||||||
3 | nonreligious, non-home
based, and non-profit school. A charter | ||||||
4 | school shall be organized and operated
as a nonprofit | ||||||
5 | corporation or other discrete, legal, nonprofit entity
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6 | authorized under the laws of the State of Illinois.
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7 | (b) A charter school may be established under this Article | ||||||
8 | by creating a new
school or by converting an existing public | ||||||
9 | school or attendance center to
charter
school status.
Beginning | ||||||
10 | on April 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3), in | ||||||
11 | all new
applications to establish
a charter
school in a city | ||||||
12 | having a population exceeding 500,000, operation of the
charter
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13 | school shall be limited to one campus. The changes made to this | ||||||
14 | Section by Public Act 93-3 do not apply to charter schools | ||||||
15 | existing or approved on or before April 16, 2003 (the
effective | ||||||
16 | date of Public Act 93-3). | ||||||
17 | (b-5) In this subsection (b-5), "virtual-schooling" means | ||||||
18 | a cyber school where students engage in online curriculum and | ||||||
19 | instruction via the Internet and electronic communication with | ||||||
20 | their teachers at remote locations and with students | ||||||
21 | participating at different times. | ||||||
22 | From April 1, 2013 through December 31, 2016, there is a | ||||||
23 | moratorium on the establishment of charter schools with | ||||||
24 | virtual-schooling components in school districts other than a | ||||||
25 | school district organized under Article 34 of this Code. This | ||||||
26 | moratorium does not apply to a charter school with |
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1 | virtual-schooling components existing or approved prior to | ||||||
2 | April 1, 2013 or to the renewal of the charter of a charter | ||||||
3 | school with virtual-schooling components already approved | ||||||
4 | prior to April 1, 2013. | ||||||
5 | On or before March 1, 2014, the Commission shall submit to | ||||||
6 | the General Assembly a report on the effect of | ||||||
7 | virtual-schooling, including without limitation the effect on | ||||||
8 | student performance, the costs associated with | ||||||
9 | virtual-schooling, and issues with oversight. The report shall | ||||||
10 | include policy recommendations for virtual-schooling.
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11 | (c) A charter school shall be administered and governed by | ||||||
12 | its board of
directors or other governing body
in the manner | ||||||
13 | provided in its charter. The governing body of a charter school
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14 | shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Open | ||||||
15 | Meetings Act.
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16 | (d) For purposes of this subsection (d), "non-curricular | ||||||
17 | health and safety requirement" means any health and safety | ||||||
18 | requirement created by statute or rule to provide, maintain, | ||||||
19 | preserve, or safeguard safe or healthful conditions for | ||||||
20 | students and school personnel or to eliminate, reduce, or | ||||||
21 | prevent threats to the health and safety of students and school | ||||||
22 | personnel. "Non-curricular health and safety requirement" does | ||||||
23 | not include any course of study or specialized instructional | ||||||
24 | requirement for which the State Board has established goals and | ||||||
25 | learning standards or which is designed primarily to impart | ||||||
26 | knowledge and skills for students to master and apply as an |
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1 | outcome of their education. | ||||||
2 | A charter school shall comply with all non-curricular | ||||||
3 | health and safety
requirements applicable to public schools | ||||||
4 | under the laws of the State of
Illinois. On or before September | ||||||
5 | 1, 2015, the State Board shall promulgate and post on its | ||||||
6 | Internet website a list of non-curricular health and safety | ||||||
7 | requirements that a charter school must meet. The list shall be | ||||||
8 | updated annually no later than September 1. Any charter | ||||||
9 | contract between a charter school and its authorizer must | ||||||
10 | contain a provision that requires the charter school to follow | ||||||
11 | the list of all non-curricular health and safety requirements | ||||||
12 | promulgated by the State Board and any non-curricular health | ||||||
13 | and safety requirements added by the State Board to such list | ||||||
14 | during the term of the charter. Nothing in this subsection (d) | ||||||
15 | precludes an authorizer from including non-curricular health | ||||||
16 | and safety requirements in a charter school contract that are | ||||||
17 | not contained in the list promulgated by the State Board, | ||||||
18 | including non-curricular health and safety requirements of the | ||||||
19 | authorizing local school board.
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20 | (e) Except as otherwise provided in the School Code, a | ||||||
21 | charter school shall
not charge tuition; provided that a | ||||||
22 | charter school may charge reasonable fees
for textbooks, | ||||||
23 | instructional materials, and student activities.
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24 | (f) A charter school shall be responsible for the | ||||||
25 | management and operation
of its fiscal affairs including,
but | ||||||
26 | not limited to, the preparation of its budget. An audit of each |
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1 | charter
school's finances shall be conducted annually by an | ||||||
2 | outside, independent
contractor retained by the charter | ||||||
3 | school. To ensure financial accountability for the use of | ||||||
4 | public funds, on or before December 1 of every year of | ||||||
5 | operation, each charter school shall submit to its authorizer | ||||||
6 | and the State Board a copy of its audit and a copy of the Form | ||||||
7 | 990 the charter school filed that year with the federal | ||||||
8 | Internal Revenue Service. In addition, if deemed necessary for | ||||||
9 | proper financial oversight of the charter school, an authorizer | ||||||
10 | may require quarterly financial statements from each charter | ||||||
11 | school.
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12 | (g) A charter school shall comply with all provisions of | ||||||
13 | this Article, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, all | ||||||
14 | federal and State laws and rules applicable to public schools | ||||||
15 | that pertain to special education and the instruction of | ||||||
16 | English learners, and
its charter. A charter
school is exempt | ||||||
17 | from all other State laws and regulations in this Code
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18 | governing public
schools and local school board policies; | ||||||
19 | however, a charter school is not exempt from the following:
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20 | (1) Sections 10-21.9 and 34-18.5 of this Code regarding | ||||||
21 | criminal
history records checks and checks of the Statewide | ||||||
22 | Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent | ||||||
23 | Offender Against Youth Database of applicants for | ||||||
24 | employment;
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25 | (2) Sections 10-20.14, 10-22.6, 24-24, 34-19, and | ||||||
26 | 34-84a of this Code regarding discipline of
students;
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1 | (3) the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees | ||||||
2 | Tort Immunity Act;
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3 | (4) Section 108.75 of the General Not For Profit | ||||||
4 | Corporation Act of 1986
regarding indemnification of | ||||||
5 | officers, directors, employees, and agents;
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6 | (5) the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act;
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7 | (6) the Illinois School Student Records Act;
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8 | (7) Section 10-17a of this Code regarding school report | ||||||
9 | cards;
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10 | (8) the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act; | ||||||
11 | (9) Section 27-23.7 of this Code regarding bullying | ||||||
12 | prevention; | ||||||
13 | (10) Section 2-3.162 of this Code regarding student | ||||||
14 | discipline reporting; and | ||||||
15 | (11) Section 22-80 of this Code ; and . | ||||||
16 | (12) Sections 10-20.60 and 34-18.53 of this Code. | ||||||
17 | The change made by Public Act 96-104 to this subsection (g) | ||||||
18 | is declaratory of existing law. | ||||||
19 | (h) A charter school may negotiate and contract with a | ||||||
20 | school district, the
governing body of a State college or | ||||||
21 | university or public community college, or
any other public or | ||||||
22 | for-profit or nonprofit private entity for: (i) the use
of a | ||||||
23 | school building and grounds or any other real property or | ||||||
24 | facilities that
the charter school desires to use or convert | ||||||
25 | for use as a charter school site,
(ii) the operation and | ||||||
26 | maintenance thereof, and
(iii) the provision of any service, |
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1 | activity, or undertaking that the charter
school is required to | ||||||
2 | perform in order to carry out the terms of its charter.
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3 | However, a charter school
that is established on
or
after April | ||||||
4 | 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3) and that | ||||||
5 | operates
in a city having a population exceeding
500,000 may | ||||||
6 | not contract with a for-profit entity to
manage or operate the | ||||||
7 | school during the period that commences on April 16, 2003 (the
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8 | effective date of Public Act 93-3) and
concludes at the end of | ||||||
9 | the 2004-2005 school year.
Except as provided in subsection (i) | ||||||
10 | of this Section, a school district may
charge a charter school | ||||||
11 | reasonable rent for the use of the district's
buildings, | ||||||
12 | grounds, and facilities. Any services for which a charter | ||||||
13 | school
contracts
with a school district shall be provided by | ||||||
14 | the district at cost. Any services
for which a charter school | ||||||
15 | contracts with a local school board or with the
governing body | ||||||
16 | of a State college or university or public community college
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17 | shall be provided by the public entity at cost.
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18 | (i) In no event shall a charter school that is established | ||||||
19 | by converting an
existing school or attendance center to | ||||||
20 | charter school status be required to
pay rent for space
that is | ||||||
21 | deemed available, as negotiated and provided in the charter | ||||||
22 | agreement,
in school district
facilities. However, all other | ||||||
23 | costs for the operation and maintenance of
school district | ||||||
24 | facilities that are used by the charter school shall be subject
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25 | to negotiation between
the charter school and the local school | ||||||
26 | board and shall be set forth in the
charter.
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1 | (j) A charter school may limit student enrollment by age or | ||||||
2 | grade level.
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3 | (k) If the charter school is approved by the Commission, | ||||||
4 | then the Commission charter school is its own local education | ||||||
5 | agency. | ||||||
6 | (Source: P.A. 98-16, eff. 5-24-13; 98-639, eff. 6-9-14; 98-669, | ||||||
7 | eff. 6-26-14; 98-739, eff. 7-16-14; 98-783, eff. 1-1-15; | ||||||
8 | 98-1059, eff. 8-26-14; 98-1102, eff. 8-26-14; 99-30, eff. | ||||||
9 | 7-10-15; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-245, eff. 8-3-15; 99-325, eff. | ||||||
10 | 8-10-15; 99-456, eff. 9-15-16; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.) | ||||||
11 | (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 99-927 )
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12 | Sec. 27A-5. Charter school; legal entity; requirements.
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13 | (a) A charter school shall be a public, nonsectarian, | ||||||
14 | nonreligious, non-home
based, and non-profit school. A charter | ||||||
15 | school shall be organized and operated
as a nonprofit | ||||||
16 | corporation or other discrete, legal, nonprofit entity
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17 | authorized under the laws of the State of Illinois.
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18 | (b) A charter school may be established under this Article | ||||||
19 | by creating a new
school or by converting an existing public | ||||||
20 | school or attendance center to
charter
school status.
Beginning | ||||||
21 | on April 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3), in | ||||||
22 | all new
applications to establish
a charter
school in a city | ||||||
23 | having a population exceeding 500,000, operation of the
charter
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24 | school shall be limited to one campus. The changes made to this | ||||||
25 | Section by Public Act 93-3 do not apply to charter schools |
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1 | existing or approved on or before April 16, 2003 (the
effective | ||||||
2 | date of Public Act 93-3). | ||||||
3 | (b-5) In this subsection (b-5), "virtual-schooling" means | ||||||
4 | a cyber school where students engage in online curriculum and | ||||||
5 | instruction via the Internet and electronic communication with | ||||||
6 | their teachers at remote locations and with students | ||||||
7 | participating at different times. | ||||||
8 | From April 1, 2013 through December 31, 2016, there is a | ||||||
9 | moratorium on the establishment of charter schools with | ||||||
10 | virtual-schooling components in school districts other than a | ||||||
11 | school district organized under Article 34 of this Code. This | ||||||
12 | moratorium does not apply to a charter school with | ||||||
13 | virtual-schooling components existing or approved prior to | ||||||
14 | April 1, 2013 or to the renewal of the charter of a charter | ||||||
15 | school with virtual-schooling components already approved | ||||||
16 | prior to April 1, 2013. | ||||||
17 | On or before March 1, 2014, the Commission shall submit to | ||||||
18 | the General Assembly a report on the effect of | ||||||
19 | virtual-schooling, including without limitation the effect on | ||||||
20 | student performance, the costs associated with | ||||||
21 | virtual-schooling, and issues with oversight. The report shall | ||||||
22 | include policy recommendations for virtual-schooling.
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23 | (c) A charter school shall be administered and governed by | ||||||
24 | its board of
directors or other governing body
in the manner | ||||||
25 | provided in its charter. The governing body of a charter school
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26 | shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Open |
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1 | Meetings Act.
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2 | (d) For purposes of this subsection (d), "non-curricular | ||||||
3 | health and safety requirement" means any health and safety | ||||||
4 | requirement created by statute or rule to provide, maintain, | ||||||
5 | preserve, or safeguard safe or healthful conditions for | ||||||
6 | students and school personnel or to eliminate, reduce, or | ||||||
7 | prevent threats to the health and safety of students and school | ||||||
8 | personnel. "Non-curricular health and safety requirement" does | ||||||
9 | not include any course of study or specialized instructional | ||||||
10 | requirement for which the State Board has established goals and | ||||||
11 | learning standards or which is designed primarily to impart | ||||||
12 | knowledge and skills for students to master and apply as an | ||||||
13 | outcome of their education. | ||||||
14 | A charter school shall comply with all non-curricular | ||||||
15 | health and safety
requirements applicable to public schools | ||||||
16 | under the laws of the State of
Illinois. On or before September | ||||||
17 | 1, 2015, the State Board shall promulgate and post on its | ||||||
18 | Internet website a list of non-curricular health and safety | ||||||
19 | requirements that a charter school must meet. The list shall be | ||||||
20 | updated annually no later than September 1. Any charter | ||||||
21 | contract between a charter school and its authorizer must | ||||||
22 | contain a provision that requires the charter school to follow | ||||||
23 | the list of all non-curricular health and safety requirements | ||||||
24 | promulgated by the State Board and any non-curricular health | ||||||
25 | and safety requirements added by the State Board to such list | ||||||
26 | during the term of the charter. Nothing in this subsection (d) |
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1 | precludes an authorizer from including non-curricular health | ||||||
2 | and safety requirements in a charter school contract that are | ||||||
3 | not contained in the list promulgated by the State Board, | ||||||
4 | including non-curricular health and safety requirements of the | ||||||
5 | authorizing local school board.
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6 | (e) Except as otherwise provided in the School Code, a | ||||||
7 | charter school shall
not charge tuition; provided that a | ||||||
8 | charter school may charge reasonable fees
for textbooks, | ||||||
9 | instructional materials, and student activities.
| ||||||
10 | (f) A charter school shall be responsible for the | ||||||
11 | management and operation
of its fiscal affairs including,
but | ||||||
12 | not limited to, the preparation of its budget. An audit of each | ||||||
13 | charter
school's finances shall be conducted annually by an | ||||||
14 | outside, independent
contractor retained by the charter | ||||||
15 | school. To ensure financial accountability for the use of | ||||||
16 | public funds, on or before December 1 of every year of | ||||||
17 | operation, each charter school shall submit to its authorizer | ||||||
18 | and the State Board a copy of its audit and a copy of the Form | ||||||
19 | 990 the charter school filed that year with the federal | ||||||
20 | Internal Revenue Service. In addition, if deemed necessary for | ||||||
21 | proper financial oversight of the charter school, an authorizer | ||||||
22 | may require quarterly financial statements from each charter | ||||||
23 | school.
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24 | (g) A charter school shall comply with all provisions of | ||||||
25 | this Article, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, all | ||||||
26 | federal and State laws and rules applicable to public schools |
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1 | that pertain to special education and the instruction of | ||||||
2 | English learners, and
its charter. A charter
school is exempt | ||||||
3 | from all other State laws and regulations in this Code
| ||||||
4 | governing public
schools and local school board policies; | ||||||
5 | however, a charter school is not exempt from the following:
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6 | (1) Sections 10-21.9 and 34-18.5 of this Code regarding | ||||||
7 | criminal
history records checks and checks of the Statewide | ||||||
8 | Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent | ||||||
9 | Offender Against Youth Database of applicants for | ||||||
10 | employment;
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11 | (2) Sections 10-20.14, 10-22.6, 24-24, 34-19, and | ||||||
12 | 34-84a of this Code regarding discipline of
students;
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13 | (3) the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees | ||||||
14 | Tort Immunity Act;
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15 | (4) Section 108.75 of the General Not For Profit | ||||||
16 | Corporation Act of 1986
regarding indemnification of | ||||||
17 | officers, directors, employees, and agents;
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18 | (5) the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act;
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19 | (6) the Illinois School Student Records Act;
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20 | (7) Section 10-17a of this Code regarding school report | ||||||
21 | cards;
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22 | (8) the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act; | ||||||
23 | (9) Section 27-23.7 of this Code regarding bullying | ||||||
24 | prevention; | ||||||
25 | (10) Section 2-3.162 of this Code regarding student | ||||||
26 | discipline reporting; and |
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1 | (11) Sections 22-80 and 27-8.1 of this Code ; and . | ||||||
2 | (12) Sections 10-20.60 and 34-18.53 of this Code. | ||||||
3 | The change made by Public Act 96-104 to this subsection (g) | ||||||
4 | is declaratory of existing law. | ||||||
5 | (h) A charter school may negotiate and contract with a | ||||||
6 | school district, the
governing body of a State college or | ||||||
7 | university or public community college, or
any other public or | ||||||
8 | for-profit or nonprofit private entity for: (i) the use
of a | ||||||
9 | school building and grounds or any other real property or | ||||||
10 | facilities that
the charter school desires to use or convert | ||||||
11 | for use as a charter school site,
(ii) the operation and | ||||||
12 | maintenance thereof, and
(iii) the provision of any service, | ||||||
13 | activity, or undertaking that the charter
school is required to | ||||||
14 | perform in order to carry out the terms of its charter.
| ||||||
15 | However, a charter school
that is established on
or
after April | ||||||
16 | 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3) and that | ||||||
17 | operates
in a city having a population exceeding
500,000 may | ||||||
18 | not contract with a for-profit entity to
manage or operate the | ||||||
19 | school during the period that commences on April 16, 2003 (the
| ||||||
20 | effective date of Public Act 93-3) and
concludes at the end of | ||||||
21 | the 2004-2005 school year.
Except as provided in subsection (i) | ||||||
22 | of this Section, a school district may
charge a charter school | ||||||
23 | reasonable rent for the use of the district's
buildings, | ||||||
24 | grounds, and facilities. Any services for which a charter | ||||||
25 | school
contracts
with a school district shall be provided by | ||||||
26 | the district at cost. Any services
for which a charter school |
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1 | contracts with a local school board or with the
governing body | ||||||
2 | of a State college or university or public community college
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3 | shall be provided by the public entity at cost.
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4 | (i) In no event shall a charter school that is established | ||||||
5 | by converting an
existing school or attendance center to | ||||||
6 | charter school status be required to
pay rent for space
that is | ||||||
7 | deemed available, as negotiated and provided in the charter | ||||||
8 | agreement,
in school district
facilities. However, all other | ||||||
9 | costs for the operation and maintenance of
school district | ||||||
10 | facilities that are used by the charter school shall be subject
| ||||||
11 | to negotiation between
the charter school and the local school | ||||||
12 | board and shall be set forth in the
charter.
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13 | (j) A charter school may limit student enrollment by age or | ||||||
14 | grade level.
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15 | (k) If the charter school is approved by the Commission, | ||||||
16 | then the Commission charter school is its own local education | ||||||
17 | agency. | ||||||
18 | (Source: P.A. 98-16, eff. 5-24-13; 98-639, eff. 6-9-14; 98-669, | ||||||
19 | eff. 6-26-14; 98-739, eff. 7-16-14; 98-783, eff. 1-1-15; | ||||||
20 | 98-1059, eff. 8-26-14; 98-1102, eff. 8-26-14; 99-30, eff. | ||||||
21 | 7-10-15; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-245, eff. 8-3-15; 99-325, eff. | ||||||
22 | 8-10-15; 99-456, eff. 9-15-16; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 99-927, | ||||||
23 | eff. 6-1-17.) | ||||||
24 | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.53 new) | ||||||
25 | Sec. 34-18.53. Breastfeeding accommodations for pupils. |
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1 | (a) Each public school shall provide reasonable | ||||||
2 | accommodations to a lactating pupil on a school campus to | ||||||
3 | express breast milk, breastfeed an infant child, or address | ||||||
4 | other needs related to breastfeeding. Reasonable | ||||||
5 | accommodations under this Section include, but are not limited | ||||||
6 | to, all of the following: | ||||||
7 | (1) Access to a private and secure room, other than a | ||||||
8 | restroom, to express breast milk or breastfeed an infant | ||||||
9 | child. | ||||||
10 | (2) Permission to bring onto a school campus a breast | ||||||
11 | pump and any other equipment used to express breast milk. | ||||||
12 | (3) Access to a power source for a breast pump or any | ||||||
13 | other equipment used to express breast milk. | ||||||
14 | (4) Access to a place to store expressed breast milk | ||||||
15 | safely. | ||||||
16 | (b) A lactating pupil on a school campus must be provided a | ||||||
17 | reasonable amount of time to accommodate her need to express | ||||||
18 | breast milk or breastfeed an infant child. | ||||||
19 | (c) A public school shall provide the reasonable | ||||||
20 | accommodations specified in subsections (a) and (b) of this | ||||||
21 | Section only if there is at least one lactating pupil on the | ||||||
22 | school campus. | ||||||
23 | (d) A public school may use an existing facility to meet | ||||||
24 | the requirements specified in subsection (a) of this Section. | ||||||
25 | (e) A pupil may not incur an academic penalty as a result | ||||||
26 | of her use, during the school day, of the reasonable |
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1 | accommodations specified in this Section and must be provided | ||||||
2 | the opportunity to make up any work missed due to such use. | ||||||
3 | (f) In instances where a student files a complaint of | ||||||
4 | noncompliance with the requirements of this Section, the public | ||||||
5 | school shall implement the grievance procedure of 23 Ill. Adm. | ||||||
6 | Code 200, including appeals procedures.
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7 | Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes | ||||||
8 | changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text | ||||||
9 | that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section | ||||||
10 | represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does | ||||||
11 | not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes | ||||||
12 | made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other | ||||||
13 | Public Act.".
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