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