Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
Filed: 5/24/2018
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4208
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4208 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 | 2-3.162 and by adding Section 2-3.173 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.162) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 2-3.162. Student discipline report; school discipline | ||||||
8 | improvement plan. | ||||||
9 | (a) On or before October 31, 2015 and on or before October | ||||||
10 | 31 of each subsequent year, the State Board of Education, | ||||||
11 | through the State Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a | ||||||
12 | report on student discipline in all school districts in this | ||||||
13 | State, including State-authorized charter schools. This report | ||||||
14 | shall include data from all public schools within school | ||||||
15 | districts, including district-authorized charter schools. This | ||||||
16 | report must be posted on the Internet website of the State |
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1 | Board of Education. The report shall include data on the | ||||||
2 | issuance of out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and | ||||||
3 | removals to alternative settings in lieu of another | ||||||
4 | disciplinary action, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, | ||||||
5 | gender, age, grade level, whether a student is an English | ||||||
6 | learner, incident type, and discipline duration. | ||||||
7 | (b) The State Board of Education shall analyze the data | ||||||
8 | under subsection (a) of this Section on an annual basis and | ||||||
9 | determine the top 20% of school districts qualifying under any | ||||||
10 | of for the following metrics: | ||||||
11 | (1) Total number of out-of-school suspensions divided | ||||||
12 | by the total district enrollment by the last school day in | ||||||
13 | September for the year in which the data was collected, | ||||||
14 | multiplied by 100. | ||||||
15 | (2) Total number of out-of-school expulsions divided | ||||||
16 | by the total district enrollment by the last school day in | ||||||
17 | September for the year in which the data was collected, | ||||||
18 | multiplied by 100. | ||||||
19 | (3) Racial disproportionality, defined as the | ||||||
20 | overrepresentation of students of color or white students | ||||||
21 | in comparison to the total number of students of color or | ||||||
22 | white students on October 1st of the school year in which | ||||||
23 | data are collected, with respect to the use of | ||||||
24 | out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, which must be | ||||||
25 | calculated using the same method as the U.S. Department of | ||||||
26 | Education's Office for Civil Rights uses. |
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1 | The analysis must be based on data collected over 3 | ||||||
2 | consecutive school years, beginning with the 2014-2015 school | ||||||
3 | year. | ||||||
4 | (c) On or before October 31, 2018 and on or before October | ||||||
5 | 31 of each subsequent year, the State Board of Education shall | ||||||
6 | notify each school district Beginning with the 2017-2018 school | ||||||
7 | year, the State Board of Education shall require each of the | ||||||
8 | school districts that are identified in the top 20% of any of | ||||||
9 | the metrics described in this subsection (b) of this Section | ||||||
10 | for 3 consecutive school years that the school district must | ||||||
11 | submit a plan in conformance with subsection (d) of this | ||||||
12 | Section. | ||||||
13 | (d) School districts identified in the top 20% of any of | ||||||
14 | the metrics described in subsection (b) of this Section for 3 | ||||||
15 | consecutive school years must, in a manner prescribed by the | ||||||
16 | State Board of Education, submit a plan to the State Board of | ||||||
17 | Education that identifies to submit a plan identifying the | ||||||
18 | strategies the school district will implement to reduce the use | ||||||
19 | of exclusionary disciplinary practices or racial | ||||||
20 | disproportionality or both, if applicable. School districts | ||||||
21 | that no longer meet the criteria described in any of the | ||||||
22 | metrics described in this subsection (b) for 3 consecutive | ||||||
23 | years shall no longer be required to submit a plan. | ||||||
24 | This plan may be combined with any other improvement plans | ||||||
25 | required under federal or State law. | ||||||
26 | The plan must be approved at a public school board meeting |
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1 | no later than 90 days after notification from the State Board | ||||||
2 | of Education pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section and | ||||||
3 | must be posted on the school district's Internet website. | ||||||
4 | Within one calendar year after the school board's approval of | ||||||
5 | the plan, the school district shall submit to the State Board | ||||||
6 | of Education, in a manner prescribed by the State Board of | ||||||
7 | Education, and post on the district's Internet website a | ||||||
8 | progress report describing the implementation of the plan and | ||||||
9 | the results achieved. Additional annual progress reports shall | ||||||
10 | be required until a school district no longer meets the | ||||||
11 | criteria in any of the metrics described in subsection (b) of | ||||||
12 | this Section for 3 consecutive school years. | ||||||
13 | (e) The calculation of the top 20% of any of the metrics | ||||||
14 | described in this subsection (b) of this Section shall exclude | ||||||
15 | all school districts, State-authorized charter schools, and | ||||||
16 | special charter districts that issued fewer than a total of 10 | ||||||
17 | out-of-school suspensions or expulsions, whichever is | ||||||
18 | applicable, during the school year. The calculation of the top | ||||||
19 | 20% of the metric described in subdivision (3) of this | ||||||
20 | subsection (b) of this Section shall exclude all school | ||||||
21 | districts with an enrollment of fewer than 50 white students or | ||||||
22 | fewer than 50 students of color. | ||||||
23 | The plan must be approved at a public school board meeting | ||||||
24 | and posted on the school district's Internet website. Within | ||||||
25 | one year after being identified, the school district shall | ||||||
26 | submit to the State Board of Education and post on the |
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1 | district's Internet website a progress report describing the | ||||||
2 | implementation of the plan and the results achieved.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 98-1102, eff. 8-26-14; 99-30, eff. 7-10-15; | ||||||
4 | 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; revised 9-25-17.) | ||||||
5 | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.173 new) | ||||||
6 | Sec. 2-3.173. Safe Schools and Healthy Learning | ||||||
7 | Environments Grant Program. | ||||||
8 | (a) The State Board of Education, subject to appropriation, | ||||||
9 | is authorized to award competitive grants on an annual basis | ||||||
10 | under a Safe Schools and Healthy Learning Environments Grant | ||||||
11 | Program. The goal of this grant program is to promote school | ||||||
12 | safety and healthy learning environments by reducing the | ||||||
13 | reliance on exclusionary discipline and law enforcement | ||||||
14 | referrals to address school disciplinary matters while | ||||||
15 | implementing alternative strategies that will better address | ||||||
16 | the full range of students' intellectual, social, emotional, | ||||||
17 | physical, psychological, and moral developmental needs. | ||||||
18 | (b) To receive a grant under this program, a school | ||||||
19 | district must submit with its grant application a plan for | ||||||
20 | implementing evidence-based and promising practices that are | ||||||
21 | aligned with the goal of this program. The application may | ||||||
22 | include proposals to (i) hire additional school support | ||||||
23 | personnel, including, but not limited to, restorative justice | ||||||
24 | practitioners, school psychologists, school social workers, | ||||||
25 | and other mental and behavioral health specialists; (ii) use |
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1 | existing school-based resources, community-based resources, or | ||||||
2 | other experts and practitioners to expand alternatives to | ||||||
3 | exclusionary discipline and referrals to law enforcement, | ||||||
4 | mental and behavioral health supports, wraparound services, or | ||||||
5 | drug and alcohol treatment; and (iii) provide training for | ||||||
6 | school staff on trauma-informed approaches to meeting | ||||||
7 | students' developmental needs, addressing the effects of toxic | ||||||
8 | stress, and disciplinary alternatives to exclusionary | ||||||
9 | discipline and law enforcement involvement, such as | ||||||
10 | restorative justice approaches, conflict resolution | ||||||
11 | techniques, and expanded use of school support personnel and | ||||||
12 | community-based services. For purposes of this subsection (b), | ||||||
13 | "promising practices" means practices that present, based on | ||||||
14 | preliminary information, potential for becoming evidence-based | ||||||
15 | practices. | ||||||
16 | Grant funds shall not be used to increase the use of | ||||||
17 | school-based law enforcement or security personnel. Nothing in | ||||||
18 | this Section shall prohibit school districts from involving law | ||||||
19 | enforcement personnel when necessary and allowed by law. | ||||||
20 | (c) The State Board of Education, subject to appropriation | ||||||
21 | for the grant program, shall annually disseminate a request for | ||||||
22 | applications to this program, and funds shall be distributed | ||||||
23 | annually. The criteria to be considered by the State Board of | ||||||
24 | Education in awarding the funds shall be (i) the average ratio | ||||||
25 | of school support personnel to students in the target schools | ||||||
26 | over the preceding 3 school years, with relatively low ratios |
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1 | receiving priority; and (ii) the degree to which the proposal | ||||||
2 | articulates a comprehensive approach for reducing exclusionary | ||||||
3 | discipline and law enforcement referrals while building safe | ||||||
4 | and healthy learning environments. Priority shall be given to | ||||||
5 | school districts that meet the metrics under subsection (b) of | ||||||
6 | Section 2-3.162 of this Code. | ||||||
7 | (d) The State Board of Education, subject to appropriation | ||||||
8 | for the grant program, shall produce an
annual report on the | ||||||
9 | program in
cooperation with the school districts participating | ||||||
10 | in the program. The report shall include available
quantitative | ||||||
11 | information on the progress being made in reducing the reliance | ||||||
12 | on exclusionary discipline and law enforcement referrals to | ||||||
13 | address school disciplinary matters and the effects of the | ||||||
14 | program on school safety and school climate. This report shall | ||||||
15 | be posted on the State Board of Education's website by
October | ||||||
16 | 31 of each year, beginning in 2019. | ||||||
17 | (e) The State Board of Education may adopt any rules | ||||||
18 | necessary for the implementation of this program.
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19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
20 | 2018.".
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