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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 1. This Act may be referred to as the School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Materials and Activities Report for Transparency Law. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 10-20.85 and 34-18.82 as follows: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | (105 ILCS 5/10-20.85 new) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Sec. 10-20.85. Learning materials and activities report. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | (a) In this Section: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | "Activities" includes, but is not limited to, student | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | assemblies, guest lectures, educational events facilitated by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | a school's administration or staff, or educational events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | conducted by outside individuals or organizations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | "Activities" does not include student presentations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | "Learning materials" includes, but is not limited to, any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | of the following: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | (1) Instructional material that consists of content | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | that conveys to a student through a medium or a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | combination of media the essential knowledge, information, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | and skills pertaining to a subject included in a public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | school curriculum. In this paragraph (1), "instructional |
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1 | material" includes a book or books; workbooks; | ||||||
2 | supplementary materials; a combination of a book or books, | ||||||
3 | workbooks, and supplementary materials; computer software, | ||||||
4 | magnetic media, DVDs, CD-ROMs, computer courseware, online | ||||||
5 | services, or an electronic medium; or other means of | ||||||
6 | conveying information to a student or otherwise | ||||||
7 | contributing to the learning process through electronic | ||||||
8 | means, including through open education resource | ||||||
9 | instructional material as described in paragraph (2) of | ||||||
10 | this definition. | ||||||
11 | (2) Open education resource instructional material | ||||||
12 | that consists of teaching, learning, and research | ||||||
13 | resources that reside in the public domain or have been | ||||||
14 | released under an intellectual property license and allows | ||||||
15 | for the free use, reuse, modification, and sharing of | ||||||
16 | resources with others. In this paragraph (2), "open | ||||||
17 | education resource instructional material" includes full | ||||||
18 | courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming | ||||||
19 | videos, tests or exams, software, or any other tools, | ||||||
20 | materials, or techniques used to support access to | ||||||
21 | knowledge and also includes State-developed open education | ||||||
22 | resource instructional material. | ||||||
23 | (3) Teaching aids. | ||||||
24 | (4) Any other material for student instruction in | ||||||
25 | which a student has the option to select the material. | ||||||
26 | "Used for student instruction" means assigned, provided, |
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1 | or otherwise presented to a school's students in (i) any | ||||||
2 | course for which students receive academic credit or (ii) any | ||||||
3 | educational capacity in which participation of the student | ||||||
4 | body is required by the school or in which a majority of the | ||||||
5 | students in a particular grade level participate. | ||||||
6 | (b) Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, the school | ||||||
7 | board of each school district shall report for each of the | ||||||
8 | district's schools the following information in a prominent | ||||||
9 | location on the district's website: | ||||||
10 | (1) A list of the learning materials and activities | ||||||
11 | that are to be used for student instruction during the | ||||||
12 | school year. The list of learning materials and activities | ||||||
13 | shall be organized, at a minimum, by grade level and | ||||||
14 | subject area. | ||||||
15 | (2) Any procedures that are in effect at each school | ||||||
16 | for the documentation, review, or approval by the school's | ||||||
17 | administrators, principal, or teachers of the learning | ||||||
18 | materials and activities used for student instruction. | ||||||
19 | (c) Under this Section, a school board shall provide
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20 | updated information on the district's website by
January 1 and | ||||||
21 | August 1 of each year and more frequently
as the school board | ||||||
22 | deems appropriate. A
school board is required to report only | ||||||
23 | the information that is necessary to identify the specific | ||||||
24 | learning materials and activities used for student instruction | ||||||
25 | at each school. The information reported must include the | ||||||
26 | title and the author, the name of the organization, or the |
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1 | Internet address, as appropriate, associated with each of the | ||||||
2 | learning materials or activities. Nothing in this Section may | ||||||
3 | be construed to require either of the following: | ||||||
4 | (1) The publication of a digital reproduction of | ||||||
5 | learning materials on a school district's website. | ||||||
6 | (2) A separate listing of the individual components of | ||||||
7 | learning materials produced as a single volume; however, | ||||||
8 | if the volume contains works by multiple authors, the | ||||||
9 | listing shall provide either a table of contents or an | ||||||
10 | Internet address that discloses the discrete works and | ||||||
11 | authors contained within the volume. | ||||||
12 | (d) Under this Section, a school district may, but is not | ||||||
13 | required to: | ||||||
14 | (1) update the report and post the updated report on | ||||||
15 | the district's website on an ongoing basis during the | ||||||
16 | school year, provided that an updated report is completed | ||||||
17 | by January 1 and August 1; and | ||||||
18 | (2) utilize collaborative online document or | ||||||
19 | spreadsheet software that allows multiple authorized users | ||||||
20 | to update or make additions to the report on an ongoing | ||||||
21 | basis, provided that a link to the report is publicly | ||||||
22 | accessible on the district's website. | ||||||
23 | (e) Each school district's report under this Section shall | ||||||
24 | remain publicly available on the school district's website at | ||||||
25 | least until the next report for the year is completed and made | ||||||
26 | publicly available on the district's website. |
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1 | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.82 new) | ||||||
2 | Sec. 34-18.82. Learning materials and activities report. | ||||||
3 | (a) In this Section: | ||||||
4 | "Activities" includes, but is not limited to, student | ||||||
5 | assemblies, guest lectures, educational events facilitated by | ||||||
6 | a school's administration or staff, or educational events | ||||||
7 | conducted by outside individuals or organizations. | ||||||
8 | "Activities" does not include student presentations. | ||||||
9 | "Learning materials" includes, but is not limited to, any | ||||||
10 | of the following: | ||||||
11 | (1) Instructional material that consists of content | ||||||
12 | that conveys to a student through a medium or a | ||||||
13 | combination of media the essential knowledge, information, | ||||||
14 | and skills pertaining to a subject included in a public | ||||||
15 | school curriculum. In this paragraph (1), "instructional | ||||||
16 | material" includes a book or books; workbooks; | ||||||
17 | supplementary materials; a combination of a book or books, | ||||||
18 | workbooks, and supplementary materials; computer software, | ||||||
19 | magnetic media, DVDs, CD-ROMs, computer courseware, online | ||||||
20 | services, or an electronic medium; or other means of | ||||||
21 | conveying information to a student or otherwise | ||||||
22 | contributing to the learning process through electronic | ||||||
23 | means, including through open education resource | ||||||
24 | instructional material as described in paragraph (2) of | ||||||
25 | this definition. |
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1 | (2) Open education resource instructional material | ||||||
2 | that consists of teaching, learning, and research | ||||||
3 | resources that reside in the public domain or have been | ||||||
4 | released under an intellectual property license and allows | ||||||
5 | for the free use, reuse, modification, and sharing of | ||||||
6 | resources with others. In this paragraph (2), "open | ||||||
7 | education resource instructional material" includes full | ||||||
8 | courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming | ||||||
9 | videos, tests or exams, software, or any other tools, | ||||||
10 | materials, or techniques used to support access to | ||||||
11 | knowledge and also includes State-developed open education | ||||||
12 | resource instructional material. | ||||||
13 | (3) Teaching aids. | ||||||
14 | (4) Any other material for student instruction in | ||||||
15 | which a student has the option to select the material. | ||||||
16 | "Used for student instruction" means assigned, provided, | ||||||
17 | or otherwise presented to a school's students in (i) any | ||||||
18 | course for which students receive academic credit or (ii) any | ||||||
19 | educational capacity in which participation of the student | ||||||
20 | body is required by the school or in which a majority of the | ||||||
21 | students in a particular grade level participate. | ||||||
22 | (b) Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, the board | ||||||
23 | shall report for each of the school district's schools the | ||||||
24 | following information in a prominent location on the | ||||||
25 | district's website: | ||||||
26 | (1) A list of the learning materials and activities |
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1 | that are to be used for student instruction during the | ||||||
2 | school year. The list of learning materials and activities | ||||||
3 | shall be organized, at a minimum, by grade level and | ||||||
4 | subject area. | ||||||
5 | (2) Any procedures that are in effect at each school | ||||||
6 | for the documentation, review, or approval by each | ||||||
7 | school's administrators, principal, or teachers of the | ||||||
8 | learning materials and activities used for student | ||||||
9 | instruction. | ||||||
10 | (c) Under this Section, the board shall provide updated
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11 | information on the district's website by January 1 and
August | ||||||
12 | 1 of each year and more frequently as the board deems | ||||||
13 | appropriate. The board is required to report only the | ||||||
14 | information that is necessary to identify the specific | ||||||
15 | learning materials and activities used for student instruction | ||||||
16 | at each school. The information reported must include the | ||||||
17 | title and the author, the name of the organization, or the | ||||||
18 | Internet address, as appropriate, associated with each of the | ||||||
19 | learning materials or activities. Nothing in this Section may | ||||||
20 | be construed to require either of the following: | ||||||
21 | (1) The publication of a digital reproduction of | ||||||
22 | learning materials on the school district's website. | ||||||
23 | (2) A separate listing of the individual components of | ||||||
24 | learning materials produced as a single volume; however, | ||||||
25 | if the volume contains works by multiple authors, the | ||||||
26 | listing shall provide either a table of contents or an |
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1 | Internet address that discloses the discrete works and | ||||||
2 | authors contained within the volume. | ||||||
3 | (d) Under this Section, the school district may, but is | ||||||
4 | not required to: | ||||||
5 | (1) update the report and post the updated report on | ||||||
6 | the district's website on an ongoing basis during the | ||||||
7 | school year, provided that an updated report is completed | ||||||
8 | by January 1 and August 1; and | ||||||
9 | (2) utilize collaborative online document or | ||||||
10 | spreadsheet software that allows multiple authorized users | ||||||
11 | to update or make additions to the report on an ongoing | ||||||
12 | basis, provided that a link to the report is publicly | ||||||
13 | accessible on the district's website. | ||||||
14 | (e) Each report under this Section shall remain publicly | ||||||
15 | available on the school district's website at least until the | ||||||
16 | next report for the year is completed and made publicly | ||||||
17 | available on the district's website.
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18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
19 | becoming law.
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