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 1        AN ACT concerning education.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Sections  3-11,  10-19,  10-22.18d,  18-8.05,  and  18-12  as
 6    follows:

 7        (105 ILCS 5/3-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-11)
 8        Sec.  3-11.   Institutes or inservice training workshops.
 9    In counties of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the  regional
10    superintendent may arrange for or conduct district, regional,
11    or  county institutes, or equivalent professional educational
12    experiences, not more than 4 days annually. Of those 4  days,
13    2  days may be used as a teacher's workshop, when approved by
14    the regional superintendent, up to 2 days  may  be  used  for
15    conducting  parent-teacher conferences or up to 2 days may be
16    utilized as parental institute days as  provided  in  Section
17    10-22.18d.  A  school  district  may  use  an  one  of  its 4
18    institute day days on  the  last  day  of  the  school  term.
19    "Institute"  or  "professional educational experiences" means
20    any  inservice  training  workshop,  educational   gathering,
21    demonstration   of  methods  of  instruction,  visitation  of
22    schools or other institutions or facilities, or sexual  abuse
23    and  sexual assault awareness seminar held or approved by the
24    regional  superintendent  and  declared  by  him  to  be   an
25    institute   day,  or  parent-teacher  conferences.  With  the
26    concurrence of the State Superintendent of Education,  he  or
27    she may employ such assistance as is necessary to conduct the
28    institute.   Two  or  more  adjoining  regions  counties  may
29    jointly  hold  an  institute.  Institute instruction shall be
30    free to  holders  of  certificates  good  in  the  county  or
31    counties holding the institute, and to those who have paid an
 
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 1    examination fee and failed to receive a certificate.
 2        In   counties  of  2,000,000  or  more  inhabitants,  the
 3    regional superintendent may arrange for or conduct  district,
 4    regional,   or   county   inservice  training  workshops,  or
 5    equivalent professional  educational  experiences,  not  more
 6    than 4 days annually. Of those 4 days, 2 days may be used for
 7    conducting parent-teacher conferences and up to 2 days may be
 8    utilized  as  parental  institute days as provided in Section
 9    10-22.18d. A school district may use  an  inservice  training
10    workshop  day  one  of  those  4  days on the last day of the
11    school term.  "Inservice training workshops" or "professional
12    educational experiences"  means  any  educational  gathering,
13    demonstration   of  methods  of  instruction,  visitation  of
14    schools or other institutions or facilities, or sexual  abuse
15    and  sexual assault awareness seminar held or approved by the
16    regional  superintendent  and  declared  by  him  to  be   an
17    inservice  training  workshop, or parent-teacher conferences.
18    With  the  concurrence  of  the   State   Superintendent   of
19    Education,  he  may employ such assistance as is necessary to
20    conduct the inservice training workshop.  With  the  approval
21    of the regional superintendent, 2 or more adjoining districts
22    may jointly hold an inservice training workshop. In addition,
23    with   the  approval  of  the  regional  superintendent,  one
24    district may conduct its own inservice training workshop with
25    subject matter consultants requested from the  county,  State
26    or any State institution of higher learning.
27        Such teachers' teachers institutes as referred to in this
28    Section  may  be  held on consecutive or separate days at the
29    option of the  regional  superintendent  having  jurisdiction
30    thereof.
31        Whenever reference is made in this Code Act to "teachers'
32    teachers  institute",  it  shall  be construed to include the
33    inservice  training  workshops  or  equivalent   professional
34    educational experiences provided for in this Section.
 
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 1        Any  institute  advisory  committee  existing on April 1,
 2    1995, is dissolved and the duties and responsibilities of the
 3    institute advisory committee  are  assumed  by  the  regional
 4    office of education advisory board.
 5        Districts  providing  inservice  training  programs shall
 6    constitute  inservice  committees,  1/2  of  which  shall  be
 7    teachers, 1/4 school service personnel and 1/4 administrators
 8    to establish program content and schedules.
 9        The teachers' teachers institutes shall  include  teacher
10    training  committed  to  peer  counseling  programs and other
11    anti-violence and  conflict  resolution  programs,  including
12    without  limitation  programs for preventing at risk students
13    from committing violent acts.
14    (Source: P.A. 91-491, eff. 8-13-99.)

15        (105 ILCS 5/10-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-19)
16        Sec. 10-19.   Length  of  school  term   -   experimental
17    programs. Each school board shall annually prepare and submit
18    to the State Board of Education for approval a proposed and a
19    final  a calendar for the school term, specifying the opening
20    and closing dates and providing a minimum term  of  at  least
21    190 185 days, including a minimum of 10 emergency days and up
22    to the equivalent of 4 days for approved teachers' institutes
23    under  Section  3-11,  parent-teacher  conferences,  parental
24    institutes   under  Section  10-22.18d,  in-service  training
25    programs  under  Section  10-22.39,  and  school  improvement
26    activities,  to  ensure  insure  176  days  of  actual  pupil
27    attendance, computable under Section 18-8.05, and  to  ensure
28    at  least  880  student  contact  hours  except  that for the
29    1980-1981  school  year  only  175  days  of   actual   pupil
30    attendance  shall  be  required  because  of  the  closing of
31    schools pursuant to Section 24-2 on January 29, 1981 upon the
32    appointment by  the  President  of  that  day  as  a  day  of
33    thanksgiving  for  the  freedom of the Americans who had been
 
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 1    held   hostage   in   Iran.   These   teachers'   institutes,
 2    parent-teacher conferences, parental  institutes,  in-service
 3    training  programs, and school improvement activities must be
 4    approved by the regional superintendent of schools and may be
 5    conducted on full  days  or  half  days,  provided  that  the
 6    activities   are   not  held  on  days  included  within  the
 7    district's 176 days of  actual  pupil  attendance.  Any  days
 8    allowed  by  law  for  teachers'  institutes,  parent-teacher
 9    conferences,   parental   institutes,   in-service   training
10    programs,   and   school   improvement  activities  teachers'
11    institute but not used as such or used as parental institutes
12    as provided in Section 10-22.18d shall increase  the  minimum
13    number  of days of actual pupil attendance term by the school
14    days not so used.  Except as provided in Section 10-19.1, the
15    board may not extend the school term beyond such closing date
16    unless that extension of term is  necessary  to  provide  the
17    minimum number of computable days.  In case of such necessary
18    extension  school employees shall be paid for such additional
19    time on the basis of their regular contracts if the extension
20    increases the number of days that employees are  required  to
21    work.  A school board may specify a closing date earlier than
22    that  set  on  the  annual  calendar  when the schools of the
23    district have provided the minimum number of computable  days
24    under  this  Section.  Nothing  in  this Section prevents the
25    board from employing superintendents of  schools,  principals
26    and other nonteaching personnel for a period of 12 months, or
27    in  the  case  of  superintendents for a period in accordance
28    with Section 10-23.8, or prevents the  board  from  employing
29    other  personnel before or after the regular school term with
30    payment  of  salary  proportionate  to  that   received   for
31    comparable work during the school term.
32        A  school board may make such changes in its calendar for
33    the school term as may be required  by  any  changes  in  the
34    legal  school  holidays prescribed in Section 24-2.  A school
 
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 1    board may make changes in its calendar for the school term as
 2    may be necessary to  reflect  the  utilization  of  teachers'
 3    institute  days  as  parental  institute  days as provided in
 4    Section 10-22.18d.
 5        With the prior approval of the State Board  of  Education
 6    and subject to review by the State Board of Education every 3
 7    years,  any  school board may, by resolution of its board and
 8    in agreement with affected  exclusive  collective  bargaining
 9    agents,    establish   experimental   educational   programs,
10    including but  not  limited  to  programs  for  self-directed
11    learning  or  outside of formal class periods, which programs
12    when so approved shall  be  considered  to  comply  with  the
13    requirements  of  this Section as respects numbers of days of
14    actual pupil attendance and with the  other  requirements  of
15    this Act as respects courses of instruction.
16    (Source: P.A. 91-96, eff. 7-9-99.)

17        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.18d) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.18d)
18        Sec.  10-22.18d.  Parental institutes.  A school district
19    may utilize up to two  days  allowed  by  law  for  teachers'
20    institutes to conduct parental institutes for the parents and
21    guardians  of  children attending the district if approved by
22    the regional superintendent of schools under  Section  10-19.
23    No  district  may conduct utilize teachers' institute days as
24    parental institute days without the consent of the district's
25    inservice advisory committee created under Section 3-11.   If
26    a  district  does  not  have an inservice advisory committee,
27    parental institute days must be approved  by  the  district's
28    teaching staff.
29        Parental  institutes  shall  be  designed  by  the school
30    district  upon  consultation  with  the  district's  teaching
31    staff,  administrators,  and  parents'  organizations.    The
32    district   may   provide   appropriate  personnel,  including
33    district staff, to conduct, attend, or participate in all  or
 
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 1    any portion of the institutes.
 2        Parental  institutes  shall  provide  information on such
 3    topics as the district shall deem necessary  to  achieve  the
 4    following purposes:
 5             (1)  Enhance  parental  involvement in the education
 6        of the district's students;
 7             (2)  Improve parental communication and  involvement
 8        with the district;
 9             (3)  Enhance    parental    knowledge    of    child
10        development,  district  programs,  school conditions, and
11        societal problems threatening students; and
12             (4)  Improve parental skill development.
13        Districts shall  use  every  means  available  to  inform
14    parents  and  guardians  about  parental  institutes  and  to
15    encourage  attendance  at  and  active  participation in such
16    events.
17        Parental institutes may be held during that period of the
18    day which is not part of the regular school day  and  may  be
19    held  on  Saturdays.   Days scheduled for parental institutes
20    may be scheduled separately for different  grade  levels  and
21    different attendance centers of the district.
22        Districts  may  establish  reasonable fees, not to exceed
23    the cost of holding parental institutes, for  attendance  and
24    shall  waive  any  fees  so  established  for  any parents or
25    guardians who may be unable to  afford  such  fees.   Nothing
26    shall  preclude  districts  from  applying  for  or accepting
27    private funds to conduct parental institutes.
28    (Source: P.A. 86-1250.)

29        (105 ILCS 5/18-8.05)
30        Sec. 18-8.05.  Basis for apportionment of  general  State
31    financial  aid  and  supplemental  general  State  aid to the
32    common schools for the 1998-1999 and subsequent school years.

33    (A)  General Provisions.
 
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 1        (1)  The  provisions  of  this  Section  apply   to   the
 2    1998-1999 and subsequent school years.  The system of general
 3    State  financial aid provided for in this Section is designed
 4    to assure that, through a combination of State financial  aid
 5    and  required local resources, the financial support provided
 6    each pupil in Average Daily Attendance equals  or  exceeds  a
 7    prescribed per pupil Foundation Level.  This formula approach
 8    imputes  a  level  of per pupil Available Local Resources and
 9    provides for the basis to calculate  a  per  pupil  level  of
10    general  State  financial  aid  that, when added to Available
11    Local Resources, equals or exceeds the Foundation Level.  The
12    amount of per pupil general State financial  aid  for  school
13    districts,   in   general,  varies  in  inverse  relation  to
14    Available Local Resources.  Per pupil amounts are based  upon
15    each  school district's Average Daily Attendance as that term
16    is defined in this Section.
17        (2)  In addition to general State financial  aid,  school
18    districts  with  specified levels or concentrations of pupils
19    from  low  income  households   are   eligible   to   receive
20    supplemental  general  State financial aid grants as provided
21    pursuant to subsection (H). The supplemental State aid grants
22    provided for school districts under subsection (H)  shall  be
23    appropriated  for distribution to school districts as part of
24    the same line item in which the general State  financial  aid
25    of school districts is appropriated under this Section.
26        (3)  To  receive financial assistance under this Section,
27    school districts are required to file claims with  the  State
28    Board of Education, subject to the following requirements:
29             (a)  Any  school  district which fails for any given
30        school year to maintain school as required by law, or  to
31        maintain  a recognized school is not eligible to file for
32        such school year any claim upon the Common  School  Fund.
33        In  case  of  nonrecognition  of  one  or more attendance
34        centers  in  a  school   district   otherwise   operating
 
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 1        recognized  schools,  the  claim of the district shall be
 2        reduced  in  the  proportion  which  the  Average   Daily
 3        Attendance  in  the  attendance center or centers bear to
 4        the Average Daily Attendance in the school  district.   A
 5        "recognized  school"  means any public school which meets
 6        the standards as established for recognition by the State
 7        Board of Education.   A  school  district  or  attendance
 8        center  not  having  recognition  status  at the end of a
 9        school term is entitled to receive State aid payments due
10        upon  a  legal  claim  which  was  filed  while  it   was
11        recognized.
12             (b)  School district claims filed under this Section
13        are subject to Sections 18-9, 18-10, and 18-12, except as
14        otherwise provided in this Section.
15             (c)  If  a  school  district  operates  a  full year
16        school under Section 10-19.1, the general  State  aid  to
17        the  school  district  shall  be  determined by the State
18        Board of Education in accordance  with  this  Section  as
19        near as may be applicable.
20             (d)  (Blank).
21        (4)  Except  as  provided in subsections (H) and (L), the
22    board of any district receiving any of  the  grants  provided
23    for  in  this  Section  may  apply those funds to any fund so
24    received  for  which  that  board  is  authorized   to   make
25    expenditures by law.
26        School  districts  are  not  required  to exert a minimum
27    Operating Tax Rate in order to qualify for  assistance  under
28    this Section.
29        (5)  As  used  in  this Section the following terms, when
30    capitalized, shall have the meaning ascribed herein:
31             (a)  "Average Daily Attendance":  A count  of  pupil
32        attendance   in  school,  averaged  as  provided  for  in
33        subsection  (C)  and  utilized  in  deriving  per   pupil
34        financial support levels.
 
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 1             (b)  "Available  Local Resources":  A computation of
 2        local financial  support,  calculated  on  the  basis  of
 3        Average Daily Attendance and derived as provided pursuant
 4        to subsection (D).
 5             (c)  "Corporate    Personal   Property   Replacement
 6        Taxes":  Funds paid to local school districts pursuant to
 7        "An Act in  relation  to  the  abolition  of  ad  valorem
 8        personal  property  tax  and  the replacement of revenues
 9        lost thereby, and amending and repealing certain Acts and
10        parts of Acts in connection therewith", certified  August
11        14, 1979, as amended (Public Act 81-1st S.S.-1).
12             (d)  "Foundation  Level":  A prescribed level of per
13        pupil financial support as  provided  for  in  subsection
14        (B).
15             (e)  "Operating  Tax  Rate":   All  school  district
16        property taxes extended for all purposes, except Bond and
17        Interest,  Summer  School, Rent, Capital Improvement, and
18        Vocational Education Building purposes.

19    (B)  Foundation Level.
20        (1)  The Foundation Level is a figure established by  the
21    State  representing  the minimum level of per pupil financial
22    support that should be available to  provide  for  the  basic
23    education  of each pupil in Average Daily Attendance.  As set
24    forth in this Section, each school  district  is  assumed  to
25    exert   a  sufficient  local  taxing  effort  such  that,  in
26    combination with the aggregate of general State financial aid
27    provided the  district,  an  aggregate  of  State  and  local
28    resources  are available to meet the basic education needs of
29    pupils in the district.
30        (2)  For the 1998-1999 school year, the Foundation  Level
31    of  support  is  $4,225.   For the 1999-2000 school year, the
32    Foundation Level of support is  $4,325.   For  the  2000-2001
33    school year, the Foundation Level of support is $4,425.
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 1    thereafter, the Foundation Level of support is $4,560 or such
 2    greater amount as may be established by law  by  the  General
 3    Assembly.

 4    (C)  Average Daily Attendance.
 5        (1)  For   purposes  of  calculating  general  State  aid
 6    pursuant to  subsection  (E),  an  Average  Daily  Attendance
 7    figure  shall  be  utilized.   The  Average  Daily Attendance
 8    figure for formula calculation purposes shall be the  monthly
 9    average  of the actual number of pupils in attendance of each
10    school district, as further averaged for the best 3 months of
11    pupil attendance for each school district.  In compiling  the
12    figures  for  the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance, school
13    districts  and  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall,  for
14    purposes of general State  aid  funding,  conform  attendance
15    figures to the requirements of subsection (F).
16        (2)  The  Average  Daily  Attendance  figures utilized in
17    subsection (E) shall be the requisite attendance data for the
18    school year immediately preceding the school year  for  which
19    general  State  aid is being calculated or the average of the
20    attendance data for the 3 preceding school  years,  whichever
21    is greater.  The Average Daily Attendance figures utilized in
22    subsection (H) shall be the requisite attendance data for the
23    school  year  immediately preceding the school year for which
24    general State aid is being calculated.

25    (D)  Available Local Resources.
26        (1)  For  purposes  of  calculating  general  State   aid
27    pursuant  to  subsection  (E),  a representation of Available
28    Local Resources per  pupil,  as  that  term  is  defined  and
29    determined  in this subsection, shall be utilized.  Available
30    Local Resources per pupil shall include a  calculated  dollar
31    amount representing local school district revenues from local
32    property   taxes   and   from   Corporate  Personal  Property
33    Replacement Taxes,  expressed  on  the  basis  of  pupils  in
 
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 1    Average Daily Attendance.
 2        (2)  In  determining  a  school  district's  revenue from
 3    local property taxes, the  State  Board  of  Education  shall
 4    utilize  the  equalized  assessed  valuation  of  all taxable
 5    property of each school district as of September  30  of  the
 6    previous  year.   The  equalized  assessed valuation utilized
 7    shall be obtained and determined as  provided  in  subsection
 8    (G).
 9        (3)  For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten
10    through  12,  local  property tax revenues per pupil shall be
11    calculated  as  the  product  of  the  applicable   equalized
12    assessed  valuation for the district multiplied by 3.00%, and
13    divided by the district's Average  Daily  Attendance  figure.
14    For  school districts maintaining grades kindergarten through
15    8, local property tax revenues per pupil shall be  calculated
16    as the product of the applicable equalized assessed valuation
17    for  the  district  multiplied  by  2.30%, and divided by the
18    district's  Average  Daily  Attendance  figure.   For  school
19    districts maintaining grades 9 through 12, local property tax
20    revenues per pupil shall be the applicable equalized assessed
21    valuation of the district multiplied by 1.05%, and divided by
22    the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
23        (4)  The Corporate Personal  Property  Replacement  Taxes
24    paid to each school district during the calendar year 2 years
25    before  the  calendar  year  in  which  a school year begins,
26    divided by the  Average  Daily  Attendance  figure  for  that
27    district,  shall  be added to the local property tax revenues
28    per pupil as derived by the application  of  the  immediately
29    preceding  paragraph (3).  The sum of these per pupil figures
30    for each school district  shall  constitute  Available  Local
31    Resources  as  that term is utilized in subsection (E) in the
32    calculation of general State aid.

33    (E)  Computation of General State Aid.
34        (1)  For each school year, the amount  of  general  State
 
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 1    aid  allotted  to  a school district shall be computed by the
 2    State Board of Education as provided in this subsection.
 3        (2)  For any school district for  which  Available  Local
 4    Resources  per  pupil  is less than the product of 0.93 times
 5    the Foundation Level, general State  aid  for  that  district
 6    shall  be  calculated  as  an  amount equal to the Foundation
 7    Level minus Available  Local  Resources,  multiplied  by  the
 8    Average Daily Attendance of the school district.
 9        (3)  For  any  school  district for which Available Local
10    Resources per pupil is equal to or greater than  the  product
11    of  0.93 times the Foundation Level and less than the product
12    of 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid per
13    pupil shall be a decimal proportion of the  Foundation  Level
14    derived   using   a  linear  algorithm.   Under  this  linear
15    algorithm, the calculated general State aid per  pupil  shall
16    decline   in  direct  linear  fashion  from  0.07  times  the
17    Foundation Level for a school district with  Available  Local
18    Resources  equal  to the product of 0.93 times the Foundation
19    Level, to 0.05  times  the  Foundation  Level  for  a  school
20    district  with Available Local Resources equal to the product
21    of 1.75  times  the  Foundation  Level.   The  allocation  of
22    general  State  aid  for  school  districts  subject  to this
23    paragraph 3 shall be the calculated  general  State  aid  per
24    pupil  figure  multiplied  by the Average Daily Attendance of
25    the school district.
26        (4)  For any school district for  which  Available  Local
27    Resources  per  pupil  equals  or exceeds the product of 1.75
28    times the Foundation Level, the general  State  aid  for  the
29    school  district  shall  be calculated as the product of $218
30    multiplied by the Average  Daily  Attendance  of  the  school
31    district.
32        (5)  The  amount  of  general  State  aid  allocated to a
33    school district for the 1999-2000  school  year  meeting  the
34    requirements  set  forth  in  paragraph (4) of subsection (G)
 
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 1    shall be increased by an amount equal to  the  general  State
 2    aid  that  would  have  been received by the district for the
 3    1998-1999 school year by utilizing the  Extension  Limitation
 4    Equalized  Assessed  Valuation as calculated in paragraph (4)
 5    of subsection (G) less the general State aid allotted for the
 6    1998-1999 school year.  This amount shall  be  deemed  a  one
 7    time  increase, and shall not affect any future general State
 8    aid allocations.

 9    (F)  Compilation of Average Daily Attendance.
10        (1)  Each school district shall, by July 1 of each  year,
11    submit  to  the State Board of Education, on forms prescribed
12    by the State Board of Education, attendance figures  for  the
13    school  year  that began in the preceding calendar year.  The
14    attendance information  so  transmitted  shall  identify  the
15    average daily attendance figures for each month of the school
16    year.   Beginning  with  the general State aid claim form for
17    the 2002-2003 school year, districts shall calculate  Average
18    Daily  Attendance  as  provided in subdivisions (a), (b), and
19    (c) of this paragraph (1).
20             (a)  In  districts  that  do  not  hold   year-round
21        classes,  days  of attendance in August shall be added to
22        the month of September and any days of attendance in June
23        shall be added to the month of May.
24             (b)  In  districts  in  which  all  buildings   hold
25        year-round classes, days of attendance in July and August
26        shall  be added to the month of September and any days of
27        attendance in June shall be added to the month of May.
28             (c)  In districts in which some buildings,  but  not
29        all,  hold  year-round  classes,  for  the non-year-round
30        buildings, days of attendance in August shall be added to
31        the month of September and any days of attendance in June
32        shall be added to the month of  May.  The  average  daily
33        attendance for the year-round buildings shall be computed
34        as  provided in subdivision (b) of this paragraph (1). To
 
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 1        calculate the Average Daily Attendance for the  district,
 2        the average daily attendance for the year-round buildings
 3        shall  be  multiplied  by  the  days  in  session for the
 4        non-year-round buildings for each month and added to  the
 5        monthly attendance of the non-year-round buildings.
 6        Except  as  otherwise  provided  in this Section, days of
 7    attendance by pupils shall be counted only  for  sessions  of
 8    not  less  than  5  clock  hours of school work per day under
 9    direct supervision of: (i)  teachers,  or  (ii)  non-teaching
10    personnel   or   volunteer   personnel   when   engaging   in
11    non-teaching   duties  and  supervising  in  those  instances
12    specified in subsection (a) of Section 10-22.34 and paragraph
13    10 of Section 34-18, with pupils of legal school age  and  in
14    kindergarten and grades 1 through 12.
15        Days  of attendance by tuition pupils shall be accredited
16    only to the districts that pay the tuition  to  a  recognized
17    school.
18        (2)  Days  of  attendance  by pupils of less than 5 clock
19    hours of school shall be subject to the following  provisions
20    in the compilation of Average Daily Attendance.
21             (a)  Pupils  regularly  enrolled  in a public school
22        for only a part of the school day may be counted  on  the
23        basis  of  1/6 day for every class hour of instruction of
24        40 minutes or more attended pursuant to such  enrollment,
25        unless  a pupil is enrolled in a block-schedule format of
26        80 minutes or more of  instruction,  in  which  case  the
27        pupil  may  be  counted on the basis of the proportion of
28        minutes of school work completed each day to the  minimum
29        number of minutes that school work is required to be held
30        that day.
31             (b)  (Blank).  Days of attendance may be less than 5
32        clock hours on the opening  and  closing  of  the  school
33        term,  and  upon  the  first  day of pupil attendance, if
34        preceded by a day or days utilized  as  an  institute  or
 
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 1        teachers' workshop.
 2             (c)  A  session  of  4  or  more  clock hours may be
 3        counted as a day of attendance upon certification by  the
 4        regional   superintendent,  and  approved  by  the  State
 5        Superintendent  of  Education  to  the  extent  that  the
 6        district has been forced to use daily multiple sessions.
 7             (d)  (Blank). A session of 3 or more clock hours may
 8        be counted as a day of attendance (1) when the  remainder
 9        of  the  school day or at least 2 hours in the evening of
10        that day is utilized for an in-service  training  program
11        for  teachers,  up to a maximum of 5 days per school year
12        of which a maximum of 4 days of such 5 days may  be  used
13        for   parent-teacher  conferences,  provided  a  district
14        conducts an  in-service  training  program  for  teachers
15        which  has  been  approved by the State Superintendent of
16        Education; or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may be
17        used, in which event each such day may be  counted  as  a
18        day of attendance; and (2) when days in addition to those
19        provided  in  item (1) are scheduled by a school pursuant
20        to its school improvement plan adopted under  Article  34
21        or its revised or amended school improvement plan adopted
22        under  Article 2, provided that (i) such sessions of 3 or
23        more clock  hours  are  scheduled  to  occur  at  regular
24        intervals, (ii) the remainder of the school days in which
25        such  sessions occur are utilized for in-service training
26        programs  or  other  staff  development  activities   for
27        teachers,  and  (iii)  a  sufficient number of minutes of
28        school work under the direct supervision of teachers  are
29        added to the school days between such regularly scheduled
30        sessions  to  accumulate  not  less  than  the  number of
31        minutes by which such sessions of 3 or more  clock  hours
32        fall  short  of 5 clock hours. Any full days used for the
33        purposes of this paragraph shall not  be  considered  for
34        computing  average  daily attendance.  Days scheduled for
 
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 1        in-service   training   programs,    staff    development
 2        activities,   or   parent-teacher   conferences   may  be
 3        scheduled  separately  for  different  grade  levels  and
 4        different attendance centers of the district.
 5             (e)  A session of not less than one  clock  hour  of
 6        teaching  hospitalized  or homebound pupils on-site or by
 7        telephone to the classroom may be counted as 1/2  day  of
 8        attendance,  however  these pupils must receive 4 or more
 9        clock hours of instruction to be counted for a  full  day
10        of attendance.
11             (f)  A  session  of  at  least  4 clock hours may be
12        counted as a day of attendance for  first  grade  pupils,
13        and  pupils in full day kindergartens, and a session of 2
14        or more hours may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance  by
15        pupils  in  kindergartens  which  provide only 1/2 day of
16        attendance.
17             (g)  For children with disabilities  who  are  below
18        the  age of 6 years and who cannot attend 2 or more clock
19        hours  because  of  their  disability  or  immaturity,  a
20        session of not less than one clock hour may be counted as
21        1/2 day of attendance; however for  such  children  whose
22        educational needs so require a session of 4 or more clock
23        hours may be counted as a full day of attendance.
24             (h)  A  recognized  kindergarten  which provides for
25        only 1/2 day of attendance by each pupil shall  not  have
26        more  than  1/2 day of attendance counted in any one day.
27        However, kindergartens may count 2 1/2 days of attendance
28        in any 5 consecutive school days.  When a  pupil  attends
29        such  a  kindergarten  for  2 half days on any one school
30        day, the pupil shall have the  following  day  as  a  day
31        absent  from  school,  unless the school district obtains
32        permission in writing from the  State  Superintendent  of
33        Education.  Attendance at kindergartens which provide for
34        a full day of attendance by each pupil shall  be  counted
 
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 1        the  same  as  attendance by first grade pupils. Only the
 2        first year of attendance in  one  kindergarten  shall  be
 3        counted,  except  in  case  of  children  who entered the
 4        kindergarten  in  their  fifth  year  whose   educational
 5        development  requires  a  second  year of kindergarten as
 6        determined under the rules and regulations of  the  State
 7        Board of Education.

 8    (G)  Equalized Assessed Valuation Data.
 9        (1)  For  purposes  of the calculation of Available Local
10    Resources required pursuant  to  subsection  (D),  the  State
11    Board  of  Education  shall  secure  from  the  Department of
12    Revenue the value as equalized or assessed by the  Department
13    of  Revenue of all taxable property of every school district,
14    together with (i) the applicable tax rate used  in  extending
15    taxes for the funds of the district as of September 30 of the
16    previous  year  and  (ii)  the  limiting  rate for all school
17    districts subject to property tax  extension  limitations  as
18    imposed under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
19        This equalized assessed valuation, as adjusted further by
20    the requirements of this subsection, shall be utilized in the
21    calculation of Available Local Resources.
22        (2)  The  equalized  assessed  valuation in paragraph (1)
23    shall be adjusted, as applicable, in the following manner:
24             (a)  For the purposes of calculating State aid under
25        this Section, with  respect  to  any  part  of  a  school
26        district  within  a redevelopment project area in respect
27        to  which  a  municipality  has  adopted  tax   increment
28        allocation   financing  pursuant  to  the  Tax  Increment
29        Allocation Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1  through
30        11-74.4-11   of   the  Illinois  Municipal  Code  or  the
31        Industrial Jobs Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1  through
32        11-74.6-50 of the Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the
33        current  equalized  assessed  valuation  of real property
34        located in any such project area which is attributable to
 
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 1        an increase above the total  initial  equalized  assessed
 2        valuation  of  such property shall be used as part of the
 3        equalized assessed valuation of the district, until  such
 4        time  as  all redevelopment project costs have been paid,
 5        as provided in Section 11-74.4-8  of  the  Tax  Increment
 6        Allocation  Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of
 7        the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law.  For the purpose of the
 8        equalized assessed valuation of the district,  the  total
 9        initial  equalized  assessed  valuation  or  the  current
10        equalized  assessed  valuation, whichever is lower, shall
11        be used until such  time  as  all  redevelopment  project
12        costs have been paid.
13             (b)  The  real property equalized assessed valuation
14        for a school district shall be  adjusted  by  subtracting
15        from  the real property value as equalized or assessed by
16        the Department of Revenue  for  the  district  an  amount
17        computed by dividing the amount of any abatement of taxes
18        under  Section  18-170  of the Property Tax Code by 3.00%
19        for a district maintaining  grades  kindergarten  through
20        12,   by   2.30%   for   a  district  maintaining  grades
21        kindergarten through  8,  or  by  1.05%  for  a  district
22        maintaining grades 9 through 12 and adjusted by an amount
23        computed by dividing the amount of any abatement of taxes
24        under  subsection  (a)  of Section 18-165 of the Property
25        Tax Code by the same percentage rates for  district  type
26        as specified in this subparagraph (b).
27        (3)  For  the  1999-2000 school year and each school year
28    thereafter, if a school district meets all of the criteria of
29    this subsection (G)(3), the school district's Available Local
30    Resources shall be calculated under subsection (D) using  the
31    district's  Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation
32    as calculated under this subsection (G)(3).
33        For purposes of  this  subsection  (G)(3)  the  following
34    terms shall have the following meanings:
 
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 1             "Budget  Year":   The  school year for which general
 2        State aid is calculated and awarded under subsection (E).
 3             "Base Tax Year": The property tax levy year used  to
 4        calculate  the  Budget  Year  allocation of general State
 5        aid.
 6             "Preceding Tax Year": The  property  tax  levy  year
 7        immediately preceding the Base Tax Year.
 8             "Base  Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of the
 9        equalized assessed valuation utilized by the County Clerk
10        in the Base Tax Year multiplied by the limiting  rate  as
11        calculated  by  the  County  Clerk  and  defined  in  the
12        Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
13             "Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of
14        the  equalized  assessed valuation utilized by the County
15        Clerk  in  the  Preceding  Tax  Year  multiplied  by  the
16        Operating Tax Rate as defined in subsection (A).
17             "Extension Limitation  Ratio":  A  numerical  ratio,
18        certified  by the County Clerk, in which the numerator is
19        the Base Tax Year's Tax Extension and the denominator  is
20        the Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension.
21             "Operating  Tax  Rate":  The  operating  tax rate as
22        defined in subsection (A).
23        If a school district is subject to property tax extension
24    limitations as  imposed  under  the  Property  Tax  Extension
25    Limitation  Law, the State Board of Education shall calculate
26    the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of that
27    district.  For  the  1999-2000  school  year,  the  Extension
28    Limitation  Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school district
29    as calculated by the State Board of Education shall be  equal
30    to  the  product  of  the  district's 1996 Equalized Assessed
31    Valuation and the district's Extension Limitation Ratio.  For
32    the 2000-2001 school year and each  school  year  thereafter,
33    the  Extension  Limitation  Equalized Assessed Valuation of a
34    school district as calculated by the State Board of Education
 
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 1    shall be equal to  the  product  of  the  Equalized  Assessed
 2    Valuation  last  used in the calculation of general State aid
 3    and  the  district's  Extension  Limitation  Ratio.  If   the
 4    Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school
 5    district  as  calculated under this subsection (G)(3) is less
 6    than  the  district's   equalized   assessed   valuation   as
 7    calculated  pursuant  to  subsections (G)(1) and (G)(2), then
 8    for purposes of calculating the district's general State  aid
 9    for   the  Budget  Year  pursuant  to  subsection  (E),  that
10    Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed  Valuation  shall  be
11    utilized   to   calculate   the  district's  Available  Local
12    Resources under subsection (D).
13        (4)  For the purposes of calculating  general  State  aid
14    for  the  1999-2000  school  year  only, if a school district
15    experienced  a  triennial  reassessment  on   the   equalized
16    assessed  valuation  used  in  calculating  its general State
17    financial aid apportionment for the  1998-1999  school  year,
18    the  State  Board  of Education shall calculate the Extension
19    Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation that would have  been
20    used to calculate the district's 1998-1999 general State aid.
21    This amount shall equal the product of the equalized assessed
22    valuation  used  to  calculate  general  State  aid  for  the
23    1997-1998 school year and the district's Extension Limitation
24    Ratio.    If  the  Extension  Limitation  Equalized  Assessed
25    Valuation of the school district  as  calculated  under  this
26    paragraph  (4) is less than the district's equalized assessed
27    valuation utilized in calculating  the  district's  1998-1999
28    general   State   aid   allocation,   then  for  purposes  of
29    calculating the district's  general  State  aid  pursuant  to
30    paragraph  (5)  of  subsection (E), that Extension Limitation
31    Equalized Assessed Valuation shall be utilized  to  calculate
32    the district's Available Local Resources.
33        (5)  For  school  districts  having  a  majority of their
34    equalized assessed  valuation  in  any  county  except  Cook,
 
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 1    DuPage,  Kane,  Lake,  McHenry,  or  Will,  if  the amount of
 2    general State aid allocated to the school  district  for  the
 3    1999-2000 school year under the provisions of subsection (E),
 4    (H),  and  (J)  of  this  Section  is less than the amount of
 5    general State aid allocated to the district for the 1998-1999
 6    school year under these subsections, then the  general  State
 7    aid  of the district for the 1999-2000 school year only shall
 8    be increased by the difference between  these  amounts.   The
 9    total payments made under this paragraph (5) shall not exceed
10    $14,000,000.    Claims  shall  be  prorated  if  they  exceed
11    $14,000,000.

12    (H)  Supplemental General State Aid.
13        (1)  In addition  to  the  general  State  aid  a  school
14    district  is  allotted pursuant to subsection (E), qualifying
15    school districts shall receive a grant, paid  in  conjunction
16    with   a  district's  payments  of  general  State  aid,  for
17    supplemental general State aid based upon  the  concentration
18    level  of  children  from  low-income  households  within the
19    school district. Supplemental State aid grants  provided  for
20    school  districts under this subsection shall be appropriated
21    for distribution to school districts as part of the same line
22    item in which the  general  State  financial  aid  of  school
23    districts is appropriated under this Section. For purposes of
24    this  subsection,  the  term "Low-Income Concentration Level"
25    shall be the low-income eligible pupil count  from  the  most
26    recently  available  federal  census  divided  by the Average
27    Daily Attendance of the school district. If, however, (i) the
28    percentage decrease from the 2 most recent  federal  censuses
29    in  the  low-income  eligible  pupil  count  of a high school
30    district with fewer than 400 students exceeds by 75% or  more
31    the  percentage change in the total low-income eligible pupil
32    count  of  contiguous  elementary  school  districts,   whose
33    boundaries  are coterminous with the high school district, or
34    (ii) a high school district within 2 counties and  serving  5
 
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 1    elementary school districts, whose boundaries are coterminous
 2    with the high school district, has a percentage decrease from
 3    the 2 most recent federal censuses in the low-income eligible
 4    pupil  count  and there is a percentage increase in the total
 5    low-income  eligible  pupil  count  of  a  majority  of   the
 6    elementary  school districts in excess of 50% from the 2 most
 7    recent federal censuses,  then  the  high  school  district's
 8    low-income  eligible  pupil  count  from  the earlier federal
 9    census shall be the number used as  the  low-income  eligible
10    pupil  count  for  the  high school district, for purposes of
11    this subsection (H).  The changes made to this paragraph  (1)
12    by Public Act 92-28 shall apply to supplemental general State
13    aid  grants  paid in fiscal year 1999 and in each fiscal year
14    thereafter and to any State aid payments made in fiscal  year
15    1994  through fiscal year 1998 pursuant to subsection 1(n) of
16    Section 18-8 of this Code (which  was  repealed  on  July  1,
17    1998),  and  any  high  school  district  that is affected by
18    Public Act 92-28  is  entitled  to  a  recomputation  of  its
19    supplemental general State aid grant or State aid paid in any
20    of  those  fiscal  years.   This  recomputation  shall not be
21    affected by any other funding.
22        (2)  Supplemental general  State  aid  pursuant  to  this
23    subsection   (H)   shall  be  provided  as  follows  for  the
24    1998-1999, 1999-2000, and 2000-2001 school years only:
25             (a)  For any  school  district  with  a  Low  Income
26        Concentration  Level  of  at least 20% and less than 35%,
27        the grant for any school year shall be $800 multiplied by
28        the low income eligible pupil count.
29             (b)  For any  school  district  with  a  Low  Income
30        Concentration  Level  of  at least 35% and less than 50%,
31        the grant for the 1998-1999 school year shall  be  $1,100
32        multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count.
33             (c)  For  any  school  district  with  a  Low Income
34        Concentration Level of at least 50% and  less  than  60%,
 
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 1        the  grant  for  the  1998-99 school year shall be $1,500
 2        multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count.
 3             (d)  For any  school  district  with  a  Low  Income
 4        Concentration  Level  of  60%  or more, the grant for the
 5        1998-99 school year shall be $1,900 multiplied by the low
 6        income eligible pupil count.
 7             (e)  For the 1999-2000 school year,  the  per  pupil
 8        amount  specified  in  subparagraphs  (b),  (c),  and (d)
 9        immediately above shall be increased to  $1,243,  $1,600,
10        and $2,000, respectively.
11             (f)  For  the  2000-2001  school year, the per pupil
12        amounts specified in  subparagraphs  (b),  (c),  and  (d)
13        immediately  above  shall  be $1,273, $1,640, and $2,050,
14        respectively.
15        (2.5)  Supplemental general State aid  pursuant  to  this
16    subsection (H) shall be provided as follows for the 2002-2003
17    school year and each school year thereafter:
18             (a)  For  any  school  district  with  a  Low Income
19        Concentration Level of less than 10%, the grant for  each
20        school  year  shall  be $355 multiplied by the low income
21        eligible pupil count.
22             (b)  For any  school  district  with  a  Low  Income
23        Concentration  Level  of  at least 10% and less than 20%,
24        the grant for each school year shall be  $675  multiplied
25        by the low income eligible pupil count.
26             (c)  For  any  school  district  with  a  Low Income
27        Concentration Level of at least 20% and  less  than  35%,
28        the grant for each school year shall be $1,330 multiplied
29        by the low income eligible pupil count.
30             (d)  For  any  school  district  with  a  Low Income
31        Concentration Level of at least 35% and  less  than  50%,
32        the grant for each school year shall be $1,362 multiplied
33        by the low income eligible pupil count.
34             (e)  For  any  school  district  with  a  Low Income
 
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 1        Concentration Level of at least 50% and  less  than  60%,
 2        the grant for each school year shall be $1,680 multiplied
 3        by the low income eligible pupil count.
 4             (f)  For  any  school  district  with  a  Low Income
 5        Concentration Level of 60% or more, the  grant  for  each
 6        school  year shall be $2,080 multiplied by the low income
 7        eligible pupil count.
 8        (3)  School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of
 9    more than  1,000  and  less  than  50,000  that  qualify  for
10    supplemental  general  State  aid pursuant to this subsection
11    shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education prior  to
12    October  30  of  each year for the use of the funds resulting
13    from this grant of supplemental general  State  aid  for  the
14    improvement  of  instruction  in  which  priority is given to
15    meeting the education needs of disadvantaged children.   Such
16    plan   shall  be  submitted  in  accordance  with  rules  and
17    regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education.
18        (4)  School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of
19    50,000 or more that qualify for  supplemental  general  State
20    aid   pursuant  to  this  subsection  shall  be  required  to
21    distribute from funds available pursuant to this Section,  no
22    less  than  $261,000,000  in  accordance  with  the following
23    requirements:
24             (a)  The required amounts shall  be  distributed  to
25        the  attendance centers within the district in proportion
26        to the number  of  pupils  enrolled  at  each  attendance
27        center  who are eligible to receive free or reduced-price
28        lunches or breakfasts under the federal  Child  Nutrition
29        Act  of  1966  and  under  the  National School Lunch Act
30        during the immediately preceding school year.
31             (b)  The   distribution   of   these   portions   of
32        supplemental  and  general  State  aid  among  attendance
33        centers according to  these  requirements  shall  not  be
34        compensated  for  or  contravened  by  adjustments of the
 
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 1        total of  other  funds  appropriated  to  any  attendance
 2        centers, and the Board of Education shall utilize funding
 3        from  one  or several sources in order to fully implement
 4        this provision annually prior to the opening of school.
 5             (c)  Each attendance center shall be provided by the
 6        school district a distribution  of  noncategorical  funds
 7        and other categorical funds to which an attendance center
 8        is entitled under law in order that the general State aid
 9        and   supplemental   general   State   aid   provided  by
10        application of this subsection  supplements  rather  than
11        supplants  the noncategorical funds and other categorical
12        funds provided by the school district to  the  attendance
13        centers.
14             (d)  Any  funds made available under this subsection
15        that by reason of the provisions of this  subsection  are
16        not  required  to be allocated and provided to attendance
17        centers may be used and appropriated by the board of  the
18        district for any lawful school purpose.
19             (e)  Funds received by an attendance center pursuant
20        to this subsection shall be used by the attendance center
21        at  the  discretion  of  the  principal  and local school
22        council for programs to improve educational opportunities
23        at qualifying schools through the following programs  and
24        services:  early  childhood education, reduced class size
25        or improved adult to student classroom ratio,  enrichment
26        programs,  remedial  assistance,  attendance improvement,
27        and other  educationally  beneficial  expenditures  which
28        supplement  the  regular and basic programs as determined
29        by the State Board of Education. Funds provided shall not
30        be expended for any political  or  lobbying  purposes  as
31        defined by board rule.
32             (f)  Each district subject to the provisions of this
33        subdivision  (H)(4)  shall  submit  an acceptable plan to
34        meet the educational needs of disadvantaged children,  in
 
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 1        compliance  with  the  requirements of this paragraph, to
 2        the State Board of Education prior to  July  15  of  each
 3        year. This plan shall be consistent with the decisions of
 4        local  school  councils concerning the school expenditure
 5        plans developed in accordance  with  part  4  of  Section
 6        34-2.3.  The State Board shall approve or reject the plan
 7        within  60  days  after  its  submission.  If the plan is
 8        rejected, the  district  shall  give  written  notice  of
 9        intent   to  modify  the  plan  within  15  days  of  the
10        notification of rejection and then submit a modified plan
11        within 30 days after the date of the  written  notice  of
12        intent  to  modify.  Districts  may  amend approved plans
13        pursuant to rules  promulgated  by  the  State  Board  of
14        Education.
15             Upon  notification  by  the State Board of Education
16        that the district has not submitted a plan prior to  July
17        15  or  a  modified plan within the time period specified
18        herein, the State aid funds  affected  by  that  plan  or
19        modified  plan  shall  be  withheld by the State Board of
20        Education until a plan or modified plan is submitted.
21             If the district fails to  distribute  State  aid  to
22        attendance  centers  in accordance with an approved plan,
23        the plan for the following year shall allocate funds,  in
24        addition   to   the  funds  otherwise  required  by  this
25        subsection,  to  those  attendance  centers  which   were
26        underfunded  during the previous year in amounts equal to
27        such underfunding.
28             For purposes of  determining  compliance  with  this
29        subsection  in relation to the requirements of attendance
30        center funding, each district subject to  the  provisions
31        of this subsection shall submit as a separate document by
32        December  1 of each year a report of expenditure data for
33        the prior year in addition to  any  modification  of  its
34        current  plan.  If it is determined that there has been a
 
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 1        failure to comply with the expenditure provisions of this
 2        subsection regarding contravention  or  supplanting,  the
 3        State  Superintendent  of Education shall, within 60 days
 4        of receipt of the report, notify  the  district  and  any
 5        affected local school council.  The district shall within
 6        45  days of receipt of that notification inform the State
 7        Superintendent of Education of the remedial or corrective
 8        action to be taken, whether  by amendment of the  current
 9        plan,  if  feasible, or by adjustment in the plan for the
10        following  year.   Failure  to  provide  the  expenditure
11        report or the  notification  of  remedial  or  corrective
12        action  in  a timely manner shall result in a withholding
13        of the affected funds.
14             The State Board of Education shall promulgate  rules
15        and  regulations  to  implement  the  provisions  of this
16        subsection.   No  funds  shall  be  released  under  this
17        subdivision (H)(4) to any district that has not submitted
18        a plan that has been  approved  by  the  State  Board  of
19        Education.

20    (I)  General State Aid for Newly Configured School Districts.
21        (1)  For  a  new  school  district  formed  by  combining
22    property   included  totally  within  2  or  more  previously
23    existing school districts, for its first  year  of  existence
24    the  general  State  aid  and  supplemental general State aid
25    calculated under this Section shall be computed for  the  new
26    district  and for the previously existing districts for which
27    property is totally included within the new district.  If the
28    computation on the basis of the previously existing districts
29    is greater, a supplementary payment equal to  the  difference
30    shall  be  made for the first 4 years of existence of the new
31    district.
32        (2)  For a school  district  which  annexes  all  of  the
33    territory  of  one or more entire other school districts, for
34    the  first  year  during  which  the  change  of   boundaries
 
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 1    attributable  to  such  annexation  becomes effective for all
 2    purposes as determined under Section 7-9 or 7A-8, the general
 3    State aid and supplemental general State aid calculated under
 4    this Section shall be computed for the annexing  district  as
 5    constituted  after  the  annexation  and for the annexing and
 6    each annexed district as constituted prior to the annexation;
 7    and if the computation on  the  basis  of  the  annexing  and
 8    annexed  districts  as constituted prior to the annexation is
 9    greater, a supplementary  payment  equal  to  the  difference
10    shall  be  made  for  the  first  4 years of existence of the
11    annexing school district as constituted upon such annexation.
12        (3)  For 2 or more school districts which  annex  all  of
13    the  territory  of one or more entire other school districts,
14    and for 2 or more community unit districts which result  upon
15    the  division  (pursuant  to petition under Section 11A-2) of
16    one or more other unit school districts into 2 or more  parts
17    and  which  together include all of the parts into which such
18    other unit school district or districts are so  divided,  for
19    the   first  year  during  which  the  change  of  boundaries
20    attributable to such annexation or division becomes effective
21    for all purposes as determined under Section 7-9  or  11A-10,
22    as  the  case  may be, the general State aid and supplemental
23    general State aid calculated  under  this  Section  shall  be
24    computed   for   each   annexing  or  resulting  district  as
25    constituted after the annexation or  division  and  for  each
26    annexing  and  annexed  district,  or  for each resulting and
27    divided district, as constituted prior to the  annexation  or
28    division;  and  if the aggregate of the general State aid and
29    supplemental  general  State  aid  as  so  computed  for  the
30    annexing or resulting  districts  as  constituted  after  the
31    annexation  or  division  is  less  than the aggregate of the
32    general State aid and supplemental general State  aid  as  so
33    computed  for  the annexing and annexed districts, or for the
34    resulting and divided districts, as constituted prior to  the
 
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 1    annexation or division, then a supplementary payment equal to
 2    the  difference  shall be made and allocated between or among
 3    the annexing or resulting districts, as constituted upon such
 4    annexation or division,  for  the  first  4  years  of  their
 5    existence.   The  total difference payment shall be allocated
 6    between or among the annexing or resulting districts  in  the
 7    same  ratio  as the pupil enrollment from that portion of the
 8    annexed or divided district or districts which is annexed  to
 9    or included in each such annexing or resulting district bears
10    to  the  total  pupil  enrollment  from the entire annexed or
11    divided district or districts, as such  pupil  enrollment  is
12    determined  for the school year last ending prior to the date
13    when the change of boundaries attributable to the  annexation
14    or  division  becomes effective for all purposes.  The amount
15    of the total difference payment and the amount thereof to  be
16    allocated  to  the  annexing  or resulting districts shall be
17    computed by the State Board of  Education  on  the  basis  of
18    pupil  enrollment  and other data which shall be certified to
19    the State Board of Education, on forms which it shall provide
20    for that purpose, by the regional superintendent  of  schools
21    for each educational service region in which the annexing and
22    annexed  districts,  or  resulting  and divided districts are
23    located.
24        (3.5)  Claims  for  financial   assistance   under   this
25    subsection  (I)  shall  not be recomputed except as expressly
26    provided under this Section.
27        (4)  Any supplementary payment made under this subsection
28    (I) shall be treated as separate from all other payments made
29    pursuant to this Section.

30    (J)  Supplementary Grants in Aid.
31        (1)  Notwithstanding  any  other   provisions   of   this
32    Section,  the  amount  of  the aggregate general State aid in
33    combination with supplemental general State  aid  under  this
34    Section  for  which each school district is eligible shall be
 
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 1    no less than the amount of the aggregate  general  State  aid
 2    entitlement  that  was received by the district under Section
 3    18-8 (exclusive of amounts received  under  subsections  5(p)
 4    and  5(p-5)  of  that  Section)  for the 1997-98 school year,
 5    pursuant to the provisions of that Section as it was then  in
 6    effect.   If   a  school  district  qualifies  to  receive  a
 7    supplementary payment made under  this  subsection  (J),  the
 8    amount of the aggregate general State aid in combination with
 9    supplemental  general State aid under this Section which that
10    district is eligible to receive for each school year shall be
11    no less than the amount of the aggregate  general  State  aid
12    entitlement  that  was received by the district under Section
13    18-8 (exclusive of amounts received  under  subsections  5(p)
14    and  5(p-5)  of  that Section) for the 1997-1998 school year,
15    pursuant to the provisions of that Section as it was then  in
16    effect.
17        (2)  If,  as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection
18    (J), a school district is to receive aggregate general  State
19    aid  in combination with supplemental general State aid under
20    this Section for the 1998-99 school year and  any  subsequent
21    school  year  that  in  any such school year is less than the
22    amount of the aggregate general State  aid  entitlement  that
23    the district received for the 1997-98 school year, the school
24    district  shall  also  receive, from a separate appropriation
25    made for purposes of this  subsection  (J),  a  supplementary
26    payment  that is equal to the amount of the difference in the
27    aggregate State aid figures as described in paragraph (1).
28        (3)  (Blank).

29    (K)  Grants to Laboratory and Alternative Schools.
30        In calculating the amount to be  paid  to  the  governing
31    board  of  a  public  university  that  operates a laboratory
32    school under this Section or to any alternative  school  that
33    is  operated  by  a  regional  superintendent of schools, the
34    State Board of Education shall require by rule such reporting
 
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 1    requirements as it deems necessary.
 2        As used in this  Section,  "laboratory  school"  means  a
 3    public  school  which  is  created  and  operated by a public
 4    university and approved by the State Board of Education.  The
 5    governing board of a public university which  receives  funds
 6    from  the  State  Board  under  this  subsection  (K) may not
 7    increase the number of students enrolled  in  its  laboratory
 8    school  from  a  single district, if that district is already
 9    sending 50 or more students, except under a mutual  agreement
10    between the school board of a student's district of residence
11    and  the  university which operates the laboratory school.  A
12    laboratory school may not  have  more  than  1,000  students,
13    excluding  students  with disabilities in a special education
14    program.
15        As used in this Section,  "alternative  school"  means  a
16    public  school  which  is  created and operated by a Regional
17    Superintendent of Schools and approved by the State Board  of
18    Education.   Such  alternative  schools  may offer courses of
19    instruction for which  credit  is  given  in  regular  school
20    programs,  courses  to  prepare  students for the high school
21    equivalency testing program or  vocational  and  occupational
22    training.   A regional superintendent of schools may contract
23    with a school district or a public community college district
24    to  operate  an  alternative  school.   An alternative school
25    serving more than  one  educational  service  region  may  be
26    established by the regional superintendents of schools of the
27    affected  educational service regions.  An alternative school
28    serving more than  one  educational  service  region  may  be
29    operated  under such terms as the regional superintendents of
30    schools of those educational service regions may agree.
31        Each laboratory and alternative  school  shall  file,  on
32    forms  provided  by the State Superintendent of Education, an
33    annual  State  aid  claim  which  states  the  Average  Daily
34    Attendance of the school's students by  month.   The  best  3
 
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 1    months'  Average  Daily Attendance shall be computed for each
 2    school. The general State aid entitlement shall  be  computed
 3    by multiplying the applicable Average Daily Attendance by the
 4    Foundation Level as determined under this Section.

 5    (L)  Payments,   Additional   Grants   in   Aid   and   Other
 6    Requirements.
 7        (1)  For  a school district operating under the financial
 8    supervision of an Authority created under  Article  34A,  the
 9    general  State  aid  otherwise payable to that district under
10    this Section, but not the  supplemental  general  State  aid,
11    shall  be  reduced  by  an amount equal to the budget for the
12    operations of the Authority as certified by the Authority  to
13    the  State  Board  of  Education, and an amount equal to such
14    reduction shall be paid to the  Authority  created  for  such
15    district for its operating expenses in the manner provided in
16    Section 18-11.  The remainder of general State school aid for
17    any  such  district  shall be paid in accordance with Article
18    34A when that Article provides for a disposition  other  than
19    that provided by this Article.
20        (2)  (Blank).
21        (3)  Summer school.  Summer school payments shall be made
22    as provided in Section 18-4.3.

23    (M)  Education Funding Advisory Board.
24        The Education Funding Advisory Board, hereinafter in this
25    subsection (M) referred to as the "Board", is hereby created.
26    The Board shall consist of 5 members who are appointed by the
27    Governor,  by  and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
28    The  members  appointed  shall  include  representatives   of
29    education,  business,  and  the  general  public.  One of the
30    members so appointed shall be designated by the  Governor  at
31    the  time  the  appointment is made as the chairperson of the
32    Board. The initial members of the Board may be appointed  any
33    time after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997.
 
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 1    The  regular  term of each member of the Board shall be for 4
 2    years from the third Monday of January of the year  in  which
 3    the  term  of the member's appointment is to commence, except
 4    that of the 5 initial  members  appointed  to  serve  on  the
 5    Board,  the  member who is appointed as the chairperson shall
 6    serve for a term that commences on the date  of  his  or  her
 7    appointment and expires on the third Monday of January, 2002,
 8    and  the  remaining  4  members,  by  lots drawn at the first
 9    meeting of the Board that is held after  all  5  members  are
10    appointed,  shall  determine  2  of their number to serve for
11    terms  that  commence  on  the  date  of   their   respective
12    appointments and expire on the third Monday of January, 2001,
13    and 2 of their number to serve for terms that commence on the
14    date of their respective appointments and expire on the third
15    Monday  of  January, 2000.  All members appointed to serve on
16    the Board shall serve until their respective  successors  are
17    appointed  and  confirmed.   Vacancies shall be filled in the
18    same manner  as  original  appointments.   If  a  vacancy  in
19    membership  occurs  at  a  time  when  the  Senate  is not in
20    session, the Governor  shall  make  a  temporary  appointment
21    until  the  next  meeting of the Senate, when he or she shall
22    appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,  a
23    person  to  fill  that membership for the unexpired term.  If
24    the Senate is not in session when  the  initial  appointments
25    are  made, those appointments shall be made as in the case of
26    vacancies.
27        The Education Funding  Advisory  Board  shall  be  deemed
28    established,   and  the  initial  members  appointed  by  the
29    Governor to serve as members of the Board shall take  office,
30    on the date that the Governor makes his or her appointment of
31    the  fifth initial member of the Board, whether those initial
32    members  are  then  serving  pursuant  to   appointment   and
33    confirmation  or  pursuant to temporary appointments that are
34    made by the Governor as in the case of vacancies.
 
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 1        The State Board of Education  shall  provide  such  staff
 2    assistance  to  the  Education  Funding  Advisory Board as is
 3    reasonably required for the proper performance by  the  Board
 4    of its responsibilities.
 5        For  school  years  after  the 2000-2001 school year, the
 6    Education Funding Advisory Board, in  consultation  with  the
 7    State  Board  of  Education,  shall  make  recommendations as
 8    provided in this subsection (M) to the General  Assembly  for
 9    the foundation level under subdivision (B)(3) of this Section
10    and  for the supplemental general State aid grant level under
11    subsection (H)  of  this  Section  for  districts  with  high
12    concentrations  of  children  from  poverty.  The recommended
13    foundation level shall be determined based on  a  methodology
14    which   incorporates  the  basic  education  expenditures  of
15    low-spending schools exhibiting  high  academic  performance.
16    The   Education   Funding  Advisory  Board  shall  make  such
17    recommendations to the General Assembly on January 1  of  odd
18    numbered years, beginning January 1, 2001.

19    (N)  (Blank).

20    (O)  References.
21        (1)  References in other laws to the various subdivisions
22    of Section 18-8 as that Section existed before its repeal and
23    replacement  by this Section 18-8.05 shall be deemed to refer
24    to the corresponding provisions of this Section  18-8.05,  to
25    the extent that those references remain applicable.
26        (2)  References  in  other  laws to State Chapter 1 funds
27    shall be deemed to refer to the  supplemental  general  State
28    aid provided under subsection (H) of this Section.
29    (Source:  P.A. 91-24, eff. 7-1-99; 91-93, eff. 7-9-99; 91-96,
30    eff. 7-9-99; 91-111,  eff.  7-14-99;  91-357,  eff.  7-29-99;
31    91-533,   eff.  8-13-99;  92-7,  eff.  6-29-01;  92-16,  eff.
32    6-28-01; 92-28, eff. 7-1-01; 92-29, eff. 7-1-01; 92-269, eff.
33    8-7-01; 92-604, eff. 7-1-02; 92-636,  eff.  7-11-02;  92-651,
 
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 1    eff. 7-11-02; revised 7-26-02.)

 2        (105 ILCS 5/18-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 18-12)
 3        Sec.  18-12.   Dates  for  filing  State aid claims.  The
 4    school board of each school district shall require  teachers,
 5    principals,  or  superintendents to furnish from records kept
 6    by them such data as it needs  in  preparing  and  certifying
 7    under  oath or affirmation to the regional superintendent its
 8    school district report of claims provided in Sections 18-8.05
 9    18-8 through 18-10 on blanks to  be  provided  by  the  State
10    Superintendent  of  Education.   The  district claim shall be
11    based on the latest available  equalized  assessed  valuation
12    and  tax  rates, as provided in Section 18-8.05 and shall use
13    the average daily attendance  as  determined  by  the  method
14    outlined  in Section 18-8.05 and shall be certified and filed
15    with the regional superintendent by July 1.   Failure  to  so
16    file  by  July  1  constitutes  a  forfeiture of the right to
17    receive payment by the State until such claim  is  filed  and
18    vouchered   for  payment.   The  regional  superintendent  of
19    schools shall certify the county report of claims by July 15;
20    and the State Superintendent of Education shall  voucher  for
21    payment  those claims to the State Comptroller as provided in
22    Section 18-11.
23        Except as otherwise provided  in  this  Section,  if  any
24    school  district  fails  to  provide  the minimum school term
25    specified in Section 10-19, the State aid claim for that year
26    shall be reduced by the State Superintendent of Education  in
27    an  amount  equivalent  to 0.55555% .56818% for each day less
28    than the number of days required by this Code.
29        If the State Superintendent of Education determines  that
30    the failure to provide the minimum school term was occasioned
31    by  an  act  or  acts of God, or was occasioned by conditions
32    beyond the control of  the  school  district  which  posed  a
33    hazardous  threat  to  the  health  and safety of pupils, the
 
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 1    State aid claim need not be reduced.
 2        If the State Superintendent of Education determines  that
 3    the  failure  to provide the minimum school term was due to a
 4    school being closed on or after September 11, 2001  for  more
 5    than  one-half  day  of  attendance  due to a bioterrorism or
 6    terrorism threat that was investigated by a  law  enforcement
 7    agency, the State aid claim shall not be reduced.
 8        If,  during  any  school  day,  (i) a school district has
 9    provided at least one clock  hour  of  instruction  but  must
10    close the schools due to adverse weather conditions or due to
11    a  condition  beyond  the control of the school district that
12    poses a hazardous threat to the health and safety  of  pupils
13    prior  to providing the minimum hours of instruction required
14    for a full day of attendance, or  (ii)  the  school  district
15    must delay the start of the school day due to adverse weather
16    conditions   and   this  delay  prevents  the  district  from
17    providing the minimum hours of  instruction  required  for  a
18    full  day of attendance, the partial day of attendance may be
19    counted as a full day  of  attendance.  The  partial  day  of
20    attendance  and  the  reasons  therefor shall be certified in
21    writing within a month of the closing or delayed start by the
22    local  school  district  superintendent   to   the   Regional
23    Superintendent   of  Schools  for  forwarding  to  the  State
24    Superintendent of Education for approval.
25        If a school building is  ordered  to  be  closed  by  the
26    school board, in consultation with a local emergency response
27    agency,  due  to a condition that poses a hazardous threat to
28    the health and safety of pupils,  then  the  school  district
29    shall  have  a  grace  period  of 4 days in which the general
30    State aid claim shall not  be  reduced  so  that  alternative
31    housing of the pupils may be located.
32        No  exception  to  the requirement of providing a minimum
33    school term may be approved by the  State  Superintendent  of
34    Education  pursuant  to this Section unless a school district
 
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 1    has first used all emergency days provided for in its regular
 2    calendar.
 3        If the State Superintendent of Education declares that an
 4    energy shortage exists during any part of the school year for
 5    the State or a designated portion of the  State,  a  district
 6    may operate the school attendance centers within the district
 7    4  days  of  the  week  during  the  time  of the shortage by
 8    extending each existing school  day  by  one  clock  hour  of
 9    school  work,  and  the State aid claim shall not be reduced,
10    nor shall the employees of that district suffer any reduction
11    in salary or benefits as a result  thereof.  A  district  may
12    operate  all  attendance centers on this revised schedule, or
13    may apply the schedule to selected attendance centers, taking
14    into  consideration  such  factors  as  pupil  transportation
15    schedules and patterns and sources of energy  for  individual
16    attendance centers.
17        No  State  aid claim may be filed for any district unless
18    the clerk or secretary of the school board executes and files
19    with  the  State  Superintendent  of  Education,   on   forms
20    prescribed  by the Superintendent, a sworn statement that the
21    district  has  complied  with  the  requirements  of  Section
22    10-22.5 in regard to the nonsegregation of pupils on  account
23    of color, creed, race, sex or nationality.
24        No  State  aid claim may be filed for any district unless
25    the clerk or secretary of the school board executes and files
26    with  the  State  Superintendent  of  Education,   on   forms
27    prescribed  by  the Superintendent, a sworn statement that to
28    the best of his or her knowledge or belief the  employing  or
29    assigning  personnel  have  complied with Section 24-4 in all
30    respects.
31    (Source: P.A. 92-661, eff. 7-16-02.)

32        (105 ILCS 5/2-3.16 rep.)
33        Section 10.  The School  Code  is  amended  by  repealing
 
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 1    Section 2-3.16.

 2        Section  99.   Effective  date.  This Act takes effect on
 3    July 1, 2003.