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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 1D-1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/1D-1)
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7 | Sec. 1D-1. Block grant funding.
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8 | (a) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | the State Board
of Education shall award to a school district | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | having a population exceeding
500,000 inhabitants a general | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | education block grant and an educational services
block grant, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | determined as provided in this Section, in lieu of distributing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | to
the district separate State funding for the programs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | described in subsections
(b) and (c). The provisions of this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Section, however, do not apply to any
federal funds that the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | district is entitled to receive. In accordance with
Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 2-3.32, all block grants are subject to an audit. Therefore, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | block
grant receipts and block grant expenditures shall be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | recorded to the
appropriate fund code for the designated block | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | grant.
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21 | (b) The general education block grant shall include the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | following
programs: REI Initiative, Summer Bridges, Preschool | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | At Risk, K-6
Comprehensive Arts, School Improvement Support, |
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1 | Urban Education, Scientific
Literacy, Substance Abuse | ||||||
2 | Prevention, Second Language Planning, Staff
Development, | ||||||
3 | Outcomes and Assessment, K-6 Reading Improvement, 7-12 | ||||||
4 | Continued
Reading Improvement, Truants'
Optional Education, | ||||||
5 | Hispanic Programs, Agriculture Education,
Parental Education, | ||||||
6 | Prevention Initiative, Report Cards, and Criminal
Background | ||||||
7 | Investigations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, | ||||||
8 | all
amounts paid under the general education block grant from | ||||||
9 | State appropriations
to a school district in a city having a | ||||||
10 | population exceeding 500,000
inhabitants shall be appropriated | ||||||
11 | and expended by the board of that district
for any of the | ||||||
12 | programs included in the block grant or any of the board's
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13 | lawful purposes.
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14 | (c) The educational services block grant shall include the | ||||||
15 | following
programs: Bilingual, Regular and Vocational | ||||||
16 | Transportation, State Lunch and
Free Breakfast Program, | ||||||
17 | Special Education (Personnel,
Transportation, Orphanage, | ||||||
18 | Private Tuition), funding
for children requiring special | ||||||
19 | education services, Summer School,
Educational Service | ||||||
20 | Centers, and Administrator's Academy. This subsection (c)
does | ||||||
21 | not relieve the district of its obligation to provide the | ||||||
22 | services
required under a program that is included within the | ||||||
23 | educational services block
grant. It is the intention of the | ||||||
24 | General Assembly in enacting the provisions
of this subsection | ||||||
25 | (c) to relieve the district of the administrative burdens
that | ||||||
26 | impede efficiency and accompany single-program funding. The |
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1 | General
Assembly encourages the board to pursue mandate waivers | ||||||
2 | pursuant to Section
2-3.25g. | ||||||
3 | The funding program included in the educational services | ||||||
4 | block grant
for funding for children requiring special | ||||||
5 | education services in each fiscal
year shall be treated in that | ||||||
6 | fiscal year as a payment to the school district
in respect of | ||||||
7 | services provided or costs incurred in the prior fiscal year,
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8 | calculated in each case as provided in this Section. Nothing in | ||||||
9 | this Section
shall change the nature of payments for any | ||||||
10 | program that, apart from this
Section, would be or, prior to | ||||||
11 | adoption or amendment of this Section, was on
the basis of a | ||||||
12 | payment in a fiscal year in respect of services provided or
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13 | costs incurred in the prior fiscal year, calculated in each | ||||||
14 | case as provided
in this Section.
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15 | (d) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | ||||||
16 | the amount
of the district's block grants shall be determined | ||||||
17 | as follows:
(i) with respect to each program that is included | ||||||
18 | within each block grant, the
district shall receive an amount | ||||||
19 | equal to the same percentage of the current
fiscal year | ||||||
20 | appropriation made for that program as the percentage of the
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21 | appropriation received by the district from the 1995 fiscal | ||||||
22 | year appropriation
made for that program, and
(ii) the total | ||||||
23 | amount that is due the district under the block grant shall be
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24 | the aggregate of the amounts that the district is entitled to | ||||||
25 | receive for the
fiscal year with respect to each program that | ||||||
26 | is included within the block
grant that the State Board of |
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1 | Education shall award the district under this
Section for that | ||||||
2 | fiscal year. In the case of the Summer Bridges program,
the | ||||||
3 | amount of the district's block grant shall be equal to 44% of | ||||||
4 | the amount
of the current fiscal year appropriation made for | ||||||
5 | that program.
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6 | (e) The district is not required to file any application or | ||||||
7 | other claim in
order to receive the block grants to which it is | ||||||
8 | entitled under this Section.
The State Board of Education shall | ||||||
9 | make payments to the district of amounts due
under the | ||||||
10 | district's block grants on a schedule determined by the State | ||||||
11 | Board
of Education.
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12 | (f) A school district to which this Section applies shall | ||||||
13 | report to the
State Board of Education on its use of the block | ||||||
14 | grants in such form and detail
as the State Board of Education | ||||||
15 | may specify. In addition, the report must include the following | ||||||
16 | description for the district, which must also be reported to | ||||||
17 | the General Assembly: block grant allocation and expenditures | ||||||
18 | by program; population and service levels by program; and | ||||||
19 | administrative expenditures by program.
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20 | (g) This paragraph provides for the treatment of block | ||||||
21 | grants under Article
1C for purposes of calculating the amount | ||||||
22 | of block grants for a district under
this Section. Those block | ||||||
23 | grants under Article 1C are, for this
purpose, treated as | ||||||
24 | included in the amount of appropriation for the various
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25 | programs set forth in paragraph (b) above. The appropriation in | ||||||
26 | each current
fiscal year for each block grant under Article 1C |
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1 | shall be treated for these
purposes as appropriations for the | ||||||
2 | individual program included in that block
grant. The proportion | ||||||
3 | of each block grant so allocated to each such program
included | ||||||
4 | in it shall be the proportion which the appropriation for that | ||||||
5 | program
was of all appropriations for such purposes now in that | ||||||
6 | block grant, in fiscal
1995.
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7 | Payments to the school district under this Section with | ||||||
8 | respect to each
program for which payments to school districts | ||||||
9 | generally, as of the date of
this
amendatory Act of the 92nd | ||||||
10 | General Assembly, are on a reimbursement basis
shall continue | ||||||
11 | to be made to the district on a reimbursement basis, pursuant
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12 | to the provisions of this Code governing those programs.
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13 | (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school | ||||||
14 | district
receiving a block grant under this Section may | ||||||
15 | classify all or a portion of
the funds that it receives in a | ||||||
16 | particular fiscal year from any block grant
authorized under | ||||||
17 | this Code or from general State aid pursuant to Section
18-8.05 | ||||||
18 | of this Code (other than supplemental general State aid) as
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19 | funds received in connection with any funding program for which | ||||||
20 | it is
entitled to receive funds from the State in that fiscal | ||||||
21 | year (including,
without limitation, any funding program | ||||||
22 | referred to in subsection (c) of
this Section), regardless of | ||||||
23 | the source or timing of the receipt. The
district may not | ||||||
24 | classify more funds as funds received in connection
with the | ||||||
25 | funding program than the district is entitled to receive in | ||||||
26 | that
fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a |
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1 | district must be made by
a resolution
of its board of | ||||||
2 | education. The resolution must identify the amount of any
block | ||||||
3 | grant or general State aid to be classified under this | ||||||
4 | subsection (h)
and must specify the funding program to which | ||||||
5 | the funds are to be
treated as received in connection | ||||||
6 | therewith. This resolution is
controlling as to the | ||||||
7 | classification of funds referenced therein. A certified
copy of | ||||||
8 | the resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of
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9 | Education.
The resolution shall still take effect even though a | ||||||
10 | copy of the resolution
has not been sent to the State
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11 | Superintendent of Education in a timely manner.
No | ||||||
12 | classification under this subsection (h) by a district shall
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13 | affect the total amount or timing of money the district is | ||||||
14 | entitled to receive
under this Code.
No classification under | ||||||
15 | this subsection (h) by a district
shall in any way relieve the | ||||||
16 | district from or affect any
requirements that otherwise would | ||||||
17 | apply with respect to the
block grant as provided in this | ||||||
18 | Section, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting | ||||||
19 | expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting | ||||||
20 | requirements, or requirements of provision of
services.
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21 | (Source: P.A. 92-568, eff. 6-26-02; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; | ||||||
22 | 93-21, eff. 7-1-03; 93-53, eff. 7-1-03; 93-1022, eff. 8-24-04.)
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23 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
24 | becoming law.
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