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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 Sections | ||||||
5 | 1C-4 and 1D-1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/1C-4)
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7 | Sec. 1C-4. Reports. The State Superintendent of Education, | ||||||
8 | in cooperation
with the school districts participating under | ||||||
9 | this Article, shall annually
report to the leadership of the | ||||||
10 | General Assembly on the progress made in
implementing this | ||||||
11 | Article. By February 1, 1997, the State Board of Education
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12 | shall submit to the Governor and General Assembly a | ||||||
13 | comprehensive plan for
Illinois school districts, including | ||||||
14 | the school district that has been
organized under Article 34 | ||||||
15 | and is under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Board
of | ||||||
16 | Education, to establish and implement a block grant funding | ||||||
17 | system for
educational programs that are currently funded | ||||||
18 | through single-program grants.
Before submitting its plan to | ||||||
19 | establish and implement a block grant funding
system to the | ||||||
20 | Governor and General Assembly as required by this Section, the
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21 | State Board of Education shall give appropriate notice of and | ||||||
22 | hold statewide
public hearings on the subject of funding | ||||||
23 | educational programs through block
grants. The
plan shall be
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1 | designed to relieve school districts of the administrative | ||||||
2 | burdens that impede
efficiency and accompany single-program | ||||||
3 | funding.
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4 | A school district that receives an Early Childhood | ||||||
5 | Education Block Grant shall report to the State Board of | ||||||
6 | Education on its use of the block
grant in such form and detail | ||||||
7 | as the State Board of Education
may specify. In addition, the | ||||||
8 | report must include the following
description for the district, | ||||||
9 | which must also be reported to
the General Assembly: block | ||||||
10 | grant allocation and expenditures
by program; population and | ||||||
11 | service levels by program; and
administrative expenditures by | ||||||
12 | program. The State Board of Education shall ensure that the | ||||||
13 | reporting requirements for a district organized under Article | ||||||
14 | 34 of this Code are the same as for all other school districts | ||||||
15 | in this State. | ||||||
16 | (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94; 89-397, eff. 8-20-95; | ||||||
17 | 89-610, eff.
8-6-96.)
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18 | (105 ILCS 5/1D-1)
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19 | Sec. 1D-1. Block grant funding.
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20 | (a) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | ||||||
21 | the State Board
of Education shall award to a school district | ||||||
22 | having a population exceeding
500,000 inhabitants a general | ||||||
23 | education block grant and an educational services
block grant, | ||||||
24 | determined as provided in this Section, in lieu of distributing | ||||||
25 | to
the district separate State funding for the programs |
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1 | described in subsections
(b) and (c). The provisions of this | ||||||
2 | Section, however, do not apply to any
federal funds that the | ||||||
3 | district is entitled to receive. In accordance with
Section | ||||||
4 | 2-3.32, all block grants are subject to an audit. Therefore, | ||||||
5 | block
grant receipts and block grant expenditures shall be | ||||||
6 | recorded to the
appropriate fund code for the designated block | ||||||
7 | grant.
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8 | (b) The general education block grant shall include the | ||||||
9 | following
programs: REI Initiative, Summer Bridges, Preschool | ||||||
10 | At Risk, K-6
Comprehensive Arts, School Improvement Support, | ||||||
11 | Urban Education, Scientific
Literacy, Substance Abuse | ||||||
12 | Prevention, Second Language Planning, Staff
Development, | ||||||
13 | Outcomes and Assessment, K-6 Reading Improvement, 7-12 | ||||||
14 | Continued
Reading Improvement, Truants'
Optional Education, | ||||||
15 | Hispanic Programs, Agriculture Education,
Parental Education, | ||||||
16 | Prevention Initiative, Report Cards, and Criminal
Background | ||||||
17 | Investigations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, | ||||||
18 | all
amounts paid under the general education block grant from | ||||||
19 | State appropriations
to a school district in a city having a | ||||||
20 | population exceeding 500,000
inhabitants shall be appropriated | ||||||
21 | and expended by the board of that district
for any of the | ||||||
22 | programs included in the block grant or any of the board's
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23 | lawful purposes.
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24 | (c) The educational services block grant shall include the | ||||||
25 | following
programs: Bilingual, Regular and Vocational | ||||||
26 | Transportation, State Lunch and
Free Breakfast Program, |
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1 | Special Education (Personnel,
Transportation, Orphanage, | ||||||
2 | Private Tuition), funding
for children requiring special | ||||||
3 | education services, Summer School,
Educational Service | ||||||
4 | Centers, and Administrator's Academy. This subsection (c)
does | ||||||
5 | not relieve the district of its obligation to provide the | ||||||
6 | services
required under a program that is included within the | ||||||
7 | educational services block
grant. It is the intention of the | ||||||
8 | General Assembly in enacting the provisions
of this subsection | ||||||
9 | (c) to relieve the district of the administrative burdens
that | ||||||
10 | impede efficiency and accompany single-program funding. The | ||||||
11 | General
Assembly encourages the board to pursue mandate waivers | ||||||
12 | pursuant to Section
2-3.25g. | ||||||
13 | The funding program included in the educational services | ||||||
14 | block grant
for funding for children requiring special | ||||||
15 | education services in each fiscal
year shall be treated in that | ||||||
16 | fiscal year as a payment to the school district
in respect of | ||||||
17 | services provided or costs incurred in the prior fiscal year,
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18 | calculated in each case as provided in this Section. Nothing in | ||||||
19 | this Section
shall change the nature of payments for any | ||||||
20 | program that, apart from this
Section, would be or, prior to | ||||||
21 | adoption or amendment of this Section, was on
the basis of a | ||||||
22 | payment in a fiscal year in respect of services provided or
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23 | costs incurred in the prior fiscal year, calculated in each | ||||||
24 | case as provided
in this Section.
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25 | (d) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | ||||||
26 | the amount
of the district's block grants shall be determined |
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1 | as follows:
(i) with respect to each program that is included | ||||||
2 | within each block grant, the
district shall receive an amount | ||||||
3 | equal to the same percentage of the current
fiscal year | ||||||
4 | appropriation made for that program as the percentage of the
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5 | appropriation received by the district from the 1995 fiscal | ||||||
6 | year appropriation
made for that program, and
(ii) the total | ||||||
7 | amount that is due the district under the block grant shall be
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8 | the aggregate of the amounts that the district is entitled to | ||||||
9 | receive for the
fiscal year with respect to each program that | ||||||
10 | is included within the block
grant that the State Board of | ||||||
11 | Education shall award the district under this
Section for that | ||||||
12 | fiscal year. In the case of the Summer Bridges program,
the | ||||||
13 | amount of the district's block grant shall be equal to 44% of | ||||||
14 | the amount
of the current fiscal year appropriation made for | ||||||
15 | that program.
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16 | (e) The district is not required to file any application or | ||||||
17 | other claim in
order to receive the block grants to which it is | ||||||
18 | entitled under this Section.
The State Board of Education shall | ||||||
19 | make payments to the district of amounts due
under the | ||||||
20 | district's block grants on a schedule determined by the State | ||||||
21 | Board
of Education.
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22 | (f) A school district to which this Section applies shall | ||||||
23 | report to the
State Board of Education on its use of the block | ||||||
24 | grants in such form and detail
as the State Board of Education | ||||||
25 | may specify. In addition, the report must include the following | ||||||
26 | description for the district, which must also be reported to |
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1 | the General Assembly: block grant allocation and expenditures | ||||||
2 | by program; population and service levels by program; and | ||||||
3 | administrative expenditures by program. The State Board of | ||||||
4 | Education shall ensure that the reporting requirements for the | ||||||
5 | district are the same as for all other school districts in this | ||||||
6 | State.
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7 | (g) This paragraph provides for the treatment of block | ||||||
8 | grants under Article
1C for purposes of calculating the amount | ||||||
9 | of block grants for a district under
this Section. Those block | ||||||
10 | grants under Article 1C are, for this
purpose, treated as | ||||||
11 | included in the amount of appropriation for the various
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12 | programs set forth in paragraph (b) above. The appropriation in | ||||||
13 | each current
fiscal year for each block grant under Article 1C | ||||||
14 | shall be treated for these
purposes as appropriations for the | ||||||
15 | individual program included in that block
grant. The proportion | ||||||
16 | of each block grant so allocated to each such program
included | ||||||
17 | in it shall be the proportion which the appropriation for that | ||||||
18 | program
was of all appropriations for such purposes now in that | ||||||
19 | block grant, in fiscal
1995.
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20 | Payments to the school district under this Section with | ||||||
21 | respect to each
program for which payments to school districts | ||||||
22 | generally, as of the date of
this
amendatory Act of the 92nd | ||||||
23 | General Assembly, are on a reimbursement basis
shall continue | ||||||
24 | to be made to the district on a reimbursement basis, pursuant
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25 | to the provisions of this Code governing those programs.
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26 | (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school |
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1 | district
receiving a block grant under this Section may | ||||||
2 | classify all or a portion of
the funds that it receives in a | ||||||
3 | particular fiscal year from any block grant
authorized under | ||||||
4 | this Code or from general State aid pursuant to Section
18-8.05 | ||||||
5 | of this Code (other than supplemental general State aid) as
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6 | funds received in connection with any funding program for which | ||||||
7 | it is
entitled to receive funds from the State in that fiscal | ||||||
8 | year (including,
without limitation, any funding program | ||||||
9 | referred to in subsection (c) of
this Section), regardless of | ||||||
10 | the source or timing of the receipt. The
district may not | ||||||
11 | classify more funds as funds received in connection
with the | ||||||
12 | funding program than the district is entitled to receive in | ||||||
13 | that
fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a | ||||||
14 | district must be made by
a resolution
of its board of | ||||||
15 | education. The resolution must identify the amount of any
block | ||||||
16 | grant or general State aid to be classified under this | ||||||
17 | subsection (h)
and must specify the funding program to which | ||||||
18 | the funds are to be
treated as received in connection | ||||||
19 | therewith. This resolution is
controlling as to the | ||||||
20 | classification of funds referenced therein. A certified
copy of | ||||||
21 | the resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of
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22 | Education.
The resolution shall still take effect even though a | ||||||
23 | copy of the resolution
has not been sent to the State
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24 | Superintendent of Education in a timely manner.
No | ||||||
25 | classification under this subsection (h) by a district shall
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26 | affect the total amount or timing of money the district is |
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1 | entitled to receive
under this Code.
No classification under | ||||||
2 | this subsection (h) by a district
shall in any way relieve the | ||||||
3 | district from or affect any
requirements that otherwise would | ||||||
4 | apply with respect to the
block grant as provided in this | ||||||
5 | Section, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting | ||||||
6 | expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting | ||||||
7 | requirements, or requirements of provision of
services.
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8 | (Source: P.A. 92-568, eff. 6-26-02; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; | ||||||
9 | 93-21, eff. 7-1-03; 93-53, eff. 7-1-03; 93-1022, eff. 8-24-04.)
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10 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
11 | 2011.
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