Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.

Filed: 5/20/2015

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 814

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 814 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
527A-4 and 27A-6 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/27A-4)
7    Sec. 27A-4. General provisions Provisions.
8    (a) The General Assembly does not intend to alter or amend
9the provisions of any court-ordered desegregation plan in
10effect for any school district. A charter school shall be
11subject to all federal and State laws and constitutional
12provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
13disability, race, creed, color, gender, national origin,
14religion, ancestry, marital status, or need for special
15education services.
16    (b) At The total number of charter schools operating under

 

 

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1this Article at any one time shall not exceed 120. Not more
2than 70 charter schools shall operate at any one time in any
3city having a population exceeding 500,000, with at least 5
4charter schools devoted exclusively to students from
5low-performing or overcrowded schools shall operate. At
6operating at any one time in that city; and not more than 45
7charter schools shall operate at any one time in the remainder
8of the State, with not more than one charter school may be that
9has been initiated by a board of education, or by an
10intergovernmental agreement between or among boards of
11education, operating at any one time in the school district
12where the charter school is located. In addition to these
13charter schools, up to but no more than 5 charter schools
14devoted exclusively to re-enrolled high school dropouts and/or
15students 16 or 15 years old at risk of dropping out may operate
16at any one time in any city having a population exceeding
17500,000. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in
18subsection (b) of Section 27A-5 of this Code, each such dropout
19charter may operate up to 15 campuses within the city. Any of
20these dropout charters may have a maximum of 1,875 enrollment
21seats, any one of the campuses of the dropout charter may have
22a maximum of 165 enrollment seats, and each campus of the
23dropout charter must be operated, through a contract or
24payroll, by the same legal entity as that for which the charter
25is approved and certified.
26    For purposes of implementing this Section, the State Board

 

 

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1shall assign a number to each charter submission it receives
2under Section 27A-6 for its review and certification, based on
3the chronological order in which the submission is received by
4it. The State Board shall promptly notify local school boards
5when the maximum numbers of certified charter schools
6authorized to operate have been reached.
7    (c) No charter shall be granted under this Article that
8would convert any existing private, parochial, or non-public
9school to a charter school.
10    (d) Enrollment in a charter school shall be open to any
11pupil who resides within the geographic boundaries of the area
12served by the local school board, provided that the board of
13education in a city having a population exceeding 500,000 may
14designate attendance boundaries for no more than one-third of
15the charter schools permitted in the city if the board of
16education determines that attendance boundaries are needed to
17relieve overcrowding or to better serve low-income and at-risk
18students. Students residing within an attendance boundary may
19be given priority for enrollment, but must not be required to
20attend the charter school.
21    (e) Nothing in this Article shall prevent 2 or more local
22school boards from jointly issuing a charter to a single shared
23charter school, provided that all of the provisions of this
24Article are met as to those local school boards.
25    (f) No local school board shall require any employee of the
26school district to be employed in a charter school.

 

 

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1    (g) No local school board shall require any pupil residing
2within the geographic boundary of its district to enroll in a
3charter school.
4    (h) If there are more eligible applicants for enrollment in
5a charter school than there are spaces available, successful
6applicants shall be selected by lottery. However, priority
7shall be given to siblings of pupils enrolled in the charter
8school and to pupils who were enrolled in the charter school
9the previous school year, unless expelled for cause, and
10priority may be given to pupils residing within the charter
11school's attendance boundary, if a boundary has been designated
12by the board of education in a city having a population
13exceeding 500,000.
14    Beginning with student enrollment for the 2015-2016 school
15year, any lottery required under this subsection (h) must be
16administered and videotaped by the charter school. The
17authorizer or its designee must be allowed to be present or
18view the lottery in real time. The charter school must maintain
19a videotaped record of the lottery, including a time/date
20stamp. The charter school shall transmit copies of the
21videotape and all records relating to the lottery to the
22authorizer on or before September 1 of each year.
23    Subject to the requirements for priority applicant groups
24set forth in paragraph (1) of this subsection (h), any lottery
25required under this subsection (h) must be administered in a
26way that provides each student an equal chance at admission. If

 

 

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1an authorizer makes a determination that a charter school's
2lottery is in violation of this subsection (h), it may
3administer the lottery directly. After a lottery, each student
4randomly selected for admission to the charter school must be
5notified. Charter schools may not create an admissions process
6subsequent to a lottery that may operate as a barrier to
7registration or enrollment.
8    Charter schools may undertake additional intake
9activities, including without limitation student essays,
10school-parent compacts, or open houses, but in no event may a
11charter school require participation in these activities as a
12condition of enrollment. A charter school must submit an
13updated waitlist to the authorizer on a quarterly basis. A
14waitlist must be submitted to the authorizer at the same time
15as quarterly financial statements, if quarterly financial
16statements are required by the authorizer.
17    Dual enrollment at both a charter school and a public
18school or non-public school shall not be allowed. A pupil who
19is suspended or expelled from a charter school shall be deemed
20to be suspended or expelled from the public schools of the
21school district in which the pupil resides. Notwithstanding
22anything to the contrary in this subsection (h):
23        (1) any charter school with a mission exclusive to
24    educating high school dropouts may grant priority
25    admission to students who are high school dropouts and/or
26    students 16 or 15 years old at risk of dropping out and any

 

 

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1    charter school with a mission exclusive to educating
2    students from low-performing or overcrowded schools may
3    restrict admission to students who are from low-performing
4    or overcrowded schools; "priority admission" for charter
5    schools exclusively devoted to re-enrolled dropouts or
6    students at risk of dropping out means a minimum of 90% of
7    students enrolled shall be high school dropouts; and
8        (2) any charter school located in a school district
9    that contains all or part of a federal military base may
10    set aside up to 33% of its current charter enrollment to
11    students with parents assigned to the federal military
12    base, with the remaining 67% subject to the general
13    enrollment and lottery requirements of subsection (d) of
14    this Section and this subsection (h); if a student with a
15    parent assigned to the federal military base withdraws from
16    the charter school during the course of a school year for
17    reasons other than grade promotion, those students with
18    parents assigned to the federal military base shall have
19    preference in filling the vacancy.
20    (i) (Blank).
21    (j) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
22contrary, a school district in a city having a population
23exceeding 500,000 shall not have a duty to collectively bargain
24with an exclusive representative of its employees over
25decisions to grant or deny a charter school proposal under
26Section 27A-8 of this Code, decisions to renew or revoke a

 

 

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1charter under Section 27A-9 of this Code, and the impact of
2these decisions, provided that nothing in this Section shall
3have the effect of negating, abrogating, replacing, reducing,
4diminishing, or limiting in any way employee rights,
5guarantees, or privileges granted in Sections 2, 3, 7, 8, 10,
614, and 15 of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
7    (k) In this Section:
8    "Low-performing school" means a public school in a school
9district organized under Article 34 of this Code that enrolls
10students in any of grades kindergarten through 8 and that is
11ranked within the lowest 10% of schools in that district in
12terms of the percentage of students meeting or exceeding
13standards on the assessments required under Section 2-3.64a-5
14of this Code.
15    "Overcrowded school" means a public school in a school
16district organized under Article 34 of this Code that (i)
17enrolls students in any of grades kindergarten through 8, (ii)
18has a percentage of low-income students of 70% or more, as
19identified in the most recently available School Report Card
20published by the State Board of Education, and (iii) is
21determined by the Chicago Board of Education to be in the most
22severely overcrowded 5% of schools in the district. On or
23before November 1 of each year, the Chicago Board of Education
24shall file a report with the State Board of Education on which
25schools in the district meet the definition of "overcrowded
26school". "Students at risk of dropping out" means students 16

 

 

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1or 15 years old in a public school in a district organized
2under Article 34 of this Code that enrolls students in any
3grades 9-12 who have been absent at least 90 school attendance
4days of the previous 180 school attendance days.
5    (l) For advertisements created after January 1, 2015 (the
6effective date of Public Act 98-783) this amendatory Act of the
798th General Assembly, any advertisement, including a radio,
8television, print, Internet, social media, or billboard
9advertisement, purchased by a school district or public school,
10including a charter school, with public funds must include a
11disclaimer stating that the advertisement was paid for using
12public funds.
13    This disclaimer requirement does not extend to materials
14created by the charter school, including, but not limited to, a
15school website, informational pamphlets or leaflets, or
16clothing with affixed school logos.
17(Source: P.A. 97-151, eff. 1-1-12; 97-624, eff. 11-28-11;
1897-813, eff. 7-13-12; 98-474, eff. 8-16-13; 98-783, eff.
191-1-15; 98-972, eff. 8-15-14; revised 10-1-14.)
 
20    (105 ILCS 5/27A-6)
21    Sec. 27A-6. Contract contents; applicability of laws and
22regulations.
23    (a) A certified charter shall constitute a binding contract
24and agreement between the charter school and a local school
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1authorizes the governing body of the charter school to operate
2the charter school on the terms specified in the contract.
3    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
4the certified charter may not waive or release the charter
5school from the State goals, standards, and assessments
6established pursuant to Section 2-3.64a-5 of this Code.
7Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, the certified charter
8for a charter school operating in a city having a population
9exceeding 500,000 shall require the charter school to
10administer any other nationally recognized standardized tests
11to its students that the chartering entity administers to other
12students, and the results on such tests shall be included in
13the chartering entity's assessment reports.
14    (c) Subject to the provisions of subsection (e), a material
15revision to a previously certified contract or a renewal shall
16be made with the approval of both the local school board and
17the governing body of the charter school.
18    (c-5) The proposed contract shall include a provision on
19how both parties will address minor violations of the contract.
20    (d) The proposed contract between the governing body of a
21proposed charter school and the local school board as described
22in Section 27A-7 must be submitted to and certified by the
23State Board before it can take effect. If the State Board
24recommends that the proposed contract be modified for
25consistency with this Article before it can be certified, the
26modifications must be consented to by both the governing body

 

 

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1of the charter school and the local school board, and
2resubmitted to the State Board for its certification. If the
3proposed contract is resubmitted in a form that is not
4consistent with this Article, the State Board may refuse to
5certify the charter.
6    With respect The State Board shall assign a number to each
7submission or resubmission, the State Board in chronological
8order of receipt, and shall determine whether the proposed
9contract is consistent with the provisions of this Article. If
10the proposed contract complies, the State Board shall so
11certify.
12    (e) No renewal of a previously certified contract is
13effective unless and until the State Board certifies that the
14renewal is consistent with the provisions of this Article. A
15material revision to a previously certified contract may go
16into effect immediately upon approval of both the local school
17board and the governing body of the charter school, unless
18either party requests in writing that the State Board certify
19that the material revision is consistent with the provisions of
20this Article. If such a request is made, the proposed material
21revision is not effective unless and until the State Board so
22certifies.
23(Source: P.A. 98-972, eff. 8-15-14; 98-1048, eff. 8-25-14;
24revised 10-1-14.)".