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Rep. Adam Brown
Filed: 4/20/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1791
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1791 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 13A-8 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/13A-8)
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| 7 | | Sec. 13A-8. Funding.
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| 8 | | (a) The State of Illinois shall provide funding for
the
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| 9 | | alternative school programs within each educational service |
| 10 | | region and within
the Chicago public school system by line item |
| 11 | | appropriation made to the State
Board of Education for that |
| 12 | | purpose. This money, when appropriated, shall be
provided to |
| 13 | | the regional superintendent and to the Chicago Board of |
| 14 | | Education,
who shall establish a budget, including salaries, |
| 15 | | for their
alternative school programs.
Each program shall |
| 16 | | receive funding in the amount of $30,000 plus an amount
based |
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| 1 | | on the ratio of the region's or Chicago's last best 3 years' |
| 2 | | months' average daily
attendance in grades pre-kindergarten |
| 3 | | through 12 of pupils served by the alternative school program |
| 4 | | to the statewide totals of
these amounts. For purposes of this |
| 5 | | calculation, the best 3 months' average
daily attendance for |
| 6 | | each region or Chicago shall be calculated by adding to
the |
| 7 | | best 3 months' average
daily
attendance the number of |
| 8 | | low-income students identified in the most
recently available |
| 9 | | federal census multiplied by one-half times the percentage
of |
| 10 | | the
region's or Chicago's low-income students
to the State's |
| 11 | | total low-income students.
The State Board of Education shall |
| 12 | | retain
up to 1.1% of the appropriation to be used to provide |
| 13 | | technical assistance,
professional development, and |
| 14 | | evaluations for the programs.
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| 15 | | (a-5) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this |
| 16 | | Section, for the
1998-1999
fiscal year, the total amount |
| 17 | | distributed
under subsection (a) for an alternative school |
| 18 | | program shall be not less than
the total amount that was |
| 19 | | distributed under that subsection for that
alternative school |
| 20 | | program for the 1997-1998 fiscal year. If an alternative
school |
| 21 | | program is to receive a total distribution under subsection (a) |
| 22 | | for the
1998-1999 fiscal year that is less than the total
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| 23 | | distribution that the program received under that subsection |
| 24 | | for the 1997-1998
fiscal year, that alternative school program |
| 25 | | shall also receive, from a
separate appropriation made for |
| 26 | | purposes of this subsection (a-5), a
supplementary
payment |
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| 1 | | equal to the amount by which its total distribution under
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| 2 | | subsection (a) for the 1997-1998 fiscal year exceeds the amount |
| 3 | | of the total
distribution that the alternative school program |
| 4 | | receives under that
subsection for the 1998-1999 fiscal year.
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| 5 | | If the amount appropriated
for supplementary payments to |
| 6 | | alternative school programs under this subsection
(a-5)
is |
| 7 | | insufficient for that purpose, those supplementary payments |
| 8 | | shall be
prorated among the alternative school programs |
| 9 | | entitled to receive those
supplementary payments according to |
| 10 | | the aggregate amount of the appropriation
made for purposes of |
| 11 | | this subsection (a-5).
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| 12 | | (b) An alternative school program shall be entitled to |
| 13 | | receive general
State aid as calculated in subsection (K) of
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| 14 | | Section 18-8.05 upon filing a claim as
provided therein. Any |
| 15 | | time that a student who is enrolled in an alternative
school |
| 16 | | program spends in work-based learning, community service, or a |
| 17 | | similar
alternative educational setting shall be included in |
| 18 | | determining the student's
minimum number of clock hours of |
| 19 | | daily school work that constitute a day of
attendance for |
| 20 | | purposes of calculating general State aid.
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| 21 | | (c) An alternative school program may receive additional |
| 22 | | funding from its
school districts in such amount as may be |
| 23 | | agreed upon by the parties and
necessary
to support the |
| 24 | | program. In addition, an alternative school program is
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| 25 | | authorized to accept and expend gifts, legacies, and grants, |
| 26 | | including but not
limited to federal grants, from any source |