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Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
Filed: 4/7/2025
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3039
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3039 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 | | 27-22.10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-22.10) |
| 7 | | Sec. 27-22.10. Course credit for high school diploma. |
| 8 | | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the |
| 9 | | school board of a school district that maintains any of grades |
| 10 | | 9 through 12 is authorized to adopt a policy under which a |
| 11 | | student enrolled in grade 7 or 8 who is enrolled in the unit |
| 12 | | school district or would be enrolled in the high school |
| 13 | | district upon completion of elementary school, whichever is |
| 14 | | applicable, may enroll in a course required under Section |
| 15 | | 27-22 of this Code, provided that the course is offered by the |
| 16 | | high school that the student would attend, and (i) the student |
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| 1 | | participates in the course at the location of the high school, |
| 2 | | and the elementary student's enrollment in the course would |
| 3 | | not prevent a high school student from being able to enroll, or |
| 4 | | (ii) the student participates in the course where the student |
| 5 | | attends school as long as the student passes the course and the |
| 6 | | end-of-course examination given at the high school granting |
| 7 | | the credit for the same course, demonstrating proficiency at |
| 8 | | the high school level, or (iii) the course is taught by a |
| 9 | | teacher who holds a professional educator license issued under |
| 10 | | Article 21B of this Code and endorsed for the grade level and |
| 11 | | content area of the course. |
| 12 | | (b) A school board that adopts a policy pursuant to |
| 13 | | subsection (a) of this Section must grant academic credit to |
| 14 | | an elementary school student who successfully completes the |
| 15 | | high school course, and that credit shall satisfy the |
| 16 | | requirements of Section 27-22 of this Code for that course. |
| 17 | | (c) A school board must award high school course credit to |
| 18 | | a student transferring to its school district for any course |
| 19 | | that the student successfully completed pursuant to subsection |
| 20 | | (a) of this Section, unless evidence about the course's rigor |
| 21 | | and content shows that it does not address the relevant |
| 22 | | Illinois Learning Standard at the level appropriate for the |
| 23 | | high school grade during which the course is usually taken, |
| 24 | | and that credit shall satisfy the requirements of Section |
| 25 | | 27-22 of this Code for that course. |
| 26 | | (d) A student's grade in any course successfully completed |
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| 1 | | under this Section must be included in his or her grade point |
| 2 | | average in accordance with the school board's policy for |
| 3 | | making that calculation. |
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 99-189, eff. 7-30-15.)". |
