Full Text of HB0929 93rd General Assembly
HB0929sam001 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Miguel del Valle
Filed: 5/31/2004
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 929
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 929 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971 | 5 |
| is amended by changing Sections 6.5 and 6.6 as follows:
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| (5 ILCS 375/6.5)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2004)
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| Sec. 6.5. Health benefits for TRS benefit recipients and | 9 |
| TRS dependent
beneficiaries.
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| (a) Purpose. It is the purpose of this amendatory Act of | 11 |
| 1995 to transfer
the administration of the program of health | 12 |
| benefits established for benefit
recipients and their | 13 |
| dependent beneficiaries under Article 16 of the Illinois
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| Pension Code to the Department of Central Management Services.
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| (b) Transition provisions. The Board of Trustees of the | 16 |
| Teachers'
Retirement System shall continue to administer the | 17 |
| health benefit program
established under Article 16 of the | 18 |
| Illinois Pension Code through December 31,
1995. Beginning | 19 |
| January 1, 1996, the Department of Central Management Services
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| shall be responsible for administering a program of health | 21 |
| benefits for TRS
benefit recipients and TRS dependent | 22 |
| beneficiaries under this Section.
The Department of Central | 23 |
| Management Services and the Teachers' Retirement
System shall | 24 |
| cooperate in this endeavor and shall coordinate their |
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| activities
so as to ensure a smooth transition and | 2 |
| uninterrupted health benefit coverage.
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| (c) Eligibility. All persons who were enrolled in the | 4 |
| Article 16 program at
the time of the transfer shall be | 5 |
| eligible to participate in the program
established under this | 6 |
| Section without any interruption or delay in coverage
or | 7 |
| limitation as to pre-existing medical conditions. Eligibility | 8 |
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participate shall be determined by the Teachers' Retirement | 9 |
| System.
Eligibility information shall be communicated to the | 10 |
| Department of Central
Management Services in a format | 11 |
| acceptable to the Department.
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| A TRS dependent beneficiary who is an unmarried child age | 13 |
| 19 or over and
mentally or physically disabled
handicapped does | 14 |
| not become ineligible to participate
by reason of (i) becoming | 15 |
| ineligible to be claimed as a dependent for Illinois
or federal | 16 |
| income tax purposes or (ii) receiving earned income, so long as
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| those earnings are insufficient for the child to be fully | 18 |
| self-sufficient.
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| (d) Coverage. The level of health benefits provided under | 20 |
| this Section
shall be similar to the level of benefits provided | 21 |
| by the
program previously established under Article 16 of the | 22 |
| Illinois Pension Code.
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| Group life insurance benefits are not included in the | 24 |
| benefits
to be provided to TRS benefit recipients and TRS | 25 |
| dependent beneficiaries under
this Act.
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| The program of health benefits under this Section may | 27 |
| include any or all of
the benefit limitations, including but | 28 |
| not limited to a reduction in benefits
based on eligibility for | 29 |
| federal medicare benefits, that are provided under
subsection | 30 |
| (a) of Section 6 of this Act for other health benefit programs | 31 |
| under
this Act.
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| (e) Insurance rates and premiums. The Director shall | 33 |
| determine the
insurance rates and premiums for TRS benefit | 34 |
| recipients and TRS dependent
beneficiaries,
and shall present |
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| to the Teachers' Retirement System of
the State of Illinois, by | 2 |
| April 15 of each calendar year, the rate-setting
methodology | 3 |
| (including but not limited to utilization levels and costs) | 4 |
| used
to determine the amount of the health care premiums.
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| For Fiscal Year 1996, the premium shall be equal to the | 6 |
| premium actually
charged in Fiscal Year 1995; in subsequent | 7 |
| years, the premium shall
never be lower than the premium | 8 |
| charged in Fiscal Year 1995. | 9 |
| For Fiscal Year
2003, the premium shall not exceed 110% | 10 |
| of the premium actually charged in
Fiscal Year 2002. | 11 |
| For Fiscal Year 2004, the premium shall not exceed 112% | 12 |
| of
the premium actually charged in Fiscal Year 2003.
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| For Fiscal Year 2005, the premium shall not exceed a | 14 |
| weighted average of 106.6% of
the premium actually charged | 15 |
| in Fiscal Year 2004.
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| For Fiscal Year 2006, the premium shall not exceed a | 17 |
| weighted average of 109.1% of
the premium actually charged | 18 |
| in Fiscal Year 2005.
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| For Fiscal Year 2007, the premium shall not exceed a | 20 |
| weighted average of 103.9% of
the premium actually charged | 21 |
| in Fiscal Year 2006.
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| For Fiscal Year 2008 and thereafter, the premium in | 23 |
| each fiscal year shall not exceed 105% of
the premium | 24 |
| actually charged in the previous fiscal year.
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| Rates and premiums may be based in part on age and | 26 |
| eligibility for federal
medicare coverage. However, the cost of | 27 |
| participation for a TRS dependent
beneficiary who is an | 28 |
| unmarried child age 19 or over and mentally or physically
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| disabled
handicapped shall not exceed the cost for a TRS | 30 |
| dependent beneficiary who is
an unmarried child under age 19 | 31 |
| and participates in the same major medical or
managed care | 32 |
| program.
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| The cost of health benefits under the program shall be paid | 34 |
| as follows:
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| (1) For a TRS benefit recipient selecting a managed | 2 |
| care program, up to
75% of the total insurance rate shall | 3 |
| be paid from the Teacher Health Insurance
Security Fund. | 4 |
| Effective with Fiscal Year 2007 and thereafter, for a TRS | 5 |
| benefit recipient selecting a managed care program, 75% of | 6 |
| the total insurance rate shall be paid from the Teacher | 7 |
| Health Insurance
Security Fund.
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| (2) For a TRS benefit recipient selecting the major | 9 |
| medical coverage
program, up to 50% of the total insurance | 10 |
| rate shall be paid from the Teacher
Health Insurance | 11 |
| Security Fund if a managed care program is accessible, as
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| determined by the Teachers' Retirement System. Effective | 13 |
| with Fiscal Year 2007 and thereafter, for a TRS benefit | 14 |
| recipient selecting the major medical coverage
program, | 15 |
| 50% of the total insurance rate shall be paid from the | 16 |
| Teacher
Health Insurance Security Fund if a managed care | 17 |
| program is accessible, as
determined by the Department of | 18 |
| Central Management Services.
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| (3) For a TRS benefit recipient selecting the major | 20 |
| medical coverage
program, up to 75% of the total insurance | 21 |
| rate shall be paid from the Teacher
Health Insurance | 22 |
| Security Fund if a managed care program is not accessible, | 23 |
| as
determined by the Teachers' Retirement System. | 24 |
| Effective with Fiscal Year 2007 and thereafter, for a TRS | 25 |
| benefit recipient selecting the major medical coverage
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| program, 75% of the total insurance rate shall be paid from | 27 |
| the Teacher
Health Insurance Security Fund if a managed | 28 |
| care program is not accessible, as
determined by the | 29 |
| Department of Central Management Services.
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| (3.1) For a TRS dependent beneficiary who is Medicare | 31 |
| primary and enrolled in a managed care plan, or the major | 32 |
| medical coverage program if a managed care plan is not | 33 |
| available, 25% of the total insurance rate shall be paid | 34 |
| from the Teacher Health Security Fund as determined by the |
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| Department of Central Management Services. For the purpose | 2 |
| of this item (3.1), the term "TRS dependent beneficiary who | 3 |
| is Medicare primary" means a TRS dependent beneficiary who | 4 |
| is participating in Medicare Parts A and B.
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| (4) Except as otherwise provided in item (3.1), the
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| balance of the rate of insurance, including the entire | 7 |
| premium of
any coverage for TRS dependent beneficiaries | 8 |
| that has been elected, shall be
paid
by deductions | 9 |
| authorized by the TRS benefit recipient to be withheld from | 10 |
| his
or her monthly annuity or benefit payment from the | 11 |
| Teachers' Retirement System;
except that (i) if the balance | 12 |
| of the cost of coverage exceeds the amount of
the monthly | 13 |
| annuity or benefit payment, the difference shall be paid | 14 |
| directly
to the Teachers' Retirement System by the TRS | 15 |
| benefit recipient, and (ii) all
or part of the balance of | 16 |
| the cost of coverage may, at the school board's
option, be | 17 |
| paid to the Teachers' Retirement System by the school board | 18 |
| of the
school district from which the TRS benefit recipient | 19 |
| retired, in accordance
with Section 10-22.3b of the School | 20 |
| Code. The Teachers' Retirement System
shall promptly | 21 |
| deposit all moneys withheld by or paid to it under this
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| subdivision (e)(4) into the Teacher Health Insurance | 23 |
| Security Fund. These
moneys shall not be considered assets | 24 |
| of the Retirement System.
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| (f) Financing. Beginning July 1, 1995, all revenues arising | 26 |
| from the
administration of the health benefit programs | 27 |
| established under Article 16 of
the Illinois Pension Code or | 28 |
| this Section shall be deposited into the
Teacher Health | 29 |
| Insurance Security Fund, which is hereby created as a
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| nonappropriated trust fund to be held outside the State | 31 |
| Treasury, with the
State Treasurer as custodian. Any interest | 32 |
| earned on moneys in the Teacher
Health Insurance Security Fund | 33 |
| shall be deposited into the Fund.
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| Moneys in the Teacher Health Insurance Security
Fund shall |
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| be used only to pay the costs of the health benefit program
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| established under this Section, including associated | 3 |
| administrative costs, and
the costs associated with the health | 4 |
| benefit program established under Article
16 of the Illinois | 5 |
| Pension Code, as authorized in this Section. Beginning
July 1, | 6 |
| 1995, the Department of Central Management Services may make
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| expenditures from the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund | 8 |
| for those costs.
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| After other funds authorized for the payment of the costs | 10 |
| of the health
benefit program established under Article 16 of | 11 |
| the Illinois Pension Code are
exhausted and until January 1, | 12 |
| 1996 (or such later date as may be agreed upon
by the Director | 13 |
| of Central Management Services and the Secretary of the
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| Teachers' Retirement System), the Secretary of the Teachers' | 15 |
| Retirement System
may make expenditures from the Teacher Health | 16 |
| Insurance Security Fund as
necessary to pay up to 75% of the | 17 |
| cost of providing health coverage to eligible
benefit | 18 |
| recipients (as defined in Sections 16-153.1 and 16-153.3 of the
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| Illinois Pension Code) who are enrolled in the Article 16 | 20 |
| health benefit
program and to facilitate the transfer of | 21 |
| administration of the health benefit
program to the Department | 22 |
| of Central Management Services.
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| (g) Contract for benefits. The Director shall by contract, | 24 |
| self-insurance,
or otherwise make available the program of | 25 |
| health benefits for TRS benefit
recipients and their TRS | 26 |
| dependent beneficiaries that is provided for in this
Section. | 27 |
| The contract or other arrangement for the provision of these | 28 |
| health
benefits shall be on terms deemed by the Director to be | 29 |
| in the best interest of
the State of Illinois and the TRS | 30 |
| benefit recipients based on, but not limited
to, such criteria | 31 |
| as administrative cost, service capabilities of the carrier
or | 32 |
| other contractor, and the costs of the benefits.
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| (g-5) Committee. A Teacher Retirement Insurance Program | 34 |
| Committee shall be established, to consist of 10 persons |
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| appointed by the Governor.
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| The Committee shall convene at least 4 times each year, and | 3 |
| shall consider and make recommendations on issues affecting the | 4 |
| program of health benefits provided under this
Section. | 5 |
| Recommendations of the Committee shall be based on a consensus | 6 |
| of the members of the Committee.
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| If the Teacher
Health Insurance Security Fund experiences a | 8 |
| deficit balance based upon the contribution and subsidy rates | 9 |
| established in this Section and Section 6.6 for Fiscal Year | 10 |
| 2008 or thereafter, the Committee shall make recommendations | 11 |
| for adjustments to the funding sources established under these | 12 |
| Sections. | 13 |
| (h) Continuation and termination of program. It is the | 14 |
| intention of
the General Assembly that the program of health | 15 |
| benefits provided under this
Section be maintained on an | 16 |
| ongoing, affordable basis .
through June 30, 2004.
The program | 17 |
| of health benefits provided under this Section is terminated on
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| July 1, 2004.
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| The program of health benefits provided under this Section | 20 |
| may be amended by
the State and is not intended to be a pension | 21 |
| or retirement benefit subject to
protection under Article XIII, | 22 |
| Section 5 of the Illinois Constitution.
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| (i) Repeal. (Blank).
This Section is repealed on July 1, | 24 |
| 2004.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-505, eff. 12-20-01; 92-862, eff. 1-3-03; | 26 |
| revised 1-10-03.)
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| (5 ILCS 375/6.6)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2004)
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| Sec. 6.6. Contributions to the Teacher Health Insurance | 30 |
| Security Fund.
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| (a) Beginning July 1, 1995, all active contributors of the | 32 |
| Teachers'
Retirement System (established under Article 16 of | 33 |
| the Illinois Pension Code)
who are not employees of a |
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| department as defined in Section 3 of this Act
shall make | 2 |
| contributions toward the cost of annuitant and survivor health
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| benefits. These contributions shall be at the following rates:
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| until January 1, 2002, 0.5% of salary;
beginning January 1, | 5 |
| 2002, 0.65% of salary;
beginning July 1, 2003, 0.75% of salary ; | 6 |
| beginning July 1, 2005, 0.80% of salary;
beginning July 1, | 7 |
| 2007, a percentage of salary to be determined by the Department | 8 |
| of Central Management Services by rule, which in each fiscal | 9 |
| year shall not exceed 105% of the percentage of salary actually | 10 |
| required to be paid in the previous fiscal year .
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| These contributions shall be deducted by the employer and | 12 |
| paid to the System
as service agent for the Department of | 13 |
| Central Management Services. The System
may use the same | 14 |
| processes for collecting the contributions required by this
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| subsection that it uses to collect contributions received from | 16 |
| school districts
and other covered employers under Sections | 17 |
| 16-154 and 16-155 of the Illinois
Pension Code.
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| An employer may agree to pick up or pay the contributions | 19 |
| required under
this subsection on behalf of the teacher; such | 20 |
| contributions shall be deemed
to have to have been paid by the | 21 |
| teacher. Beginning January 1, 2002, if
the employer does not | 22 |
| directly pay the required member contribution, then the
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| employer shall reduce the member's salary by an amount equal to | 24 |
| the required
contribution and shall then pay the contribution | 25 |
| on behalf of the member.
This reduction shall not change the | 26 |
| amounts reported as creditable earnings
to the Teachers' | 27 |
| Retirement System.
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| A person who purchases optional service credit under | 29 |
| Article 16 of the
Illinois Pension Code for a period after June | 30 |
| 30, 1995 must also make a
contribution under this subsection | 31 |
| for that optional credit, at the rate
provided in subsection | 32 |
| (a), based on the salary used in
computing the optional service | 33 |
| credit, plus interest on this employee
contribution. This | 34 |
| contribution shall be collected by the System as service
agent |
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| for the Department of Central Management Services. The | 2 |
| contribution
required under this subsection for the optional | 3 |
| service credit must be paid
in full before any annuity based on | 4 |
| that credit begins.
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| (a-5) Beginning January 1, 2002, every employer of a | 6 |
| teacher (other than
an employer that is a department as defined | 7 |
| in Section 3 of this Act) shall
pay an employer contribution | 8 |
| toward the cost of annuitant and survivor health
benefits. | 9 |
| These contributions shall be computed as follows:
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| (1) Beginning January 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, | 11 |
| the employer
contribution shall be equal to 0.4% of each | 12 |
| teacher's salary.
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| (2) Beginning July 1, 2003, the employer contribution | 14 |
| shall be equal to
0.5% of each teacher's salary.
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| (3) Beginning July 1, 2005, the employer contribution | 16 |
| shall be equal to
0.6% of each teacher's salary.
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| (4) Beginning July 1, 2007, the employer contribution | 18 |
| shall be a percentage of each teacher's salary to be | 19 |
| determined by the Department of Central Management | 20 |
| Services by rule, which in each fiscal year shall not | 21 |
| exceed 105% of the percentage of each teacher's salary | 22 |
| actually required to be paid in the previous fiscal year.
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| These contributions shall be paid by the employer to the | 24 |
| System as service
agent for the Department of Central | 25 |
| Management Services. The System may use
the same processes for | 26 |
| collecting the contributions required by this subsection
that | 27 |
| it uses to collect contributions received from school districts | 28 |
| and other
covered employers under the Illinois Pension Code.
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| The school district or other employing unit may pay these | 30 |
| employer
contributions out of any source of funding available | 31 |
| for that purpose and
shall forward the contributions to the | 32 |
| System on the schedule established
for the payment of member | 33 |
| contributions.
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| (b) The Teachers' Retirement System shall promptly deposit |
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| all moneys
collected under subsections (a) and (a-5) of this
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| Section into the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund created | 3 |
| in Section 6.5
of this Act. The moneys collected under this | 4 |
| Section shall be used only for
the purposes authorized in | 5 |
| Section 6.5 of this Act and shall not be considered
to be | 6 |
| assets of the Teachers' Retirement System. Contributions made | 7 |
| under this
Section are not transferable to other pension funds | 8 |
| or retirement systems and
are not refundable upon termination | 9 |
| of service.
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| (c) On or before November 15 of each year, the Board of | 11 |
| Trustees of the
Teachers' Retirement System shall certify to | 12 |
| the Governor, the Director of
Central Management Services, and | 13 |
| the State Comptroller its estimate of the
total amount of | 14 |
| contributions to be paid under subsection (a) of this Section
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| 6.6 for the next fiscal year. The amount certified shall be | 16 |
| decreased or
increased each year by the amount that the actual | 17 |
| active teacher contributions
either fell short of or exceeded | 18 |
| the estimate used by the Board in making the
certification for | 19 |
| the previous fiscal year. The certification shall include
a | 20 |
| detailed explanation of the methods and information that the | 21 |
| Board relied
upon in preparing its estimate. As soon as | 22 |
| possible after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the | 23 |
| 92nd General Assembly, the Board
shall recalculate and | 24 |
| recertify its certifications for fiscal years 2002 and
2003.
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| (d) Beginning in fiscal year 1996, on the first day of each | 26 |
| month, or
as soon thereafter as may be practical, the State | 27 |
| Treasurer and the State
Comptroller shall transfer from the | 28 |
| General Revenue Fund to the Teacher Health
Insurance Security | 29 |
| Fund 1/12 of the annual amount appropriated for that fiscal
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| year to the State Comptroller for deposit into the Teacher | 31 |
| Health Insurance
Security Fund under Section 1.3 of the State | 32 |
| Pension Funds Continuing
Appropriation Act.
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| (e) Except where otherwise specified in this Section, the | 34 |
| definitions
that apply to Article 16 of the Illinois Pension |
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| Code apply to this Section.
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| (f) (Blank).
This Section is repealed on July 1, 2004.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-505, eff. 12-20-01.)
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| Section 10. The State Pension Funds Continuing | 5 |
| Appropriation Act is amended by changing Section 1.3 as | 6 |
| follows:
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| (40 ILCS 15/1.3)
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| Sec. 1.3. Appropriations for the Teacher Health Insurance | 9 |
| Security Fund.
Beginning in State fiscal year 1996, there is | 10 |
| hereby appropriated, on a
continuing annual basis, from the | 11 |
| General Revenue Fund to the State Comptroller
for deposit into | 12 |
| the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund, an amount equal to
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| the amount certified by the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' | 14 |
| Retirement
System of Illinois under subsection (c) of Section | 15 |
| 6.6 of the State Employees
Group Insurance Act of 1971 as the | 16 |
| estimated total amount of contributions to
be paid under | 17 |
| subsection (a) of that Section 6.6 in that fiscal year. | 18 |
| In addition to any other amounts that may be appropriated | 19 |
| for this purpose, in State fiscal years 2005 through 2007, | 20 |
| there is hereby appropriated, on a
continuing annual basis, | 21 |
| from the General Revenue Fund to the State Comptroller
for | 22 |
| deposit into the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund, an | 23 |
| amount equal to $13,000,000 in each fiscal year.
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| The
moneys appropriated under this Section 1.3 shall be | 25 |
| deposited into the Teacher
Health Insurance Security Fund and | 26 |
| used only for the purposes authorized in
Section 6.5 of the | 27 |
| State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-25, eff. 6-21-95.)
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| Section 15. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 30 |
| 2-3.11, 21-1a, 21-1b, 21-2, 21-7.1, 21-9, 21-12, 21-14, 21-16, | 31 |
| 21-17, 21-18, and 21-23 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11)
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| Sec. 2-3.11. Report to Governor and General Assembly. To | 3 |
| report to the
Governor and General Assembly annually on or | 4 |
| before January 14 the
condition of the schools
of the State for | 5 |
| the preceding year, ending on June 30.
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| Such annual report shall contain reports of the State | 7 |
| Teacher
Certification Board; the schools of the State | 8 |
| charitable
institutions; reports on driver education, special | 9 |
| education,
and transportation; and for such year the annual | 10 |
| statistical
reports of the State Board of Education, including | 11 |
| the number
and kinds of school districts; number of school | 12 |
| attendance
centers; number of men and women teachers; | 13 |
| enrollment by
grades; total enrollment; total days attendance; | 14 |
| total days
absence; average daily attendance; number of | 15 |
| elementary and
secondary school graduates;
assessed valuation; | 16 |
| tax levies
and tax rates for various purposes; amount of | 17 |
| teachers' orders,
anticipation warrants, and bonds | 18 |
| outstanding; and number of men
and women teachers and total | 19 |
| enrollment of private schools.
The report shall give for all | 20 |
| school districts receipts from
all sources and expenditures for | 21 |
| all purposes for each fund;
the total operating expense ,
and
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| the per capita cost , and instructional expenditures ; federal
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| and state aids and reimbursements; new school buildings, and
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| recognized schools; together with such other information and
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| suggestions as the State Board of Education may deem important
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| in relation to the schools and school laws and the means of
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| promoting education throughout the state.
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| In this Section, "instructional expenditures" means the | 29 |
| annual expenditures of school districts properly attributable | 30 |
| to expenditure functions defined in rules of the State Board of | 31 |
| Education as:
1100 (Regular Education); 1200-1220 (Special | 32 |
| Education); 1250 (Ed. Deprived/Remedial); 1400 (Vocational | 33 |
| Programs); 1600 (Summer School); 1650 (Gifted); 1800 |
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| (Bilingual Programs); 1900 (Truant Alternative); 2110 | 2 |
| (Attendance and Social Work Services); 2120 (Guidance | 3 |
| Services); 2130 (Health Services); 2140 (Psychological | 4 |
| Services); 2150 (Speech Pathology and Audiology Services); | 5 |
| 2190 (Other Support Services Pupils); 2210 (Improvement of | 6 |
| Instruction); 2220 (Educational Media Services); 2230 | 7 |
| (Assessment and Testing); 2540 (Operation and Maintenance of | 8 |
| Plant Services); 2550 (Pupil Transportation Service); 2560 | 9 |
| (Food Service); 4110 (Payments for Regular Programs); 4120 | 10 |
| (Payments for Special Education Programs); 4130 (Payments for | 11 |
| Adult Education Programs); 4140 (Payments for Vocational | 12 |
| Education Programs); 4170 (Payments for Community College | 13 |
| Programs); 4190 (Other payments to in-state government units); | 14 |
| and 4200 (Other payments to out of state government units).
| 15 |
| (Source: P.A. 84-1308; 84-1424.)
| 16 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-1a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a)
| 17 |
| Sec. 21-1a. Tests required for certification and teacher | 18 |
| preparation.
| 19 |
| (a) After July 1, 1988, in addition to all other | 20 |
| requirements, early
childhood, elementary, special, high | 21 |
| school, school service personnel, or,
except as provided in | 22 |
| Section 34-6, administrative certificates shall be
issued to | 23 |
| persons who have satisfactorily passed a test of basic skills | 24 |
| and
subject matter knowledge.
A person who holds a valid and | 25 |
| comparable out-of-state certificate, however, is not required | 26 |
| to take a test of basic skills and is not required to take a | 27 |
| test of subject matter knowledge, provided that the person has | 28 |
| successfully passed a test of subject matter knowledge in | 29 |
| another State or territory of the United States that is | 30 |
| directly related in content to the specific subject area of | 31 |
| certification. The tests of basic skills and subject matter
| 32 |
| knowledge shall be the tests which from time to time are | 33 |
| designated by the
State Board of Education in consultation with |
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| the State Teacher
Certification Board and may be tests prepared | 2 |
| by an educational testing
organization or tests designed by the | 3 |
| State Board of Education in
consultation with the State Teacher | 4 |
| Certification Board. The areas to be
covered by the test of | 5 |
| basic skills shall include the basic skills of
reading, | 6 |
| writing, grammar and mathematics. The test of subject matter
| 7 |
| knowledge shall assess content knowledge in the specific | 8 |
| subject field. The
tests shall be designed to be racially | 9 |
| neutral to assure that no
person in taking the tests is thereby | 10 |
| discriminated against on the basis of
race, color, national | 11 |
| origin or other factors unrelated to the person's
ability to | 12 |
| perform as a certificated employee. The score required to pass
| 13 |
| the tests of basic skills and subject matter knowledge shall be | 14 |
| fixed by
the State Board of Education in consultation with the | 15 |
| State Teacher
Certification Board. The tests shall be held not | 16 |
| fewer than 3 times a year
at such time and place as may be | 17 |
| designated by the State Board of Education
in consultation with | 18 |
| the State Teacher Certification Board.
| 19 |
| (b) Except as provided in Section 34-6, the provisions of | 20 |
| subsection
(a) of this Section shall apply equally in any | 21 |
| school district subject to
Article 34, provided that the State | 22 |
| Board of Education shall determine
which certificates issued | 23 |
| under Sections 34-8.1 and 34-83 prior to July 1,
1988 are | 24 |
| comparable to any early childhood certificate, elementary | 25 |
| school
certificate, special certificate, high school | 26 |
| certificate, school service
personnel certificate or | 27 |
| administrative certificate issued under this
Article as of July | 28 |
| 1, 1988.
| 29 |
| (c) A person who holds an early childhood, elementary, | 30 |
| special, high
school or school service personnel certificate | 31 |
| issued under this Article on
or at any time before July 1, | 32 |
| 1988, including a person who has been
issued any such | 33 |
| certificate pursuant to Section 21-11.1 or in exchange for
a | 34 |
| comparable certificate theretofore issued under Section 34-8.1 |
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| or Section
34-83, shall not be required to take or pass the | 2 |
| tests in order to
thereafter have such certificate renewed.
| 3 |
| (d) The State Board of Education in consultation with the | 4 |
| State Teacher
Certification Board shall conduct a pilot | 5 |
| administration of the tests by
administering the test to | 6 |
| students completing teacher education programs in
the 1986-87 | 7 |
| school year for the purpose of determining the effect and
| 8 |
| impact of testing candidates for certification.
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| Beginning with the 2002-2003 academic year, a student may | 10 |
| not enroll
in a teacher preparation program at a recognized | 11 |
| teacher training
institution until he or she has passed the | 12 |
| basic skills test.
| 13 |
| Beginning with the 2004-2005 academic year, a preservice
| 14 |
| education teacher may not student teach until he or she has | 15 |
| passed the
subject matter test in the discipline in which he or | 16 |
| she will student
teach.
| 17 |
| (e) The rules and regulations developed to implement the | 18 |
| required test
of basic skills and subject matter knowledge | 19 |
| shall include the requirements
of subsections (a), (b), and (c) | 20 |
| and shall include specific regulations to
govern test | 21 |
| selection; test validation and determination of a passing
| 22 |
| score; administration of the tests; frequency of | 23 |
| administration; applicant
fees; frequency of applicants' | 24 |
| taking the tests; the years for which a
score is valid; and, | 25 |
| waiving certain additional tests for additional
certificates | 26 |
| to individuals who have satisfactorily passed the test of
basic | 27 |
| skills and subject matter knowledge as required in subsection | 28 |
| (a).
The State Board of Education shall provide, by rule, | 29 |
| specific policies that
assure uniformity in the difficulty | 30 |
| level of each form of the basic skills
test and each subject | 31 |
| matter knowledge test from test-to-test and
year-to-year. The | 32 |
| State Board of Education shall also set a passing
score for the | 33 |
| tests.
| 34 |
| (f) The State Teacher Certification Board may issue a |
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| nonrenewable
temporary certificate between July 1, 1988 and | 2 |
| August 31, 1988 to
individuals who have taken the tests of | 3 |
| basic skills and subject matter
knowledge prescribed by this | 4 |
| Section but have not received such test scores
by August 31, | 5 |
| 1988. Such temporary certificates shall expire on
December 31, | 6 |
| 1988.
| 7 |
| (g) Beginning February 15, 2000, the State Board of
| 8 |
| Education, in
consultation with the State Teacher | 9 |
| Certification Board,
shall implement and administer a new | 10 |
| system of certification for teachers in
the State of Illinois. | 11 |
| The State Board of Education, in consultation with the
State | 12 |
| Teacher Certification Board, shall design
and implement a | 13 |
| system of examinations and various other criteria which
shall | 14 |
| be required prior to the issuance of Initial Teaching | 15 |
| Certificates and
Standard Teaching Certificates. These | 16 |
| examinations and indicators shall be
based on national and | 17 |
| State professional teaching standards,
as determined by
the | 18 |
| State Board of Education, in consultation with the State | 19 |
| Teacher
Certification Board. The State
Board of Education may | 20 |
| adopt any and all regulations necessary to implement and
| 21 |
| administer
this Section.
| 22 |
| (h) The State Board of Education shall report to the | 23 |
| Illinois
General Assembly and the Governor with | 24 |
| recommendations for further changes and
improvements to the | 25 |
| teacher certification system no later than July 1,
1999
and on | 26 |
| an annual basis until July 1, 2001.
| 27 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff.
7-12-99; 92-734, eff. 7-25-02.)
| 28 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-1b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b)
| 29 |
| Sec. 21-1b. Subject endorsement on certificates. All | 30 |
| certificates
initially issued under this Article after June 30, | 31 |
| 1986, shall be
specifically endorsed by the State Board of | 32 |
| Education for each subject the
holder of the certificate is | 33 |
| legally qualified to teach, such endorsements
to be made in |
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| accordance with standards promulgated by the State Board of
| 2 |
| Education in consultation with the State Teacher Certification | 3 |
| Board. All
certificates which are issued under this Article | 4 |
| prior to July 1, 1986 may,
by application to the State Board of | 5 |
| Education, be specifically endorsed
for each subject the holder | 6 |
| is legally qualified to teach. Endorsements
issued under this | 7 |
| Section shall not apply to substitute teacher's
certificates | 8 |
| issued under Section 21-9 of this Code.
| 9 |
| Commencing July 1, 1999, each application for endorsement | 10 |
| of an existing
teaching certificate shall be accompanied by a | 11 |
| $30 nonrefundable fee. There is hereby created a Teacher | 12 |
| Certificate
Fee
Revolving Fund as a special fund within the | 13 |
| State Treasury. The proceeds of
each $30 fee shall be paid into | 14 |
| the Teacher
Certificate Fee Revolving
Fund; and the moneys in | 15 |
| that Fund shall be appropriated and used to provide the
| 16 |
| technology and other resources necessary for the timely and | 17 |
| efficient
processing of certification requests.
| 18 |
| The State Board of Education and each regional office of | 19 |
| education are authorized to charge a service or convenience fee | 20 |
| for the use of credit cards for the payment of certification | 21 |
| fees. This service or convenience fee may not exceed the amount | 22 |
| required by the credit card processing company or vendor that | 23 |
| has entered into a contract with the State Board or regional | 24 |
| office of education for this purpose, and the fee must be paid | 25 |
| to that company or vendor.
| 26 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
| 27 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2)
| 28 |
| Sec. 21-2. Grades of certificates.
| 29 |
| (a) All certificates issued under this Article shall be | 30 |
| State certificates
valid, except as limited in Section 21-1, in | 31 |
| every school district coming
under the provisions of this Act | 32 |
| and shall be limited in time and designated
as follows: | 33 |
| Provisional vocational certificate, temporary provisional
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| vocational certificate, early childhood certificate, | 2 |
| elementary school
certificate, special certificate, secondary | 3 |
| certificate, school service
personnel certificate, | 4 |
| administrative certificate, provisional
certificate, and | 5 |
| substitute certificate. The requirement of student teaching
| 6 |
| under close and competent supervision for obtaining a teaching | 7 |
| certificate
may be waived by the State Teacher Certification | 8 |
| Board upon presentation to
the Board by the teacher of evidence | 9 |
| of 5 years successful teaching
experience on a valid | 10 |
| certificate and graduation from
a recognized institution of | 11 |
| higher learning with a bachelor's degree.
| 12 |
| (b) Initial Teaching Certificate.
Persons who (1) have | 13 |
| completed an approved teacher preparation program,
(2) are | 14 |
| recommended by an
approved teacher preparation program, (3) | 15 |
| have successfully completed the
Initial Teaching Certification | 16 |
| examinations required by the State Board of
Education, and (4) | 17 |
| have met all other criteria established by the State Board
of | 18 |
| Education in consultation with the State Teacher Certification | 19 |
| Board, shall
be issued an Initial Teaching Certificate valid | 20 |
| for 4 years of teaching, as
defined in Section 21-14 of this | 21 |
| Code. Initial Teaching Certificates shall be
issued for | 22 |
| categories corresponding to Early Childhood, Elementary, | 23 |
| Secondary,
and Special K-12, with special certification | 24 |
| designations for Special
Education, Bilingual Education, | 25 |
| fundamental learning areas (including Language
Arts, Reading, | 26 |
| Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Physical Development and
| 27 |
| Health, Fine Arts, and Foreign Language), and other areas
| 28 |
| designated by the State Board of Education, in consultation | 29 |
| with the State
Teacher Certification Board. Notwithstanding | 30 |
| any other provision of this Article, an Initial Teaching | 31 |
| Certificate shall be automatically extended for one year for | 32 |
| all persons who (i) have been issued an Initial Teaching | 33 |
| Certificate that expires on June 30, 2004 and (ii) have not | 34 |
| met, prior to July 1, 2004, the Standard Certificate |
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| requirements under paragraph (c) of this Section. An | 2 |
| application and fee shall not be required for this extension.
| 3 |
| (b-5) A person who holds an out-of-state certificate and | 4 |
| who is otherwise eligible for a comparable Illinois certificate | 5 |
| may be issued an Initial Certificate if that person has not | 6 |
| completed 4 years of teaching. Upon completion of 4 years of | 7 |
| teaching, the person is eligible for a Standard Certificate. | 8 |
| Beginning July 1, 2004, an out-of-state candidate who has | 9 |
| already earned a second-tier certificate in another state is | 10 |
| not subject to any Standard Certificate eligibility | 11 |
| requirements stated in paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of this | 12 |
| Section other than completion of the 4 years of teaching. An | 13 |
| out-of-state candidate who has completed less than 4 years of | 14 |
| teaching and does not hold a second-tier certificate from | 15 |
| another state must meet the requirements stated in paragraph | 16 |
| (2) of subsection (c) of this Section, proportionately reduced | 17 |
| by the amount of time remaining to complete the 4 years of | 18 |
| teaching.
| 19 |
| (c) Standard Certificate.
| 20 |
| (1) Persons who (i)
have completed 4 years of teaching, as | 21 |
| defined in Section 21-14 of this Code,
with an Initial | 22 |
| Certificate or an Initial Alternative Teaching Certificate and
| 23 |
| have met all other criteria established by the State Board of | 24 |
| Education in
consultation with the State Teacher Certification | 25 |
| Board, (ii) have
completed 4
years of teaching on a valid | 26 |
| equivalent certificate in another State or
territory of the | 27 |
| United States, or have completed 4 years of teaching in a
| 28 |
| nonpublic Illinois elementary or secondary school with an | 29 |
| Initial Certificate
or an Initial Alternative Teaching | 30 |
| Certificate, and have met all other criteria
established by the | 31 |
| State Board of Education, in consultation with the State
| 32 |
| Teacher Certification Board, or (iii) were issued teaching
| 33 |
| certificates prior to
February 15, 2000 and are renewing those | 34 |
| certificates after February 15, 2000,
shall be issued a |
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| Standard Certificate valid for 5 years, which may be renewed
| 2 |
| thereafter every 5 years by the State Teacher Certification | 3 |
| Board based on
proof of continuing education or professional | 4 |
| development.
Beginning July 1,
2003, persons who have completed | 5 |
| 4 years of teaching, as described in clauses
(i) and (ii) of | 6 |
| this paragraph (1), have successfully completed the
| 7 |
| requirements of paragraphs (2) through (4) of this subsection | 8 |
| (c),
and have met all other criteria
established by the State | 9 |
| Board of Education, in consultation with the State
Teacher | 10 |
| Certification Board, shall be issued Standard Certificates. | 11 |
| Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, | 12 |
| beginning July 1, 2004, persons who hold valid out-of-state | 13 |
| certificates and have completed 4 years of teaching on a valid | 14 |
| equivalent certificate in another State or territory of the | 15 |
| United States shall be issued comparable Standard | 16 |
| Certificates. Beginning July 1, 2004, persons who hold valid | 17 |
| out-of-state certificates as described in subsection (b-5) of | 18 |
| this Section are subject to the requirements of paragraphs (2) | 19 |
| through (4) of this subsection (c), as required in subsection | 20 |
| (b-5) of this Section, in order to receive a Standard | 21 |
| Certificate. Standard
Certificates shall be issued for | 22 |
| categories corresponding to Early Childhood,
Elementary, | 23 |
| Secondary, and Special K-12, with special certification
| 24 |
| designations for Special Education, Bilingual Education,
| 25 |
| fundamental learning areas (including Language Arts, Reading, | 26 |
| Mathematics,
Science, Social Science, Physical Development and | 27 |
| Health, Fine Arts, and
Foreign Language), and other areas | 28 |
| designated by the State Board of
Education, in consultation | 29 |
| with the State
Teacher Certification Board.
| 30 |
| (2) This paragraph (2) applies only to those persons | 31 |
| required to
successfully complete the requirements of this | 32 |
| paragraph under paragraph (1)
of this subsection (c). In order | 33 |
| to receive a Standard Teaching Certificate,
a person must | 34 |
| satisfy one of the following requirements , which the person |
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identify, in writing, as the requirement that the person | 2 |
| has chosen to satisfy
to the responsible local professional | 3 |
| development committee established
pursuant to subsection (f) | 4 |
| of Section 21-14 of this Code :
| 5 |
| (A) Completion of a program of induction and mentoring | 6 |
| for new teachers
that is
based upon a specific plan | 7 |
| approved by the State Board of Education, in
consultation | 8 |
| with the State Teacher Certification Board. Nothing in this | 9 |
| Section, however, prohibits an induction or mentoring | 10 |
| program from operating prior to approval. Holders of | 11 |
| Initial Certificates issued before September 1, 2007 must | 12 |
| complete, at a minimum, an approved one-year induction and | 13 |
| mentoring program. Holders of Initial Certificates issued | 14 |
| on or after September 1, 2007 must complete an approved | 15 |
| 2-year induction and mentoring program. The plan must
| 16 |
| describe the role of mentor teachers, the criteria and | 17 |
| process for their
selection, and how all the following | 18 |
| components are to be provided:
| 19 |
| (i) Assignment of a formally trained mentor | 20 |
| teacher to each new
teacher
for a specified period of | 21 |
| time, which shall be established by the employing
| 22 |
| school or school district but shall be at least 2 | 23 |
| school years in duration ,
provided that a mentor | 24 |
| teacher may not directly or indirectly participate in
| 25 |
| the evaluation of a new teacher pursuant to Article 24A | 26 |
| of this Code or the
evaluation procedure of the school.
| 27 |
| (ii) Formal mentoring for each new teacher.
| 28 |
| (iii) Support for each new teacher in relation to | 29 |
| the Illinois
Professional Teaching Standards, the | 30 |
| content-area standards applicable to
the new teacher's | 31 |
| area of certification, and any applicable local school
| 32 |
| improvement and professional development plans.
| 33 |
| (iv) Professional development specifically | 34 |
| designed to foster the
growth of each new teacher's |
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| (v) Formative assessment that is based on the | 3 |
| Illinois Professional
Teaching Standards and designed | 4 |
| to provide feedback to the new teacher and
| 5 |
| opportunities for reflection on his or her | 6 |
| performance, which must not
be used directly or | 7 |
| indirectly in any evaluation of a new teacher
pursuant | 8 |
| to Article 24A of this Code or the evaluation procedure | 9 |
| of the
school and which must include the activities | 10 |
| specified
in clauses (B)(i), (B)(ii), and (B)(iii) of | 11 |
| this paragraph (2).
| 12 |
| (vi) Assignment of responsibility for coordination | 13 |
| of the induction
and mentoring program within each | 14 |
| school district participating in the program.
| 15 |
| (B) Successful completion of 4 semester hours of | 16 |
| graduate-level
coursework on the assessment of one's own | 17 |
| performance in relation to the
Illinois Professional | 18 |
| Teaching Standards. The coursework must be approved
by the | 19 |
| State Board of Education, in consultation with the State | 20 |
| Teacher
Certification Board; must be offered either by an | 21 |
| institution of higher
education, by such an institution in | 22 |
| partnership with a teachers' association
or union or with a | 23 |
| regional office of education, or by another entity
| 24 |
| authorized to issue college credit; and must include | 25 |
| demonstration of
performance through all of the following | 26 |
| activities for each of the Illinois
Professional Teaching | 27 |
| Standards:
| 28 |
| (i) Observation, by the course instructor or | 29 |
| another experienced
teacher, of the new teacher's | 30 |
| classroom practice (the observation may be
recorded | 31 |
| for later viewing) for the purpose of identifying and | 32 |
| describing how
the new teacher made content meaningful | 33 |
| for students; how the teacher motivated
individuals | 34 |
| and the group and created an environment conducive to |
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social interactions, active learning, and | 2 |
| self-motivation; what instructional
strategies the | 3 |
| teacher used to encourage students' development of | 4 |
| critical
thinking, problem solving, and performance; | 5 |
| how the teacher communicated using
written, verbal, | 6 |
| nonverbal, and visual communication techniques; and | 7 |
| how the
teacher maintained standards of professional | 8 |
| conduct and provided leadership to
improve students' | 9 |
| learning.
| 10 |
| (ii) Review and analysis, by the course instructor | 11 |
| or another
experienced
teacher, of written | 12 |
| documentation (i.e., lesson plans, assignments, | 13 |
| assessment
instruments, and samples of students' work) | 14 |
| prepared by the new teacher for
at least 2 lessons. The | 15 |
| documentation must provide evidence of classroom
| 16 |
| performance related to Illinois Professional Teaching | 17 |
| Standards 1 through 9,
with an emphasis on how the | 18 |
| teacher used his or her understanding of students,
| 19 |
| assessment data, and subject matter to decide on | 20 |
| learning goals; how the
teacher designed or selected | 21 |
| activities and instructional materials and
aligned | 22 |
| instruction to the relevant Illinois Learning | 23 |
| Standards; how the
teacher adapted or modified | 24 |
| curriculum to meet individual students' needs;
and how | 25 |
| the teacher sequenced instruction and designed or | 26 |
| selected student
assessment strategies.
| 27 |
| (iii) Demonstration of professional expertise on | 28 |
| the part of the new
teacher in reflecting on his or her | 29 |
| practice, which was observed under clause
(B)(i) of | 30 |
| this paragraph (2) and documented under clause (B)(ii) | 31 |
| of this
paragraph (2), in terms of teaching strengths, | 32 |
| weaknesses, and implications
for improvement according | 33 |
| to the Illinois Professional Teaching Standards.
| 34 |
| (C) Successful completion of a minimum of 4 semester |
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| hours of
graduate-level coursework addressing preparation | 2 |
| to meet the requirements
for certification by the National | 3 |
| Board for Professional Teaching Standards
(NBPTS). The | 4 |
| coursework must be approved by the State Board of | 5 |
| Education, in
consultation with the State Teacher | 6 |
| Certification Board, and must be offered
either by an | 7 |
| institution of higher education, by such an institution in
| 8 |
| partnership with a teachers' association or union or with a | 9 |
| regional office
of education, or by another entity | 10 |
| authorized to issue college credit. The
course must address | 11 |
| the 5 NBPTS Core Propositions and relevant standards
| 12 |
| through such means as the following:
| 13 |
| (i) Observation, by the course instructor or | 14 |
| another experienced
teacher, of the new teacher's | 15 |
| classroom practice (the observation may be
recorded | 16 |
| for later viewing) for the purpose of identifying and | 17 |
| describing how
the new teacher made content meaningful | 18 |
| for students; how the teacher motivated
individuals | 19 |
| and the group and created an environment conducive to | 20 |
| positive
social interactions, active learning, and | 21 |
| self-motivation; what instructional
strategies the | 22 |
| teacher used to encourage students' development of | 23 |
| critical
thinking, problem solving, and
performance; | 24 |
| how the teacher communicated using written, verbal, | 25 |
| nonverbal, and
visual communication techniques; and | 26 |
| how the teacher maintained standards of
professional | 27 |
| conduct and provided leadership to improve students' | 28 |
| learning.
| 29 |
| (ii) Review and analysis, by the course instructor | 30 |
| or another
experienced
teacher, of written | 31 |
| documentation (i.e., lesson plans, assignments, | 32 |
| assessment
instruments, and samples of students' work) | 33 |
| prepared by the new teacher for
at least 2 lessons. The | 34 |
| documentation must provide evidence of classroom
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| understanding of
students, assessment data, and | 3 |
| subject matter to decide on learning goals;
how the | 4 |
| teacher designed or selected activities and | 5 |
| instructional materials
and aligned instruction to the | 6 |
| relevant Illinois Learning Standards; how
the teacher | 7 |
| adapted or modified curriculum to meet individual | 8 |
| students' needs;
and how the teacher sequenced | 9 |
| instruction and designed or selected student
| 10 |
| assessment strategies.
| 11 |
| (iii) Demonstration of professional expertise on | 12 |
| the part of the new
teacher in reflecting on his or her | 13 |
| practice, which was observed under clause
(C)(i) of | 14 |
| this paragraph (2) and documented under clause (C)(ii) | 15 |
| of this
paragraph (2), in terms of teaching strengths, | 16 |
| weaknesses, and implications
for improvement.
| 17 |
| (C-5) Satisfactory completion of a minimum of 12 | 18 |
| semester hours of graduate credit towards an advanced | 19 |
| degree in an education-related field from an accredited | 20 |
| institution of higher education.
| 21 |
| (D)
Receipt of an advanced degree from an accredited | 22 |
| institution of
higher education in an education-related | 23 |
| field that is earned by a person either while he or she | 24 |
| holds an Initial Teaching Certificate or prior to his or | 25 |
| her receipt of that certificate , provided that at least 8
| 26 |
| semester hours of the coursework completed count toward a | 27 |
| degree, certificate,
or endorsement in a teaching field .
| 28 |
| (E) Accumulation of 60 continuing professional | 29 |
| development units
(CPDUs), earned by completing selected | 30 |
| activities that comply with paragraphs
(3) and (4) of this | 31 |
| subsection (c). However, for an individual who holds an
| 32 |
| Initial Teaching Certificate on the effective date of this | 33 |
| amendatory Act of
the 92nd General Assembly, the number of | 34 |
| CPDUs shall be reduced to reflect the
teaching time |
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| remaining on the Initial Teaching Certificate.
| 2 |
| (F) Completion of a nationally normed, | 3 |
| performance-based assessment, if
made available by the | 4 |
| State Board of Education in consultation with the State
| 5 |
| Teacher Certification Board, provided that the cost to the | 6 |
| person shall not
exceed the cost of the coursework | 7 |
| described in clause (B) of this paragraph
(2).
| 8 |
| (G) Completion of requirements for meeting the | 9 |
| Illinois criteria for becoming "highly qualified" (for | 10 |
| purposes of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public | 11 |
| Law 107-110) in an additional teaching area. | 12 |
| (H) Receipt of a minimum 12-hour, post-baccalaureate, | 13 |
| education-related professional development certificate | 14 |
| issued by an Illinois institution of higher education and | 15 |
| developed in accordance with rules adopted by the State | 16 |
| Board of Education in consultation with the State Teacher | 17 |
| Certification Board. | 18 |
| (I) Completion of the National Board for Professional | 19 |
| Teaching Standards (NBPTS) process.
| 20 |
| (J) Receipt of a subsequent Illinois certificate or | 21 |
| endorsement pursuant to Article 21 of this Code.
| 22 |
| (3) This paragraph (3) applies only to those persons | 23 |
| required to
successfully complete the requirements of this | 24 |
| paragraph under paragraph (1)
of this subsection (c). Persons | 25 |
| who seek to satisfy the requirements of clause (E) of paragraph | 26 |
| (2) of this subsection (c) through accumulation of CPDUs may | 27 |
| earn credit
At least one-half the CPDUs a person must accrue in
| 28 |
| order to qualify for a Standard Teaching Certificate must be | 29 |
| earned through
completion of coursework, workshops, seminars, | 30 |
| conferences, and other similar
training events that are | 31 |
| pre-approved by the State Board of Education, in
consultation | 32 |
| with the State Teacher Certification Board, for the purpose of
| 33 |
| reflection on teaching practices in order to address all of the | 34 |
| Illinois
Professional Teaching Standards necessary to obtain a |
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| Standard Teaching
Certificate. These activities must meet all | 2 |
| of the following requirements:
| 3 |
| (A) Each activity must be designed to advance a | 4 |
| person's knowledge and
skills in relation to one or more of | 5 |
| the Illinois Professional Teaching
Standards or in | 6 |
| relation to the content-area standards applicable to the
| 7 |
| teacher's field of certification.
| 8 |
| (B) Taken together, the activities completed must | 9 |
| address each of the
Illinois Professional Teaching | 10 |
| Standards as provided in clauses (B)(i),
(B)(ii), and | 11 |
| (B)(iii) of paragraph (2) of this subsection (c).
| 12 |
| (C) Each activity must be provided by an entity | 13 |
| approved by the State
Board of Education, in consultation | 14 |
| with the State Teacher Certification Board,
for this | 15 |
| purpose.
| 16 |
| (D) Each activity, integral to its successful | 17 |
| completion, must require
participants to demonstrate the | 18 |
| degree to which they have acquired new
knowledge or skills, | 19 |
| such as through performance, through preparation of a
| 20 |
| written product, through assembling samples of students' | 21 |
| or teachers' work, or
by some other means that is | 22 |
| appropriate to the subject matter of the activity.
| 23 |
| (E) One CPDU shall be available for each hour of direct | 24 |
| participation
by a holder of an Initial Teaching | 25 |
| Certificate in a qualifying activity.
An activity may be | 26 |
| attributed to more than one of the Illinois Professional
| 27 |
| Teaching Standards, but credit for any activity shall be | 28 |
| counted only once.
| 29 |
| (4) This paragraph (4) applies only to those persons | 30 |
| required to
successfully complete the requirements of this | 31 |
| paragraph under paragraph (1) of
this subsection (c). Persons | 32 |
| who seek to satisfy the requirements of clause (E) of paragraph | 33 |
| (2) of this subsection (c) through accumulation of CPDUs may | 34 |
| earn credit from the following, provided that each activity is |
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| designed to advance a person's
knowledge and skills in relation | 2 |
| to one or more of the Illinois
Professional Teaching Standards | 3 |
| or in relation to the content-area
standards applicable to the | 4 |
| person's field or fields of certification
The balance of the | 5 |
| CPDUs a person must accrue in order to
qualify for a Standard | 6 |
| Teaching Certificate, in combination with those earned
| 7 |
| pursuant to paragraph (3) of this subsection (c), may be chosen | 8 |
| from among the
following, provided that an activity listed in | 9 |
| clause (C) of this paragraph (4)
shall be creditable only if | 10 |
| its provider is approved for this purpose by the
State Board of | 11 |
| Education, in consultation with the State Teacher | 12 |
| Certification
Board :
| 13 |
| (A) Collaboration and partnership activities related | 14 |
| to improving a
person's knowledge and skills as a teacher, | 15 |
| including all of the following:
| 16 |
| (i) Peer review and coaching.
| 17 |
| (ii) Mentoring in a formal mentoring program, | 18 |
| including service as a
consulting teacher | 19 |
| participating in a remediation process formulated | 20 |
| under
Section 24A-5 of this Code.
| 21 |
| (iii) Facilitating parent education programs | 22 |
| directly related to
student achievement for a school, | 23 |
| school district, or regional office of
education.
| 24 |
| (iv) Participating in business, school, or | 25 |
| community partnerships
directly related to student | 26 |
| achievement.
| 27 |
| (B) Teaching college or university courses in areas | 28 |
| relevant to a
teacher's field of certification, provided | 29 |
| that the teaching may only be
counted once during the | 30 |
| course of 4 years.
| 31 |
| (C) Conferences, workshops, institutes, seminars, and | 32 |
| symposiums related
to improving a person's knowledge and | 33 |
| skills as a teacher, including all of the
following:
| 34 |
| (i) Completing non-university credit directly |
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| related to student
achievement, the Illinois | 2 |
| Professional Teaching Standards, or content-area
| 3 |
| standards.
| 4 |
| (ii) Participating in or presenting at workshops, | 5 |
| seminars,
conferences, institutes, and symposiums.
| 6 |
| (iii) (Blank).
Training as external reviewers for | 7 |
| the State Board of Education.
| 8 |
| (iv) Training as reviewers of university teacher | 9 |
| preparation programs.
| 10 |
| An activity listed in this clause (C) is creditable
| 11 |
| only if its provider is approved for this purpose by the | 12 |
| State Board of
Education, in consultation with the State | 13 |
| Teacher Certification Board.
| 14 |
| (D) Other educational experiences related to improving | 15 |
| a person's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, including all | 16 |
| of the following:
| 17 |
| (i) Participating in action research and inquiry | 18 |
| projects.
| 19 |
| (ii) Observing programs or teaching in schools, | 20 |
| related businesses, or
industry that is systematic, | 21 |
| purposeful, and relevant to a teacher's field of
| 22 |
| certification.
| 23 |
| (iii)
Participating in study groups related to | 24 |
| student achievement,
the Illinois Professional | 25 |
| Teaching Standards, or content-area standards.
| 26 |
| (iv) Participating in work/learn programs or | 27 |
| internships.
| 28 |
| (v) Developing a portfolio of students' and | 29 |
| teacher's work.
| 30 |
| (E) Professional leadership experiences related to | 31 |
| improving a person's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, | 32 |
| including all of the following:
| 33 |
| (i) Participating in curriculum development or | 34 |
| assessment activities
at the school, school district, |
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| regional office of education, State, or
national level.
| 2 |
| (ii) Participating in team or department | 3 |
| leadership in a school or
school district.
| 4 |
| (iii) (Blank).
Participating on external or | 5 |
| internal school or school district
review teams.
| 6 |
| (iv) Publishing educational articles, columns, or | 7 |
| books relevant to
a teacher's field of certification.
| 8 |
| (v) Participating in non-strike related activities | 9 |
| of a professional
association or labor organization | 10 |
| that are related to professional development.
| 11 |
| (5) A person must complete the requirements
his or her | 12 |
| chosen requirement under paragraph
(2) of this subsection (c) | 13 |
| before the expiration of his or her Initial
Teaching | 14 |
| Certificate and must submit assurance
evidence of having done | 15 |
| so to the regional superintendent of schools or a local
| 16 |
| professional development committee authorized by the regional | 17 |
| superintendent to submit recommendations to him or her for this | 18 |
| purpose . Within 30 days after receipt of a person's
evidence of | 19 |
| completion, the local professional development committee shall
| 20 |
| forward the evidence of completion to the responsible regional | 21 |
| superintendent
of schools along with the local professional | 22 |
| development committee's
recommendation, based on that | 23 |
| evidence, as to whether the person is eligible to
receive a | 24 |
| Standard Teaching Certificate. The local professional | 25 |
| development
committee shall provide a copy of this | 26 |
| recommendation to the affected person.
| 27 |
| Within 30 days after receipt, the
The regional | 28 |
| superintendent of schools shall review the assurance
evidence
| 29 |
| of
completion submitted by a person and, based upon compliance | 30 |
| with all of the
requirements for receipt of a Standard Teaching | 31 |
| Certificate, shall forward to
the State Board of Education a | 32 |
| recommendation for issuance of the Standard Certificate or | 33 |
| non-issuance.
The regional superintendent of schools shall | 34 |
| notify the affected person
if the recommendation is for |
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| non-issuance of the Standard Certificate. A person who is | 2 |
| considered not to be eligible for a Standard Certificate and | 3 |
| who has received the notice of non-issuance may appeal this | 4 |
| determination to the Regional Professional Development Review | 5 |
| Committee (RPDRC). The recommendation of the regional | 6 |
| superintendent and the RPDRC, along with all supporting | 7 |
| materials, must then be forwarded to the State Board of | 8 |
| Education for a final determination
of the recommendation | 9 |
| forwarded .
| 10 |
| Upon review of a regional superintendent of school's | 11 |
| recommendations, the
State Board of Education shall issue | 12 |
| Standard Teaching Certificates to those
who qualify and shall | 13 |
| notify a person, in writing, of a decision denying a
Standard | 14 |
| Teaching Certificate. Any decision denying issuance of a | 15 |
| Standard
Teaching Certificate to a person may be appealed to | 16 |
| the State Teacher
Certification Board.
| 17 |
| (6) The State Board of Education, in consultation with the | 18 |
| State Teacher
Certification Board, may adopt rules to implement | 19 |
| this subsection (c) and may
periodically evaluate any of the | 20 |
| methods of qualifying for a Standard Teaching
Certificate | 21 |
| described in this subsection (c).
| 22 |
| (7) The changes made to paragraphs (1) through (5) of this | 23 |
| subsection (c) by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General | 24 |
| Assembly shall apply to those persons who hold or are eligible | 25 |
| to hold an Initial Certificate on or after the effective date | 26 |
| of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and shall | 27 |
| be given effect upon their application for a Standard | 28 |
| Certificate.
| 29 |
| (8) Beginning July 1, 2004, persons who hold a Standard | 30 |
| Certificate and have acquired one master's degree in an | 31 |
| education-related field are eligible for certificate renewal | 32 |
| upon completion of two-thirds of the continuing education units | 33 |
| specified in subdivision (C) of paragraph (3) of subsection (e) | 34 |
| of Section 21-14 of this Code or of the continuing professional |
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| development units specified in subdivision (E) of paragraph (3) | 2 |
| of subsection (e) of Section 21-14 of this Code. Persons who | 3 |
| hold a Standard Certificate and have acquired a second master's | 4 |
| degree, an education specialist, or a doctorate in an | 5 |
| education-related field or hold a Master Certificate are | 6 |
| eligible for certificate renewal upon completion of one-third | 7 |
| of the continuing education units specified in subdivision (C) | 8 |
| of paragraph (3) of subsection (e) of Section 21-14 of this | 9 |
| Code or of the continuing professional development units | 10 |
| specified in subdivision (E) of paragraph (3) of subsection (e) | 11 |
| of Section 21-14 of this Code.
| 12 |
| (d) Master Certificate. Persons who have
successfully | 13 |
| achieved National Board certification through the National | 14 |
| Board
for Professional Teaching Standards shall be issued a | 15 |
| Master Certificate, valid
for 10 years and renewable thereafter | 16 |
| every 10 years through compliance with
requirements set forth | 17 |
| by the State Board of Education, in consultation with
the State | 18 |
| Teacher Certification Board. However, each teacher who holds a
| 19 |
| Master Certificate shall be eligible for a teaching position in | 20 |
| this State in
the areas for which he or she holds a Master | 21 |
| Certificate without satisfying any
other requirements of this | 22 |
| Code, except for those requirements pertaining to
criminal | 23 |
| background checks. A holder of a Master Certificate in an area | 24 |
| of science or social science is eligible to teach in any of the | 25 |
| subject areas within those fields, including those taught at | 26 |
| the advanced level, as defined by the State Board of Education | 27 |
| in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. A | 28 |
| teacher who holds a Master Certificate shall be
deemed to meet | 29 |
| State certification renewal requirements in the area or areas
| 30 |
| for which he or she holds a Master Certificate for the 10-year | 31 |
| term of the
teacher's Master Certificate.
| 32 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 91-606, eff. 8-16-99; | 33 |
| 91-609, eff.
1-1-00; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-796, eff. | 34 |
| 8-10-02 .)
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| (105 ILCS 5/21-7.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1)
| 2 |
| Sec. 21-7.1. Administrative certificate.
| 3 |
| (a) After July 1, 1999, an administrative
certificate valid | 4 |
| for 5
years of supervising and administering in the public | 5 |
| common schools (unless
changed under subsection (a-5) of this | 6 |
| Section) may be
issued to persons who have graduated from a | 7 |
| regionally accredited institution
of higher learning with a | 8 |
| master's degree and who have been recommended by a
recognized | 9 |
| institution of higher learning as having completed a program of
| 10 |
| preparation for one or more of these endorsements. Such | 11 |
| programs of
academic and professional preparation required for | 12 |
| endorsement shall be
administered by the institution in | 13 |
| accordance with standards set forth by
the State Superintendent | 14 |
| of Education in consultation with the State
Teacher | 15 |
| Certification Board.
| 16 |
| (a-5) Beginning July 1, 2003, if an administrative | 17 |
| certificate holder
holds a Standard Teaching Certificate, the | 18 |
| validity period of the
administrative certificate shall be | 19 |
| changed, if necessary, so that the
validity period of the | 20 |
| administrative certificate coincides with the validity
period | 21 |
| of the Standard Teaching Certificate. Beginning July 1, 2003, | 22 |
| if
an administrative certificate holder holds a Master Teaching | 23 |
| Certificate,
the validity period of the administrative | 24 |
| certificate shall be changed so
that the validity period of the | 25 |
| administrative certificate coincides with the
validity period | 26 |
| of the Master Teaching Certificate.
| 27 |
| (b) No administrative certificate shall be issued for the | 28 |
| first time
after June 30, 1987 and no endorsement provided for | 29 |
| by this Section shall
be made or affixed to an administrative | 30 |
| certificate for the first time
after June 30, 1987 unless the | 31 |
| person to whom such administrative
certificate is to be issued | 32 |
| or to whose administrative certificate such
endorsement is to | 33 |
| be affixed has been required to demonstrate as a part of
a |
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| program of academic or professional preparation for such | 2 |
| certification or
endorsement: (i) an understanding of the | 3 |
| knowledge called for in
establishing productive parent-school | 4 |
| relationships and of the procedures
fostering the involvement | 5 |
| which such relationships demand; and (ii) an
understanding of | 6 |
| the knowledge required for establishing a high quality
school | 7 |
| climate and promoting good classroom organization and | 8 |
| management,
including rules of conduct and instructional | 9 |
| procedures appropriate to
accomplishing the tasks of | 10 |
| schooling; and (iii) a demonstration of the
knowledge and | 11 |
| skills called for in providing instructional leadership. The
| 12 |
| standards for demonstrating an understanding of such knowledge | 13 |
| shall be set
forth by the State Board of Education in | 14 |
| consultation with the
State Teacher Certification Board, and | 15 |
| shall be administered by the
recognized institutions of higher | 16 |
| learning as part of the programs of
academic and professional | 17 |
| preparation required for certification and
endorsement under | 18 |
| this Section. As used in this subsection: "establishing
| 19 |
| productive parent-school relationships" means the ability to | 20 |
| maintain
effective communication between parents and school | 21 |
| personnel, to encourage
parental involvement in schooling, and | 22 |
| to motivate school personnel to
engage parents in encouraging | 23 |
| student achievement, including the
development of programs and | 24 |
| policies which serve to accomplish this
purpose; and | 25 |
| "establishing a high quality school climate" means the ability
| 26 |
| to promote academic achievement, to maintain discipline, to | 27 |
| recognize
substance abuse problems among students and utilize | 28 |
| appropriate law
enforcement and other community resources to | 29 |
| address these problems, to support
teachers and students in | 30 |
| their education endeavors, to establish learning
objectives | 31 |
| and to provide instructional leadership, including the
| 32 |
| development of policies and programs which serve to accomplish | 33 |
| this
purpose; and "providing instructional leadership" means | 34 |
| the ability to
effectively evaluate school personnel, to |
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| possess general communication and
interpersonal skills, and to | 2 |
| establish and maintain appropriate classroom
learning | 3 |
| environments. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply | 4 |
| to
or affect the initial issuance or making on or before June | 5 |
| 30, 1987 of any
administrative certificate or endorsement | 6 |
| provided for under this Section,
nor shall such provisions | 7 |
| apply to or affect the renewal after June 30, 1987
of any such | 8 |
| certificate or endorsement initially issued or made on or | 9 |
| before
June 30, 1987.
| 10 |
| (c) Administrative certificates shall be renewed every 5 | 11 |
| years
with
the first renewal being 5 years following the | 12 |
| initial receipt of
an
administrative certificate, unless the | 13 |
| validity period for the administrative
certificate has been
| 14 |
| changed under subsection (a-5) of this Section, in which case | 15 |
| the
certificate shall be renewed at the same time that the | 16 |
| Standard or Master
Teaching Certificate is renewed.
| 17 |
| (c-5) Before July 1, 2003, renewal requirements for | 18 |
| administrators
whose
positions require certification shall be | 19 |
| based upon evidence of continuing
professional education which | 20 |
| promotes the following goals: (1)
improving
administrators' | 21 |
| knowledge of instructional practices and administrative
| 22 |
| procedures; (2) maintaining the basic level of competence | 23 |
| required
for
initial certification; and (3) improving the | 24 |
| mastery of skills and
knowledge regarding the improvement of | 25 |
| teaching performance in clinical
settings and assessment of the | 26 |
| levels of student performance in their schools.
Evidence of | 27 |
| continuing professional education must include verification of
| 28 |
| biennial attendance in a program developed by the Illinois | 29 |
| Administrators'
Academy and verification of annual | 30 |
| participation in a school district approved
activity which | 31 |
| contributes to continuing professional education.
| 32 |
| (c-10) Beginning July 1, 2003, except as otherwise provided | 33 |
| in subsection
(c-15) of this Section, persons holding | 34 |
| administrative
certificates must follow the certificate |
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| renewal procedure set forth in this
subsection (c-10), provided | 2 |
| that those persons holding administrative
certificates on June | 3 |
| 30, 2003 who are renewing those certificates on or
after July | 4 |
| 1, 2003 shall be issued new administrative certificates valid | 5 |
| for
5 years (unless changed under subsection (a-5) of this | 6 |
| Section), which
may be renewed thereafter as set forth in this | 7 |
| subsection (c-10).
| 8 |
| (1) A person holding an administrative certificate and
| 9 |
| employed in a position requiring administrative certification,
| 10 |
| including a regional superintendent of schools, must satisfy
| 11 |
| develop an
administrative certificate renewal plan for | 12 |
| satisfying the continuing
professional development | 13 |
| requirements of this Section
required to renew his or her
| 14 |
| administrative certificate. The continuing professional | 15 |
| development
An administrative certificate renewal
plan must | 16 |
| include a minimum of 3 individual improvement goals
developed | 17 |
| by the certificate holder and must include without
limitation | 18 |
| the following continuing professional development
purposes:
| 19 |
| (1)
(A) To improve the administrator's knowledge of
| 20 |
| instructional practices and administrative procedures in
| 21 |
| accordance with the Illinois Professional School Leader
| 22 |
| Standards.
| 23 |
| (2)
(B) To maintain the basic level of competence | 24 |
| required
for initial certification.
| 25 |
| (3)
(C) To improve the administrator's mastery of | 26 |
| skills
and knowledge regarding the improvement of teaching
| 27 |
| performance in clinical settings and assessment of the | 28 |
| levels
of student performance in the schools.
| 29 |
| An administrative certificate renewal plan must include a
| 30 |
| description of how the improvement goals are to be achieved | 31 |
| and
an explanation of the selected continuing professional | 32 |
| development
activities to be completed, each of which must | 33 |
| meet one or more of
the continuing professional development | 34 |
| purposes specified in this
paragraph (1).
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(2) In addition to | 2 |
| the requirements in paragraph (1) of this
subsection (c-10), | 3 |
| the administrative certificate renewal plan must
include the | 4 |
| following in order for the certificate to be renewed:
| 5 |
| (A) Participation in continuing professional
| 6 |
| development activities, which must total a minimum of 100
| 7 |
| hours of continuing professional development .
and which
| 8 |
| must meet all of the following requirements:
(i) The | 9 |
| participation must consist of a minimum
of 5 activities per | 10 |
| validity period of the certificate , and the certificate | 11 |
| holder must maintain documentation of completion of each | 12 |
| activity .
| 13 |
| (ii) The activities must address the goals in | 14 |
| the
certificate holder's professional development | 15 |
| plan.
| 16 |
| (iii) The activities must be aligned with the
| 17 |
| Illinois Professional School Leader Standards.
| 18 |
| (iv) A portion of the activities must address | 19 |
| the
certificate holder's school improvement plan | 20 |
| at either
the district or school level.
| 21 |
| (v) The participation must include a
| 22 |
| communication, dissemination, or application
| 23 |
| component.
| 24 |
| (vi) There must be documentation of completion
| 25 |
| of each activity.
| 26 |
| (B) Participation every year in an Illinois
| 27 |
| Administrators' Academy course, which participation must
| 28 |
| total a minimum of 30
36 continuing professional | 29 |
| development
hours during the period of the certificate's | 30 |
| validity and which
must include completion
all of the | 31 |
| following:
(i) Completion of applicable required
| 32 |
| coursework, including completion of a communication, | 33 |
| dissemination, or application component, as defined by the | 34 |
| State Board of
Education.
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| (ii) Completion of a communication,
| 2 |
| dissemination, or application component.
| 3 |
| (iii) Documentation of completion of each
| 4 |
| activity.
| 5 |
| (3) Each administrator who is subject to the | 6 |
| requirements of
this subsection (c-10) but who is not | 7 |
| serving as a district or
regional superintendent, a | 8 |
| director of a cooperative program or
special education | 9 |
| program, or a director of a State-operated school
must | 10 |
| submit his or her administrative certificate renewal plan | 11 |
| for review to
the superintendent of the employing school | 12 |
| district or to the director
of the cooperative or special | 13 |
| education program or State-operated
school (or to the | 14 |
| superintendent's or director's designee).
Each district or | 15 |
| regional superintendent, director of a cooperative
program | 16 |
| or special education program, or director of a
| 17 |
| State-operated school must submit his or her | 18 |
| administrative
certificate renewal plan for review to a | 19 |
| review panel comprised of
peers established by the regional | 20 |
| superintendent of schools for the
geographic area where the | 21 |
| certificate holder is employed as an
administrator.
| 22 |
| (4) If the certificate holder's plan does not conform | 23 |
| to the
requirements of this subsection (c-10), the reviewer | 24 |
| or review panel
must notify the certificate holder, who | 25 |
| must revise the
administrative certificate renewal plan. A | 26 |
| certificate holder who is
not a regional superintendent of | 27 |
| schools may appeal that
determination to the regional | 28 |
| superintendent of schools for the
geographic area where the | 29 |
| certificate holder is employed as an
administrator. A | 30 |
| certificate holder who is a regional superintendent
of | 31 |
| schools may appeal that determination to the State
| 32 |
| Superintendent of Education. The regional superintendent | 33 |
| of
schools or the State Superintendent of Education (or the | 34 |
| regional
superintendent's or State Superintendent's |
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| designee) shall facilitate
any modification of the plan, if | 2 |
| necessary, to make it acceptable.
| 3 |
| (5) A certificate holder may modify his or her | 4 |
| administrative
certificate renewal plan at any time during | 5 |
| the validity period of the
administrative certificate | 6 |
| through the process outlined in
paragraphs (3) and (4) of | 7 |
| this subsection (c-10).
| 8 |
| (6) Evidence of completion of the activities in the
| 9 |
| administrative certificate renewal plan must be submitted | 10 |
| to the
responsible reviewer or review panel. Before the | 11 |
| expiration of the
administrative certificate, the | 12 |
| certificate holder must request from
the responsible | 13 |
| reviewer or review panel a signed verification form
| 14 |
| developed by the State Board of Education confirming that | 15 |
| the
certificate holder has met the requirements for renewal | 16 |
| contained
in this Section. A certificate holder who is not | 17 |
| a regional
superintendent of schools must submit this form | 18 |
| to the responsible
regional superintendent of schools (or | 19 |
| his or her designee) at the
time of application for renewal | 20 |
| of the certificate. A certificate holder
who is a regional | 21 |
| superintendent of schools must submit this form
for | 22 |
| validation to the State Superintendent of Education (or his | 23 |
| or
her designee) at the time of application for renewal of | 24 |
| the certificate.
| 25 |
| The certificate holder must complete a verification form | 26 |
| developed by the State Board of Education and certify that 100 | 27 |
| hours of continuing professional development activities and 5 | 28 |
| Administrators' Academy courses have been completed.
(7) The | 29 |
| regional superintendent of schools shall review and
validate | 30 |
| the verification form for a certificate holder. Based on
| 31 |
| compliance with all of the requirements for renewal, the | 32 |
| regional
superintendent of schools shall forward a | 33 |
| recommendation for
renewal or non-renewal to the State | 34 |
| Superintendent of Education
and shall notify the certificate |
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| holder of the recommendation. The
State Superintendent of | 2 |
| Education shall review the
recommendation to renew or non-renew | 3 |
| and shall notify, in writing,
the certificate holder of a | 4 |
| decision denying renewal of his or her
certificate. Any | 5 |
| decision regarding non-renewal of an
administrative | 6 |
| certificate may be appealed to the State Teacher
Certification | 7 |
| Board.
| 8 |
| The State Board of Education, in consultation with the | 9 |
| State
Teacher Certification Board, shall adopt rules to | 10 |
| implement this
subsection (c-10).
| 11 |
| The regional superintendent of schools shall monitor the | 12 |
| process
for renewal of administrative certificates established | 13 |
| in this subsection
(c-10).
| 14 |
| (c-15) This subsection (c-15) applies to the first period | 15 |
| of an
administrative certificate's validity during which the | 16 |
| holder becomes
subject to the requirements of subsection (c-10) | 17 |
| of this Section if the
certificate has less than 5 years' | 18 |
| validity or has less than 5 years' validity
remaining when the | 19 |
| certificate holder becomes subject to the
requirements of | 20 |
| subsection (c-10) of this Section. With respect to this
period, | 21 |
| the 100 hours of continuing professional development and 5
| 22 |
| activities per validity period specified in clause (A) of | 23 |
| paragraph (2) of
subsection (c-10) of this Section shall | 24 |
| instead be deemed to mean 20
hours of continuing professional | 25 |
| development and one activity per year of
the certificate's | 26 |
| validity or remaining validity and the 30
36 continuing
| 27 |
| professional development hours specified in clause (B) of | 28 |
| paragraph (2) of
subsection (c-10) of this Section shall | 29 |
| instead be deemed to mean
completion of at least one course per | 30 |
| year of the certificate's validity or
remaining validity. | 31 |
| Certificate holders who evaluate certified staff must complete | 32 |
| a 2-day teacher evaluation course, in addition to the 30 | 33 |
| continuing professional development hours.
If the certificate | 34 |
| has 3 or fewer years of validity or 3
or fewer years of |
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| validity remaining, the certificate holder is not subject
to | 2 |
| the requirements for submission and approval of plans for | 3 |
| continuing
professional development described in paragraphs | 4 |
| (1) through (4) of
subsection (c-10) of this Section with | 5 |
| respect to that period of the
certificate's validity.
| 6 |
| (c-20) The State
Board of Education, in consultation with | 7 |
| the State Teacher Certification Board,
shall develop | 8 |
| procedures for implementing this Section and shall administer | 9 |
| the
renewal of administrative certificates. Failure to submit | 10 |
| satisfactory evidence
of continuing professional education | 11 |
| which contributes to promoting the goals
of this Section shall | 12 |
| result in a loss of administrative certification.
| 13 |
| (d) Any limited or life supervisory certificate issued | 14 |
| prior to July 1, 1968
shall continue to be valid for all | 15 |
| administrative and supervisory positions
in the public schools | 16 |
| for which it is valid as of that date as long as its
holder | 17 |
| meets the requirements for registration or renewal as set forth | 18 |
| in
the statutes or until revoked according to law.
| 19 |
| (e) The administrative or supervisory positions for which | 20 |
| the certificate
shall be valid shall be determined by one or | 21 |
| more of 3 endorsements: general
supervisory, general | 22 |
| administrative and superintendent.
| 23 |
| Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, endorsements | 24 |
| shall be
made under conditions set forth in this Section. The | 25 |
| State Board of
Education shall, in consultation with the State | 26 |
| Teacher Certification
Board, adopt rules pursuant to the | 27 |
| Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
establishing | 28 |
| requirements for obtaining administrative certificates where
| 29 |
| the minimum administrative or supervisory requirements surpass | 30 |
| those set
forth in this Section.
| 31 |
| The State Teacher Certification Board shall file with the | 32 |
| State Board of
Education a written recommendation when | 33 |
| considering additional
administrative or supervisory | 34 |
| requirements. All additional requirements
shall be based upon |
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| the requisite knowledge necessary to perform those
tasks | 2 |
| required by the certificate. The State Board of Education shall | 3 |
| in
consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board, | 4 |
| establish
standards within its rules which shall include the | 5 |
| academic and
professional requirements necessary for | 6 |
| certification. These standards
shall at a minimum contain, but | 7 |
| not be limited to, those used by the State
Board of Education | 8 |
| in determining whether additional knowledge will be
required. | 9 |
| Additionally, the State Board of Education shall in | 10 |
| consultation
with the State Teacher Certification Board, | 11 |
| establish provisions within its
rules whereby any member of the | 12 |
| educational community or the public may
file a formal written | 13 |
| recommendation or inquiry regarding requirements.
| 14 |
| (1) Until July 1, 2003, the general supervisory | 15 |
| endorsement shall be
affixed to the
administrative | 16 |
| certificate of any holder who has at least 16 semester | 17 |
| hours
of graduate credit in professional education | 18 |
| including 8 semester hours of
graduate credit in curriculum | 19 |
| and research and who has at least 2 years of
full-time | 20 |
| teaching experience or school service personnel experience | 21 |
| in
public schools, schools under the supervision of the | 22 |
| Department of Corrections,
schools under the | 23 |
| administration of the Department of
Rehabilitation | 24 |
| Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the standards
| 25 |
| established by the State Superintendent of Education or | 26 |
| comparable out-of-state
recognition standards approved by | 27 |
| the State Superintendent of Education.
| 28 |
| Such endorsement shall be required for supervisors, | 29 |
| curriculum directors
and for such similar and related | 30 |
| positions as determined by the State
Superintendent of | 31 |
| Education in consultation with the State Teacher
| 32 |
| Certification Board.
| 33 |
| (2) The general administrative endorsement shall be | 34 |
| affixed to the
administrative certificate of any holder who |
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| has at least 20 semester hours
of graduate credit in | 2 |
| educational administration and supervision and who
has at | 3 |
| least 2 years of full-time teaching experience or school | 4 |
| service
personnel experience in public schools, schools | 5 |
| under the supervision of
the Department of Corrections, | 6 |
| schools under the administration of
the Department of | 7 |
| Rehabilitation Services, or
nonpublic schools meeting the | 8 |
| standards
established by the State Superintendent of | 9 |
| Education or comparable
out-of-state recognition standards | 10 |
| approved by the State Superintendent
of Education.
| 11 |
| Such endorsement shall be required for principal, | 12 |
| assistant principal,
assistant or associate | 13 |
| superintendent, junior college dean and for related
or | 14 |
| similar positions as determined by the State | 15 |
| Superintendent of Education
in consultation with the State | 16 |
| Teacher Certification Board.
| 17 |
| Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, | 18 |
| after January 1,
1990 and until January 1, 1991, any | 19 |
| teacher employed by a district subject
to Article 34 shall | 20 |
| be entitled to receive an administrative certificate
with a | 21 |
| general administrative endorsement affixed thereto if he | 22 |
| or she: (i)
had at least 3 years of experience as a | 23 |
| certified teacher for such district
prior to August 1, | 24 |
| 1985; (ii) obtained a Master's degree prior to August 1,
| 25 |
| 1985; (iii) completed at least 20 hours of graduate credit | 26 |
| in education
courses (including at least 12 hours in | 27 |
| educational administration and
supervision) prior to | 28 |
| September 1, 1987; and (iv) has received a rating of
| 29 |
| superior for at least each of the last 5 years. Any person | 30 |
| who obtains an
administrative certificate with a general | 31 |
| administrative endorsement
affixed thereto under this | 32 |
| paragraph shall not be qualified to serve in any
| 33 |
| administrative position except assistant principal.
| 34 |
| (3) The chief school business official endorsement |
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| shall be affixed to
the administrative certificate of any | 2 |
| holder who qualifies by having
a Master's degree, two years | 3 |
| of administrative experience in school business
| 4 |
| management, and a minimum of 20 semester hours of graduate | 5 |
| credit in a program
established by the State Superintendent | 6 |
| of Education in consultation with the
State Teacher | 7 |
| Certification Board for the preparation of school business
| 8 |
| administrators. Such endorsement shall also be affixed to | 9 |
| the administrative
certificate of any holder who qualifies | 10 |
| by having a Master's Degree in Business
Administration, | 11 |
| Finance or Accounting from a regionally accredited | 12 |
| institution
of higher education.
| 13 |
| After June 30, 1977, such endorsement shall be required | 14 |
| for any individual
first employed as a chief school | 15 |
| business official.
| 16 |
| (4) The superintendent endorsement shall be affixed to | 17 |
| the administrative
certificate of any holder who has | 18 |
| completed 30 semester hours of graduate
credit beyond the | 19 |
| master's degree in a program for the preparation of
| 20 |
| superintendents of schools including 16 semester hours of | 21 |
| graduate credit
in professional education and who has at | 22 |
| least 2 years experience as an
administrator or supervisor | 23 |
| in the public schools or the State Board of
Education or | 24 |
| education service regions or in nonpublic schools meeting | 25 |
| the
standards established by the State Superintendent of | 26 |
| Education or
comparable out-of-state recognition standards | 27 |
| approved by the State
Superintendent of Education and holds | 28 |
| general supervisory or general
administrative endorsement, | 29 |
| or who has had 2 years of experience as a
supervisor or | 30 |
| administrator while holding an all-grade supervisory
| 31 |
| certificate or a certificate comparable in validity and | 32 |
| educational and
experience requirements.
| 33 |
| After June 30, 1968, such endorsement shall be required | 34 |
| for a
superintendent of schools, except as provided in the |
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| second paragraph of this
Section and in Section 34-6.
| 2 |
| Any person appointed to the position of superintendent | 3 |
| between the
effective date of this Act and June 30, 1993 in | 4 |
| a school district organized
pursuant to Article 32 with an | 5 |
| enrollment of at least 20,000 pupils shall
be exempt from | 6 |
| the provisions of this paragraph (4) until
June 30, 1996.
| 7 |
| (f) All official interpretations or acts of issuing or | 8 |
| denying
administrative certificates or endorsements by the | 9 |
| State Teacher's
Certification Board, State Board of Education | 10 |
| or the State Superintendent
of Education, from the passage of | 11 |
| P.A. 81-1208 on November 8, 1979 through
September 24, 1981 are | 12 |
| hereby declared valid and legal acts in all respects and
| 13 |
| further that the purported repeal of the provisions of this | 14 |
| Section by P.A.
81-1208 and P.A. 81-1509 is declared null and | 15 |
| void.
| 16 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 92-796, eff. 8-10-02.)
| 17 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-9)
| 18 |
| Sec. 21-9. Substitute certificates and substitute | 19 |
| teaching.
| 20 |
| (a) A
substitute teacher's certificate
may
be issued for | 21 |
| teaching in all grades of the
common schools. Such certificate
| 22 |
| may be issued upon
request of the regional superintendent of
| 23 |
| schools of any region in which the teacher is to
teach. A | 24 |
| substitute teacher's certificate is valid for teaching in the
| 25 |
| public schools of
any county. Such certificate may be issued to | 26 |
| persons who either (a) hold
a certificate
valid for teaching in | 27 |
| the common schools as shown on the face of the
certificate,
(b) | 28 |
| hold a bachelor of arts degree from an institution of higher | 29 |
| learning
accredited by the North Central Association or other | 30 |
| comparable regional
accrediting association or have been | 31 |
| graduated from a recognized institution
of higher learning with | 32 |
| a bachelor's degree, or (c) have had 2 years of
teaching | 33 |
| experience and meet such other
rules and regulations as may be |
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| adopted by the State
Board of Education in consultation with | 2 |
| the State Teacher Certification
Board. Such certificate shall | 3 |
| expire on June 30 in the fourth year from date
of issue.
| 4 |
| Substitute teacher's certificates are not subject to | 5 |
| endorsement as
described in Section 21-1b of this Code.
| 6 |
| (b) A teacher holding a substitute teacher's certificate | 7 |
| may teach only in
the
place of a certified teacher who is under | 8 |
| contract with the employing board and
may teach only when no | 9 |
| appropriate fully certified teacher is available to
teach in a
| 10 |
| substitute capacity. A teacher holding an early childhood | 11 |
| certificate, an
elementary certificate, a high school | 12 |
| certificate, or a special
certificate may also substitute teach | 13 |
| in grades K-12 but only in the place of a
certified teacher who | 14 |
| is under contract with the employing board. A
substitute | 15 |
| teacher may teach only for a period not to exceed
90 paid | 16 |
| school days or 450 paid school hours in any one school district | 17 |
| in any
one
school term.
However, for the 2001-2002, 2002-2003, | 18 |
| and 2003-2004 school years,
a teacher holding an early | 19 |
| childhood, elementary, high school, or special
certificate may | 20 |
| substitute teach for a period not to exceed 120 paid
school | 21 |
| days or 600 paid school hours in any one school district in any
| 22 |
| one school term.
Where such teaching is partly on a daily and | 23 |
| partly on an hourly
basis,
a school day shall be considered as | 24 |
| 5 hours.
The teaching limitations imposed by this subsection
| 25 |
| upon teachers holding substitute certificates shall
not apply | 26 |
| in any school district operating under Article 34.
| 27 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 92-184, eff. 7-27-01.)
| 28 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-12)
| 29 |
| Sec. 21-12. Printing; Seal; Signature; Credentials.
All | 30 |
| certificates shall be printed by and bear the signatures of the | 31 |
| chairman
and of the secretary of the State Teacher | 32 |
| Certification Board. Each
certificate shall show the | 33 |
| integrally printed seal of the State Teacher
Certification |
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| Board. All college credentials offered as the basis
of a | 2 |
| certificate shall be presented to the secretary of the State
| 3 |
| Teacher Certification Board for inspection and approval.
| 4 |
| Commencing July 1, 1999, each application for a certificate | 5 |
| or evaluation
of credentials shall be accompanied by an | 6 |
| evaluation fee of $30 payable to the
State Superintendent of | 7 |
| Education, which is not
refundable, except that no application | 8 |
| or evaluation fee shall be required
for a Master Certificate | 9 |
| issued pursuant to subsection (d) of Section 21-2 of
this Code. | 10 |
| The proceeds of each $30 fee shall be paid into the Teacher
| 11 |
| Certificate Fee Revolving Fund, created under Section 21-1b of | 12 |
| this Code;
and the moneys in that Fund shall be appropriated | 13 |
| and used to provide the
technology and other resources | 14 |
| necessary for the timely and efficient
processing of | 15 |
| certification requests.
| 16 |
| The State Board of Education and each regional office of | 17 |
| education are authorized to charge a service or convenience fee | 18 |
| for the use of credit cards for the payment of certification | 19 |
| fees. This service or convenience fee may not exceed the amount | 20 |
| required by the credit card processing company or vendor that | 21 |
| has entered into a contract with the State Board or regional | 22 |
| office of education for this purpose, and the fee must be paid | 23 |
| to that company or vendor.
| 24 |
| When evaluation verifies the requirements for a valid | 25 |
| certificate,
the applicant shall be issued an entitlement card | 26 |
| that may be presented
to a regional superintendent of schools | 27 |
| for issuance of a certificate.
| 28 |
| The applicant shall be notified of any deficiencies.
| 29 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
| 30 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-14)
| 31 |
| Sec. 21-14. Registration and renewal of certificates.
| 32 |
| (a) A limited
four-year certificate or a certificate issued | 33 |
| after July 1, 1955, shall
be renewable at its expiration or |
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| within 60 days thereafter by the
county superintendent of | 2 |
| schools having supervision and control over the
school where | 3 |
| the teacher is teaching upon certified evidence of meeting
the | 4 |
| requirements for renewal as required by this Act and prescribed | 5 |
| by
the State Board of Education in consultation with the State
| 6 |
| Teacher Certification Board. An elementary supervisory | 7 |
| certificate
shall not be renewed at the end of the first | 8 |
| four-year period covered by
the certificate unless the holder | 9 |
| thereof has filed certified evidence
with the State Teacher | 10 |
| Certification Board that he has a master's degree
or that he | 11 |
| has earned 8 semester hours of credit in the field of
| 12 |
| educational administration and supervision in a recognized | 13 |
| institution
of higher learning. The holder shall continue to | 14 |
| earn 8 semester hours
of credit each four-year period until | 15 |
| such time as he has earned a
master's degree.
| 16 |
| All certificates not renewed or registered as herein | 17 |
| provided shall
lapse after a period of 5 years from the | 18 |
| expiration of the last year
of
registration. Such certificates | 19 |
| may be reinstated for a one year period
upon payment of all | 20 |
| accumulated registration fees. Such reinstated
certificates | 21 |
| shall only be renewed: (1) by earning 5 semester hours of
| 22 |
| credit in a recognized institution of higher learning in the | 23 |
| field of
professional education or in courses related to the | 24 |
| holder's contractual
teaching duties; or (2) by presenting | 25 |
| evidence of holding a valid
regular certificate of some other | 26 |
| type. Any certificate may be
voluntarily surrendered by the | 27 |
| certificate holder. A voluntarily
surrendered certificate | 28 |
| shall be treated as a revoked certificate.
| 29 |
| (b) When those teaching certificates issued before | 30 |
| February 15, 2000 are
renewed for the first time after February | 31 |
| 15, 2000, all
such
teaching
certificates
shall be exchanged for | 32 |
| Standard Teaching Certificates as provided in subsection
(c) of | 33 |
| Section 21-2. All Initial and Standard Teaching Certificates, | 34 |
| including
those issued to persons who previously held teaching |
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| certificates issued before
February 15, 2000, shall be | 2 |
| renewable under the conditions
set forth
in this
subsection | 3 |
| (b).
| 4 |
| Initial Teaching Certificates are
nonrenewable and are | 5 |
| valid for 4 years of teaching , as provided in subsection (b) of | 6 |
| Section 21-2 of this Code, and are renewable every 4 years | 7 |
| until the person completes 4 years of teaching. If the holder | 8 |
| of an Initial Certificate has completed 4 years of teaching but | 9 |
| has not completed the requirements set forth in paragraph (2) | 10 |
| of subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code, then the | 11 |
| Initial Certificate may be reinstated for one year, during | 12 |
| which the requirements must be met. A holder of an Initial | 13 |
| certificate who has not completed 4 years of teaching may | 14 |
| continuously register the certificate for additional 4-year | 15 |
| periods without penalty. Initial Certificates that are not | 16 |
| registered shall lapse consistent with subsection (a) of this | 17 |
| Section and may be reinstated only in accordance with | 18 |
| subsection (a) .
Standard Teaching Certificates are renewable | 19 |
| every 5 years as provided
in
subsection (c) of Section 21-2
and | 20 |
| subsection (c) of this Section.
For purposes of this Section, | 21 |
| "teaching" is defined as employment and
performance of
services | 22 |
| in an Illinois public or State-operated elementary school, | 23 |
| secondary
school, or
cooperative or joint agreement with a | 24 |
| governing body or board of control, in a
certificated teaching | 25 |
| position, or a charter school operating in compliance
with the
| 26 |
| Charter Schools Law.
| 27 |
| (c) In compliance with subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of | 28 |
| this Code, which
provides that a
Standard
Teaching Certificate | 29 |
| may be renewed by the State Teacher Certification Board
based
| 30 |
| upon proof of continuing professional development, the State | 31 |
| Board of Education
and
the State Teacher Certification Board | 32 |
| shall jointly:
| 33 |
| (1) establish a procedure for renewing Standard | 34 |
| Teaching Certificates,
which shall include but not be |
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process and the | 2 |
| components set forth in subsections (d) through (k) of this
| 3 |
| Section;
| 4 |
| (2) establish the standards for certificate renewal;
| 5 |
| (3) approve or disapprove the providers of continuing | 6 |
| professional development
activities;
| 7 |
| (4) determine the maximum credit for each category of | 8 |
| continuing
professional development activities, based upon | 9 |
| recommendations submitted by
a continuing professional
| 10 |
| development
activity task force, which shall consist of 6 | 11 |
| staff members from the State
Board of
Education, appointed | 12 |
| by the State Superintendent of Education, and 6 teacher
| 13 |
| representatives, 3 of whom are selected by the Illinois | 14 |
| Education Association
and 3 of
whom are selected by the | 15 |
| Illinois Federation of Teachers;
| 16 |
| (5) designate the type and amount of documentation | 17 |
| required to show that
continuing professional development | 18 |
| activities have been completed; and
| 19 |
| (6) provide, on a timely basis to all Illinois | 20 |
| teachers, certificate
holders, regional superintendents of | 21 |
| schools,
school districts, and others with an interest in | 22 |
| continuing professional
development, information about the | 23 |
| standards and requirements established
pursuant to this | 24 |
| subsection (c).
| 25 |
| (d) Any Standard Teaching Certificate held by an individual | 26 |
| employed and
performing services in an
Illinois public or | 27 |
| State-operated elementary school, secondary school, or
| 28 |
| cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or board | 29 |
| of control in a
certificated teaching
position or a
charter | 30 |
| school in compliance with the Charter Schools Law must be | 31 |
| maintained
Valid
and
Active through certificate renewal | 32 |
| activities specified in the certificate
renewal procedure
| 33 |
| established pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, | 34 |
| provided that
a holder of a Valid
and Active
certificate who is |
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basis | 2 |
| as a
substitute
teacher shall pay only the required | 3 |
| registration fee to renew his or her
certificate
and maintain | 4 |
| it as Valid and Active. All other Standard Teaching | 5 |
| Certificates
held may be
maintained as
Valid and Exempt through | 6 |
| the registration process provided for in the
certificate | 7 |
| renewal
procedure established pursuant to subsection (c) of | 8 |
| this Section. A Valid and
Exempt
certificate must
be | 9 |
| immediately activated, through procedures developed jointly by | 10 |
| the State
Board of
Education and the State Teacher | 11 |
| Certification Board, upon the certificate
holder
becoming | 12 |
| employed and performing services in an Illinois public or
| 13 |
| State-operated elementary school,
secondary school, or | 14 |
| cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
board | 15 |
| of control in a
certificated
teaching position or a charter | 16 |
| school operating in compliance with the Charter
Schools
Law. A | 17 |
| holder of a Valid and Exempt certificate may activate his or | 18 |
| her
certificate
through procedures provided for in the | 19 |
| certificate renewal procedure
established pursuant to
| 20 |
| subsection (c) of this Section.
| 21 |
| (e)(1) A Standard Teaching Certificate that has been | 22 |
| maintained as Valid
and
Active for the 5 years of the | 23 |
| certificate's validity shall be renewed as Valid
and Active
| 24 |
| upon the certificate holder: (i)
completing an advanced degree | 25 |
| from an approved institution in an
education-related field; | 26 |
| (ii)
completing at least
8 semester hours of
coursework as | 27 |
| described in
subdivision (B) of paragraph (3) of this | 28 |
| subsection (e);
(iii)
earning at least
24 continuing education | 29 |
| units as described in subdivision (C) of
paragraph (3)
of this | 30 |
| subsection (e); (iv) completing the National Board for
| 31 |
| Professional
Teaching Standards process as described in | 32 |
| subdivision (D) of
paragraph (3) of
this subsection (e); or (v) | 33 |
| earning 120 continuing professional
development
units ("CPDU") | 34 |
| as described in subdivision (E) of paragraph (3) of
this
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| subsection (e). The maximum continuing professional | 2 |
| development units for each
continuing professional development | 3 |
| activity identified in subdivisions
(F)
through (J) of | 4 |
| paragraph (3) of this subsection (e) shall be
jointly | 5 |
| determined
by the State Board of Education and the State | 6 |
| Teacher Certification Board.
If, however, the certificate | 7 |
| holder has maintained the certificate
as Valid and
Exempt for a | 8 |
| portion of the 5-year period of validity, the number of
| 9 |
| continuing
professional development units needed to renew the | 10 |
| certificate as Valid and
Active shall
be proportionately | 11 |
| reduced by the amount of time the certificate was Valid and
| 12 |
| Exempt.
Furthermore, if a certificate holder is employed and | 13 |
| performs teaching services
on a
part-time basis for all or a | 14 |
| portion of the certificate's 5-year period of
validity, the | 15 |
| number
of continuing professional development units needed to | 16 |
| renew the certificate as
Valid
and Active shall be reduced by | 17 |
| 50% for the amount of time the certificate
holder has
been | 18 |
| employed and performed teaching services on a part-time basis. | 19 |
| Part-time
shall
be defined as less than 50% of the school day | 20 |
| or school term.
| 21 |
| Notwithstanding any other requirements to the contrary, if | 22 |
| a Standard
Teaching
Certificate has been maintained as Valid | 23 |
| and Active for the 5 years of the
certificate's validity and | 24 |
| the certificate holder has completed his or her
certificate | 25 |
| renewal plan before July 1, 2002, the certificate shall
be | 26 |
| renewed as Valid and Active.
| 27 |
| (2) Beginning July 1, 2004, in order to satisfy the | 28 |
| requirements for continuing professional development provided | 29 |
| for in subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code, each
Each
| 30 |
| Valid and Active Standard Teaching Certificate holder shall
| 31 |
| complete professional development activities
develop
a | 32 |
| certificate renewal plan for satisfying the continuing | 33 |
| professional
development
requirement provided for in | 34 |
| subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code.
Certificate
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| holders with multiple certificates shall develop a certificate | 2 |
| renewal plan
that addresses
only that address the certificate | 3 |
| or those certificates that are required of his or her
| 4 |
| certificated
teaching position, if the certificate holder is | 5 |
| employed and performing
services in an Illinois public
or | 6 |
| State-operated elementary school,
secondary school, or | 7 |
| cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
board | 8 |
| of control, or that certificate or those certificates most | 9 |
| closely
related to his or
her teaching position, if the | 10 |
| certificate holder is employed in a charter
school. Except as | 11 |
| otherwise provided in this subsection (e), the certificate | 12 |
| holder's activities must address
a
certificate renewal plan | 13 |
| shall include a minimum of 3 individual improvement
goals
| 14 |
| developed by the certificate holder and shall reflect purposes | 15 |
| (A), (B), and
(C) , or (D) and must
may reflect purpose (E)
(D)
| 16 |
| of the following continuing professional
development purposes:
| 17 |
| (A) Advance both the certificate holder's knowledge | 18 |
| and skills as a
teacher consistent with the Illinois | 19 |
| Professional Teaching Standards and the
Illinois Content | 20 |
| Area Standards in the certificate holder's areas of
| 21 |
| certification,
endorsement, or teaching assignment in | 22 |
| order to keep the certificate holder
current
in those | 23 |
| areas.
| 24 |
| (B) Develop the certificate holder's knowledge and | 25 |
| skills in areas
determined
to be critical for all Illinois | 26 |
| teachers, as defined by the State Board of
Education, known | 27 |
| as "State priorities".
| 28 |
| (C) Address the knowledge, skills, and goals of the | 29 |
| certificate holder's
local
school improvement plan, if the | 30 |
| teacher is employed in an Illinois public
or State-operated | 31 |
| elementary school, secondary school, or cooperative or | 32 |
| joint
agreement with a governing body or board of control.
| 33 |
| (D) Expand the certificate holder's knowledge and | 34 |
| skills in an
additional teaching field or toward
the
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| acquisition of another teaching certificate, endorsement, | 2 |
| or relevant
education degree.
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| (E) Address the needs of serving students with | 4 |
| disabilities, including adapting and modifying the general | 5 |
| curriculum related to the Illinois Learning Standards to | 6 |
| meet the needs of students with disabilities and serving | 7 |
| such students in the least restrictive environment. | 8 |
| Teachers who hold certificates endorsed for special | 9 |
| education must devote at least 50% of their continuing | 10 |
| professional development activities to this purpose. | 11 |
| Teachers holding other certificates must devote at least | 12 |
| 20% of their activities to this purpose.
| 13 |
| A certificate renewal plan must include a description of how | 14 |
| these goals are
to
be
achieved and an explanation of selected | 15 |
| continuing professional development
activities
to be | 16 |
| completed, each of which must meet one or more of the | 17 |
| continuing
professional
development purposes specified in this | 18 |
| paragraph (2). The plan shall identify
potential
activities and | 19 |
| include projected timelines for those activities that will
| 20 |
| assure completion
of the plan before the expiration of the | 21 |
| 5-year validity of the Standard
Teaching
Certificate.
Except as | 22 |
| otherwise provided in this subsection (e), at least
50% of | 23 |
| continuing professional development units must relate to
| 24 |
| purposes (A)
and (B) set forth in this paragraph (2): the | 25 |
| advancement of a certificate
holder's
knowledge and skills as a | 26 |
| teacher consistent with the Illinois Professional
Teaching
| 27 |
| Standards and the Illinois Content Area Standards in the | 28 |
| certificate holder's
areas of
certification, endorsement, or | 29 |
| teaching assignment in order to keep the
certificate holder
| 30 |
| current in those areas and the
development of a certificate | 31 |
| holder's knowledge
and skills in the State priorities that | 32 |
| exist at the time the
certificate
renewal plan is developed.
| 33 |
| A speech-language pathologist or audiologist who is
| 34 |
| licensed under the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
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| Audiology Practice Act and who has met the continuing
education | 2 |
| requirements of that Act and the rules promulgated
under that | 3 |
| Act shall be deemed to have satisfied the continuing
| 4 |
| professional development requirements established by the State
| 5 |
| Board of Education and the Teacher Certification Board to renew
| 6 |
| a Standard Certificate.
| 7 |
| (3) Continuing professional development activities | 8 |
| included in a certificate
renewal plan may include, but are not | 9 |
| limited to, the following activities:
| 10 |
| (A) completion of an advanced degree from an approved | 11 |
| institution
in an education-related field;
| 12 |
| (B) at
least 8 semester hours of coursework
in an | 13 |
| approved education-related program, of which at least 2 | 14 |
| semester
hours relate
to the continuing professional | 15 |
| development purpose set forth in purpose (A) of
paragraph | 16 |
| (2) of this subsection (e), completion of which means no
| 17 |
| provided that such a plan need not
include any
other | 18 |
| continuing professional development activities are | 19 |
| required
nor reflect or contain
activities
related to the | 20 |
| other continuing professional development purposes set | 21 |
| forth in
paragraph
(2) of this subsection (e) ;
| 22 |
| (C) continuing education units that satisfy the | 23 |
| continuing
professional
development purposes set forth in | 24 |
| paragraph (2) of this subsection (e), with
each continuing | 25 |
| education unit equal to 5
clock
hours, provided that a plan | 26 |
| that includes at least 24 continuing
education units (or | 27 |
| 120 clock/contact hours) need not
include any other | 28 |
| continuing professional development activities;
| 29 |
| (D) completion of the National Board for
of
| 30 |
| Professional Teaching
Standards
("NBPTS") process for | 31 |
| certification or recertification , completion of which | 32 |
| means no
provided that a plan that includes completion of | 33 |
| the NBPTS
process need not
include
any other continuing | 34 |
| professional development activities are required
nor |
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| reflect or contain
activities
related to the continuing | 2 |
| professional development purposes set forth in
paragraph | 3 |
| (2)
of subsection (e) of this Section ;
| 4 |
| (E) completion of 120 continuing professional | 5 |
| development
units that
satisfy the continuing professional | 6 |
| development purposes set forth in
paragraph (2) of this | 7 |
| subsection (e) and may include without limitation
the | 8 |
| activities identified in subdivisions (F) through
(J) of | 9 |
| this paragraph
(3);
| 10 |
| (F) collaboration and partnership activities related | 11 |
| to
improving the
teacher's knowledge and skills as a | 12 |
| teacher, including the following:
| 13 |
| (i) participating on collaborative planning and | 14 |
| professional
improvement
teams and committees;
| 15 |
| (ii) peer review and coaching;
| 16 |
| (iii) mentoring in a formal mentoring program, | 17 |
| including service as a
consulting teacher | 18 |
| participating in a remediation
process formulated | 19 |
| under Section 24A-5 of this Code;
| 20 |
| (iv) participating in site-based management or | 21 |
| decision making teams,
relevant committees, boards, or | 22 |
| task forces directly related to school
improvement | 23 |
| plans;
| 24 |
| (v) coordinating community resources in schools, | 25 |
| if the project is a
specific goal of the school | 26 |
| improvement plan;
| 27 |
| (vi) facilitating parent education programs for a | 28 |
| school, school
district, or
regional office of | 29 |
| education directly related to student achievement or
| 30 |
| school improvement plans;
| 31 |
| (vii) participating in business, school, or | 32 |
| community partnerships
directly
related to student | 33 |
| achievement or school improvement plans; or
| 34 |
| (viii) supervising a student teacher or teacher |
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| education candidate in
clinical supervision, provided | 2 |
| that the supervision may only be counted
once during | 3 |
| the course of 5 years;
| 4 |
| (G) college or university coursework related to | 5 |
| improving the
teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher | 6 |
| as follows:
| 7 |
| (i) completing undergraduate or graduate credit | 8 |
| earned from a
regionally
accredited institution in | 9 |
| coursework relevant to the certificate area being
| 10 |
| renewed,
including coursework that incorporates | 11 |
| induction activities and
development of a portfolio of | 12 |
| both student and teacher work that
provides experience | 13 |
| in reflective practices,
provided the coursework meets | 14 |
| Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
or Illinois | 15 |
| Content Area Standards and
supports the essential | 16 |
| characteristics of quality professional development; | 17 |
| or
| 18 |
| (ii) teaching college or university courses in | 19 |
| areas relevant to the
certificate area being renewed, | 20 |
| provided that the teaching may only be
counted once | 21 |
| during the course of 5 years;
| 22 |
| (H) conferences, workshops, institutes, seminars, and
| 23 |
| symposiums related
to improving the teacher's knowledge | 24 |
| and skills as a teacher , subject to disapproval of the | 25 |
| activity or event by the State Teacher Certification Board | 26 |
| acting jointly with the State Board of Education ,
including
| 27 |
| the following:
| 28 |
| (i) completing non-university credit directly | 29 |
| related to student
achievement, school improvement | 30 |
| plans, or State priorities;
| 31 |
| (ii) participating in or presenting at workshops, | 32 |
| seminars,
conferences,
institutes, and symposiums;
| 33 |
| (iii) training as external reviewers for Quality | 34 |
| Assurance; or
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| (iv) training as reviewers of university teacher | 2 |
| preparation programs . ;
| 3 |
| A teacher, however, may not receive credit for conferences, | 4 |
| workshops, institutes, seminars, or symposiums that are | 5 |
| designed for entertainment, promotional, or commercial | 6 |
| purposes or that are solely inspirational or motivational. | 7 |
| The State Superintendent of Education and regional | 8 |
| superintendents of schools are authorized to review the | 9 |
| activities and events provided or to be provided under this | 10 |
| subdivision (H) and to investigate complaints regarding | 11 |
| those activities and events, and either the State | 12 |
| Superintendent of Education or a regional superintendent | 13 |
| of schools may recommend that the State Teacher | 14 |
| Certification Board and the State Board of Education | 15 |
| jointly disapprove those activities and events considered | 16 |
| to be inconsistent with this subdivision (H);
| 17 |
| (I) other educational experiences related to improving | 18 |
| the
teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, including | 19 |
| the following:
| 20 |
| (i) participating in action research and inquiry | 21 |
| projects;
| 22 |
| (ii) observing programs or teaching in schools, | 23 |
| related businesses, or
industry that is systematic, | 24 |
| purposeful, and relevant to certificate renewal;
| 25 |
| (iii) traveling related to one's
ones teaching | 26 |
| assignment, directly related to
student achievement or | 27 |
| school improvement plans and approved by the regional | 28 |
| superintendent of schools or his or her designee at | 29 |
| least
30 days prior to the travel experience,
provided | 30 |
| that the traveling shall not include time spent | 31 |
| commuting to
destinations where the learning | 32 |
| experience will occur;
| 33 |
| (iv) participating in study groups related to | 34 |
| student achievement or
school
improvement plans;
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| (v) serving on a statewide education-related | 2 |
| committee, including but
not
limited to the State | 3 |
| Teacher Certification Board, State Board of Education
| 4 |
| strategic agenda teams, or the State Advisory Council | 5 |
| on Education of
Children with Disabilities;
| 6 |
| (vi) participating in work/learn programs or | 7 |
| internships; or
| 8 |
| (vii) developing a portfolio of student and | 9 |
| teacher work;
| 10 |
| (J) professional leadership experiences related to | 11 |
| improving
the teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, | 12 |
| including the following:
| 13 |
| (i) participating in curriculum development or | 14 |
| assessment activities
at the
school, school district, | 15 |
| regional office of education, State, or national
| 16 |
| level;
| 17 |
| (ii) participating in team or department | 18 |
| leadership in a school or
school
district;
| 19 |
| (iii) participating on external or internal school | 20 |
| or school district
review
teams;
| 21 |
| (iv) publishing educational articles, columns, or | 22 |
| books relevant to
the
certificate area being renewed; | 23 |
| or
| 24 |
| (v) participating in non-strike related | 25 |
| professional association or
labor organization
service | 26 |
| or
activities related to professional development ; .
| 27 |
| (K) receipt of a subsequent Illinois certificate or | 28 |
| endorsement pursuant to this Article; or
| 29 |
| (L) completion of requirements for meeting the | 30 |
| Illinois criteria for becoming "highly qualified" (for | 31 |
| purposes of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public | 32 |
| Law 107-110) in an additional teaching area.
| 33 |
| (M) Successful completion of 4 semester hours of | 34 |
| graduate-level coursework on the assessment of one's own |
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| performance in relation to the Illinois Teaching | 2 |
| Standards, as described in clause (B) of paragraph (2) of | 3 |
| subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code. | 4 |
| (N) Successful completion of a minimum of 4 semester | 5 |
| hours of graduate-level coursework addressing preparation | 6 |
| to meet the requirements for certification by the National | 7 |
| Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as described in | 8 |
| clause (C) of paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Section | 9 |
| 21-2 of this Code.
| 10 |
| (4) A person must complete the requirements of this | 11 |
| subsection (e) before the expiration of his or her Standard | 12 |
| Teaching Certificate and must submit assurance to the regional | 13 |
| superintendent of schools or, if applicable, a local | 14 |
| professional development committee authorized by the regional | 15 |
| superintendent to submit recommendations to him or her for this | 16 |
| purpose. The statement of assurance shall contain a list of the | 17 |
| activities completed, the provider offering each activity, the | 18 |
| number of credits earned for each activity, and the purposes to | 19 |
| which each activity is attributed. The certificate holder shall | 20 |
| maintain the evidence of completion of each activity for at | 21 |
| least one certificate renewal cycle. The certificate holder | 22 |
| shall affirm under penalty of perjury that he or she has | 23 |
| completed the activities listed and will maintain the required | 24 |
| evidence of completion. The State Board of Education or the | 25 |
| regional superintendent of schools for each region shall | 26 |
| conduct random audits of assurance statements and supporting | 27 |
| documentation.
A certificate renewal plan must initially be | 28 |
| approved by the
certificate holder's
local professional | 29 |
| development committee, as provided for in subsection (f) of
| 30 |
| this
Section. If the local professional development committee | 31 |
| does not approve the
certificate renewal plan, the certificate | 32 |
| holder may appeal that determination
to the
regional | 33 |
| professional development review committee, as provided for in
| 34 |
| paragraph (2)
of
subsection (g) of this Section. If the |
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| regional professional development
review committee
disagrees | 2 |
| with the local professional development committee's | 3 |
| determination,
the
certificate renewal plan shall be deemed | 4 |
| approved and the certificate holder
may begin
satisfying the | 5 |
| continuing professional development activities set forth in | 6 |
| the
plan. If the
regional professional development review | 7 |
| committee agrees with the local
professional
development | 8 |
| committee's determination, the certificate renewal plan shall | 9 |
| be
deemed
disapproved and shall be returned to the certificate | 10 |
| holder to develop a
revised
certificate renewal plan. In all | 11 |
| cases, the regional professional development
review
committee | 12 |
| shall immediately notify both the local professional | 13 |
| development
committee
and
the certificate holder of its | 14 |
| determination.
| 15 |
| (5) (Blank).
A certificate holder who wishes to modify the | 16 |
| continuing professional
development activities or goals in his | 17 |
| or her certificate renewal plan must
submit the
proposed | 18 |
| modifications to his or her local professional development | 19 |
| committee
for
approval prior to engaging in the proposed | 20 |
| activities. If the local
professional
development committee | 21 |
| does not approve the proposed modification, the
certificate
| 22 |
| holder may appeal that determination to the regional | 23 |
| professional development
review
committee, as set forth in | 24 |
| paragraph (4) of this subsection (e).
| 25 |
| (6) (Blank).
When a certificate holder changes assignments | 26 |
| or school districts
during
the course of completing a | 27 |
| certificate renewal plan, the professional
development and | 28 |
| continuing education credit earned pursuant to the plan shall
| 29 |
| transfer
to the
new assignment or school district and count | 30 |
| toward the total requirements.
This certificate renewal plan | 31 |
| must be
reviewed by
the appropriate local professional | 32 |
| development committee and may be modified to
reflect the | 33 |
| certificate holder's new work assignment or the school | 34 |
| improvement
plan of
the new school district or school building.
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| (f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, a | 2 |
| school district is authorized to enter into an agreement with | 3 |
| the exclusive bargaining representative, if any, to form a | 4 |
| local professional development committee (LPDC). The | 5 |
| membership and terms of members of the LPDC may be determined | 6 |
| by the agreement. Provisions regarding LPDCs contained in a | 7 |
| collective bargaining agreement in existence on the effective | 8 |
| date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly | 9 |
| between a school district and the exclusive bargaining | 10 |
| representative shall remain in full force and effect for the | 11 |
| term of the agreement, unless terminated by mutual agreement. | 12 |
| The LPDC shall make recommendations to the regional | 13 |
| superintendent of schools on renewal of teaching certificates. | 14 |
| The regional superintendent of schools for each region
each | 15 |
| school district,
charter school, and cooperative or joint | 16 |
| agreement
with a
governing body or board of control that | 17 |
| employs certificated staff, shall
establish and implement, in
| 18 |
| conjunction with its exclusive representative, if any, one or | 19 |
| more local
professional
development committees, as set forth in | 20 |
| this subsection (f), which shall
perform
the following | 21 |
| functions:
| 22 |
| (1)
review recommendations for
and approve certificate | 23 |
| renewal , if any, received from LPDCs plans and any
| 24 |
| modifications made to these plans, including transferred | 25 |
| plans;
| 26 |
| (2) (blank);
maintain a file of approved certificate | 27 |
| renewal plans;
| 28 |
| (3) (blank);
monitor certificate holders' progress in | 29 |
| completing approved
certificate renewal plans, provided | 30 |
| that a local professional development
committee shall not | 31 |
| be
required to
maintain materials submitted by certificate | 32 |
| holders to demonstrate their
progress in
completing their | 33 |
| certificate renewal plans after the committee has reviewed | 34 |
| the
materials and the credits have been awarded;
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| (4) (blank);
assist in the development of professional | 2 |
| development plans
based upon needs identified in | 3 |
| certificate renewal plans;
| 4 |
| (5) determine whether certificate holders have met the
| 5 |
| requirements for
of their certificate renewal plans and | 6 |
| notify certificate holders
if the decision is not to renew | 7 |
| the certificate
of its determination ;
| 8 |
| (6) provide a certificate holder with the opportunity | 9 |
| to appeal a recommendation made by a LPDC, if any, not to | 10 |
| renew the certificate to the regional professional | 11 |
| development review committee
address the
committee when it | 12 |
| has determined that the certificate holder has not met
the | 13 |
| requirements of his or her certificate renewal plan ;
| 14 |
| (7) issue and forward recommendations for renewal or | 15 |
| nonrenewal
of certificate holders' Standard Teaching | 16 |
| Certificates to the State Teacher Certification Board
| 17 |
| appropriate
regional superintendent of schools, based upon | 18 |
| whether certificate holders have
met the requirements of | 19 |
| their approved certificate renewal plans, with 30-day
| 20 |
| written notice of its recommendation provided to the | 21 |
| certificate holder
prior to forwarding the recommendation | 22 |
| to the regional superintendent of
schools, provided that if | 23 |
| the local professional development committee's
| 24 |
| recommendation is for certificate nonrenewal, the written | 25 |
| notice provided
to the certificate holder shall include a | 26 |
| return receipt ; and
| 27 |
| (8) (blank).
reconsider its recommendation of | 28 |
| certificate nonrenewal, upon
request of the certificate | 29 |
| holder within 30 days of receipt of written
notification | 30 |
| that the local professional development committee will | 31 |
| make
such a recommendation, and forward to the regional | 32 |
| superintendent of schools
its recommendation within 30 | 33 |
| days of receipt of the certificate holder's
request.
| 34 |
| Each local professional development committee shall |
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| consist of at least 3
classroom teachers; one superintendent or | 2 |
| chief administrator of the school
district,
charter school, or | 3 |
| cooperative or joint agreement or his or her designee; and
one | 4 |
| at-large
member
who shall be either (i) a parent, (ii) a member | 5 |
| of the business community,
(iii) a
community member, or (iv) an | 6 |
| administrator, with preference given to an
individual
chosen | 7 |
| from among those persons listed in items (i), (ii), and (iii) | 8 |
| in order
to secure
representation of an interest not already | 9 |
| represented on the committee.
Except in a school district in a | 10 |
| city having a population exceeding 500,000,
a local
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| professional development committee shall be responsible for no | 12 |
| more than 200
certificate renewal plans annually unless | 13 |
| otherwise mutually agreed upon by the
school
district, charter | 14 |
| school, or governing body or board of control of a
cooperative | 15 |
| or joint
agreement and its exclusive representative, if any.
If
| 16 |
| mutually
agreed upon
by the school
district, charter school, or
| 17 |
| governing body or board of control of a cooperative or joint | 18 |
| agreement and its
exclusive representative, if any, additional | 19 |
| members may be added to a local
professional development | 20 |
| committee, provided that a majority of members are
classroom | 21 |
| teachers.
Except in a school district in a city having a | 22 |
| population exceeding 500,000,
if additional
members are added | 23 |
| to a local professional development committee, the maximum
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| number of certificate renewal plans for which the committee | 25 |
| shall annually be
responsible may be increased by 50 plans for | 26 |
| each additional member, unless
otherwise mutually agreed upon | 27 |
| by the school district, charter school, or
governing body
or | 28 |
| board of control of a cooperative or joint agreement and its | 29 |
| exclusive
representative,
if any.
The school district, charter | 30 |
| school, or governing body or
board of control of a cooperative | 31 |
| or joint agreement and its exclusive
representative, if any, | 32 |
| shall determine the term of service of the members of a
local | 33 |
| professional development committee. All individuals selected | 34 |
| to serve on
local professional development committees must be |
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| known to demonstrate the best
practices in teaching or their | 2 |
| respective field of practice.
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| The exclusive representative, if any, shall select the | 4 |
| classroom teacher
members of the
local professional | 5 |
| development committee. If no exclusive representative
exists, | 6 |
| then the
classroom teacher members of a local professional | 7 |
| development committee shall
be
selected by the classroom | 8 |
| teachers that come within the local professional
development
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| committee's authority. The school district, charter school, or | 10 |
| governing body
or board of
control of a cooperative or joint | 11 |
| agreement shall select the 2 non-classroom
teacher
members (the | 12 |
| superintendent or chief administrator of the school district,
| 13 |
| charter school,
or cooperative or joint agreement or his or her | 14 |
| designee and the at-large
member) of
a
local professional
| 15 |
| development committee. Vacancies in positions on a local | 16 |
| professional
development committee shall be filled in the same | 17 |
| manner as the original
selections. The members of a local | 18 |
| professional development committee shall
select a chairperson. | 19 |
| Local professional development committee meetings shall
be | 20 |
| scheduled so as not to interfere with committee members' | 21 |
| regularly scheduled
teaching duties, except when otherwise | 22 |
| permitted by the policies of or agreed
to or approved by the | 23 |
| school district, charter school, or governing body or
board of | 24 |
| control of a cooperative or joint agreement, or its designee.
| 25 |
| The board of education or governing board shall convene the | 26 |
| first meeting of
the local professional development committee. | 27 |
| All actions taken by the local
professional development | 28 |
| committee shall
require that a
majority of committee members be | 29 |
| present, and no committee action may be taken
unless
50% or | 30 |
| more of those present are teacher members.
| 31 |
| The State Board of Education and the State Teacher | 32 |
| Certification Board shall
jointly provide local professional | 33 |
| development committee members with a
training
manual, and the | 34 |
| members shall certify that they have received and read the
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| Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection | 3 |
| (f), for a teacher
employed and performing services in a | 4 |
| nonpublic or State-operated elementary or
secondary school, | 5 |
| all references to a local professional development committee
| 6 |
| shall mean the regional superintendent of schools of the | 7 |
| regional office of
education for the geographic area where the | 8 |
| teaching is done.
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| (g)(1) Each regional superintendent of schools shall | 10 |
| review and concur or
nonconcur
with each recommendation for | 11 |
| renewal or nonrenewal of a Standard Teaching
Certificate he or | 12 |
| she receives from a local professional development committee , | 13 |
| if any,
or, if
a certificate
holder appeals the recommendation | 14 |
| to the regional professional development
review committee, the
| 15 |
| recommendation for renewal or nonrenewal he or she receives | 16 |
| from a regional
professional
development review committee and, | 17 |
| within 14 days of receipt of the
recommendation,
shall
provide | 18 |
| the State Teacher Certification Board with verification of the
| 19 |
| following, if applicable:
| 20 |
| (A) the certificate holder has satisfactorily | 21 |
| completed professional development and continuing | 22 |
| education activities set forth in paragraph (3) of | 23 |
| subsection (e) of this Section;
a certificate renewal plan | 24 |
| was filed and approved by the appropriate
local
| 25 |
| professional development committee;
| 26 |
| (B) the certificate holder has submitted the statement | 27 |
| of assurance required under paragraph (4) of subsection (e) | 28 |
| of this Section, and this statement has been attached to | 29 |
| the application for renewal;
the professional development | 30 |
| and continuing education activities set
forth
in the | 31 |
| approved certificate renewal plan have been satisfactorily
| 32 |
| completed;
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| (C) the local professional development committee , if | 34 |
| any, has recommended the
renewal of the certificate |
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| holder's Standard Teaching Certificate and
forwarded the | 2 |
| recommendation , along with all supporting documentation
as | 3 |
| jointly required by the State Board of Education and the | 4 |
| State Teacher
Certification Board, to the regional | 5 |
| superintendent of schools;
| 6 |
| (D) the certificate holder has appealed his or her | 7 |
| local professional
development committee's recommendation | 8 |
| of nonrenewal , if any, to the regional
professional | 9 |
| development review committee and the result of that appeal;
| 10 |
| (E) the regional superintendent of schools has | 11 |
| concurred or nonconcurred
with
the
local professional | 12 |
| development committee's or regional professional
| 13 |
| development review committee's recommendation , if any, to | 14 |
| renew or nonrenew the
certificate holder's Standard | 15 |
| Teaching Certificate and made a
recommendation to that | 16 |
| effect; and
| 17 |
| (F) the established registration fee for the Standard | 18 |
| Teaching
Certificate has
been paid.
| 19 |
| If
At the same time the regional superintendent of schools | 20 |
| provides the State
Teacher
Certification Board with
the notice | 21 |
| required by this subsection
(g) includes a recommendation of | 22 |
| certificate nonrenewal, then, at the same time the regional | 23 |
| superintendent of schools provides the State Teacher | 24 |
| Certification Board with the notice , he or she
shall
also | 25 |
| notify the
certificate holder in writing , by certified mail, | 26 |
| return receipt requested, that
this notice has been provided to | 27 |
| the
State
Teacher
Certification Board , provided that if the
| 28 |
| notice provided by the regional
superintendent of schools
to
| 29 |
| the State Teacher Certification Board
includes a | 30 |
| recommendation of certificate
nonrenewal, the written notice | 31 |
| provided to the certificate holder shall be by
certified
mail, | 32 |
| return receipt requested .
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| (2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to appeal
| 34 |
| his or her
local
professional development committee's |
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| recommendation of nonrenewal , if any, to the
regional
| 2 |
| professional development review committee, within 14 days of | 3 |
| receipt of notice
that the
recommendation has
been sent to the | 4 |
| regional superintendent of schools. Each regional
| 5 |
| superintendent of schools shall
establish a regional | 6 |
| professional development review committee or committees
for | 7 |
| the
purpose of
advising the regional superintendent of schools, | 8 |
| upon request, and handling
certificate
holder appeals. This | 9 |
| committee shall
consist of at least 4 classroom teachers, one | 10 |
| non-administrative
certificated
educational
employee, 2 | 11 |
| administrators, and one at-large member who shall be either (i) | 12 |
| a
parent, (ii)
a member of the business community, (iii) a | 13 |
| community member, or (iv) an
administrator, with preference | 14 |
| given to an individual chosen from among those
persons
listed | 15 |
| in items (i), (ii), and (iii) in order to secure representation | 16 |
| of an
interest not already
represented on the committee. The | 17 |
| teacher and non-administrative certificated
educational | 18 |
| employee members of the review committee shall be selected by | 19 |
| their
exclusive representative, if any, and the administrators | 20 |
| and at-large member
shall be
selected by the regional | 21 |
| superintendent of schools. A regional superintendent
of | 22 |
| schools
may add additional members to the committee, provided | 23 |
| that the same proportion
of
teachers to administrators and | 24 |
| at-large members on the committee is maintained. Any
additional | 25 |
| teacher and non-administrative certificated educational | 26 |
| employee members
shall be selected by their exclusive | 27 |
| representative, if any. Vacancies in positions on a
regional | 28 |
| professional development review committee shall be filled in | 29 |
| the same manner
as the original selections. Committee members | 30 |
| shall serve staggered 3-year terms. All
individuals selected to | 31 |
| serve on regional professional development review committees
| 32 |
| must be known to demonstrate the best practices in teaching or | 33 |
| their respective
field of
practice.
| 34 |
| The exclusive representative responsible for choosing the |
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| individuals that
serve
on a regional professional development | 2 |
| review committee shall notify each
school
district, charter | 3 |
| school, or governing body or board of control of a
cooperative | 4 |
| or joint
agreement employing the individuals chosen to serve | 5 |
| and provide their names to
the
appropriate regional | 6 |
| superintendent of schools. Regional professional
development
| 7 |
| review committee meetings shall be scheduled so as not to | 8 |
| interfere with the
committee
members' regularly scheduled | 9 |
| teaching duties, except when otherwise permitted
by the
| 10 |
| policies of or agreed to or approved by the school district, | 11 |
| charter school, or
governing
body or board of control of a | 12 |
| cooperative or joint agreement, or its designee,
provided
that | 13 |
| the school district, charter school, or governing body or board | 14 |
| of control
shall not
unreasonably withhold permission for a | 15 |
| committee member to attend regional
professional development | 16 |
| review committee meetings.
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| In a city having a population exceeding 500,000 that does | 18 |
| not have a regional
office of education, one or more separate | 19 |
| regional professional development
review
committees shall be | 20 |
| established as mutually agreed upon by the board of
education | 21 |
| of
the school district organized under Article 34 of this Code | 22 |
| and the exclusive
representative. The composition of each | 23 |
| committee shall be the same as for a
regional
professional | 24 |
| development review committee, except that members of the | 25 |
| committee
shall be jointly appointed by the board of education | 26 |
| and the exclusive
representative.
All other provisions of this | 27 |
| Section concerning regional professional
development
review | 28 |
| committees shall apply to these committees.
| 29 |
| The regional professional development review committee
may
| 30 |
| require
information in addition to that received from a | 31 |
| certificate holder's local
professional
development committee | 32 |
| or request that the certificate holder appear before it,
shall
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| either concur or nonconcur with a local professional | 34 |
| development committee's
recommendation of nonrenewal, and |
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| shall forward to the regional superintendent
of
schools its | 2 |
| recommendation of renewal or nonrenewal. All actions taken by | 3 |
| the
regional
professional development review committee shall | 4 |
| require a quorum and be by a
simple
majority of those present | 5 |
| and voting.
A
record of all votes shall be maintained. The | 6 |
| committee shall have 45 days from
receipt of a
certificate | 7 |
| holder's appeal to make its recommendation to the regional
| 8 |
| superintendent of
schools.
| 9 |
| The State Board of Education and the State Teacher | 10 |
| Certification Board shall
jointly provide regional | 11 |
| professional development review committee members with
a
| 12 |
| training
manual, and the members shall be required to attend | 13 |
| one training seminar
sponsored
jointly by the State Board of | 14 |
| Education and the State Teacher Certification
Board.
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| (h)(1) The State Teacher Certification Board shall review | 16 |
| the regional
superintendent of schools' recommendations to | 17 |
| renew or nonrenew Standard
Teaching Certificates
and notify | 18 |
| certificate holders in writing whether their certificates have
| 19 |
| been renewed or
nonrenewed within 90 days of receipt of the | 20 |
| recommendations,
unless a certificate holder has appealed a | 21 |
| regional
superintendent of schools'
recommendation of | 22 |
| nonrenewal, as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection
| 23 |
| (h). The State Teacher Certification Board shall verify that | 24 |
| the
certificate holder
has met the renewal criteria set forth | 25 |
| in paragraph (1) of subsection (g) of
this Section.
| 26 |
| (2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to appeal | 27 |
| a regional
superintendent of school's recommendation to | 28 |
| nonrenew his or her Standard
Teaching Certificate
to
the State | 29 |
| Teacher Certification Board, within 14 days of receipt of | 30 |
| notice that
the
decision has been sent to the State Teacher | 31 |
| Certification Board, which shall
hold an
appeal hearing within | 32 |
| 60 days of receipt of the appeal. When such an appeal is
taken,
| 33 |
| the certificate holder's Standard Teaching Certificate shall | 34 |
| continue to be
valid until the
appeal is finally determined. |
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| The State Teacher Certification Board shall
review the
regional | 2 |
| superintendent of school's recommendation, the regional | 3 |
| professional
development review committee's recommendation, if | 4 |
| any, and the local
professional
development committee's | 5 |
| recommendation , if any, and all relevant documentation to | 6 |
| verify
whether the certificate holder has met the renewal | 7 |
| criteria set forth in
paragraph (1) of
subsection (g) of this | 8 |
| Section. The State Teacher Certification Board may
request that
| 9 |
| the certificate holder appear before it. All actions taken by | 10 |
| the State
Teacher
Certification Board shall require a quorum | 11 |
| and be by a simple majority of those
present and voting.
A | 12 |
| record of
all votes
shall be maintained. The State Teacher | 13 |
| Certification Board shall notify the
certificate
holder in | 14 |
| writing, within 7 days of completing the review, whether his or | 15 |
| her
Standard
Teaching Certificate has been renewed or | 16 |
| nonrenewed, provided that if the State
Teacher
Certification | 17 |
| Board determines to nonrenew a certificate, the written notice
| 18 |
| provided to
the certificate holder shall be by certified mail, | 19 |
| return receipt requested.
All certificate
renewal or | 20 |
| nonrenewal decisions of the State Teacher Certification Board | 21 |
| are
final and
subject to administrative review, as set forth in | 22 |
| Section 21-24 of this Code.
| 23 |
| (i) Holders of Master Teaching Certificates shall meet the | 24 |
| same
requirements
and follow the same procedures as holders of | 25 |
| Standard Teaching Certificates,
except
that their renewal | 26 |
| cycle shall be as set forth in subsection (d) of Section
21-2 | 27 |
| of this
Code and their renewal requirements shall be subject to | 28 |
| paragraph (8) of subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code .
| 29 |
| A holder of a
teaching certificate endorsed as a | 30 |
| speech-language pathologist who
has been granted the | 31 |
| Certificate of Clinical Competence by the
American | 32 |
| Speech-Language Hearing Association may renew his or her
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| Standard Teaching Certificate pursuant to the 10-year renewal | 34 |
| cycle set
forth in subsection (d) of Section 21-2 of this Code.
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| (j) Holders of Valid and Exempt Standard and Master | 2 |
| Teaching Certificates
who are not employed and performing | 3 |
| services in an Illinois public or
State-operated
elementary | 4 |
| school, secondary school, or cooperative or joint agreement | 5 |
| with a
governing body or board of control, in a certificated | 6 |
| teaching position,
may
voluntarily activate their certificates | 7 |
| through
by developing and submitting a
certificate renewal
plan | 8 |
| to the regional superintendent of schools of the regional | 9 |
| office of
education for the geographic area where their | 10 |
| teaching is done ,
who, or whose designee,
shall approve the | 11 |
| plan and serve as the certificate holder's local professional
| 12 |
| development committee . These certificate holders shall follow | 13 |
| the same renewal
criteria
and procedures as all other Standard | 14 |
| and Master Teaching Certificate holders,
except
that their | 15 |
| continuing professional development activities need not
plans | 16 |
| shall not be required to
reflect or
address the knowledge, | 17 |
| skills, and goals of a local school improvement plan.
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| (k) (Blank).
Each school district, charter school, or | 19 |
| cooperative or joint
agreement
shall
be paid an annual amount | 20 |
| of not less than $1,000, as determined by a formula
based on
| 21 |
| the number of Standard Teaching and Master Teaching Certificate | 22 |
| holders,
subject to
renewal and established by rule, not to | 23 |
| exceed $1,000,000 annually for all
school
districts, charter | 24 |
| schools, and cooperatives or joint agreements, for
| 25 |
| administrative costs
associated with conducting the meetings | 26 |
| of the local professional development
committee, as determined | 27 |
| in consultation with the committee. Each regional
office
of | 28 |
| education shall receive $2,000 annually to
pay school
| 29 |
| districts, charter schools, or cooperatives or joint | 30 |
| agreements for costs, as
defined by rule,
incurred in staff | 31 |
| attendance at regional professional development review
| 32 |
| committee
meetings and the training seminar required under | 33 |
| paragraph (2) of subsection
(g) of this
Section.
| 34 |
| (l) (Blank).
The State Board of Education and the State |
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| Teacher Certification Board
shall
jointly contract with an | 2 |
| independent party to conduct a comprehensive
evaluation
of the | 3 |
| certificate renewal system pursuant to this Section. The first
| 4 |
| report of this evaluation shall be presented to the General | 5 |
| Assembly on January
1, 2005 and on January 1 of every third | 6 |
| year thereafter.
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| (m) The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act | 8 |
| of the 93rd General Assembly that affect renewal of Standard | 9 |
| and Master Certificates shall apply to those persons who hold | 10 |
| Standard or Master Certificates on or after the effective date | 11 |
| of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and shall | 12 |
| be given effect upon renewal of those certificates.
| 13 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-510, eff. 6-1-02; 92-796, eff.
8-10-02; 93-81, | 14 |
| eff. 7-2-03.)
| 15 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-16) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-16)
| 16 |
| Sec. 21-16. Fees - Requirement for registration.
| 17 |
| (a) Until February 15, 2000, every applicant when
issued a | 18 |
| certificate shall pay to the regional superintendent of schools | 19 |
| a
fee of $1, which shall be paid into the institute fund. Every | 20 |
| certificate
issued under the provisions of this Act shall be | 21 |
| registered annually or, at
the option of the holder of the | 22 |
| certificate, once every 3 years. The
regional superintendent of | 23 |
| schools having supervision and control over the
school where | 24 |
| the teaching is done shall register the certificate before the
| 25 |
| holder begins to teach, otherwise it shall be registered in any | 26 |
| county in
the State of Illinois; and one fee of $4 per year for | 27 |
| registration or
renewal of one or more certificates which have | 28 |
| been issued to the same
holder shall be paid into the institute | 29 |
| fund.
| 30 |
| Until February 15, 2000, requirements for registration of | 31 |
| any certificate
limited in time
shall include evidence of | 32 |
| professional growth defined as successful
teaching experience | 33 |
| since last registration of certificate, attendance
at |
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| professional meetings, membership in professional | 2 |
| organizations,
additional credits earned in recognized | 3 |
| teacher-training institutions,
travel specifically for | 4 |
| educational experience, reading of professional
books and | 5 |
| periodicals, filing all reports as required by the regional
| 6 |
| superintendent of schools and the State Superintendent of | 7 |
| Education
or such other professional experience or combination | 8 |
| of experiences as
are presented by the teacher and are approved | 9 |
| by the State Superintendent
of Education in consultation with | 10 |
| the State Teacher Certification Board. A
duplicate certificate | 11 |
| may be issued to the holder of a valid life
certificate or | 12 |
| valid certificate limited in time by the State
Superintendent | 13 |
| of Education; however, it shall only be issued upon request
of | 14 |
| a regional superintendent of schools and upon payment to the | 15 |
| regional
superintendent of schools who requests such duplicate | 16 |
| a fee of $4.
| 17 |
| (b) Beginning February 15, 2000, all persons who are issued | 18 |
| Standard
Teaching
Certificates pursuant to clause (ii) of | 19 |
| paragraph (1) of
subsection
(c) of Section 21-2 and all
persons | 20 |
| who
renew Standard Teaching Certificates shall pay a $25 fee | 21 |
| for registration of
all
certificates held. All persons who are | 22 |
| issued Standard Teaching Certificates
under
clause (i) of | 23 |
| paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of Section 21-2 and all other
| 24 |
| applicants for
Standard
Teaching Certificates shall pay an | 25 |
| original application fee, pursuant to
Section 21-12,
and a $25 | 26 |
| fee for registration of all certificates held. These | 27 |
| certificates
shall be
registered and the registration fee paid | 28 |
| once every 5 years. Standard Teaching
Certificate applicants | 29 |
| and holders shall not be required to pay any other
registration | 30 |
| fees
for issuance or renewal of their certificates, except as | 31 |
| provided in Section
21-17 of this
Code. Beginning February 15, | 32 |
| 2000, Master Teaching Certificates shall be
issued
and
renewed | 33 |
| upon payment by the applicant or certificate holder of a $50 | 34 |
| fee for
registration
of all certificates held. These |
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| certificates shall be registered and the fee
paid once
every 10 | 2 |
| years. Master Teaching Certificate applicants and holders | 3 |
| shall not
be
required to pay any other application or | 4 |
| registration fees for issuance or
renewal of their
| 5 |
| certificates, except as provided in Section 21-17 of this Code. | 6 |
| All other
certificates
issued under the provisions of this Code | 7 |
| shall be registered for the validity
period of the
certificate | 8 |
| at the rate of $5 per year for the total number of years for | 9 |
| which
the certificate
is valid for registration of all | 10 |
| certificates held, or for a maximum of 5 years
for life
| 11 |
| certificates. The regional superintendent of schools having | 12 |
| supervision and
control over
the school where the teaching is | 13 |
| done shall register the certificate before the
holder
begins to | 14 |
| teach, otherwise it shall be registered in any county in the | 15 |
| State of
Illinois.
Each holder shall pay the appropriate | 16 |
| registration fee to the regional
superintendent of
schools. The | 17 |
| regional superintendent of schools shall deposit the | 18 |
| registration
fees into
the institute fund. Any certificate | 19 |
| holder who teaches in more than one
educational
service region | 20 |
| shall register the certificate or certificates in all regions
| 21 |
| where the
teaching is done, but shall be required to pay one | 22 |
| registration fee for all
certificates held,
provided holders of | 23 |
| certificates issued pursuant to Section 21-9 of this Code
shall | 24 |
| be required to pay one registration fee, in each educational | 25 |
| service
region in which his or her certificate or certificates | 26 |
| are registered, for all
certificates held.
| 27 |
| A duplicate certificate may be issued to the holder of a | 28 |
| valid life
certificate or valid
certificate limited in time by | 29 |
| the State Superintendent of Education; however,
it shall
only | 30 |
| be issued upon request of a regional superintendent of schools | 31 |
| and upon
payment
to the regional superintendent of schools who | 32 |
| requests the duplicate a fee of
$4, which
shall be deposited | 33 |
| into the institute fund.
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| The State Board of Education and each regional office of |
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| education are authorized to charge a service or convenience fee | 2 |
| for the use of credit cards for the payment of certification | 3 |
| fees. This service or convenience fee may not exceed the amount | 4 |
| required by the credit card processing company or vendor that | 5 |
| has entered into a contract with the State Board or regional | 6 |
| office of education for this purpose, and the fee must be paid | 7 |
| to that company or vendor.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 92-796, eff. 8-10-02.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/21-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-17)
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| Sec. 21-17. Fee and duplicate certificate. A duplicate
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| certificate
shall be issued by the State Superintendent of | 12 |
| Education when
requested by the regional superintendent of | 13 |
| schools as provided in Section
21-16. The request for a | 14 |
| duplicate certificate shall be accompanied by
a fee of $4, | 15 |
| which
shall be deposited into the Teacher Certificate Fee | 16 |
| Revolving Fund.
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| The State Board of Education and each regional office of | 18 |
| education are authorized to charge a service or convenience fee | 19 |
| for the use of credit cards for the payment of certification | 20 |
| fees. This service or convenience fee may not exceed the amount | 21 |
| required by the credit card processing company or vendor that | 22 |
| has entered into a contract with the State Board or regional | 23 |
| office of education for this purpose, and the fee must be paid | 24 |
| to that company or vendor.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/21-18) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-18)
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| Sec. 21-18. Registration of life certificate-Fee.
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| The holder of any life certificate, while he continues to | 29 |
| teach, shall
annually before entering upon his duties, present | 30 |
| his certificate or proper
evidence thereof to the regional
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| county superintendent of schools
for registration and pay a
fee | 32 |
| of $2, which fee shall be paid into the institute fund.
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| The State Board of Education and each regional office of | 2 |
| education are authorized to charge a service or convenience fee | 3 |
| for the use of credit cards for the payment of certification | 4 |
| fees. This service or convenience fee may not exceed the amount | 5 |
| required by the credit card processing company or vendor that | 6 |
| has entered into a contract with the State Board or regional | 7 |
| office of education for this purpose, and the fee must be paid | 8 |
| to that company or vendor.
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| (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/21-23) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23)
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| Sec. 21-23. Suspension or revocation of certificate.
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| (a) Any certificate issued pursuant to this Article, | 13 |
| including but not
limited to any administrative certificate or | 14 |
| endorsement,
may be suspended
for a
period not to exceed one | 15 |
| calendar year by the regional
superintendent or for a period | 16 |
| not to exceed 5 calendar years by the
State Superintendent of | 17 |
| Education upon evidence of immorality, a condition
of health | 18 |
| detrimental to the welfare of pupils, incompetency,
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| unprofessional conduct, the neglect of any professional duty, | 20 |
| willful
failure to report an instance of suspected child abuse | 21 |
| or neglect as
required by the Abused and Neglected Child | 22 |
| Reporting Act, failure to
establish satisfactory repayment on | 23 |
| an educational loan guaranteed by the
Illinois Student | 24 |
| Assistance Commission,
or other just cause. Unprofessional | 25 |
| conduct shall
include refusal to attend or participate in, | 26 |
| institutes, teachers' meetings,
professional readings, or to | 27 |
| meet other reasonable requirements of the
regional | 28 |
| superintendent or State Superintendent of Education. | 29 |
| Unprofessional
conduct also includes conduct that violates the | 30 |
| standards,
ethics, or rules
applicable to the security, | 31 |
| administration, monitoring, or scoring of, or the
reporting of | 32 |
| scores from, any assessment test or the Prairie State | 33 |
| Achievement
Examination administered
under Section 2-3.64 or |
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| that is known or intended to produce or report
manipulated or | 2 |
| artificial, rather than actual, assessment or achievement
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| results
or gains from the administration of those tests or | 4 |
| examinations. It shall
also include neglect or unnecessary | 5 |
| delay in making of statistical and
other reports required by | 6 |
| school officers. The regional superintendent
or State | 7 |
| Superintendent of Education shall upon receipt of evidence of
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| immorality, a condition of health detrimental to the welfare of | 9 |
| pupils,
incompetency, unprofessional conduct, the neglect of | 10 |
| any professional
duty or other just cause serve written notice | 11 |
| to the individual and
afford the individual opportunity for a | 12 |
| hearing prior to suspension. If
a hearing is requested within | 13 |
| 10 days of notice of opportunity for
hearing it shall act as a | 14 |
| stay of proceedings not to exceed 30 days , unless the | 15 |
| individual requests a delay. In such an instance, the stay of | 16 |
| proceedings must be continued for another 30 days . No
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| certificate shall be suspended until the teacher has an | 18 |
| opportunity for
a hearing at the educational service region. | 19 |
| When a certificate is
suspended, the right of appeal shall lie | 20 |
| to the State Teacher
Certification Board. When an appeal is | 21 |
| taken within 10 days after
notice of suspension it shall act as | 22 |
| a stay of proceedings not to exceed
120
60 days. If a | 23 |
| certificate is suspended for a period greater than one
year, | 24 |
| the State Superintendent of Education shall review the | 25 |
| suspension
prior to the expiration of that period to determine | 26 |
| whether the cause for
the suspension has been remedied or | 27 |
| continues to exist. Upon determining
that the cause for | 28 |
| suspension has not abated, the State Superintendent of
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| Education may order that the suspension be continued for an | 30 |
| appropriate
period. Nothing in this Section prohibits the | 31 |
| continuance of such a
suspension for an indefinite period if | 32 |
| the State Superintendent determines
that the cause for the | 33 |
| suspension remains unabated. Any certificate may be
revoked for | 34 |
| the same reasons as for suspension by the State Superintendent
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| of Education. No certificate shall be revoked until the teacher | 2 |
| has an
opportunity for a hearing before the State Teacher | 3 |
| Certification Board,
which hearing must be held within 120
60
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| days from the date the appeal is taken , unless the State | 5 |
| Teacher Certification Board requests a delay. In such an | 6 |
| instance, the stay of the revocation proceedings must be | 7 |
| continued until the completion of the proceedings .
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| The State Board may refuse to issue or may suspend the
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| certificate of any person who fails to file a return, or to pay | 10 |
| the tax,
penalty or interest shown in a filed return, or to pay | 11 |
| any final assessment
of tax, penalty or interest, as required | 12 |
| by any tax Act administered by the
Illinois Department of | 13 |
| Revenue, until such time as the requirements of any
such tax | 14 |
| Act are satisfied.
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| (b) Any certificate issued pursuant to this Article may be | 16 |
| suspended
for an appropriate length of time as determined by | 17 |
| either the regional
superintendent or State Superintendent of | 18 |
| Education upon evidence that the
holder of the certificate has | 19 |
| been named as a perpetrator in an indicated
report filed | 20 |
| pursuant to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act,
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| approved June 26, 1975, as amended, and upon proof by clear and | 22 |
| convincing
evidence that the licensee has caused a child to be | 23 |
| an abused child or
neglected child as defined in the Abused and | 24 |
| Neglected Child Reporting Act.
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| The regional superintendent or State Superintendent of | 26 |
| Education shall,
upon receipt of evidence that the certificate | 27 |
| holder has been named a
perpetrator in any indicated report, | 28 |
| serve written notice to the individual
and afford the | 29 |
| individual opportunity for a hearing prior to suspension.
If a | 30 |
| hearing is requested within 10 days of notice of opportunity | 31 |
| for
hearing, it shall act as a stay of proceedings not to | 32 |
| exceed 30 days , unless the individual requests a delay. In such | 33 |
| an instance, the stay of proceedings must be continued for | 34 |
| another 30 days . No
certificate shall be suspended until the |
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| teacher has an opportunity for
a hearing at the educational | 2 |
| service region. When a certificate is
suspended, the right of | 3 |
| appeal shall lie to the State Teacher
Certification Board. When | 4 |
| an appeal is taken within 10 days after
notice of suspension it | 5 |
| shall act as a stay of proceedings not to exceed 120
60
days. | 6 |
| The State Superintendent may revoke any certificate upon proof | 7 |
| at
hearing by clear and convincing evidence that the | 8 |
| certificate holder has
caused a child to be an abused child or | 9 |
| neglected child as defined in the
Abused and Neglected Child | 10 |
| Reporting Act. No certificate shall be revoked
until the | 11 |
| teacher has an opportunity for a hearing before the State | 12 |
| Teacher
Certification Board, which hearing must be held within | 13 |
| 120
60 days from the
date the appeal is taken , unless the | 14 |
| teacher or the hearing officer appointed by the State Teacher | 15 |
| Certification Board requests a delay. In such an instance, the | 16 |
| stay of the revocation proceedings must be continued until the | 17 |
| completion of the proceedings .
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| (c) The State Superintendent of Education or a person | 19 |
| designated by him
shall have the power to administer oaths to | 20 |
| witnesses at any hearing
conducted before the State Teacher | 21 |
| Certification Board pursuant to this
Section. The State | 22 |
| Superintendent of Education or a person designated by
him is | 23 |
| authorized to subpoena and bring before the State Teacher
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| Certification Board any person in this State and to take | 25 |
| testimony either
orally or by deposition or by exhibit, with | 26 |
| the same fees and mileage and
in the same manner as prescribed | 27 |
| by law in judicial proceedings in the
civil cases in circuit | 28 |
| courts of this State.
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| Any circuit court, upon the application of the State | 30 |
| Superintendent of
Education, may, by order duly entered, | 31 |
| require the attendance of witnesses
and the production of | 32 |
| relevant books and papers at any hearing the State
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| Superintendent of Education is authorized to conduct pursuant | 34 |
| to this Section,
and the court may compel obedience to its |
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| orders by proceedings for contempt.
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| (d) As used in this Section, "teacher" means any school | 3 |
| district employee
regularly required to be certified, as | 4 |
| provided in this Article, in order to
teach or supervise in the | 5 |
| public schools.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-610, eff. 8-6-96.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 8 |
| Section 8.28 as
follows:
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| (30 ILCS 805/8.28 new)
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| Sec. 8.28. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 11 |
| of this
Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 12 |
| implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 13 |
| the 93rd General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 15 |
| becoming law.".
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