Full Text of SB1886 94th General Assembly
SB1886sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
Filed: 4/11/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1886
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1886 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following::
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
Sections | 5 |
| 2-3.25d and 2-3.64 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25d)
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| Sec. 2-3.25d. Academic early warning and watch status.
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| (a) Only scores on State assessments of students enrolled | 9 |
| in a school
on or before the last school day in September of | 10 |
| the school year in which a
State assessment is
given or an | 11 |
| earlier date established by the federal government shall be
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| used in determining whether a school is placed on academic | 13 |
| early warning
status or academic watch status. Those schools | 14 |
| that do not meet adequate yearly progress criteria, as
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| specified by the State Board of Education, for 2 consecutive | 16 |
| annual
calculations,
shall be placed on academic early warning | 17 |
| status for the next school year.
Schools on academic early | 18 |
| warning status that do not meet adequate yearly
progress | 19 |
| criteria for a third annual calculation shall remain on | 20 |
| academic early
warning status. Schools on academic early | 21 |
| warning status that do not meet
adequate yearly progress | 22 |
| criteria for a fourth annual calculation shall be
placed
on | 23 |
| initial academic watch status. Schools on academic watch status | 24 |
| that do not
meet adequate yearly progress criteria for a fifth |
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| or subsequent annual
calculation shall remain on academic watch | 2 |
| status. Schools on academic early
warning or academic watch | 3 |
| status that meet adequate yearly progress criteria
for
one | 4 |
| annual calculation shall be acknowledged for making | 5 |
| improvement and shall
maintain their current statuses for the | 6 |
| next school year. Schools on academic
early warning or academic | 7 |
| watch status that meet adequate yearly progress
criteria for 2 | 8 |
| consecutive annual calculations shall be considered as having
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| met
expectations and shall be removed from any status | 10 |
| designation.
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| The school district of a school placed on either academic | 12 |
| early warning
status or academic watch status may appeal the | 13 |
| status to the State Board of
Education in accordance with | 14 |
| Section 2-3.25m of this Code.
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| A school district that has one or more schools on academic | 16 |
| early warning
or academic watch status shall prepare a revised | 17 |
| School Improvement Plan or
amendments thereto setting forth the | 18 |
| district's expectations for removing each
school from academic | 19 |
| early warning or academic watch status and for improving
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| student performance in the affected school or schools. | 21 |
| Districts operating
under
Article 34 of this Code may prepare | 22 |
| the School Improvement Plan required under
Section 34-2.4 of | 23 |
| this Code.
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school
that is | 25 |
| initially placed on academic early warning status
or that | 26 |
| remains on
academic early warning status after a third annual | 27 |
| calculation
must be approved by
the
school board (and by the | 28 |
| school's local school council in a district operating
under | 29 |
| Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation | 30 |
| pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code).
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school placed on | 32 |
| initial
academic watch status after a fourth annual calculation | 33 |
| must be approved by the
school board (and by the school's local | 34 |
| school council in a district operating
under Article 34 of this |
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| Code, unless the school is on probation pursuant to
subsection | 2 |
| (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code) and the State | 3 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school that | 5 |
| remains on
academic watch status after a fifth annual | 6 |
| calculation must be approved by the
school board (and by the | 7 |
| school's local school council in a district operating
under | 8 |
| Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation | 9 |
| pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code) and | 10 |
| the State Superintendent of Education.
In addition, the | 11 |
| district must develop a school restructuring plan for the
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| school that
must
be approved by the school board (and by the | 13 |
| school's local school council in a
district operating under | 14 |
| Article 34 of this Code) and subsequently approved by
the State | 15 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| A school on academic watch status that does not meet | 17 |
| adequate yearly
progress criteria for a sixth annual | 18 |
| calculation shall implement its approved
school restructuring | 19 |
| plan beginning with the next school year, subject to the
State
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| interventions specified in Section 2-3.25f of this Code.
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| (b) Those school districts that do not meet adequate yearly | 22 |
| progress
criteria, as specified by the State Board of | 23 |
| Education, for 2 consecutive
annual
calculations, shall be | 24 |
| placed on academic early warning status for the next
school | 25 |
| year. Districts on academic early warning status that do not | 26 |
| meet
adequate yearly progress criteria for a third annual | 27 |
| calculation shall remain
on
academic early warning status. | 28 |
| Districts on academic early warning status that
do not meet | 29 |
| adequate yearly progress criteria for a fourth annual | 30 |
| calculation
shall
be placed on initial academic watch status. | 31 |
| Districts on academic watch status
that do not meet adequate | 32 |
| yearly progress criteria for a fifth or subsequent
annual | 33 |
| calculation shall remain on academic watch status. Districts on | 34 |
| academic
early warning or academic watch status that meet |
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| adequate yearly progress
criteria for one annual calculation | 2 |
| shall be acknowledged for making
improvement and shall maintain | 3 |
| their current statuses for the next school year.
Districts on | 4 |
| academic early warning or academic watch status that meet | 5 |
| adequate
yearly progress criteria for 2 consecutive annual | 6 |
| calculations shall be
considered
as having met expectations and | 7 |
| shall be removed from any status designation.
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| A district placed on either academic early warning status | 9 |
| or academic
watch status may appeal the status to the State | 10 |
| Board of Education in
accordance with Section 2-3.25m of this | 11 |
| Code.
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| Districts on academic early warning or academic watch | 13 |
| status shall
prepare a District Improvement Plan or amendments | 14 |
| thereto setting forth the
district's expectations for removing | 15 |
| the district from academic early warning
or
academic watch | 16 |
| status and for improving student performance in the district.
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| The
District Improvement Plan for a district that is | 18 |
| initially placed on academic
early
warning status must be | 19 |
| approved by the school board.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district that | 21 |
| remains on
academic early warning status after a third annual | 22 |
| calculation must be approved
by the school board.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district on | 24 |
| initial academic
watch
status after a fourth annual calculation | 25 |
| must be approved by the school board
and the State | 26 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district that | 28 |
| remains on
academic watch status after a fifth annual | 29 |
| calculation must be approved by the
school board and the State | 30 |
| Superintendent of Education. In addition, the
district must
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| develop a district restructuring plan that must be approved by | 32 |
| the school
board and the State Superintendent of Education.
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| A district on academic watch status that does not meet | 34 |
| adequate yearly
progress criteria for a sixth annual |
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| calculation shall implement its approved
district | 2 |
| restructuring plan beginning with the next school year, subject | 3 |
| to
the State
interventions specified in Section 2-3.25f of this | 4 |
| Code.
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| (c) All revised School and District Improvement Plans shall | 6 |
| be developed
in collaboration with staff in the affected school | 7 |
| or school district. All
revised
School and District Improvement | 8 |
| Plans shall be developed, submitted, and
approved pursuant to | 9 |
| rules adopted by the State Board of Education. The
revised | 10 |
| Improvement Plan shall address measurable outcomes for | 11 |
| improving
student performance so that such performance meets | 12 |
| adequate yearly progress
criteria as specified by the State | 13 |
| Board of Education.
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| (d) All federal requirements apply to schools and school | 15 |
| districts utilizing
federal funds under Title I, Part A of the | 16 |
| federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965. | 17 |
| (e) The State Board of Education, from any moneys it may | 18 |
| have available for this purpose, must implement
and administer | 19 |
| a grant
program that provides 2-year grants to school districts | 20 |
| on the academic watch
list and other school districts that have | 21 |
| the lowest achieving students, as
determined by the State Board | 22 |
| of Education, to be
used to improve student achievement.
In | 23 |
| order
to receive a
grant under this program, a school district | 24 |
| must establish an accountability
program. The
accountability | 25 |
| program must involve the use of statewide testing standards and
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| local
evaluation measures. A grant shall be automatically | 27 |
| renewed when achievement
goals are met. The Board may adopt any | 28 |
| rules necessary to implement and
administer this grant program.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-470, eff. 8-8-03; 93-890, eff. 8-9-04.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.64) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.64)
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| Sec. 2-3.64. State goals and assessment.
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| (a) Beginning in the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board | 33 |
| of Education
shall establish standards and periodically, in |
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| collaboration with local school
districts, conduct studies of | 2 |
| student performance in the learning areas of fine
arts and | 3 |
| physical development/health.
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| Beginning with the 1998-1999 school
year until the | 5 |
| 2004-2005 school year, the State Board of
Education shall | 6 |
| annually test: (i) all pupils enrolled
in the 3rd, 5th, and 8th | 7 |
| grades in English language arts (reading, writing, and
English | 8 |
| grammar) and mathematics; and (ii) all pupils enrolled in the | 9 |
| 4th and
7th grades in the biological and physical sciences and | 10 |
| the social sciences
(history, geography, civics, economics, | 11 |
| and government).
Unless the testing required to be implemented | 12 |
| no later than the 2005-2006 school year under this subsection | 13 |
| (a) is implemented for the 2004-2005 school year, for the | 14 |
| 2004-2005 school year, the State Board of
Education shall test: | 15 |
| (i) all pupils enrolled
in the 3rd, 5th, and 8th grades in | 16 |
| English language arts (reading and
English grammar) and | 17 |
| mathematics and (ii) all pupils enrolled in the 4th and
7th | 18 |
| grades in the biological and physical sciences. The maximum | 19 |
| time allowed for all actual testing required under this
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| paragraph shall not exceed 25 hours, as allocated among the | 21 |
| required
tests by the State Board of Education, across all | 22 |
| grades tested.
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| Beginning no later than the 2005-2006 school year, the | 24 |
| State
Board of Education shall annually test: (i) all pupils | 25 |
| enrolled in the 3rd,
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades in | 26 |
| reading and mathematics and (ii) all pupils
enrolled in the 4th | 27 |
| and 7th grades in the biological and physical
sciences. After | 28 |
| the addition of grades and change in subjects as delineated in | 29 |
| this paragraph and including whatever other
tests that may be | 30 |
| approved from time to time no later than the
2005-2006 school | 31 |
| year, the maximum time allowed for all State testing in
grades | 32 |
| 3 through 8 shall not exceed 38 hours across those grades.
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| Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, the State Board | 34 |
| of Education shall not test pupils under this subsection (a) in |
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| writing, physical development and health, fine arts, and the | 2 |
| social sciences (history, geography, civics, economics, and | 3 |
| government).
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| The State Board of
Education shall establish the academic | 5 |
| standards that are to be applicable to
pupils who are subject | 6 |
| to State tests under this Section beginning with the
1998-1999 | 7 |
| school year. However, the State Board of Education shall not
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| establish any such standards in final form without first | 9 |
| providing
opportunities for public participation and local | 10 |
| input in the development
of the final academic standards. Those | 11 |
| opportunities shall include a
well-publicized period of public | 12 |
| comment, public hearings throughout the State,
and | 13 |
| opportunities to file written comments. Beginning with the | 14 |
| 1998-99 school
year and thereafter, the State tests will | 15 |
| identify pupils in the 3rd grade or
5th grade who do not meet | 16 |
| the State standards.
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| If, by performance on the State
tests or local assessments | 18 |
| or by teacher judgment, a student's performance is
determined | 19 |
| to be 2 or more grades below current placement, the student | 20 |
| shall be
provided a remediation program developed by the | 21 |
| district in consultation with a
parent or guardian. Such | 22 |
| remediation programs may include, but shall not be
limited to, | 23 |
| increased or concentrated instructional time, a remedial | 24 |
| summer
school program of not less than 90 hours, improved | 25 |
| instructional approaches,
tutorial sessions, retention in | 26 |
| grade, and modifications to instructional
materials. Each | 27 |
| pupil for whom a remediation program is developed under this
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| subsection shall be required to enroll in and attend whatever | 29 |
| program the
district determines is appropriate for the pupil. | 30 |
| Districts may combine
students in remediation programs where | 31 |
| appropriate and may cooperate with other
districts in the | 32 |
| design and delivery of those programs. The parent or guardian
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| of a student required to attend a remediation program under | 34 |
| this Section shall
be given written notice of that requirement |
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| by the school district a reasonable
time prior to commencement | 2 |
| of the remediation program that the student is to
attend. The | 3 |
| State shall be responsible for providing school districts with | 4 |
| the
new and additional funding, under Section 2-3.51.5 or by | 5 |
| other or additional
means, that is required to enable the | 6 |
| districts to operate remediation programs
for the pupils who | 7 |
| are required to enroll in and attend those programs under
this | 8 |
| Section. Every individualized educational program as described | 9 |
| in Article
14 shall identify if the State test or components | 10 |
| thereof are appropriate for
that student. The State Board of | 11 |
| Education shall develop rules and
regulations governing the | 12 |
| administration of alternative tests prescribed within
each | 13 |
| student's individualized educational program which are | 14 |
| appropriate to the
disability of each student.
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| All pupils who are in a State approved
transitional | 16 |
| bilingual education program or transitional program of | 17 |
| instruction
shall participate in the State
tests. Any student | 18 |
| who has been enrolled in a
State approved bilingual education | 19 |
| program less than 3 cumulative academic
years may take an | 20 |
| accommodated State test, to be known as the Illinois
Measure of | 21 |
| Annual Growth in English
(IMAGE), if the student's lack of | 22 |
| English as determined by an English
language
proficiency test | 23 |
| would keep the student from understanding the regular
State | 24 |
| test. If the
school district determines, on a case-by-case | 25 |
| individual basis,
that IMAGE would likely yield more accurate | 26 |
| and reliable information on
what the student knows and can do, | 27 |
| the school district may make a
determination to assess the | 28 |
| student using IMAGE for a period that does
not exceed 2 | 29 |
| additional consecutive years, provided that the student has
not | 30 |
| yet reached a level of English language proficiency sufficient | 31 |
| to yield
valid and reliable information on what the student | 32 |
| knows and can do on
the regular State test.
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| Reasonable accommodations as prescribed by
the State Board | 34 |
| of Education shall be provided for individual students in the
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| testing procedure. All test procedures prescribed by the State | 2 |
| Board of
Education shall require: (i) that each test used for | 3 |
| State and local student
testing under this Section identify by | 4 |
| name the pupil taking the test; (ii)
that the name of the pupil | 5 |
| taking the test be placed on the test at the time
the test is | 6 |
| taken; (iii) that the results or scores of each test taken | 7 |
| under
this Section by a pupil of the school district be | 8 |
| reported to that district within the same school year in which | 9 |
| the test was taken and
identify by name the pupil who received | 10 |
| the reported results or scores; and
(iv) that the results or | 11 |
| scores of each test taken under this Section be made
available | 12 |
| to the parents of the pupil. In addition, in each school year | 13 |
| the highest
scores
attained by
a student on the Prairie State | 14 |
| Achievement
Examination administered under subsection (c) of | 15 |
| this Section and any Prairie
State Achievement Awards received | 16 |
| by the student shall become part
of the student's permanent | 17 |
| record and shall be entered on the student's
transcript | 18 |
| pursuant to regulations that the State Board of Education shall
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| promulgate for that purpose in accordance with Section 3 and | 20 |
| subsection (e) of
Section 2 of the Illinois School Student | 21 |
| Records Act. Beginning with the
1998-1999 school year and in | 22 |
| every school year thereafter, scores received by
students on | 23 |
| the State assessment tests administered in grades 3 through 8 | 24 |
| shall
be placed into students' temporary records.
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| The State Board of Education shall
establish a
period of | 26 |
| time, to be referred to as the State test window, in each | 27 |
| school year for which State
testing shall occur to meet the | 28 |
| objectives of this Section. However, if the
schools of a | 29 |
| district are closed and classes are not scheduled during any | 30 |
| week
that is established by the State Board of Education as the | 31 |
| State test
window, the school district may
(at the discretion | 32 |
| of the State Board of Education) move its State test
window one | 33 |
| week earlier or one week later than the established State test
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| window, so long as
the school district gives the State Board of |
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| Education written notice of its
intention to deviate from the | 2 |
| established schedule by December 1 of the school
year in which | 3 |
| falls the State test window established by the State
Board of | 4 |
| Education for
the testing.
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| (a-5) All tests administered pursuant to this Section shall | 6 |
| be academically
based. For the purposes of this Section | 7 |
| "academically based tests" shall mean
tests consisting of | 8 |
| questions and answers that are measurable and quantifiable
to | 9 |
| measure the knowledge, skill, and ability of students in the | 10 |
| subject matters
covered by tests. The scoring of academically | 11 |
| based tests shall be reliable,
valid, unbiased and shall meet | 12 |
| the guidelines for test development and use
prescribed by the | 13 |
| American Psychological Association, the National Council of
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| Measurement and Evaluation, and the American Educational | 15 |
| Research Association.
Academically based tests shall not | 16 |
| include assessments or evaluations of
attitudes, values, or | 17 |
| beliefs, or testing of personality, self-esteem, or
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| self-concept. Nothing in this amendatory Act is intended, nor | 19 |
| shall it be
construed, to nullify, supersede, or contradict the | 20 |
| legislative intent on
academic testing expressed during the | 21 |
| passage of HB 1005/P.A. 90-296.
Nothing in this Section is | 22 |
| intended, nor shall it be construed, to nullify,
supersede, or | 23 |
| contradict the legislative intent on academic testing
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| expressed in the preamble of this amendatory Act of the 93rd | 25 |
| General
Assembly.
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| The State Board of Education shall monitor the use of
short | 27 |
| answer
questions in the math
and reading assessments or in | 28 |
| other assessments in order to demonstrate that the use of short
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| answer questions results in a statistically significant | 30 |
| improvement in student
achievement as measured on the State | 31 |
| assessments for math and reading or on
other State assessments | 32 |
| and is
justifiable in terms of cost and student performance.
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| (b) It shall be the policy of the State to encourage school | 34 |
| districts
to continuously test pupil proficiency in the |
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| fundamental learning areas in
order to: (i) provide timely | 2 |
| information on individual students' performance
relative to | 3 |
| State standards that is adequate to guide instructional | 4 |
| strategies;
(ii) improve future instruction; and (iii) | 5 |
| complement the information provided
by the State testing system | 6 |
| described in this Section. Each district's school
improvement | 7 |
| plan must address specific activities the district intends to
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| implement to assist pupils who by teacher judgment and test | 9 |
| results as
prescribed in subsection (a) of this Section | 10 |
| demonstrate that they are not
meeting State standards or local | 11 |
| objectives. Such activities may include, but
shall not be | 12 |
| limited to, summer school, extended school day, special | 13 |
| homework,
tutorial sessions, modified instructional materials, | 14 |
| other modifications in the
instructional program, reduced | 15 |
| class size or retention in grade. To assist
school districts in | 16 |
| testing pupil proficiency in reading in the primary grades,
the | 17 |
| State Board shall make optional reading inventories for | 18 |
| diagnostic purposes
available to each school district that | 19 |
| requests such assistance. Districts
that administer the | 20 |
| reading inventories may develop remediation programs for
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| students who perform in the bottom half of the student | 22 |
| population. Those
remediation programs may be funded by moneys | 23 |
| provided under the School Safety
and Educational Improvement | 24 |
| Block Grant Program established under Section
2-3.51.5. | 25 |
| Nothing in this Section shall prevent school districts from
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| implementing testing and remediation policies for grades not | 27 |
| required under
this Section.
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| (c) Beginning with the 2000-2001 school year, each school | 29 |
| district that
operates a high school program for students in | 30 |
| grades 9 through 12 shall
annually administer the Prairie State | 31 |
| Achievement Examination
established under this subsection to | 32 |
| its students as set forth
below. The Prairie State Achievement | 33 |
| Examination shall be developed by
the State Board of Education | 34 |
| to measure student performance in the academic
areas of |
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| reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social sciences. | 2 |
| Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, however, the State | 3 |
| Board of Education shall not test a student in writing and the | 4 |
| social sciences (history, geography, civics, economics, and | 5 |
| government) as part of the Prairie State Achievement | 6 |
| Examination unless the student is retaking the Prairie State | 7 |
| Achievement Examination in the fall of 2004. The
State Board of | 8 |
| Education shall establish the academic standards that are to
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| apply in measuring student performance on the Prairie State | 10 |
| Achievement
Examination including the minimum examination | 11 |
| score in each area that will
qualify a student to receive a | 12 |
| Prairie State Achievement Award from the State
in recognition | 13 |
| of the student's excellent performance. Each school district
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| that is subject to the requirements of this subsection (c) | 15 |
| shall afford all
students 2 opportunities to take the Prairie | 16 |
| State Achievement Examination
beginning as late as practical | 17 |
| during the second semester of grade 11, but in
no event before | 18 |
| March 1. The State Board of Education shall annually notify
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| districts of the weeks during which these test administrations | 20 |
| shall be
required to occur. Every individualized educational | 21 |
| program as described in
Article 14 shall identify if the | 22 |
| Prairie State Achievement Examination or
components thereof | 23 |
| are appropriate for that student. Each student, exclusive of
a | 24 |
| student whose individualized educational program developed | 25 |
| under Article 14
identifies the Prairie State Achievement | 26 |
| Examination as inappropriate for the
student, shall be required | 27 |
| to take the examination in grade 11. For each
academic area the | 28 |
| State Board of Education shall establish the score that
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| qualifies for the Prairie State Achievement Award on that | 30 |
| portion of the
examination. Any student who fails to earn a | 31 |
| qualifying score for a Prairie
State Achievement Award in any | 32 |
| one or more of the academic areas on the initial
test | 33 |
| administration or who wishes to improve his or her score on any | 34 |
| portion of
the examination shall be permitted to retake such |
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| portion or portions of the
examination during grade 12. | 2 |
| Districts shall inform their students of the
timelines and | 3 |
| procedures applicable to their participation in every yearly
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| administration of the Prairie State Achievement Examination. | 5 |
| Students
receiving special education services whose | 6 |
| individualized educational programs
identify the Prairie State | 7 |
| Achievement Examination as inappropriate for them
nevertheless | 8 |
| shall have the option of taking the examination, which shall be
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| administered to those students in accordance with standards | 10 |
| adopted by the
State Board of Education to accommodate the | 11 |
| respective disabilities of those
students. A student who | 12 |
| successfully completes all other applicable high
school | 13 |
| graduation requirements but fails to receive a score on the | 14 |
| Prairie
State Achievement Examination that qualifies the | 15 |
| student for receipt of a
Prairie State Achievement Award shall | 16 |
| nevertheless qualify for the receipt
of a regular high school | 17 |
| diploma. In no case, however, shall a student receive a regular | 18 |
| high school diploma without taking the Prairie State | 19 |
| Achievement Examination, unless the student is exempted from | 20 |
| taking the Prairie State Achievement Examination under this | 21 |
| subsection (c) because the student's individualized | 22 |
| educational program developed under Article 14 of this Code | 23 |
| identifies the Prairie State Achievement Examination as | 24 |
| inappropriate for the student, (ii) the student is exempt due | 25 |
| to the student's lack of English language proficiency under | 26 |
| subsection (a) of this Section, or (iii) the student is | 27 |
| enrolled in a program of Adult and Continuing Education as | 28 |
| defined in the Adult Education Act.
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| (d) Beginning with the 2002-2003 school year, all schools | 30 |
| in this
State that are part of the sample drawn by the National | 31 |
| Center for
Education Statistics, in collaboration with their | 32 |
| school districts and the
State Board of Education, shall | 33 |
| administer the biennial State academic
assessments of 4th and | 34 |
| 8th grade reading and mathematics under the
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| of Educational Progress carried out under Section
m11(b)(2) of | 2 |
| the National Education Statistics Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C.
9010) | 3 |
| if the Secretary of Education pays the costs of administering | 4 |
| the
assessments.
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| (e) Beginning no later than the 2005-2006 school year, | 6 |
| subject to
available federal funds to this State for the | 7 |
| purpose of student
assessment, the State Board of Education | 8 |
| shall provide additional tests
and assessment resources that | 9 |
| may be used by school districts for local
diagnostic purposes. | 10 |
| These tests and resources shall include without
limitation | 11 |
| additional high school writing, physical development and
| 12 |
| health, and fine arts assessments. The State Board of Education | 13 |
| shall
annually distribute a listing of these additional tests | 14 |
| and resources,
using funds available from appropriations made | 15 |
| for student assessment
purposes.
| 16 |
| (f) For the assessment and accountability purposes of this | 17 |
| Section,
"all pupils" includes those pupils enrolled in a | 18 |
| public or
State-operated elementary school, secondary school, | 19 |
| or cooperative or
joint agreement with a governing body or | 20 |
| board of control, a charter
school operating in compliance with | 21 |
| the Charter Schools Law, a school
operated by a regional office | 22 |
| of education under Section 13A-3 of this
Code, or a public | 23 |
| school administered by a local public agency or the
Department | 24 |
| of Human Services.
| 25 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-604, eff. 7-1-02; 93-426, eff. 8-5-03; 93-838, | 26 |
| eff. 7-30-04; 93-857, eff. 8-3-04; revised 10-25-04.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 28 |
| becoming law.".
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