Full Text of HB5000 95th General Assembly
HB5000eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 |
| Children's Low-cost Laptop Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Policy and purpose. The General Assembly finds | 7 |
| that the decreasing cost of computer technology makes it | 8 |
| possible today to equip more children than ever before with | 9 |
| 21st century learning tools. The dramatic expansion of low-cost | 10 |
| computing options and the worldwide reliance on computer | 11 |
| technology for commerce, education, information, and social | 12 |
| interaction makes it ever more important to introduce computing | 13 |
| skills to students at an early age. Accordingly, the State | 14 |
| Board of Education shall establish a pilot project to provide a | 15 |
| low-cost laptop computer to each student, teacher, and relevant | 16 |
| administrator in a participating elementary school and | 17 |
| implement the use of educational software and computer skills | 18 |
| training in order to improve academic achievement and the | 19 |
| progress measures listed in subsection (a) of Section 20 in | 20 |
| this Act. | 21 |
| Section 10. Definitions. In this Act: | 22 |
| "Elementary school" means any school that maintains grades |
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| one through 6. | 2 |
| "Low-cost laptop" means a portable personal computer | 3 |
| suitable for use among elementary school-aged children, under | 4 |
| $400 in initial cost.
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| "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
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| Section 15. Pilot project; Elementary Students' Low-cost | 7 |
| Laptop Fund.
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| (a) The State Board shall provide for the administration of | 9 |
| a low-cost laptop pilot project. The pilot project shall be for | 10 |
| a period of at least 2 years. In administering the pilot | 11 |
| project, the State Board shall: | 12 |
| (1) select participating elementary schools; | 13 |
| (2) define the conditions for the distribution and use | 14 |
| of laptop computers and other technologies; | 15 |
| (3) coordinate a statewide grant program to purchase | 16 |
| and distribute laptop computers and other technologies; | 17 |
| (4) monitor local pilot project implementation; and | 18 |
| (5) conduct a final evaluation of the pilot project. | 19 |
| (b) The Elementary Students' Low-Cost Laptop Fund is | 20 |
| created as a special fund in the State treasury. All money in | 21 |
| this Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation, by the State | 22 |
| Board for the pilot project. To implement the pilot project, | 23 |
| the State Board may use any funds appropriated by the General | 24 |
| Assembly for the purposes of the pilot project, as well as any | 25 |
| gift, grant, or donation given for the pilot project. The State |
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| Board may solicit and accept a gift, grant, or donation of any | 2 |
| kind from any source, including from a foundation, private | 3 |
| entity, governmental entity, or institution of higher | 4 |
| education, for the implementation of the pilot project. Funds | 5 |
| for the pilot project may not be used for the construction of a | 6 |
| building or other facility.
The State Board shall use pilot | 7 |
| project funds for the following: | 8 |
| (1) low-cost laptop computers; | 9 |
| (2) replacements for any of the following low-cost | 10 |
| laptop components: batteries, power cords, or other | 11 |
| software and hardware; and | 12 |
| (3) the hiring of staff to administer professional | 13 |
| development and technical support for participating | 14 |
| teachers; for the purposes of this item (3), "professional | 15 |
| development" means the training of certified teaching | 16 |
| professionals in the integration of low-cost laptop | 17 |
| computers into the classroom curriculum.
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| The State Board may not allocate more than $100 million for | 19 |
| the pilot project. The pilot project may be implemented only if | 20 |
| sufficient funds are available under this Section for that | 21 |
| purpose. | 22 |
| Section 20. Program participation requirements.
A school | 23 |
| or district may apply to the State Board for the establishment | 24 |
| of a low-cost laptop pilot project grant for an entire school | 25 |
| or for a particular grade or group of classrooms in a school. |
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| The State Board shall select up to 300 schools to | 2 |
| participate in the pilot project. At least one-third of the | 3 |
| selected schools shall be located in the City of Chicago; at | 4 |
| least one-third shall be located in the area that makes up the | 5 |
| counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will, and that portion | 6 |
| of Cook County that is
located outside of the City of Chicago; | 7 |
| and at least one-third shall be located in the remainder of the | 8 |
| State.
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| The State Board shall select the participating districts or | 10 |
| schools for the pilot project based on each district's or | 11 |
| school's need for the pilot project. In selecting participants, | 12 |
| the State Board shall consider each school's: | 13 |
| (1) free and reduced lunch eligible student | 14 |
| population; | 15 |
| (2) access to educational technology resources; | 16 |
| (3) rate of satisfactory performance on standardized | 17 |
| tests; | 18 |
| (4) readiness to incorporate technology into its | 19 |
| classrooms; | 20 |
| (5) availability of technology support staff and | 21 |
| professional development funds; and | 22 |
| (6) planned methods of measuring the progress of the | 23 |
| pilot project. | 24 |
| Section 25. Reporting.
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| (a) The school board of each school participating in the |
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| pilot project shall send an annual progress report to the State | 2 |
| Board no later than August 1 of each year that the school is | 3 |
| participating in the pilot project. The report must include the | 4 |
| project's effect on: | 5 |
| (1) academic progress of students who are | 6 |
| participating in the pilot project, as measured by
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| performance on assessment instruments; | 8 |
| (2) student progress in schools or classrooms | 9 |
| participating in the pilot project as compared with
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| progress in schools or classrooms not participating; | 11 |
| (3) student performance on assessment instruments | 12 |
| required by the State Board; | 13 |
| (4) school cost savings on textbook or other purchases | 14 |
| replaced by laptop abilities; | 15 |
| (5) attendance rates; | 16 |
| (6) teacher performance and retention; | 17 |
| (7) communications among students, teachers, parents, | 18 |
| and administrators; | 19 |
| (8) parental involvement in education; | 20 |
| (9) community involvement and support for the school; | 21 |
| and | 22 |
| (10) student proficiency in technologies or "computer | 23 |
| literacy". | 24 |
| (b) Each school or district participating in the grant | 25 |
| pilot project shall determine how the low-cost laptops are | 26 |
| assigned and retained. |
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| (c) After the expiration of the pilot project, the State | 2 |
| Board shall review the project based on the annual reports the | 3 |
| State Board receives from the school board of participating | 4 |
| school districts. | 5 |
| Section 27. No authority to make or promulgate rules. | 6 |
| Notwithstanding any other rulemaking authority that may exist, | 7 |
| neither the Governor nor any agency or agency head under the | 8 |
| jurisdiction of the Governor has any authority to make or | 9 |
| promulgate rules to implement or enforce the provisions of this | 10 |
| Act. If, however, the Governor believes that rules are | 11 |
| necessary to implement or enforce the provisions of this Act, | 12 |
| the Governor may suggest rules to the General Assembly by | 13 |
| filing them with the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the | 14 |
| Senate and by requesting that the General Assembly authorize | 15 |
| such rulemaking by law, enact those suggested rules into law, | 16 |
| or take any other appropriate action in the General Assembly's | 17 |
| discretion. Nothing contained in this Act shall be interpreted | 18 |
| to grant rulemaking authority under any other Illinois statute | 19 |
| where such authority is not otherwise explicitly given. For the | 20 |
| purposes of this Act, "rules" is given the meaning contained in | 21 |
| Section 1-70 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, and | 22 |
| "agency" and "agency head" are given the meanings contained in | 23 |
| Sections 1-20 and 1-25 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure | 24 |
| Act to the extent that such definitions apply to agencies or | 25 |
| agency heads under the jurisdiction of the Governor. |
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| Section 30. Repeal. This Act is repealed on August 31, | 2 |
| 2011. | 3 |
| Section 90. The State Finance Act is amended by adding | 4 |
| Section 5.708 as follows: | 5 |
| (30 ILCS 105/5.708 new) | 6 |
| Sec. 5.708. The Elementary Students' Low-cost Laptop Fund. | 7 |
| This Section is repealed on August 31, 2011.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.
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