Full Text of HB5077 95th General Assembly
HB5077ham001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Mar 12, 2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5077
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5077 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 10-17a as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
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| Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability.
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| (1) Policy and
Purpose. It shall be the policy of the State | 9 |
| of Illinois that each school
district in this State, including | 10 |
| special charter districts and districts
subject to the | 11 |
| provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents, taxpayers
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| such district, the Governor, the General Assembly, and the | 13 |
| State
Board of Education a school report card assessing the | 14 |
| performance of its
schools and students. The report card shall | 15 |
| be an index of school
performance measured against statewide | 16 |
| and local standards and will provide
information to make prior |
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| year comparisons and to set future year targets
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| school improvement plan.
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| (2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall | 4 |
| prepare a report
card in accordance with the guidelines set | 5 |
| forth in this Section which
describes the performance of its | 6 |
| students by school attendance centers and
by district , its | 7 |
| teachers, and the district's financial resources and use of | 8 |
| financial
resources. Such report
card shall be presented at a | 9 |
| regular school board meeting subject to
applicable notice | 10 |
| requirements,
posted on the
school district's Internet web | 11 |
| site, if the district maintains an Internet web
site,
made | 12 |
| available
to a newspaper of general circulation serving the | 13 |
| district, and, upon
request, sent
home to a parent (unless the | 14 |
| district does not maintain an Internet web site,
in which case
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| the report card shall be sent home to parents without request). | 16 |
| If the
district posts the report card on its Internet web
site, | 17 |
| the district
shall send a
written notice home to parents | 18 |
| stating (i) that the report card is available on
the web site,
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| (ii) the address of the web site, (iii) that a printed copy of | 20 |
| the report card
will be sent to
parents upon request, and (iv) | 21 |
| the telephone number that parents may
call to
request a printed | 22 |
| copy of the report card.
In addition, each school district | 23 |
| shall submit the
completed report card to the office of the | 24 |
| district's Regional
Superintendent which shall make copies | 25 |
| available to any individuals
requesting them.
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| The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior |
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| to October 31
in each school year. The report card shall | 2 |
| contain, but
not be limited to, actual local school attendance | 3 |
| center, school district
and statewide data indicating the | 4 |
| present performance of the school, the
State norms and the | 5 |
| areas for planned improvement for the school and school
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| district.
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| (3) (a) The report card shall include the following | 8 |
| applicable
indicators of attendance center, district, and | 9 |
| statewide student
performance: percent of students who exceed, | 10 |
| meet, or do not meet
standards established by the
State Board | 11 |
| of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a; composite and subtest
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| means on
nationally normed achievement tests for
college bound | 13 |
| students; student attendance rates; chronic
truancy rate; | 14 |
| dropout rate;
graduation rate;
and student
mobility, turnover
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| shown as a percent of transfers out and a percent of transfers | 16 |
| in.
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| (b) The report card shall include the following | 18 |
| descriptions for the
school,
district, and State: average
class | 19 |
| size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics, science,
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| English and social science at primary,
middle and junior high | 21 |
| school grade levels;
number of students taking the Prairie | 22 |
| State Achievement Examination under
subsection (c) of
Section | 23 |
| 2-3.64, the number of those students who received a score of | 24 |
| excellent,
and
the average score by school of students taking | 25 |
| the examination;
pupil-teacher ratio; pupil-administrator | 26 |
| ratio;
operating expenditure per
pupil; district expenditure |
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| by fund; average administrator salary; and average
teacher | 2 |
| salary ; and the number of teachers who hold a Master | 3 |
| Certificate .
The report card shall also specify the amount of | 4 |
| money that the district
receives from all sources, including | 5 |
| without limitation subcategories
specifying the amount from | 6 |
| local property taxes, the amount from
general State aid, the | 7 |
| amount from other State funding, and the amount
from other | 8 |
| income.
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| (c) The report card shall include applicable indicators of | 10 |
| parental
involvement in each attendance center. The parental | 11 |
| involvement component
of the report card shall include the | 12 |
| percentage of students whose parents
or guardians have had one | 13 |
| or more personal contacts with the students'
teachers during | 14 |
| the school year concerning the students' education, and such
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| other information, commentary, and suggestions as the school | 16 |
| district
desires. For the purposes of this paragraph, "personal | 17 |
| contact" includes,
but is not limited to, parent-teacher | 18 |
| conferences, parental visits to
school, school visits to home, | 19 |
| telephone conversations, and written
correspondence. The | 20 |
| parental involvement component shall not single out or
identify | 21 |
| individual students, parents, or guardians by name.
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| (d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State | 23 |
| Board of
Education and provided to school districts by the most | 24 |
| efficient, economic,
and appropriate means.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 2 |
| becoming law.".
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