Full Text of HB0016 96th 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 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 |
| 2-3.62, 2-3.105, 3-0.01, 3-1, 3-2.5, 3-12, 3-14.2, 3-15.10, and | 6 |
| 3A-6 and by adding Section 4-12 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.62) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)
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| Sec. 2-3.62. Educational Service Centers.
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| (a) A regional network of educational service centers shall | 10 |
| be established
by the State Board of Education to coordinate | 11 |
| and combine existing services in
a manner which is practical | 12 |
| and efficient and to provide new services to
schools as | 13 |
| provided in this Section. Services to be made available by such
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| centers shall include the planning, implementation and | 15 |
| evaluation of:
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| (1) (blank);
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| (2) computer technology education;
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| (3) mathematics, science and reading resources for | 19 |
| teachers including
continuing education, inservice | 20 |
| training and staff development.
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| The centers may provide training, technical assistance, | 22 |
| coordination and
planning in other program areas such as school | 23 |
| improvement, school
accountability, financial planning, |
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| consultation, and services, career guidance, early childhood | 2 |
| education, alcohol/drug
education and prevention, family life - | 3 |
| sex education, electronic transmission
of data from school | 4 |
| districts to the State, alternative education and regional
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| special education, and telecommunications systems that provide | 6 |
| distance
learning. Such telecommunications systems may be | 7 |
| obtained through the
Department of Central Management Services | 8 |
| pursuant to Section 405-270 of the
Department of Central | 9 |
| Management Services Law (20 ILCS 405/405-270). The programs and | 10 |
| services of educational
service centers may be offered to | 11 |
| private school teachers and private school
students within each | 12 |
| service center area provided public schools have already
been | 13 |
| afforded adequate access to such programs and services.
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| Upon the abolition of the office, removal from office, | 15 |
| disqualification for office, resignation from office, or | 16 |
| expiration of the current term of office of the regional | 17 |
| superintendent of schools, whichever is earlier, centers | 18 |
| serving that portion of a Class II county school unit outside | 19 |
| of a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants shall have and | 20 |
| exercise, in and with respect to each educational service | 21 |
| region having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants and | 22 |
| in and with respect to each school district located in any such | 23 |
| educational service region, all of the rights, powers, duties, | 24 |
| and responsibilities theretofore vested by law in and exercised | 25 |
| and performed by the regional superintendent of schools for | 26 |
| that area under the provisions of this Code or any other laws |
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| of this State. | 2 |
| The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and | 3 |
| regulations necessary
to implement this Section. The rules | 4 |
| shall include detailed standards which
delineate the scope and | 5 |
| specific content of programs to be provided by each
Educational | 6 |
| Service Center, as well as the specific planning, | 7 |
| implementation
and evaluation services to be provided by each | 8 |
| Center relative to its programs.
The Board shall also provide | 9 |
| the standards by which it will evaluate the
programs provided | 10 |
| by each Center.
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| (b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be | 12 |
| governed by an
11-member board, 3 members of which shall be | 13 |
| public school teachers
nominated by the local bargaining | 14 |
| representatives to the appropriate regional
superintendent for | 15 |
| appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be
from | 16 |
| each of the following categories, including but not limited to
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| superintendents, regional superintendents, school board | 18 |
| members
and a representative of an institution of higher | 19 |
| education. The members of
the board shall be appointed by the | 20 |
| regional superintendents whose school
districts are served by | 21 |
| the educational service center.
The composition of the board | 22 |
| will reflect the revisions of this
amendatory Act of 1989 as | 23 |
| the terms of office of current members expire.
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| (c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number to | 25 |
| assure delivery
of services to all local school districts in | 26 |
| the State.
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| (d) From monies appropriated for this program the State | 2 |
| Board of
Education shall provide grants to qualifying | 3 |
| Educational Service Centers
applying for such grants in | 4 |
| accordance with rules and regulations
promulgated by the State | 5 |
| Board of Education to implement this Section.
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| (e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional | 7 |
| educational service
centers shall appoint a family life - sex | 8 |
| education advisory board
consisting of 2 parents, 2 teachers, 2 | 9 |
| school administrators, 2 school
board members, 2 health care | 10 |
| professionals, one library system
representative, and the | 11 |
| director of the regional educational service center
who shall | 12 |
| serve as chairperson of the advisory board so appointed. | 13 |
| Members
of the family life - sex education advisory boards | 14 |
| shall serve without
compensation. Each of the advisory boards | 15 |
| appointed pursuant to this
subsection shall develop a plan for | 16 |
| regional teacher-parent family life - sex
education training | 17 |
| sessions and shall file a written report of such plan
with the | 18 |
| governing board of their regional educational service center. | 19 |
| The
directors of each of the regional educational service
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| centers shall thereupon meet, review each of the reports | 21 |
| submitted by the
advisory boards and combine those reports into | 22 |
| a single written report which
they shall file with the Citizens | 23 |
| Council on School Problems prior to the
end of the regular | 24 |
| school term of the 1987-1988 school year.
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| (f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I | 26 |
| county school units
shall be disbanded on the first Monday of |
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| August, 1995, and their statutory
responsibilities and | 2 |
| programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of
education, | 3 |
| subject to rules and regulations developed by
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State Board | 4 |
| of Education. The regional superintendents of schools elected | 5 |
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the voters residing in all Class I counties shall serve as | 6 |
| the chief
administrators for these programs and services. By | 7 |
| rule of the State Board of
Education, the 10 educational | 8 |
| service regions of
lowest
population shall provide such | 9 |
| services under cooperative agreements with larger
regions.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-21, eff. 7-1-03; 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07 .)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.105) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.105)
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| Sec. 2-3.105. Services to educational service regions and | 13 |
| school districts. Commencing July 1, 1994 and thereafter, the | 14 |
| State Board of Education through
the office of the State | 15 |
| Superintendent of Education shall have and exercise, in
and | 16 |
| with respect to an each educational service region located in a | 17 |
| city of 500,000 having a population of
2,000,000 or more | 18 |
| inhabitants, and in and with respect to each school district
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| located in any such educational service region, all rights, | 20 |
| powers, duties and
responsibilities theretofore vested in and | 21 |
| exercised and performed by the
regional superintendent of | 22 |
| schools in that educational service region under the
provisions | 23 |
| of this Act or any other law of this State.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-654; 87-895; 87-1251.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/3-0.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-0.01)
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| Sec. 3-0.01.
"County superintendent of schools" and
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| "regional superintendent of schools" defined - Application of | 4 |
| Article.
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| (a) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b), after | 6 |
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effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975, the chief | 7 |
| administrative
officer of an educational service region shall | 8 |
| be designated and referred
to as the "regional superintendent | 9 |
| of schools" or the "regional
superintendent" and after the | 10 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993
the office held | 11 |
| by the chief administrative officer shall be designated and
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| referred to as the "regional office of education". For purposes | 13 |
| of the School
Code and except as otherwise provided by | 14 |
| subsection (b), any reference to
"county superintendent of | 15 |
| schools" or "county superintendent" means the
regional | 16 |
| superintendent of schools.
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| (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article, | 18 |
| but subject Subject to subsection (b-1), in educational service | 19 |
| regions containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the office of | 20 |
| regional superintendent of schools
is abolished on July 1, | 21 |
| 1994 . Subject to Section 2-3.105 of this Code, beginning on the | 22 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 23 |
| Assembly, On and after that date in each educational
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| region in which the office of regional superintendent of | 25 |
| schools is so
abolished all rights, powers, duties and | 26 |
| responsibilities theretofore vested by
law in, and exercised |
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| and performed by the regional superintendent of schools
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| any assistant regional superintendents or other assistants or | 3 |
| employees
in the office of the regional superintendent of | 4 |
| schools being so abolished shall be
vested in, exercised and | 5 |
| performed by educational service centers established pursuant | 6 |
| to Section 2-3.62 of this Code for any educational service | 7 |
| region containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants. Beginning on | 8 |
| the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 9 |
| Assembly, the State Board of Education through the
office of | 10 |
| the State Superintendent of Education. Upon abolition of the | 11 |
| office
of regional superintendent of schools in an educational | 12 |
| service region
containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants: (i) | 13 |
| all books, records, maps, papers
and other documents belonging | 14 |
| to or subject to the control or disposition of
the former | 15 |
| regional superintendent of schools by virtue of his office | 16 |
| shall be
transferred and delivered to the State Board of | 17 |
| Education; (ii) possession or
control over all moneys, deposits | 18 |
| and accounts in the possession or
subject to the control or | 19 |
| disposition of the former regional superintendent
of schools by | 20 |
| virtue of his office, including but not limited to
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| undistributed or unexpended moneys drawn from, and all amounts | 22 |
| on deposit
in, the county, institute and supervisory expense | 23 |
| funds, shall be
transferred to and placed under the control and | 24 |
| disposition of the State Board
of Education, excepting only | 25 |
| those moneys or accounts, if any, the source of
which is the | 26 |
| county treasury , for proper redistribution to the educational |
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| service centers ; and (iii) all other equipment, furnishings,
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| supplies and other personal property belonging to or subject to | 3 |
| the control or
disposition of the former regional | 4 |
| superintendent of schools by virtue of his
office, excepting | 5 |
| only those items which were provided by the county board,
shall | 6 |
| be transferred and delivered to the State Board of Education. | 7 |
| Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 8 |
| 96th General Assembly From and
after July 1, 1994 , any | 9 |
| reference in this the School Code or any other law of this
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| State to "regional superintendent of schools" or "regional | 11 |
| superintendent", or
"county superintendent of schools" or | 12 |
| "county superintendent" shall mean, with
respect to any | 13 |
| educational service region containing 2,000,000 or more
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| inhabitants in which the office of regional superintendent of | 15 |
| schools is
abolished, the educational service centers | 16 |
| established pursuant to Section 2-3.62 of this Code for the | 17 |
| educational service region State Board of Education serving | 18 |
| through the office of the State
Superintendent of Education as | 19 |
| the chief administrative entity of an
educational service | 20 |
| region . Upon and after the first Monday of August 1995,
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| references in this Code and elsewhere to educational service | 22 |
| regions of
2,000,000 or fewer inhabitants shall exclude any | 23 |
| educational service region
containing a city of 500,000 or more | 24 |
| inhabitants and references in this Code
and elsewhere to | 25 |
| educational service regions of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants
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| shall mean an educational service region containing a city of |
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| 500,000 or more
inhabitants regardless of the actual population | 2 |
| of the region.
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| (b-1) References to "regional superintendent" shall also | 4 |
| include the educational service centers established under | 5 |
| Section 2-3.62 of this Code and
regional superintendent of | 6 |
| schools in regions serving that portion of a Class
II county | 7 |
| outside a city of 500,000 or more population elected at the | 8 |
| general
election in 1994 and every 4 years thereafter.
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| (c) This Article applies to the regional superintendent of | 10 |
| a multicounty
educational service region formed under Article | 11 |
| 3A as well as to a single
county or partial county region, | 12 |
| except that in case of conflict between
the provisions of this | 13 |
| Article and of Article 3A in the case of a multicounty
region, | 14 |
| the provisions of Article 3A shall apply. Any reference to | 15 |
| "county" or
to "educational service region" in this Article | 16 |
| means a regional office of
education.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-654; 87-895; 87-1251; 88-89.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/3-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-1)
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| Sec. 3-1. Election; eligibility. Quadrennially there shall | 20 |
| be
elected in every county, except those which have been | 21 |
| consolidated into
a multicounty educational service region | 22 |
| under Article 3A and except
those having a population of | 23 |
| 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, and beginning in
1994 in that | 24 |
| portion of a Class II county outside a city of 500,000 or more
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| inhabitants and constituting an educational service region, a |
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| regional
superintendent of schools, who shall enter
upon the | 2 |
| discharge of his duties on the first Monday of August next | 3 |
| after
his election; provided, however, that the term of office | 4 |
| of each regional
superintendent of schools in office on June | 5 |
| 30, 2003
is terminated on
July 1, 2003, except that an | 6 |
| incumbent regional
superintendent of schools
shall continue to | 7 |
| serve until his successor is elected and qualified, and each
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| regional superintendent of schools elected at the general | 9 |
| election in 2002 and
every four years thereafter shall assume | 10 |
| office on the first day of July
next after his election. No one | 11 |
| is eligible to file his petition at any
primary election for | 12 |
| the nomination
as candidate for the office of regional | 13 |
| superintendent of schools nor to
enter upon the duties of such | 14 |
| office either by election or appointment
unless he possesses | 15 |
| the following qualifications: (1) he is of good
character, (2) | 16 |
| he has a master's degree, (3) he has earned at least 20
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| semester hours of credit in professional education at the | 18 |
| graduate
level, (4) he holds a valid all grade supervisory | 19 |
| certificate or a valid
state limited supervisory certificate, | 20 |
| or a valid state life supervisory
certificate, or a valid | 21 |
| administrative certificate, (5) he has had at least
4 years | 22 |
| experience in teaching, and (6) he was engaged for at least 2 | 23 |
| years
of the 4 previous years in full time teaching or | 24 |
| supervising in the common
public schools or serving as a county | 25 |
| superintendent of schools or regional
superintendent of | 26 |
| schools for an educational service region in the State of
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| Illinois.
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| No petition of any candidate for nomination for the office | 3 |
| of regional
superintendent of schools may be filed and no such | 4 |
| candidate's name may be
placed on a primary or general election | 5 |
| ballot, unless such candidate files
as part of his petition a | 6 |
| certificate from the State Board of Education
certifying that | 7 |
| from the records of its office such candidate has the
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| qualifications required by this Section; however, any | 9 |
| incumbent filing his
petition for nomination for a succeeding | 10 |
| term of office shall not be
required to attach such certificate | 11 |
| to his petition of candidacy.
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| Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid | 13 |
| unless the
candidate named therein files with the county clerk | 14 |
| or State Board of
Elections a statement of economic interests | 15 |
| as required by the Illinois
Governmental Ethics Act. Such | 16 |
| receipt shall be so filed either previously
during the calendar | 17 |
| year in which his nomination papers were filed or
within the | 18 |
| period for the filing of nomination papers in accordance with
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| the general election law.
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| The changes in qualifications made by Public Act 76-1563 do | 21 |
| not affect
the right of an incumbent to seek reelection.
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| On and after July 1, 1994, the provisions of this Section | 23 |
| shall have
no application in any educational service region | 24 |
| having a population of
2,000,000 or more inhabitants; provided | 25 |
| further that no election shall be
held in November of 1994 or | 26 |
| at any other time after July 1, 1992 for the office
of regional |
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| superintendent of schools in any county or educational service
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| region having a population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-383, eff. 8-18-95; 90-280, eff. 7-31-97.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/3-2.5)
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| Sec. 3-2.5. Salaries.
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| (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the
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| regional superintendents of schools shall receive for their | 8 |
| services an annual
salary according to the population, as | 9 |
| determined by the last preceding federal
census, of the region | 10 |
| they serve, as set out in the following schedule:
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11 | | SALARIES OF REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF
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14 | | Less than 48,000 |
$73,500 |
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15 | | 48,000 to 99,999 |
$78,000 |
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16 | | 100,000 to 999,999 |
$81,500 |
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17 | | 1,000,000 and over |
$83,500 |
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| The changes made by Public Act 86-98 in the annual salary | 19 |
| that the
regional superintendents of schools shall receive for | 20 |
| their services shall
apply to the annual salary received by the | 21 |
| regional superintendents of
schools during each of their | 22 |
| elected terms of office that
commence after
July 26, 1989 and | 23 |
| before the first Monday of August, 1995.
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| The changes made by Public Act 89-225 in the annual salary | 25 |
| that
regional superintendents of schools shall receive for |
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| their services shall
apply to the annual salary received by the | 2 |
| regional superintendents of schools
during their elected terms | 3 |
| of office that
commence after August 4,
1995 and end on August | 4 |
| 1, 1999.
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| The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st General | 6 |
| Assembly in the
annual salary that the regional superintendents | 7 |
| of schools shall receive for
their services shall apply to the | 8 |
| annual salary received by the regional
superintendents of | 9 |
| schools during each of their elected terms of office that
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| commence on or after August 2, 1999.
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| Beginning July 1, 2000, the salary that the regional | 12 |
| superintendent
of schools receives for his or her services | 13 |
| shall be adjusted annually to
reflect the percentage increase, | 14 |
| if any, in the most recent Consumer Price
Index, as defined and | 15 |
| officially reported by the United States Department of
Labor, | 16 |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics, except that no annual increment may | 17 |
| exceed
2.9%. If the percentage of change in the
Consumer Price | 18 |
| Index is a percentage decrease, the salary that the regional
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| superintendent of schools receives shall not be adjusted for | 20 |
| that year.
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| When regional superintendents are authorized by the School | 22 |
| Code to
appoint assistant regional superintendents, the | 23 |
| assistant regional
superintendent shall receive an annual | 24 |
| salary based on his or her
qualifications and computed as a | 25 |
| percentage of the salary of the
regional superintendent to whom | 26 |
| he or she is assistant, as set out in the
following schedule:
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| 1 | | SALARIES OF ASSISTANT REGIONAL | 2 | | SUPERINTENDENTS |
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3 | | QUALIFICATIONS OF |
PERCENTAGE OF SALARY |
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4 | | ASSISTANT REGIONAL |
OF REGIONAL |
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5 | | SUPERINTENDENT |
SUPERINTENDENT |
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6 | | No Bachelor's degree, but State |
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7 | | certificate valid for teaching | |
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8 | | and supervising. |
70% |
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9 | | Bachelor's degree plus |
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10 | | State certificate valid | |
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11 | | for supervising. |
75% |
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12 | | Master's degree plus |
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13 | | State certificate valid | |
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14 | | for supervising. |
90% |
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| However, in any region in which the appointment of more | 16 |
| than one
assistant regional superintendent is authorized, | 17 |
| whether by Section
3-15.10 of this Code or otherwise, not more | 18 |
| than one assistant may
be compensated at the 90% rate and any | 19 |
| other assistant shall be paid at
not exceeding the 75% rate, in | 20 |
| each case depending on the qualifications
of the assistant.
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| The salaries provided in this Section for regional | 22 |
| superintendents
and assistant regional superintendents are | 23 |
| payable monthly from the
Common School Fund. The State | 24 |
| Comptroller in making his or her warrant to
any county for the | 25 |
| amount due it from the Common School Fund shall deduct
from it | 26 |
| the several amounts for which warrants have been issued to the
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| regional superintendent, and any assistant regional | 2 |
| superintendent, of
the educational service region encompassing | 3 |
| the county since the
preceding apportionment of the Common | 4 |
| School Fund.
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| County boards may provide for additional compensation for | 6 |
| the
regional superintendent or the assistant regional | 7 |
| superintendents, or
for each of them, to be paid quarterly from | 8 |
| the county treasury.
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| (b) Upon abolition on July 1, 1994, of the office of | 10 |
| regional
superintendent of schools in educational service | 11 |
| regions containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants as provided in | 12 |
| Section 3-0.01
of this Code, the funds provided under | 13 |
| provisions of subsection (a) of this Section shall continue to | 14 |
| be appropriated and reallocated, as provided for pursuant to | 15 |
| subsection (b) of Section 3-0.01 of this Code, to the | 16 |
| educational service centers established pursuant to Section | 17 |
| 2-3.62 of this Code for an educational service region | 18 |
| containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants shall
no longer apply | 19 |
| in any educational service region in which the office of
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| regional superintendent of schools is so abolished, and no | 21 |
| salary or other
compensation shall be payable under that | 22 |
| subsection (a) or under any other
provision of this Section | 23 |
| with respect to the office so abolished or
with respect to any | 24 |
| assistant position to the office so abolished .
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| (c) If the State pays all or any portion of the employee | 26 |
| contributions
required under Section 16-152 of the Illinois |
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| Pension Code for employees of the
State Board of Education, it | 2 |
| shall also pay the employee contributions required
of regional | 3 |
| superintendents of schools and assistant regional | 4 |
| superintendents
of schools on the same basis, but excluding any | 5 |
| contributions based on
compensation that is paid by the county | 6 |
| rather than the State.
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| This subsection (c) applies to contributions based on | 8 |
| payments of salary
earned after the effective date of this | 9 |
| amendatory Act of the 91st General
Assembly, except that in the | 10 |
| case of an elected regional superintendent of
schools, this | 11 |
| subsection does not apply to contributions based on payments of
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| salary earned during a term of office that commenced before the | 13 |
| effective date
of this amendatory Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-276, eff. 7-23-99 .)
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| (105 ILCS 5/3-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-12)
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| Sec. 3-12. Institute fund. | 17 |
| (a) All certificate
registration fees and
a portion of | 18 |
| renewal and duplicate fees
shall be kept by the regional | 19 |
| superintendent as described in Section 21-16 of
this Code, | 20 |
| together with a record of the
names of the persons paying them. | 21 |
| Such fees shall be deposited
into the institute fund and
shall | 22 |
| be used by the regional superintendent
to defray expenses | 23 |
| associated with the
work of
the regional professional | 24 |
| development review committees established pursuant to
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| paragraph (2) of subsection (g) of Section 21-14 of this Code |
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| to advise the
regional
superintendent, upon his or her request, | 2 |
| and to hear appeals relating to the
renewal of
teaching | 3 |
| certificates, in accordance with Section 21-14 of this Code; to | 4 |
| defray
expenses
connected with improving the technology | 5 |
| necessary for the efficient processing
of
certificates; to | 6 |
| defray all costs associated with the administration of teaching | 7 |
| certificates;
to defray expenses incidental to
teachers' | 8 |
| institutes,
workshops or meetings of a professional nature that | 9 |
| are designed to promote the
professional growth of teachers or | 10 |
| for the purpose of defraying the expense of
any general or | 11 |
| special meeting of teachers or school personnel of the region,
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| which has been approved by the regional superintendent.
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| (b) In addition to the use of moneys in the institute fund | 14 |
| to defray expenses under subsection (a) of this Section, the | 15 |
| State Superintendent of Education, as authorized under Section | 16 |
| 2-3.105 of this Code, shall use moneys in the institute fund to | 17 |
| defray all costs associated with the administration of teaching | 18 |
| certificates within a city having a population exceeding | 19 |
| 500,000.
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| (c) The regional superintendent shall on or before January | 21 |
| 1 of each year
publish in a newspaper of general circulation | 22 |
| published in the region or
shall post in each school building | 23 |
| under his jurisdiction an accounting of
(1) the balance on hand | 24 |
| in the Institute fund at the beginning of the
previous year; | 25 |
| (2) all receipts within the previous year deposited in the
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| fund, with the sources from which they were derived; (3) the |
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| amount
distributed from the fund and the purposes for which | 2 |
| such distributions
were made; and (4) the balance on hand in | 3 |
| the fund.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-839, eff. 6-6-06.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/3-14.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.2)
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| Sec. 3-14.2. Supervision and control of school districts. | 7 |
| Except in regions established within that portion of a Class II | 8 |
| county school unit outside of a city of 500,000 or more | 9 |
| inhabitants, the The county superintendent of schools shall | 10 |
| exercise supervision and
control over all school districts | 11 |
| within the county. If a district is
divided by a county line or | 12 |
| lines the county superintendent in the
county where the | 13 |
| majority of the children attend school
at the time the district | 14 |
| is organized
shall exercise supervision and control over all | 15 |
| aspects of
supervision, reports, and financial accounting of | 16 |
| the district
until it has been determined by the State | 17 |
| Superintendent of Education that
60 per cent of the children | 18 |
| attend school in another county or that a majority
of the | 19 |
| children have attended a school in another county for three
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| consecutive years and the school board has adopted a resolution | 21 |
| requesting
the supervision and control be transferred to the | 22 |
| county superintendent
in the county in which the majority of | 23 |
| children attend school.
The county superintendent under
whose | 24 |
| direction a school district has been established shall retain
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| supervision and control until July 1 following the date of the |
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| election
establishing the district. Whenever a change in | 2 |
| supervision and control
shall result from a change in school | 3 |
| district boundaries, population
shifts, or other cause, such | 4 |
| change in supervision and control shall not
be effective until | 5 |
| July 1 following the date of its determination. All
references | 6 |
| to the county superintendent of schools, in relation to
school | 7 |
| districts, in this Act shall be interpreted to mean the county
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| superintendent of schools having supervision and control of the | 9 |
| district
or districts as defined in this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 81-1146.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/3-15.10) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-15.10)
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| Sec. 3-15.10. Assistant Regional Superintendent. To | 13 |
| employ, in counties or
regions of 2,000,000 inhabitants or | 14 |
| less, in addition to any assistants
authorized to be employed | 15 |
| with the approval of the county board, an assistant
regional | 16 |
| superintendent of schools who shall be a person of good | 17 |
| attainment,
versed in the principles and methods of education, | 18 |
| and qualified to teach and
supervise schools under Article 21 | 19 |
| of this Act; to fix the term of such
assistant and direct his | 20 |
| work and define his duties. On the effective date of this | 21 |
| amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, in In regions | 22 |
| established
within that portion of a Class II county school | 23 |
| unit outside of a city of 500,000 or more
inhabitants, the | 24 |
| employment of all persons serving as assistant county or | 25 |
| regional superintendents of schools is terminated, the |
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| position of assistant regional superintendent of schools in | 2 |
| each such region is abolished, and this Section shall, | 3 |
| beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 4 |
| 96th General Assembly, have no further application in the | 5 |
| educational service region the regional superintendent may | 6 |
| employ, in addition to any
assistants authorized to be employed | 7 |
| with the approval of the county board, 3
assistant regional | 8 |
| superintendents of schools. Until July 1, 1994, in counties
or | 9 |
| regions having a population of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants | 10 |
| the regional
superintendent may employ, in addition to any | 11 |
| assistants authorized to be
employed with the approval of the | 12 |
| county board, 11 assistant regional
superintendents of | 13 |
| schools . Assistant regional superintendents shall each be a
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| person of good attainment, versed in the principles and methods | 15 |
| of education,
and qualified to teach and supervise schools | 16 |
| under Article 21 of this Act. The
work of such assistant | 17 |
| regional superintendent shall be so arranged and
directed that | 18 |
| the county or regional superintendent and assistant
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| superintendent, together, shall devote an amount of time during | 20 |
| the school
year, equal to at least the full time of one | 21 |
| individual, to the supervision of
schools and of teaching in | 22 |
| the schools of the county.
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| Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Section, any | 24 |
| person who,
on July 1, 1955, was employed as an assistant | 25 |
| county superintendent of
schools shall be qualified for that | 26 |
| position if he holds a state
certificate valid for teaching and |
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| supervising.
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| On July 1, 1994, the employment of all persons serving as | 3 |
| assistant
county or regional superintendents in any county or | 4 |
| educational service
region having a population of more than | 5 |
| 2,000,000 inhabitants is
terminated, the office of assistant | 6 |
| county or regional superintendent in
each such county or | 7 |
| educational service region is abolished, and this Section
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| shall, from and after July 1, 1994, have no further application | 9 |
| in any
such county or educational service region.
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| A regional superintendent of schools shall not employ his | 11 |
| or her spouse,
child, stepchild, or
relative as an assistant | 12 |
| regional superintendent of schools.
By September 1 each year, a | 13 |
| regional superintendent shall certify to the State
Board of | 14 |
| Education
that he or she
has complied with this paragraph.
If | 15 |
| the State Board of Education becomes aware of the fact that a | 16 |
| regional
superintendent is employing his or her spouse, child, | 17 |
| stepchild, or relative as
an assistant regional | 18 |
| superintendent, the State Board of Education shall not
request | 19 |
| for payment from the State Comptroller any warrants for the | 20 |
| payment of
the assistant regional superintendent's salary. In | 21 |
| this paragraph, "relative"
means a grandparent, parent, aunt, | 22 |
| uncle, sibling, first cousin, nephew, niece,
grandchild, or | 23 |
| spouse of one of these persons. This paragraph applies only to
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| contracts for employment entered into on or after the effective | 25 |
| date of this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-764, eff. 6-9-00.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/3A-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 3A-6)
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| Sec. 3A-6. Election of Superintendent for consolidated | 3 |
| region - Bond -
Vacancies in any educational service region. | 4 |
| (a) The regional superintendent to be
elected under Section | 5 |
| 3A-5 shall be elected at the time provided in the general
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| election law and must possess the qualifications described in | 7 |
| Section 3-1 of
this Act.
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| (b) The bond required under Section 3-2 shall be filed in | 9 |
| the office of
the
county clerk in the county where the regional | 10 |
| office is situated, and a
certified copy of that bond shall be | 11 |
| filed in the office of the county clerk
in each of the other | 12 |
| counties in the region.
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| (c) When a vacancy occurs in the office of regional | 14 |
| superintendent of
schools of any educational service region | 15 |
| which is not located in a county
which is a home rule unit, | 16 |
| such vacancy shall be filled within 60 days (i)
by appointment | 17 |
| of the chairman of the county board, with the advice and
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| consent of the county board, when such vacancy occurs in a | 19 |
| single county
educational service region; or (ii) by | 20 |
| appointment of a committee composed
of the chairmen of the | 21 |
| county boards of those counties comprising the
affected | 22 |
| educational service region when such vacancy occurs in a
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| multicounty educational service region, each committeeman to | 24 |
| be entitled to
one vote for each vote that was received in the | 25 |
| county represented by such
committeeman on the committee by the |
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| regional superintendent of schools
whose office is vacant at | 2 |
| the last election at which a regional
superintendent was | 3 |
| elected to such office, and the person receiving the
highest | 4 |
| number of affirmative votes from the committeemen for such | 5 |
| vacant
office to be deemed the person appointed by such | 6 |
| committee to fill the
vacancy. The appointee shall be a member | 7 |
| of the same political party as the
regional superintendent of | 8 |
| schools the appointee succeeds was at the time
such regional | 9 |
| superintendent of schools last was elected. The appointee
shall | 10 |
| serve
for the remainder of the term. However, if more than 28 | 11 |
| months remain
in that term, the appointment shall be until the | 12 |
| next general election, at
which time the vacated office shall | 13 |
| be filled by election for the remainder
of the term. | 14 |
| Nominations shall be made and any vacancy in nomination
shall | 15 |
| be filled as follows:
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| (1) If the vacancy in office occurs before the first | 17 |
| date
provided in Section 7-12 of the Election Code for | 18 |
| filing nomination
papers for county offices for the primary | 19 |
| in the next even-numbered year
following
commencement of | 20 |
| the term of office in which the vacancy
occurs, nominations | 21 |
| for the election for filling the vacancy shall be
made | 22 |
| pursuant to Article 7 of the Election Code.
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| (2) If the vacancy in office occurs during the time | 24 |
| provided
in Section 7-12 of the Election Code for filing | 25 |
| nomination papers
for county offices for the primary in the | 26 |
| next even-numbered year following
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| of office in which the vacancy occurs,
the time for filing | 2 |
| nomination papers for the primary shall not be
more than 91 | 3 |
| days nor less than 85 days prior to the date of the
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| primary.
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| (3) If the vacancy in office occurs after the last day | 6 |
| provided
in Section 7-12 of the Election Code for filing | 7 |
| nomination papers for county
offices for the primary in the | 8 |
| next even-numbered year following commencement
of the term | 9 |
| of office in which the vacancy occurs, a
vacancy in | 10 |
| nomination shall be deemed to have occurred and the
county | 11 |
| central committee of each established political party (if | 12 |
| the
vacancy occurs in a single county educational service | 13 |
| region) or the
multi-county educational service region | 14 |
| committee of each
established political party (if the | 15 |
| vacancy occurs in a multi-county
educational service | 16 |
| region) shall nominate, by resolution, a
candidate to fill | 17 |
| the vacancy in nomination for election to the office
at the | 18 |
| general election. In the nomination proceedings to fill the
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| vacancy in nomination, each member of the county central | 20 |
| committee or the
multi-county educational service region | 21 |
| committee,
whichever applies, shall have the voting | 22 |
| strength as set forth in Section 7-8
or 7-8.02 of the | 23 |
| Election Code, respectively. The name of the
candidate so | 24 |
| nominated shall not appear on the ballot at the general | 25 |
| primary
election. The vacancy in nomination shall be filled | 26 |
| prior to the date
of certification of candidates for the |
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| general election.
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| (4) The resolution to fill the vacancy shall be duly
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| acknowledged before an officer qualified to take | 4 |
| acknowledgments
of deeds and shall include, upon its face, | 5 |
| the following information:
(A) the name of the original | 6 |
| nominee and the office vacated; (B) the
date on which the | 7 |
| vacancy occurred; and (C) the name and address
of the | 8 |
| nominee selected to fill the vacancy and the date of | 9 |
| selection.
The resolution to fill the vacancy shall be | 10 |
| accompanied by a
statement of candidacy, as prescribed in | 11 |
| Section 7-10 of the
Election Code, completed by the | 12 |
| selected nominee, a certificate
from the State Board of | 13 |
| Education, as prescribed in Section 3-1 of
this Code, and a | 14 |
| receipt indicating that the nominee has filed a
statement | 15 |
| of economic interests as required by the Illinois
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| Governmental Ethics Act.
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| The provisions of Sections 10-8 through 10-10.1 of the Election | 18 |
| Code
relating to objections to nomination papers, hearings on | 19 |
| objections, and
judicial review shall also apply to and govern | 20 |
| objections to nomination papers
and resolutions for filling | 21 |
| vacancies in nomination filed pursuant to this
Section. Unless | 22 |
| otherwise specified in this Section, the nomination and
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| election provided for in this Section is governed by the | 24 |
| general election
law.
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| Except as otherwise provided by applicable county | 26 |
| ordinance or by law, if
a vacancy occurs in the office of |
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| region that is located in a county that is a home rule unit
and | 3 |
| that has a population of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, that | 4 |
| vacancy
shall be filled by the county board of such home rule | 5 |
| county.
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| Until July 1, 2003 or until the regional superintendent of | 7 |
| schools elected
in
2002 takes office, whichever occurs first, | 8 |
| if a vacancy exists in the
office of regional
superintendent of | 9 |
| schools of an educational service region that is located
in a | 10 |
| county that is a home rule unit and that has a population of
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| 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, then that vacancy shall be | 12 |
| filled by the first
assistant superintendent/deputy | 13 |
| superintendent until the end of the
term to which the regional | 14 |
| superintendent was elected.
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| Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of
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| regional superintendent of schools of any educational service | 17 |
| region must
possess the qualifications required to be elected | 18 |
| to the position of
regional superintendent of schools, and | 19 |
| shall obtain a certificate of
eligibility from the State | 20 |
| Superintendent of Education and file same with
the county clerk | 21 |
| of the county in which the regional superintendent's office
is | 22 |
| located.
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| If the regional superintendent of schools is called into | 24 |
| the active military
service of the United States, his office | 25 |
| shall not be deemed to be vacant,
but a temporary appointment | 26 |
| shall be made as in the case of a vacancy.
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| perform all the duties of the regional superintendent
of | 2 |
| schools during the time the regional superintendent of schools | 3 |
| is in
the active military service of the United States, and | 4 |
| shall be paid the
same compensation apportioned as to the time | 5 |
| of service, and such appointment
and all authority thereunder | 6 |
| shall cease upon the discharge of the regional
superintendent | 7 |
| of schools from such active military service. The appointee
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| shall give the same bond as is required of a regularly elected | 9 |
| regional
superintendent of schools.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-277, eff. 8-7-01; 92-869, eff. 1-3-03.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/4-12 new) | 12 |
| Sec. 4-12. Educational service center support. | 13 |
| Notwithstanding Sections 4-2, 4-4, 4-6, 4-7, 4-8, 4-9, and 4-10 | 14 |
| of this Code, a county having a population of 2,000,000 or more | 15 |
| inhabitants may provide financial or in-kind support to the | 16 |
| educational service centers serving that county. | 17 |
| (105 ILCS 5/3A-17 rep.) | 18 |
| Section 10. The School Code is amended by repealing Section | 19 |
| 3A-17.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 21 |
| 2010.
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