Full Text of HB4886 96th General Assembly
HB4886ham001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Filed: 3/10/2010
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4886
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4886 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | 5 |
| 10-19.4 and by changing Sections 14-13.01 and 18-8.05 as | 6 |
| follows: | 7 |
| (105 ILCS 5/10-19.4 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 10-19.4. Alternative school calendar for 4-day school | 9 |
| week. | 10 |
| (a) A school district may, by board resolution, adopt an | 11 |
| alternative school calendar for a 4-day school week in | 12 |
| accordance with this Section, which must be approved by the | 13 |
| State Board of Education. A school district adopting an | 14 |
| alternative calendar must adopt the calendar for all buildings | 15 |
| in the entire district. The school board shall annually prepare | 16 |
| a calendar for the school term, specifying the opening and |
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| closing dates and providing a minimum term of at least 150 days | 2 |
| to ensure 141 days of actual pupil attendance, as computed in | 3 |
| subsection (F-5) of Section 18-8.05 of this Code. Any days | 4 |
| allowed by law for teachers' institutes but not used as such or | 5 |
| used as parental institutes as provided in Section 10-22.18d | 6 |
| shall increase the minimum term by the school days not so used. | 7 |
| In case of such necessary extension, school employees shall be | 8 |
| paid for the additional time on the basis of their regular | 9 |
| contracts. A school board may specify a closing date earlier | 10 |
| than that set on the annual calendar when the schools of the | 11 |
| district have provided the minimum number of computable days | 12 |
| under this Section. Nothing in this Section prevents the board | 13 |
| from employing superintendents of schools, principals, and | 14 |
| other nonteaching personnel for a period of 12 months or, in | 15 |
| the case of superintendents, for a period in accordance with | 16 |
| Section 10-23.8 of this Code or prevents the board from | 17 |
| employing other personnel before or after the regular school | 18 |
| term with payment of salary proportionate to that received for | 19 |
| comparable work during the school term. | 20 |
| (b) A school board may make such changes in its calendar | 21 |
| for the school term as may be required by any changes in the | 22 |
| legal school holidays prescribed in Section 24-2 of this Code. | 23 |
| A school board may make changes in its calendar for the school | 24 |
| term as may be necessary to reflect the utilization of | 25 |
| teachers' institute days as parental institute days as provided | 26 |
| in Section 10-22.18d of this Code. |
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| The calendar for the school term and any changes must be | 2 |
| submitted to and approved by the regional superintendent of | 3 |
| schools before the calendar or changes may take effect. | 4 |
| (c) With the prior approval of the State Board of Education | 5 |
| and subject to review by the State Board of Education every 3 | 6 |
| years thereafter, a school board may, by resolution and in | 7 |
| agreement with affected exclusive collective bargaining | 8 |
| agents, establish experimental educational programs, | 9 |
| including, but not limited to, programs for self-directed | 10 |
| learning or outside of formal class periods, which programs | 11 |
| when so approved shall be considered to comply with the | 12 |
| requirements of this Section as respects number of days of | 13 |
| actual pupil attendance and with the other requirements of this | 14 |
| Code as respects courses of instruction. | 15 |
| (105 ILCS 5/14-13.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-13.01) | 16 |
| Sec. 14-13.01. Reimbursement payable by State; amounts for | 17 |
| personnel and transportation. | 18 |
| (a) For staff working on behalf of children who have not | 19 |
| been identified as eligible for special
education and for | 20 |
| eligible children with physical
disabilities, including all
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| eligible children whose placement has been determined under | 22 |
| Section 14-8.02 in
hospital or home instruction, 1/2 of the | 23 |
| teacher's salary but not more than
$1,000 annually per child or | 24 |
| $9,000 per teacher, whichever is less. To qualify for home or | 25 |
| hospital instruction, a child must, due to a medical condition, |
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| be unable to attend school, and instead must be instructed at | 2 |
| home or in the hospital, for a period of 2 or more consecutive | 3 |
| weeks or on an ongoing intermittent basis. In order to | 4 |
| establish eligibility for home or hospital services, a | 5 |
| student's parent or guardian must submit to the child's school | 6 |
| district of residence a written statement from a physician | 7 |
| licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches stating | 8 |
| the existence of such medical condition, the impact on the | 9 |
| child's ability to participate in education, and the | 10 |
| anticipated duration or nature of the child's absence from | 11 |
| school. Eligible children
to be included in any reimbursement | 12 |
| under this paragraph must regularly
receive a minimum of one | 13 |
| hour of instruction each school day, or in lieu
thereof of a | 14 |
| minimum of 5 hours of instruction in each school week in
order | 15 |
| to qualify for full reimbursement under this Section. If the
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| attending physician for such a child has certified that the | 17 |
| child should
not receive as many as 5 hours of instruction in a | 18 |
| school week, however,
reimbursement under this paragraph on | 19 |
| account of that child shall be
computed proportionate to the | 20 |
| actual hours of instruction per week for
that child divided by | 21 |
| 5. Children who are enrolled in schools that have an approved | 22 |
| 4-day school week must regularly receive a minimum of 75 | 23 |
| minutes of instruction each school day or, in lieu thereof, a | 24 |
| minimum of 375 minutes in each school week in order to qualify | 25 |
| for full reimbursement under this Section. If the attending | 26 |
| physician for the child has certified that the child should not |
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| receive as many as 375 minutes of instruction in a school week, | 2 |
| however, reimbursement under this subsection (a) on account of | 3 |
| that child shall be computed proportionate to the actual | 4 |
| minutes of instruction per week for that child divided by 375. | 5 |
| The State Board of Education shall establish rules governing | 6 |
| the required qualifications of staff providing home or hospital | 7 |
| instruction. | 8 |
| (b) For children described in Section 14-1.02, 80% of the | 9 |
| cost of
transportation approved as a related service in the | 10 |
| Individualized Education Program for each student
in order to | 11 |
| take advantage of special educational facilities.
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| Transportation costs shall be determined in the same fashion as | 13 |
| provided
in Section 29-5. For purposes of this subsection (b), | 14 |
| the dates for
processing claims specified in Section 29-5 shall | 15 |
| apply. | 16 |
| (c) For each qualified worker, the annual sum of
$9,000. | 17 |
| (d) For one full time qualified director of the special | 18 |
| education
program of each school district which maintains a | 19 |
| fully approved program
of special education the annual sum of | 20 |
| $9,000. Districts participating in a joint agreement special
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| education program shall not receive such reimbursement if | 22 |
| reimbursement is made
for a director of the joint agreement | 23 |
| program. | 24 |
| (e) (Blank). | 25 |
| (f) (Blank). | 26 |
| (g) For readers, working with blind or partially seeing |
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| children 1/2
of their salary but not more than $400 annually | 2 |
| per child. Readers may
be employed to assist such children and | 3 |
| shall not be required to be
certified but prior to employment | 4 |
| shall meet standards set up by the
State Board of Education. | 5 |
| (h) For non-certified employees, as defined by rules | 6 |
| promulgated by the State Board of Education, who deliver | 7 |
| services to students with IEPs, 1/2 of the salary paid or
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| $3,500 per employee, whichever is less. | 9 |
| The State Board of Education shall set standards and | 10 |
| prescribe rules
for determining the allocation of | 11 |
| reimbursement under this section on
less than a full time basis | 12 |
| and for less than a school year. | 13 |
| When any school district eligible for reimbursement under | 14 |
| this
Section operates a school or program approved by the State
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| Superintendent of Education for a number of days in excess of | 16 |
| the
adopted school calendar but not to exceed 235 school days, | 17 |
| such
reimbursement shall be increased by 1/180 of the amount or | 18 |
| rate paid
hereunder for each day such school is operated in | 19 |
| excess of 180 days per
calendar year. | 20 |
| When any school district eligible for reimbursement under | 21 |
| this Section operates a school or program approved by the State | 22 |
| Superintendent of Education for a number of days in excess of | 23 |
| an approved 4-day school week not to exceed 205 school days, | 24 |
| such reimbursement shall be increased by 1/150 of the amount or | 25 |
| rate paid under this Section for each day the school is | 26 |
| operated in excess of 150 days per calendar year. |
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| Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school | 2 |
| district receiving
a payment under this Section or under | 3 |
| Section 14-7.02, 14-7.02b, or
29-5 of this Code may classify | 4 |
| all or a portion of the funds that it receives
in a particular | 5 |
| fiscal year or from general State aid pursuant to Section
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| 18-8.05 of this Code as
funds received in connection with any | 7 |
| funding program for which it is
entitled to receive funds from | 8 |
| the State in that fiscal year (including,
without limitation, | 9 |
| any funding program referenced in this Section),
regardless of | 10 |
| the source or timing of the receipt. The district may not
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| classify more funds as funds received in connection with the | 12 |
| funding
program than the district is entitled to receive in | 13 |
| that fiscal year for that
program. Any
classification by a | 14 |
| district must be made by a resolution of its board of
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| education. The resolution must identify the amount of any | 16 |
| payments or
general State aid to be classified under this | 17 |
| paragraph and must specify
the funding program to which the | 18 |
| funds are to be treated as received in
connection therewith. | 19 |
| This resolution is controlling as to the
classification of | 20 |
| funds referenced therein. A certified copy of the
resolution | 21 |
| must be sent to the State Superintendent of Education.
The | 22 |
| resolution shall still take effect even though a copy of the | 23 |
| resolution has
not been sent to the State
Superintendent of | 24 |
| Education in a timely manner.
No
classification under this | 25 |
| paragraph by a district shall affect the total amount
or timing | 26 |
| of money the district is entitled to receive under this Code.
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| No classification under this paragraph by a district shall
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| any way relieve the district from or affect any
requirements | 3 |
| that otherwise would apply with respect to
that funding | 4 |
| program, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting | 5 |
| expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting | 6 |
| requirements,
or requirements of providing services. | 7 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-415, eff. 8-24-07; 95-707, eff. 1-11-08; | 8 |
| 96-257, eff. 8-11-09.) | 9 |
| (105 ILCS 5/18-8.05) | 10 |
| Sec. 18-8.05. Basis for apportionment of general State | 11 |
| financial aid and
supplemental general State aid to the common | 12 |
| schools for the 1998-1999 and
subsequent school years.
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| (A) General Provisions. | 14 |
| (1) The provisions of this Section apply to the 1998-1999 | 15 |
| and subsequent
school years. The system of general State | 16 |
| financial aid provided for in this
Section
is designed to | 17 |
| assure that, through a combination of State financial aid and
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| required local resources, the financial support provided each | 19 |
| pupil in Average
Daily Attendance equals or exceeds a
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| prescribed per pupil Foundation Level. This formula approach | 21 |
| imputes a level
of per pupil Available Local Resources and | 22 |
| provides for the basis to calculate
a per pupil level of | 23 |
| general State financial aid that, when added to Available
Local | 24 |
| Resources, equals or exceeds the Foundation Level. The
amount |
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| of per pupil general State financial aid for school districts, | 2 |
| in
general, varies in inverse
relation to Available Local | 3 |
| Resources. Per pupil amounts are based upon
each school | 4 |
| district's Average Daily Attendance as that term is defined in | 5 |
| this
Section. | 6 |
| (2) In addition to general State financial aid, school | 7 |
| districts with
specified levels or concentrations of pupils | 8 |
| from low income households are
eligible to receive supplemental | 9 |
| general State financial aid grants as provided
pursuant to | 10 |
| subsection (H).
The supplemental State aid grants provided for | 11 |
| school districts under
subsection (H) shall be appropriated for | 12 |
| distribution to school districts as
part of the same line item | 13 |
| in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is | 14 |
| appropriated under this Section. | 15 |
| (3) To receive financial assistance under this Section, | 16 |
| school districts
are required to file claims with the State | 17 |
| Board of Education, subject to the
following requirements: | 18 |
| (a) Any school district which fails for any given | 19 |
| school year to maintain
school as required by law, or to | 20 |
| maintain a recognized school is not
eligible to file for | 21 |
| such school year any claim upon the Common School
Fund. In | 22 |
| case of nonrecognition of one or more attendance centers in | 23 |
| a
school district otherwise operating recognized schools, | 24 |
| the claim of the
district shall be reduced in the | 25 |
| proportion which the Average Daily
Attendance in the | 26 |
| attendance center or centers bear to the Average Daily
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| Attendance in the school district. A "recognized school" | 2 |
| means any
public school which meets the standards as | 3 |
| established for recognition
by the State Board of | 4 |
| Education. A school district or attendance center
not | 5 |
| having recognition status at the end of a school term is | 6 |
| entitled to
receive State aid payments due upon a legal | 7 |
| claim which was filed while
it was recognized. | 8 |
| (b) School district claims filed under this Section are | 9 |
| subject to
Sections 18-9 and 18-12, except as otherwise | 10 |
| provided in this
Section. | 11 |
| (c) If a school district operates a full year school | 12 |
| under Section
10-19.1, the general State aid to the school | 13 |
| district shall be determined
by the State Board of | 14 |
| Education in accordance with this Section as near as
may be | 15 |
| applicable. | 16 |
| (d) (Blank). | 17 |
| (4) Except as provided in subsections (H) and (L), the | 18 |
| board of any district
receiving any of the grants provided for | 19 |
| in this Section may apply those funds
to any fund so received | 20 |
| for which that board is authorized to make expenditures
by law. | 21 |
| School districts are not required to exert a minimum | 22 |
| Operating Tax Rate in
order to qualify for assistance under | 23 |
| this Section. | 24 |
| (5) As used in this Section the following terms, when | 25 |
| capitalized, shall
have the meaning ascribed herein: | 26 |
| (a) "Average Daily Attendance": A count of pupil |
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| attendance in school,
averaged as provided for in | 2 |
| subsection (C) and utilized in deriving per pupil
financial | 3 |
| support levels. | 4 |
| (b) "Available Local Resources": A computation of | 5 |
| local financial
support, calculated on the basis of Average | 6 |
| Daily Attendance and derived as
provided pursuant to | 7 |
| subsection (D). | 8 |
| (c) "Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes": | 9 |
| Funds paid to local
school districts pursuant to "An Act in | 10 |
| relation to the abolition of ad valorem
personal property | 11 |
| tax and the replacement of revenues lost thereby, and
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| amending and repealing certain Acts and parts of Acts in | 13 |
| connection therewith",
certified August 14, 1979, as | 14 |
| amended (Public Act 81-1st S.S.-1). | 15 |
| (d) "Foundation Level": A prescribed level of per pupil | 16 |
| financial support
as provided for in subsection (B). | 17 |
| (e) "Operating Tax Rate": All school district property | 18 |
| taxes extended for
all purposes, except Bond and
Interest, | 19 |
| Summer School, Rent, Capital Improvement, and Vocational | 20 |
| Education
Building purposes.
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| (B) Foundation Level. | 22 |
| (1) The Foundation Level is a figure established by the | 23 |
| State representing
the minimum level of per pupil financial | 24 |
| support that should be available to
provide for the basic | 25 |
| education of each pupil in
Average Daily Attendance. As set |
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| forth in this Section, each school district
is assumed to exert
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| a sufficient local taxing effort such that, in combination with | 3 |
| the aggregate
of general State
financial aid provided the | 4 |
| district, an aggregate of State and local resources
are | 5 |
| available to meet
the basic education needs of pupils in the | 6 |
| district. | 7 |
| (2) For the 1998-1999 school year, the Foundation Level of | 8 |
| support is
$4,225. For the 1999-2000 school year, the | 9 |
| Foundation Level of support is
$4,325. For the 2000-2001 school | 10 |
| year, the Foundation Level of support is
$4,425. For the | 11 |
| 2001-2002 school year and 2002-2003 school year, the
Foundation | 12 |
| Level of support is $4,560. For the 2003-2004 school year, the | 13 |
| Foundation Level of support is $4,810. For the 2004-2005 school | 14 |
| year, the Foundation Level of support is $4,964.
For the | 15 |
| 2005-2006 school year,
the Foundation Level of support is | 16 |
| $5,164. For the 2006-2007 school year, the Foundation Level of | 17 |
| support is $5,334. For the 2007-2008 school year, the | 18 |
| Foundation Level of support is $5,734. For the 2008-2009 school | 19 |
| year, the Foundation Level of support is $5,959. | 20 |
| (3) For the 2009-2010 school year and each school year | 21 |
| thereafter,
the Foundation Level of support is $6,119 or such | 22 |
| greater amount as
may be established by law by the General | 23 |
| Assembly.
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| (C) Average Daily Attendance. | 25 |
| (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant |
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| to subsection
(E), an Average Daily Attendance figure shall be | 2 |
| utilized. The Average Daily
Attendance figure for formula
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| calculation purposes shall be the monthly average of the actual | 4 |
| number of
pupils in attendance of
each school district, as | 5 |
| further averaged for the best 3 months of pupil
attendance for | 6 |
| each
school district. In compiling the figures for the number | 7 |
| of pupils in
attendance, school districts
and the State Board | 8 |
| of Education shall, for purposes of general State aid
funding, | 9 |
| conform
attendance figures to the requirements of subsection | 10 |
| (F). | 11 |
| (2) The Average Daily Attendance figures utilized in | 12 |
| subsection (E) shall be
the requisite attendance data for the | 13 |
| school year immediately preceding
the
school year for which | 14 |
| general State aid is being calculated
or the average of the | 15 |
| attendance data for the 3 preceding school
years, whichever is | 16 |
| greater. The Average Daily Attendance figures
utilized in | 17 |
| subsection (H) shall be the requisite attendance data for the
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| school year immediately preceding the school year for which | 19 |
| general
State aid is being calculated.
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| (D) Available Local Resources. | 21 |
| (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant | 22 |
| to subsection
(E), a representation of Available Local | 23 |
| Resources per pupil, as that term is
defined and determined in | 24 |
| this subsection, shall be utilized. Available Local
Resources | 25 |
| per pupil shall include a calculated
dollar amount representing |
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| local school district revenues from local property
taxes and | 2 |
| from
Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes, expressed | 3 |
| on the basis of pupils
in Average
Daily Attendance. Calculation | 4 |
| of Available Local Resources shall exclude any tax amnesty | 5 |
| funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. | 6 |
| (2) In determining a school district's revenue from local | 7 |
| property taxes,
the State Board of Education shall utilize the | 8 |
| equalized assessed valuation of
all taxable property of each | 9 |
| school
district as of September 30 of the previous year. The | 10 |
| equalized assessed
valuation utilized shall
be obtained and | 11 |
| determined as provided in subsection (G). | 12 |
| (3) For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten | 13 |
| through 12, local
property tax
revenues per pupil shall be | 14 |
| calculated as the product of the applicable
equalized assessed
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| valuation for the district multiplied by 3.00%, and divided by | 16 |
| the district's
Average Daily
Attendance figure. For school | 17 |
| districts maintaining grades kindergarten
through 8, local
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| property tax revenues per pupil shall be calculated as the | 19 |
| product of the
applicable equalized
assessed valuation for the | 20 |
| district multiplied by 2.30%, and divided by the
district's | 21 |
| Average
Daily Attendance figure. For school districts | 22 |
| maintaining grades 9 through 12,
local property
tax revenues | 23 |
| per pupil shall be the applicable equalized assessed valuation | 24 |
| of
the district
multiplied by 1.05%, and divided by the | 25 |
| district's Average Daily
Attendance
figure. | 26 |
| For partial elementary unit districts created pursuant to |
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| Article 11E of this Code, local property tax revenues per pupil | 2 |
| shall be calculated as the product of the equalized assessed | 3 |
| valuation for property within the partial elementary unit | 4 |
| district for elementary purposes, as defined in Article 11E of | 5 |
| this Code, multiplied by 2.06% and divided by the district's | 6 |
| Average Daily Attendance figure, plus the product of the | 7 |
| equalized assessed valuation for property within the partial | 8 |
| elementary unit district for high school purposes, as defined | 9 |
| in Article 11E of this Code, multiplied by 0.94% and divided by | 10 |
| the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
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| (4) The Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes paid | 12 |
| to each school
district during the calendar year one year | 13 |
| before the calendar year in which a
school year begins, divided | 14 |
| by the Average Daily Attendance figure for that
district, shall | 15 |
| be added to the local property tax revenues per pupil as
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| derived by the application of the immediately preceding | 17 |
| paragraph (3). The sum
of these per pupil figures for each | 18 |
| school district shall constitute Available
Local Resources as | 19 |
| that term is utilized in subsection (E) in the calculation
of | 20 |
| general State aid.
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| (E) Computation of General State Aid. | 22 |
| (1) For each school year, the amount of general State aid | 23 |
| allotted to a
school district shall be computed by the State | 24 |
| Board of Education as provided
in this subsection. | 25 |
| (2) For any school district for which Available Local |
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| Resources per pupil
is less than the product of 0.93 times the | 2 |
| Foundation Level, general State aid
for that district shall be | 3 |
| calculated as an amount equal to the Foundation
Level minus | 4 |
| Available Local Resources, multiplied by the Average Daily
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| Attendance of the school district. | 6 |
| (3) For any school district for which Available Local | 7 |
| Resources per pupil
is equal to or greater than the product of | 8 |
| 0.93 times the Foundation Level and
less than the product of | 9 |
| 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid
per | 10 |
| pupil shall be a decimal proportion of the Foundation Level | 11 |
| derived using a
linear algorithm. Under this linear algorithm, | 12 |
| the calculated general State
aid per pupil shall decline in | 13 |
| direct linear fashion from 0.07 times the
Foundation Level for | 14 |
| a school district with Available Local Resources equal to
the | 15 |
| product of 0.93 times the Foundation Level, to 0.05 times the | 16 |
| Foundation
Level for a school district with Available Local | 17 |
| Resources equal to the product
of 1.75 times the Foundation | 18 |
| Level. The allocation of general
State aid for school districts | 19 |
| subject to this paragraph 3 shall be the
calculated general | 20 |
| State aid
per pupil figure multiplied by the Average Daily | 21 |
| Attendance of the school
district. | 22 |
| (4) For any school district for which Available Local | 23 |
| Resources per pupil
equals or exceeds the product of 1.75 times | 24 |
| the Foundation Level, the general
State aid for the school | 25 |
| district shall be calculated as the product of $218
multiplied | 26 |
| by the Average Daily Attendance of the school
district. |
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| (5) The amount of general State aid allocated to a school | 2 |
| district for
the 1999-2000 school year meeting the requirements | 3 |
| set forth in paragraph (4)
of subsection
(G) shall be increased | 4 |
| by an amount equal to the general State aid that
would have | 5 |
| been received by the district for the 1998-1999 school year by
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| utilizing the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed | 7 |
| Valuation as calculated
in paragraph (4) of subsection (G) less | 8 |
| the general State aid allotted for the
1998-1999
school year. | 9 |
| This amount shall be deemed a one time increase, and shall not
| 10 |
| affect any future general State aid allocations.
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| (F) Compilation of Average Daily Attendance. | 12 |
| (1) Each school district shall, by July 1 of each year, | 13 |
| submit to the State
Board of Education, on forms prescribed by | 14 |
| the State Board of Education,
attendance figures for the school | 15 |
| year that began in the preceding calendar
year. The attendance | 16 |
| information so transmitted shall identify the average
daily | 17 |
| attendance figures for each month of the school year. Beginning | 18 |
| with
the general State aid claim form for the 2002-2003 school
| 19 |
| year, districts shall calculate Average Daily Attendance as | 20 |
| provided in
subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of this paragraph | 21 |
| (1). | 22 |
| (a) In districts that do not hold year-round classes,
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| days of attendance in August shall be added to the month of | 24 |
| September and any
days of attendance in June shall be added | 25 |
| to the month of May. |
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| classes,
days of attendance in July and August shall be | 3 |
| added to the month
of September and any days of attendance | 4 |
| in June shall be added to
the month of May. | 5 |
| (c) In districts in which some buildings, but not all, | 6 |
| hold
year-round classes, for the non-year-round buildings, | 7 |
| days of
attendance in August shall be added to the month of | 8 |
| September
and any days of attendance in June shall be added | 9 |
| to the month of
May. The average daily attendance for the | 10 |
| year-round buildings
shall be computed as provided in | 11 |
| subdivision (b) of this paragraph
(1). To calculate the | 12 |
| Average Daily Attendance for the district, the
average | 13 |
| daily attendance for the year-round buildings shall be
| 14 |
| multiplied by the days in session for the non-year-round | 15 |
| buildings
for each month and added to the monthly | 16 |
| attendance of the
non-year-round buildings. | 17 |
| Except as otherwise provided in this Section, days of
| 18 |
| attendance by pupils shall be counted only for sessions of not | 19 |
| less than
5 clock hours of school work per day under direct | 20 |
| supervision of: (i)
teachers, or (ii) non-teaching personnel or | 21 |
| volunteer personnel when engaging
in non-teaching duties and | 22 |
| supervising in those instances specified in
subsection (a) of | 23 |
| Section 10-22.34 and paragraph 10 of Section 34-18, with
pupils | 24 |
| of legal school age and in kindergarten and grades 1 through | 25 |
| 12. | 26 |
| Days of attendance by tuition pupils shall be accredited |
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| only to the
districts that pay the tuition to a recognized | 2 |
| school. | 3 |
| (2) Days of attendance by pupils of less than 5 clock hours | 4 |
| of school
shall be subject to the following provisions in the | 5 |
| compilation of Average
Daily Attendance. | 6 |
| (a) Pupils regularly enrolled in a public school for | 7 |
| only a part of
the school day may be counted on the basis | 8 |
| of 1/6 day for every class hour
of instruction of 40 | 9 |
| minutes or more attended pursuant to such enrollment,
| 10 |
| unless a pupil is
enrolled in a block-schedule format of 80 | 11 |
| minutes or more of instruction,
in which case the pupil may | 12 |
| be counted on the basis of the proportion of
minutes of | 13 |
| school work completed each day to the minimum number of
| 14 |
| minutes that school work is required to be held that day. | 15 |
| (b) Days of attendance may be less than 5 clock hours | 16 |
| on the opening
and closing of the school term, and upon the | 17 |
| first day of pupil
attendance, if preceded by a day or days | 18 |
| utilized as an institute or
teachers' workshop. | 19 |
| (c) A session of 4 or more clock hours may be counted | 20 |
| as a day of
attendance upon certification by the regional | 21 |
| superintendent, and
approved by the State Superintendent | 22 |
| of Education to the extent that the
district has been | 23 |
| forced to use daily multiple sessions. | 24 |
| (d) A session of 3 or more clock hours may be counted | 25 |
| as a day of
attendance (1) when the remainder of the school | 26 |
| day or at least
2 hours in the evening of that day is |
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| utilized for an
in-service training program for teachers, | 2 |
| up to a maximum of 5 days per
school year, provided a | 3 |
| district conducts an in-service
training program for | 4 |
| teachers in accordance with Section 10-22.39 of this Code; | 5 |
| or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may
be used, in | 6 |
| which event each such day
may be counted as a day required | 7 |
| for a legal school calendar pursuant to Section 10-19 of | 8 |
| this Code; (1.5) when, of the 5 days allowed under item | 9 |
| (1), a maximum of 4 days are used for parent-teacher | 10 |
| conferences, or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days are | 11 |
| used, in which case each such day may be counted as a | 12 |
| calendar day required under Section 10-19 of this Code, | 13 |
| provided that the full-day, parent-teacher conference | 14 |
| consists of (i) a minimum of 5 clock hours of | 15 |
| parent-teacher conferences, (ii) both a minimum of 2 clock | 16 |
| hours of parent-teacher conferences held in the evening | 17 |
| following a full day of student attendance, as specified in | 18 |
| subsection (F)(1)(c), and a minimum of 3 clock hours of | 19 |
| parent-teacher conferences held on the day immediately | 20 |
| following evening parent-teacher conferences, or (iii) | 21 |
| multiple parent-teacher conferences held in the evenings | 22 |
| following full days of student attendance, as specified in | 23 |
| subsection (F)(1)(c), in which the time used for the | 24 |
| parent-teacher conferences is equivalent to a minimum of 5 | 25 |
| clock hours; and (2) when days in
addition to
those | 26 |
| provided in items (1) and (1.5) are scheduled by a school |
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| pursuant to its school
improvement plan adopted under | 2 |
| Article 34 or its revised or amended school
improvement | 3 |
| plan adopted under Article 2, provided that (i) such | 4 |
| sessions of
3 or more clock hours are scheduled to occur at | 5 |
| regular intervals, (ii) the
remainder of the school days in | 6 |
| which such sessions occur are utilized
for in-service | 7 |
| training programs or other staff development activities | 8 |
| for
teachers, and (iii) a sufficient number of minutes of | 9 |
| school work under the
direct supervision of teachers are | 10 |
| added to the school days between such
regularly scheduled | 11 |
| sessions to accumulate not less than the number of minutes
| 12 |
| by which such sessions of 3 or more clock hours fall short | 13 |
| of 5 clock hours.
Any full days used for the purposes of | 14 |
| this paragraph shall not be considered
for
computing | 15 |
| average daily attendance. Days scheduled for in-service | 16 |
| training
programs, staff development activities, or | 17 |
| parent-teacher conferences may be
scheduled separately for | 18 |
| different
grade levels and different attendance centers of | 19 |
| the district. | 20 |
| (e) A session of not less than one clock hour of | 21 |
| teaching
hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or by | 22 |
| telephone to the classroom may
be counted as 1/2 day of | 23 |
| attendance, however these pupils must receive 4 or
more | 24 |
| clock hours of instruction to be counted for a full day of | 25 |
| attendance. | 26 |
| (f) A session of at least 4 clock hours may be counted |
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| as a day of
attendance for first grade pupils, and pupils | 2 |
| in full day kindergartens,
and a session of 2 or more hours | 3 |
| may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance by
pupils in | 4 |
| kindergartens which provide only 1/2 day of attendance. | 5 |
| (g) For children with disabilities who are below the | 6 |
| age of 6 years and
who
cannot attend 2 or more clock hours | 7 |
| because of their disability or
immaturity, a session of not | 8 |
| less than one clock hour may be counted as 1/2 day
of | 9 |
| attendance; however for such children whose educational | 10 |
| needs so require
a session of 4 or more clock hours may be | 11 |
| counted as a full day of attendance. | 12 |
| (h) A recognized kindergarten which provides for only | 13 |
| 1/2 day of
attendance by each pupil shall not have more | 14 |
| than 1/2 day of attendance
counted in any one day. However, | 15 |
| kindergartens may count 2 1/2 days
of
attendance in any 5 | 16 |
| consecutive school days. When a pupil attends such a
| 17 |
| kindergarten for 2 half days on any one school day, the | 18 |
| pupil shall have
the following day as a day absent from | 19 |
| school, unless the school district
obtains permission in | 20 |
| writing from the State Superintendent of Education.
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| Attendance at kindergartens which provide for a full day of | 22 |
| attendance by
each pupil shall be counted the same as | 23 |
| attendance by first grade pupils.
Only the first year of | 24 |
| attendance in one kindergarten shall be counted,
except in | 25 |
| case of children who entered the kindergarten in their | 26 |
| fifth year
whose educational development requires a second |
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| year of kindergarten as
determined under the rules and | 2 |
| regulations of the State Board of Education. | 3 |
| (i) On the days when the Prairie State Achievement | 4 |
| Examination is
administered under subsection (c) of | 5 |
| Section 2-3.64 of this Code, the day
of attendance for a | 6 |
| pupil whose school
day must be shortened to accommodate | 7 |
| required testing procedures may
be less than 5 clock hours | 8 |
| and shall be counted towards the 176 days of actual pupil | 9 |
| attendance required under Section 10-19 of this Code, | 10 |
| provided that a sufficient number of minutes
of school work | 11 |
| in excess of 5 clock hours are first completed on other | 12 |
| school
days to compensate for the loss of school work on | 13 |
| the examination days. | 14 |
| (F-5) Alternative School Calendar. | 15 |
| (1) For school districts adopting an alternative school | 16 |
| calendar for a 4-day school week in accordance with Section | 17 |
| 10-19.4 of this Code, days of attendance by pupils shall be | 18 |
| counted only for sessions of not less than 375 minutes of | 19 |
| school work per day under the direct supervision of (i) | 20 |
| teachers or (ii) non-teaching personnel or volunteer personnel | 21 |
| when engaging in non-teaching duties and supervising in those | 22 |
| instances specified in subsection (a) of Section 10-22.34 of | 23 |
| this Code with pupils of legal school age and in kindergarten | 24 |
| and grades 1 through 12. | 25 |
| (2)
Days of attendance by tuition pupils shall be |
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| a recognized school. | 3 |
| (3) Days of attendance by pupils of less than 375 minutes | 4 |
| of school are subject to the following provisions in the | 5 |
| compilation of Average Daily Attendance. | 6 |
| (a) Pupils regularly enrolled in a public school for | 7 |
| only a part of the school day may be counted on the basis | 8 |
| of 1/6 day for every class hour of instruction of 50 | 9 |
| minutes or more attended pursuant to such enrollment, | 10 |
| unless a pupil is enrolled in a block-schedule format of | 11 |
| 100 minutes or more of instruction, in which case the pupil | 12 |
| may be counted on the basis of the proportion of minutes of | 13 |
| school work completed each day to the minimum number of | 14 |
| minutes that school work is required to be held that day. | 15 |
| (b) Days of attendance may be less than 5 clock hours | 16 |
| on the opening and closing of the school term and upon the | 17 |
| first day of pupil attendance if preceded by a day or days | 18 |
| utilized as an institute or teachers' workshop. | 19 |
| (c) A session of 300 minutes may be counted as a day of | 20 |
| attendance, upon certification by the regional | 21 |
| superintendent and approval by the State Superintendent of | 22 |
| Education, to the extent that the district has been forced | 23 |
| to use daily multiple sessions. | 24 |
| (d) A session of 225 minutes may be counted as a day of | 25 |
| attendance (1) when the remainder of the school day or at | 26 |
| least 150 minutes in the evening of that day is utilized |
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| for an in-service training program for teachers, up to a | 2 |
| maximum of 5 days per school year of which a maximum of 4 | 3 |
| days of such 5 days may be used for parent-teacher | 4 |
| conferences, provided that a district conducts an | 5 |
| in-service training program for teachers that has been | 6 |
| approved by the State Superintendent of Education; or, in | 7 |
| lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may be used, in which | 8 |
| event each such day may be counted as a day of attendance; | 9 |
| and (2) when days in addition to those provided in clause | 10 |
| (1) of this subdivision (d) are scheduled by a school | 11 |
| pursuant to its revised or amended school improvement plan | 12 |
| adopted under Article 2 of this Code, provided that (i) | 13 |
| such sessions of 225 minutes are scheduled to occur at | 14 |
| regular intervals, (ii) the remainder of the school days in | 15 |
| which such sessions occur are utilized for in-service | 16 |
| training programs or other staff development activities | 17 |
| for teachers, and (iii) a sufficient number of minutes of | 18 |
| school work under the direct supervision of teachers are | 19 |
| added to the school days between such regularly scheduled | 20 |
| sessions to accumulate not less than the number of minutes | 21 |
| by which such sessions of 225 minutes fall short of 375 | 22 |
| minutes. Any full days used for the purposes of this | 23 |
| subdivision (d) shall not be considered in computing | 24 |
| Average Daily Attendance. Days scheduled for in-service | 25 |
| training programs, staff development activities, or | 26 |
| parent-teacher conferences may be scheduled separately for |
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| different grade levels and different attendance centers of | 2 |
| the district. | 3 |
| (e) A session of not less than 75 minutes of teaching | 4 |
| hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or by telephone to | 5 |
| the classroom may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance; | 6 |
| however, these pupils must receive 300 minutes or more of | 7 |
| instruction to be counted for a full day of attendance. | 8 |
| (f) A session of at least 300 minutes may be counted as | 9 |
| a day of attendance for first grade pupils and pupils in | 10 |
| full day kindergartens, and a session of 150 minutes or | 11 |
| more may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance by pupils in | 12 |
| kindergartens that provide only 1/2 day of attendance. | 13 |
| (g) For children with disabilities who are below the | 14 |
| age of 6 years and who cannot attend 150 minutes or more | 15 |
| because of their disability or immaturity, a session of not | 16 |
| less than 75 minutes may be counted as 1/2 day of | 17 |
| attendance; however, for such children whose educational | 18 |
| needs so require, a session of 4,300 minutes or more may be | 19 |
| counted as a full day of attendance. | 20 |
| (h) A recognized kindergarten that provides for only | 21 |
| 1/2 day of attendance by each pupil shall not have more | 22 |
| than 1/2 day of attendance counted in any one day. However, | 23 |
| kindergartens may count 2 days of attendance in any 4 | 24 |
| consecutive school days. When a pupil attends such a | 25 |
| kindergarten for 2 half-days on any one school day, the | 26 |
| pupil shall have the following day as a day absent from |
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| school, unless the school district obtains permission in | 2 |
| writing from the State Superintendent of Education. | 3 |
| Attendance at kindergartens that provide for a full day of | 4 |
| attendance by each pupil shall be counted the same as | 5 |
| attendance by first grade pupils. Only the first year of | 6 |
| attendance in one kindergarten shall be counted, except in | 7 |
| case of children who entered kindergarten in their fifth | 8 |
| year and whose educational development requires a second | 9 |
| year of kindergarten as determined under the rules of the | 10 |
| State Board of Education. | 11 |
| (i) On the days when the Prairie State Achievement | 12 |
| Examination is administered under subsection (c) of | 13 |
| Section 2-3.64 of this Code, the day of attendance for a | 14 |
| pupil whose school day must be shortened to accommodate | 15 |
| required testing procedures may be less than 375 minutes | 16 |
| and shall be counted towards the 141 days of actual pupil | 17 |
| attendance required under this Section, provided that a | 18 |
| sufficient number of minutes of school work in excess of | 19 |
| 375 minutes are first completed on other school days to | 20 |
| compensate for the loss of school work on the examination | 21 |
| days.
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| (G) Equalized Assessed Valuation Data. | 23 |
| (1) For purposes of the calculation of Available Local | 24 |
| Resources required
pursuant to subsection (D), the
State Board | 25 |
| of Education shall secure from the Department of
Revenue the |
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| value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue of
| 2 |
| all taxable property of every school district, together with | 3 |
| (i) the applicable
tax rate used in extending taxes for the | 4 |
| funds of the district as of
September 30 of the previous year
| 5 |
| and (ii) the limiting rate for all school
districts subject to | 6 |
| property tax extension limitations as imposed under the
| 7 |
| Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
| 8 |
| The Department of Revenue shall add to the equalized | 9 |
| assessed value of all
taxable
property of each school district | 10 |
| situated entirely or partially within a county
that is or was | 11 |
| subject to the
provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the | 12 |
| Property Tax Code (a)
an amount equal to the total amount by | 13 |
| which the
homestead exemption allowed under Section 15-176 or | 14 |
| 15-177 of the Property Tax Code for
real
property situated in | 15 |
| that school district exceeds the total amount that would
have | 16 |
| been
allowed in that school district if the maximum reduction | 17 |
| under Section 15-176
was
(i) $4,500 in Cook County or $3,500 in | 18 |
| all other counties in tax year 2003 or (ii) $5,000 in all | 19 |
| counties in tax year 2004 and thereafter and (b) an amount | 20 |
| equal to the aggregate amount for the taxable year of all | 21 |
| additional exemptions under Section 15-175 of the Property Tax | 22 |
| Code for owners with a household income of $30,000 or less. The | 23 |
| county clerk of any county that is or was subject to the | 24 |
| provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code | 25 |
| shall
annually calculate and certify to the Department of | 26 |
| Revenue for each school
district all
homestead exemption |
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| amounts under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code | 2 |
| and all amounts of additional exemptions under Section 15-175 | 3 |
| of the Property Tax Code for owners with a household income of | 4 |
| $30,000 or less. It is the intent of this paragraph that if the | 5 |
| general homestead exemption for a parcel of property is | 6 |
| determined under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax | 7 |
| Code rather than Section 15-175, then the calculation of | 8 |
| Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the | 9 |
| difference, if any, between the amount of the general homestead | 10 |
| exemption allowed for that parcel of property under Section | 11 |
| 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code and the amount that | 12 |
| would have been allowed had the general homestead exemption for | 13 |
| that parcel of property been determined under Section 15-175 of | 14 |
| the Property Tax Code. It is further the intent of this | 15 |
| paragraph that if additional exemptions are allowed under | 16 |
| Section 15-175 of the Property Tax Code for owners with a | 17 |
| household income of less than $30,000, then the calculation of | 18 |
| Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the | 19 |
| difference, if any, because of those additional exemptions. | 20 |
| This equalized assessed valuation, as adjusted further by | 21 |
| the requirements of
this subsection, shall be utilized in the | 22 |
| calculation of Available Local
Resources. | 23 |
| (2) The equalized assessed valuation in paragraph (1) shall | 24 |
| be adjusted, as
applicable, in the following manner: | 25 |
| (a) For the purposes of calculating State aid under | 26 |
| this Section,
with respect to any part of a school district |
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| within a redevelopment
project area in respect to which a | 2 |
| municipality has adopted tax
increment allocation | 3 |
| financing pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation
| 4 |
| Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1 through 11-74.4-11 | 5 |
| of the Illinois
Municipal Code or the Industrial Jobs | 6 |
| Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1 through
11-74.6-50 of the | 7 |
| Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the current equalized
| 8 |
| assessed valuation of real property located in any such | 9 |
| project area which is
attributable to an increase above the | 10 |
| total initial equalized assessed
valuation of such | 11 |
| property shall be used as part of the equalized assessed
| 12 |
| valuation of the district, until such time as all
| 13 |
| redevelopment project costs have been paid, as provided in | 14 |
| Section 11-74.4-8
of the Tax Increment Allocation | 15 |
| Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of
the | 16 |
| Industrial Jobs Recovery Law. For the purpose of
the | 17 |
| equalized assessed valuation of the
district, the total | 18 |
| initial equalized assessed valuation or the current
| 19 |
| equalized assessed valuation, whichever is lower, shall be | 20 |
| used until
such time as all redevelopment project costs | 21 |
| have been paid. | 22 |
| (b) The real property equalized assessed valuation for | 23 |
| a school district
shall be adjusted by subtracting from the | 24 |
| real property
value as equalized or assessed by the | 25 |
| Department of Revenue for the
district an amount computed | 26 |
| by dividing the amount of any abatement of
taxes under |
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| Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code by 3.00% for a | 2 |
| district
maintaining grades kindergarten through 12, by | 3 |
| 2.30% for a district
maintaining grades kindergarten | 4 |
| through 8, or by 1.05% for a
district
maintaining grades 9 | 5 |
| through 12 and adjusted by an amount computed by dividing
| 6 |
| the amount of any abatement of taxes under subsection (a) | 7 |
| of Section 18-165 of
the Property Tax Code by the same | 8 |
| percentage rates for district type as
specified in this | 9 |
| subparagraph (b). | 10 |
| (3) For the 1999-2000 school year and each school year | 11 |
| thereafter, if a
school district meets all of the criteria of | 12 |
| this subsection (G)(3), the school
district's Available Local | 13 |
| Resources shall be calculated under subsection (D)
using the | 14 |
| district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation | 15 |
| as
calculated under this
subsection (G)(3). | 16 |
| For purposes of this subsection (G)(3) the following terms | 17 |
| shall have
the following meanings: | 18 |
| "Budget Year": The school year for which general State | 19 |
| aid is calculated
and
awarded under subsection (E). | 20 |
| "Base Tax Year": The property tax levy year used to | 21 |
| calculate the Budget
Year
allocation of general State aid. | 22 |
| "Preceding Tax Year": The property tax levy year | 23 |
| immediately preceding the
Base Tax Year. | 24 |
| "Base Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of the | 25 |
| equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County Clerk | 26 |
| in the Base Tax Year multiplied by the
limiting rate as |
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| calculated by the County Clerk and defined in the Property | 2 |
| Tax
Extension Limitation Law. | 3 |
| "Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of | 4 |
| the equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County | 5 |
| Clerk in the Preceding Tax Year multiplied by
the Operating | 6 |
| Tax Rate as defined in subsection (A). | 7 |
| "Extension Limitation Ratio": A numerical ratio, | 8 |
| certified by the
County Clerk, in which the numerator is | 9 |
| the Base Tax Year's Tax
Extension and the denominator is | 10 |
| the Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension. | 11 |
| "Operating Tax Rate": The operating tax rate as defined | 12 |
| in subsection (A). | 13 |
| If a school district is subject to property tax extension | 14 |
| limitations as
imposed under
the Property Tax Extension | 15 |
| Limitation Law, the State Board of Education shall
calculate | 16 |
| the Extension
Limitation
Equalized Assessed Valuation of that | 17 |
| district. For the 1999-2000 school
year, the
Extension | 18 |
| Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school district as
| 19 |
| calculated by the State Board of Education shall be equal to | 20 |
| the product of the
district's 1996 Equalized Assessed Valuation | 21 |
| and the district's Extension
Limitation Ratio. Except as | 22 |
| otherwise provided in this paragraph for a school district that | 23 |
| has approved or does approve an increase in its limiting rate, | 24 |
| for the 2000-2001 school year and each school year
thereafter,
| 25 |
| the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a | 26 |
| school district as
calculated by the State Board of Education |
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| shall be equal to the product of
the Equalized Assessed | 2 |
| Valuation last used in the calculation of general State
aid and | 3 |
| the
district's Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension | 4 |
| Limitation
Equalized
Assessed Valuation of a school district as | 5 |
| calculated under
this subsection (G)(3) is less than the | 6 |
| district's equalized assessed valuation
as calculated pursuant | 7 |
| to subsections (G)(1) and (G)(2), then for purposes of
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| calculating the district's general State aid for the Budget | 9 |
| Year pursuant to
subsection (E), that Extension
Limitation | 10 |
| Equalized Assessed Valuation shall be utilized to calculate the
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| district's Available Local Resources
under subsection (D). For | 12 |
| the 2009-2010 school year and each school year thereafter, if a | 13 |
| school district has approved or does approve an increase in its | 14 |
| limiting rate, pursuant to Section 18-190 of the Property Tax | 15 |
| Code, affecting the Base Tax Year, the Extension Limitation | 16 |
| Equalized Assessed Valuation of the school district, as | 17 |
| calculated by the State Board of Education, shall be equal to | 18 |
| the product of the Equalized Assessed Valuation last used in | 19 |
| the calculation of general State aid times an amount equal to | 20 |
| one plus the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price | 21 |
| Index for all Urban Consumers for all items published by the | 22 |
| United States Department of Labor for the 12-month calendar | 23 |
| year preceding the Base Tax Year, plus the Equalized Assessed | 24 |
| Valuation of new property, annexed property, and recovered tax | 25 |
| increment value and minus the Equalized Assessed Valuation of | 26 |
| disconnected property. New property and recovered tax |
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| increment value shall have the meanings set forth in the | 2 |
| Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. | 3 |
| Partial elementary unit districts created in accordance | 4 |
| with Article 11E of this Code shall not be eligible for the | 5 |
| adjustment in this subsection (G)(3) until the fifth year | 6 |
| following the effective date of the reorganization.
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| (4) For the purposes of calculating general State aid for | 8 |
| the 1999-2000
school year only, if a school district | 9 |
| experienced a triennial reassessment on
the equalized assessed | 10 |
| valuation used in calculating its general State
financial aid | 11 |
| apportionment for the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board of
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| Education shall calculate the Extension Limitation Equalized | 13 |
| Assessed Valuation
that would have been used to calculate the | 14 |
| district's 1998-1999 general State
aid. This amount shall equal | 15 |
| the product of the equalized assessed valuation
used to
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| calculate general State aid for the 1997-1998 school year and | 17 |
| the district's
Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension | 18 |
| Limitation Equalized Assessed
Valuation of the school district | 19 |
| as calculated under this paragraph (4) is
less than the | 20 |
| district's equalized assessed valuation utilized in | 21 |
| calculating
the
district's 1998-1999 general State aid | 22 |
| allocation, then for purposes of
calculating the district's | 23 |
| general State aid pursuant to paragraph (5) of
subsection (E),
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| that Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation shall | 25 |
| be utilized to
calculate the district's Available Local | 26 |
| Resources. |
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| (5) For school districts having a majority of their | 2 |
| equalized assessed
valuation in any county except Cook, DuPage, | 3 |
| Kane, Lake, McHenry, or Will, if
the amount of general State | 4 |
| aid allocated to the school district for the
1999-2000 school | 5 |
| year under the provisions of subsection (E), (H), and (J) of
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| this Section is less than the amount of general State aid | 7 |
| allocated to the
district for the 1998-1999 school year under | 8 |
| these subsections, then the
general
State aid of the district | 9 |
| for the 1999-2000 school year only shall be increased
by the | 10 |
| difference between these amounts. The total payments made under | 11 |
| this
paragraph (5) shall not exceed $14,000,000. Claims shall | 12 |
| be prorated if they
exceed $14,000,000.
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| (H) Supplemental General State Aid. | 14 |
| (1) In addition to the general State aid a school district | 15 |
| is allotted
pursuant to subsection (E), qualifying school | 16 |
| districts shall receive a grant,
paid in conjunction with a | 17 |
| district's payments of general State aid, for
supplemental | 18 |
| general State aid based upon the concentration level of | 19 |
| children
from low-income households within the school | 20 |
| district.
Supplemental State aid grants provided for school | 21 |
| districts under this
subsection shall be appropriated for | 22 |
| distribution to school districts as part
of the same line item | 23 |
| in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is | 24 |
| appropriated under this Section.
If the appropriation in any | 25 |
| fiscal year for general State aid and
supplemental general |
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| State aid is insufficient to pay the amounts required
under the | 2 |
| general State aid and supplemental general State aid | 3 |
| calculations,
then the
State Board of Education shall ensure | 4 |
| that
each school district receives the full amount due for | 5 |
| general State aid
and the remainder of the appropriation shall | 6 |
| be used
for supplemental general State aid, which the State | 7 |
| Board of Education shall
calculate and pay to eligible | 8 |
| districts on a prorated basis. | 9 |
| (1.5) This paragraph (1.5) applies only to those school | 10 |
| years
preceding the 2003-2004 school year.
For purposes of this
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| subsection (H), the term "Low-Income Concentration Level" | 12 |
| shall be the
low-income
eligible pupil count from the most | 13 |
| recently available federal census divided by
the Average Daily | 14 |
| Attendance of the school district.
If, however, (i) the | 15 |
| percentage decrease from the 2 most recent federal
censuses
in | 16 |
| the low-income eligible pupil count of a high school district | 17 |
| with fewer
than 400 students exceeds by 75% or more the | 18 |
| percentage change in the total
low-income eligible pupil count | 19 |
| of contiguous elementary school districts,
whose boundaries | 20 |
| are coterminous with the high school district,
or (ii) a high | 21 |
| school district within 2 counties and serving 5 elementary
| 22 |
| school
districts, whose boundaries are coterminous with the | 23 |
| high school
district, has a percentage decrease from the 2 most | 24 |
| recent federal
censuses in the low-income eligible pupil count | 25 |
| and there is a percentage
increase in the total low-income | 26 |
| eligible pupil count of a majority of the
elementary school |
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| districts in excess of 50% from the 2 most recent
federal | 2 |
| censuses, then
the
high school district's low-income eligible | 3 |
| pupil count from the earlier federal
census
shall be the number | 4 |
| used as the low-income eligible pupil count for the high
school | 5 |
| district, for purposes of this subsection (H).
The changes made | 6 |
| to this paragraph (1) by Public Act 92-28 shall apply to
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| supplemental general State aid
grants for school years | 8 |
| preceding the 2003-2004 school year that are paid
in fiscal | 9 |
| year 1999 or thereafter
and to
any State aid payments made in | 10 |
| fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year
1998 pursuant to | 11 |
| subsection 1(n) of Section 18-8 of this Code (which was
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| repealed on July 1, 1998), and any high school district that is | 13 |
| affected by
Public Act 92-28 is
entitled to a
recomputation of | 14 |
| its supplemental general State aid grant or State aid
paid in | 15 |
| any of those fiscal years. This recomputation shall not be
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| affected by any other funding. | 17 |
| (1.10) This paragraph (1.10) applies to the 2003-2004 | 18 |
| school year
and each school year thereafter. For purposes of | 19 |
| this subsection (H), the
term "Low-Income Concentration Level" | 20 |
| shall, for each fiscal year, be the
low-income eligible
pupil | 21 |
| count
as of July 1 of the immediately preceding fiscal year
(as | 22 |
| determined by the Department of Human Services based
on the | 23 |
| number of pupils
who are eligible for at least one of the | 24 |
| following
low income programs: Medicaid, the Children's Health | 25 |
| Insurance Program, TANF, or Food Stamps,
excluding pupils who | 26 |
| are eligible for services provided by the Department
of |
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| Children and Family Services,
averaged over
the 2 immediately | 2 |
| preceding fiscal years for fiscal year 2004 and over the 3
| 3 |
| immediately preceding fiscal years for each fiscal year | 4 |
| thereafter)
divided by the Average Daily Attendance of the | 5 |
| school district. | 6 |
| (2) Supplemental general State aid pursuant to this | 7 |
| subsection (H) shall
be
provided as follows for the 1998-1999, | 8 |
| 1999-2000, and 2000-2001 school years
only: | 9 |
| (a) For any school district with a Low Income | 10 |
| Concentration Level of at
least 20% and less than 35%, the | 11 |
| grant for any school year
shall be $800
multiplied by the | 12 |
| low income eligible pupil count. | 13 |
| (b) For any school district with a Low Income | 14 |
| Concentration Level of at
least 35% and less than 50%, the | 15 |
| grant for the 1998-1999 school year shall be
$1,100 | 16 |
| multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count. | 17 |
| (c) For any school district with a Low Income | 18 |
| Concentration Level of at
least 50% and less than 60%, the | 19 |
| grant for the 1998-99 school year shall be
$1,500 | 20 |
| multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count. | 21 |
| (d) For any school district with a Low Income | 22 |
| Concentration Level of 60%
or more, the grant for the | 23 |
| 1998-99 school year shall be $1,900 multiplied by
the low | 24 |
| income eligible pupil count. | 25 |
| (e) For the 1999-2000 school year, the per pupil amount | 26 |
| specified in
subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) immediately |
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| above shall be increased to $1,243,
$1,600, and $2,000, | 2 |
| respectively. | 3 |
| (f) For the 2000-2001 school year, the per pupil | 4 |
| amounts specified in
subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) | 5 |
| immediately above shall be
$1,273, $1,640, and $2,050, | 6 |
| respectively. | 7 |
| (2.5) Supplemental general State aid pursuant to this | 8 |
| subsection (H)
shall be provided as follows for the 2002-2003 | 9 |
| school year: | 10 |
| (a) For any school district with a Low Income | 11 |
| Concentration Level of less
than 10%, the grant for each | 12 |
| school year shall be $355 multiplied by the low
income | 13 |
| eligible pupil count. | 14 |
| (b) For any school district with a Low Income | 15 |
| Concentration
Level of at least 10% and less than 20%, the | 16 |
| grant for each school year shall
be $675
multiplied by the | 17 |
| low income eligible pupil
count. | 18 |
| (c) For any school district with a Low Income | 19 |
| Concentration
Level of at least 20% and less than 35%, the | 20 |
| grant for each school year shall
be $1,330
multiplied by | 21 |
| the low income eligible pupil
count. | 22 |
| (d) For any school district with a Low Income | 23 |
| Concentration
Level of at least 35% and less than 50%, the | 24 |
| grant for each school year shall
be $1,362
multiplied by | 25 |
| the low income eligible pupil
count. | 26 |
| (e) For any school district with a Low Income |
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Level of at least 50% and less than 60%, the | 2 |
| grant for each school year shall
be $1,680
multiplied by | 3 |
| the low income eligible pupil
count. | 4 |
| (f) For any school district with a Low Income | 5 |
| Concentration
Level of 60% or more, the grant for each | 6 |
| school year shall be $2,080
multiplied by the low income | 7 |
| eligible pupil count. | 8 |
| (2.10) Except as otherwise provided, supplemental general | 9 |
| State aid
pursuant to this subsection
(H) shall be provided as | 10 |
| follows for the 2003-2004 school year and each
school year | 11 |
| thereafter: | 12 |
| (a) For any school district with a Low Income | 13 |
| Concentration
Level of 15% or less, the grant for each | 14 |
| school year
shall be $355 multiplied by the low income | 15 |
| eligible pupil count. | 16 |
| (b) For any school district with a Low Income | 17 |
| Concentration
Level greater than 15%, the grant for each | 18 |
| school year shall be
$294.25 added to the product of $2,700 | 19 |
| and the square of the Low
Income Concentration Level, all | 20 |
| multiplied by the low income
eligible pupil count. | 21 |
| For the 2003-2004 school year and each school year | 22 |
| thereafter through the 2008-2009 school year only, the grant | 23 |
| shall be no less than the
grant
for
the 2002-2003 school year. | 24 |
| For the 2009-2010 school year only, the grant shall
be no
less | 25 |
| than the grant for the 2002-2003 school year multiplied by | 26 |
| 0.66. For the 2010-2011
school year only, the grant shall be no |
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| less than the grant for the 2002-2003
school year
multiplied by | 2 |
| 0.33. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph to the | 3 |
| contrary, if for any school year supplemental general State aid | 4 |
| grants are prorated as provided in paragraph (1) of this | 5 |
| subsection (H), then the grants under this paragraph shall be | 6 |
| prorated.
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| For the 2003-2004 school year only, the grant shall be no | 8 |
| greater
than the grant received during the 2002-2003 school | 9 |
| year added to the
product of 0.25 multiplied by the difference | 10 |
| between the grant amount
calculated under subsection (a) or (b) | 11 |
| of this paragraph (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the | 12 |
| grant received during the 2002-2003 school year.
For the | 13 |
| 2004-2005 school year only, the grant shall be no greater than
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| the grant received during the 2002-2003 school year added to | 15 |
| the
product of 0.50 multiplied by the difference between the | 16 |
| grant amount
calculated under subsection (a) or (b) of this | 17 |
| paragraph (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the grant | 18 |
| received during the 2002-2003 school year.
For the 2005-2006 | 19 |
| school year only, the grant shall be no greater than
the grant | 20 |
| received during the 2002-2003 school year added to the
product | 21 |
| of 0.75 multiplied by the difference between the grant amount
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| calculated under subsection (a) or (b) of this paragraph | 23 |
| (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the grant received during | 24 |
| the 2002-2003
school year. | 25 |
| (3) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of | 26 |
| more than 1,000
and less than 50,000 that qualify for |
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| supplemental general State aid pursuant
to this subsection | 2 |
| shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education prior to
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| October 30 of each year for the use of the funds resulting from | 4 |
| this grant of
supplemental general State aid for the | 5 |
| improvement of
instruction in which priority is given to | 6 |
| meeting the education needs of
disadvantaged children. Such | 7 |
| plan shall be submitted in accordance with
rules and | 8 |
| regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education. | 9 |
| (4) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of | 10 |
| 50,000 or more
that qualify for supplemental general State aid | 11 |
| pursuant to this subsection
shall be required to distribute | 12 |
| from funds available pursuant to this Section,
no less than | 13 |
| $261,000,000 in accordance with the following requirements: | 14 |
| (a) The required amounts shall be distributed to the | 15 |
| attendance centers
within the district in proportion to the | 16 |
| number of pupils enrolled at each
attendance center who are | 17 |
| eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches or
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| breakfasts under the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 | 19 |
| and under the National
School Lunch Act during the | 20 |
| immediately preceding school year. | 21 |
| (b) The distribution of these portions of supplemental | 22 |
| and general State
aid among attendance centers according to | 23 |
| these requirements shall not be
compensated for or | 24 |
| contravened by adjustments of the total of other funds
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| appropriated to any attendance centers, and the Board of | 26 |
| Education shall
utilize funding from one or several sources |
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| in order to fully implement this
provision annually prior | 2 |
| to the opening of school. | 3 |
| (c) Each attendance center shall be provided by the
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| school district a distribution of noncategorical funds and | 5 |
| other
categorical funds to which an attendance center is | 6 |
| entitled under law in
order that the general State aid and | 7 |
| supplemental general State aid provided
by application of | 8 |
| this subsection supplements rather than supplants the
| 9 |
| noncategorical funds and other categorical funds provided | 10 |
| by the school
district to the attendance centers. | 11 |
| (d) Any funds made available under this subsection that | 12 |
| by reason of the
provisions of this subsection are not
| 13 |
| required to be allocated and provided to attendance centers | 14 |
| may be used and
appropriated by the board of the district | 15 |
| for any lawful school purpose. | 16 |
| (e) Funds received by an attendance center
pursuant to | 17 |
| this
subsection shall be used
by the attendance center at | 18 |
| the discretion
of the principal and local school council | 19 |
| for programs to improve educational
opportunities at | 20 |
| qualifying schools through the following programs and
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| services: early childhood education, reduced class size or | 22 |
| improved adult to
student classroom ratio, enrichment | 23 |
| programs, remedial assistance, attendance
improvement, and | 24 |
| other educationally beneficial expenditures which
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| supplement
the regular and basic programs as determined by | 26 |
| the State Board of Education.
Funds provided shall not be |
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| expended for any political or lobbying purposes
as defined | 2 |
| by board rule. | 3 |
| (f) Each district subject to the provisions of this | 4 |
| subdivision (H)(4)
shall submit an
acceptable plan to meet | 5 |
| the educational needs of disadvantaged children, in
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| compliance with the requirements of this paragraph, to the | 7 |
| State Board of
Education prior to July 15 of each year. | 8 |
| This plan shall be consistent with the
decisions of local | 9 |
| school councils concerning the school expenditure plans
| 10 |
| developed in accordance with part 4 of Section 34-2.3. The | 11 |
| State Board shall
approve or reject the plan within 60 days | 12 |
| after its submission. If the plan is
rejected, the district | 13 |
| shall give written notice of intent to modify the plan
| 14 |
| within 15 days of the notification of rejection and then | 15 |
| submit a modified plan
within 30 days after the date of the | 16 |
| written notice of intent to modify.
Districts may amend | 17 |
| approved plans pursuant to rules promulgated by the State
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| Board of Education. | 19 |
| Upon notification by the State Board of Education that | 20 |
| the district has
not submitted a plan prior to July 15 or a | 21 |
| modified plan within the time
period specified herein, the
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| State aid funds affected by that plan or modified plan | 23 |
| shall be withheld by the
State Board of Education until a | 24 |
| plan or modified plan is submitted. | 25 |
| If the district fails to distribute State aid to | 26 |
| attendance centers in
accordance with an approved plan, the |
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| plan for the following year shall
allocate funds, in | 2 |
| addition to the funds otherwise required by this
| 3 |
| subsection, to those attendance centers which were | 4 |
| underfunded during the
previous year in amounts equal to | 5 |
| such underfunding. | 6 |
| For purposes of determining compliance with this | 7 |
| subsection in relation
to the requirements of attendance | 8 |
| center funding, each district subject to the
provisions of | 9 |
| this
subsection shall submit as a separate document by | 10 |
| December 1 of each year a
report of expenditure data for | 11 |
| the prior year in addition to any
modification of its | 12 |
| current plan. If it is determined that there has been
a | 13 |
| failure to comply with the expenditure provisions of this | 14 |
| subsection
regarding contravention or supplanting, the | 15 |
| State Superintendent of
Education shall, within 60 days of | 16 |
| receipt of the report, notify the
district and any affected | 17 |
| local school council. The district shall within
45 days of | 18 |
| receipt of that notification inform the State | 19 |
| Superintendent of
Education of the remedial or corrective | 20 |
| action to be taken, whether by
amendment of the current | 21 |
| plan, if feasible, or by adjustment in the plan
for the | 22 |
| following year. Failure to provide the expenditure report | 23 |
| or the
notification of remedial or corrective action in a | 24 |
| timely manner shall
result in a withholding of the affected | 25 |
| funds. | 26 |
| The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and |
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| regulations
to implement the provisions of this | 2 |
| subsection. No funds shall be released
under this | 3 |
| subdivision (H)(4) to any district that has not submitted a | 4 |
| plan
that has been approved by the State Board of | 5 |
| Education.
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| (I) (Blank).
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| (J) Supplementary Grants in Aid. | 8 |
| (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, | 9 |
| the amount of the
aggregate general State aid in combination | 10 |
| with supplemental general State aid
under this Section for | 11 |
| which
each school district is eligible shall be no
less than | 12 |
| the amount of the aggregate general State aid entitlement that | 13 |
| was
received by the district under Section
18-8 (exclusive of | 14 |
| amounts received
under subsections 5(p) and 5(p-5) of that | 15 |
| Section)
for the 1997-98 school year,
pursuant to the | 16 |
| provisions of that Section as it was then in effect.
If a | 17 |
| school district qualifies to receive a supplementary payment | 18 |
| made under
this subsection (J), the amount
of the aggregate | 19 |
| general State aid in combination with supplemental general
| 20 |
| State aid under this Section
which that district is eligible to | 21 |
| receive for each school year shall be no less than the amount | 22 |
| of the aggregate
general State aid entitlement that was | 23 |
| received by the district under
Section 18-8 (exclusive of | 24 |
| amounts received
under subsections 5(p) and 5(p-5) of that |
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| Section)
for the 1997-1998 school year, pursuant to the | 2 |
| provisions of that
Section as it was then in effect. | 3 |
| (2) If, as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection | 4 |
| (J), a school
district is to receive aggregate general State | 5 |
| aid in
combination with supplemental general State aid under | 6 |
| this Section for the 1998-99 school year and any subsequent | 7 |
| school
year that in any such school year is less than the | 8 |
| amount of the aggregate
general
State
aid entitlement that the | 9 |
| district received for the 1997-98 school year, the
school | 10 |
| district shall also receive, from a separate appropriation made | 11 |
| for
purposes of this subsection (J), a supplementary payment | 12 |
| that is equal to the
amount of the difference in the aggregate | 13 |
| State aid figures as described in
paragraph (1). | 14 |
| (3) (Blank).
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| (K) Grants to Laboratory and Alternative Schools. | 16 |
| In calculating the amount to be paid to the governing board | 17 |
| of a public
university that operates a laboratory school under | 18 |
| this Section or to any
alternative school that is operated by a | 19 |
| regional superintendent of schools,
the State
Board of | 20 |
| Education shall require by rule such reporting requirements as | 21 |
| it
deems necessary. | 22 |
| As used in this Section, "laboratory school" means a public | 23 |
| school which is
created and operated by a public university and | 24 |
| approved by the State Board of
Education. The governing board | 25 |
| of a public university which receives funds
from the State |
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| Board under this subsection (K) may not increase the number of
| 2 |
| students enrolled in its laboratory
school from a single | 3 |
| district, if that district is already sending 50 or more
| 4 |
| students, except under a mutual agreement between the school | 5 |
| board of a
student's district of residence and the university | 6 |
| which operates the
laboratory school. A laboratory school may | 7 |
| not have more than 1,000 students,
excluding students with | 8 |
| disabilities in a special education program. | 9 |
| As used in this Section, "alternative school" means a | 10 |
| public school which is
created and operated by a Regional | 11 |
| Superintendent of Schools and approved by
the State Board of | 12 |
| Education. Such alternative schools may offer courses of
| 13 |
| instruction for which credit is given in regular school | 14 |
| programs, courses to
prepare students for the high school | 15 |
| equivalency testing program or vocational
and occupational | 16 |
| training. A regional superintendent of schools may contract
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| with a school district or a public community college district | 18 |
| to operate an
alternative school. An alternative school serving | 19 |
| more than one educational
service region may be established by | 20 |
| the regional superintendents of schools
of the affected | 21 |
| educational service regions. An alternative school
serving | 22 |
| more than one educational service region may be operated under | 23 |
| such
terms as the regional superintendents of schools of those | 24 |
| educational service
regions may agree. | 25 |
| Each laboratory and alternative school shall file, on forms | 26 |
| provided by the
State Superintendent of Education, an annual |
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| State aid claim which states the
Average Daily Attendance of | 2 |
| the school's students by month. The best 3 months'
Average | 3 |
| Daily Attendance shall be computed for each school.
The general | 4 |
| State aid entitlement shall be computed by multiplying the
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| applicable Average Daily Attendance by the Foundation Level as | 6 |
| determined under
this Section.
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| (L) Payments, Additional Grants in Aid and Other Requirements. | 8 |
| (1) For a school district operating under the financial | 9 |
| supervision
of an Authority created under Article 34A, the | 10 |
| general State aid otherwise
payable to that district under this | 11 |
| Section, but not the supplemental general
State aid, shall be | 12 |
| reduced by an amount equal to the budget for
the operations of | 13 |
| the Authority as certified by the Authority to the State
Board | 14 |
| of Education, and an amount equal to such reduction shall be | 15 |
| paid
to the Authority created for such district for its | 16 |
| operating expenses in
the manner provided in Section 18-11. The | 17 |
| remainder
of general State school aid for any such district | 18 |
| shall be paid in accordance
with Article 34A when that Article | 19 |
| provides for a disposition other than that
provided by this | 20 |
| Article. | 21 |
| (2) (Blank). | 22 |
| (3) Summer school. Summer school payments shall be made as | 23 |
| provided in
Section 18-4.3.
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| (M) Education Funding Advisory Board. |
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| The Education Funding Advisory
Board, hereinafter in this | 2 |
| subsection (M) referred to as the "Board", is hereby
created. | 3 |
| The Board
shall consist of 5 members who are appointed by the | 4 |
| Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate. The | 5 |
| members appointed shall include
representatives of education, | 6 |
| business, and the general public. One of the
members so | 7 |
| appointed shall be
designated by the Governor at the time the | 8 |
| appointment is made as the
chairperson of the
Board.
The | 9 |
| initial members of the Board may
be appointed any time after | 10 |
| the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1997. The regular | 11 |
| term of each member of the
Board shall be for 4 years from the | 12 |
| third Monday of January of the
year in which the term of the | 13 |
| member's appointment is to commence, except that
of the 5 | 14 |
| initial members appointed to serve on the
Board, the member who | 15 |
| is appointed as the chairperson shall serve for
a term that | 16 |
| commences on the date of his or her appointment and expires on | 17 |
| the
third Monday of January, 2002, and the remaining 4 members, | 18 |
| by lots drawn at
the first meeting of the Board that is
held
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| after all 5 members are appointed, shall determine 2 of their | 20 |
| number to serve
for terms that commence on the date of their
| 21 |
| respective appointments and expire on the third
Monday of | 22 |
| January, 2001,
and 2 of their number to serve for terms that | 23 |
| commence
on the date of their respective appointments and | 24 |
| expire on the third Monday
of January, 2000. All members | 25 |
| appointed to serve on the
Board shall serve until their | 26 |
| respective successors are
appointed and confirmed. Vacancies |
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| shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments. If | 2 |
| a vacancy in membership occurs at a time when the
Senate is not | 3 |
| in session, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment | 4 |
| until
the next meeting of the Senate, when he or she shall | 5 |
| appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, a | 6 |
| person to fill that membership for the
unexpired term. If the | 7 |
| Senate is not in session when the initial appointments
are | 8 |
| made, those appointments shall
be made as in the case of | 9 |
| vacancies. | 10 |
| The Education Funding Advisory Board shall be deemed | 11 |
| established,
and the initial
members appointed by the Governor | 12 |
| to serve as members of the
Board shall take office,
on the date | 13 |
| that the
Governor makes his or her appointment of the fifth | 14 |
| initial member of the
Board, whether those initial members are | 15 |
| then serving
pursuant to appointment and confirmation or | 16 |
| pursuant to temporary appointments
that are made by the | 17 |
| Governor as in the case of vacancies. | 18 |
| The State Board of Education shall provide such staff | 19 |
| assistance to the
Education Funding Advisory Board as is | 20 |
| reasonably required for the proper
performance by the Board of | 21 |
| its responsibilities. | 22 |
| For school years after the 2000-2001 school year, the | 23 |
| Education
Funding Advisory Board, in consultation with the | 24 |
| State Board of Education,
shall make recommendations as | 25 |
| provided in this subsection (M) to the General
Assembly for the | 26 |
| foundation level under subdivision (B)(3) of this Section and
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| for the
supplemental general State aid grant level under | 2 |
| subsection (H) of this Section
for districts with high | 3 |
| concentrations of children from poverty. The
recommended | 4 |
| foundation level shall be determined based on a methodology | 5 |
| which
incorporates the basic education expenditures of | 6 |
| low-spending schools
exhibiting high academic performance. The | 7 |
| Education Funding Advisory Board
shall make such | 8 |
| recommendations to the General Assembly on January 1 of odd
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| numbered years, beginning January 1, 2001.
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| (N) (Blank).
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| (O) References. | 12 |
| (1) References in other laws to the various subdivisions of
| 13 |
| Section 18-8 as that Section existed before its repeal and | 14 |
| replacement by this
Section 18-8.05 shall be deemed to refer to | 15 |
| the corresponding provisions of
this Section 18-8.05, to the | 16 |
| extent that those references remain applicable. | 17 |
| (2) References in other laws to State Chapter 1 funds shall | 18 |
| be deemed to
refer to the supplemental general State aid | 19 |
| provided under subsection (H) of
this Section. | 20 |
| (P) Public Act 93-838 and Public Act 93-808 make inconsistent | 21 |
| changes to this Section. Under Section 6 of the Statute on | 22 |
| Statutes there is an irreconcilable conflict between Public Act | 23 |
| 93-808 and Public Act 93-838. Public Act 93-838, being the last |
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| acted upon, is controlling. The text of Public Act 93-838 is | 2 |
| the law regardless of the text of Public Act 93-808. | 3 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-644, eff. 10-12-07; | 4 |
| 95-707, eff. 1-11-08; 95-744, eff. 7-18-08; 95-903, eff. | 5 |
| 8-25-08; 96-45, eff. 7-15-09; 96-152, eff. 8-7-09; 96-300, eff. | 6 |
| 8-11-09; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-640, eff. 8-24-09; revised | 7 |
| 10-23-09.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.".
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