Full Text of HB5826 97th General Assembly
HB5826sam001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Heather A. Steans Filed: 5/9/2012
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5826
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5826 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 | | 1C-4, 2-3.7, 2-3.22, 2-3.27, 2-3.53a, 2-3.137, 2-3.139, | 6 | | 10-22.31a, 18-4.5, 18-6, 18-8.05, 18-12, 26-2a, 27A-6, 27A-7, | 7 | | and 34-8 as follows:
| 8 | | (105 ILCS 5/1C-4)
| 9 | | Sec. 1C-4. Report Reports . The State Superintendent of | 10 | | Education, in cooperation
with the school districts | 11 | | participating under this Article, shall annually
report to the | 12 | | leadership of the General Assembly on the progress made in
| 13 | | implementing this Article. By February 1, 1997, the State Board | 14 | | of Education
shall submit to the Governor and General Assembly | 15 | | a comprehensive plan for
Illinois school districts, including | 16 | | the school district that has been
organized under Article 34 |
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| 1 | | and is under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Board
of | 2 | | Education, to establish and implement a block grant funding | 3 | | system for
educational programs that are currently funded | 4 | | through single-program grants.
Before submitting its plan to | 5 | | establish and implement a block grant funding
system to the | 6 | | Governor and General Assembly as required by this Section, the
| 7 | | State Board of Education shall give appropriate notice of and | 8 | | hold statewide
public hearings on the subject of funding | 9 | | educational programs through block
grants. The
plan shall be
| 10 | | designed to relieve school districts of the administrative | 11 | | burdens that impede
efficiency and accompany single-program | 12 | | funding. A school district that receives an Early Childhood | 13 | | Education Block Grant shall report to the State Board of | 14 | | Education on its use of the block
grant in such form and detail | 15 | | as the State Board of Education
may specify. In addition, the | 16 | | report must include the following
description for the district, | 17 | | which must also be reported to
the General Assembly: block | 18 | | grant allocation and expenditures
by program; population and | 19 | | service levels by program; and
administrative expenditures by | 20 | | program. The State Board of Education shall ensure that the | 21 | | reporting requirements for a district organized under Article | 22 | | 34 of this Code are the same as for all other school districts | 23 | | in this State. | 24 | | (Source: P.A. 97-238, eff. 8-2-11.)
| 25 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.7) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.7)
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| 1 | | Sec. 2-3.7. Legal adviser ; opinions of school officers - | 2 | | Opinions . To be the legal adviser of regional offices of | 3 | | education school officers , and, when requested by
any school | 4 | | officer , to give an opinion in writing upon any question
| 5 | | arising under the school laws of the State.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)
| 7 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.22) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.22)
| 8 | | Sec. 2-3.22.
Withholding school funds or compensation of | 9 | | regional
superintendent of schools. To require the State | 10 | | Comptroller to withhold
from the regional superintendent of | 11 | | schools the amount due the regional
superintendent of
schools | 12 | | for his compensation, until the reports, statements,
books, | 13 | | vouchers and other records provided for in Sections 2-3.17, | 14 | | 2-3.17a
and 3-15.8 have been furnished.
| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 88-641, eff. 9-9-94.)
| 16 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.27) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.27)
| 17 | | Sec. 2-3.27. Budgets and accounting practices-Forms and | 18 | | procedures.
| 19 | | To formulate and approve forms, procedure and regulations | 20 | | for school
district accounts and budgets required by this Act | 21 | | reflecting the gross
amount of income and expenses, receipts | 22 | | and disbursements and extending a
net surplus or deficit on | 23 | | operating items, to advise and assist the
officers of any | 24 | | district in respect to budgets and accounting practices and
in |
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| 1 | | the formulation and use of such books, records and accounts or | 2 | | other
forms as may be required to comply with the provisions of | 3 | | this Act; to
publish and keep current information pamphlets or | 4 | | manuals in looseleaf form relating to
budgetary and accounting | 5 | | procedure or similar topics; to make all rules and
regulations | 6 | | as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this
| 7 | | Act relating to budgetary procedure and accounting, such rules | 8 | | and
regulations to include but not to be limited to the | 9 | | establishment of a
decimal classification of accounts; to | 10 | | confer with various district, county
and State officials or | 11 | | take such other action as may be reasonably required
to carry | 12 | | out the provisions of this Act relating to budgets and | 13 | | accounting.
| 14 | | (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
| 15 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.53a)
| 16 | | Sec. 2-3.53a. New principal mentoring program. | 17 | | (a) Beginning on July 1, 2007, and subject to an annual | 18 | | appropriation by the General Assembly, to establish a new | 19 | | principal mentoring program for new principals. Any individual | 20 | | who is first hired as a principal on or after July 1, 2007 | 21 | | shall participate in a new principal mentoring program for the | 22 | | duration of his or her first year as a principal and must | 23 | | complete the program in accordance with the requirements | 24 | | established by the State Board of Education by rule or, for a | 25 | | school district created by Article 34 of this Code, in |
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| 1 | | accordance with the provisions of Section 34-18.33 34-18.27 of | 2 | | this Code. School districts created by Article 34 are not | 3 | | subject to the requirements of subsection (b), (c), (d), (e), | 4 | | (f), or (g) of this Section. Any individual who is first hired | 5 | | as a principal on or after July 1, 2008 may participate in a | 6 | | second year of mentoring if it is determined by the State | 7 | | Superintendent of Education that sufficient funding exists for | 8 | | such participation. The new principal mentoring program shall | 9 | | match an experienced principal who meets the requirements of | 10 | | subsection (b) of this Section with each new principal in order | 11 | | to assist the new principal in the development of his or her | 12 | | professional growth and to provide guidance. | 13 | | (b) Any individual who has been a principal in Illinois for | 14 | | 3 or more years and who has demonstrated success as an | 15 | | instructional leader, as determined by the State Board by rule, | 16 | | is eligible to apply to be a mentor under a new principal | 17 | | mentoring program. Mentors shall complete mentoring training | 18 | | by entities approved by the State Board and meet any other | 19 | | requirements set forth by the State Board and by the school | 20 | | district employing the mentor. | 21 | | (c) The State Board shall certify an entity or entities | 22 | | approved to provide training of mentors. | 23 | | (d) A mentor shall be assigned to a new principal based on | 24 | | (i) similarity of grade level or type of school, (ii) learning | 25 | | needs of the new principal, and (iii) geographical proximity of | 26 | | the mentor to the new principal. The principal, in |
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| 1 | | collaboration with the mentor, shall identify areas for | 2 | | improvement of the new principal's professional growth, | 3 | | including, but not limited to, each of the following: | 4 | | (1) Analyzing data and applying it to practice. | 5 | | (2) Aligning professional development and | 6 | | instructional programs. | 7 | | (3) Building a professional learning community. | 8 | | (4) Observing classroom practices and providing | 9 | | feedback. | 10 | | (5) Facilitating effective meetings. | 11 | | (6) Developing distributive leadership practices. | 12 | | (7) Facilitating organizational change. | 13 | | The mentor shall not be required to provide an evaluation of | 14 | | the new principal on the basis of the mentoring relationship. | 15 | | (e) On or before July 1, 2008 and on or after July 1 of each | 16 | | year thereafter, the State Board shall facilitate a review and | 17 | | evaluate the mentoring training program in collaboration with | 18 | | the approved providers. Each new principal and his or her | 19 | | mentor must complete a verification form developed by the State | 20 | | Board in order to certify their completion of a new principal | 21 | | mentoring program. | 22 | | (f) The requirements of this Section do not apply to any | 23 | | individual who has previously served as an assistant principal | 24 | | in Illinois acting under an administrative certificate for 5 or | 25 | | more years and who is hired, on or after July 1, 2007, as a | 26 | | principal by the school district in which the individual last |
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| 1 | | served as an assistant principal, although such an individual | 2 | | may choose to participate in this program or shall be required | 3 | | to participate by the school district. | 4 | | (g) The State Board may adopt any rules necessary for the | 5 | | implementation of this Section. | 6 | | (h) On an annual basis, the State Superintendent of | 7 | | Education shall determine whether appropriations are likely to | 8 | | be sufficient to require operation of the mentoring program for | 9 | | the coming year. In doing so, the State Superintendent of | 10 | | Education shall first determine whether it is likely that funds | 11 | | will be sufficient to require operation of the mentoring | 12 | | program for individuals in their first year as principal and | 13 | | shall then determine whether it is likely that funds will be | 14 | | sufficient to require operation of the mentoring program for | 15 | | individuals in their second year as principal.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 96-373, eff. 8-13-09.)
| 17 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.137)
| 18 | | Sec. 2-3.137. Inspection and review of school facilities ; | 19 | | task force .
| 20 | | (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules for the
| 21 | | documentation of school plan reviews and inspections of school | 22 | | facilities,
including
the responsible individual's signature. | 23 | | Such documents shall be kept on file
by the
regional
| 24 | | superintendent of schools. The State Board of Education shall | 25 | | also adopt rules for the qualifications of persons performing |
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| 1 | | the reviews and inspections, which must be consistent with the | 2 | | recommendations in the task force's report issued to the | 3 | | Governor and the General Assembly under subsection (b) of this | 4 | | Section. Those qualifications shall include requirements for | 5 | | training, education, and at least 2 years of relevant | 6 | | experience.
| 7 | | (a-5) Rules adopted by the State Board of Education in | 8 | | accordance with subsection (a) of this Section shall require | 9 | | fees to be collected for use in defraying costs associated with | 10 | | the administration of these and other provisions contained in | 11 | | the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools required by | 12 | | Section 2-3.12 of this Code. | 13 | | (b) (Blank). The State Board of Education shall convene a | 14 | | task force for the
purpose of reviewing the documents required | 15 | | under rules adopted under
subsection (a) of this
Section and | 16 | | making recommendations regarding training and
accreditation
of | 17 | | individuals performing reviews or inspections required under | 18 | | Section
2-3.12,
3-14.20, 3-14.21, or 3-14.22 of this Code, | 19 | | including regional
superintendents of schools and others | 20 | | performing reviews or inspections
under the authority of a | 21 | | regional superintendent (such as consultants,
municipalities, | 22 | | and fire protection districts).
| 23 | | The task force shall consist of
all of the following | 24 | | members:
| 25 | | (1) The Executive Director of the Capital Development | 26 | | Board
or his or her designee and a staff representative of |
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| 1 | | the Division of Building Codes and Regulations.
| 2 | | (2) The State Superintendent of Education or his or her
| 3 | | designee.
| 4 | | (3) A person appointed
by the State Board of Education.
| 5 | | (4) A person appointed by an organization representing | 6 | | school
administrators.
| 7 | | (5) A person appointed by
an organization representing | 8 | | suburban school administrators and school board
members.
| 9 | | (6) A person appointed by an organization representing | 10 | | architects.
| 11 | | (7) A person appointed by an organization representing | 12 | | regional
superintendents of schools.
| 13 | | (8) A person appointed by an organization representing | 14 | | fire inspectors.
| 15 | | (9) A person appointed by an organization representing | 16 | | Code
administrators.
| 17 | | (10) A person appointed by an organization | 18 | | representing plumbing
inspectors.
| 19 | | (11) A person appointed by an organization that | 20 | | represents both parents
and teachers.
| 21 | | (12) A person appointed by an organization | 22 | | representing municipal
governments in the State.
| 23 | | (13) A person appointed by the State Fire Marshal from | 24 | | his or her office.
| 25 | | (14) A person appointed by an organization | 26 | | representing fire chiefs.
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| 1 | | (15) The Director of Public Health or his or her | 2 | | designee.
| 3 | | (16) A person appointed by an organization | 4 | | representing structural engineers.
| 5 | | (17) A person appointed by an organization | 6 | | representing professional engineers.
| 7 | | The task force shall issue a report of its findings to the | 8 | | Governor and the
General Assembly no later than January 1, | 9 | | 2006.
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-734, eff. 8-25-09.)
| 11 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.139)
| 12 | | Sec. 2-3.139. School wellness policies ; taskforce .
| 13 | | (a) The State Board of Education shall establish a State | 14 | | goal that all school districts have a wellness policy that is | 15 | | consistent with recommendations of the Centers for Disease | 16 | | Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommendations include | 17 | | the following: | 18 | | (1) nutrition guidelines for all foods sold on school | 19 | | campus during the school day; | 20 | | (2) setting school goals for nutrition education and | 21 | | physical activity; | 22 | | (3) establishing community participation in creating | 23 | | local wellness policies; and | 24 | | (4) creating a plan for measuring implementation of | 25 | | these wellness policies. |
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| 1 | | The Department of Public Health, the Department of Human | 2 | | Services, and the State Board of Education shall form an | 3 | | interagency working group to publish model wellness policies | 4 | | and recommendations. Sample policies shall be based on CDC | 5 | | recommendations for nutrition and physical activity. The State | 6 | | Board of Education shall distribute the model wellness policies | 7 | | to all school districts before June 1, 2006. | 8 | | (b) (Blank). There is created the School Wellness Policy | 9 | | Taskforce, consisting of
the following members: | 10 | | (1) One member representing the State Board of | 11 | | Education, appointed by the State Board of Education. | 12 | | (2) One member representing the Department of Public | 13 | | Health, appointed by the Director of Public Health. | 14 | | (3) One member representing the Department of Human | 15 | | Services, appointed by the Secretary of Human Services. | 16 | | (4) One member of an organization representing the | 17 | | interests of school nurses in this State, appointed by the | 18 | | interagency working group. | 19 | | (5) One member of an organization representing the | 20 | | interests of school administrators in this State, | 21 | | appointed by the interagency working group. | 22 | | (6) One member of an organization representing the | 23 | | interests of school boards in this State, appointed by the | 24 | | interagency working group. | 25 | | (7) One member of an organization representing the | 26 | | interests of regional superintendents of schools in this |
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| 1 | | State, appointed by the interagency working group. | 2 | | (8) One member of an organization representing the | 3 | | interests of parent-teacher associations in this State, | 4 | | appointed by the interagency working group. | 5 | | (9) One member of an organization representing the | 6 | | interests of pediatricians in this State, appointed by the | 7 | | interagency working group. | 8 | | (10) One member of an organization representing the | 9 | | interests of dentists in this State, appointed by the | 10 | | interagency working group. | 11 | | (11) One member of an organization representing the | 12 | | interests of dieticians in this State, appointed by the | 13 | | interagency working group. | 14 | | (12) One member of an organization that has an interest | 15 | | and expertise in heart disease, appointed by the | 16 | | interagency working group. | 17 | | (13) One member of an organization that has an interest | 18 | | and expertise in cancer, appointed by the interagency | 19 | | working group. | 20 | | (14) One member of an organization that has an interest | 21 | | and expertise in childhood obesity, appointed by the | 22 | | interagency working group. | 23 | | (15) One member of an organization that has an interest | 24 | | and expertise in the importance of physical education and | 25 | | recreation in preventing disease, appointed by the | 26 | | interagency working group. |
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| 1 | | (16) One member of an organization that has an interest | 2 | | and expertise in school food service, appointed by the | 3 | | interagency working group. | 4 | | (17) One member of an organization that has an interest | 5 | | and expertise in school health, appointed by the | 6 | | interagency working group. | 7 | | (18) One member of an organization that campaigns for | 8 | | programs and policies for healthier school environments, | 9 | | appointed by the interagency working group. | 10 | | (19) One at-large member with a doctorate in nutrition, | 11 | | appointed by the State Board of Education. | 12 | | Members of the taskforce shall serve without compensation. | 13 | | The taskforce shall meet at the call of the State Board of | 14 | | Education. The taskforce shall report its identification of | 15 | | barriers to implementing school wellness policies and its | 16 | | recommendations to reduce those barriers to the General | 17 | | Assembly and the Governor on or before January 1, 2006. The | 18 | | taskforce shall report its recommendations on statewide school | 19 | | nutrition standards to the General Assembly and the Governor on | 20 | | or before January 1, 2007. The taskforce shall report its | 21 | | evaluation of the effectiveness of school wellness policies to | 22 | | the General Assembly and the Governor on or before January 1, | 23 | | 2008. The evaluation shall review a sample size of 5 to 10 | 24 | | school districts. Reports shall be made to the General Assembly | 25 | | by filing copies of each report as provided in Section 3.1 of | 26 | | the General Assembly Organization Act. Upon the filing of the |
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| 1 | | last report, the taskforce is dissolved.
| 2 | | (c) The State Board of Education may adopt any rules | 3 | | necessary to implement this Section. | 4 | | (d) Nothing in this Section may be construed as a | 5 | | curricular mandate on any school district.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 94-199, eff. 7-12-05; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
| 7 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-22.31a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.31a)
| 8 | | Sec. 10-22.31a. Joint educational programs. To enter into | 9 | | joint agreements with other school boards or public
| 10 | | institutions of higher education to establish any type of | 11 | | educational
program which any district may establish | 12 | | individually, to provide the
needed educational facilities and | 13 | | to employ a director and other
professional workers for such | 14 | | program. The director and other
professional workers may be | 15 | | employed by one district which shall be
reimbursed on a | 16 | | mutually agreed basis by other districts that are
parties to | 17 | | the joint agreement. Such agreements may provide that one
| 18 | | district may supply professional workers for a joint program | 19 | | conducted
in another district. Such agreement shall be executed | 20 | | on forms provided
by the State Board of Education
and shall | 21 | | include, but not
be limited to, provisions for administration, | 22 | | staff, programs,
financing, housing, transportation and | 23 | | advisory body and provide for the
withdrawal of districts from | 24 | | the joint agreement by petition to the regional
board of school | 25 | | trustees. Such petitions for withdrawal shall be
made to the |
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| 1 | | regional board of school trustees of the region having
| 2 | | supervision and control over the administrative district and | 3 | | shall be
acted upon in the manner provided in Article 7 for the | 4 | | detachment of
territory from a school district.
| 5 | | To designate an administrative district to act as fiscal | 6 | | and legal
agent for the districts that are parties to such a | 7 | | joint agreement.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 86-198; 86-1318.)
| 9 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-4.5)
| 10 | | Sec. 18-4.5. Home Hospital Grants. Except for those | 11 | | children qualifying
under Article 14, school districts shall be | 12 | | eligible to receive reimbursement
for all children requiring | 13 | | home or hospital instruction at not more than $1,000
annually | 14 | | per child or $9,000 $8,000 per teacher, whichever is less.
| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 88-386.)
| 16 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 18-6)
| 17 | | Sec. 18-6. Supervisory expenses. The State Board of | 18 | | Education
shall annually request an appropriation from the | 19 | | common school fund for
regional office of education expenses, | 20 | | aggregating $1,000 per county per year
for each educational | 21 | | service region.
The State Board of Education shall present | 22 | | vouchers to the Comptroller as
soon as may be after the first | 23 | | day of August
each year for each regional office of education.
| 24 | | Each regional office of education may draw upon these funds |
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| 1 | | this fund for the
expenses necessarily incurred in providing | 2 | | for supervisory services in the
region.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 88-9; 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
| 4 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-8.05)
| 5 | | Sec. 18-8.05. Basis for apportionment of general State | 6 | | financial aid and
supplemental general State aid to the common | 7 | | schools for the 1998-1999 and
subsequent school years.
| 8 | | (A) General Provisions. | 9 | | (1) The provisions of this Section apply to the 1998-1999 | 10 | | and subsequent
school years. The system of general State | 11 | | financial aid provided for in this
Section
is designed to | 12 | | assure that, through a combination of State financial aid and
| 13 | | required local resources, the financial support provided each | 14 | | pupil in Average
Daily Attendance equals or exceeds a
| 15 | | prescribed per pupil Foundation Level. This formula approach | 16 | | imputes a level
of per pupil Available Local Resources and | 17 | | provides for the basis to calculate
a per pupil level of | 18 | | general State financial aid that, when added to Available
Local | 19 | | Resources, equals or exceeds the Foundation Level. The
amount | 20 | | of per pupil general State financial aid for school districts, | 21 | | in
general, varies in inverse
relation to Available Local | 22 | | Resources. Per pupil amounts are based upon
each school | 23 | | district's Average Daily Attendance as that term is defined in | 24 | | this
Section. |
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| 1 | | (2) In addition to general State financial aid, school | 2 | | districts with
specified levels or concentrations of pupils | 3 | | from low income households are
eligible to receive supplemental | 4 | | general State financial aid grants as provided
pursuant to | 5 | | subsection (H).
The supplemental State aid grants provided for | 6 | | school districts under
subsection (H) shall be appropriated for | 7 | | distribution to school districts as
part of the same line item | 8 | | in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is | 9 | | appropriated under this Section. | 10 | | (3) To receive financial assistance under this Section, | 11 | | school districts
are required to file claims with the State | 12 | | Board of Education, subject to the
following requirements: | 13 | | (a) Any school district which fails for any given | 14 | | school year to maintain
school as required by law, or to | 15 | | maintain a recognized school is not
eligible to file for | 16 | | such school year any claim upon the Common School
Fund. In | 17 | | case of nonrecognition of one or more attendance centers in | 18 | | a
school district otherwise operating recognized schools, | 19 | | the claim of the
district shall be reduced in the | 20 | | proportion which the Average Daily
Attendance in the | 21 | | attendance center or centers bear to the Average Daily
| 22 | | Attendance in the school district. A "recognized school" | 23 | | means any
public school which meets the standards as | 24 | | established for recognition
by the State Board of | 25 | | Education. A school district or attendance center
not | 26 | | having recognition status at the end of a school term is |
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| 1 | | entitled to
receive State aid payments due upon a legal | 2 | | claim which was filed while
it was recognized. | 3 | | (b) School district claims filed under this Section are | 4 | | subject to
Sections 18-9 and 18-12, except as otherwise | 5 | | provided in this
Section. | 6 | | (c) If a school district operates a full year school | 7 | | under Section
10-19.1, the general State aid to the school | 8 | | district shall be determined
by the State Board of | 9 | | Education in accordance with this Section as near as
may be | 10 | | applicable. | 11 | | (d) (Blank). | 12 | | (4) Except as provided in subsections (H) and (L), the | 13 | | board of any district
receiving any of the grants provided for | 14 | | in this Section may apply those funds
to any fund so received | 15 | | for which that board is authorized to make expenditures
by law. | 16 | | School districts are not required to exert a minimum | 17 | | Operating Tax Rate in
order to qualify for assistance under | 18 | | this Section. | 19 | | (5) As used in this Section the following terms, when | 20 | | capitalized, shall
have the meaning ascribed herein: | 21 | | (a) "Average Daily Attendance": A count of pupil | 22 | | attendance in school,
averaged as provided for in | 23 | | subsection (C) and utilized in deriving per pupil
financial | 24 | | support levels. | 25 | | (b) "Available Local Resources": A computation of | 26 | | local financial
support, calculated on the basis of Average |
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| 1 | | Daily Attendance and derived as
provided pursuant to | 2 | | subsection (D). | 3 | | (c) "Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes": | 4 | | Funds paid to local
school districts pursuant to "An Act in | 5 | | relation to the abolition of ad valorem
personal property | 6 | | tax and the replacement of revenues lost thereby, and
| 7 | | amending and repealing certain Acts and parts of Acts in | 8 | | connection therewith",
certified August 14, 1979, as | 9 | | amended (Public Act 81-1st S.S.-1). | 10 | | (d) "Foundation Level": A prescribed level of per pupil | 11 | | financial support
as provided for in subsection (B). | 12 | | (e) "Operating Tax Rate": All school district property | 13 | | taxes extended for
all purposes, except Bond and
Interest, | 14 | | Summer School, Rent, Capital Improvement, and Vocational | 15 | | Education
Building purposes.
| 16 | | (B) Foundation Level. | 17 | | (1) The Foundation Level is a figure established by the | 18 | | State representing
the minimum level of per pupil financial | 19 | | support that should be available to
provide for the basic | 20 | | education of each pupil in
Average Daily Attendance. As set | 21 | | forth in this Section, each school district
is assumed to exert
| 22 | | a sufficient local taxing effort such that, in combination with | 23 | | the aggregate
of general State
financial aid provided the | 24 | | district, an aggregate of State and local resources
are | 25 | | available to meet
the basic education needs of pupils in the |
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| 1 | | district. | 2 | | (2) For the 1998-1999 school year, the Foundation Level of | 3 | | support is
$4,225. For the 1999-2000 school year, the | 4 | | Foundation Level of support is
$4,325. For the 2000-2001 school | 5 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is
$4,425. For the | 6 | | 2001-2002 school year and 2002-2003 school year, the
Foundation | 7 | | Level of support is $4,560. For the 2003-2004 school year, the | 8 | | Foundation Level of support is $4,810. For the 2004-2005 school | 9 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is $4,964.
For the | 10 | | 2005-2006 school year,
the Foundation Level of support is | 11 | | $5,164. For the 2006-2007 school year, the Foundation Level of | 12 | | support is $5,334. For the 2007-2008 school year, the | 13 | | Foundation Level of support is $5,734. For the 2008-2009 school | 14 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is $5,959. | 15 | | (3) For the 2009-2010 school year and each school year | 16 | | thereafter,
the Foundation Level of support is $6,119 or such | 17 | | greater amount as
may be established by law by the General | 18 | | Assembly.
| 19 | | (C) Average Daily Attendance. | 20 | | (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant | 21 | | to subsection
(E), an Average Daily Attendance figure shall be | 22 | | utilized. The Average Daily
Attendance figure for formula
| 23 | | calculation purposes shall be the monthly average of the actual | 24 | | number of
pupils in attendance of
each school district, as | 25 | | further averaged for the best 3 months of pupil
attendance for |
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| 1 | | each
school district. In compiling the figures for the number | 2 | | of pupils in
attendance, school districts
and the State Board | 3 | | of Education shall, for purposes of general State aid
funding, | 4 | | conform
attendance figures to the requirements of subsection | 5 | | (F). | 6 | | (2) The Average Daily Attendance figures utilized in | 7 | | subsection (E) shall be
the requisite attendance data for the | 8 | | school year immediately preceding
the
school year for which | 9 | | general State aid is being calculated
or the average of the | 10 | | attendance data for the 3 preceding school
years, whichever is | 11 | | greater. The Average Daily Attendance figures
utilized in | 12 | | subsection (H) 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.
| 15 | | (D) Available Local Resources. | 16 | | (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant | 17 | | to subsection
(E), a representation of Available Local | 18 | | Resources per pupil, as that term is
defined and determined in | 19 | | this subsection, shall be utilized. Available Local
Resources | 20 | | per pupil shall include a calculated
dollar amount representing | 21 | | local school district revenues from local property
taxes and | 22 | | from
Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes, expressed | 23 | | on the basis of pupils
in Average
Daily Attendance. Calculation | 24 | | of Available Local Resources shall exclude any tax amnesty | 25 | | funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. |
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| 1 | | (2) In determining a school district's revenue from local | 2 | | property taxes,
the State Board of Education shall utilize the | 3 | | equalized assessed valuation of
all taxable property of each | 4 | | school
district as of September 30 of the previous year. The | 5 | | equalized assessed
valuation utilized shall
be obtained and | 6 | | determined as provided in subsection (G). | 7 | | (3) For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten | 8 | | through 12, local
property tax
revenues per pupil shall be | 9 | | calculated as the product of the applicable
equalized assessed
| 10 | | valuation for the district multiplied by 3.00%, and divided by | 11 | | the district's
Average Daily
Attendance figure. For school | 12 | | districts maintaining grades kindergarten
through 8, local
| 13 | | property tax revenues per pupil shall be calculated as the | 14 | | product of the
applicable equalized
assessed valuation for the | 15 | | district multiplied by 2.30%, and divided by the
district's | 16 | | Average
Daily Attendance figure. For school districts | 17 | | maintaining grades 9 through 12,
local property
tax revenues | 18 | | per pupil shall be the applicable equalized assessed valuation | 19 | | of
the district
multiplied by 1.05%, and divided by the | 20 | | district's Average Daily
Attendance
figure. | 21 | | For partial elementary unit districts created pursuant to | 22 | | Article 11E of this Code, local property tax revenues per pupil | 23 | | shall be calculated as the product of the equalized assessed | 24 | | valuation for property within the partial elementary unit | 25 | | district for elementary purposes, as defined in Article 11E of | 26 | | this Code, multiplied by 2.06% and divided by the district's |
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| 1 | | Average Daily Attendance figure, plus the product of the | 2 | | equalized assessed valuation for property within the partial | 3 | | elementary unit district for high school purposes, as defined | 4 | | in Article 11E of this Code, multiplied by 0.94% and divided by | 5 | | the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
| 6 | | (4) The Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes paid | 7 | | to each school
district during the calendar year one year | 8 | | before the calendar year in which a
school year begins, divided | 9 | | by the Average Daily Attendance figure for that
district, shall | 10 | | be added to the local property tax revenues per pupil as
| 11 | | derived by the application of the immediately preceding | 12 | | paragraph (3). The sum
of these per pupil figures for each | 13 | | school district shall constitute Available
Local Resources as | 14 | | that term is utilized in subsection (E) in the calculation
of | 15 | | general State aid.
| 16 | | (E) Computation of General State Aid. | 17 | | (1) For each school year, the amount of general State aid | 18 | | allotted to a
school district shall be computed by the State | 19 | | Board of Education as provided
in this subsection. | 20 | | (2) For any school district for which Available Local | 21 | | Resources per pupil
is less than the product of 0.93 times the | 22 | | Foundation Level, general State aid
for that district shall be | 23 | | calculated as an amount equal to the Foundation
Level minus | 24 | | Available Local Resources, multiplied by the Average Daily
| 25 | | Attendance of the school district. |
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| 1 | | (3) For any school district for which Available Local | 2 | | Resources per pupil
is equal to or greater than the product of | 3 | | 0.93 times the Foundation Level and
less than the product of | 4 | | 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid
per | 5 | | pupil shall be a decimal proportion of the Foundation Level | 6 | | derived using a
linear algorithm. Under this linear algorithm, | 7 | | the calculated general State
aid per pupil shall decline in | 8 | | direct linear fashion from 0.07 times the
Foundation Level for | 9 | | a school district with Available Local Resources equal to
the | 10 | | product of 0.93 times the Foundation Level, to 0.05 times the | 11 | | Foundation
Level for a school district with Available Local | 12 | | Resources equal to the product
of 1.75 times the Foundation | 13 | | Level. The allocation of general
State aid for school districts | 14 | | subject to this paragraph 3 shall be the
calculated general | 15 | | State aid
per pupil figure multiplied by the Average Daily | 16 | | Attendance of the school
district. | 17 | | (4) For any school district for which Available Local | 18 | | Resources per pupil
equals or exceeds the product of 1.75 times | 19 | | the Foundation Level, the general
State aid for the school | 20 | | district shall be calculated as the product of $218
multiplied | 21 | | by the Average Daily Attendance of the school
district. | 22 | | (5) The amount of general State aid allocated to a school | 23 | | district for
the 1999-2000 school year meeting the requirements | 24 | | set forth in paragraph (4)
of subsection
(G) shall be increased | 25 | | by an amount equal to the general State aid that
would have | 26 | | been received by the district for the 1998-1999 school year by
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| 1 | | utilizing the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed | 2 | | Valuation as calculated
in paragraph (4) of subsection (G) less | 3 | | the general State aid allotted for the
1998-1999
school year. | 4 | | This amount shall be deemed a one time increase, and shall not
| 5 | | affect any future general State aid allocations.
| 6 | | (F) Compilation of Average Daily Attendance. | 7 | | (1) Each school district shall, by July 1 of each year, | 8 | | submit to the State
Board of Education, on forms prescribed by | 9 | | the State Board of Education,
attendance figures for the school | 10 | | year that began in the preceding calendar
year. The attendance | 11 | | information so transmitted shall identify the average
daily | 12 | | attendance figures for each month of the school year. Beginning | 13 | | with
the general State aid claim form for the 2002-2003 school
| 14 | | year, districts shall calculate Average Daily Attendance as | 15 | | provided in
subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of this paragraph | 16 | | (1). | 17 | | (a) In districts that do not hold year-round classes,
| 18 | | days of attendance in August shall be added to the month of | 19 | | September and any
days of attendance in June shall be added | 20 | | to the month of May. | 21 | | (b) In districts in which all buildings hold year-round | 22 | | classes,
days of attendance in July and August shall be | 23 | | added to the month
of September and any days of attendance | 24 | | in June shall be added to
the month of May. | 25 | | (c) In districts in which some buildings, but not all, |
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| 1 | | hold
year-round classes, for the non-year-round buildings, | 2 | | days of
attendance in August shall be added to the month of | 3 | | September
and any days of attendance in June shall be added | 4 | | to the month of
May. The average daily attendance for the | 5 | | year-round buildings
shall be computed as provided in | 6 | | subdivision (b) of this paragraph
(1). To calculate the | 7 | | Average Daily Attendance for the district, the
average | 8 | | daily attendance for the year-round buildings shall be
| 9 | | multiplied by the days in session for the non-year-round | 10 | | buildings
for each month and added to the monthly | 11 | | attendance of the
non-year-round buildings. | 12 | | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, days of
| 13 | | attendance by pupils shall be counted only for sessions of not | 14 | | less than
5 clock hours of school work per day under direct | 15 | | supervision of: (i)
teachers, or (ii) non-teaching personnel or | 16 | | volunteer personnel when engaging
in non-teaching duties and | 17 | | supervising in those instances specified in
subsection (a) of | 18 | | Section 10-22.34 and paragraph 10 of Section 34-18, with
pupils | 19 | | of legal school age and in kindergarten and grades 1 through | 20 | | 12. | 21 | | Days of attendance by tuition pupils shall be accredited | 22 | | only to the
districts that pay the tuition to a recognized | 23 | | school. | 24 | | (2) Days of attendance by pupils of less than 5 clock hours | 25 | | of school
shall be subject to the following provisions in the | 26 | | compilation of Average
Daily Attendance. |
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| 1 | | (a) Pupils regularly enrolled in a public school for | 2 | | only a part of
the school day may be counted on the basis | 3 | | of 1/6 day for every class hour
of instruction of 40 | 4 | | minutes or more attended pursuant to such enrollment,
| 5 | | unless a pupil is
enrolled in a block-schedule format of 80 | 6 | | minutes or more of instruction,
in which case the pupil may | 7 | | be counted on the basis of the proportion of
minutes of | 8 | | school work completed each day to the minimum number of
| 9 | | minutes that school work is required to be held that day. | 10 | | (b) Days of attendance may be less than 5 clock hours | 11 | | on the opening
and closing of the school term, and upon the | 12 | | first day of pupil
attendance, if preceded by a day or days | 13 | | utilized as an institute or
teachers' workshop. | 14 | | (c) A session of 4 or more clock hours may be counted | 15 | | as a day of
attendance upon certification by the regional | 16 | | superintendent, and
approved by the State Superintendent | 17 | | of Education to the extent that the
district has been | 18 | | forced to use daily multiple sessions. | 19 | | (d) A session of 3 or more clock hours may be counted | 20 | | as a day of
attendance (1) when the remainder of the school | 21 | | day or at least
2 hours in the evening of that day is | 22 | | utilized for an
in-service training program for teachers, | 23 | | up to a maximum of 5 days per
school year, provided a | 24 | | district conducts an in-service
training program for | 25 | | teachers in accordance with Section 10-22.39 of this Code; | 26 | | or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may
be used, in |
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| 1 | | which event each such day
may be counted as a day required | 2 | | for a legal school calendar pursuant to Section 10-19 of | 3 | | this Code; (1.5) when, of the 5 days allowed under item | 4 | | (1), a maximum of 4 days are used for parent-teacher | 5 | | conferences, or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days are | 6 | | used, in which case each such day may be counted as a | 7 | | calendar day required under Section 10-19 of this Code, | 8 | | provided that the full-day, parent-teacher conference | 9 | | consists of (i) a minimum of 5 clock hours of | 10 | | parent-teacher conferences, (ii) both a minimum of 2 clock | 11 | | hours of parent-teacher conferences held in the evening | 12 | | following a full day of student attendance, as specified in | 13 | | subsection (F)(1)(c), and a minimum of 3 clock hours of | 14 | | parent-teacher conferences held on the day immediately | 15 | | following evening parent-teacher conferences, or (iii) | 16 | | multiple parent-teacher conferences held in the evenings | 17 | | following full days of student attendance, as specified in | 18 | | subsection (F)(1)(c), in which the time used for the | 19 | | parent-teacher conferences is equivalent to a minimum of 5 | 20 | | clock hours; and (2) when days in
addition to
those | 21 | | provided in items (1) and (1.5) are scheduled by a school | 22 | | pursuant to its school
improvement plan adopted under | 23 | | Article 34 or its revised or amended school
improvement | 24 | | plan adopted under Article 2, provided that (i) such | 25 | | sessions of
3 or more clock hours are scheduled to occur at | 26 | | regular intervals, (ii) the
remainder of the school days in |
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| 1 | | which such sessions occur are utilized
for in-service | 2 | | training programs or other staff development activities | 3 | | for
teachers, and (iii) a sufficient number of minutes of | 4 | | school work under the
direct supervision of teachers are | 5 | | added to the school days between such
regularly scheduled | 6 | | sessions to accumulate not less than the number of minutes
| 7 | | by which such sessions of 3 or more clock hours fall short | 8 | | of 5 clock hours.
Any full days used for the purposes of | 9 | | this paragraph shall not be considered
for
computing | 10 | | average daily attendance. Days scheduled for in-service | 11 | | training
programs, staff development activities, or | 12 | | parent-teacher conferences may be
scheduled separately for | 13 | | different
grade levels and different attendance centers of | 14 | | the district. | 15 | | (e) A session of not less than one clock hour of | 16 | | teaching
hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or by | 17 | | telephone to the classroom may
be counted as 1/2 day of | 18 | | attendance, however these pupils must receive 4 or
more | 19 | | clock hours of instruction to be counted for a full day of | 20 | | attendance. | 21 | | (f) A session of at least 4 clock hours may be counted | 22 | | as a day of
attendance for first grade pupils, and pupils | 23 | | in full day kindergartens,
and a session of 2 or more hours | 24 | | may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance by
pupils in | 25 | | kindergartens which provide only 1/2 day of attendance. | 26 | | (g) For children with disabilities who are below the |
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| 1 | | age of 6 years and
who
cannot attend 2 or more clock hours | 2 | | because of their disability or
immaturity, a session of not | 3 | | less than one clock hour may be counted as 1/2 day
of | 4 | | attendance; however for such children whose educational | 5 | | needs so require
a session of 4 or more clock hours may be | 6 | | counted as a full day of attendance. | 7 | | (h) A recognized kindergarten which provides for only | 8 | | 1/2 day of
attendance by each pupil shall not have more | 9 | | than 1/2 day of attendance
counted in any one day. However, | 10 | | kindergartens may count 2 1/2 days
of
attendance in any 5 | 11 | | consecutive school days. When a pupil attends such a
| 12 | | kindergarten for 2 half days on any one school day, the | 13 | | pupil shall have
the following day as a day absent from | 14 | | school, unless the school district
obtains permission in | 15 | | writing from the State Superintendent of Education.
| 16 | | Attendance at kindergartens which provide for a full day of | 17 | | attendance by
each pupil shall be counted the same as | 18 | | attendance by first grade pupils.
Only the first year of | 19 | | attendance in one kindergarten shall be counted,
except in | 20 | | case of children who entered the kindergarten in their | 21 | | fifth year
whose educational development requires a second | 22 | | year of kindergarten as
determined under the rules and | 23 | | regulations of the State Board of Education. | 24 | | (i) On the days when the Prairie State Achievement | 25 | | Examination is
administered under subsection (c) of | 26 | | Section 2-3.64 of this Code, the day
of attendance for a |
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| 1 | | pupil whose school
day must be shortened to accommodate | 2 | | required testing procedures may
be less than 5 clock hours | 3 | | and shall be counted towards the 176 days of actual pupil | 4 | | attendance required under Section 10-19 of this Code, | 5 | | provided that a sufficient number of minutes
of school work | 6 | | in excess of 5 clock hours are first completed on other | 7 | | school
days to compensate for the loss of school work on | 8 | | the examination days. | 9 | | (j) Pupils enrolled in a remote educational program | 10 | | established under Section 10-29 of this Code may be counted | 11 | | on the basis of one-fifth day of attendance for every clock | 12 | | hour of instruction attended in the remote educational | 13 | | program, provided that, in any month, the school district | 14 | | may not claim for a student enrolled in a remote | 15 | | educational program more days of attendance than the | 16 | | maximum number of days of attendance the district can claim | 17 | | (i) for students enrolled in a building holding year-round | 18 | | classes if the student is classified as participating in | 19 | | the remote educational program on a year-round schedule or | 20 | | (ii) for students enrolled in a building not holding | 21 | | year-round classes if the student is not classified as | 22 | | participating in the remote educational program on a | 23 | | year-round schedule.
| 24 | | (G) Equalized Assessed Valuation Data. | 25 | | (1) For purposes of the calculation of Available Local |
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| 1 | | Resources required
pursuant to subsection (D), the
State Board | 2 | | of Education shall secure from the Department of
Revenue the | 3 | | value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue of
| 4 | | all taxable property of every school district, together with | 5 | | (i) the applicable
tax rate used in extending taxes for the | 6 | | funds of the district as of
September 30 of the previous year
| 7 | | and (ii) the limiting rate for all school
districts subject to | 8 | | property tax extension limitations as imposed under the
| 9 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
| 10 | | The Department of Revenue shall add to the equalized | 11 | | assessed value of all
taxable
property of each school district | 12 | | situated entirely or partially within a county
that is or was | 13 | | subject to the
provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the | 14 | | Property Tax Code (a)
an amount equal to the total amount by | 15 | | which the
homestead exemption allowed under Section 15-176 or | 16 | | 15-177 of the Property Tax Code for
real
property situated in | 17 | | that school district exceeds the total amount that would
have | 18 | | been
allowed in that school district if the maximum reduction | 19 | | under Section 15-176
was
(i) $4,500 in Cook County or $3,500 in | 20 | | all other counties in tax year 2003 or (ii) $5,000 in all | 21 | | counties in tax year 2004 and thereafter and (b) an amount | 22 | | equal to the aggregate amount for the taxable year of all | 23 | | additional exemptions under Section 15-175 of the Property Tax | 24 | | Code for owners with a household income of $30,000 or less. The | 25 | | county clerk of any county that is or was subject to the | 26 | | provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code |
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| 1 | | shall
annually calculate and certify to the Department of | 2 | | Revenue for each school
district all
homestead exemption | 3 | | amounts under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code | 4 | | and all amounts of additional exemptions under Section 15-175 | 5 | | of the Property Tax Code for owners with a household income of | 6 | | $30,000 or less. It is the intent of this paragraph that if the | 7 | | general homestead exemption for a parcel of property is | 8 | | determined under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax | 9 | | Code rather than Section 15-175, then the calculation of | 10 | | Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the | 11 | | difference, if any, between the amount of the general homestead | 12 | | exemption allowed for that parcel of property under Section | 13 | | 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code and the amount that | 14 | | would have been allowed had the general homestead exemption for | 15 | | that parcel of property been determined under Section 15-175 of | 16 | | the Property Tax Code. It is further the intent of this | 17 | | paragraph that if additional exemptions are allowed under | 18 | | Section 15-175 of the Property Tax Code for owners with a | 19 | | household income of less than $30,000, then the calculation of | 20 | | Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the | 21 | | difference, if any, because of those additional exemptions. | 22 | | This equalized assessed valuation, as adjusted further by | 23 | | the requirements of
this subsection, shall be utilized in the | 24 | | calculation of Available Local
Resources. | 25 | | (2) The equalized assessed valuation in paragraph (1) shall | 26 | | be adjusted, as
applicable, in the following manner: |
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| 1 | | (a) For the purposes of calculating State aid under | 2 | | this Section,
with respect to any part of a school district | 3 | | within a redevelopment
project area in respect to which a | 4 | | municipality has adopted tax
increment allocation | 5 | | financing pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation
| 6 | | Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1 through 11-74.4-11 | 7 | | of the Illinois
Municipal Code or the Industrial Jobs | 8 | | Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1 through
11-74.6-50 of the | 9 | | Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the current equalized
| 10 | | assessed valuation of real property located in any such | 11 | | project area which is
attributable to an increase above the | 12 | | total initial equalized assessed
valuation of such | 13 | | property shall be used as part of the equalized assessed
| 14 | | valuation of the district, until such time as all
| 15 | | redevelopment project costs have been paid, as provided in | 16 | | Section 11-74.4-8
of the Tax Increment Allocation | 17 | | Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of
the | 18 | | Industrial Jobs Recovery Law. For the purpose of
the | 19 | | equalized assessed valuation of the
district, the total | 20 | | initial equalized assessed valuation or the current
| 21 | | equalized assessed valuation, whichever is lower, shall be | 22 | | used until
such time as all redevelopment project costs | 23 | | have been paid. | 24 | | (b) The real property equalized assessed valuation for | 25 | | a school district
shall be adjusted by subtracting from the | 26 | | real property
value as equalized or assessed by the |
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| 1 | | Department of Revenue for the
district an amount computed | 2 | | by dividing the amount of any abatement of
taxes under | 3 | | Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code by 3.00% for a | 4 | | district
maintaining grades kindergarten through 12, by | 5 | | 2.30% for a district
maintaining grades kindergarten | 6 | | through 8, or by 1.05% for a
district
maintaining grades 9 | 7 | | through 12 and adjusted by an amount computed by dividing
| 8 | | the amount of any abatement of taxes under subsection (a) | 9 | | of Section 18-165 of
the Property Tax Code by the same | 10 | | percentage rates for district type as
specified in this | 11 | | subparagraph (b). | 12 | | (3) For the 1999-2000 school year and each school year | 13 | | thereafter, if a
school district meets all of the criteria of | 14 | | this subsection (G)(3), the school
district's Available Local | 15 | | Resources shall be calculated under subsection (D)
using the | 16 | | district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation | 17 | | as
calculated under this
subsection (G)(3). | 18 | | For purposes of this subsection (G)(3) the following terms | 19 | | shall have
the following meanings: | 20 | | "Budget Year": The school year for which general State | 21 | | aid is calculated
and
awarded under subsection (E). | 22 | | "Base Tax Year": The property tax levy year used to | 23 | | calculate the Budget
Year
allocation of general State aid. | 24 | | "Preceding Tax Year": The property tax levy year | 25 | | immediately preceding the
Base Tax Year. | 26 | | "Base Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of the |
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| 1 | | equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County Clerk | 2 | | in the Base Tax Year multiplied by the
limiting rate as | 3 | | calculated by the County Clerk and defined in the Property | 4 | | Tax
Extension Limitation Law. | 5 | | "Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of | 6 | | the equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County | 7 | | Clerk in the Preceding Tax Year multiplied by
the Operating | 8 | | Tax Rate as defined in subsection (A). | 9 | | "Extension Limitation Ratio": A numerical ratio, | 10 | | certified by the
County Clerk, in which the numerator is | 11 | | the Base Tax Year's Tax
Extension and the denominator is | 12 | | the Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension. | 13 | | "Operating Tax Rate": The operating tax rate as defined | 14 | | in subsection (A). | 15 | | If a school district is subject to property tax extension | 16 | | limitations as
imposed under
the Property Tax Extension | 17 | | Limitation Law, the State Board of Education shall
calculate | 18 | | the Extension
Limitation
Equalized Assessed Valuation of that | 19 | | district. For the 1999-2000 school
year, the
Extension | 20 | | Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school district as
| 21 | | calculated by the State Board of Education shall be equal to | 22 | | the product of the
district's 1996 Equalized Assessed Valuation | 23 | | and the district's Extension
Limitation Ratio. Except as | 24 | | otherwise provided in this paragraph for a school district that | 25 | | has approved or does approve an increase in its limiting rate, | 26 | | for the 2000-2001 school year and each school year
thereafter,
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| 1 | | the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a | 2 | | school district as
calculated by the State Board of Education | 3 | | shall be equal to the product of
the Equalized Assessed | 4 | | Valuation last used in the calculation of general State
aid and | 5 | | the
district's Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension | 6 | | Limitation
Equalized
Assessed Valuation of a school district as | 7 | | calculated under
this subsection (G)(3) is less than the | 8 | | district's equalized assessed valuation
as calculated pursuant | 9 | | to subsections (G)(1) and (G)(2), then for purposes of
| 10 | | calculating the district's general State aid for the Budget | 11 | | Year pursuant to
subsection (E), that Extension
Limitation | 12 | | Equalized Assessed Valuation shall be utilized to calculate the
| 13 | | district's Available Local Resources
under subsection (D). For | 14 | | the 2009-2010 school year and each school year thereafter, if a | 15 | | school district has approved or does approve an increase in its | 16 | | limiting rate, pursuant to Section 18-190 of the Property Tax | 17 | | Code, affecting the Base Tax Year, the Extension Limitation | 18 | | Equalized Assessed Valuation of the school district, as | 19 | | calculated by the State Board of Education, shall be equal to | 20 | | the product of the Equalized Assessed Valuation last used in | 21 | | the calculation of general State aid times an amount equal to | 22 | | one plus the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price | 23 | | Index for all Urban Consumers for all items published by the | 24 | | United States Department of Labor for the 12-month calendar | 25 | | year preceding the Base Tax Year, plus the Equalized Assessed | 26 | | Valuation of new property, annexed property, and recovered tax |
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| 1 | | increment value and minus the Equalized Assessed Valuation of | 2 | | disconnected property. New property and recovered tax | 3 | | increment value shall have the meanings set forth in the | 4 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. | 5 | | Partial elementary unit districts created in accordance | 6 | | with Article 11E of this Code shall not be eligible for the | 7 | | adjustment in this subsection (G)(3) until the fifth year | 8 | | following the effective date of the reorganization.
| 9 | | (3.5) For the 2010-2011 school year and each school year | 10 | | thereafter, if a school district's boundaries span multiple | 11 | | counties, then the Department of Revenue shall send to the | 12 | | State Board of Education, for the purpose of calculating | 13 | | general State aid, the limiting rate and individual rates by | 14 | | purpose for the county that contains the majority of the school | 15 | | district's Equalized Assessed Valuation. | 16 | | (4) For the purposes of calculating general State aid for | 17 | | the 1999-2000
school year only, if a school district | 18 | | experienced a triennial reassessment on
the equalized assessed | 19 | | valuation used in calculating its general State
financial aid | 20 | | apportionment for the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board of
| 21 | | Education shall calculate the Extension Limitation Equalized | 22 | | Assessed Valuation
that would have been used to calculate the | 23 | | district's 1998-1999 general State
aid. This amount shall equal | 24 | | the product of the equalized assessed valuation
used to
| 25 | | calculate general State aid for the 1997-1998 school year and | 26 | | the district's
Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension |
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| 1 | | Limitation Equalized Assessed
Valuation of the school district | 2 | | as calculated under this paragraph (4) is
less than the | 3 | | district's equalized assessed valuation utilized in | 4 | | calculating
the
district's 1998-1999 general State aid | 5 | | allocation, then for purposes of
calculating the district's | 6 | | general State aid pursuant to paragraph (5) of
subsection (E),
| 7 | | that Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation shall | 8 | | be utilized to
calculate the district's Available Local | 9 | | Resources. | 10 | | (5) For school districts having a majority of their | 11 | | equalized assessed
valuation in any county except Cook, DuPage, | 12 | | Kane, Lake, McHenry, or Will, if
the amount of general State | 13 | | aid allocated to the school district for the
1999-2000 school | 14 | | year under the provisions of subsection (E), (H), and (J) of
| 15 | | this Section is less than the amount of general State aid | 16 | | allocated to the
district for the 1998-1999 school year under | 17 | | these subsections, then the
general
State aid of the district | 18 | | for the 1999-2000 school year only shall be increased
by the | 19 | | difference between these amounts. The total payments made under | 20 | | this
paragraph (5) shall not exceed $14,000,000. Claims shall | 21 | | be prorated if they
exceed $14,000,000.
| 22 | | (H) Supplemental General State Aid. | 23 | | (1) In addition to the general State aid a school district | 24 | | is allotted
pursuant to subsection (E), qualifying school | 25 | | districts shall receive a grant,
paid in conjunction with a |
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| 1 | | district's payments of general State aid, for
supplemental | 2 | | general State aid based upon the concentration level of | 3 | | children
from low-income households within the school | 4 | | district.
Supplemental State aid grants provided for school | 5 | | districts under this
subsection shall be appropriated for | 6 | | distribution to school districts as part
of the same line item | 7 | | in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is | 8 | | appropriated under this Section.
| 9 | | (1.5) This paragraph (1.5) applies only to those school | 10 | | years
preceding the 2003-2004 school year.
For purposes of this
| 11 | | 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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| 1 | | 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
| 7 | | 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
| 12 | | 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
| 16 | | 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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| 1 | | 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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| 1 | | 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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| 1 | | 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.
| 7 | | 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
| 14 | | 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
| 22 | | 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) (Blank). School districts with an Average Daily | 26 | | Attendance of more than 1,000
and less than 50,000 that qualify |
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| 1 | | for supplemental general State aid pursuant
to this subsection | 2 | | shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education prior to
| 3 | | 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
| 18 | | 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
| 25 | | appropriated to any attendance centers, and the Board of | 26 | | Education shall
utilize funding from one or several sources |
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| 1 | | 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
| 4 | | 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
| 21 | | 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
| 25 | | supplement
the regular and basic programs as determined by | 26 | | the State Board of Education.
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| 1 | | 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
| 6 | | 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
| 18 | | 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
| 22 | | 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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| 1 | | 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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| 1 | | 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.
| 6 | | (I) (Blank).
| 7 | | (J) (Blank).
| 8 | | (K) Grants to Laboratory and Alternative Schools. | 9 | | In calculating the amount to be paid to the governing board | 10 | | of a public
university that operates a laboratory school under | 11 | | this Section or to any
alternative school that is operated by a | 12 | | regional superintendent of schools,
the State
Board of | 13 | | Education shall require by rule such reporting requirements as | 14 | | it
deems necessary. | 15 | | As used in this Section, "laboratory school" means a public | 16 | | school which is
created and operated by a public university and | 17 | | approved by the State Board of
Education. The governing board | 18 | | of a public university which receives funds
from the State | 19 | | Board under this subsection (K) may not increase the number of
| 20 | | students enrolled in its laboratory
school from a single | 21 | | district, if that district is already sending 50 or more
| 22 | | students, except under a mutual agreement between the school | 23 | | board of a
student's district of residence and the university |
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| 1 | | which operates the
laboratory school. A laboratory school may | 2 | | not have more than 1,000 students,
excluding students with | 3 | | disabilities in a special education program. | 4 | | As used in this Section, "alternative school" means a | 5 | | public school which is
created and operated by a Regional | 6 | | Superintendent of Schools and approved by
the State Board of | 7 | | Education. Such alternative schools may offer courses of
| 8 | | instruction for which credit is given in regular school | 9 | | programs, courses to
prepare students for the high school | 10 | | equivalency testing program or vocational
and occupational | 11 | | training. A regional superintendent of schools may contract
| 12 | | with a school district or a public community college district | 13 | | to operate an
alternative school. An alternative school serving | 14 | | more than one educational
service region may be established by | 15 | | the regional superintendents of schools
of the affected | 16 | | educational service regions. An alternative school
serving | 17 | | more than one educational service region may be operated under | 18 | | such
terms as the regional superintendents of schools of those | 19 | | educational service
regions may agree. | 20 | | Each laboratory and alternative school shall file, on forms | 21 | | provided by the
State Superintendent of Education, an annual | 22 | | State aid claim which states the
Average Daily Attendance of | 23 | | the school's students by month. The best 3 months'
Average | 24 | | Daily Attendance shall be computed for each school.
The general | 25 | | State aid entitlement shall be computed by multiplying the
| 26 | | applicable Average Daily Attendance by the Foundation Level as |
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| 1 | | determined under
this Section.
| 2 | | (L) Payments, Additional Grants in Aid and Other Requirements. | 3 | | (1) For a school district operating under the financial | 4 | | supervision
of an Authority created under Article 34A, the | 5 | | general State aid otherwise
payable to that district under this | 6 | | Section, but not the supplemental general
State aid, shall be | 7 | | reduced by an amount equal to the budget for
the operations of | 8 | | the Authority as certified by the Authority to the State
Board | 9 | | of Education, and an amount equal to such reduction shall be | 10 | | paid
to the Authority created for such district for its | 11 | | operating expenses in
the manner provided in Section 18-11. The | 12 | | remainder
of general State school aid for any such district | 13 | | shall be paid in accordance
with Article 34A when that Article | 14 | | provides for a disposition other than that
provided by this | 15 | | Article. | 16 | | (2) (Blank). | 17 | | (3) Summer school. Summer school payments shall be made as | 18 | | provided in
Section 18-4.3.
| 19 | | (M) Education Funding Advisory Board. | 20 | | The Education Funding Advisory
Board, hereinafter in this | 21 | | subsection (M) referred to as the "Board", is hereby
created. | 22 | | The Board
shall consist of 5 members who are appointed by the | 23 | | Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate. The | 24 | | members appointed shall include
representatives of education, |
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| 1 | | business, and the general public. One of the
members so | 2 | | appointed shall be
designated by the Governor at the time the | 3 | | appointment is made as the
chairperson of the
Board.
The | 4 | | initial members of the Board may
be appointed any time after | 5 | | the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1997. The regular | 6 | | term of each member of the
Board shall be for 4 years from the | 7 | | third Monday of January of the
year in which the term of the | 8 | | member's appointment is to commence, except that
of the 5 | 9 | | initial members appointed to serve on the
Board, the member who | 10 | | is appointed as the chairperson shall serve for
a term that | 11 | | commences on the date of his or her appointment and expires on | 12 | | the
third Monday of January, 2002, and the remaining 4 members, | 13 | | by lots drawn at
the first meeting of the Board that is
held
| 14 | | after all 5 members are appointed, shall determine 2 of their | 15 | | number to serve
for terms that commence on the date of their
| 16 | | respective appointments and expire on the third
Monday of | 17 | | January, 2001,
and 2 of their number to serve for terms that | 18 | | commence
on the date of their respective appointments and | 19 | | expire on the third Monday
of January, 2000. All members | 20 | | appointed to serve on the
Board shall serve until their | 21 | | respective successors are
appointed and confirmed. Vacancies | 22 | | shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments. If | 23 | | a vacancy in membership occurs at a time when the
Senate is not | 24 | | in session, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment | 25 | | until
the next meeting of the Senate, when he or she shall | 26 | | appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, a |
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| 1 | | person to fill that membership for the
unexpired term. If the | 2 | | Senate is not in session when the initial appointments
are | 3 | | made, those appointments shall
be made as in the case of | 4 | | vacancies. | 5 | | The Education Funding Advisory Board shall be deemed | 6 | | established,
and the initial
members appointed by the Governor | 7 | | to serve as members of the
Board shall take office,
on the date | 8 | | that the
Governor makes his or her appointment of the fifth | 9 | | initial member of the
Board, whether those initial members are | 10 | | then serving
pursuant to appointment and confirmation or | 11 | | pursuant to temporary appointments
that are made by the | 12 | | Governor as in the case of vacancies. | 13 | | The State Board of Education shall provide such staff | 14 | | assistance to the
Education Funding Advisory Board as is | 15 | | reasonably required for the proper
performance by the Board of | 16 | | its responsibilities. | 17 | | For school years after the 2000-2001 school year, the | 18 | | Education
Funding Advisory Board, in consultation with the | 19 | | State Board of Education,
shall make recommendations as | 20 | | provided in this subsection (M) to the General
Assembly for the | 21 | | foundation level under subdivision (B)(3) of this Section and
| 22 | | for the
supplemental general State aid grant level under | 23 | | subsection (H) of this Section
for districts with high | 24 | | concentrations of children from poverty. The
recommended | 25 | | foundation level shall be determined based on a methodology | 26 | | which
incorporates the basic education expenditures of |
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| 1 | | low-spending schools
exhibiting high academic performance. The | 2 | | Education Funding Advisory Board
shall make such | 3 | | recommendations to the General Assembly on January 1 of odd
| 4 | | numbered years, beginning January 1, 2001.
| 5 | | (N) (Blank).
| 6 | | (O) References. | 7 | | (1) References in other laws to the various subdivisions of
| 8 | | Section 18-8 as that Section existed before its repeal and | 9 | | replacement by this
Section 18-8.05 shall be deemed to refer to | 10 | | the corresponding provisions of
this Section 18-8.05, to the | 11 | | extent that those references remain applicable. | 12 | | (2) References in other laws to State Chapter 1 funds shall | 13 | | be deemed to
refer to the supplemental general State aid | 14 | | provided under subsection (H) of
this Section. | 15 | | (P) Public Act 93-838 and Public Act 93-808 make inconsistent | 16 | | changes to this Section. Under Section 6 of the Statute on | 17 | | Statutes there is an irreconcilable conflict between Public Act | 18 | | 93-808 and Public Act 93-838. Public Act 93-838, being the last | 19 | | acted upon, is controlling. The text of Public Act 93-838 is | 20 | | the law regardless of the text of Public Act 93-808. | 21 | | (Source: P.A. 96-45, eff. 7-15-09; 96-152, eff. 8-7-09; 96-300, | 22 | | eff. 8-11-09; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-640, eff. 8-24-09; | 23 | | 96-959, eff. 7-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 96-1480, eff. |
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| 1 | | 11-18-10; 97-339, eff. 8-12-11; 97-351, eff. 8-12-11; revised | 2 | | 9-28-11.)
| 3 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 18-12)
| 4 | | Sec. 18-12. Dates for filing State aid claims. The school | 5 | | board of
each school district shall require teachers, | 6 | | principals, or
superintendents to furnish from records kept by | 7 | | them such data as it
needs in preparing and certifying to the | 8 | | State Superintendent of Education
regional superintendent its | 9 | | school district report of claims provided in
Sections 18-8.05 | 10 | | through 18-9 as required by the State
Superintendent of | 11 | | Education . The district claim
shall be based on the latest | 12 | | available equalized assessed valuation and tax
rates, as | 13 | | provided in Section 18-8.05 and shall use the average
daily
| 14 | | attendance as determined by the method outlined in Section | 15 | | 18-8.05
and shall be
certified and filed with the State | 16 | | Superintendent of Education regional superintendent by June 21
| 17 | | for districts with an
official
school calendar end date before | 18 | | June 15 or within 2 weeks following the
official school | 19 | | calendar end date for districts with a school year end date
of | 20 | | June 15 or later. The regional superintendent shall certify and | 21 | | file
with the State Superintendent of Education district State | 22 | | aid claims by
July 1 for districts with an official school | 23 | | calendar end date before June
15 or no later than July 15 for | 24 | | districts with an official school calendar
end date of June 15 | 25 | | or later.
Failure to
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| 1 | | forfeiture of the right
to
receive payment by
the State until | 2 | | such claim is filed and vouchered for payment. The
regional | 3 | | superintendent of schools shall certify the county report of | 4 | | claims
by July 15; and the State Superintendent of Education | 5 | | shall voucher
for payment those claims to the State Comptroller | 6 | | as provided in Section 18-11.
| 7 | | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, if any school | 8 | | district
fails to provide the minimum school term specified
in | 9 | | Section 10-19, the State aid claim for that year shall be | 10 | | reduced by the
State Superintendent of Education in an amount | 11 | | equivalent to 1/176 or .56818% for
each day less than the | 12 | | number of days required by this Code.
| 13 | | If
the State Superintendent of Education determines that | 14 | | the failure
to
provide the minimum school term was occasioned | 15 | | by an act or acts of God, or
was occasioned by conditions | 16 | | beyond the control of the school district
which posed a | 17 | | hazardous threat to the health and safety of pupils, the
State | 18 | | aid claim need not be reduced.
| 19 | | If a school district was is precluded from providing the | 20 | | minimum hours of instruction required for a full day of | 21 | | attendance due to an adverse weather condition or a condition | 22 | | beyond the control of the school district that posed poses a | 23 | | hazardous threat to the health and safety of students, then the | 24 | | partial day of attendance may be counted if (i) the school | 25 | | district has provided at least one hour of instruction prior to | 26 | | the closure of the school district, (ii) a school building has |
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| 1 | | provided at least one hour of instruction prior to the closure | 2 | | of the school building, or (iii) the normal start time of the | 3 | | school district was is delayed. | 4 | | If, prior to providing any instruction, a school district | 5 | | must close one or more but not all school buildings after | 6 | | consultation with a local emergency response agency or due to a | 7 | | condition beyond the control of the school district that posed | 8 | | a hazardous threat to the health and safety of pupils , then the | 9 | | school district may claim attendance for up to 2 school days | 10 | | based on the average attendance of the 3 school days | 11 | | immediately preceding the closure of the affected school | 12 | | building. The partial or no day of attendance described in this | 13 | | Section and the reasons therefore shall be certified within a | 14 | | month of the closing or delayed start by the school district | 15 | | superintendent to the regional superintendent of schools for | 16 | | forwarding to the State Superintendent of Education for | 17 | | approval.
| 18 | | No exception to the requirement of providing a minimum | 19 | | school term may
be approved by the State Superintendent of | 20 | | Education pursuant to this Section
unless a school district has | 21 | | first used all emergency days provided for
in its regular | 22 | | calendar.
| 23 | | If the State Superintendent of Education declares that an | 24 | | energy
shortage exists during any part of the school year for | 25 | | the State or a
designated portion of the State, a district may | 26 | | operate the school
attendance centers within the district 4 |
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| 1 | | days of the week during the
time of the shortage by extending | 2 | | each existing school day by one clock
hour of school work, and | 3 | | the State aid claim shall not be reduced, nor
shall the | 4 | | employees of that district suffer any reduction in salary or
| 5 | | benefits as a result thereof. A district may operate all | 6 | | attendance
centers on this revised schedule, or may apply the | 7 | | schedule to selected
attendance centers, taking into | 8 | | consideration such factors as pupil
transportation schedules | 9 | | and patterns and sources of energy for
individual attendance | 10 | | centers.
| 11 | | Electronically submitted State aid claims shall be | 12 | | submitted by
duly authorized district or regional individuals | 13 | | over a secure network
that is password protected. The | 14 | | electronic submission of a State aid
claim must be accompanied | 15 | | with an affirmation that all of the provisions
of Sections | 16 | | 18-8.05 through 18-9, 10-22.5, and 24-4 of this Code are
met in | 17 | | all respects.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 95-152, eff. 8-14-07; 95-811, eff. 8-13-08; | 19 | | 95-876, eff. 8-21-08; 96-734, eff. 8-25-09.)
| 20 | | (105 ILCS 5/26-2a) (from Ch. 122, par. 26-2a) | 21 | | Sec. 26-2a. A "truant" is defined as a child subject to | 22 | | compulsory school
attendance and who is absent without valid | 23 | | cause from such attendance for
a school day or portion thereof. | 24 | | "Valid cause" for absence shall be illness, observance of a | 25 | | religious
holiday, death in the immediate family,
family |
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| 1 | | emergency, and shall include such other situations beyond the | 2 | | control
of the student as determined by the board of education | 3 | | in each district,
or such other circumstances which cause | 4 | | reasonable concern to the parent
for the safety or health of | 5 | | the student. | 6 | | "Chronic or habitual truant" shall be defined as a child | 7 | | who is subject to compulsory
school attendance and who is | 8 | | absent without valid cause from such attendance
for 5% or more | 9 | | of the previous 180 regular attendance days. | 10 | | "Truant minor" is defined as a chronic truant to whom | 11 | | supportive
services, including prevention, diagnostic, | 12 | | intervention and remedial
services, alternative programs and | 13 | | other school and community resources
have been provided and | 14 | | have failed to result in the cessation of chronic
truancy, or | 15 | | have been offered and refused. | 16 | | A "dropout" is defined as any child enrolled in grades one | 17 | | 9 through 12 whose
name has been removed from the district | 18 | | enrollment roster for any reason
other than the student's | 19 | | death, extended illness, removal for medical non-compliance, | 20 | | expulsion, aging out, graduation, or completion of a
program of | 21 | | studies and who has not transferred to another public or | 22 | | private school or moved out of the United States and is not | 23 | | known to be home-schooled by his or her parents or guardians or | 24 | | continuing school in another country . | 25 | | "Religion" for the purposes of this Article, includes all | 26 | | aspects of
religious observance and practice, as well as |
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| 1 | | belief. | 2 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1423, eff. 8-3-10; 97-218, eff. 7-28-11.)
| 3 | | (105 ILCS 5/27A-6)
| 4 | | Sec. 27A-6. Contract contents; applicability of laws and | 5 | | regulations.
| 6 | | (a) A certified charter shall constitute a binding contract | 7 | | and agreement
between
the charter school and a local school | 8 | | board under the terms of which the local
school board | 9 | | authorizes the governing body of the charter school to operate | 10 | | the
charter
school on the terms specified in the contract.
| 11 | | (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, | 12 | | the certified
charter
may
not waive or release the charter | 13 | | school from the State goals, standards, and
assessments | 14 | | established pursuant to Section 2-3.64.
Beginning with the | 15 | | 2003-2004 school year, the certified charter for a charter
| 16 | | school operating in a city having a population exceeding | 17 | | 500,000 shall
require the charter school to administer any | 18 | | other nationally recognized
standardized tests to its students | 19 | | that the chartering entity administers to
other
students, and | 20 | | the results on such tests shall be included in the
chartering | 21 | | entity's assessment reports.
| 22 | | (c) Subject to the provisions of subsection (e), a material | 23 | | revision to a
previously certified contract or a renewal shall | 24 | | be made with
the approval of both the local school board and | 25 | | the governing body of the
charter school.
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| 1 | | (c-5) The proposed contract shall include a provision on | 2 | | how both parties
will address minor violations of the contract.
| 3 | | (d) The proposed contract between the governing body of a | 4 | | proposed charter
school and the local school board as described | 5 | | in Section 27A-7 must be
submitted to and certified by the | 6 | | State Board before it can take effect. If
the State Board | 7 | | recommends that the proposed contract be modified for
| 8 | | consistency with this Article before it can be certified, the | 9 | | modifications
must be consented to by both the governing body | 10 | | of
the charter school and the local school board, and | 11 | | resubmitted to the State
Board for its certification. If the | 12 | | proposed contract is resubmitted in a form
that is not | 13 | | consistent with this Article, the State
Board may refuse to | 14 | | certify the charter.
| 15 | | The State Board shall assign a number to each submission or | 16 | | resubmission in
chronological order of receipt, and shall | 17 | | determine whether the proposed
contract is consistent with the | 18 | | provisions of this Article. If the proposed
contract complies, | 19 | | the State Board shall so certify.
| 20 | | (e) In the case of a material revision to a previously | 21 | | certified contract or a renewal under subsection (c) of this | 22 | | Section, either party may request that the State Board certify | 23 | | that the material revision is consistent with the provisions of | 24 | | this Article. If such a request is made, the proposed material | 25 | | revision is not effective unless and until the State Board so | 26 | | certifies. No material revision to a previously certified |
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| 1 | | contract or a renewal
shall be effective unless and until the | 2 | | State Board certifies that the revision
or renewal is | 3 | | consistent with the provisions of this Article.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 93-3, eff. 4-16-03.)
| 5 | | (105 ILCS 5/27A-7)
| 6 | | Sec. 27A-7. Charter submission.
| 7 | | (a) A proposal to establish a charter school shall be | 8 | | submitted to the
State Board and the local school board in the | 9 | | form of a proposed contract
entered
into between the local | 10 | | school board and the governing body of a proposed
charter | 11 | | school. The
charter school proposal as submitted to the State | 12 | | Board shall include:
| 13 | | (1) The name of the proposed charter school, which must | 14 | | include the words
"Charter School".
| 15 | | (2) The age or grade range, areas of focus, minimum and | 16 | | maximum numbers of
pupils to be enrolled in the charter | 17 | | school, and any other admission criteria
that would be | 18 | | legal if used by a school district.
| 19 | | (3) A description of and address for the physical plant | 20 | | in which the
charter school will be located; provided that | 21 | | nothing in the Article shall be
deemed to justify delaying | 22 | | or withholding favorable action on or approval of a
charter | 23 | | school proposal because the building or buildings in which | 24 | | the charter
school is to be located have not been acquired | 25 | | or rented at the time a charter
school proposal is |
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| 1 | | submitted or approved or a charter school contract is
| 2 | | entered
into or submitted for certification or certified, | 3 | | so long as the proposal or
submission identifies and names | 4 | | at least 2 sites that are potentially available
as a | 5 | | charter school facility by the time the charter school is | 6 | | to open.
| 7 | | (4) The mission statement of the charter school, which | 8 | | must be consistent
with the General Assembly's declared | 9 | | purposes; provided that nothing in this
Article shall be | 10 | | construed to require that, in order to receive favorable
| 11 | | consideration and approval, a charter school proposal | 12 | | demonstrate unequivocally
that the charter school will be | 13 | | able to meet each of those declared purposes,
it
being the | 14 | | intention of the Charter Schools Law that those purposes be
| 15 | | recognized as goals that
charter schools must aspire to | 16 | | attain.
| 17 | | (5) The goals, objectives, and pupil performance | 18 | | standards to be achieved
by the charter school.
| 19 | | (6) In the case of a proposal to establish a charter | 20 | | school by
converting an existing public school or | 21 | | attendance center to charter school
status, evidence that | 22 | | the proposed formation of the charter school has received
| 23 | | the approval of certified teachers, parents
and
guardians, | 24 | | and, if applicable, a local school council as provided in
| 25 | | subsection
(b) of Section 27A-8.
| 26 | | (7) A description of the charter school's educational |
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| 1 | | program, pupil
performance standards, curriculum, school | 2 | | year, school days, and hours of
operation.
| 3 | | (8) A description of the charter school's plan for | 4 | | evaluating pupil
performance, the types of assessments | 5 | | that will be used to measure pupil
progress towards | 6 | | achievement of the school's pupil performance standards, | 7 | | the
timeline for achievement of those standards, and the | 8 | | procedures for taking
corrective action in the event that | 9 | | pupil performance at the charter school
falls below those | 10 | | standards.
| 11 | | (9) Evidence that the terms of the charter as proposed | 12 | | are economically
sound
for both the charter school and the | 13 | | school district, a proposed budget for the
term of the | 14 | | charter, a description of the manner in which an annual
| 15 | | audit of the financial and administrative operations of the | 16 | | charter school,
including any services provided by the | 17 | | school district, are to be conducted,
and
a plan for the | 18 | | displacement of pupils, teachers, and other employees who | 19 | | will
not attend or be employed in the charter school.
| 20 | | (10) A description of the governance and operation of | 21 | | the charter school,
including the nature and extent of | 22 | | parental, professional educator, and
community involvement | 23 | | in the governance and operation of the charter school.
| 24 | | (11) An explanation of the relationship that will exist | 25 | | between the
charter school and its employees, including | 26 | | evidence that the terms and
conditions of employment have |
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| 1 | | been addressed with affected employees and their
| 2 | | recognized representative, if any. However, a bargaining | 3 | | unit of charter
school employees shall be separate and
| 4 | | distinct from any bargaining units formed from employees of | 5 | | a school district
in
which the charter school is located.
| 6 | | (12) An agreement between the parties regarding their | 7 | | respective
legal liability and applicable insurance | 8 | | coverage.
| 9 | | (13) A description of how the charter school plans to | 10 | | meet the
transportation needs of its pupils, and a plan for | 11 | | addressing the
transportation needs
of low-income and | 12 | | at-risk pupils.
| 13 | | (14) The proposed effective date and term of the | 14 | | charter; provided that
the
first day of the first academic | 15 | | year and the first day of the fiscal year
shall be no | 16 | | earlier than August 15 and the first day of the fiscal year | 17 | | shall be July 1 no later than September 15 of a
calendar | 18 | | year.
| 19 | | (15) Any other information reasonably required by the | 20 | | State Board of
Education.
| 21 | | (b) A proposal to establish a charter school may be | 22 | | initiated by individuals
or organizations that will have
| 23 | | majority representation on the board of directors or other | 24 | | governing body of
the corporation or other discrete legal | 25 | | entity that is to be established to
operate the proposed | 26 | | charter school, by a board of education or an
intergovernmental |
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| 1 | | agreement between or among boards of education, or by the
board | 2 | | of directors or other
governing body of a discrete legal entity | 3 | | already existing or established to
operate the proposed
charter | 4 | | school. The individuals or organizations referred to in this
| 5 | | subsection may be school teachers, school administrators, | 6 | | local school
councils, colleges or
universities or their | 7 | | faculty
members, public community colleges or their | 8 | | instructors or other
representatives, corporations, or other | 9 | | entities or their
representatives. The proposal shall be
| 10 | | submitted to the local school board for consideration and, if
| 11 | | appropriate, for
development of a proposed contract to be | 12 | | submitted to the State Board for
certification under
Section | 13 | | 27A-6.
| 14 | | (c) The local school board may not without the consent of | 15 | | the governing body
of the charter school condition its approval | 16 | | of a charter school proposal on
acceptance of an agreement to | 17 | | operate under State laws and regulations and
local school board | 18 | | policies from which the charter school is otherwise exempted
| 19 | | under this Article.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 91-405, eff. 8-3-99.)
| 21 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-8) | 22 | | Sec. 34-8. Powers and duties of general superintendent. The | 23 | | general superintendent of schools shall prescribe and control,
| 24 | | subject to the approval of the board and to other provisions of | 25 | | this
Article, the courses of study mandated by State law, |
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| 1 | | textbooks,
educational apparatus and equipment, discipline in | 2 | | and conduct of the
schools, and shall perform such other duties | 3 | | as the board may by rule
prescribe. The superintendent shall | 4 | | also notify the State Board of
Education, the board and the | 5 | | chief administrative official, other than the
alleged | 6 | | perpetrator himself, in the school where the alleged | 7 | | perpetrator
serves, that any person who is employed in a school | 8 | | or otherwise comes into
frequent contact with children in the | 9 | | school has been named as a
perpetrator in an indicated report | 10 | | filed pursuant to the Abused and
Neglected Child Reporting Act, | 11 | | approved June 26, 1975, as amended. | 12 | | The general superintendent may be granted the authority by | 13 | | the board
to hire a specific number of employees to assist in | 14 | | meeting immediate
responsibilities. Conditions of employment | 15 | | for such personnel shall not be
subject to the provisions of | 16 | | Section 34-85. | 17 | | The general superintendent may, pursuant to a delegation of | 18 | | authority by
the board and Section 34-18, approve contracts and | 19 | | expenditures. | 20 | | Pursuant to other provisions of this Article, sites shall | 21 | | be selected,
schoolhouses located thereon and plans therefor | 22 | | approved, and textbooks
and educational apparatus and | 23 | | equipment shall be adopted and purchased
by the board only upon | 24 | | the recommendation of the general superintendent
of schools or | 25 | | by a majority vote of the full membership of the board
and, in | 26 | | the case of textbooks, subject to Article 28 of this Act. The
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| 1 | | board may furnish free textbooks to pupils and may publish its | 2 | | own
textbooks and manufacture its own apparatus, equipment and | 3 | | supplies. | 4 | | In addition, each year at a time designated by the State | 5 | | Superintendent of Education in January of each year ,
the | 6 | | general
superintendent of schools shall report to the State | 7 | | Board of Education the number of high school students
in the | 8 | | district who are enrolled in accredited courses (for which high
| 9 | | school credit will be awarded upon successful completion of the | 10 | | courses) at
any community college, together with the name and | 11 | | number of the course or
courses which each such student is | 12 | | taking. | 13 | | The general superintendent shall also have the authority to | 14 | | monitor the
performance of attendance centers, to identify and | 15 | | place an attendance
center on remediation and probation, and to | 16 | | recommend to the board that the
attendance center be placed on | 17 | | intervention and be reconstituted, subject to
the provisions of | 18 | | Sections 34-8.3 and 8.4. | 19 | | The general superintendent, or his or her designee, shall
| 20 | | conduct an annual evaluation of each principal in the district
| 21 | | pursuant to guidelines promulgated by the Board and the Board | 22 | | approved
principal evaluation form. The evaluation
shall be | 23 | | based on factors, including the following:
(i) student academic | 24 | | improvement, as defined by the
school improvement plan; (ii) | 25 | | student absenteeism rates at the school;
(iii) instructional | 26 | | leadership;
(iv) effective implementation of programs, |
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| 1 | | policies, or strategies to
improve student academic | 2 | | achievement; (v) school management;
and (vi) other factors, | 3 | | including, without limitation, the principal's
communication | 4 | | skills and ability to create and maintain a
student-centered | 5 | | learning environment, to develop
opportunities for | 6 | | professional development, and to encourage parental
| 7 | | involvement and community partnerships to achieve school | 8 | | improvement. | 9 | | Effective no later than September 1, 2012, the general | 10 | | superintendent or his or her designee shall develop a written | 11 | | principal evaluation plan. The evaluation plan must be in | 12 | | writing and shall supersede the evaluation requirements set | 13 | | forth in this Section. The evaluation plan must do at least all | 14 | | of the following: | 15 | | (1) Provide for annual evaluation of all principals | 16 | | employed under a performance contract by the general | 17 | | superintendent or his or her designee, no later than July | 18 | | 1st of each year. | 19 | | (2) Consider the principal's specific duties, | 20 | | responsibilities, management, and competence as a | 21 | | principal. | 22 | | (3) Specify the principal's strengths and weaknesses, | 23 | | with supporting reasons. | 24 | | (4) Align with research-based standards. | 25 | | (5) Use data and indicators on student growth as a | 26 | | significant factor in rating principal performance. |
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 95-496, eff. 8-28-07; 96-861, eff. 1-15-10.)
| 2 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.9 rep.)
| 3 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.10 rep.) | 4 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.17 rep.) | 5 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.60 rep.) | 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/13B-35.10 rep.)
| 7 | | (105 ILCS 5/13B-35.15 rep.)
| 8 | | (105 ILCS 5/13B-35.20 rep.)
| 9 | | (105 ILCS 5/13B-40 rep.)
| 10 | | Section 10. The School Code is amended by repealing | 11 | | Sections 2-3.9, 2-3.10, 2-3.17, 2-3.60, 13B-35.10, 13B-35.15, | 12 | | 13B-35.20, and 13B-40. | 13 | | Section 15. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive | 14 | | Health
Education Act is amended by changing Section 6 as | 15 | | follows:
| 16 | | (105 ILCS 110/6) (from Ch. 122, par. 866)
| 17 | | Sec. 6. Rules and Regulations. In carrying out the powers | 18 | | and duties of the State Board of Education
and the advisory | 19 | | committee established
by this Act , the
State Board is and such | 20 | | committee are authorized to
promulgate rules and
regulations in | 21 | | order to implement the provisions of this Act.
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)
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| 1 | | (105 ILCS 110/5 rep.)
| 2 | | Section 20. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive | 3 | | Health
Education Act is amended by repealing Section 5.
| 4 | | (105 ILCS 215/Act rep.)
| 5 | | Section 25. The Chicago Community Schools Study Commission | 6 | | Act is repealed.".
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