Full Text of SB1578 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | 5 | | 3-11 and 24-3 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-11)
| 7 | | Sec. 3-11. Institutes or inservice training workshops. In | 8 | | counties
of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the regional | 9 | | superintendent may
arrange for or conduct district, regional, | 10 | | or county institutes, or
equivalent professional educational | 11 | | experiences, not more than 4 days
annually. Of those 4 days, 2 | 12 | | days may be used as a teacher's and educational support | 13 | | personnel workshop,
when approved by the regional | 14 | | superintendent, up to 2 days may be used
for conducting | 15 | | parent-teacher conferences or up to 2 days may be utilized
as | 16 | | parental institute days as provided in Section 10-22.18d. | 17 | | Educational support personnel may be exempt from a workshop if | 18 | | (i) the workshop is not relevant to the work they do and (ii) | 19 | | the workshop is not related to the health and safety of | 20 | | students. A school
district may use one of its 4 institute days | 21 | | on the last day of the school
term. "Institute" or | 22 | | "Professional educational experiences" means any
educational | 23 | | gathering, demonstration of methods of instruction,
visitation |
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| 1 | | of schools or other institutions or facilities, sexual
abuse | 2 | | and sexual assault awareness seminar, or training in First Aid | 3 | | (which may include cardiopulmonary resuscitation or | 4 | | defibrillator training) held or approved
by the regional | 5 | | superintendent and declared by him to be an institute day,
or | 6 | | parent-teacher conferences. With the concurrence of the State
| 7 | | Superintendent of Education, he or she may employ such | 8 | | assistance as is
necessary
to conduct the institute. Two or | 9 | | more adjoining counties may jointly hold
an institute. | 10 | | Institute instruction shall be free to holders of
certificates | 11 | | good in the county or counties holding the institute, and to
| 12 | | those who have paid an examination fee and failed to receive a | 13 | | certificate.
| 14 | | In counties of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the regional
| 15 | | superintendent may arrange for or conduct district, regional, | 16 | | or county
inservice training workshops, or equivalent | 17 | | professional educational
experiences, not more than 4 days | 18 | | annually. Of those 4 days, 2 days may
be used for conducting | 19 | | parent-teacher conferences and up to 2 days may be
utilized as | 20 | | parental institute days as provided in Section 10-22.18d. A
| 21 | | school district may use one of those 4 days on the last day of | 22 | | the school
term. "Inservice Training Workshops" or | 23 | | "Professional educational
experiences" means any educational | 24 | | gathering, demonstration of methods of
instruction, visitation | 25 | | of schools or other institutions or
facilities, sexual abuse | 26 | | and sexual assault awareness seminar, or training in First Aid |
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| 1 | | (which may include cardiopulmonary resuscitation or | 2 | | defibrillator training) held
or approved by the regional | 3 | | superintendent and declared by him to be
an inservice training | 4 | | workshop, or parent-teacher conferences. With the
concurrence | 5 | | of the State Superintendent of Education, he may employ such
| 6 | | assistance as is necessary to conduct the inservice training | 7 | | workshop.
With the approval of the regional superintendent, 2 | 8 | | or more adjoining
districts may jointly hold an inservice | 9 | | training workshop. In addition,
with the approval of the | 10 | | regional superintendent, one district may conduct
its own | 11 | | inservice training workshop with subject matter consultants
| 12 | | requested from the county, State or any State institution of | 13 | | higher learning.
| 14 | | Such teachers institutes as referred to in this Section may | 15 | | be held
on consecutive or separate days at the option of the | 16 | | regional
superintendent having jurisdiction thereof.
| 17 | | Whenever reference is made in this Act to "teachers | 18 | | institute", it
shall be construed to include the inservice | 19 | | training workshops or
equivalent professional educational | 20 | | experiences provided for in this Section.
| 21 | | Any institute advisory committee existing on April 1, 1995, | 22 | | is dissolved
and the duties and responsibilities of the | 23 | | institute advisory committee are
assumed by the regional office | 24 | | of education advisory board.
| 25 | | Districts providing inservice training programs shall | 26 | | constitute inservice
committees, 1/2 of which shall be |
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| 1 | | teachers, 1/4 school service personnel
and 1/4 administrators | 2 | | to establish program content and schedules.
| 3 | | The teachers institutes shall include teacher training | 4 | | committed to (i)
peer counseling programs and other | 5 | | anti-violence and conflict
resolution programs, including | 6 | | without limitation programs for preventing at
risk students | 7 | | from committing violent acts, and (ii) educator ethics and | 8 | | teacher-student conduct. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school | 9 | | year, the teachers institutes shall include instruction on | 10 | | prevalent student chronic health conditions.
| 11 | | (Source: P.A. 95-969, eff. 1-1-09; 96-431, eff. 8-13-09.)
| 12 | | (105 ILCS 5/24-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-3)
| 13 | | Sec. 24-3. Attendance at teachers' institute. The days in | 14 | | any school year spent by a teacher or educational support | 15 | | personnel during the term time
spent in attendance upon a | 16 | | teachers' institute or equivalent professional
educational | 17 | | experiences held under the direction of the county
| 18 | | superintendent of schools shall be considered time expended in | 19 | | the service
of the district and no deduction of wages shall be | 20 | | made for such
attendance. The board may make a pro-rata | 21 | | deduction from the salary of
any teacher or educational support | 22 | | personnel who fail fails or refuse refuses to attend such | 23 | | institute , unless, in the case of educational support | 24 | | personnel, they are exempt from attending .
The boards shall | 25 | | close the schools for county institute.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 85-697.)
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