Full Text of HR0543 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives recognizes that the State Board of Education's | 4 | | decision to implement, both, the Common Core Standards and the | 5 | | Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and | 6 | | Career's were not authorized by the Illinois State Legislature; | 7 | | and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, In 2010, Illinois became one of 48 states to opt | 9 | | in for the Common Core Standards by accepting federal funds | 10 | | from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and through the | 11 | | Race to the Top Initiative of the federal government; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Over the next few years, the Common Core | 13 | | Standards, which are largely untested in the United States, | 14 | | will substantively change the educational standards for | 15 | | students in Illinois, thus affecting every teacher and student | 16 | | in the State; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, There are many unknown and significant costs | 18 | | associated with the Common Core Standards and the Partnership | 19 | | for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career's; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The only substantive cost analysis of the | 21 | | implementation of the Common Core Standards was conducted by |
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| 1 | | the Pioneer Institute, a non-partisan, privately funded | 2 | | research organization, which estimates the financial impact | 3 | | for Illinois to be close to $773 million over 7 years; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, There are many school districts who lack the | 5 | | technology, infrastructure, and funding to create an | 6 | | environment for the online standards testing required by the | 7 | | Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and | 8 | | Career's or the new textbooks that will be needed to teach to | 9 | | the Common Core Standards; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, The State Board of Education has not secured | 11 | | funding for schools that will need curricular, technological, | 12 | | and infrastructure upgrades; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, The most recent data shows that close to 67% of | 14 | | school districts are operating with a deficit, the prospect of | 15 | | a pension cost-shift, and other expensive unfunded mandates by | 16 | | the State; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, It is inconceivable to require districts to incur | 18 | | costs to upgrade schools in their respective districts because | 19 | | the State Board of Education unilaterally made the decision to | 20 | | move to the Common Core Standards, without counsel from local | 21 | | school districts, without a strong Statewide informational | 22 | | campaign about the Common Core Standards, and without |
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| 1 | | performing a cost analysis for local school districts and the | 2 | | State; therefore, be it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 5 | | we urge State Superintendent Koch and the State Board of | 6 | | Education to delay the implementation of the Common Core | 7 | | Standards until a Board authorized and conducted study shows | 8 | | the costs associated with the Common Core Standards and the | 9 | | Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and | 10 | | Career's; and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That the State Board of Education and General | 12 | | Assembly create a viable plan to provide funding to school | 13 | | districts that need improvements and modernizations to comply | 14 | | with the new Common Core Standards and the Partnership for | 15 | | Assessment of Readiness for College and Career's; and be it | 16 | | further | 17 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the State Board of Education and all members of | 19 | | the Illinois General Assembly.
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