SB2793ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Arthur Turner

Filed: 5/6/2014

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2793

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2793 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section 2-3.160 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/2-3.160 new)

Sec. 2-3.160. Student discipline report; school discipline improvement plan.

(a) On or before October 31, 2015 and on or before October 31 of each subsequent year, the State Board of Education, through the State Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a report on student discipline in all school districts in this State. This report must be posted on the Internet website of the State Board of Education. The report shall include both of the following:

(1) Data on the issuance of out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and removals to alternative settings, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, age, grade level, limited English proficiency, incident type, and discipline duration.

(2) Data on the use of arrests or criminal citations on school grounds and during school hours, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, and age.

(b) The State Board of Education shall analyze the data under subsection (a) of this Section on an annual basis and determine the top quartile of school districts for each of the following metrics:

(1) Total number of instructional days on which students were excluded because of out-of-school suspensions or expulsions, divided by the total student population.

(2) Racial disproportionality with respect to the use of out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests and criminal citations.

The State Board of Education shall require each of the school districts identified in these quartiles to submit a school improvement plan identifying the strategies the school district will implement to reduce the use of harsh disciplinary practices or racial disproportionality or both if applicable. The calculation of the quartile described in subdivision (1) of this subsection (b) shall exclude all school districts that issued fewer than a total of 10 out-of-school suspensions and expulsions during the school year. The calculation of the quartile described in subdivision (2) of this subsection (b) shall exclude all school districts with an enrollment of fewer than 50 white students or fewer than 50 students of color.

The plan must be approved at a public school board meeting and posted on the school district's Internet website. Within one year after being identified, the school district shall submit to the State Board of Education and post on the district's Internet website a progress report describing the implementation of the plan and the results achieved.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2014.".