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Rep. Esther Golar
Filed: 3/10/2015
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 806
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 806 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
5 | | 27-22.10 as follows: |
6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-22.10) |
7 | | Sec. 27-22.10. Course credit for high school diploma. |
8 | | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the |
9 | | school board of a school district that maintains any of grades |
10 | | 9 through 12 is authorized to adopt a policy under which a |
11 | | student enrolled in grade 7 or 8 who is enrolled in the unit |
12 | | school district or would be enrolled in the high school |
13 | | district upon completion of elementary school, whichever is |
14 | | applicable, may enroll in a course required under Section 27-22 |
15 | | of this Code, provided that the course is offered by the high |
16 | | school that the student would attend, and (i) the student |
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1 | | participates in the course at the location of the high school, |
2 | | and the elementary student's enrollment in the course would not |
3 | | prevent a high school student from being able to enroll, or |
4 | | (ii) the student participates in the course where the student |
5 | | attends school as long as the course is taught by a high school |
6 | | teacher who is qualified to teach the course certified in |
7 | | accordance with Article 21B 21 of this Code who teaches in a |
8 | | high school of the school district where the student will |
9 | | attend when in high school and no high school students are |
10 | | enrolled in the course . |
11 | | (b) A school board that adopts a policy pursuant to |
12 | | subsection (a) of this Section must grant academic credit to an |
13 | | elementary school student who successfully completes the high |
14 | | school course, and that credit shall satisfy the requirements |
15 | | of Section 27-22 of this Code for that course. |
16 | | (c) A school board must award high school course credit to |
17 | | a student transferring to its school district for any course |
18 | | that the student successfully completed pursuant to subsection |
19 | | (a) of this Section, unless evidence about the course's rigor |
20 | | and content shows that it does not address the relevant |
21 | | Illinois Learning Standard at the level appropriate for the |
22 | | high school grade during which the course is usually taken, and |
23 | | that credit shall satisfy the requirements of Section 27-22 of |
24 | | this Code for that course. |
25 | | (d) A student's grade in any course successfully completed |
26 | | under this Section must be included in his or her grade point |