Full Text of HB0828 99th General Assembly
HB0828ham001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. William Davis Filed: 5/23/2016
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 828
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 828 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 18-8.05 and by adding Section 18-8.15 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-8.05)
| 7 | | Sec. 18-8.05. Basis for apportionment of general State | 8 | | financial aid and
supplemental general State aid to the common | 9 | | schools for the 1998-1999 through the 2016-2017 and
subsequent | 10 | | school years.
| 11 | | (A) General Provisions. | 12 | | (1) The provisions of this Section apply to the 1998-1999 | 13 | | through the 2016-2017 and subsequent
school years. The system | 14 | | of general State financial aid provided for in this
Section
is | 15 | | designed to assure that, through a combination of State |
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| 1 | | financial aid and
required local resources, the financial | 2 | | support provided each pupil in Average
Daily Attendance equals | 3 | | or exceeds a
prescribed per pupil Foundation Level. This | 4 | | formula approach imputes a level
of per pupil Available Local | 5 | | Resources and provides for the basis to calculate
a per pupil | 6 | | level of general State financial aid that, when added to | 7 | | Available
Local Resources, equals or exceeds the Foundation | 8 | | Level. The
amount of per pupil general State financial aid for | 9 | | school districts, in
general, varies in inverse
relation to | 10 | | Available Local Resources. Per pupil amounts are based upon
| 11 | | each school district's Average Daily Attendance as that term is | 12 | | defined in this
Section. | 13 | | (2) In addition to general State financial aid, school | 14 | | districts with
specified levels or concentrations of pupils | 15 | | from low income households are
eligible to receive supplemental | 16 | | general State financial aid grants as provided
pursuant to | 17 | | subsection (H).
The supplemental State aid grants provided for | 18 | | school districts under
subsection (H) shall be appropriated for | 19 | | distribution to school districts as
part of the same line item | 20 | | in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is | 21 | | appropriated under this Section. | 22 | | (3) To receive financial assistance under this Section, | 23 | | school districts
are required to file claims with the State | 24 | | Board of Education, subject to the
following requirements: | 25 | | (a) Any school district which fails for any given | 26 | | school year to maintain
school as required by law, or to |
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| 1 | | maintain a recognized school is not
eligible to file for | 2 | | such school year any claim upon the Common School
Fund. In | 3 | | case of nonrecognition of one or more attendance centers in | 4 | | a
school district otherwise operating recognized schools, | 5 | | the claim of the
district shall be reduced in the | 6 | | proportion which the Average Daily
Attendance in the | 7 | | attendance center or centers bear to the Average Daily
| 8 | | Attendance in the school district. A "recognized school" | 9 | | means any
public school which meets the standards as | 10 | | established for recognition
by the State Board of | 11 | | Education. A school district or attendance center
not | 12 | | having recognition status at the end of a school term is | 13 | | entitled to
receive State aid payments due upon a legal | 14 | | claim which was filed while
it was recognized. | 15 | | (b) School district claims filed under this Section are | 16 | | subject to
Sections 18-9 and 18-12, except as otherwise | 17 | | provided in this
Section. | 18 | | (c) If a school district operates a full year school | 19 | | under Section
10-19.1, the general State aid to the school | 20 | | district shall be determined
by the State Board of | 21 | | Education in accordance with this Section as near as
may be | 22 | | applicable. | 23 | | (d) (Blank). | 24 | | (4) Except as provided in subsections (H) and (L), the | 25 | | board of any district
receiving any of the grants provided for | 26 | | in this Section may apply those funds
to any fund so received |
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| 1 | | for which that board is authorized to make expenditures
by law. | 2 | | School districts are not required to exert a minimum | 3 | | Operating Tax Rate in
order to qualify for assistance under | 4 | | this Section. | 5 | | (5) As used in this Section the following terms, when | 6 | | capitalized, shall
have the meaning ascribed herein: | 7 | | (a) "Average Daily Attendance": A count of pupil | 8 | | attendance in school,
averaged as provided for in | 9 | | subsection (C) and utilized in deriving per pupil
financial | 10 | | support levels. | 11 | | (b) "Available Local Resources": A computation of | 12 | | local financial
support, calculated on the basis of Average | 13 | | Daily Attendance and derived as
provided pursuant to | 14 | | subsection (D). | 15 | | (c) "Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes": | 16 | | Funds paid to local
school districts pursuant to "An Act in | 17 | | relation to the abolition of ad valorem
personal property | 18 | | tax and the replacement of revenues lost thereby, and
| 19 | | amending and repealing certain Acts and parts of Acts in | 20 | | connection therewith",
certified August 14, 1979, as | 21 | | amended (Public Act 81-1st S.S.-1). | 22 | | (d) "Foundation Level": A prescribed level of per pupil | 23 | | financial support
as provided for in subsection (B). | 24 | | (e) "Operating Tax Rate": All school district property | 25 | | taxes extended for
all purposes, except Bond and
Interest, | 26 | | Summer School, Rent, Capital Improvement, and Vocational |
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| 1 | | Education
Building purposes.
| 2 | | (B) Foundation Level. | 3 | | (1) The Foundation Level is a figure established by the | 4 | | State representing
the minimum level of per pupil financial | 5 | | support that should be available to
provide for the basic | 6 | | education of each pupil in
Average Daily Attendance. As set | 7 | | forth in this Section, each school district
is assumed to exert
| 8 | | a sufficient local taxing effort such that, in combination with | 9 | | the aggregate
of general State
financial aid provided the | 10 | | district, an aggregate of State and local resources
are | 11 | | available to meet
the basic education needs of pupils in the | 12 | | district. | 13 | | (2) For the 1998-1999 school year, the Foundation Level of | 14 | | support is
$4,225. For the 1999-2000 school year, the | 15 | | Foundation Level of support is
$4,325. For the 2000-2001 school | 16 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is
$4,425. For the | 17 | | 2001-2002 school year and 2002-2003 school year, the
Foundation | 18 | | Level of support is $4,560. For the 2003-2004 school year, the | 19 | | Foundation Level of support is $4,810. For the 2004-2005 school | 20 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is $4,964.
For the | 21 | | 2005-2006 school year,
the Foundation Level of support is | 22 | | $5,164. For the 2006-2007 school year, the Foundation Level of | 23 | | support is $5,334. For the 2007-2008 school year, the | 24 | | Foundation Level of support is $5,734. For the 2008-2009 school | 25 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is $5,959. |
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| 1 | | (3) For the 2009-2010 school year and each school year | 2 | | thereafter,
the Foundation Level of support is $6,119 or such | 3 | | greater amount as
may be established by law by the General | 4 | | Assembly.
| 5 | | (C) Average Daily Attendance. | 6 | | (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant | 7 | | to subsection
(E), an Average Daily Attendance figure shall be | 8 | | utilized. The Average Daily
Attendance figure for formula
| 9 | | calculation purposes shall be the monthly average of the actual | 10 | | number of
pupils in attendance of
each school district, as | 11 | | further averaged for the best 3 months of pupil
attendance for | 12 | | each
school district. In compiling the figures for the number | 13 | | of pupils in
attendance, school districts
and the State Board | 14 | | of Education shall, for purposes of general State aid
funding, | 15 | | conform
attendance figures to the requirements of subsection | 16 | | (F). | 17 | | (2) The Average Daily Attendance figures utilized in | 18 | | subsection (E) shall be
the requisite attendance data for the | 19 | | school year immediately preceding
the
school year for which | 20 | | general State aid is being calculated
or the average of the | 21 | | attendance data for the 3 preceding school
years, whichever is | 22 | | greater. The Average Daily Attendance figures
utilized in | 23 | | subsection (H) shall be the requisite attendance data for the
| 24 | | school year immediately preceding the school year for which | 25 | | general
State aid is being calculated.
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| 1 | | (D) Available Local Resources. | 2 | | (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant | 3 | | to subsection
(E), a representation of Available Local | 4 | | Resources per pupil, as that term is
defined and determined in | 5 | | this subsection, shall be utilized. Available Local
Resources | 6 | | per pupil shall include a calculated
dollar amount representing | 7 | | local school district revenues from local property
taxes and | 8 | | from
Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes, expressed | 9 | | on the basis of pupils
in Average
Daily Attendance. Calculation | 10 | | of Available Local Resources shall exclude any tax amnesty | 11 | | funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. | 12 | | (2) In determining a school district's revenue from local | 13 | | property taxes,
the State Board of Education shall utilize the | 14 | | equalized assessed valuation of
all taxable property of each | 15 | | school
district as of September 30 of the previous year. The | 16 | | equalized assessed
valuation utilized shall
be obtained and | 17 | | determined as provided in subsection (G). | 18 | | (3) For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten | 19 | | through 12, local
property tax
revenues per pupil shall be | 20 | | calculated as the product of the applicable
equalized assessed
| 21 | | valuation for the district multiplied by 3.00%, and divided by | 22 | | the district's
Average Daily
Attendance figure. For school | 23 | | districts maintaining grades kindergarten
through 8, local
| 24 | | property tax revenues per pupil shall be calculated as the | 25 | | product of the
applicable equalized
assessed valuation for the |
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| 1 | | district multiplied by 2.30%, and divided by the
district's | 2 | | Average
Daily Attendance figure. For school districts | 3 | | maintaining grades 9 through 12,
local property
tax revenues | 4 | | per pupil shall be the applicable equalized assessed valuation | 5 | | of
the district
multiplied by 1.05%, and divided by the | 6 | | district's Average Daily
Attendance
figure. | 7 | | For partial elementary unit districts created pursuant to | 8 | | Article 11E of this Code, local property tax revenues per pupil | 9 | | shall be calculated as the product of the equalized assessed | 10 | | valuation for property within the partial elementary unit | 11 | | district for elementary purposes, as defined in Article 11E of | 12 | | this Code, multiplied by 2.06% and divided by the district's | 13 | | Average Daily Attendance figure, plus the product of the | 14 | | equalized assessed valuation for property within the partial | 15 | | elementary unit district for high school purposes, as defined | 16 | | in Article 11E of this Code, multiplied by 0.94% and divided by | 17 | | the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
| 18 | | (4) The Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes paid | 19 | | to each school
district during the calendar year one year | 20 | | before the calendar year in which a
school year begins, divided | 21 | | by the Average Daily Attendance figure for that
district, shall | 22 | | be added to the local property tax revenues per pupil as
| 23 | | derived by the application of the immediately preceding | 24 | | paragraph (3). The sum
of these per pupil figures for each | 25 | | school district shall constitute Available
Local Resources as | 26 | | that term is utilized in subsection (E) in the calculation
of |
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| 1 | | general State aid.
| 2 | | (E) Computation of General State Aid. | 3 | | (1) For each school year, the amount of general State aid | 4 | | allotted to a
school district shall be computed by the State | 5 | | Board of Education as provided
in this subsection. | 6 | | (2) For any school district for which Available Local | 7 | | Resources per pupil
is less than the product of 0.93 times the | 8 | | Foundation Level, general State aid
for that district shall be | 9 | | calculated as an amount equal to the Foundation
Level minus | 10 | | Available Local Resources, multiplied by the Average Daily
| 11 | | Attendance of the school district. | 12 | | (3) For any school district for which Available Local | 13 | | Resources per pupil
is equal to or greater than the product of | 14 | | 0.93 times the Foundation Level and
less than the product of | 15 | | 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid
per | 16 | | pupil shall be a decimal proportion of the Foundation Level | 17 | | derived using a
linear algorithm. Under this linear algorithm, | 18 | | the calculated general State
aid per pupil shall decline in | 19 | | direct linear fashion from 0.07 times the
Foundation Level for | 20 | | a school district with Available Local Resources equal to
the | 21 | | product of 0.93 times the Foundation Level, to 0.05 times the | 22 | | Foundation
Level for a school district with Available Local | 23 | | Resources equal to the product
of 1.75 times the Foundation | 24 | | Level. The allocation of general
State aid for school districts | 25 | | subject to this paragraph 3 shall be the
calculated general |
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| 1 | | State aid
per pupil figure multiplied by the Average Daily | 2 | | Attendance of the school
district. | 3 | | (4) For any school district for which Available Local | 4 | | Resources per pupil
equals or exceeds the product of 1.75 times | 5 | | the Foundation Level, the general
State aid for the school | 6 | | district shall be calculated as the product of $218
multiplied | 7 | | by the Average Daily Attendance of the school
district. | 8 | | (5) The amount of general State aid allocated to a school | 9 | | district for
the 1999-2000 school year meeting the requirements | 10 | | set forth in paragraph (4)
of subsection
(G) shall be increased | 11 | | by an amount equal to the general State aid that
would have | 12 | | been received by the district for the 1998-1999 school year by
| 13 | | utilizing the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed | 14 | | Valuation as calculated
in paragraph (4) of subsection (G) less | 15 | | the general State aid allotted for the
1998-1999
school year. | 16 | | This amount shall be deemed a one time increase, and shall not
| 17 | | affect any future general State aid allocations.
| 18 | | (F) Compilation of Average Daily Attendance. | 19 | | (1) Each school district shall, by July 1 of each year, | 20 | | submit to the State
Board of Education, on forms prescribed by | 21 | | the State Board of Education,
attendance figures for the school | 22 | | year that began in the preceding calendar
year. The attendance | 23 | | information so transmitted shall identify the average
daily | 24 | | attendance figures for each month of the school year. Beginning | 25 | | with
the general State aid claim form for the 2002-2003 school
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| 1 | | year, districts shall calculate Average Daily Attendance as | 2 | | provided in
subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of this paragraph | 3 | | (1). | 4 | | (a) In districts that do not hold year-round classes,
| 5 | | days of attendance in August shall be added to the month of | 6 | | September and any
days of attendance in June shall be added | 7 | | to the month of May. | 8 | | (b) In districts in which all buildings hold year-round | 9 | | classes,
days of attendance in July and August shall be | 10 | | added to the month
of September and any days of attendance | 11 | | in June shall be added to
the month of May. | 12 | | (c) In districts in which some buildings, but not all, | 13 | | hold
year-round classes, for the non-year-round buildings, | 14 | | days of
attendance in August shall be added to the month of | 15 | | September
and any days of attendance in June shall be added | 16 | | to the month of
May. The average daily attendance for the | 17 | | year-round buildings
shall be computed as provided in | 18 | | subdivision (b) of this paragraph
(1). To calculate the | 19 | | Average Daily Attendance for the district, the
average | 20 | | daily attendance for the year-round buildings shall be
| 21 | | multiplied by the days in session for the non-year-round | 22 | | buildings
for each month and added to the monthly | 23 | | attendance of the
non-year-round buildings. | 24 | | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, days of
| 25 | | attendance by pupils shall be counted only for sessions of not | 26 | | less than
5 clock hours of school work per day under direct |
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| 1 | | supervision of: (i)
teachers, or (ii) non-teaching personnel or | 2 | | volunteer personnel when engaging
in non-teaching duties and | 3 | | supervising in those instances specified in
subsection (a) of | 4 | | Section 10-22.34 and paragraph 10 of Section 34-18, with
pupils | 5 | | of legal school age and in kindergarten and grades 1 through | 6 | | 12. Days of attendance by pupils through verified participation | 7 | | in an e-learning program approved by the State Board of | 8 | | Education under Section 10-20.56 of the Code shall be | 9 | | considered as full days of attendance for purposes of this | 10 | | Section. | 11 | | Days of attendance by tuition pupils shall be accredited | 12 | | only to the
districts that pay the tuition to a recognized | 13 | | school. | 14 | | (2) Days of attendance by pupils of less than 5 clock hours | 15 | | of school
shall be subject to the following provisions in the | 16 | | compilation of Average
Daily Attendance. | 17 | | (a) Pupils regularly enrolled in a public school for | 18 | | only a part of
the school day may be counted on the basis | 19 | | of 1/6 day for every class hour
of instruction of 40 | 20 | | minutes or more attended pursuant to such enrollment,
| 21 | | unless a pupil is
enrolled in a block-schedule format of 80 | 22 | | minutes or more of instruction,
in which case the pupil may | 23 | | be counted on the basis of the proportion of
minutes of | 24 | | school work completed each day to the minimum number of
| 25 | | minutes that school work is required to be held that day. | 26 | | (b) (Blank). |
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| 1 | | (c) A session of 4 or more clock hours may be counted | 2 | | as a day of
attendance upon certification by the regional | 3 | | superintendent, and
approved by the State Superintendent | 4 | | of Education to the extent that the
district has been | 5 | | forced to use daily multiple sessions. | 6 | | (d) A session of 3 or more clock hours may be counted | 7 | | as a day of
attendance (1) when the remainder of the school | 8 | | day or at least
2 hours in the evening of that day is | 9 | | utilized for an
in-service training program for teachers, | 10 | | up to a maximum of 5 days per
school year, provided a | 11 | | district conducts an in-service
training program for | 12 | | teachers in accordance with Section 10-22.39 of this Code; | 13 | | or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may
be used, in | 14 | | which event each such day
may be counted as a day required | 15 | | for a legal school calendar pursuant to Section 10-19 of | 16 | | this Code; (1.5) when, of the 5 days allowed under item | 17 | | (1), a maximum of 4 days are used for parent-teacher | 18 | | conferences, or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days are | 19 | | used, in which case each such day may be counted as a | 20 | | calendar day required under Section 10-19 of this Code, | 21 | | provided that the full-day, parent-teacher conference | 22 | | consists of (i) a minimum of 5 clock hours of | 23 | | parent-teacher conferences, (ii) both a minimum of 2 clock | 24 | | hours of parent-teacher conferences held in the evening | 25 | | following a full day of student attendance, as specified in | 26 | | subsection (F)(1)(c), and a minimum of 3 clock hours of |
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| 1 | | parent-teacher conferences held on the day immediately | 2 | | following evening parent-teacher conferences, or (iii) | 3 | | multiple parent-teacher conferences held in the evenings | 4 | | following full days of student attendance, as specified in | 5 | | subsection (F)(1)(c), in which the time used for the | 6 | | parent-teacher conferences is equivalent to a minimum of 5 | 7 | | clock hours; and (2) when days in
addition to
those | 8 | | provided in items (1) and (1.5) are scheduled by a school | 9 | | pursuant to its school
improvement plan adopted under | 10 | | Article 34 or its revised or amended school
improvement | 11 | | plan adopted under Article 2, provided that (i) such | 12 | | sessions of
3 or more clock hours are scheduled to occur at | 13 | | regular intervals, (ii) the
remainder of the school days in | 14 | | which such sessions occur are utilized
for in-service | 15 | | training programs or other staff development activities | 16 | | for
teachers, and (iii) a sufficient number of minutes of | 17 | | school work under the
direct supervision of teachers are | 18 | | added to the school days between such
regularly scheduled | 19 | | sessions to accumulate not less than the number of minutes
| 20 | | by which such sessions of 3 or more clock hours fall short | 21 | | of 5 clock hours.
Any full days used for the purposes of | 22 | | this paragraph shall not be considered
for
computing | 23 | | average daily attendance. Days scheduled for in-service | 24 | | training
programs, staff development activities, or | 25 | | parent-teacher conferences may be
scheduled separately for | 26 | | different
grade levels and different attendance centers of |
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| 1 | | the district. | 2 | | (e) A session of not less than one clock hour of | 3 | | teaching
hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or by | 4 | | telephone to the classroom may
be counted as 1/2 day of | 5 | | attendance, however these pupils must receive 4 or
more | 6 | | clock hours of instruction to be counted for a full day of | 7 | | attendance. | 8 | | (f) A session of at least 4 clock hours may be counted | 9 | | as a day of
attendance for first grade pupils, and pupils | 10 | | in full day kindergartens,
and a session of 2 or more hours | 11 | | may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance by
pupils in | 12 | | kindergartens which provide only 1/2 day of attendance. | 13 | | (g) For children with disabilities who are below the | 14 | | age of 6 years and
who
cannot attend 2 or more clock hours | 15 | | because of their disability or
immaturity, a session of not | 16 | | less than one clock hour may be counted as 1/2 day
of | 17 | | attendance; however for such children whose educational | 18 | | needs so require
a session of 4 or more clock hours may be | 19 | | counted as a full day of attendance. | 20 | | (h) A recognized kindergarten which provides for only | 21 | | 1/2 day of
attendance by each pupil shall not have more | 22 | | than 1/2 day of attendance
counted in any one day. However, | 23 | | kindergartens may count 2 1/2 days
of
attendance in any 5 | 24 | | consecutive school days. When a pupil attends such a
| 25 | | kindergarten for 2 half days on any one school day, the | 26 | | pupil shall have
the following day as a day absent from |
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| 1 | | school, unless the school district
obtains permission in | 2 | | writing from the State Superintendent of Education.
| 3 | | Attendance at kindergartens which provide for a full day of | 4 | | attendance by
each pupil shall be counted the same as | 5 | | attendance by first grade pupils.
Only the first year of | 6 | | attendance in one kindergarten shall be counted,
except in | 7 | | case of children who entered the kindergarten in their | 8 | | fifth year
whose educational development requires a second | 9 | | year of kindergarten as
determined under the rules and | 10 | | regulations of the State Board of Education. | 11 | | (i) On the days when the assessment that includes a | 12 | | college and career ready determination is
administered | 13 | | under subsection (c) of Section 2-3.64a-5 of this Code, the | 14 | | day
of attendance for a pupil whose school
day must be | 15 | | shortened to accommodate required testing procedures may
| 16 | | be less than 5 clock hours and shall be counted towards the | 17 | | 176 days of actual pupil attendance required under Section | 18 | | 10-19 of this Code, provided that a sufficient number of | 19 | | minutes
of school work in excess of 5 clock hours are first | 20 | | completed on other school
days to compensate for the loss | 21 | | of school work on the examination days. | 22 | | (j) Pupils enrolled in a remote educational program | 23 | | established under Section 10-29 of this Code may be counted | 24 | | on the basis of one-fifth day of attendance for every clock | 25 | | hour of instruction attended in the remote educational | 26 | | program, provided that, in any month, the school district |
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| 1 | | may not claim for a student enrolled in a remote | 2 | | educational program more days of attendance than the | 3 | | maximum number of days of attendance the district can claim | 4 | | (i) for students enrolled in a building holding year-round | 5 | | classes if the student is classified as participating in | 6 | | the remote educational program on a year-round schedule or | 7 | | (ii) for students enrolled in a building not holding | 8 | | year-round classes if the student is not classified as | 9 | | participating in the remote educational program on a | 10 | | year-round schedule.
| 11 | | (G) Equalized Assessed Valuation Data. | 12 | | (1) For purposes of the calculation of Available Local | 13 | | Resources required
pursuant to subsection (D), the
State Board | 14 | | of Education shall secure from the Department of
Revenue the | 15 | | value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue of
| 16 | | all taxable property of every school district, together with | 17 | | (i) the applicable
tax rate used in extending taxes for the | 18 | | funds of the district as of
September 30 of the previous year
| 19 | | and (ii) the limiting rate for all school
districts subject to | 20 | | property tax extension limitations as imposed under the
| 21 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
| 22 | | The Department of Revenue shall add to the equalized | 23 | | assessed value of all
taxable
property of each school district | 24 | | situated entirely or partially within a county
that is or was | 25 | | subject to the
provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the |
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| 1 | | Property Tax Code (a)
an amount equal to the total amount by | 2 | | which the
homestead exemption allowed under Section 15-176 or | 3 | | 15-177 of the Property Tax Code for
real
property situated in | 4 | | that school district exceeds the total amount that would
have | 5 | | been
allowed in that school district if the maximum reduction | 6 | | under Section 15-176
was
(i) $4,500 in Cook County or $3,500 in | 7 | | all other counties in tax year 2003 or (ii) $5,000 in all | 8 | | counties in tax year 2004 and thereafter and (b) an amount | 9 | | equal to the aggregate amount for the taxable year of all | 10 | | additional exemptions under Section 15-175 of the Property Tax | 11 | | Code for owners with a household income of $30,000 or less. The | 12 | | county clerk of any county that is or was subject to the | 13 | | provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code | 14 | | shall
annually calculate and certify to the Department of | 15 | | Revenue for each school
district all
homestead exemption | 16 | | amounts under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code | 17 | | and all amounts of additional exemptions under Section 15-175 | 18 | | of the Property Tax Code for owners with a household income of | 19 | | $30,000 or less. It is the intent of this paragraph that if the | 20 | | general homestead exemption for a parcel of property is | 21 | | determined under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax | 22 | | Code rather than Section 15-175, then the calculation of | 23 | | Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the | 24 | | difference, if any, between the amount of the general homestead | 25 | | exemption allowed for that parcel of property under Section | 26 | | 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code and the amount that |
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| 1 | | would have been allowed had the general homestead exemption for | 2 | | that parcel of property been determined under Section 15-175 of | 3 | | the Property Tax Code. It is further the intent of this | 4 | | paragraph that if additional exemptions are allowed under | 5 | | Section 15-175 of the Property Tax Code for owners with a | 6 | | household income of less than $30,000, then the calculation of | 7 | | Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the | 8 | | difference, if any, because of those additional exemptions. | 9 | | This equalized assessed valuation, as adjusted further by | 10 | | the requirements of
this subsection, shall be utilized in the | 11 | | calculation of Available Local
Resources. | 12 | | (2) The equalized assessed valuation in paragraph (1) shall | 13 | | be adjusted, as
applicable, in the following manner: | 14 | | (a) For the purposes of calculating State aid under | 15 | | this Section,
with respect to any part of a school district | 16 | | within a redevelopment
project area in respect to which a | 17 | | municipality has adopted tax
increment allocation | 18 | | financing pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation
| 19 | | Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1 through 11-74.4-11 | 20 | | of the Illinois
Municipal Code or the Industrial Jobs | 21 | | Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1 through
11-74.6-50 of the | 22 | | Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the current equalized
| 23 | | assessed valuation of real property located in any such | 24 | | project area which is
attributable to an increase above the | 25 | | total initial equalized assessed
valuation of such | 26 | | property shall be used as part of the equalized assessed
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| 1 | | valuation of the district, until such time as all
| 2 | | redevelopment project costs have been paid, as provided in | 3 | | Section 11-74.4-8
of the Tax Increment Allocation | 4 | | Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of
the | 5 | | Industrial Jobs Recovery Law. For the purpose of
the | 6 | | equalized assessed valuation of the
district, the total | 7 | | initial equalized assessed valuation or the current
| 8 | | equalized assessed valuation, whichever is lower, shall be | 9 | | used until
such time as all redevelopment project costs | 10 | | have been paid. | 11 | | (b) The real property equalized assessed valuation for | 12 | | a school district
shall be adjusted by subtracting from the | 13 | | real property
value as equalized or assessed by the | 14 | | Department of Revenue for the
district an amount computed | 15 | | by dividing the amount of any abatement of
taxes under | 16 | | Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code by 3.00% for a | 17 | | district
maintaining grades kindergarten through 12, by | 18 | | 2.30% for a district
maintaining grades kindergarten | 19 | | through 8, or by 1.05% for a
district
maintaining grades 9 | 20 | | through 12 and adjusted by an amount computed by dividing
| 21 | | the amount of any abatement of taxes under subsection (a) | 22 | | of Section 18-165 of
the Property Tax Code by the same | 23 | | percentage rates for district type as
specified in this | 24 | | subparagraph (b). | 25 | | (3) For the 1999-2000 school year and each school year | 26 | | thereafter, if a
school district meets all of the criteria of |
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| 1 | | this subsection (G)(3), the school
district's Available Local | 2 | | Resources shall be calculated under subsection (D)
using the | 3 | | district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation | 4 | | as
calculated under this
subsection (G)(3). | 5 | | For purposes of this subsection (G)(3) the following terms | 6 | | shall have
the following meanings: | 7 | | "Budget Year": The school year for which general State | 8 | | aid is calculated
and
awarded under subsection (E). | 9 | | "Base Tax Year": The property tax levy year used to | 10 | | calculate the Budget
Year
allocation of general State aid. | 11 | | "Preceding Tax Year": The property tax levy year | 12 | | immediately preceding the
Base Tax Year. | 13 | | "Base Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of the | 14 | | equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County Clerk | 15 | | in the Base Tax Year multiplied by the
limiting rate as | 16 | | calculated by the County Clerk and defined in the Property | 17 | | Tax
Extension Limitation Law. | 18 | | "Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of | 19 | | the equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County | 20 | | Clerk in the Preceding Tax Year multiplied by
the Operating | 21 | | Tax Rate as defined in subsection (A). | 22 | | "Extension Limitation Ratio": A numerical ratio, | 23 | | certified by the
County Clerk, in which the numerator is | 24 | | the Base Tax Year's Tax
Extension and the denominator is | 25 | | the Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension. | 26 | | "Operating Tax Rate": The operating tax rate as defined |
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| 1 | | in subsection (A). | 2 | | If a school district is subject to property tax extension | 3 | | limitations as
imposed under
the Property Tax Extension | 4 | | Limitation Law, the State Board of Education shall
calculate | 5 | | the Extension
Limitation
Equalized Assessed Valuation of that | 6 | | district. For the 1999-2000 school
year, the
Extension | 7 | | Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school district as
| 8 | | calculated by the State Board of Education shall be equal to | 9 | | the product of the
district's 1996 Equalized Assessed Valuation | 10 | | and the district's Extension
Limitation Ratio. Except as | 11 | | otherwise provided in this paragraph for a school district that | 12 | | has approved or does approve an increase in its limiting rate, | 13 | | for the 2000-2001 school year and each school year
thereafter,
| 14 | | the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a | 15 | | school district as
calculated by the State Board of Education | 16 | | shall be equal to the product of
the Equalized Assessed | 17 | | Valuation last used in the calculation of general State
aid and | 18 | | the
district's Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension | 19 | | Limitation
Equalized
Assessed Valuation of a school district as | 20 | | calculated under
this subsection (G)(3) is less than the | 21 | | district's equalized assessed valuation
as calculated pursuant | 22 | | to subsections (G)(1) and (G)(2), then for purposes of
| 23 | | calculating the district's general State aid for the Budget | 24 | | Year pursuant to
subsection (E), that Extension
Limitation | 25 | | Equalized Assessed Valuation shall be utilized to calculate the
| 26 | | district's Available Local Resources
under subsection (D). For |
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| 1 | | the 2009-2010 school year and each school year thereafter, if a | 2 | | school district has approved or does approve an increase in its | 3 | | limiting rate, pursuant to Section 18-190 of the Property Tax | 4 | | Code, affecting the Base Tax Year, the Extension Limitation | 5 | | Equalized Assessed Valuation of the school district, as | 6 | | calculated by the State Board of Education, shall be equal to | 7 | | the product of the Equalized Assessed Valuation last used in | 8 | | the calculation of general State aid times an amount equal to | 9 | | one plus the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price | 10 | | Index for all Urban Consumers for all items published by the | 11 | | United States Department of Labor for the 12-month calendar | 12 | | year preceding the Base Tax Year, plus the Equalized Assessed | 13 | | Valuation of new property, annexed property, and recovered tax | 14 | | increment value and minus the Equalized Assessed Valuation of | 15 | | disconnected property. New property and recovered tax | 16 | | increment value shall have the meanings set forth in the | 17 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. | 18 | | Partial elementary unit districts created in accordance | 19 | | with Article 11E of this Code shall not be eligible for the | 20 | | adjustment in this subsection (G)(3) until the fifth year | 21 | | following the effective date of the reorganization.
| 22 | | (3.5) For the 2010-2011 school year and each school year | 23 | | thereafter, if a school district's boundaries span multiple | 24 | | counties, then the Department of Revenue shall send to the | 25 | | State Board of Education, for the purpose of calculating | 26 | | general State aid, the limiting rate and individual rates by |
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| 1 | | purpose for the county that contains the majority of the school | 2 | | district's Equalized Assessed Valuation. | 3 | | (4) For the purposes of calculating general State aid for | 4 | | the 1999-2000
school year only, if a school district | 5 | | experienced a triennial reassessment on
the equalized assessed | 6 | | valuation used in calculating its general State
financial aid | 7 | | apportionment for the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board of
| 8 | | Education shall calculate the Extension Limitation Equalized | 9 | | Assessed Valuation
that would have been used to calculate the | 10 | | district's 1998-1999 general State
aid. This amount shall equal | 11 | | the product of the equalized assessed valuation
used to
| 12 | | calculate general State aid for the 1997-1998 school year and | 13 | | the district's
Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension | 14 | | Limitation Equalized Assessed
Valuation of the school district | 15 | | as calculated under this paragraph (4) is
less than the | 16 | | district's equalized assessed valuation utilized in | 17 | | calculating
the
district's 1998-1999 general State aid | 18 | | allocation, then for purposes of
calculating the district's | 19 | | general State aid pursuant to paragraph (5) of
subsection (E),
| 20 | | that Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation shall | 21 | | be utilized to
calculate the district's Available Local | 22 | | Resources. | 23 | | (5) For school districts having a majority of their | 24 | | equalized assessed
valuation in any county except Cook, DuPage, | 25 | | Kane, Lake, McHenry, or Will, if
the amount of general State | 26 | | aid allocated to the school district for the
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| 1 | | year under the provisions of subsection (E), (H), and (J) of
| 2 | | this Section is less than the amount of general State aid | 3 | | allocated to the
district for the 1998-1999 school year under | 4 | | these subsections, then the
general
State aid of the district | 5 | | for the 1999-2000 school year only shall be increased
by the | 6 | | difference between these amounts. The total payments made under | 7 | | this
paragraph (5) shall not exceed $14,000,000. Claims shall | 8 | | be prorated if they
exceed $14,000,000.
| 9 | | (H) Supplemental General State Aid. | 10 | | (1) In addition to the general State aid a school district | 11 | | is allotted
pursuant to subsection (E), qualifying school | 12 | | districts shall receive a grant,
paid in conjunction with a | 13 | | district's payments of general State aid, for
supplemental | 14 | | general State aid based upon the concentration level of | 15 | | children
from low-income households within the school | 16 | | district.
Supplemental State aid grants provided for school | 17 | | districts under this
subsection shall be appropriated for | 18 | | distribution to school districts as part
of the same line item | 19 | | in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is | 20 | | appropriated under this Section.
| 21 | | (1.5) This paragraph (1.5) applies only to those school | 22 | | years
preceding the 2003-2004 school year.
For purposes of this
| 23 | | subsection (H), the term "Low-Income Concentration Level" | 24 | | shall be the
low-income
eligible pupil count from the most | 25 | | recently available federal census divided by
the Average Daily |
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| 1 | | Attendance of the school district.
If, however, (i) the | 2 | | percentage decrease from the 2 most recent federal
censuses
in | 3 | | the low-income eligible pupil count of a high school district | 4 | | with fewer
than 400 students exceeds by 75% or more the | 5 | | percentage change in the total
low-income eligible pupil count | 6 | | of contiguous elementary school districts,
whose boundaries | 7 | | are coterminous with the high school district,
or (ii) a high | 8 | | school district within 2 counties and serving 5 elementary
| 9 | | school
districts, whose boundaries are coterminous with the | 10 | | high school
district, has a percentage decrease from the 2 most | 11 | | recent federal
censuses in the low-income eligible pupil count | 12 | | and there is a percentage
increase in the total low-income | 13 | | eligible pupil count of a majority of the
elementary school | 14 | | districts in excess of 50% from the 2 most recent
federal | 15 | | censuses, then
the
high school district's low-income eligible | 16 | | pupil count from the earlier federal
census
shall be the number | 17 | | used as the low-income eligible pupil count for the high
school | 18 | | district, for purposes of this subsection (H).
The changes made | 19 | | to this paragraph (1) by Public Act 92-28 shall apply to
| 20 | | supplemental general State aid
grants for school years | 21 | | preceding the 2003-2004 school year that are paid
in fiscal | 22 | | year 1999 or thereafter
and to
any State aid payments made in | 23 | | fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year
1998 pursuant to | 24 | | subsection 1(n) of Section 18-8 of this Code (which was
| 25 | | repealed on July 1, 1998), and any high school district that is | 26 | | affected by
Public Act 92-28 is
entitled to a
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| 1 | | its supplemental general State aid grant or State aid
paid in | 2 | | any of those fiscal years. This recomputation shall not be
| 3 | | affected by any other funding. | 4 | | (1.10) This paragraph (1.10) applies to the 2003-2004 | 5 | | school year
and each school year thereafter. For purposes of | 6 | | this subsection (H), the
term "Low-Income Concentration Level" | 7 | | shall, for each fiscal year, be the
low-income eligible
pupil | 8 | | count
as of July 1 of the immediately preceding fiscal year
(as | 9 | | determined by the Department of Human Services based
on the | 10 | | number of pupils
who are eligible for at least one of the | 11 | | following
low income programs: Medicaid, the Children's Health | 12 | | Insurance Program, TANF, or Food Stamps,
excluding pupils who | 13 | | are eligible for services provided by the Department
of | 14 | | Children and Family Services,
averaged over
the 2 immediately | 15 | | preceding fiscal years for fiscal year 2004 and over the 3
| 16 | | immediately preceding fiscal years for each fiscal year | 17 | | thereafter)
divided by the Average Daily Attendance of the | 18 | | school district. | 19 | | (2) Supplemental general State aid pursuant to this | 20 | | subsection (H) shall
be
provided as follows for the 1998-1999, | 21 | | 1999-2000, and 2000-2001 school years
only: | 22 | | (a) For any school district with a Low Income | 23 | | Concentration Level of at
least 20% and less than 35%, the | 24 | | grant for any school year
shall be $800
multiplied by the | 25 | | low income eligible pupil count. | 26 | | (b) For any school district with a Low Income |
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| 1 | | Concentration Level of at
least 35% and less than 50%, the | 2 | | grant for the 1998-1999 school year shall be
$1,100 | 3 | | multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count. | 4 | | (c) For any school district with a Low Income | 5 | | Concentration Level of at
least 50% and less than 60%, the | 6 | | grant for the 1998-99 school year shall be
$1,500 | 7 | | multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count. | 8 | | (d) For any school district with a Low Income | 9 | | Concentration Level of 60%
or more, the grant for the | 10 | | 1998-99 school year shall be $1,900 multiplied by
the low | 11 | | income eligible pupil count. | 12 | | (e) For the 1999-2000 school year, the per pupil amount | 13 | | specified in
subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) immediately | 14 | | above shall be increased to $1,243,
$1,600, and $2,000, | 15 | | respectively. | 16 | | (f) For the 2000-2001 school year, the per pupil | 17 | | amounts specified in
subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) | 18 | | immediately above shall be
$1,273, $1,640, and $2,050, | 19 | | respectively. | 20 | | (2.5) Supplemental general State aid pursuant to this | 21 | | subsection (H)
shall be provided as follows for the 2002-2003 | 22 | | school year: | 23 | | (a) For any school district with a Low Income | 24 | | Concentration Level of less
than 10%, the grant for each | 25 | | school year shall be $355 multiplied by the low
income | 26 | | eligible pupil count. |
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| 1 | | (b) For any school district with a Low Income | 2 | | Concentration
Level of at least 10% and less than 20%, the | 3 | | grant for each school year shall
be $675
multiplied by the | 4 | | low income eligible pupil
count. | 5 | | (c) For any school district with a Low Income | 6 | | Concentration
Level of at least 20% and less than 35%, the | 7 | | grant for each school year shall
be $1,330
multiplied by | 8 | | the low income eligible pupil
count. | 9 | | (d) For any school district with a Low Income | 10 | | Concentration
Level of at least 35% and less than 50%, the | 11 | | grant for each school year shall
be $1,362
multiplied by | 12 | | the low income eligible pupil
count. | 13 | | (e) For any school district with a Low Income | 14 | | Concentration
Level of at least 50% and less than 60%, the | 15 | | grant for each school year shall
be $1,680
multiplied by | 16 | | the low income eligible pupil
count. | 17 | | (f) For any school district with a Low Income | 18 | | Concentration
Level of 60% or more, the grant for each | 19 | | school year shall be $2,080
multiplied by the low income | 20 | | eligible pupil count. | 21 | | (2.10) Except as otherwise provided, supplemental general | 22 | | State aid
pursuant to this subsection
(H) shall be provided as | 23 | | follows for the 2003-2004 school year and each
school year | 24 | | thereafter: | 25 | | (a) For any school district with a Low Income | 26 | | Concentration
Level of 15% or less, the grant for each |
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shall be $355 multiplied by the low income | 2 | | eligible pupil count. | 3 | | (b) For any school district with a Low Income | 4 | | Concentration
Level greater than 15%, the grant for each | 5 | | school year shall be
$294.25 added to the product of $2,700 | 6 | | and the square of the Low
Income Concentration Level, all | 7 | | multiplied by the low income
eligible pupil count. | 8 | | For the 2003-2004 school year and each school year | 9 | | thereafter through the 2008-2009 school year only, the grant | 10 | | shall be no less than the
grant
for
the 2002-2003 school year. | 11 | | For the 2009-2010 school year only, the grant shall
be no
less | 12 | | than the grant for the 2002-2003 school year multiplied by | 13 | | 0.66. For the 2010-2011
school year only, the grant shall be no | 14 | | less than the grant for the 2002-2003
school year
multiplied by | 15 | | 0.33. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph to the | 16 | | contrary, if for any school year supplemental general State aid | 17 | | grants are prorated as provided in paragraph (1) of this | 18 | | subsection (H), then the grants under this paragraph shall be | 19 | | prorated.
| 20 | | For the 2003-2004 school year only, the grant shall be no | 21 | | greater
than the grant received during the 2002-2003 school | 22 | | year added to the
product of 0.25 multiplied by the difference | 23 | | between the grant amount
calculated under subsection (a) or (b) | 24 | | of this paragraph (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the | 25 | | grant received during the 2002-2003 school year.
For the | 26 | | 2004-2005 school year only, the grant shall be no greater than
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| 1 | | the grant received during the 2002-2003 school year added to | 2 | | the
product of 0.50 multiplied by the difference between the | 3 | | grant amount
calculated under subsection (a) or (b) of this | 4 | | paragraph (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the grant | 5 | | received during the 2002-2003 school year.
For the 2005-2006 | 6 | | school year only, the grant shall be no greater than
the grant | 7 | | received during the 2002-2003 school year added to the
product | 8 | | of 0.75 multiplied by the difference between the grant amount
| 9 | | calculated under subsection (a) or (b) of this paragraph | 10 | | (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the grant received during | 11 | | the 2002-2003
school year. | 12 | | (3) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of | 13 | | more than 1,000
and less than 50,000 that qualify for | 14 | | supplemental general State aid pursuant
to this subsection | 15 | | shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education prior to
| 16 | | October 30 of each year for the use of the funds resulting from | 17 | | this grant of
supplemental general State aid for the | 18 | | improvement of
instruction in which priority is given to | 19 | | meeting the education needs of
disadvantaged children. Such | 20 | | plan shall be submitted in accordance with
rules and | 21 | | regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education. | 22 | | (4) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of | 23 | | 50,000 or more
that qualify for supplemental general State aid | 24 | | pursuant to this subsection
shall be required to distribute | 25 | | from funds available pursuant to this Section,
no less than | 26 | | $261,000,000 in accordance with the following requirements: |
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| 1 | | (a) The required amounts shall be distributed to the | 2 | | attendance centers
within the district in proportion to the | 3 | | number of pupils enrolled at each
attendance center who are | 4 | | eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches or
| 5 | | breakfasts under the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 | 6 | | and under the National
School Lunch Act during the | 7 | | immediately preceding school year. | 8 | | (b) The distribution of these portions of supplemental | 9 | | and general State
aid among attendance centers according to | 10 | | these requirements shall not be
compensated for or | 11 | | contravened by adjustments of the total of other funds
| 12 | | appropriated to any attendance centers, and the Board of | 13 | | Education shall
utilize funding from one or several sources | 14 | | in order to fully implement this
provision annually prior | 15 | | to the opening of school. | 16 | | (c) Each attendance center shall be provided by the
| 17 | | school district a distribution of noncategorical funds and | 18 | | other
categorical funds to which an attendance center is | 19 | | entitled under law in
order that the general State aid and | 20 | | supplemental general State aid provided
by application of | 21 | | this subsection supplements rather than supplants the
| 22 | | noncategorical funds and other categorical funds provided | 23 | | by the school
district to the attendance centers. | 24 | | (d) Any funds made available under this subsection that | 25 | | by reason of the
provisions of this subsection are not
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| 1 | | may be used and
appropriated by the board of the district | 2 | | for any lawful school purpose. | 3 | | (e) Funds received by an attendance center
pursuant to | 4 | | this
subsection shall be used
by the attendance center at | 5 | | the discretion
of the principal and local school council | 6 | | for programs to improve educational
opportunities at | 7 | | qualifying schools through the following programs and
| 8 | | services: early childhood education, reduced class size or | 9 | | improved adult to
student classroom ratio, enrichment | 10 | | programs, remedial assistance, attendance
improvement, and | 11 | | other educationally beneficial expenditures which
| 12 | | supplement
the regular and basic programs as determined by | 13 | | the State Board of Education.
Funds provided shall not be | 14 | | expended for any political or lobbying purposes
as defined | 15 | | by board rule. | 16 | | (f) Each district subject to the provisions of this | 17 | | subdivision (H)(4)
shall submit an
acceptable plan to meet | 18 | | the educational needs of disadvantaged children, in
| 19 | | compliance with the requirements of this paragraph, to the | 20 | | State Board of
Education prior to July 15 of each year. | 21 | | This plan shall be consistent with the
decisions of local | 22 | | school councils concerning the school expenditure plans
| 23 | | developed in accordance with part 4 of Section 34-2.3. The | 24 | | State Board shall
approve or reject the plan within 60 days | 25 | | after its submission. If the plan is
rejected, the district | 26 | | shall give written notice of intent to modify the plan
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| 1 | | within 15 days of the notification of rejection and then | 2 | | submit a modified plan
within 30 days after the date of the | 3 | | written notice of intent to modify.
Districts may amend | 4 | | approved plans pursuant to rules promulgated by the State
| 5 | | Board of Education. | 6 | | Upon notification by the State Board of Education that | 7 | | the district has
not submitted a plan prior to July 15 or a | 8 | | modified plan within the time
period specified herein, the
| 9 | | State aid funds affected by that plan or modified plan | 10 | | shall be withheld by the
State Board of Education until a | 11 | | plan or modified plan is submitted. | 12 | | If the district fails to distribute State aid to | 13 | | attendance centers in
accordance with an approved plan, the | 14 | | plan for the following year shall
allocate funds, in | 15 | | addition to the funds otherwise required by this
| 16 | | subsection, to those attendance centers which were | 17 | | underfunded during the
previous year in amounts equal to | 18 | | such underfunding. | 19 | | For purposes of determining compliance with this | 20 | | subsection in relation
to the requirements of attendance | 21 | | center funding, each district subject to the
provisions of | 22 | | this
subsection shall submit as a separate document by | 23 | | December 1 of each year a
report of expenditure data for | 24 | | the prior year in addition to any
modification of its | 25 | | current plan. If it is determined that there has been
a | 26 | | failure to comply with the expenditure provisions of this |
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| 1 | | subsection
regarding contravention or supplanting, the | 2 | | State Superintendent of
Education shall, within 60 days of | 3 | | receipt of the report, notify the
district and any affected | 4 | | local school council. The district shall within
45 days of | 5 | | receipt of that notification inform the State | 6 | | Superintendent of
Education of the remedial or corrective | 7 | | action to be taken, whether by
amendment of the current | 8 | | plan, if feasible, or by adjustment in the plan
for the | 9 | | following year. Failure to provide the expenditure report | 10 | | or the
notification of remedial or corrective action in a | 11 | | timely manner shall
result in a withholding of the affected | 12 | | funds. | 13 | | The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and | 14 | | regulations
to implement the provisions of this | 15 | | subsection. No funds shall be released
under this | 16 | | subdivision (H)(4) to any district that has not submitted a | 17 | | plan
that has been approved by the State Board of | 18 | | Education.
| 19 | | (I) (Blank).
| 20 | | (J) (Blank).
| 21 | | (K) Grants to Laboratory and Alternative Schools. | 22 | | In calculating the amount to be paid to the governing board | 23 | | of a public
university that operates a laboratory school under |
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| 1 | | this Section or to any
alternative school that is operated by a | 2 | | regional superintendent of schools,
the State
Board of | 3 | | Education shall require by rule such reporting requirements as | 4 | | it
deems necessary. | 5 | | As used in this Section, "laboratory school" means a public | 6 | | school which is
created and operated by a public university and | 7 | | approved by the State Board of
Education. The governing board | 8 | | of a public university which receives funds
from the State | 9 | | Board under this subsection (K) may not increase the number of
| 10 | | students enrolled in its laboratory
school from a single | 11 | | district, if that district is already sending 50 or more
| 12 | | students, except under a mutual agreement between the school | 13 | | board of a
student's district of residence and the university | 14 | | which operates the
laboratory school. A laboratory school may | 15 | | not have more than 1,000 students,
excluding students with | 16 | | disabilities in a special education program. | 17 | | As used in this Section, "alternative school" means a | 18 | | public school which is
created and operated by a Regional | 19 | | Superintendent of Schools and approved by
the State Board of | 20 | | Education. Such alternative schools may offer courses of
| 21 | | instruction for which credit is given in regular school | 22 | | programs, courses to
prepare students for the high school | 23 | | equivalency testing program or vocational
and occupational | 24 | | training. A regional superintendent of schools may contract
| 25 | | with a school district or a public community college district | 26 | | to operate an
alternative school. An alternative school serving |
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| 1 | | more than one educational
service region may be established by | 2 | | the regional superintendents of schools
of the affected | 3 | | educational service regions. An alternative school
serving | 4 | | more than one educational service region may be operated under | 5 | | such
terms as the regional superintendents of schools of those | 6 | | educational service
regions may agree. | 7 | | Each laboratory and alternative school shall file, on forms | 8 | | provided by the
State Superintendent of Education, an annual | 9 | | State aid claim which states the
Average Daily Attendance of | 10 | | the school's students by month. The best 3 months'
Average | 11 | | Daily Attendance shall be computed for each school.
The general | 12 | | State aid entitlement shall be computed by multiplying the
| 13 | | applicable Average Daily Attendance by the Foundation Level as | 14 | | determined under
this Section.
| 15 | | (L) Payments, Additional Grants in Aid and Other Requirements. | 16 | | (1) For a school district operating under the financial | 17 | | supervision
of an Authority created under Article 34A, the | 18 | | general State aid otherwise
payable to that district under this | 19 | | Section, but not the supplemental general
State aid, shall be | 20 | | reduced by an amount equal to the budget for
the operations of | 21 | | the Authority as certified by the Authority to the State
Board | 22 | | of Education, and an amount equal to such reduction shall be | 23 | | paid
to the Authority created for such district for its | 24 | | operating expenses in
the manner provided in Section 18-11. The | 25 | | remainder
of general State school aid for any such district |
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| 1 | | shall be paid in accordance
with Article 34A when that Article | 2 | | provides for a disposition other than that
provided by this | 3 | | Article. | 4 | | (2) (Blank). | 5 | | (3) Summer school. Summer school payments shall be made as | 6 | | provided in
Section 18-4.3.
| 7 | | (M) Education Funding Advisory Board. | 8 | | The Education Funding Advisory
Board, hereinafter in this | 9 | | subsection (M) referred to as the "Board", is hereby
created. | 10 | | The Board
shall consist of 5 members who are appointed by the | 11 | | Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate. The | 12 | | members appointed shall include
representatives of education, | 13 | | business, and the general public. One of the
members so | 14 | | appointed shall be
designated by the Governor at the time the | 15 | | appointment is made as the
chairperson of the
Board.
The | 16 | | initial members of the Board may
be appointed any time after | 17 | | the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1997. The regular | 18 | | term of each member of the
Board shall be for 4 years from the | 19 | | third Monday of January of the
year in which the term of the | 20 | | member's appointment is to commence, except that
of the 5 | 21 | | initial members appointed to serve on the
Board, the member who | 22 | | is appointed as the chairperson shall serve for
a term that | 23 | | commences on the date of his or her appointment and expires on | 24 | | the
third Monday of January, 2002, and the remaining 4 members, | 25 | | by lots drawn at
the first meeting of the Board that is
held
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| 1 | | after all 5 members are appointed, shall determine 2 of their | 2 | | number to serve
for terms that commence on the date of their
| 3 | | respective appointments and expire on the third
Monday of | 4 | | January, 2001,
and 2 of their number to serve for terms that | 5 | | commence
on the date of their respective appointments and | 6 | | expire on the third Monday
of January, 2000. All members | 7 | | appointed to serve on the
Board shall serve until their | 8 | | respective successors are
appointed and confirmed. Vacancies | 9 | | shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments. If | 10 | | a vacancy in membership occurs at a time when the
Senate is not | 11 | | in session, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment | 12 | | until
the next meeting of the Senate, when he or she shall | 13 | | appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, a | 14 | | person to fill that membership for the
unexpired term. If the | 15 | | Senate is not in session when the initial appointments
are | 16 | | made, those appointments shall
be made as in the case of | 17 | | vacancies. | 18 | | The Education Funding Advisory Board shall be deemed | 19 | | established,
and the initial
members appointed by the Governor | 20 | | to serve as members of the
Board shall take office,
on the date | 21 | | that the
Governor makes his or her appointment of the fifth | 22 | | initial member of the
Board, whether those initial members are | 23 | | then serving
pursuant to appointment and confirmation or | 24 | | pursuant to temporary appointments
that are made by the | 25 | | Governor as in the case of vacancies. | 26 | | The State Board of Education shall provide such staff |
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| 1 | | assistance to the
Education Funding Advisory Board as is | 2 | | reasonably required for the proper
performance by the Board of | 3 | | its responsibilities. | 4 | | For school years after the 2000-2001 school year, the | 5 | | Education
Funding Advisory Board, in consultation with the | 6 | | State Board of Education,
shall make recommendations as | 7 | | provided in this subsection (M) to the General
Assembly for the | 8 | | foundation level under subdivision (B)(3) of this Section and
| 9 | | for the
supplemental general State aid grant level under | 10 | | subsection (H) of this Section
for districts with high | 11 | | concentrations of children from poverty. The
recommended | 12 | | foundation level shall be determined based on a methodology | 13 | | which
incorporates the basic education expenditures of | 14 | | low-spending schools
exhibiting high academic performance. The | 15 | | Education Funding Advisory Board
shall make such | 16 | | recommendations to the General Assembly on January 1 of odd
| 17 | | numbered years, beginning January 1, 2001.
| 18 | | (N) (Blank).
| 19 | | (O) References. | 20 | | (1) References in other laws to the various subdivisions of
| 21 | | Section 18-8 as that Section existed before its repeal and | 22 | | replacement by this
Section 18-8.05 shall be deemed to refer to | 23 | | the corresponding provisions of
this Section 18-8.05, to the | 24 | | extent that those references remain applicable. |
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| 1 | | (2) References in other laws to State Chapter 1 funds shall | 2 | | be deemed to
refer to the supplemental general State aid | 3 | | provided under subsection (H) of
this Section. | 4 | | (P) Public Act 93-838 and Public Act 93-808 make inconsistent | 5 | | changes to this Section. Under Section 6 of the Statute on | 6 | | Statutes there is an irreconcilable conflict between Public Act | 7 | | 93-808 and Public Act 93-838. Public Act 93-838, being the last | 8 | | acted upon, is controlling. The text of Public Act 93-838 is | 9 | | the law regardless of the text of Public Act 93-808. | 10 | | (Q) State Fiscal Year 2015 Payments. | 11 | | For payments made for State fiscal year 2015, the State | 12 | | Board of Education shall, for each school district, calculate | 13 | | that district's pro-rata share of a minimum sum of $13,600,000 | 14 | | or additional amounts as needed from the total net General | 15 | | State Aid funding as calculated under this Section that shall | 16 | | be deemed attributable to the provision of special educational | 17 | | facilities and services, as defined in Section 14-1.08 of this | 18 | | Code, in a manner that ensures compliance with maintenance of | 19 | | State financial support requirements under the federal | 20 | | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Each school | 21 | | district must use such funds only for the provision of special | 22 | | educational facilities and services, as defined in Section | 23 | | 14-1.08 of this Code, and must comply with any expenditure | 24 | | verification procedures adopted by the State Board of |
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| 1 | | Education. | 2 | | (Source: P.A. 98-972, eff. 8-15-14; 99-2, eff. 3-26-15; 99-194, | 3 | | eff. 7-30-15.) | 4 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-8.15 new) | 5 | | Sec. 18-8.15. Evidence-based funding for student success | 6 | | for the 2017-2018 and subsequent school years. | 7 | | (a) The purpose of this Section is to ensure that, by June | 8 | | 30, 2027, this State has a kindergarten through grade 12 public | 9 | | education system with the capacity to ensure the educational | 10 | | development of all persons to the limits of their capacities in | 11 | | accordance with Section 1 of Article 10 of the Constitution of | 12 | | the State of Illinois. To accomplish that objective, this | 13 | | Section creates a method of funding public education that is | 14 | | evidence-based; is sufficient to ensure every student receives | 15 | | a meaningful opportunity to learn irrespective of race, | 16 | | ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or community-income | 17 | | level; and is sustainable and predictable. When fully funded | 18 | | under this Section, every school shall have the resources, | 19 | | based on what the evidence indicates is needed, to: | 20 | | (1) provide all students with a high quality education | 21 | | that offers the academic, enrichment, social and emotional | 22 | | support, technical, and vocational programs that will | 23 | | allow them to become competitive workers, responsible | 24 | | parents, productive citizens of this State, and active | 25 | | members of our national democracy; |
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| 1 | | (2) ensure all students receive the education they need | 2 | | to graduate from high school with the skills required to | 3 | | pursue post-secondary education or training or a career; | 4 | | (3) reduce, with a goal of eliminating, the achievement | 5 | | gap between high-performing and low-performing students by | 6 | | raising the performance of at-risk students and not by | 7 | | reducing standards; and | 8 | | (4) ensure this State satisfies its obligation to | 9 | | assume the primary responsibility to fund public education | 10 | | and simultaneously relieve the disproportionate burden | 11 | | placed on local property taxes to fund schools. | 12 | | (b) For purposes of this Section: | 13 | | "Assessments" means those benchmark, progress monitoring, | 14 | | formative, diagnostic, and other assessments, in addition to | 15 | | the State accountability assessment, that assist teachers' | 16 | | needs in understanding the skills and meeting the needs of the | 17 | | students they serve. | 18 | | "Assistant principal" means a school administrator duly | 19 | | endorsed to be employed as an assistant principal in this | 20 | | State. | 21 | | "At-risk student" means a student who is at risk of not | 22 | | meeting the Illinois Learning Standards or not graduating from | 23 | | elementary or high school and who demonstrates a need for | 24 | | vocational support or social services beyond that provided by | 25 | | the regular school program. All students included in an | 26 | | organizational unit's Low-Income Count, as well as all EL and |
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| 1 | | disabled students attending the organizational unit, shall be | 2 | | considered at-risk students under this Section. | 3 | | "Average Student Enrollment" or "ASE" means, for an | 4 | | organizational unit in a given school year, the greater of the | 5 | | total students shown as enrolled in the organizational unit on | 6 | | the State Board of Education's fall and spring enrollment | 7 | | counts in the immediately preceding school year or the average | 8 | | number of students shown as enrolled in the organizational unit | 9 | | on the State Board's fall and spring enrollment counts for the | 10 | | immediately preceding 3 school years. | 11 | | "Base Adequacy Level" means, for each organizational unit, | 12 | | that amount of total educational funding determined in | 13 | | accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of this | 14 | | Section, which amount is predicated on both the number and | 15 | | characteristics of the students who attend the organizational | 16 | | unit and the evidence-based educational factors required to | 17 | | meet the learning needs of such students. | 18 | | "Central office" means individual administrators and | 19 | | support service personnel charged with managing the | 20 | | instructional programs, business and operations, and security | 21 | | of the school district in which an organizational unit is | 22 | | situated. | 23 | | "Comparable Wage Index" or "CWI" means the regional cost | 24 | | differentiation metric initially developed by the National | 25 | | Center for Education Statistics, as most recently updated in | 26 | | 2013, by Texas A & M University. The CWI utilized under this |
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| 1 | | Section shall, for the first 3 years following the effective | 2 | | date of this Section, be determined as provided in the Texas A & | 3 | | M University study. The CWI for each organizational unit | 4 | | shall be determined by comparing the index for the region and | 5 | | counties in which the organizational unit is located against | 6 | | the median index in this State, where the median value is set | 7 | | at 1.0. Thereafter, the State Board shall re-determine the CWI | 8 | | using a similar methodology to that identified in the Texas A & | 9 | | M University study, no less frequently than once every 5 years. | 10 | | "Computer technology and equipment" means computers, | 11 | | servers, notebooks, network equipment, copiers, printers, | 12 | | instructional software, security software, curriculum | 13 | | management courseware, and other materials identified by the | 14 | | State Board of Education. | 15 | | "Core subject" means mathematics; science; reading, | 16 | | English, writing, and language arts; history and social | 17 | | studies; world languages; and subjects taught as Advanced | 18 | | Placement in high schools. | 19 | | "Core teacher" means a regular classroom teacher in | 20 | | elementary schools and teachers of a core subject in middle and | 21 | | high schools. | 22 | | "EAV" means equalized assessed valuation. | 23 | | "Employee benefits" means health, dental, and vision | 24 | | insurance offered to employees of an organizational unit, the | 25 | | costs associated with statutorily required payment of the | 26 | | normal cost of the organizational unit's teacher pensions, |
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| 1 | | Social Security employer contributions, and Illinois Municipal | 2 | | Retirement Fund employer contributions. | 3 | | "English learner" or "EL" means the greater of the prior | 4 | | school year or the 3-year average of students in grades K | 5 | | through 12 whose native tongue is a language other than English | 6 | | and who have not obtained an overall composite proficiency | 7 | | level of 5.0, a reading proficiency level of 4.2, and a writing | 8 | | proficiency level of 4.2 on the prior year ACCESS test or an | 9 | | equivalent assessment for EL students. | 10 | | "Extended day" means academic and enrichment programs | 11 | | provided to students outside the regular school day before and | 12 | | after school or during non-instructional times during the | 13 | | school day. | 14 | | "Full-time equivalent" or "FTE" means the full-time | 15 | | equivalency compensation for staffing the relevant position at | 16 | | an organizational unit, computed in accordance with guidelines | 17 | | prescribed by the State Board. | 18 | | "Guidance counselor" means a licensed guidance counselor | 19 | | who provides support for all students within an organizational | 20 | | unit. | 21 | | "Instructional facilitator" means a qualified teacher or | 22 | | licensed teacher leader who facilitates and coaches continuous | 23 | | improvement in classroom instruction; provides instructional | 24 | | support to teachers in the elements of research-based | 25 | | instruction or demonstrates the alignment of instruction with | 26 | | curriculum standards and assessments tools; develops or |
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| 1 | | coordinates instructional programs or strategies; develops and | 2 | | implements training; chooses standards-based instructional | 3 | | materials; provides teachers with an understanding of current | 4 | | research; serves as a mentor, site coach, curriculum | 5 | | specialist, or lead teacher; or otherwise works with fellow | 6 | | teachers, in collaboration, to use data to improve | 7 | | instructional practice or develop model lessons. | 8 | | "Instructional materials" means relevant instructional | 9 | | materials for student instruction, including, but not limited | 10 | | to, textbooks, consumable workbooks, laboratory equipment, | 11 | | library books, and other materials identified by the State | 12 | | Board of Education. | 13 | | "Intervention teacher (tutor)" means a licensed teacher | 14 | | providing one-on-one or small group tutoring to students | 15 | | struggling to meet proficiency in core subjects. | 16 | | "Librarian" means a teacher with an endorsement as a school | 17 | | librarian. | 18 | | "Local Capacity Ratio" means, for an organizational unit in | 19 | | a given school year, the normal curve equivalent percentage | 20 | | based on the calculation method in paragraph (4) of subsection | 21 | | (c) of this Section, which must never be higher than 90%. | 22 | | "Local Capacity Target" means, for an organizational unit, | 23 | | that dollar amount that is obtained by multiplying the Base | 24 | | Adequacy Level of the organizational unit by the Local Capacity | 25 | | Ratio for the organizational unit. | 26 | | "Low-Income Count" means, for an organizational unit in a |
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| 1 | | fiscal year, the higher of the average number of students | 2 | | attending the organizational unit over the prior school year or | 3 | | the immediately preceding 3 school years who, according to the | 4 | | Department of Human Services, at any time over such prior | 5 | | 3-year period were eligible for at least one of the following | 6 | | low-income programs or any successor thereto established under | 7 | | federal law: Medicaid; the Children's Health Insurance | 8 | | Program; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; or the | 9 | | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. | 10 | | "Maintenance and operations" means functions such as, but | 11 | | not limited to, custodial services, facility and ground | 12 | | maintenance, facility operations, facility security, and | 13 | | routine facility repairs. | 14 | | "Net State Contribution" means the aggregate amount of | 15 | | kindergarten through grade 12 education funding an | 16 | | organizational unit would receive from this State annually | 17 | | under this Section if fully funded, as determined under | 18 | | paragraph (4) of subsection (c) of this Section. Per pupil, | 19 | | "Net State Contribution" means the Net State Contribution to an | 20 | | organizational unit for a school year, divided by the | 21 | | applicable ASE of the organizational unit for the school year. | 22 | | "Nurse" means an individual licensed as a school nurse, | 23 | | registered nurse, or licensed practical nurse in this State, in | 24 | | accordance with the rules established for nursing services | 25 | | regulated by the State Board of Education, who is an employee | 26 | | of and is available to provide health care-related services for |
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| 1 | | all students of an organizational unit. | 2 | | "Organizational unit" means any public school district | 3 | | that is recognized as such by the State Board of Education and | 4 | | that contains elementary schools typically serving | 5 | | kindergarten through 5th grades, middle schools typically | 6 | | serving 6th through 8th grades, or high schools typically | 7 | | serving 9th through 12th grades. The General Assembly | 8 | | acknowledges that the actual grade levels served by a | 9 | | particular organizational unit may vary slightly from what is | 10 | | typical. "Organizational unit" specifically includes | 11 | | laboratory schools operated in accordance with subsection (K) | 12 | | of Section 18-8.05 of this Code, but does not include exempted | 13 | | schools. For the purposes of this definition, "exempted | 14 | | schools" means schools that are classified as STEM (science, | 15 | | technology, engineering, and mathematics) or post-secondary | 16 | | enrollment options. Exempted schools are not funded under this | 17 | | Section. | 18 | | "Principal" means a school administrator duly endorsed to | 19 | | be employed as a principal in this State. | 20 | | "Professional development" means training programs for | 21 | | licensed staff in schools, including, but not limited to, | 22 | | programs that assist in implementing new curriculum programs, | 23 | | provide data focused or academic assessment data training to | 24 | | help staff identify a student's weaknesses and strengths, | 25 | | target interventions, improve instruction, encompass | 26 | | instructional strategies for EL, gifted, or at-risk students, |
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| 1 | | address inclusivity, cultural sensitivity, or implicit bias, | 2 | | or otherwise provide professional support for licensed staff in | 3 | | areas identified by the State Board of Education. | 4 | | "Prototypical" means 450 students for an elementary | 5 | | school, 450 students for a middle school, and 600 students for | 6 | | a high school. | 7 | | "Pupil support staff" means a nurse, psychologist, social | 8 | | worker, family liaison personnel, or other staff member who | 9 | | provides support to at-risk or struggling students. | 10 | | "School site staff" means the primary school secretary and | 11 | | any additional clerical personnel assigned to the school under | 12 | | the funding matrices set forth in this Section. | 13 | | "Special education" means programs for students with | 14 | | moderate disabilities categorized comparably as either | 15 | | high-incidence or low-cost. Special education services for | 16 | | students may be in self-contained classrooms or as part of the | 17 | | regular education classroom. | 18 | | "Specialist teacher" means a teacher who provides | 19 | | instruction in subject areas not included in core subjects, | 20 | | including, but not limited to, art, music, physical education, | 21 | | health, driver education, career-technical education, and such | 22 | | other subject areas as may be mandated by State law or | 23 | | identified by the State Board of Education from time to time. | 24 | | "State Board" means the State Board of Education. | 25 | | "Student activities" means non-credit producing | 26 | | after-school programs, including, but not limited to, clubs, |
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| 1 | | bands, sports, and other activities established by the school | 2 | | board of the organizational unit. | 3 | | "Substitute teacher" means an individual teacher or | 4 | | teaching assistant who is employed by an organizational unit | 5 | | and is temporarily serving the organizational unit on a per | 6 | | diem or per period-assignment basis replacing another staff | 7 | | member. | 8 | | "Summer school" means academic and enrichment programs | 9 | | provided to students during the summer months outside of the | 10 | | regular school year. | 11 | | "Supervisory aide" means a non-licensed staff member who | 12 | | helps in supervising students of an organizational unit, but | 13 | | does so outside of the classroom, in situations such as, but | 14 | | not limited to, monitoring hallways and playgrounds, | 15 | | supervising lunchrooms, or supervising students when being | 16 | | transported in buses serving the organizational unit. | 17 | | "Winsorization" means the transformation of statistics by | 18 | | limiting extreme values in the statistical data to reduce the | 19 | | effect of possible outliers. In the determination of the Local | 20 | | Capacity Index, this is used when calculating the mean and | 21 | | standard deviation of statewide EAV to adequacy ratios. The | 22 | | winsorization is set at the 10th percentile and the 90th | 23 | | percentile. | 24 | | (c) The Evidence-Based Model under this Section shall be | 25 | | applied to all non-exempted organizational units in this State. | 26 | | The Evidence-Based Model uses academic research to identify the |
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| 1 | | resources and educational programs that are necessary to | 2 | | improve student success, improve academic performance, and | 3 | | close achievement gaps. The Evidence-Based Model reflects a | 4 | | research-based consensus on what constitutes best practices | 5 | | and reflects strategies found in schools that have achieved | 6 | | success in raising the academic achievement of students. When | 7 | | fully funded, the Evidence-Based Model ensures all schools have | 8 | | the resources necessary to enable all students the opportunity | 9 | | to achieve the proficiency standards established by this State. | 10 | | (1) The annual investment needed to provide an adequate | 11 | | education to all students who attend an organizational unit | 12 | | in this State shall be the aggregate dollar value obtained | 13 | | by adding the funding amounts applicable to all | 14 | | organizational units as identified in paragraph (2) of this | 15 | | subsection (c), as those factors relate to the student | 16 | | composition and ASE of all organizational units. By | 17 | | utilizing this research-based approach, State education | 18 | | funding when this Section is fully funded shall be adequate | 19 | | and equitable; shall not be dependent on where students | 20 | | reside; shall be based on the cost of those educational | 21 | | practices that the evidence indicates have a statistically | 22 | | meaningful correlation to enhancing student achievement | 23 | | over time; and shall include such other necessary costs | 24 | | associated with the operation of a school or the education | 25 | | of children, such as, but not limited to, operational and | 26 | | maintenance costs, that are naturally incident thereto. |
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| 1 | | (2) The Base Adequacy Level for each organizational | 2 | | unit for a school year shall be the aggregate dollar value | 3 | | obtained by adding the funding amounts applicable to the | 4 | | organizational unit for the school year, as determined in | 5 | | accordance with the following: | 6 | | (A) Core class size investments. Each | 7 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding required | 8 | | to support that number of FTE core teacher positions as | 9 | | is needed to keep the respective class sizes of the | 10 | | organizational unit to a maximum of 15 students each | 11 | | for grades kindergarten through 3 and 25 students each | 12 | | for grades 4 through 12. The number of FTE core teacher | 13 | | positions shall be determined by dividing the ASE of | 14 | | the organizational unit for grades kindergarten | 15 | | through 3 by 15 and grades 4 through 12 by 25. | 16 | | (B) Specialist teacher investments. Each | 17 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding needed | 18 | | to cover that number of FTE specialist teacher | 19 | | positions that correspond to the following | 20 | | percentages: | 21 | | (i) if the organizational unit operates an | 22 | | elementary or middle school, then 20% of the number | 23 | | of the organizational unit's core teachers as | 24 | | determined under subdivision (A) of this paragraph | 25 | | (2); and | 26 | | (ii) if such organizational unit operates a |
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| 1 | | high school, then 33 1/3% of the number of the | 2 | | organizational unit's core teachers. | 3 | | (C) Instructional facilitator investments. Each | 4 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding needed | 5 | | to cover one FTE instructional facilitator position | 6 | | for every 200 students attending the organizational | 7 | | unit. | 8 | | (D) Core intervention teacher (tutor) investments. | 9 | | Each organizational unit shall receive the funding | 10 | | needed to cover one FTE teacher position for each | 11 | | prototypical elementary, middle, and high school. | 12 | | Additional FTE teacher positions shall be pro-rata | 13 | | funded based on ASE in excess of the ASE for each | 14 | | prototypical school. | 15 | | (E) Substitute teacher investments. Each | 16 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding needed | 17 | | to cover substitute teacher costs that is equal to 5% | 18 | | of the aggregate required teaching days of full-time | 19 | | equivalent core, specialist, and intervention | 20 | | teachers, school nurses, special education teachers | 21 | | and aides, instructional facilitators, and summer | 22 | | school and extended-day teacher positions, as | 23 | | determined under this paragraph (2), at a salary rate | 24 | | of 33.3% of the average salary for each teacher | 25 | | position and 33.33% of the average salary of each | 26 | | instructional assistant position. |
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| 1 | | (F) Core guidance counselor investments. Each | 2 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding needed | 3 | | to cover one FTE guidance counselor for each 450 ASE | 4 | | elementary students, plus one FTE guidance counselor | 5 | | for each 250 ASE middle school students, plus one FTE | 6 | | guidance counselor for each 250 ASE high school | 7 | | students. | 8 | | (G) Nurse investments. Each organizational unit | 9 | | shall receive the funding needed to cover one FTE nurse | 10 | | for each 750 ASE across all grade levels it serves. | 11 | | (H) Supervisory aide investments. Each | 12 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding needed | 13 | | to cover one FTE for each 225 ASE elementary students, | 14 | | plus one FTE for each 225 ASE middle school students, | 15 | | plus one FTE for each 200 ASE high school students. | 16 | | (I) Librarian investments. Each organizational | 17 | | unit shall receive the funding needed to cover one FTE | 18 | | librarian and one FTE aide or media technician for | 19 | | every 300 ASE. | 20 | | (J) Principal investments. Each organizational | 21 | | unit shall receive the funding needed to cover one FTE | 22 | | principal position for each prototypical elementary | 23 | | school, plus one FTE principal position for each | 24 | | prototypical middle school, plus one FTE principal | 25 | | position for each prototypical high school. Additional | 26 | | FTE principal positions shall be pro-rata funded based |
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| 1 | | on ASE in excess of the ASE for each prototypical | 2 | | school. | 3 | | (K) Assistant principal investments. Each | 4 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding needed | 5 | | to cover one FTE assistant principal position for each | 6 | | prototypical elementary school, plus one FTE assistant | 7 | | principal position for each prototypical middle | 8 | | school, plus one FTE assistant principal position for | 9 | | each prototypical high school. | 10 | | (L) School site staff investments. Each | 11 | | organizational unit shall receive the funding needed | 12 | | to cover one FTE position for each 225 ASE elementary | 13 | | students, plus one FTE position for each 225 ASE middle | 14 | | school students, plus one FTE position for each 200 ASE | 15 | | high school students. | 16 | | (M) Gifted investments. Each organizational unit | 17 | | shall receive $40 per ASE. | 18 | | (N) Professional development investments. Each | 19 | | organizational unit shall receive $125 per ASE student | 20 | | for trainers and other professional | 21 | | development-related expenses for supplies and | 22 | | materials. | 23 | | (O) Instructional material investments. Each | 24 | | organizational unit shall receive $190 per ASE student | 25 | | to cover instructional material costs. | 26 | | (P) Assessment investments. Each organizational |
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| 1 | | unit shall receive $25 per ASE student to cover | 2 | | assessment costs. | 3 | | (Q) Computer technology and equipment investments. | 4 | | Each organizational unit shall receive $571 per ASE | 5 | | student to cover computer technology and equipment | 6 | | costs. | 7 | | (R) Student activities investments. Each | 8 | | organizational unit shall receive the following | 9 | | funding amounts to cover student activities: $100 per | 10 | | ASE student in elementary school, plus $200 per ASE | 11 | | student in middle school, plus $675 per ASE student in | 12 | | high school. | 13 | | (S) Maintenance and operations investments. Each | 14 | | organizational unit shall receive $1,038 per ASE | 15 | | student for day-to-day maintenance and operations | 16 | | expenditures, including salary, supplies, and | 17 | | materials, as well as purchased services, but | 18 | | excluding employee benefits. | 19 | | (T) Central office investments. Each | 20 | | organizational unit shall receive $742 per ASE student | 21 | | to cover central office operations, including | 22 | | administrators and classified personnel charged with | 23 | | managing the instructional programs, business and | 24 | | operations of the school district, and security | 25 | | personnel. | 26 | | (U) Employee benefit investments. Each |
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| 1 | | organizational unit shall receive 30% of its total | 2 | | payroll, excluding substitute teachers and student | 3 | | activities investments, to cover benefit costs. For | 4 | | central office and maintenance and operations | 5 | | investments, the benefit calculation shall be based | 6 | | upon the salary component of each investment. For | 7 | | central office, the proportion of salary is equal to | 8 | | $368.48 and for maintenance and operations, the | 9 | | proportion of salary is equal to $352.92. If at any | 10 | | time the responsibility for funding the employer's | 11 | | normal cost of teacher pensions is assigned to school | 12 | | districts, then that percentage shall be increased to | 13 | | account therefor. Because City of Chicago School | 14 | | District 299 already has such responsibility, City of | 15 | | Chicago School District 299 shall receive the | 16 | | percentage of its total payroll that is statutorily | 17 | | required to cover employee annual normal costs in | 18 | | addition to the 30% specified in this subdivision (U). | 19 | | (V) Additional investments in low-income students. | 20 | | In addition to and not in lieu of all other funding | 21 | | under this paragraph (2), each organizational unit | 22 | | shall receive funding based on the average teacher | 23 | | salary for grades K through 12 to cover the costs of: | 24 | | (i) one FTE intervention teacher (tutor) | 25 | | position for every 125 Low-Income Count students; | 26 | | (ii) one FTE pupil support staff position for |
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| 1 | | every 125 Low-Income Count students; | 2 | | (iii) one FTE extended day teacher position | 3 | | for every 120 Low-Income Count students; and | 4 | | (iv) one FTE summer school teacher position | 5 | | for every 120 Low-Income Count students. | 6 | | (W) Additional investments in EL students. In | 7 | | addition to and not in lieu of all other funding under | 8 | | this paragraph (2), each organizational unit shall | 9 | | receive funding based on the average teacher salary for | 10 | | grades K through 12 to cover the costs of: | 11 | | (i) one FTE intervention teacher (tutor) | 12 | | position for every 125 EL students; | 13 | | (ii) one FTE pupil support staff position for | 14 | | every 125 EL students; | 15 | | (iii) one FTE extended day teacher position | 16 | | for every 120 EL students; | 17 | | (iv) one FTE summer school teacher position | 18 | | for every 120 EL students; and | 19 | | (v) one FTE core teacher position for every 100 | 20 | | EL students. | 21 | | (X) Special education investments. Each | 22 | | organizational unit shall receive funding to cover | 23 | | special education as follows: | 24 | | (i) one FTE teacher position for every 141 ASE | 25 | | elementary, middle, and high school students; | 26 | | (ii) one-half of one FTE teacher aide for every |
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| 1 | | 141 ASE elementary, middle, and high school | 2 | | students; | 3 | | (iii) one FTE psychologist position for every | 4 | | 1,000 ASE elementary, middle, and high school | 5 | | students. | 6 | | (3) Average salaries and the Comparable Wage Index are | 7 | | as follows: | 8 | | (A) Following are the average salaries to be | 9 | | utilized when determining the FTE costs for the | 10 | | relevant position. For purposes of this paragraph (3), | 11 | | "teacher" includes core teachers, specialist and | 12 | | elective teachers, instructional facilitators, tutors, | 13 | | EL teachers, extended-day teachers, and summer school | 14 | | teachers. Where specific grade data is not required | 15 | | under item (2) of subsection (c) of this Section, the | 16 | | average salary for corresponding positions shall | 17 | | apply. | 18 | | (i) Teacher for grades K through 8, $60,578. | 19 | | (ii) Teacher for grades 9 through 12, $67,565. | 20 | | (iii) Teacher for grades K through 12, | 21 | | $64,072. | 22 | | (iv) Guidance counselor for grades K through | 23 | | 8, $68,887. | 24 | | (v) Guidance counselor for grades 9 through | 25 | | 12, $74,674. | 26 | | (vi) Guidance counselor for grades K through |
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| 1 | | 12, $71,781. | 2 | | (vii) Social worker, $64,647. | 3 | | (viii) Psychologist, $71,058. | 4 | | (ix) Librarian or media technician, $68,919. | 5 | | (x) Nurse, $56,139. | 6 | | (xi) Principal, $104,135. | 7 | | (xii) Assistant principal, $91,080. | 8 | | (xiii) School secretary, $30,000. | 9 | | (xiv) School clerical staff, $25,000. | 10 | | (xv) Non-instructional assistant, $25,000. | 11 | | (xvi) Substitute teacher, $118.64 per day. | 12 | | (xvii) Substitute aide, $46.29 per day. | 13 | | (B) Salaries for all school and district-level | 14 | | staffing categories set forth in subdivision (A) of | 15 | | this paragraph (3) shall be used for determining the | 16 | | Base Adequacy Level for organizational units for the | 17 | | first 5 school years following the effective date of | 18 | | this Section and are based upon average statewide | 19 | | salary levels for the 2015-2016 school year. The State | 20 | | Superintendent of Education shall adjust the statewide | 21 | | average salary for each staffing category at least once | 22 | | every 5 school years beginning with the 2022-2023 | 23 | | school year and continuing thereafter, and the | 24 | | adjusted salaries shall be the salaries utilized for | 25 | | determining Base Adequacy Levels of organizational | 26 | | units in the applicable succeeding school years. Each |
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| 1 | | such redetermination shall include appropriate | 2 | | adjustments for each staffing category as reasonably | 3 | | determined by the State Superintendent. | 4 | | Each year after the initial determination of | 5 | | salaries under subdivision (A) of this paragraph (3) | 6 | | and this subdivision (B), the then most current, annual | 7 | | Bureau of Labor Statistics' national Employment Cost | 8 | | Index for civilian workers in educational services in | 9 | | elementary and secondary schools shall be applied, on a | 10 | | cumulative basis, to the salary averages before using | 11 | | them to compute the applicable FTE position cost, | 12 | | except in years in which the State Superintendent | 13 | | recalibrates all such salaries, as provided in this | 14 | | subdivision (B). | 15 | | (C) Before assigning any salary amount identified | 16 | | under subdivision (A) or (B) of this paragraph (3) for | 17 | | determining the Base Adequacy Level of an | 18 | | organizational unit, the State Superintendent of | 19 | | Education shall further adjust the salary amount for | 20 | | each staffing category by applying thereto the | 21 | | Comparable Wage Index for the organizational unit. | 22 | | (4) An EAV to adequacy ratio is the primary input in | 23 | | determining the Local Capacity Target for each | 24 | | organizational unit. The steps for calculating the Local | 25 | | Capacity Target are as follows: | 26 | | (A) An organizational unit's Local Capacity Ratio |
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| 1 | | in a given year shall be the percentage obtained by | 2 | | dividing the organizational unit's EAV for such year, | 3 | | where the EAV shall be the average of the | 4 | | organizational unit's EAV over the immediately | 5 | | preceding 3 years or its EAV in the immediately | 6 | | preceding year if the EAV is 10% less than the 3-year | 7 | | average, by the organizational unit's Base Adequacy | 8 | | Level for the year, as determined under paragraph (3) | 9 | | of this subsection (c). In the event of organizational | 10 | | unit reorganization, consolidation, or annexation, the | 11 | | most current EAV shall be used in the first year, the | 12 | | average of a 2-year EAV for the second year, and a | 13 | | 3-year average EAV for the third year. | 14 | | (B) The Local Capacity Ratio of an organizational | 15 | | unit determined under subdivision (A) of this | 16 | | paragraph (4) shall be adjusted to reflect the number | 17 | | of grades the organizational unit serves. For | 18 | | organizational units that serve grades kindergarten | 19 | | through 12 (unit districts), the Local Capacity Ratio | 20 | | shall be multiplied by one. For organizational units | 21 | | serving grades kindergarten through 8 (elementary | 22 | | districts), the Local Capacity Ratio shall be | 23 | | multiplied by 9/13. For organizational units serving | 24 | | grades 9 through 12 (high school districts), the Local | 25 | | Capacity Ratio shall be multiplied by 4/13. In the | 26 | | event a district or organizational unit has a different |
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| 1 | | grade configuration, a comparable adjustment shall be | 2 | | made based on the grades served. | 3 | | (C) The Local Capacity Ratio, as adjusted in item | 4 | | (B) of this paragraph (4), shall be used to determine a | 5 | | percentage of local capacity using standard normal | 6 | | distribution. To eliminate the effect of extreme | 7 | | values impacting the mean and standard deviation, the | 8 | | array of Local Capacity Ratios are winsorized based on | 9 | | 10%/90%. Each organizational unit's adjusted | 10 | | winsorized Local Capacity Ratio shall be converted to a | 11 | | normal curve equivalent score to determine each | 12 | | organizational unit's relative position to all other | 13 | | organizational units in this State. The normal curve | 14 | | equivalent score for each organizational unit shall be | 15 | | calculated using the standard normal distribution of | 16 | | the score in relation to the mean and adjusted | 17 | | winsorized Local Capacity Ratios of all organization | 18 | | units. Should the value assigned to any organizational | 19 | | unit be in excess of 90%, the value shall be adjusted | 20 | | to 90%. | 21 | | (D) For such laboratory schools operated in | 22 | | accordance with subsection (K) of Section 18-8.05 of | 23 | | this Code, the Base Adequacy Level of each | 24 | | organizational unit shall be determined in accordance | 25 | | with paragraph (2) of this subsection (c). The Local | 26 | | Capacity Target shall be set at 10% in recognition of |
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| 1 | | the absence of EAV and resources from the State | 2 | | university that are allocated to the laboratory | 3 | | school. | 4 | | (5) The Net State Contribution Target for the amount of | 5 | | kindergarten through grade 12 funding to be paid by this | 6 | | State shall be the sum of the dollar amounts of the Base | 7 | | Adequacy Level for each organizational unit, reduced by the | 8 | | sum of the school district's Local Capacity Target for the | 9 | | school year, plus the district's corporate personal | 10 | | property replacement tax revenue received in the prior | 11 | | school year. No federal funding shall be considered when | 12 | | determining the Net State Contribution Target under | 13 | | paragraph (4) of this subsection (c). The Net State | 14 | | Contribution Target per pupil made by this State to an | 15 | | organizational unit in a given year shall mean the Net | 16 | | State Contribution Target for that year divided by the | 17 | | organizational unit's ASE in that year. | 18 | | (6) If the initial Net State Contribution Target per | 19 | | pupil that would be made to a school district in the first | 20 | | fiscal year in which education funding is implemented in | 21 | | accordance with this Section would be less than the | 22 | | aggregate amount of per pupil kindergarten through grade 12 | 23 | | funding, including funding for general State aid, special | 24 | | education personnel, special education children, special | 25 | | education summer school, EL and bilingual education, and | 26 | | driver education, the district received from this State in |
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| 1 | | the immediately preceding fiscal year (to be referred to as | 2 | | the Minimum Per Pupil Funding Level), then in the first and | 3 | | subsequent 4 school years of implementation of this | 4 | | Section, the school district shall receive an amount of | 5 | | education funding from this State equal to its then current | 6 | | ASE multiplied by the Minimum Per Pupil Funding Level. | 7 | | (7) In the event that the General Assembly and the | 8 | | Governor decrease the amount of the appropriation for this | 9 | | Section in any fiscal year after implementation of this | 10 | | Section, the organizational units receiving Tier 1 and Tier | 11 | | 2 funding, as determined under paragraph (8) of this | 12 | | subsection (c), shall be held harmless by establishing a | 13 | | Base Funding Guarantee equal to the per pupil kindergarten | 14 | | through grade funding received in accordance with this | 15 | | Section in the prior fiscal year. Reduction shall be made | 16 | | to the Base Funding Minimum of organizational units in Tier | 17 | | 3 and Tier 4 on a per pupil basis equivalent to the total | 18 | | number of the ASE in Tier 3-funded and Tier 4-funded | 19 | | organizational units divided by the total reduction in | 20 | | State funding. The Base Funding Minimum as reduced shall | 21 | | continue to be applied to Tier 3 and Tier 4 organizational | 22 | | units and adjusted by the relative formula when increases | 23 | | in appropriations for this Section resume. In no event | 24 | | shall State funding reductions to organizational units in | 25 | | Tier 3 or Tier 4 exceed an amount that would be less than | 26 | | the Base Funding Minimum established in the first year of |
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| 1 | | implementation of this Section. Should additional | 2 | | reductions be required, all school districts shall receive | 3 | | a reduction by a per pupil amount equal to the aggregate | 4 | | additional appropriation reduction divided by the total | 5 | | ASE of all organizational units. | 6 | | (8) Equitable distribution of State appropriations for | 7 | | this Section that are in excess of the aggregate | 8 | | appropriations for general State aid, special education | 9 | | personnel, special education child funding, special | 10 | | education summer school, EL and bilingual education, and | 11 | | driver education for the prior fiscal year or funding for | 12 | | this Section in the prior fiscal year shall be established | 13 | | by the following formula: | 14 | | (A) An organizational unit's Preliminary Resources | 15 | | are determined by summing the Local Capacity Target | 16 | | plus corporate personal property replacement taxes | 17 | | plus the Base Funding Minimum. An organizational | 18 | | unit's Preliminary Resource Ratio is the Preliminary | 19 | | Organizational Resources divided by the Base Adequacy | 20 | | Level. | 21 | | (B) All organizational units shall be placed into | 22 | | one of 4 funding tiers, with the exception that all | 23 | | Tier 1 units are also included in Tier 2. Funding tiers | 24 | | are defined as follows: | 25 | | (i) Tier 1: All organizational units with an | 26 | | organizational resource ratio of less than 0.60. |
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| 1 | | (ii) Tier 2: All organizational units with an | 2 | | organizational resource ratio of less than 0.90, | 3 | | including Tier 1 units. | 4 | | (iii) Tier 3: All organizational units with an | 5 | | organizational resource ratio equal to or greater | 6 | | than 0.90 and less than 1.0. | 7 | | (iv) Tier 4: All organizational units with an | 8 | | organizational resource ratio equal to or greater | 9 | | than 1.0. | 10 | | (C) Annual additional appropriations to fund this | 11 | | Section in excess of prior fiscal year appropriations | 12 | | are applied to funding tiers as follows: | 13 | | (i) 33% to Tier 1. Tier 1 funding shall be | 14 | | equal to the Tier 1 Funding Gap times the Tier 1 | 15 | | Funding Allocation Rate, where the Tier 1 Funding | 16 | | Allocation Rate is determined by the total amount | 17 | | of Tier 1 funding divided by the aggregate funding | 18 | | gap for all Tier 1 organizational units and where | 19 | | the Tier 1 Funding Gap equals (the Tier 1 Target | 20 | | Ratio (0.60) times the Base Adequacy Level minus | 21 | | Preliminary Resources). Should the Funding | 22 | | Allocation Rate be higher than 1.0, then the rate | 23 | | shall be adjusted to 1.0. In the event that all | 24 | | organizational units achieve the Tier 1 Target | 25 | | Ratio of 0.60, any remaining resources shall be | 26 | | allocated to Tier 2. |
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| 1 | | (ii) 66% to Tier 2. Tier 2 funding shall be | 2 | | distributed to all Tier 1 and Tier 2 organizational | 3 | | units using the following formula: the Tier 2 | 4 | | Funding Gap times the Tier 2 Allocation Rate, where | 5 | | the Tier 2 Funding Gap equals (the Tier 2 Target | 6 | | Ratio (0.90) times the Base Adequacy Level minus | 7 | | (Preliminary Resources plus Tier 1 Funding) minus | 8 | | the District Resource Ratio) times the Base | 9 | | Adequacy Level times (1.0 minus the Local Capacity | 10 | | Target percentage) and where the Tier 2 Allocation | 11 | | Rate is Tier 2 Available Funding divided by the | 12 | | Total Tier 2 and Tier 1 Funding Gap. Should the | 13 | | Allocation Rate be higher than 1.0, then the rate | 14 | | shall be adjusted to 1.0. Should the Tier 2 Funding | 15 | | Allocation Rate be adjusted to 1.0, resources | 16 | | shall be allocated to Tier 2 organizational units | 17 | | on a per pupil basis until all units achieve the | 18 | | Tier 2 Target Ratio of 0.90. In the event that all | 19 | | organizational units achieve the Tier 2 Target | 20 | | Ratio of 0.90, any remaining resources shall be | 21 | | allocated to Tier 3 and Tier 4. | 22 | | (iii) 0.9% to Tier 3 or additional excess | 23 | | resources from Tier 2. Tier 3 funding shall be | 24 | | determined by multiplying a Tier 3 Allocation Rate | 25 | | by the Base Adequacy Level of each organizational | 26 | | unit, where the Tier 3 Allocation Rate is equal to |
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| 1 | | Total Tier 3 Available Funding divided by the Total | 2 | | Tier 3 Adequacy Funding Target (the sum of all Base | 3 | | Adequacy Levels for all Tier 3 organizational | 4 | | units). | 5 | | (iv) 0.1% to Tier 4. Tier 4 funding is based on | 6 | | a Tier 4 Allocation Rate that is equal to Total | 7 | | Tier 4 Available Funding divided by the Total Tier | 8 | | 4 Base Adequacy Level and times each | 9 | | organizational unit's Base Adequacy Level. | 10 | | (D) Alternative schools, safe schools, special | 11 | | education cooperatives or entities recognized by the | 12 | | State Board of Education as special education | 13 | | cooperatives, vocational cooperatives or entities | 14 | | recognized by the State Board of Education as | 15 | | vocational cooperatives, State-approved charter | 16 | | schools, and alternative learning opportunities | 17 | | program funding entities that received general State | 18 | | aid or categorical funding in the year prior to the | 19 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th | 20 | | General Assembly shall be placed in Tier 3, and their | 21 | | Base Funding Minimum shall be defined as their Base | 22 | | Adequacy Level. Should any entities recognized by the | 23 | | State Board of Education secure future funding | 24 | | directly from organizational units, the Base Funding | 25 | | Minimum shall be transferred to the organizational | 26 | | unit based on the prior year ASE of the entity. |
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| 1 | | (d) All school districts in this State must submit annual | 2 | | spending plans by the end of September of each year to the | 3 | | State Board of Education as part of the annual budget process, | 4 | | which shall describe how each organizational unit will utilize | 5 | | funding it receives from this State under this Section. The | 6 | | State Superintendent of Education may, from time to time, | 7 | | identify the requisites for school districts to satisfy when | 8 | | compiling the annual spending plans required under this | 9 | | subsection (d). | 10 | | No later than January 1, 2018, the State Superintendent of | 11 | | Education shall develop a 5-year strategic plan for all school | 12 | | districts to help in planning for adequacy funding under this | 13 | | Section. The State Superintendent shall submit the plan to the | 14 | | Governor and the General Assembly, as provided in Section 3.1 | 15 | | of the General Assembly Organization Act. The plan shall | 16 | | include recommendations for: | 17 | | (1) a framework for collaborative, professional, | 18 | | innovative, and 21st century learning environments using | 19 | | the evidence-based funding model; | 20 | | (2) ways to prepare and support this State's educators | 21 | | for successful instructional careers; | 22 | | (3) application and enhancement of the current | 23 | | financial accountability measures and the Illinois | 24 | | Balanced Accountability Measures in relation to elements | 25 | | of the evidence-based funding model; and | 26 | | (4) implementation of an effective school adequacy |
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| 1 | | funding system based on projected and recommended funding | 2 | | levels from the General Assembly. | 3 | | (e) The State Superintendent of Education shall calculate | 4 | | the Base Adequacy Level for each organizational unit and Net | 5 | | State Contribution Target for each school district under this | 6 | | Section. The State Superintendent shall also certify the actual | 7 | | amounts of the Net State Contribution Target payable for each | 8 | | eligible district based on the equitable distribution | 9 | | calculation to the district's treasurer, as soon as possible | 10 | | after such amounts are calculated, including any applicable | 11 | | adjusted charge-off increase. No moneys shall be distributed | 12 | | without the approval of the district's school board. | 13 | | The State Board shall, in accordance with appropriations | 14 | | made by the General Assembly, meet the funding obligations | 15 | | created under this Section. | 16 | | Annually, the State Board shall calculate and report to | 17 | | each school district the district's aggregate financial | 18 | | adequacy amount, which shall be the sum of the Base Adequacy | 19 | | Level for each organizational unit in the school district. The | 20 | | State Board shall calculate and report separately for each | 21 | | school district the district's total State funds allocated for | 22 | | its students with disabilities. The State Board shall calculate | 23 | | and report separately for each school district the amount of | 24 | | funding and applicable FTE calculated for each factor of the | 25 | | district's Base Adequacy Level amount under paragraph (2) of | 26 | | subsection (c) this Section. |
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| 1 | | Moneys distributed under this Section shall be calculated | 2 | | on a school year basis, but paid on a fiscal year basis, with | 3 | | payments beginning in August and extending through June. Unless | 4 | | otherwise provided, the moneys appropriated for each fiscal | 5 | | year shall be distributed in 22 equal payments at least 2 times | 6 | | monthly to each school district. The State Board shall publish | 7 | | a yearly distribution schedule at its meeting in June. If | 8 | | moneys appropriated for any fiscal year are distributed other | 9 | | than monthly, the distribution shall be on the same basis for | 10 | | each school district. | 11 | | School districts with average daily attendance above their | 12 | | ASE in a school year shall be reviewed by the State Board. | 13 | | School districts shall report to the State Board each fall and | 14 | | spring the students housed by the serving school. The fall | 15 | | official counts shall reflect students enrolled in the district | 16 | | on the 20th day of the school year and reported to the State | 17 | | Board's Student Information System no later than October 15th. | 18 | | The spring official counts shall reflect students enrolled in | 19 | | the district on the first Friday in March and reported to State | 20 | | Board's Student Information System no later than April 20th. | 21 | | (f) A Professional Judgment Panel is created to support the | 22 | | State Board's implementation of this Section and oversee | 23 | | continual recalibration and future study topics. The Panel | 24 | | shall be appointed by the State Superintendent of Education, | 25 | | except as otherwise provided in this subsection (f), supported | 26 | | by State Board personnel, and comprised of geographically |
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| 1 | | diverse representatives from organizations representing | 2 | | superintendents, business officials, principals, school board | 3 | | members, regional superintendents of schools, independent | 4 | | school funding experts, whether from academics or from | 5 | | non-governmental organizations with recognized expertise in | 6 | | education funding, and teachers as follows: | 7 | | (1) Two geographically diverse appointees that | 8 | | represent district superintendents, recommended by | 9 | | organizations that represent district superintendents. | 10 | | (2) Two geographically diverse appointees that | 11 | | represent school boards, recommended by organizations that | 12 | | represent school boards. | 13 | | (3) Two geographically diverse appointees that | 14 | | represent school business officials, recommended by | 15 | | organizations that represent school business officials. | 16 | | (4) Two geographically diverse appointees that | 17 | | represent school principals, recommended by organizations | 18 | | that represent school principals. | 19 | | (5) Two geographically diverse appointees that | 20 | | represent teachers, recommended by organizations that | 21 | | represent teachers. | 22 | | (6) Two geographically diverse appointees that | 23 | | represent teachers, recommended by another organization | 24 | | that represents teachers. | 25 | | (7) Two geographically diverse appointees that | 26 | | represent regional superintendents of schools, recommended |
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| 1 | | by organizations that represent regional superintendents. | 2 | | (8) Two independent experts selected solely by the | 3 | | State Superintendent. | 4 | | (9) Two independent experts recommended by public | 5 | | universities in this State. | 6 | | (10) One member recommended by an organization that | 7 | | represent parents. | 8 | | In addition to those Panel members appointed by the State | 9 | | Superintendent, 4 legislative liaisons shall be appointed, one | 10 | | by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, one by the | 11 | | President of the Senate, one by the Minority Leader of the | 12 | | House of Representatives, and one by the Minority Leader of the | 13 | | Senate. | 14 | | The Professional Judgment Panel shall study and review the | 15 | | implementation and effect of the evidence-based funding model | 16 | | under this Section. On an annual basis, the State | 17 | | Superintendent of Education shall recalibrate the following | 18 | | per pupil elements of the Base Adequacy Level and applied to | 19 | | the formulas, based on the Panel's study of average expenses as | 20 | | reported in the most recent annual financial report: | 21 | | (A) gifted under subdivision (M) of paragraph (2) of | 22 | | subsection (c) of this Section; | 23 | | (B) instructional materials under subdivision (O) of | 24 | | paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of this Section; | 25 | | (C) assessment under subdivision (P) of paragraph (2) | 26 | | of subsection (c) of this Section; |
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| 1 | | (D) student activities under subdivision (R) of | 2 | | paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of this Section; | 3 | | (E) maintenance and operations under subdivision (S) | 4 | | of paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of this Section; and | 5 | | (F) central office under subdivision (T) of paragraph | 6 | | (2) of subsection (c) of this Section. | 7 | | On a periodic basis, the Panel shall study all of the | 8 | | following elements and make recommendations to the General | 9 | | Assembly and the Governor for modification of this Section: | 10 | | (i) Average salaries under subdivision (A) of | 11 | | paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of this Section, to be | 12 | | annually modified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' | 13 | | national Employment Cost Index for civilian workers in | 14 | | educational services in elementary and secondary schools, | 15 | | with a new study every 5 years. | 16 | | (ii) The Comparable Wage Index under subdivision (C) of | 17 | | paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of this Section, to be | 18 | | studied by the Panel and reestablished by the State | 19 | | Superintendent every 5 years. | 20 | | (iii) Maintenance and operations. Within 5 years after | 21 | | the implementation of this Section, the Panel shall make | 22 | | recommendations for the further study of maintenance and | 23 | | operations costs, including capital maintenance costs, and | 24 | | recommend any additional reporting data required from | 25 | | organizational units. | 26 | | (iv) "At-risk student" definition. Within 5 years |
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| 1 | | after the implementation of this Section, the Panel shall | 2 | | make recommendations for the further study and | 3 | | determination of an "at-risk student" definition to be | 4 | | recommended for future consideration by the General | 5 | | Assembly and the Governor. | 6 | | (v) Benefits, to be studied within 5 years after the | 7 | | implementation of this Section. | 8 | | (vi) Technology. The per pupil target for technology | 9 | | shall be reviewed every 3 years to determine whether | 10 | | current allocations are sufficient to develop 21st century | 11 | | learning in all classrooms in this State. Recommendations | 12 | | shall be made to the General Assembly and the Governor no | 13 | | later than 3 years after the implementation of this | 14 | | Section. | 15 | | (vii) Base Funding Minimum. Per paragraph (6) of | 16 | | subsection (c) of this Section, a review of the Base | 17 | | Funding Minimum shall be made, and recommendations for | 18 | | continuance or modification of the Base Funding Minimum | 19 | | shall be made to the General Assembly and the Governor | 20 | | within 5 years after the implementation of this Section. | 21 | | (viii) Local Capacity Target. Within 3 years after the | 22 | | implementation of this Section, the Panel shall make | 23 | | recommendations for any additional data desired to analyze | 24 | | possible modifications to the Local Capacity Target, to be | 25 | | based on measures in addition to solely EAV and to be | 26 | | completed within 5 years after implementation of this |
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| 1 | | Section. | 2 | | (ix) Funding for alternative schools, laboratory | 3 | | schools, safe schools, and alternative learning | 4 | | opportunity programs. Within 3 years after the | 5 | | implementation of this Section, the Panel shall study and | 6 | | make recommendations to the General Assembly and the | 7 | | Governor regarding the funding levels for alternative | 8 | | schools, laboratory schools, safe schools, and alternative | 9 | | learning opportunity programs in this State.
| 10 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 11 | | 2017.".
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