Full Text of HB4560 101st General Assembly
HB4560 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 HB4560 Introduced 2/5/2020, by Rep. Mark Batinick SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 105 ILCS 5/10-19 | from Ch. 122, par. 10-19 |
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Amends the School Code. With respect to the calendar for the school term, provides that in any school district in which all of its schools have received either an exemplary or commendable summative designation by the State Board of Education under this State's federal Every Student Succeeds Act plan, the school board may substitute the required 176 days of actual pupil attendance with 968 clock hours of school work and the 968 clock hours of school work shall be deemed to be the equivalent of 176 days of actual pupil attendance for all purposes under the Code. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 10-19 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-19)
| 7 | | Sec. 10-19. Length of school term ; - experimental programs. | 8 | | (a) Each school
board shall annually prepare a calendar for | 9 | | the school term, specifying
the opening and closing dates and | 10 | | providing a minimum term of at least 185
days to insure 176 | 11 | | days of actual pupil attendance, computable under Section | 12 | | 10-19.05, except that in any school district in which all of | 13 | | its schools have received either an exemplary or commendable | 14 | | summative designation by the State Board of Education under | 15 | | this State's federal Every Student Succeeds Act plan, the board | 16 | | may substitute the required 176 days of actual pupil attendance | 17 | | with 968 clock hours of school work and the 968 clock hours of | 18 | | school work shall be deemed to be the equivalent of 176 days of | 19 | | actual pupil attendance for all purposes under this Code for | 20 | | the 1980-1981 school year only 175 days
of actual
pupil | 21 | | attendance shall be required because of the closing of schools | 22 | | pursuant
to Section 24-2 on January 29, 1981 upon the | 23 | | appointment by the President
of that day as a day of |
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| 1 | | thanksgiving for the freedom of the Americans who
had been held | 2 | | hostage in Iran . Any days allowed by law for teachers' | 3 | | institutes
but not used as such or used as parental institutes | 4 | | as provided
in Section 10-22.18d shall increase the minimum | 5 | | term by the school days not
so used. Except as provided in | 6 | | Section 10-19.1, the board may not extend
the school term | 7 | | beyond such closing date unless that extension of term is
| 8 | | necessary to provide the minimum number of computable days. In | 9 | | case of
such necessary extension school employees
shall be paid | 10 | | for such additional time on the basis of their regular
| 11 | | contracts. A school board may specify a closing date earlier | 12 | | than that
set on the annual calendar when the schools of the | 13 | | district have
provided the minimum number of computable days | 14 | | under this Section.
Nothing in this Section prevents the board | 15 | | from employing
superintendents of schools, principals and | 16 | | other nonteaching personnel
for a period of 12 months, or in | 17 | | the case of superintendents for a
period in accordance with | 18 | | Section 10-23.8, or prevents the board from
employing other | 19 | | personnel before or after the regular school term with
payment | 20 | | of salary proportionate to that received for comparable work
| 21 | | during the school term.
| 22 | | (b) A school board may make such changes in its calendar | 23 | | for the school term
as may be required by any changes in the | 24 | | legal school holidays prescribed
in Section 24-2. A school | 25 | | board may make changes in its calendar for the
school term as | 26 | | may be necessary to reflect the utilization of teachers'
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| 1 | | institute days as parental institute days as provided in | 2 | | Section 10-22.18d.
| 3 | | The calendar for the school term and any changes must be | 4 | | submitted to and approved by the regional superintendent of | 5 | | schools before the calendar or changes may take effect.
| 6 | | (c) With the prior approval of the State Board of Education | 7 | | and subject
to review by the State Board of Education every 3 | 8 | | years, any school
board may, by resolution of its board and in | 9 | | agreement with affected
exclusive collective bargaining | 10 | | agents, establish experimental
educational programs, including | 11 | | but not limited to programs for e-learning days as authorized | 12 | | under Section 10-20.56 of this Code,
self-directed learning, or | 13 | | outside of formal class periods, which programs
when so | 14 | | approved shall be considered to comply with the requirements of
| 15 | | this Section as respects numbers of days of actual pupil | 16 | | attendance and
with the other requirements of this Act as | 17 | | respects courses of instruction.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 100-465, eff. 8-31-17; 101-12, eff. 7-1-19.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.
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