Full Text of SB2031 103rd General Assembly
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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 | | 10-17a as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
| 7 | | Sec. 10-17a. State, school district, and school report | 8 | | cards ; Expanded High School Snapshot Report .
| 9 | | (1) By October 31, 2013 and October 31 of each subsequent | 10 | | school year, the State Board of Education, through the State | 11 | | Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a State report | 12 | | card, school district report cards, and school report cards, | 13 | | and shall by the most economical means provide to each school
| 14 | | district in this State, including special charter districts | 15 | | and districts
subject to the provisions of Article 34, the | 16 | | report cards for the school district and each of its schools. | 17 | | Because of the impacts of the COVID-19 public health emergency | 18 | | during school year 2020-2021, the State Board of Education | 19 | | shall have until December 31, 2021 to prepare and provide the | 20 | | report cards that would otherwise be due by October 31, 2021. | 21 | | During a school year in which the Governor has declared a | 22 | | disaster due to a public health emergency pursuant to Section | 23 | | 7 of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, the report |
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| 1 | | cards for the school districts and each of its schools shall be | 2 | | prepared by December 31. | 3 | | (2) In addition to any information required by federal | 4 | | law, the State Superintendent shall determine the indicators | 5 | | and presentation of the school report card, which must | 6 | | include, at a minimum, the most current data collected and | 7 | | maintained by the State Board of Education related to the | 8 | | following: | 9 | | (A) school characteristics and student demographics, | 10 | | including average class size, average teaching experience, | 11 | | student racial/ethnic breakdown, and the percentage of | 12 | | students classified as low-income; the percentage of | 13 | | students classified as English learners, the number of | 14 | | students who graduate from a bilingual or English learner | 15 | | program, and the number of students who graduate from, | 16 | | transfer from, or otherwise leave bilingual programs; the | 17 | | percentage of students who have individualized education | 18 | | plans or 504 plans that provide for special education | 19 | | services; the number and percentage of all students who | 20 | | have been assessed for placement in a gifted education or | 21 | | advanced academic program and, of those students: (i) the | 22 | | racial and ethnic breakdown, (ii) the percentage who are | 23 | | classified as low-income, and (iii) the number and | 24 | | percentage of students who received direct instruction | 25 | | from a teacher who holds a gifted education endorsement | 26 | | and, of those students, the percentage who are classified |
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| 1 | | as low-income; the percentage of students scoring at the | 2 | | "exceeds expectations" level on the assessments required | 3 | | under Section 2-3.64a-5 of this Code; the percentage of | 4 | | students who annually transferred in or out of the school | 5 | | district; average daily attendance; the per-pupil | 6 | | operating expenditure of the school district; and the | 7 | | per-pupil State average operating expenditure for the | 8 | | district type (elementary, high school, or unit); | 9 | | (B) curriculum information, including, where | 10 | | applicable, Advanced Placement, International | 11 | | Baccalaureate or equivalent courses, dual enrollment | 12 | | courses, foreign language classes, computer science | 13 | | courses, school personnel resources (including Career | 14 | | Technical Education teachers), before and after school | 15 | | programs, extracurricular activities, subjects in which | 16 | | elective classes are offered, health and wellness | 17 | | initiatives (including the average number of days of | 18 | | Physical Education per week per student), approved | 19 | | programs of study, awards received, community | 20 | | partnerships, and special programs such as programming for | 21 | | the gifted and talented, students with disabilities, and | 22 | | work-study students; | 23 | | (C) student outcomes, including, where applicable, the | 24 | | percentage of students deemed proficient on assessments of | 25 | | State standards, the percentage of students in the eighth | 26 | | grade who pass Algebra, the percentage of students who |
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| 1 | | participated in workplace learning experiences, the | 2 | | percentage of students enrolled in post-secondary | 3 | | institutions (including colleges, universities, community | 4 | | colleges, trade/vocational schools, and training programs | 5 | | leading to career certification within 2 semesters of high | 6 | | school graduation), the percentage of students graduating | 7 | | from high school who are college and career ready, and the | 8 | | percentage of graduates enrolled in community colleges, | 9 | | colleges, and universities who are in one or more courses | 10 | | that the community college, college, or university | 11 | | identifies as a developmental course; | 12 | | (D) student progress, including, where applicable, the | 13 | | percentage of students in the ninth grade who have earned | 14 | | 5 credits or more without failing more than one core | 15 | | class, a measure of students entering kindergarten ready | 16 | | to learn, a measure of growth, and the percentage of | 17 | | students who enter high school on track for college and | 18 | | career readiness; | 19 | | (E) the school environment, including, where | 20 | | applicable, high school dropout rate by grade level, the | 21 | | percentage of students with less than 10 absences in a | 22 | | school year, the percentage of teachers with less than 10 | 23 | | absences in a school year for reasons other than | 24 | | professional development, leaves taken pursuant to the | 25 | | federal Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, long-term | 26 | | disability, or parental leaves, the 3-year average of the |
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| 1 | | percentage of teachers returning to the school from the | 2 | | previous year, the number of different principals at the | 3 | | school in the last 6 years, the number of teachers who hold | 4 | | a gifted education endorsement, the process and criteria | 5 | | used by the district to determine whether a student is | 6 | | eligible for participation in a gifted education program | 7 | | or advanced academic program and the manner in which | 8 | | parents and guardians are made aware of the process and | 9 | | criteria, the number of teachers who are National Board | 10 | | Certified Teachers, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, 2 | 11 | | or more indicators from any school climate survey selected | 12 | | or approved by the State and administered pursuant to | 13 | | Section 2-3.153 of this Code, with the same or similar | 14 | | indicators included on school report cards for all surveys | 15 | | selected or approved by the State pursuant to Section | 16 | | 2-3.153 of this Code, the combined percentage of teachers | 17 | | rated as proficient or excellent in their most recent | 18 | | evaluation, and, beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, | 19 | | data on the number of incidents of violence that occurred | 20 | | on school grounds or during school-related activities and | 21 | | that resulted in an out-of-school suspension, expulsion, | 22 | | or removal to an alternative setting, as reported pursuant | 23 | | to Section 2-3.162; | 24 | | (F) a school district's and its individual schools' | 25 | | balanced accountability measure, in accordance with | 26 | | Section 2-3.25a of this Code; |
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| 1 | | (G) the total and per pupil normal cost amount the | 2 | | State contributed to the Teachers' Retirement System of | 3 | | the State of Illinois in the prior fiscal year for the | 4 | | school's employees, which shall be reported to the State | 5 | | Board of Education by the Teachers' Retirement System of | 6 | | the State of Illinois; | 7 | | (H) for a school district organized under Article 34 | 8 | | of this Code only, State contributions to the Public | 9 | | School Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago | 10 | | and State contributions for health care for employees of | 11 | | that school district; | 12 | | (I) a school district's Final Percent of Adequacy, as | 13 | | defined in paragraph (4) of subsection (f) of Section | 14 | | 18-8.15 of this Code; | 15 | | (J) a school district's Local Capacity Target, as | 16 | | defined in paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Section | 17 | | 18-8.15 of this Code, displayed as a percentage amount; | 18 | | (K) a school district's Real Receipts, as defined in | 19 | | paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of Section 18-8.15 of this | 20 | | Code, divided by a school district's Adequacy Target, as | 21 | | defined in paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of Section | 22 | | 18-8.15 of this Code, displayed as a percentage amount; | 23 | | (L) a school district's administrative costs; | 24 | | (M) whether or not the school has participated in the | 25 | | Illinois Youth Survey. In this paragraph (M), "Illinois | 26 | | Youth Survey" means a self-report survey, administered in |
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| 1 | | school settings every 2 years, designed to gather | 2 | | information about health and social indicators, including | 3 | | substance abuse patterns and the attitudes of students in | 4 | | grades 8, 10, and 12; and | 5 | | (N) whether the school offered its students career and | 6 | | technical education opportunities. | 7 | | The school report card shall also provide
information that | 8 | | allows for comparing the current outcome, progress, and | 9 | | environment data to the State average, to the school data from | 10 | | the past 5 years, and to the outcomes, progress, and | 11 | | environment of similar schools based on the type of school and | 12 | | enrollment of low-income students, special education students, | 13 | | and English learners.
| 14 | | As used in this subsection (2): | 15 | | "Administrative costs" means costs associated with | 16 | | executive, administrative, or managerial functions within the | 17 | | school district that involve planning, organizing, managing, | 18 | | or directing the school district. | 19 | | "Advanced academic program" means a course of study to | 20 | | which students are assigned based on advanced cognitive | 21 | | ability or advanced academic achievement compared to local age | 22 | | peers and in which the curriculum is substantially | 23 | | differentiated from the general curriculum to provide | 24 | | appropriate challenge and pace. | 25 | | "Computer science" means the study of computers and | 26 | | algorithms, including their principles, their hardware and |
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| 1 | | software designs, their implementation, and their impact on | 2 | | society. "Computer science" does not include the study of | 3 | | everyday uses of computers and computer applications, such as | 4 | | keyboarding or accessing the Internet. | 5 | | "Gifted education" means educational services, including | 6 | | differentiated curricula and instructional methods, designed | 7 | | to meet the needs of gifted children as defined in Article 14A | 8 | | of this Code. | 9 | | For the purposes of paragraph (A) of this subsection (2), | 10 | | "average daily attendance" means the average of the actual | 11 | | number of attendance days during the previous school year for | 12 | | any enrolled student who is subject to compulsory attendance | 13 | | by Section 26-1 of this Code at each school and charter school. | 14 | | (3) At the discretion of the State Superintendent, the | 15 | | school district report card shall include a subset of the | 16 | | information identified in paragraphs (A) through (E) of | 17 | | subsection (2) of this Section, as well as information | 18 | | relating to the operating expense per pupil and other finances | 19 | | of the school district, and the State report card shall | 20 | | include a subset of the information identified in paragraphs | 21 | | (A) through (E) and paragraph (N) of subsection (2) of this | 22 | | Section. The school district report card shall include the | 23 | | average daily attendance, as that term is defined in | 24 | | subsection (2) of this Section, of students who have | 25 | | individualized education programs and students who have 504 | 26 | | plans that provide for special education services within the |
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| 1 | | school district. | 2 | | (4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this | 3 | | Section, in consultation with key education stakeholders, the | 4 | | State Superintendent shall at any time have the discretion to | 5 | | amend or update any and all metrics on the school, district, or | 6 | | State report card. | 7 | | (5) Annually, no more than 30 calendar days after receipt | 8 | | of the school district and school report cards from the State | 9 | | Superintendent of Education, each school district, including | 10 | | special charter districts and districts subject to the | 11 | | provisions of Article 34, shall present such report
cards at a | 12 | | regular school board meeting subject to
applicable notice | 13 | | requirements, post the report cards
on the
school district's | 14 | | Internet web site, if the district maintains an Internet web
| 15 | | site, make the report cards
available
to a newspaper of | 16 | | general circulation serving the district, and, upon
request, | 17 | | send the report cards
home to a parent (unless the district | 18 | | does not maintain an Internet web site,
in which case
the | 19 | | report card shall be sent home to parents without request). If | 20 | | the
district posts the report card on its Internet web
site, | 21 | | the district
shall send a
written notice home to parents | 22 | | stating (i) that the report card is available on
the web site,
| 23 | | (ii) the address of the web site, (iii) that a printed copy of | 24 | | the report card
will be sent to
parents upon request, and (iv) | 25 | | the telephone number that parents may
call to
request a | 26 | | printed copy of the report card.
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| 1 | | (6) Nothing contained in Public Act 98-648 repeals, | 2 | | supersedes, invalidates, or nullifies final decisions in | 3 | | lawsuits pending on July 1, 2014 (the effective date of Public | 4 | | Act 98-648) in Illinois courts involving the interpretation of | 5 | | Public Act 97-8. | 6 | | (7) As used in this subsection (7): | 7 | | "Advanced-track coursework or programs" means any high | 8 | | school courses, sequence of courses, or
class or grouping of | 9 | | students organized to provide more rigorous, enriched, | 10 | | advanced,
accelerated, gifted, or above grade-level | 11 | | instruction. This may include, but is not limited
to, Advanced | 12 | | Placement courses, International Baccalaureate courses, | 13 | | honors, weighted, advanced, or enriched courses, or gifted or
| 14 | | accelerated programs, classrooms, or courses. | 15 | | "Course" means any high school class or course offered by | 16 | | a school that
is assigned a school course code by the State | 17 | | Board of
Education. | 18 | | "English learner coursework or English learner program" | 19 | | means a high school English learner course or program
| 20 | | designated to serve English learners, who may be designated as | 21 | | English
language learners or limited English proficiency | 22 | | learners. | 23 | | "Standard coursework or programs" means any high school | 24 | | courses or classes other than advanced-track coursework or | 25 | | programs, English learner coursework or programs, or special
| 26 | | education coursework or programs. |
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| 1 | | By October 31, 2025 and by October 31 of each subsequent
| 2 | | year, the State Board of Education, through the State
| 3 | | Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a stand-alone | 4 | | report covering high schools, to be referred to as the | 5 | | Expanded High School Snapshot Report. The State Board shall | 6 | | post the Report on the State Board's Internet website. Each | 7 | | school district with a high school shall include on the school | 8 | | district's Internet website, if the district maintains an | 9 | | Internet website, a hyperlink to the Report on the State | 10 | | Board's Internet website titled "Expanded High School Snapshot | 11 | | Report". Hyperlinks under this subsection (7) shall be | 12 | | displayed in a manner
that is easily accessible to the public. | 13 | | The Expanded High School Snapshot Report shall include: | 14 | | (A) a listing of all standard coursework or programs | 15 | | offered by a high school; | 16 | | (B) a listing of all advanced-track coursework or | 17 | | programs offered by a high school; | 18 | | (C) a listing of all English learner coursework or | 19 | | programs offered by a high school; | 20 | | (D) a listing of all special education coursework or | 21 | | programs offered by a high school; | 22 | | (E) data tables and graphs comparing advanced-track | 23 | | coursework or programs with standard
coursework or | 24 | | programs according to the following parameters: | 25 | | (i) the average years of experience of all | 26 | | teachers in a high school who are assigned to
teach |
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| 1 | | advanced-track coursework or programs compared with | 2 | | the average
years of experience of all teachers in the | 3 | | high school who are assigned to teach standard
| 4 | | coursework or programs; | 5 | | (ii) the average years of experience of all | 6 | | teachers in a high school who are assigned to
teach | 7 | | special education coursework or programs compared with | 8 | | the
average years of experience of all teachers in the | 9 | | high school who are assigned to teach
standard | 10 | | coursework or programs; | 11 | | (iii) the average years of experience of all | 12 | | teachers in a high school who are assigned to
teach | 13 | | English learner coursework or programs compared with | 14 | | the average
years of experience of all teachers in the | 15 | | high school who are assigned to teach standard
| 16 | | coursework or programs; | 17 | | (iv) the number of high school teachers who | 18 | | possess bachelor's, master's, or doctorate
degrees who | 19 | | are assigned to teach advanced-track courses or | 20 | | programs
compared with the number of teachers who | 21 | | possess bachelor's, master's, or
doctorate degrees who | 22 | | are assigned to teach standard coursework or
programs; | 23 | | (v) the number of high school teachers who possess | 24 | | bachelor's, master's, or doctorate
degrees who are | 25 | | assigned to teach special education coursework or
| 26 | | programs compared with the number of teachers who |
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| 1 | | possess bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degrees who | 2 | | are assigned to teach standard
coursework or programs; | 3 | | (vi) the number of high school teachers who | 4 | | possess bachelor's, master's, or doctorate
degrees who | 5 | | are assigned to teach English learner coursework or | 6 | | programs
compared with the number of teachers who | 7 | | possess bachelor's, master's, or
doctorate degrees who | 8 | | are assigned to teach standard coursework or
programs; | 9 | | (vii) the average student enrollment and class | 10 | | size of advanced-track coursework or programs offered | 11 | | in a high school compared with the average student
| 12 | | enrollment and class size of standard coursework or | 13 | | programs; | 14 | | (viii) the percentages of students delineated by | 15 | | gender who are enrolled in
advanced-track coursework | 16 | | or programs in a high school compared with the gender
| 17 | | of students enrolled in standard coursework or | 18 | | programs; | 19 | | (ix) the percentages of students delineated by | 20 | | gender who are enrolled in
special education | 21 | | coursework or programs in a high school compared with | 22 | | the
percentages of students enrolled in standard | 23 | | coursework or programs; | 24 | | (x) the percentages of students delineated by | 25 | | gender who are enrolled in
English learner coursework | 26 | | or programs in a high school compared with the
gender |
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| 1 | | of students enrolled in standard coursework or | 2 | | programs; | 3 | | (xi) the percentages of high school students in | 4 | | each individual race and ethnicity category, as
| 5 | | defined in the most recent federal decennial census, | 6 | | who are enrolled in advanced-track
coursework or | 7 | | programs compared with the percentages of students in | 8 | | each
individual race and ethnicity category enrolled | 9 | | in standard coursework or
programs; | 10 | | (xii) the percentages of high school students in | 11 | | each of the race and ethnicity categories, as
defined | 12 | | in the most recent federal decennial census, who are | 13 | | enrolled in special
education coursework or programs | 14 | | compared with the percentages of
students in each of | 15 | | the race and ethnicity categories who are enrolled in | 16 | | standard coursework or programs; | 17 | | (xiii) the percentages of high school students in | 18 | | each of the race and ethnicity categories, as
defined | 19 | | in the most recent federal decennial census, who are | 20 | | enrolled in English learner
coursework or programs in | 21 | | a high school compared with the
percentages of high | 22 | | school students in each of the race and ethnicity | 23 | | categories who are enrolled in standard coursework or
| 24 | | programs; | 25 | | (xiv) the percentage of high school students who | 26 | | reach proficiency (the equivalent of a
C grade or |
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| 1 | | higher on a grade A through F scale) in advanced-track | 2 | | coursework or programs
compared with the percentage of | 3 | | students who earn proficiency (the
equivalent of a C | 4 | | grade or higher on a grade A through F scale) in | 5 | | standard coursework
or programs; | 6 | | (xv) the percentage of high school students who | 7 | | reach proficiency (the equivalent of a
C grade or | 8 | | higher on a grade A through F scale) in special | 9 | | education coursework or
programs compared with the | 10 | | percentage of high school students who earn | 11 | | proficiency
(the equivalent of a C grade or higher on a | 12 | | grade A through F scale) in standard
coursework or | 13 | | programs; and | 14 | | (xvi) the percentage of high school students who | 15 | | reach proficiency (the equivalent of a
C grade or | 16 | | higher on a grade A through F scale) in English learner | 17 | | coursework or programs
compared with the percentage of | 18 | | high school students who earn proficiency (the
| 19 | | equivalent of a C grade or higher on a grade A through | 20 | | F scale) in standard coursework
or programs; and | 21 | | (F) data tables and graphs for each race and ethnicity | 22 | | category, as defined in the most recent federal decennial | 23 | | census, and
gender category, as defined in the most recent | 24 | | federal decennial census, describing: | 25 | | (i) the total number of Advanced Placement courses | 26 | | taken by
race and ethnicity category and gender |
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| 1 | | category, as defined in the most recent federal | 2 | | decennial census; | 3 | | (ii) the total number of International | 4 | | Baccalaureate courses taken by
race and ethnicity | 5 | | category and gender category, as defined in the most | 6 | | recent federal decennial census; | 7 | | (iii) for each race and ethnicity category and | 8 | | gender category, as defined in the most recent federal | 9 | | decennial census, the percentage of high school | 10 | | students enrolled in
Advanced Placement courses; | 11 | | (iv) for each race and ethnicity category and | 12 | | gender category, as defined in the most recent federal | 13 | | decennial census, the percentage of high school | 14 | | students enrolled in
International Baccalaureate | 15 | | courses; and | 16 | | (v) for each race and ethnicity category, as | 17 | | defined in the most recent federal decennial census, | 18 | | the total number and percentage of
high school | 19 | | students who earn a
score of 3 or higher on the | 20 | | Advanced Placement exam associated with an
Advanced | 21 | | Placement course. | 22 | | For data on teacher experience and education under this | 23 | | subsection (7), a teacher who teaches a combination
of courses | 24 | | designated as advanced-track coursework or programs, English | 25 | | learner coursework or programs, or standard coursework or | 26 | | programs shall be included in all relevant
categories and the |
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| 1 | | teacher's level of
experience shall be added to the | 2 | | categories. | 3 | | (Source: P.A. 101-68, eff. 1-1-20; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; | 4 | | 101-654, eff. 3-8-21; 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-294, eff. | 5 | | 1-1-22; 102-539, eff. 8-20-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-594, | 6 | | eff. 7-1-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22 .)
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