Full Text of HB2584 94th General Assembly
HB2584 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB2584
Introduced 02/18/05, by Rep. Sandra M. Pihos SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d |
from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25d |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that placing a school on academic early warning status for not meeting adequate yearly progress criteria for 2 consecutive annual calculations shall not begin until the 2006-2007 school year. For schools, removes the requirement that the adequate yearly progress criteria be specified by the State Board of Education. Provides instead that the criteria must not be met in the same subgroup and in the same subject or in the school's participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation rate in order for the school to be placed on academic early warning or watch status. Provides that a school on academic early warning or watch status that meets adequate yearly progress criteria for one annual calculation (instead of 2 consecutive annual calculations) shall be considered as having met expectations and shall be removed from any status designation. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 2-3.25d as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25d)
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| Sec. 2-3.25d. Academic early warning and watch status.
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| (a) Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, those
Those
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| schools that do not meet adequate yearly progress criteria , as
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| specified by the State Board of Education, for 2 consecutive | 11 |
| annual
calculations in the same subgroup and in the same | 12 |
| subject or in their participation rate, attendance rate, or | 13 |
| graduation rate ,
shall be placed on academic early warning | 14 |
| status for the next school year.
Schools on academic early | 15 |
| warning status that do not meet adequate yearly
progress | 16 |
| criteria for a third annual calculation in the same subgroup | 17 |
| and in the same subject or in their participation rate, | 18 |
| attendance rate, or graduation rate shall remain on academic | 19 |
| early
warning status. Schools on academic early warning status | 20 |
| that do not meet
adequate yearly progress criteria for a fourth | 21 |
| annual calculation in the same subgroup and in the same subject | 22 |
| or in their participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation | 23 |
| rate shall be
placed
on initial academic watch status. Schools | 24 |
| on academic watch status that do not
meet adequate yearly | 25 |
| progress criteria for a fifth or subsequent annual
calculation | 26 |
| in the same subgroup and in the same subject or in their | 27 |
| participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation rate shall | 28 |
| remain on academic watch status. Schools on academic early
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| warning or academic watch status that meet adequate yearly | 30 |
| progress criteria
for
one annual calculation shall be | 31 |
| acknowledged for making improvement and shall
maintain their | 32 |
| current statuses for the next school year. Schools on academic
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| early warning or academic watch status that meet adequate | 2 |
| yearly progress
criteria for 2 consecutive annual calculations
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| shall be considered as having
met
expectations and shall be | 4 |
| removed from any status designation.
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| The school district of a school placed on either academic | 6 |
| early warning
status or academic watch status may appeal the | 7 |
| status to the State Board of
Education in accordance with | 8 |
| Section 2-3.25m of this Code.
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| A school district that has one or more schools on academic | 10 |
| early warning
or academic watch status shall prepare a revised | 11 |
| School Improvement Plan or
amendments thereto setting forth the | 12 |
| district's expectations for removing each
school from academic | 13 |
| early warning or academic watch status and for improving
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| student performance in the affected school or schools. | 15 |
| Districts operating
under
Article 34 of this Code may prepare | 16 |
| the School Improvement Plan required under
Section 34-2.4 of | 17 |
| this Code.
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school
that is | 19 |
| initially placed on academic early warning status
or that | 20 |
| remains on
academic early warning status after a third annual | 21 |
| calculation
must be approved by
the
school board (and by the | 22 |
| school's local school council in a district operating
under | 23 |
| Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation | 24 |
| pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code).
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school placed on | 26 |
| initial
academic watch status after a fourth annual calculation | 27 |
| must be approved by the
school board (and by the school's local | 28 |
| school council in a district operating
under Article 34 of this | 29 |
| Code, unless the school is on probation pursuant to
subsection | 30 |
| (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code) and the State | 31 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school that | 33 |
| remains on
academic watch status after a fifth annual | 34 |
| calculation must be approved by the
school board (and by the | 35 |
| school's local school council in a district operating
under | 36 |
| Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation |
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| pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code) and | 2 |
| the State Superintendent of Education.
In addition, the | 3 |
| district must develop a school restructuring plan for the
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| school that
must
be approved by the school board (and by the | 5 |
| school's local school council in a
district operating under | 6 |
| Article 34 of this Code) and subsequently approved by
the State | 7 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| A school on academic watch status that does not meet | 9 |
| adequate yearly
progress criteria for a sixth annual | 10 |
| calculation shall implement its approved
school restructuring | 11 |
| plan beginning with the next school year, subject to the
State
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| interventions specified in Section 2-3.25f of this Code.
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| (b) Those school districts that do not meet adequate yearly | 14 |
| progress
criteria, as specified by the State Board of | 15 |
| Education, for 2 consecutive
annual
calculations, shall be | 16 |
| placed on academic early warning status for the next
school | 17 |
| year. Districts on academic early warning status that do not | 18 |
| meet
adequate yearly progress criteria for a third annual | 19 |
| calculation shall remain
on
academic early warning status. | 20 |
| Districts on academic early warning status that
do not meet | 21 |
| adequate yearly progress criteria for a fourth annual | 22 |
| calculation
shall
be placed on initial academic watch status. | 23 |
| Districts on academic watch status
that do not meet adequate | 24 |
| yearly progress criteria for a fifth or subsequent
annual | 25 |
| calculation shall remain on academic watch status. Districts on | 26 |
| academic
early warning or academic watch status that meet | 27 |
| adequate yearly progress
criteria for one annual calculation | 28 |
| shall be acknowledged for making
improvement and shall maintain | 29 |
| their current statuses for the next school year.
Districts on | 30 |
| academic early warning or academic watch status that meet | 31 |
| adequate
yearly progress criteria for 2 consecutive annual | 32 |
| calculations shall be
considered
as having met expectations and | 33 |
| shall be removed from any status designation.
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| A district placed on either academic early warning status | 35 |
| or academic
watch status may appeal the status to the State | 36 |
| Board of Education in
accordance with Section 2-3.25m of this |
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| Code.
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| Districts on academic early warning or academic watch | 3 |
| status shall
prepare a District Improvement Plan or amendments | 4 |
| thereto setting forth the
district's expectations for removing | 5 |
| the district from academic early warning
or
academic watch | 6 |
| status and for improving student performance in the district.
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| The
District Improvement Plan for a district that is | 8 |
| initially placed on academic
early
warning status must be | 9 |
| approved by the school board.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district that | 11 |
| remains on
academic early warning status after a third annual | 12 |
| calculation must be approved
by the school board.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district on | 14 |
| initial academic
watch
status after a fourth annual calculation | 15 |
| must be approved by the school board
and the State | 16 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district that | 18 |
| remains on
academic watch status after a fifth annual | 19 |
| calculation must be approved by the
school board and the State | 20 |
| Superintendent of Education. In addition, the
district must
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| develop a district restructuring plan that must be approved by | 22 |
| the school
board and the State Superintendent of Education.
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| A district on academic watch status that does not meet | 24 |
| adequate yearly
progress criteria for a sixth annual | 25 |
| calculation shall implement its approved
district | 26 |
| restructuring plan beginning with the next school year, subject | 27 |
| to
the State
interventions specified in Section 2-3.25f of this | 28 |
| Code.
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| (c) All revised School and District Improvement Plans shall | 30 |
| be developed
in collaboration with staff in the affected school | 31 |
| or school district. All
revised
School and District Improvement | 32 |
| Plans shall be developed, submitted, and
approved pursuant to | 33 |
| rules adopted by the State Board of Education. The
revised | 34 |
| Improvement Plan shall address measurable outcomes for | 35 |
| improving
student performance so that such performance meets | 36 |
| adequate yearly progress
criteria as specified by the State |
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| Board of Education.
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| (d) All federal requirements apply to schools and school | 3 |
| districts utilizing
federal funds under Title I, Part A of the | 4 |
| federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965. | 5 |
| (e) The State Board of Education, from any moneys it may | 6 |
| have available for this purpose, must implement
and administer | 7 |
| a grant
program that provides 2-year grants to school districts | 8 |
| on the academic watch
list and other school districts that have | 9 |
| the lowest achieving students, as
determined by the State Board | 10 |
| of Education, to be
used to improve student achievement.
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| order
to receive a
grant under this program, a school district | 12 |
| must establish an accountability
program. The
accountability | 13 |
| program must involve the use of statewide testing standards and
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| local
evaluation measures. A grant shall be automatically | 15 |
| renewed when achievement
goals are met. The Board may adopt any | 16 |
| rules necessary to implement and
administer this grant program.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-470, eff. 8-8-03; 93-890, eff. 8-9-04.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 |
| becoming law.
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