Full Text of SB2603 94th General Assembly
SB2603 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 SB2603
Introduced 1/20/2006, by Sen. Todd Sieben - Dan Cronin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/10-17a |
from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a |
30 ILCS 805/8.30 new |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district's school report card assessing the performance of its schools and students must also include the percentage of teachers whose performance received a rating of "excellent", the percentage of teachers whose performance received a rating of "satisfactory", and the percentage of teachers whose performance received a rating of "unsatisfactory" on their teacher evaluations. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
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STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT |
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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 |
| 10-17a as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
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| Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability.
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| (1) Policy and
Purpose. It shall be the policy of the State | 9 |
| of Illinois that each school
district in this State, including | 10 |
| special charter districts and districts
subject to the | 11 |
| provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents, taxpayers
of | 12 |
| such district, the Governor, the General Assembly, and the | 13 |
| State
Board of Education a school report card assessing the | 14 |
| performance of its
schools ,
and students , and teachers . The | 15 |
| report card shall be an index of school
performance measured | 16 |
| against statewide and local standards and will provide
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| information to make prior year comparisons and to set future | 18 |
| year targets
through the school improvement plan.
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| (2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall | 20 |
| prepare a report
card in accordance with the guidelines set | 21 |
| forth in this Section which
describes the performance of its | 22 |
| students and teachers by school attendance centers and
by | 23 |
| district and the district's financial resources and use of | 24 |
| financial
resources. Such report
card shall be presented at a | 25 |
| regular school board meeting subject to
applicable notice | 26 |
| requirements,
posted on the
school district's Internet web | 27 |
| site, if the district maintains an Internet web
site,
made | 28 |
| available
to a newspaper of general circulation serving the | 29 |
| district, and, upon
request, sent
home to a parent (unless the | 30 |
| district does not maintain an Internet web site,
in which case
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| the report card shall be sent home to parents without request). | 32 |
| If the
district posts the report card on its Internet web
site, |
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| the district
shall send a
written notice home to parents | 2 |
| stating (i) that the report card is available on
the web site,
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| (ii) the address of the web site, (iii) that a printed copy of | 4 |
| the report card
will be sent to
parents upon request, and (iv) | 5 |
| the telephone number that parents may
call to
request a printed | 6 |
| copy of the report card.
In addition, each school district | 7 |
| shall submit the
completed report card to the office of the | 8 |
| district's Regional
Superintendent which shall make copies | 9 |
| available to any individuals
requesting them.
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| The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior | 11 |
| to October 31
in each school year. The report card shall | 12 |
| contain, but
not be limited to, actual local school attendance | 13 |
| center, school district
and statewide data indicating the | 14 |
| present performance of the school, the
State norms and the | 15 |
| areas for planned improvement for the school and school
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| district.
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| (3) (a) The report card shall include the following | 18 |
| applicable
indicators of attendance center, district, and | 19 |
| statewide student
performance: percent of students who exceed, | 20 |
| meet, or do not meet
standards established by the
State Board | 21 |
| of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a; composite and subtest
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| means on
nationally normed achievement tests for
college bound | 23 |
| students; student attendance rates; chronic
truancy rate; | 24 |
| dropout rate;
graduation rate;
and student
mobility, turnover
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| shown as a percent of transfers out and a percent of transfers | 26 |
| in.
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| (b) The report card shall include the following | 28 |
| descriptions for the
school,
district, and State: average
class | 29 |
| size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics, science,
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| English and social science at primary,
middle and junior high | 31 |
| school grade levels;
number of students taking the Prairie | 32 |
| State Achievement Examination under
subsection (c) of
Section | 33 |
| 2-3.64, the number of those students who received a score of | 34 |
| excellent,
and
the average score by school of students taking | 35 |
| the examination;
pupil-teacher ratio; pupil-administrator | 36 |
| ratio;
operating expenditure per
pupil; district expenditure |
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| by fund; average administrator salary; and average
teacher | 2 |
| salary ; and, with respect to teacher evaluations under Section | 3 |
| 24A-5 of this Code, the percentage of teachers whose | 4 |
| performance received a rating of "excellent", the percentage of | 5 |
| teachers whose performance received a rating of | 6 |
| "satisfactory", and the percentage of teachers whose | 7 |
| performance received a rating of "unsatisfactory" .
The report | 8 |
| card shall also specify the amount of money that the district
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| receives from all sources, including without limitation | 10 |
| subcategories
specifying the amount from local property taxes, | 11 |
| the amount from
general State aid, the amount from other State | 12 |
| funding, and the amount
from other income.
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| (c) The report card shall include applicable indicators of | 14 |
| parental
involvement in each attendance center. The parental | 15 |
| involvement component
of the report card shall include the | 16 |
| percentage of students whose parents
or guardians have had one | 17 |
| or more personal contacts with the students'
teachers during | 18 |
| the school year concerning the students' education, and such
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| other information, commentary, and suggestions as the school | 20 |
| district
desires. For the purposes of this paragraph, "personal | 21 |
| contact" includes,
but is not limited to, parent-teacher | 22 |
| conferences, parental visits to
school, school visits to home, | 23 |
| telephone conversations, and written
correspondence. The | 24 |
| parental involvement component shall not single out or
identify | 25 |
| individual students, parents, or guardians by name.
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| (d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State | 27 |
| Board of
Education and provided to school districts by the most | 28 |
| efficient, economic,
and appropriate means.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-604, eff. 7-1-02; 92-631, eff. 7-11-02; | 30 |
| revised 7-26-02.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 32 |
| Section 8.30 as follows: | 33 |
| (30 ILCS 805/8.30 new) | 34 |
| Sec. 8.30. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 |
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| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 2 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 3 |
| the 94th General Assembly.
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