Full Text of HR0265 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Encouraging educational excellence is in the best | 3 | | interests of the people of Illinois; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, The intention of Charter School Law in Illinois is | 5 | | to improve pupil learning by creating
schools with high, | 6 | | rigorous standards for pupil performance; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Charter schools try to encourage the use of | 8 | | teaching methods that may be different in
some respects than | 9 | | others regularly used in the public school systems; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Charter schools allow the development of new, | 11 | | different, or alternative forms of
measuring pupil learning and | 12 | | achievement; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Charter schools create new professional | 14 | | opportunities for teachers, including the
opportunity to be | 15 | | responsible for the learning programs at school sites; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, The State shall hold charter schools accountable | 17 | | for meeting rigorous school content
standards and for providing | 18 | | those schools with the opportunity to improve accountability; | 19 | | and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The General Assembly seeks to create | 2 | | opportunities within the public school system
of Illinois for | 3 | | development of innovative and accountable teaching techniques; | 4 | | and | 5 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has a commitment to the | 6 | | mission, goals, and diversity of public
education; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, There is a wide variety of charter school types, | 8 | | practices, and levels of success achieved by
those schools; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, In a 2013 study of Illinois' schools by the Center | 10 | | for Research on Education Outcomes,
it was found that 20% of | 11 | | charter schools perform significantly better than the | 12 | | traditional public school
market, and 21% of them performed | 13 | | significantly worse; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, In the 2013-2014 school year, statewide charter | 15 | | school enrollment has risen to 59,925
pupils within 143 | 16 | | campuses of 64 charter schools; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The current statewide cap on the amount of charter | 18 | | schools is 120; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, In 2013, the statewide 4-year graduation rate | 20 | | among all charters was 60.4%,
compared with an 84% graduation |
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| 1 | | rate among traditional public schools; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, In the 2012-2013 school year, only 13% of all | 3 | | charters statewide met or exceeded the
State's Adequate Yearly | 4 | | Progress target for State standards in reading and math, | 5 | | compared
with 16% for traditional public schools; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Charter school authorizers are responsible for | 7 | | issuing charter contracts to school
boards and determining | 8 | | whether each charter contract merits renewal, nonrenewal, or | 9 | | revocation; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Charter school authorizers provide oversight and | 11 | | enforce accountability mechanisms
to ensure quality schools; | 12 | | and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Charter school authorizers set academic, fiscal, | 14 | | and managerial standards for charter
schools to meet; | 15 | | therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 | | the House Elementary & Secondary Education Charter School | 19 | | Policy Committee is directed to hold several subject matter | 20 | | hearings on charter school best practices; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That charter school authorizers and charter | 2 | | entities throughout the State, including
the Illinois State | 3 | | Charter School Commission, are invited and encouraged to attend | 4 | | these hearings to provide their expertise
on the subject.
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