Full Text of SB3066 93rd General Assembly
SB3066 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB3066
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Iris Y. Martinez, Jacqueline Y. Collins SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Creates the Grow Our Own Teachers Act. Provides for local consortia to establish teacher education programs to facilitate teacher recruitment and retention in low-income, hard-to-staff, public elementary and secondary schools or such schools with hard-to-staff positions. Provides for funding, transfer credit, assistance to students, and a task force. Provides for evaluations and reports to the General Assembly. Effective July 1, 2004.
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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Grow | 5 |
| Our Own Teachers Act. | 6 |
| Section 5. Definition. "Community-based organization" | 7 |
| means a nonprofit, community-based organization that has a | 8 |
| demonstrated capacity to train, develop, and organize parents | 9 |
| and community leaders into a large nonpartisan constituency | 10 |
| that will hold the school and the school district accountable | 11 |
| for achieving high academic standards. | 12 |
| Section 10. Local consortia programs. Each teacher | 13 |
| education program established under this Act shall be managed | 14 |
| by a local consortium, composed of at least one community-based | 15 |
| organization, one school district, and one or more institutions | 16 |
| of higher education. Local consortia shall establish teacher | 17 |
| education programs in compliance with Illinois teacher | 18 |
| certification requirements to facilitate teacher recruitment | 19 |
| and retention in low-income, hard-to-staff, public elementary | 20 |
| and secondary schools or such schools with hard-to-staff | 21 |
| positions.
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| Section 15. State funding. The State Board of Education | 23 |
| shall prescribe teacher vacancy, teacher turnover, and teacher | 24 |
| turnover cost thresholds for schools that determine the | 25 |
| eligibility of a local consortium serving those schools for | 26 |
| State funding of the proposed teacher education program. | 27 |
| Section 20. Eligible participants. Local consortia shall | 28 |
| recruit cohorts of participants consisting of educational | 29 |
| support personnel already employed in the targeted schools, |
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| residents of the targeted community, and members of the | 2 |
| participating community-based organizations and shall enroll | 3 |
| qualified candidates in an approved course of study leading to | 4 |
| full teacher certification. | 5 |
| Section 25. Transfer credit. For consortia that include | 6 |
| both community colleges and accredited colleges of education, | 7 |
| one primary function shall be to maintain agreements on the | 8 |
| full transfer of credit within the framework of the Illinois | 9 |
| Articulation Initiative and provisions for the Associate of | 10 |
| Arts in Teaching (A.A.T.) degree. | 11 |
| Section 30. Eligible Expenses of programs. State funds | 12 |
| under this Act shall be used to assist teacher training | 13 |
| candidates within a local consortium's teacher education | 14 |
| program with tuition and related costs in obtaining their full | 15 |
| certification. Both part-time and full-time degree candidates | 16 |
| shall be eligible for this financial assistance. Tuition | 17 |
| assistance shall be in the form of forgivable student loans, | 18 |
| with forgiveness of the loans dependent on 5 years of service | 19 |
| as a fully certified teacher in the targeted hard-to-staff | 20 |
| schools or hard-to-staff positions identified by the local | 21 |
| consortium. State funds shall also be used to defray costs | 22 |
| incurred by community-based organizations, schools districts, | 23 |
| public community colleges, and public universities in | 24 |
| organizing, administering, and evaluating the consortium's | 25 |
| teacher education program. | 26 |
| Section 35. Program funding. Up to 7 local consortia | 27 |
| teacher education programs shall be granted funding under this | 28 |
| Act, including at least 4 involving City of Chicago School | 29 |
| District 299. State funds shall cover the entire cost of | 30 |
| training for a cohort, extending over 5 years. | 31 |
| Section 40. Funding sources. The State Board of Education | 32 |
| shall fund local consortia teacher education programs |
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| beginning in the 2004-2005 academic year. The State Board of | 2 |
| Education shall allocate up to $5,000,000 for these programs in | 3 |
| the 2005 fiscal year from existing funds for the State's | 4 |
| failing schools, and the General Assembly shall allocate an | 5 |
| additional $5,500,000 for the programs. Funds shall be | 6 |
| allocated in each additional year to fund new consortia or new | 7 |
| cohorts in existing consortia. | 8 |
| Section 45. Review of applications. The State Board of | 9 |
| Education shall establish a task force to establish and | 10 |
| maintain the process of application review and program | 11 |
| evaluation. | 12 |
| Section 50. Evaluation. The State Board of Education, at | 13 |
| the direction of the task force, shall evaluate the | 14 |
| implementation of all State-funded local consortia teacher | 15 |
| education programs, including analysis of program completion | 16 |
| and teacher retention rates, changes in diversity of individual | 17 |
| school and school district staffs, and the extent of school | 18 |
| district cost savings from reduced turnover. The results of | 19 |
| this evaluation shall be presented annually to the House and | 20 |
| Senate education committees of the General Assembly.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 22 |
| 2004.
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