Full Text of HB3195 97th General Assembly
HB3195 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 HB3195 Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Esther Golar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/34-8.3 | from Ch. 122, par. 34-8.3 |
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Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Chicago school district.
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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 | | 34-8.3 as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-8.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-8.3)
| 7 | | Sec. 34-8.3. Remediation and probation of attendance | 8 | | centers.
| 9 | | (a) The general superintendent shall monitor the the
| 10 | | performance of the
attendance centers within the district and | 11 | | shall
identify
attendance centers, pursuant to criteria that | 12 | | the board shall establish,
in which:
| 13 | | (1) there is a failure to develop,
implement,
or comply | 14 | | with a school improvement plan;
| 15 | | (2) there is a pervasive breakdown in the educational | 16 | | program as
indicated by factors, including, but not limited | 17 | | to, the absence of improvement
in student reading and math | 18 | | achievement scores, an increased drop-out rate, a
| 19 | | decreased graduation rate, and a decrease in rate of | 20 | | student attendance;
| 21 | | (3) (blank); or
| 22 | | (4) there is a failure or refusal to
comply with the | 23 | | provisions of this
Act, other applicable laws, collective |
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| 1 | | bargaining agreements, court orders,
or with Board rules | 2 | | which the Board is authorized to promulgate.
| 3 | | (b) If the general superintendent identifies a
| 4 | | nonperforming school
as described herein, he or she shall place | 5 | | the attendance center on
remediation by developing a | 6 | | remediation plan for the center. The purpose
of the remediation | 7 | | plan shall be to correct the deficiencies in the
performance of | 8 | | the attendance center by one or more of the following methods:
| 9 | | (1) drafting a new school improvement plan;
| 10 | | (2) applying to the board for additional funding for | 11 | | training for the
local school council;
| 12 | | (3) directing implementation of a school improvement | 13 | | plan;
| 14 | | (4) mediating disputes or other obstacles to reform or | 15 | | improvement at
the attendance center.
| 16 | | If, however, the general superintendent determines that
| 17 | | the problems
are not able to be remediated by these methods, | 18 | | the
general superintendent shall place the attendance center on | 19 | | probation.
The board shall establish guidelines that determine | 20 | | the factors for placing
an attendance center on probation.
| 21 | | (c) Each
school placed on probation shall have a school | 22 | | improvement plan
and school budget for correcting deficiencies | 23 | | identified
by the board. The plan shall
include specific steps | 24 | | that the local school council and school staff must
take to | 25 | | correct identified deficiencies and specific objective | 26 | | criteria
by which the
school's subsequent progress will be |
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| 1 | | determined.
The school budget shall include specific | 2 | | expenditures directly calculated to
correct educational and | 3 | | operational deficiencies identified at the school by
the | 4 | | probation team.
| 5 | | (d) Schools placed on probation that, after a maximum of | 6 | | one year, fail
to make
adequate progress in correcting | 7 | | deficiencies are subject to the following actions
by the | 8 | | general superintendent with the approval of the board, after
| 9 | | opportunity for a hearing:
| 10 | | (1) Ordering new local school council elections.
| 11 | | (2) Removing and replacing the principal.
| 12 | | (3) Replacement of faculty members, subject to the | 13 | | provisions
of
Section 24A-5.
| 14 | | (4) Reconstitution of the attendance center and | 15 | | replacement and
reassignment by the general superintendent | 16 | | of all employees of the attendance
center.
| 17 | | (5) Intervention under Section 34-8.4.
| 18 | | (5.5) Operating an attendance center as a contract | 19 | | turnaround school.
| 20 | | (6) Closing of the school.
| 21 | | (e) Schools placed on probation shall remain on probation | 22 | | from year to
year until deficiencies are corrected, even if | 23 | | such schools make acceptable
annual progress.
The board shall | 24 | | establish, in writing, criteria for determining whether or
not | 25 | | a school shall remain on probation. If academic achievement | 26 | | tests are used
as the factor for placing a school on probation, |
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| 1 | | the general superintendent
shall consider objective criteria, | 2 | | not just an increase in test scores, in
deciding whether or not | 3 | | a school shall remain on probation. These criteria
shall | 4 | | include attendance, test scores, student mobility rates, | 5 | | poverty rates,
bilingual education eligibility, special | 6 | | education, and English language
proficiency programs, with | 7 | | progress made in these areas being taken into
consideration in | 8 | | deciding whether or not a school shall remain on probation.
| 9 | | (f) Where the board
has reason to believe that violations | 10 | | of
civil rights, or of civil or criminal law have occurred, or | 11 | | when the general
superintendent deems that the school is in | 12 | | educational crisis it may take
immediate corrective action, | 13 | | including the actions specified in this Section,
without first | 14 | | placing the school on remediation or probation. Nothing
| 15 | | described herein shall limit the authority of the board as | 16 | | provided by any law
of this State. The board shall
develop | 17 | | criteria governing the determination regarding when a school is | 18 | | in
educational crisis.
| 19 | | (g) All persons serving as subdistrict superintendent on | 20 | | May 1, 1995 shall
be deemed by operation of law to be serving | 21 | | under a performance contract which
expires on June 30, 1995, | 22 | | and the employment of each such person as subdistrict
| 23 | | superintendent shall terminate on June 30, 1995. The board | 24 | | shall have no
obligation to compensate any such person as a | 25 | | subdistrict superintendent after
June 30, 1995.
| 26 | | (h) The general superintendent shall, in
consultation with |
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| 1 | | local
school councils, conduct an annual evaluation of each | 2 | | principal in the
district pursuant to guidelines promulgated by | 3 | | the Board of
Education.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 96-105, eff. 7-30-09.)
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