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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 Sections | 5 |
| 1A-8, 2-3.11d, 2-3.13a, 2-3.25g, 2-3.103, 14C-1, 21-7.1, | 6 |
| 24A-4, 24A-5, 24A-7, and 26-2a as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/1A-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 1A-8)
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| Sec. 1A-8. Powers of the Board in Assisting Districts | 9 |
| Deemed in Financial
Difficulties. To promote the financial | 10 |
| integrity of school districts, the
State Board of Education | 11 |
| shall be provided the necessary powers to promote
sound | 12 |
| financial management and continue operation of the public | 13 |
| schools.
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| The State Superintendent of Education may require a school | 15 |
| district, including any district subject to Article 34A of this | 16 |
| Code, to share financial information relevant to a proper | 17 |
| investigation of the district's financial condition and the | 18 |
| delivery of appropriate State financial, technical, and | 19 |
| consulting services to the district if the district (i) has | 20 |
| been designated, through the State Board of Education's School | 21 |
| District Financial Profile System, as on financial warning or | 22 |
| financial watch status, (ii) has failed to file an annual | 23 |
| financial report, annual budget, deficit reduction plan, or |
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| other financial information as required by law, or (iii) has | 2 |
| been identified, through the district's annual audit or other | 3 |
| financial and management information, as in serious financial | 4 |
| difficulty in the current or next school year , or (iv) is | 5 |
| determined to be likely to fail to fully meet any regularly | 6 |
| scheduled, payroll-period obligations when due or any debt | 7 |
| service payments when due or both . In addition to financial, | 8 |
| technical, and consulting services provided by the State Board | 9 |
| of Education, at the request of a school district, the State | 10 |
| Superintendent may provide for an independent financial | 11 |
| consultant to assist the district review its financial | 12 |
| condition and options.
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| The State Board of Education, after proper investigation of | 14 |
| a district's
financial condition, may certify that a district, | 15 |
| including any district
subject to Article 34A, is in financial | 16 |
| difficulty
when any of the following conditions occur:
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| (1) The district has issued school or teacher orders | 18 |
| for wages as permitted in Sections
8-16, 32-7.2 and 34-76 | 19 |
| of this Code . ;
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| (2) The district has issued tax anticipation warrants | 21 |
| or tax
anticipation notes in anticipation of a second | 22 |
| year's taxes when warrants or
notes in anticipation of | 23 |
| current year taxes are still outstanding, as
authorized by | 24 |
| Sections 17-16, 34-23, 34-59 and 34-63 of this Code, or has | 25 |
| issued short-term debt against 2 future revenue sources, | 26 |
| such as, but not limited to, tax anticipation warrants and |
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| general State Aid certificates or tax anticipation | 2 |
| warrants and revenue anticipation notes . ;
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| (3) The district has for 2 consecutive years shown an | 4 |
| excess
of expenditures and other financing uses over | 5 |
| revenues and other financing
sources and beginning fund | 6 |
| balances on its annual financial report for the
aggregate | 7 |
| totals of the Educational, Operations and Maintenance,
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| Transportation, and Working Cash Funds . ;
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| (4) The district refuses to provide financial | 10 |
| information or cooperate with the State Superintendent in | 11 |
| an investigation of the district's financial condition. | 12 |
| (5) The district is likely to fail to fully meet any | 13 |
| regularly scheduled, payroll-period obligations when due | 14 |
| or any debt service payments when due or both.
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| No school district shall be certified by the State Board of | 16 |
| Education to be in financial difficulty solely by
reason of any | 17 |
| of the above circumstances arising as a result of (i) the | 18 |
| failure
of the county to make any distribution of property tax | 19 |
| money due the district
at the time such distribution is due or | 20 |
| (ii) the failure of this State to make timely payments of | 21 |
| general State aid or any of the mandated categoricals; or if | 22 |
| the district clearly demonstrates
to the satisfaction of the | 23 |
| State Board of Education at the time of its
determination that | 24 |
| such condition no longer exists. If the State Board of
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| Education certifies that a district in a city with 500,000 | 26 |
| inhabitants or
more is in financial difficulty, the State Board |
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| shall so notify the
Governor and the Mayor of the city in which | 2 |
| the district is located. The
State Board of Education may | 3 |
| require school districts certified in
financial difficulty, | 4 |
| except those districts subject to Article 34A, to
develop, | 5 |
| adopt and submit a financial plan within 45 days after
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| certification of financial difficulty. The financial plan | 7 |
| shall be
developed according to guidelines presented to the | 8 |
| district by the State
Board of Education within 14 days of | 9 |
| certification. Such guidelines shall
address the specific | 10 |
| nature of each district's financial difficulties. Any
proposed | 11 |
| budget of the district shall be consistent with the financial | 12 |
| plan
submitted to and
approved by the State Board of Education.
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| A district certified to be in financial difficulty, other | 14 |
| than a district
subject to Article 34A, shall report to the | 15 |
| State Board of Education at
such times and in such manner as | 16 |
| the State Board may direct, concerning the
district's | 17 |
| compliance with each financial plan. The State Board may review
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| the district's operations, obtain budgetary data and financial | 19 |
| statements,
require the district to produce reports, and have | 20 |
| access to any other
information in the possession of the | 21 |
| district that it deems relevant. The
State Board may issue | 22 |
| recommendations or directives within its powers to
the district | 23 |
| to assist in compliance with the financial plan. The district
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| shall produce such budgetary data, financial statements, | 25 |
| reports and other
information and comply with such directives. | 26 |
| If the State Board of Education
determines that a district has |
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| failed to comply with its financial plan, the
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| Education may rescind approval of the plan and appoint a
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| Financial Oversight Panel for the district as provided in | 4 |
| Section 1B-4. This
action shall be taken only after the | 5 |
| district has been given notice and an
opportunity to appear | 6 |
| before the State Board of Education to discuss its
failure to | 7 |
| comply with its financial plan.
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| No bonds, notes, teachers orders, tax anticipation | 9 |
| warrants or other
evidences of indebtedness shall be issued or | 10 |
| sold by a school district or
be legally binding upon or | 11 |
| enforceable against a local board of education
of a district | 12 |
| certified to be in financial difficulty unless and until the
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| financial plan required under this Section has been approved by | 14 |
| the State
Board of Education.
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| Any financial profile compiled and distributed by the State | 16 |
| Board of Education in Fiscal Year 2009 or any fiscal year | 17 |
| thereafter
shall incorporate such adjustments as may be needed | 18 |
| in the profile scores to reflect the financial effects of the
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| inability or refusal of the State of Illinois to make timely
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| disbursements of any general State aid or mandated categorical | 21 |
| aid payments due school districts or to fully reimburse
school | 22 |
| districts for mandated categorical programs pursuant to
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| reimbursement formulas provided in this School Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 96-668, eff. 8-25-09.)
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.11d) |
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| Sec. 2-3.11d. Data on tests required for teacher | 2 |
| preparation and certification. Beginning with the effective | 3 |
| date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, to | 4 |
| collect and maintain all of the following data for each | 5 |
| institution of higher education engaged in teacher preparation | 6 |
| in this State: | 7 |
| (1) The number of individuals taking the test of basic | 8 |
| skills under Section 21-1a of this Code. | 9 |
| (2) The number of individuals passing the test of basic | 10 |
| skills under Section 21-1a of this Code. | 11 |
| (3) The total number of subject-matter tests attempted | 12 |
| under Section 21-1a of this Code. | 13 |
| (4) The total number of subject-matter tests passed | 14 |
| under Section 21-1a of this Code. | 15 |
| The data regarding subject-matter tests shall be reported in | 16 |
| sum, rather than by separately listing each subject, in order | 17 |
| to better protect the identity of the test-takers. | 18 |
| On or before August 1, 2007, the State Board of Education | 19 |
| shall file with the General Assembly and the Governor and shall | 20 |
| make available to the public a report listing the institutions | 21 |
| of higher education engaged in teacher preparation in this | 22 |
| State, along with the data listed in items (1) and (2) of this | 23 |
| Section pertinent to each institution. | 24 |
| On or before October 1, 2012 August 1, 2009 and every 3 | 25 |
| years thereafter, the State Board of Education shall file with | 26 |
| the General Assembly and the Governor and shall make available |
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| to the public a report listing the institutions of higher | 2 |
| education engaged in teacher preparation in this State, along | 3 |
| with the data listed in items (1) through (4) of this Section | 4 |
| pertinent to each institution.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-935, eff. 6-26-06.) | 6 |
| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.13a) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.13a) | 7 |
| Sec. 2-3.13a. School records; transferring students. | 8 |
| (a) The State
Board of Education shall establish and | 9 |
| implement rules requiring all of the
public schools and all | 10 |
| private or nonpublic elementary and secondary
schools located | 11 |
| in this State, whenever any such school has a student who
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| transferring to any other public elementary or secondary school | 13 |
| located in
this or in any other state, to forward within 10 | 14 |
| days of notice of the
student's transfer an unofficial record | 15 |
| of that student's grades to the school
to which such student is | 16 |
| transferring. Each public school at the same time
also shall | 17 |
| forward to the school to which the student is transferring the
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| remainder of the student's school student records as required | 19 |
| by the Illinois
School Student Records Act.
In addition, if a | 20 |
| student is transferring from a public school, whether
located | 21 |
| in this or any other state, from which the
student has been | 22 |
| suspended or expelled for knowingly possessing in a school
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| building or on school grounds a weapon as defined in the Gun | 24 |
| Free Schools Act
(20 U.S.C. 8921 et seq.), for knowingly | 25 |
| possessing, selling, or delivering in
a school building or on |
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| school grounds a controlled substance or cannabis, or
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| battering a staff member of the school, and
if the period of | 3 |
| suspension or expulsion has not expired at the time the
student | 4 |
| attempts to transfer into another public school in the same or | 5 |
| any
other school district: (i) any school student records | 6 |
| required to be
transferred shall include the date and duration | 7 |
| of the period of suspension or
expulsion; and (ii) with the | 8 |
| exception of transfers into the Department of
Juvenile Justice | 9 |
| school district, the student shall not be permitted to attend
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| class in the
public school into which he or she is transferring | 11 |
| until the student has served
the entire period of the | 12 |
| suspension or expulsion imposed by the school from
which the | 13 |
| student is transferring, provided that the school board may | 14 |
| approve
the placement of the student in an alternative school | 15 |
| program established under
Article 13A of this Code.
A school | 16 |
| district may adopt a policy providing that if a student is
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| suspended or expelled for any reason from any public or private | 18 |
| school in
this or any other state, the student must complete | 19 |
| the entire term of the
suspension or expulsion before being | 20 |
| admitted into the school district.
This policy may allow | 21 |
| placement of the student in an alternative school
program | 22 |
| established under Article 13A of this Code, if available, for | 23 |
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remainder of
the suspension or expulsion.
Each public | 24 |
| school
and each private or nonpublic elementary or secondary | 25 |
| school in this State
shall within 10 days after the student has | 26 |
| paid all of his or her
outstanding fines and fees and at its |
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| own expense forward an official
transcript of the scholastic | 2 |
| records of each student transferring from that
school in strict | 3 |
| accordance with the provisions of this Section and the rules
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| established by the State Board of Education as herein provided. | 5 |
| (b) The State Board of Education shall develop a one-page | 6 |
| standard form that
Illinois school districts are required to | 7 |
| provide to any student who is
moving out of
the school district | 8 |
| and that
contains the information about whether or not the
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| student is "in good standing" and whether or not his or her | 10 |
| medical records are
up-to-date and complete. As used in this | 11 |
| Section, "in good standing" means
that the student is not being | 12 |
| disciplined by a suspension or expulsion, but is
entitled to | 13 |
| attend classes. No school district is required to admit a new
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| student who is transferring from another Illinois school | 15 |
| district unless he
or she can produce the standard form from | 16 |
| the student's
previous school district enrollment.
No school | 17 |
| district is required to admit a new student who is transferring
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| from an out-of-state public school unless the parent or | 19 |
| guardian of the
student certifies in writing that the student | 20 |
| is not currently serving a
suspension or expulsion imposed by | 21 |
| the school from which the student is
transferring. | 22 |
| (c) The State Board of Education shall, by rule, establish | 23 |
| a system to provide for the accurate tracking of transfer | 24 |
| students. This system shall, at a minimum, require that a | 25 |
| student be counted as a dropout in the calculation of a | 26 |
| school's or school district's annual student dropout rate |
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| unless the school or school district to which the student | 2 |
| transferred (known hereafter in this subsection (c) as the | 3 |
| transferee school or school district) sends notification to the | 4 |
| school or school district from which the student transferred | 5 |
| (known hereafter in this subsection (c) as the transferor | 6 |
| school or school district) documenting that the student has | 7 |
| enrolled in the transferee school or school district. This | 8 |
| notification must occur on or before July 31 following the | 9 |
| school year during which the student within 150 days after the | 10 |
| date the student withdraws from the transferor school or school | 11 |
| district or the student shall be counted in the calculation of | 12 |
| the transferor school's or school district's annual student | 13 |
| dropout rate. A request by the transferee school or school | 14 |
| district to the transferor school or school district seeking | 15 |
| the student's academic transcripts or medical records shall be | 16 |
| considered without limitation adequate documentation of | 17 |
| enrollment. Each transferor school or school district shall | 18 |
| keep documentation of such transfer students for the minimum | 19 |
| period provided in the Illinois School Student Records Act. All | 20 |
| records indicating the school or school district to which a | 21 |
| student transferred are subject to the Illinois School Student | 22 |
| Records Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-859, eff. 1-1-05; 94-696, eff. 6-1-06 .) | 24 |
| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25g) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25g) | 25 |
| Sec. 2-3.25g. Waiver or modification of mandates within the |
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| School
Code and administrative rules and regulations. | 2 |
| (a) In this Section: | 3 |
| "Board" means a school board or the governing board or | 4 |
| administrative district, as the case may be, for a joint | 5 |
| agreement. | 6 |
| "Eligible applicant" means a school district, joint | 7 |
| agreement made up of school districts, or regional | 8 |
| superintendent of schools on behalf of schools and programs | 9 |
| operated by the regional office of education.
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| "Implementation date" has the meaning set forth in | 11 |
| Section 24A-2.5 of this Code. | 12 |
| "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
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| (b) Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this School | 14 |
| Code or any other law of this State to the
contrary, eligible | 15 |
| applicants may petition the State Board of Education for the
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| waiver or modification of the mandates of this School Code or | 17 |
| of the
administrative rules and regulations promulgated by the | 18 |
| State Board of
Education. Waivers or modifications of | 19 |
| administrative rules and regulations
and modifications of | 20 |
| mandates of this School Code may be requested when an eligible | 21 |
| applicant demonstrates that it can address the intent of the | 22 |
| rule or
mandate in a more effective, efficient, or economical | 23 |
| manner or when necessary
to stimulate innovation or improve | 24 |
| student performance. Waivers of
mandates of
the School Code may | 25 |
| be requested when the waivers are necessary to stimulate
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| innovation or improve student performance. Waivers may not be |
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| requested
from laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to | 2 |
| special education, teacher
certification, teacher tenure and | 3 |
| seniority, or Section 5-2.1 of this Code or from compliance | 4 |
| with the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110). | 5 |
| On and after the applicable implementation date, eligible | 6 |
| applicants may not seek a waiver or seek a modification of a | 7 |
| mandate regarding the requirements for (i) student performance | 8 |
| data to be a significant factor in teacher or principal | 9 |
| evaluations or (ii) for teachers and principals to be rated | 10 |
| using the 4 categories of "excellent", "proficient", "needs | 11 |
| improvement", or "unsatisfactory". On the applicable | 12 |
| implementation date, any previously authorized waiver or | 13 |
| modification from such requirements shall terminate. | 14 |
| (c) Eligible applicants, as a matter of inherent managerial | 15 |
| policy, and any
Independent Authority established under | 16 |
| Section 2-3.25f may submit an
application for a waiver or | 17 |
| modification authorized under this Section. Each
application | 18 |
| must include a written request by the eligible applicant or
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| Independent Authority and must demonstrate that the intent of | 20 |
| the mandate can
be addressed in a more effective, efficient, or | 21 |
| economical manner
or be based
upon a specific plan for improved | 22 |
| student performance and school improvement.
Any eligible | 23 |
| applicant requesting a waiver or modification for the reason | 24 |
| that intent
of the mandate can be addressed in a more | 25 |
| economical manner shall include in
the application a fiscal | 26 |
| analysis showing current expenditures on the mandate
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| projected savings resulting from the waiver
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| Applications
and plans developed by eligible applicants must be | 3 |
| approved by the board or regional superintendent of schools | 4 |
| applying on behalf of schools or programs operated by the | 5 |
| regional office of education following a public hearing on the | 6 |
| application and plan and the
opportunity for the board or | 7 |
| regional superintendent to hear testimony from staff
directly | 8 |
| involved in
its implementation, parents, and students. The time | 9 |
| period for such testimony shall be separate from the time | 10 |
| period established by the eligible applicant for public comment | 11 |
| on other matters. If the applicant is a school district or | 12 |
| joint agreement requesting a waiver or modification of Section | 13 |
| 27-6 of this Code, the public hearing shall be held on a day | 14 |
| other than the day on which a regular meeting of the board is | 15 |
| held. If the applicant is a school district, the
public hearing | 16 |
| must be preceded
by at least one published notice occurring at | 17 |
| least 7 days prior to the hearing
in a newspaper of general | 18 |
| circulation within the school district that sets
forth the | 19 |
| time, date, place, and general subject matter of the hearing. | 20 |
| If the applicant is a joint agreement or regional | 21 |
| superintendent, the public hearing must be preceded by at least | 22 |
| one published notice (setting forth the time, date, place, and | 23 |
| general subject matter of the hearing) occurring at least 7 | 24 |
| days prior to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation | 25 |
| in each school district that is a member of the joint agreement | 26 |
| or that is served by the educational service region, provided |
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| that a notice appearing in a newspaper generally circulated in | 2 |
| more than one school district shall be deemed to fulfill this | 3 |
| requirement with respect to all of the affected districts. The
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| eligible applicant must notify in writing the affected | 5 |
| exclusive collective
bargaining agent and those State | 6 |
| legislators representing the eligible applicant's territory of
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| its
intent to seek approval of a
waiver or
modification and of | 8 |
| the hearing to be held to take testimony from staff.
The | 9 |
| affected exclusive collective bargaining agents shall be | 10 |
| notified of such
public hearing at least 7 days prior to the | 11 |
| date of the hearing and shall be
allowed to attend
such public | 12 |
| hearing. The eligible applicant shall attest to compliance with | 13 |
| all of
the notification and procedural requirements set forth | 14 |
| in this Section. | 15 |
| (d) A request for a waiver or modification of | 16 |
| administrative rules and
regulations or for a modification of | 17 |
| mandates contained in this School Code
shall be submitted to | 18 |
| the State Board of Education within 15 days after
approval by | 19 |
| the board or regional superintendent of schools. The | 20 |
| application as submitted to the
State Board of Education shall | 21 |
| include a description of the public hearing.
Following receipt | 22 |
| of the request, the
State Board shall have 45 days to review | 23 |
| the application and request. If the
State Board fails to | 24 |
| disapprove the application within that 45 day period, the
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| waiver or modification shall be deemed granted. The State Board
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| may disapprove
any request if it is not based upon sound |
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| educational practices, endangers the
health or safety of | 2 |
| students or staff, compromises equal opportunities for
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| learning, or fails to demonstrate that the intent of the rule | 4 |
| or mandate can be
addressed in a more effective, efficient, or | 5 |
| economical manner or have improved
student performance as a | 6 |
| primary goal. Any request disapproved by the State
Board may be | 7 |
| appealed to the General Assembly by the eligible applicant
as | 8 |
| outlined in this Section. | 9 |
| A request for a waiver from mandates contained in this | 10 |
| School Code shall be
submitted to the State Board within 15 | 11 |
| days after approval by the board or regional superintendent of | 12 |
| schools.
The application as submitted to the State Board of | 13 |
| Education
shall include a description of the public hearing. | 14 |
| The description shall
include, but need not be limited to, the | 15 |
| means of notice, the number of people
in attendance, the number | 16 |
| of people who spoke as proponents or opponents of the
waiver, a | 17 |
| brief description of their comments, and whether there were any
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| written statements submitted.
The State Board shall review the | 19 |
| applications and requests for
completeness and shall compile | 20 |
| the requests in reports to be filed with the
General Assembly.
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| The State Board shall file
reports outlining the waivers
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| requested by eligible applicants
and appeals by eligible | 23 |
| applicants of requests
disapproved by the State Board with the | 24 |
| Senate and the House of
Representatives before each March 1 and
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| October
1. The General Assembly may disapprove the report of | 26 |
| the State Board in whole
or in part within 60 calendar days |
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| after each house of the General Assembly
next
convenes after | 2 |
| the report is filed by adoption of a resolution by a record | 3 |
| vote
of the majority of members elected in each house. If the | 4 |
| General Assembly
fails to disapprove any waiver request or | 5 |
| appealed request within such 60
day period, the waiver or | 6 |
| modification shall be deemed granted. Any resolution
adopted by | 7 |
| the General Assembly disapproving a report of the State Board | 8 |
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whole or in part shall be binding on the State Board. | 9 |
| (e) An approved waiver or modification (except a waiver | 10 |
| from or modification to a physical education mandate) may | 11 |
| remain in effect for a period not to
exceed 5 school years and | 12 |
| may be renewed upon application by the
eligible applicant. | 13 |
| However, such waiver or modification may be changed within that
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| 5-year period by a board or regional superintendent of schools | 15 |
| applying on behalf of schools or programs operated by the | 16 |
| regional office of education following the procedure as set
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| forth in this Section for the initial waiver or modification | 18 |
| request. If
neither the State Board of Education nor the | 19 |
| General Assembly disapproves, the
change is deemed granted. | 20 |
| An approved waiver from or modification to a physical | 21 |
| education mandate may remain in effect for a period not to | 22 |
| exceed 2 school years and may be renewed no more than 2 times | 23 |
| upon application by the eligible applicant. An approved waiver | 24 |
| from or modification to a physical education mandate may be | 25 |
| changed within the 2-year period by the board or regional | 26 |
| superintendent of schools, whichever is applicable, following |
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| the procedure set forth in this Section for the initial waiver | 2 |
| or modification request. If neither the State Board of | 3 |
| Education nor the General Assembly disapproves, the change is | 4 |
| deemed granted.
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| (f) (Blank). On or before February 1, 1998, and each year | 6 |
| thereafter, the State Board of
Education shall submit a | 7 |
| cumulative report summarizing all types of waivers of
mandates | 8 |
| and modifications of mandates granted by the State Board or the
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| General Assembly. The report shall identify the topic of the | 10 |
| waiver along with
the number and percentage of eligible | 11 |
| applicants for which the waiver has been
granted. The report | 12 |
| shall also include any recommendations from the State
Board | 13 |
| regarding the repeal or modification of waived mandates. | 14 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-223, eff. 1-1-08; 96-861, eff. 1-15-10.) | 15 |
| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.103) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.103) | 16 |
| Sec. 2-3.103. Salary and benefit survey. For each
school | 17 |
| year commencing on or after January 1, 1992, the State Board
of | 18 |
| Education shall conduct, in each school district, a school | 19 |
| district
salary and benefits survey covering the district's | 20 |
| certificated and
educational support personnel. However, the | 21 |
| collection of information covering educational support | 22 |
| personnel must be limited to districts with 1,000 or more | 23 |
| students enrolled. | 24 |
| A survey form shall be developed and furnished by the State | 25 |
| Board of
Education to each school district on or before October |
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| 1 within 30 days after the commencement of
the school year | 2 |
| covered by the survey, and each school district shall submit a | 3 |
| completed
complete and return the survey form to the State | 4 |
| Board of Education on or before February 1 of the school year | 5 |
| covered by the survey within
the succeeding 30 day period . | 6 |
| The State Board of Education shall compile, by April 30 of | 7 |
| the school
year covered by the survey, a statewide salary and | 8 |
| benefit survey report
based upon the surveys survey forms | 9 |
| completed and submitted returned for that school year by
the | 10 |
| individual school districts as required by this Section, and | 11 |
| shall make
the survey report available to all school districts | 12 |
| and to all "employee
organizations" as defined in Section 2 of | 13 |
| the Illinois Educational Labor
Relations Act. | 14 |
| The data required to be reported by each school district on | 15 |
| the salary
and benefits survey form developed and furnished | 16 |
| under this Section for the
school year covered by the survey | 17 |
| shall include, but shall not be limited
to, the following: | 18 |
| (1) the district's estimated fall enrollment; | 19 |
| (2) with respect to both its certificated and | 20 |
| educational support personnel employees: | 21 |
| (A) whether the district has a salary schedule, | 22 |
| salary policy but no
salary schedule, or no salary | 23 |
| policy and no salary schedule; | 24 |
| (B) when each such salary schedule or policy of the | 25 |
| district was or will be adopted; | 26 |
| (C) whether there is a negotiated agreement |
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| between the school board
and any teacher, educational | 2 |
| support personnel or other employee
organization and, | 3 |
| if so, the affiliation of the local of such | 4 |
| organization,
together with the month and year of | 5 |
| expiration of the negotiated agreement
and whether it | 6 |
| contains a fair share provision; and if there is no | 7 |
| such
negotiated agreement but the district does have a | 8 |
| salary schedule or
policy, a brief explanation of the | 9 |
| manner in which each such salary
schedule or policy was | 10 |
| developed prior to its adoption by the school board,
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| including a statement of whether any meetings between | 12 |
| the school board and
the superintendent leading up to | 13 |
| adoption of the salary schedule or policy
were based | 14 |
| upon, or were conducted without any discussions | 15 |
| between the
superintendent and the affected teachers, | 16 |
| educational support personnel or
other employees; | 17 |
| (D) whether the district's salary program, | 18 |
| policies or provisions are
based upon merit or | 19 |
| performance evaluation of individual teachers,
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| educational support personnel or other employees, and | 21 |
| whether they include:
severance pay provisions; early | 22 |
| retirement incentives; sick leave bank
provisions; | 23 |
| sick leave accumulation provisions and, if so, to how | 24 |
| many
days; personal, business or emergency leave with | 25 |
| pay and, if so, the number
of days; or direct | 26 |
| reimbursement in whole or in part for expenses, such as
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| tuition and materials, incurred in acquiring | 2 |
| additional college credit; | 3 |
| (E) whether school board paid or tax sheltered | 4 |
| retirement contributions
are included in any existing | 5 |
| salary schedule or policy of the school
district; what | 6 |
| percent (if any) of the salary of each different | 7 |
| certified
and educational support personnel employee | 8 |
| classification (using the
employee salary which | 9 |
| reflects the highest regularly scheduled step in that
| 10 |
| classification on the salary schedule or policy of the | 11 |
| district) is school
board paid to an employee | 12 |
| retirement system; the highest scheduled salary
and | 13 |
| the level of education or training required to reach | 14 |
| the highest
scheduled salary in each certified and | 15 |
| educational support personnel
employee classification; | 16 |
| using annual salaries from the school board's
salary | 17 |
| schedule or policy for each certified and educational | 18 |
| support
personnel employee classification (and | 19 |
| excluding from such salaries items
of individual | 20 |
| compensation resulting from extra-curricular duties,
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| employment beyond the regular school year and | 22 |
| longevity service pay, but
including additional | 23 |
| compensation such as grants and cost of living bonuses
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| that are received by all employees in a classification | 25 |
| or by all employees
in a classification who are at the | 26 |
| maximum experience level), the
beginning, maximum and |
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| specified intermediate salaries reported to an
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| employee retirement system (including school board | 3 |
| paid or tax sheltered
retirement contributions, but | 4 |
| excluding fringe benefits) for
each educational or | 5 |
| training category within each certified and | 6 |
| educational
support personnel employee classification; | 7 |
| and the completed years of
experience required to reach | 8 |
| such maximum regularly scheduled and highest
scheduled | 9 |
| salaries; | 10 |
| (F) whether the school district provides longevity | 11 |
| pay beyond the last
annual regular salary increase | 12 |
| available under the district's salary
schedule or | 13 |
| policy; and if so, the maximum earnings with longevity | 14 |
| for each
educational or training category specified by | 15 |
| the State Board of Education
in its survey form (based | 16 |
| on salary reported to an employee's retirement
system, | 17 |
| including school board paid and tax sheltered | 18 |
| retirement
contributions, but excluding fringe | 19 |
| benefits, and with maximum longevity
step numbers and | 20 |
| completed years of experience computed as provided in
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| the survey form); | 22 |
| (G) for each dental, disability, hospitalization, | 23 |
| life, prescription or
vision insurance plan, cafeteria | 24 |
| plan or other fringe benefit plan
sponsored by the | 25 |
| school board: (i) a statement of whether such plan is
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| available to full time teachers or other certificated |
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| personnel covered by
a district salary schedule or | 2 |
| policy, whether such plan is available to
full time | 3 |
| educational support personnel covered by a district | 4 |
| salary
schedule or policy, and whether all full time | 5 |
| employees to whom coverage
under such plan is available | 6 |
| are entitled to receive the same benefits
under that | 7 |
| plan; and (ii) the total annual cost of coverage under | 8 |
| that plan
for a covered full time employee who is at | 9 |
| the highest regularly
scheduled step on the salary | 10 |
| schedule or policy of the district applicable
to such | 11 |
| employee, the percent of that total annual cost paid by | 12 |
| the
school board, the total annual cost of coverage | 13 |
| under that plan for the
family of that employee, and | 14 |
| the percent of that total annual cost for
family | 15 |
| coverage paid by the school board. | 16 |
| In addition, each school district shall provide attach to | 17 |
| the completed
survey form which it returns to the State Board | 18 |
| of Education , on or before February 1 of the school year | 19 |
| covered by the survey, as required by
this Section , a copy of | 20 |
| each salary schedule, salary policy and negotiated
agreement | 21 |
| which is identified or otherwise referred to in the completed | 22 |
| survey form. | 23 |
| (Source: P.A. 87-547; 87-895.) | 24 |
| (105 ILCS 5/14C-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 14C-1) | 25 |
| Sec. 14C-1. The General Assembly finds that there are large |
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| numbers of children in
this State who come from environments | 2 |
| where the primary language is other
than English. Experience | 3 |
| has shown that public school classes in which
instruction is | 4 |
| given only in English are often inadequate for the education
of | 5 |
| children whose native tongue is another language. The General | 6 |
| Assembly
believes that a program of transitional bilingual | 7 |
| education can meet the
needs of these children and facilitate | 8 |
| their integration into the regular
public school curriculum. | 9 |
| Therefore, pursuant to the policy of this State
to insure equal | 10 |
| educational opportunity to every child, and in recognition
of | 11 |
| the educational needs of children of limited English-speaking | 12 |
| ability, it is the purpose of this Act to provide for the | 13 |
| establishment of
transitional bilingual education programs in | 14 |
| the public schools, and to
provide supplemental financial | 15 |
| assistance to help local school districts
meet the extra costs | 16 |
| of such programs , and to allow this State to directly or | 17 |
| indirectly provide technical assistance and professional | 18 |
| development to support transitional bilingual education | 19 |
| programs statewide . | 20 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07 .) | 21 |
| (105 ILCS 5/21-7.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1) | 22 |
| Sec. 21-7.1. Administrative certificate. | 23 |
| (a) After July 1, 1999, an administrative
certificate valid | 24 |
| for 5
years of supervising and administering in the public | 25 |
| common schools (unless
changed under subsection (a-5) of this |
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| Section) may be
issued to persons who have graduated from a | 2 |
| regionally accredited institution
of higher learning with a | 3 |
| master's degree or its equivalent and who have been recommended | 4 |
| by a
recognized institution of higher learning as having | 5 |
| completed a program of
preparation for one or more of these | 6 |
| endorsements. Such programs of
academic and professional | 7 |
| preparation required for endorsement shall be
administered by | 8 |
| the institution in accordance with standards set forth by
the | 9 |
| State Superintendent of Education in consultation with the | 10 |
| State
Teacher Certification Board. | 11 |
| (a-5) Beginning July 1, 2003, if an administrative | 12 |
| certificate holder
holds a Standard Teaching Certificate, the | 13 |
| validity period of the
administrative certificate shall be | 14 |
| changed, if necessary, so that the
validity period of the | 15 |
| administrative certificate coincides with the validity
period | 16 |
| of the Standard Teaching Certificate. Beginning July 1, 2003, | 17 |
| if
an administrative certificate holder holds a Master Teaching | 18 |
| Certificate,
the validity period of the administrative | 19 |
| certificate shall be changed so
that the validity period of the | 20 |
| administrative certificate coincides with the
validity period | 21 |
| of the Master Teaching Certificate. | 22 |
| (b) No administrative certificate shall be issued for the | 23 |
| first time
after June 30, 1987 and no endorsement provided for | 24 |
| by this Section shall
be made or affixed to an administrative | 25 |
| certificate for the first time
after June 30, 1987 unless the | 26 |
| person to whom such administrative
certificate is to be issued |
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| or to whose administrative certificate such
endorsement is to | 2 |
| be affixed has been required to demonstrate as a part of
a | 3 |
| program of academic or professional preparation for such | 4 |
| certification or
endorsement: (i) an understanding of the | 5 |
| knowledge called for in
establishing productive parent-school | 6 |
| relationships and of the procedures
fostering the involvement | 7 |
| which such relationships demand; and (ii) an
understanding of | 8 |
| the knowledge required for establishing a high quality
school | 9 |
| climate and promoting good classroom organization and | 10 |
| management,
including rules of conduct and instructional | 11 |
| procedures appropriate to
accomplishing the tasks of | 12 |
| schooling; and (iii) a demonstration of the
knowledge and | 13 |
| skills called for in providing instructional leadership. The
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| standards for demonstrating an understanding of such knowledge | 15 |
| shall be set
forth by the State Board of Education in | 16 |
| consultation with the
State Teacher Certification Board, and | 17 |
| shall be administered by the
recognized institutions of higher | 18 |
| learning as part of the programs of
academic and professional | 19 |
| preparation required for certification and
endorsement under | 20 |
| this Section. As used in this subsection: "establishing
| 21 |
| productive parent-school relationships" means the ability to | 22 |
| maintain
effective communication between parents and school | 23 |
| personnel, to encourage
parental involvement in schooling, and | 24 |
| to motivate school personnel to
engage parents in encouraging | 25 |
| student achievement, including the
development of programs and | 26 |
| policies which serve to accomplish this
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| "establishing a high quality school climate" means the ability
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| to promote academic achievement, to maintain discipline, to | 3 |
| recognize
substance abuse problems among students and utilize | 4 |
| appropriate law
enforcement and other community resources to | 5 |
| address these problems, to support
teachers and students in | 6 |
| their education endeavors, to establish learning
objectives | 7 |
| and to provide instructional leadership, including the
| 8 |
| development of policies and programs which serve to accomplish | 9 |
| this
purpose; and "providing instructional leadership" means | 10 |
| the ability to
effectively evaluate school personnel, to | 11 |
| possess general communication and
interpersonal skills, and to | 12 |
| establish and maintain appropriate classroom
learning | 13 |
| environments. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply | 14 |
| to
or affect the initial issuance or making on or before June | 15 |
| 30, 1987 of any
administrative certificate or endorsement | 16 |
| provided for under this Section,
nor shall such provisions | 17 |
| apply to or affect the renewal after June 30, 1987
of any such | 18 |
| certificate or endorsement initially issued or made on or | 19 |
| before
June 30, 1987. | 20 |
| (c) Administrative certificates shall be renewed every 5 | 21 |
| years
with
the first renewal being 5 years following the | 22 |
| initial receipt of
an
administrative certificate, unless the | 23 |
| validity period for the administrative
certificate has been
| 24 |
| changed under subsection (a-5) of this Section, in which case | 25 |
| the
certificate shall be renewed at the same time that the | 26 |
| Standard or Master
Teaching Certificate is renewed. |
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| (c-5) Before July 1, 2003, renewal requirements for | 2 |
| administrators
whose
positions require certification shall be | 3 |
| based upon evidence of continuing
professional education which | 4 |
| promotes the following goals: (1)
improving
administrators' | 5 |
| knowledge of instructional practices and administrative
| 6 |
| procedures; (2) maintaining the basic level of competence | 7 |
| required
for
initial certification; and (3) improving the | 8 |
| mastery of skills and
knowledge regarding the improvement of | 9 |
| teaching performance in clinical
settings and assessment of the | 10 |
| levels of student performance in their schools.
Evidence of | 11 |
| continuing professional education must include verification of
| 12 |
| biennial attendance in a program developed by the Illinois | 13 |
| Administrators'
Academy and verification of annual | 14 |
| participation in a school district approved
activity which | 15 |
| contributes to continuing professional education. | 16 |
| (c-10) Beginning July 1, 2003, except as otherwise provided | 17 |
| in subsection
(c-15) of this Section, persons holding | 18 |
| administrative
certificates must follow the certificate | 19 |
| renewal procedure set forth in this
subsection (c-10), provided | 20 |
| that those persons holding administrative
certificates on June | 21 |
| 30, 2003 who are renewing those certificates on or
after July | 22 |
| 1, 2003 shall be issued new administrative certificates valid | 23 |
| for
5 years (unless changed under subsection (a-5) of this | 24 |
| Section), which
may be renewed thereafter as set forth in this | 25 |
| subsection (c-10). | 26 |
| A person holding an administrative certificate and
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| employed in a position requiring administrative certification,
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| including a regional superintendent of schools, must satisfy | 3 |
| the continuing
professional development requirements of this | 4 |
| Section to renew his or her
administrative certificate. The | 5 |
| continuing professional development must include without
| 6 |
| limitation the following continuing professional development
| 7 |
| purposes: | 8 |
| (1) To improve the administrator's knowledge of
| 9 |
| instructional practices and administrative procedures in
| 10 |
| accordance with the Illinois Professional School Leader
| 11 |
| Standards. | 12 |
| (2) To maintain the basic level of competence required
| 13 |
| for initial certification. | 14 |
| (3) To improve the administrator's mastery of skills
| 15 |
| and knowledge regarding the improvement of teaching
| 16 |
| performance in clinical settings and assessment of the | 17 |
| levels
of student performance in the schools. | 18 |
| The continuing professional development must
include the | 19 |
| following in order for the certificate to be renewed: | 20 |
| (A) Participation in continuing professional
| 21 |
| development activities, which must total a minimum of 100
| 22 |
| hours of continuing professional development. The | 23 |
| participation must consist of a minimum
of 5 activities per | 24 |
| validity period of the certificate, and the certificate | 25 |
| holder must maintain documentation of completion of each | 26 |
| activity. |
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| (B) Participation every year in an Illinois
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| Administrators' Academy course, which participation must
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| total a minimum of 30 continuing professional development
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| hours during the period of the certificate's validity and | 5 |
| which
must include completion of applicable required
| 6 |
| coursework, including completion of a communication, | 7 |
| dissemination, or application component, as defined by the | 8 |
| State Board of
Education. | 9 |
| The certificate holder must complete a verification form | 10 |
| developed by the State Board of Education and certify that 100 | 11 |
| hours of continuing professional development activities and 5 | 12 |
| Administrators' Academy courses have been completed. The | 13 |
| regional superintendent of schools shall review and
validate | 14 |
| the verification form for a certificate holder. Based on
| 15 |
| compliance with all of the requirements for renewal, the | 16 |
| regional
superintendent of schools shall forward a | 17 |
| recommendation for
renewal or non-renewal to the State | 18 |
| Superintendent of Education
and shall notify the certificate | 19 |
| holder of the recommendation. The
State Superintendent of | 20 |
| Education shall review the
recommendation to renew or non-renew | 21 |
| and shall notify, in writing,
the certificate holder of a | 22 |
| decision denying renewal of his or her
certificate. Any | 23 |
| decision regarding non-renewal of an
administrative | 24 |
| certificate may be appealed to the State Teacher
Certification | 25 |
| Board. | 26 |
| The State Board of Education, in consultation with the |
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| State
Teacher Certification Board, shall adopt rules to | 2 |
| implement this
subsection (c-10). | 3 |
| The regional superintendent of schools shall monitor the | 4 |
| process
for renewal of administrative certificates established | 5 |
| in this subsection
(c-10). | 6 |
| (c-15) This subsection (c-15) applies to the first period | 7 |
| of an
administrative certificate's validity during which the | 8 |
| holder becomes
subject to the requirements of subsection (c-10) | 9 |
| of this Section if the
certificate has less than 5 years' | 10 |
| validity or has less than 5 years' validity
remaining when the | 11 |
| certificate holder becomes subject to the
requirements of | 12 |
| subsection (c-10) of this Section. With respect to this
period, | 13 |
| the 100 hours of continuing professional development and 5
| 14 |
| activities per validity period specified in clause (A) of
| 15 |
| subsection (c-10) of this Section shall instead be deemed to | 16 |
| mean 20
hours of continuing professional development and one | 17 |
| activity per year of
the certificate's validity or remaining | 18 |
| validity and the 30 continuing
professional development hours | 19 |
| specified in clause (B) of
subsection (c-10) of this Section | 20 |
| shall instead be deemed to mean
completion of at least one | 21 |
| course per year of the certificate's validity or
remaining | 22 |
| validity. Certificate holders who evaluate certified staff | 23 |
| must complete a 2-day teacher evaluation course, in addition to | 24 |
| the 30 continuing professional development hours. | 25 |
| (c-20) The State
Board of Education, in consultation with | 26 |
| the State Teacher Certification Board,
shall develop |
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| procedures for implementing this Section and shall administer | 2 |
| the
renewal of administrative certificates. Failure to submit | 3 |
| satisfactory evidence
of continuing professional education | 4 |
| which contributes to promoting the goals
of this Section shall | 5 |
| result in a loss of administrative certification. | 6 |
| (d) Any limited or life supervisory certificate issued | 7 |
| prior to July 1, 1968
shall continue to be valid for all | 8 |
| administrative and supervisory positions
in the public schools | 9 |
| for which it is valid as of that date as long as its
holder | 10 |
| meets the requirements for registration or renewal as set forth | 11 |
| in
the statutes or until revoked according to law. | 12 |
| (e) The administrative or supervisory positions for which | 13 |
| the certificate
shall be valid shall be determined by one or | 14 |
| more of 3 endorsements: general
supervisory, general | 15 |
| administrative and superintendent. | 16 |
| Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, endorsements | 17 |
| shall be
made under conditions set forth in this Section. The | 18 |
| State Board of
Education shall, in consultation with the State | 19 |
| Teacher Certification
Board, adopt rules pursuant to the | 20 |
| Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
establishing | 21 |
| requirements for obtaining administrative certificates where
| 22 |
| the minimum administrative or supervisory requirements surpass | 23 |
| those set
forth in this Section. | 24 |
| The State Teacher Certification Board shall file with the | 25 |
| State Board of
Education a written recommendation when | 26 |
| considering additional
administrative or supervisory |
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| requirements. All additional requirements
shall be based upon | 2 |
| the requisite knowledge necessary to perform those
tasks | 3 |
| required by the certificate. The State Board of Education shall | 4 |
| in
consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board, | 5 |
| establish
standards within its rules which shall include the | 6 |
| academic and
professional requirements necessary for | 7 |
| certification. These standards
shall at a minimum contain, but | 8 |
| not be limited to, those used by the State
Board of Education | 9 |
| in determining whether additional knowledge will be
required. | 10 |
| Additionally, the State Board of Education shall in | 11 |
| consultation
with the State Teacher Certification Board, | 12 |
| establish provisions within its
rules whereby any member of the | 13 |
| educational community or the public may
file a formal written | 14 |
| recommendation or inquiry regarding requirements. | 15 |
| (1) Until July 1, 2003, the general supervisory | 16 |
| endorsement shall be
affixed to the
administrative | 17 |
| certificate of any holder who has at least 16 semester | 18 |
| hours
of graduate credit in professional education | 19 |
| including 8 semester hours of
graduate credit in curriculum | 20 |
| and research and who has at least 2 years of
full-time | 21 |
| teaching experience or school service personnel experience | 22 |
| in
public schools, schools under the supervision of the | 23 |
| Department of Corrections,
schools under the | 24 |
| administration of the Department of
Rehabilitation | 25 |
| Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the standards
| 26 |
| established by the State Superintendent of Education or |
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| comparable out-of-state
recognition standards approved by | 2 |
| the State Superintendent of Education. | 3 |
| Such endorsement shall be required for supervisors, | 4 |
| curriculum directors
and for such similar and related | 5 |
| positions as determined by the State
Superintendent of | 6 |
| Education in consultation with the State Teacher
| 7 |
| Certification Board. | 8 |
| (2) The general administrative endorsement shall be | 9 |
| affixed to the
administrative certificate of any holder who | 10 |
| has at least 20 semester hours
of graduate credit in | 11 |
| educational administration and supervision and who
has at | 12 |
| least 2 years of full-time teaching experience or school | 13 |
| service
personnel experience in public schools, schools | 14 |
| under the supervision of
the Department of Corrections, | 15 |
| schools under the administration of
the Department of | 16 |
| Rehabilitation Services, or
nonpublic schools meeting the | 17 |
| standards
established by the State Superintendent of | 18 |
| Education or comparable
out-of-state recognition standards | 19 |
| approved by the State Superintendent
of Education. | 20 |
| Such endorsement shall be required for principal, | 21 |
| assistant principal,
assistant or associate | 22 |
| superintendent, junior college dean and for related
or | 23 |
| similar positions as determined by the State | 24 |
| Superintendent of Education
in consultation with the State | 25 |
| Teacher Certification Board. | 26 |
| Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, |
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| after January 1,
1990 and until January 1, 1991, any | 2 |
| teacher employed by a district subject
to Article 34 shall | 3 |
| be entitled to receive an administrative certificate
with a | 4 |
| general administrative endorsement affixed thereto if he | 5 |
| or she: (i)
had at least 3 years of experience as a | 6 |
| certified teacher for such district
prior to August 1, | 7 |
| 1985; (ii) obtained a Master's degree prior to August 1,
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| 1985; (iii) completed at least 20 hours of graduate credit | 9 |
| in education
courses (including at least 12 hours in | 10 |
| educational administration and
supervision) prior to | 11 |
| September 1, 1987; and (iv) has received a rating of
| 12 |
| superior for at least each of the last 5 years. Any person | 13 |
| who obtains an
administrative certificate with a general | 14 |
| administrative endorsement
affixed thereto under this | 15 |
| paragraph shall not be qualified to serve in any
| 16 |
| administrative position except assistant principal. | 17 |
| (3) The chief school business official endorsement | 18 |
| shall be affixed to
the administrative certificate of any | 19 |
| holder who qualifies by having
a Master's degree, 2 years | 20 |
| of administrative experience in school business
management | 21 |
| or 2 years of university-approved practical experience, | 22 |
| and a minimum of 20 semester hours of graduate credit in a | 23 |
| program
established by the State Superintendent of | 24 |
| Education in consultation with the
State Teacher | 25 |
| Certification Board for the preparation of school business
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| administrators. Such endorsement shall also be affixed to |
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| the administrative
certificate of any holder who qualifies | 2 |
| by having a Master's Degree in Business
Administration, | 3 |
| Finance or Accounting from a regionally accredited | 4 |
| institution
of higher education. | 5 |
| After June 30, 1977, such endorsement shall be required | 6 |
| for any individual
first employed as a chief school | 7 |
| business official. | 8 |
| (4) The superintendent endorsement shall be affixed to | 9 |
| the administrative
certificate of any holder who has | 10 |
| completed 30 semester hours of graduate
credit beyond the | 11 |
| master's degree in a program for the preparation of
| 12 |
| superintendents of schools including 16 semester hours of | 13 |
| graduate credit
in professional education and who has at | 14 |
| least 2 years experience as an
administrator or supervisor | 15 |
| in the public schools or the State Board of
Education or | 16 |
| education service regions or in nonpublic schools meeting | 17 |
| the
standards established by the State Superintendent of | 18 |
| Education or
comparable out-of-state recognition standards | 19 |
| approved by the State
Superintendent of Education and holds | 20 |
| general supervisory or general
administrative endorsement, | 21 |
| or who has had 2 years of experience as a
supervisor or | 22 |
| administrator while holding an all-grade supervisory
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| certificate or a certificate comparable in validity and | 24 |
| educational and
experience requirements. | 25 |
| After June 30, 1968, such endorsement shall be required | 26 |
| for a
superintendent of schools, except as provided in the |
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| second paragraph of this
Section and in Section 34-6. | 2 |
| Any person appointed to the position of superintendent | 3 |
| between the
effective date of this Act and June 30, 1993 in | 4 |
| a school district organized
pursuant to Article 32 with an | 5 |
| enrollment of at least 20,000 pupils shall
be exempt from | 6 |
| the provisions of this paragraph (4) until
June 30, 1996. | 7 |
| (f) All official interpretations or acts of issuing or | 8 |
| denying
administrative certificates or endorsements by the | 9 |
| State Teacher's
Certification Board, State Board of Education | 10 |
| or the State Superintendent
of Education, from the passage of | 11 |
| P.A. 81-1208 on November 8, 1979 through
September 24, 1981 are | 12 |
| hereby declared valid and legal acts in all respects and
| 13 |
| further that the purported repeal of the provisions of this | 14 |
| Section by P.A.
81-1208 and P.A. 81-1509 is declared null and | 15 |
| void. | 16 |
| (Source: P.A. 96-56, eff. 1-1-10.) | 17 |
| (105 ILCS 5/24A-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 24A-4) | 18 |
| Sec. 24A-4. Development of evaluation plan. | 19 |
| (a) As used in
this and the succeeding Sections, "teacher" | 20 |
| means any and all school
district employees regularly required | 21 |
| to be certified under laws relating
to the certification of | 22 |
| teachers. Each school district shall develop, in
cooperation | 23 |
| with its teachers or, where applicable, the exclusive
| 24 |
| bargaining representatives of its teachers, an evaluation plan | 25 |
| for all
teachers. |
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| (b) By no later than the applicable implementation date, | 2 |
| each school district shall, in good faith cooperation with its | 3 |
| teachers or, where applicable, the exclusive bargaining | 4 |
| representatives of its teachers, incorporate the use of data | 5 |
| and indicators on student growth as a significant factor in | 6 |
| rating teaching performance, into its evaluation plan for all | 7 |
| teachers, both those teachers in contractual continued service | 8 |
| and those teachers not in contractual continued service. The | 9 |
| plan shall at least meet the standards and requirements for | 10 |
| student growth and teacher evaluation established under | 11 |
| Section 24A-7, and specifically describe how student growth | 12 |
| data and indicators will be used as part of the evaluation | 13 |
| process, how this information will relate to evaluation | 14 |
| standards, the assessments or other indicators of student | 15 |
| performance that will be used in measuring student growth and | 16 |
| the weight that each will have, the methodology that will be | 17 |
| used to measure student growth, and the criteria other than | 18 |
| student growth that will be used in evaluating the teacher and | 19 |
| the weight that each will have. | 20 |
| To incorporate the use of data and indicators of student | 21 |
| growth as a significant factor in rating teacher performance | 22 |
| into the evaluation plan, the district shall use a joint | 23 |
| committee composed of equal representation selected by the | 24 |
| district and its teachers or, where applicable, the exclusive | 25 |
| bargaining representative of its teachers. If, within 180 | 26 |
| calendar days of the committee's first meeting, the committee |
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| does not reach agreement on the plan, then the district shall | 2 |
| implement the model evaluation plan established under Section | 3 |
| 24A-7 with respect to the use of data and indicators on student | 4 |
| growth as a significant factor in rating teacher performance. | 5 |
| Nothing in this subsection (b) (a) shall make decisions on | 6 |
| the use of data and indicators on student growth as a | 7 |
| significant factor in rating teaching performance mandatory | 8 |
| subjects of bargaining under the Illinois Educational Labor | 9 |
| Relations Act that are not currently mandatory subjects of | 10 |
| bargaining under the Act. | 11 |
| (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection | 12 |
| (b) of this Section, if the joint committee referred to in that | 13 |
| subsection does not reach agreement on the plan within 90 | 14 |
| calendar days after the committee's first meeting, a school | 15 |
| district having 500,000 or more inhabitants shall not be | 16 |
| required to implement any aspect of the model evaluation plan | 17 |
| and may implement its last best proposal.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-510, eff. 8-28-07; 96-861, eff. 1-15-10.) | 19 |
| (105 ILCS 5/24A-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 24A-5) | 20 |
| Sec. 24A-5. Content of evaluation plans. This Section does | 21 |
| not apply to teachers assigned to schools identified in an | 22 |
| agreement entered into between the board of a school district | 23 |
| operating under Article 34 of this Code and the exclusive | 24 |
| representative of the district's teachers in accordance with | 25 |
| Section 34-85c of this Code.
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| Each school district to
which this Article applies shall | 2 |
| establish a teacher evaluation plan
which ensures that each | 3 |
| teacher in contractual continued service
is evaluated at least | 4 |
| once in the course of every 2 school years. | 5 |
| By no later than September 1, 2012, each school district | 6 |
| shall establish a teacher evaluation plan that ensures that: | 7 |
| (1) each teacher not in contractual continued service | 8 |
| is evaluated at least once every school year; and | 9 |
| (2) each teacher in contractual continued service is | 10 |
| evaluated at least once in the course of every 2 school | 11 |
| years. However, any teacher in contractual continued | 12 |
| service whose performance is rated as either "needs | 13 |
| improvement" or "unsatisfactory" must be evaluated at | 14 |
| least once in the school year following the receipt of such | 15 |
| rating. | 16 |
| Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section or | 17 |
| any other Section of the School Code, a principal shall not be | 18 |
| prohibited from evaluating any teachers within a school during | 19 |
| his or her first year as principal of such school. | 20 |
| The evaluation plan shall comply with the requirements of | 21 |
| this Section and
of any rules adopted by the State Board of | 22 |
| Education pursuant to this Section. | 23 |
| The plan shall include a description of each teacher's | 24 |
| duties
and responsibilities and of the standards to which that | 25 |
| teacher
is expected to conform, and shall include at least the | 26 |
| following components: |
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| (a) personal observation of the teacher in the | 2 |
| classroom by the evaluator, unless
the teacher has no | 3 |
| classroom duties. | 4 |
| (b) consideration of the teacher's attendance, | 5 |
| planning,
instructional methods, classroom management, | 6 |
| where relevant, and
competency in the subject matter | 7 |
| taught. | 8 |
| (c) by no later than the applicable implementation | 9 |
| date, consideration of student growth as a significant | 10 |
| factor in the rating of the teacher's performance. | 11 |
| (d) prior to September 1, 2012, rating of the | 12 |
| performance of teachers in contractual continued service | 13 |
| as either: | 14 |
| (i) "excellent",
"satisfactory" or | 15 |
| "unsatisfactory"; or | 16 |
| (ii) "excellent", "proficient", "needs | 17 |
| improvement" or "unsatisfactory". | 18 |
| (e) on and after September 1, 2012, rating of the | 19 |
| performance of teachers in contractual continued service | 20 |
| as "excellent", "proficient", "needs improvement" or | 21 |
| "unsatisfactory". | 22 |
| (f) specification as to the teacher's strengths and | 23 |
| weaknesses, with
supporting reasons for the comments made. | 24 |
| (g) inclusion of a copy of the evaluation in the | 25 |
| teacher's personnel
file and provision of a copy to the | 26 |
| teacher. |
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| (h) within 30 school days after the completion of an | 2 |
| evaluation rating a teacher in contractual continued | 3 |
| service as "needs improvement", development by the | 4 |
| evaluator, in consultation with the teacher, and taking | 5 |
| into account the teacher's on-going professional | 6 |
| responsibilities including his or her regular teaching | 7 |
| assignments, of a professional development plan directed | 8 |
| to the areas that need improvement and any supports that | 9 |
| the district will provide to address the areas identified | 10 |
| as needing improvement. | 11 |
| (i) within 30 school days after completion of an | 12 |
| evaluation rating a teacher
in contractual continued | 13 |
| service as "unsatisfactory", development and commencement | 14 |
| by the district of a remediation plan designed to correct | 15 |
| deficiencies
cited, provided the deficiencies are deemed | 16 |
| remediable.
In all school districts the
remediation plan | 17 |
| for unsatisfactory, tenured teachers shall
provide for 90 | 18 |
| school days of remediation within the
classroom, unless an | 19 |
| applicable collective bargaining agreement provides for a | 20 |
| shorter duration. In all school districts evaluations | 21 |
| issued pursuant
to
this Section shall be
issued within 10 | 22 |
| days after the conclusion of the respective remediation | 23 |
| plan.
However, the school board or other governing | 24 |
| authority of the district
shall not lose
jurisdiction to | 25 |
| discharge a teacher in the event the evaluation is not | 26 |
| issued
within 10 days after the conclusion of the |
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| respective remediation plan. | 2 |
| (j) participation in the remediation plan by the | 3 |
| teacher in contractual continued service rated
| 4 |
| "unsatisfactory", an evaluator and a consulting teacher | 5 |
| selected by the evaluator of the teacher who was rated | 6 |
| "unsatisfactory", which
consulting teacher is an | 7 |
| educational employee as defined in the Educational
Labor | 8 |
| Relations Act, has at least 5 years' teaching experience, | 9 |
| and a
reasonable familiarity with the assignment of the | 10 |
| teacher being evaluated,
and who received an "excellent" | 11 |
| rating on his or her most
recent evaluation. Where no | 12 |
| teachers who meet these criteria are available
within the | 13 |
| district, the district shall request and the applicable | 14 |
| regional office of education State Board of
Education shall | 15 |
| supply, to participate in the remediation process, an
| 16 |
| individual who meets these criteria. | 17 |
| In a district having a population of less than 500,000 | 18 |
| with an
exclusive bargaining agent, the bargaining agent
| 19 |
| may, if it so chooses, supply a roster of qualified | 20 |
| teachers from whom the
consulting teacher is to be | 21 |
| selected. That roster shall, however, contain
the names of | 22 |
| at least 5 teachers, each of whom meets the criteria for
| 23 |
| consulting teacher with regard to the teacher being | 24 |
| evaluated, or the names
of all teachers so qualified if | 25 |
| that number is less than 5. In the event of
a dispute as to | 26 |
| qualification, the State Board shall determine |
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| qualification. | 2 |
| (k) a mid-point and final evaluation by an evaluator | 3 |
| during and at the end of the remediation period, | 4 |
| immediately following receipt of a remediation plan | 5 |
| provided for under subsections (i) and (j) of this Section. | 6 |
| Each evaluation shall assess the teacher's performance | 7 |
| during the time period since the prior evaluation; provided | 8 |
| that the last evaluation shall also include an overall | 9 |
| evaluation of the teacher's performance during the | 10 |
| remediation period. A written copy of the evaluations and | 11 |
| ratings, in which any deficiencies in performance and | 12 |
| recommendations for correction are identified, shall be | 13 |
| provided to and discussed with the teacher within 10 school | 14 |
| days after the date of the evaluation, unless an applicable | 15 |
| collective bargaining agreement provides to the contrary. | 16 |
| These subsequent evaluations
shall be conducted by an | 17 |
| evaluator. The consulting
teacher shall provide advice to | 18 |
| the teacher rated "unsatisfactory" on how
to improve | 19 |
| teaching skills and to successfully complete the | 20 |
| remediation
plan. The consulting teacher shall participate | 21 |
| in developing the
remediation plan, but the final decision | 22 |
| as to the evaluation shall be done
solely by the evaluator,
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| unless an applicable collective bargaining agreement | 24 |
| provides to the contrary.
Evaluations at the
conclusion of | 25 |
| the remediation process shall be separate and distinct from | 26 |
| the
required annual evaluations of teachers and shall not |
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| be subject to the
guidelines and procedures relating to | 2 |
| those annual evaluations. The evaluator
may but is not | 3 |
| required to use the forms provided for the annual | 4 |
| evaluation of
teachers in the district's evaluation plan. | 5 |
| (l)
reinstatement to the evaluation schedule set forth | 6 |
| in the district's evaluation plan for any teacher in | 7 |
| contractual continued service
who achieves a rating equal | 8 |
| to or better than "satisfactory" or "proficient" in the | 9 |
| school year following a rating of "needs improvement" or | 10 |
| "unsatisfactory". | 11 |
| (m) dismissal in accordance with Section 24-12 or 34-85 | 12 |
| of the School
Code of any teacher who fails to complete any | 13 |
| applicable remediation plan
with a rating equal to or | 14 |
| better than a "satisfactory" or "proficient" rating. | 15 |
| Districts and teachers subject to
dismissal hearings are | 16 |
| precluded from compelling the testimony of
consulting | 17 |
| teachers at such hearings under Section 24-12 or 34-85, | 18 |
| either
as to the rating process or for opinions of | 19 |
| performances by teachers under
remediation. | 20 |
| Nothing in this Section or Section 24A-4 shall be construed | 21 |
| as preventing immediate
dismissal of a teacher for deficiencies | 22 |
| which are
deemed irremediable or for actions which are | 23 |
| injurious to or endanger the
health or person of students in | 24 |
| the classroom or school, or preventing the dismissal or | 25 |
| non-renewal of teachers not in contractual continued service | 26 |
| for any reason not prohibited by applicable employment, labor, |
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| and civil rights laws. Failure to
strictly comply with the time | 2 |
| requirements contained in Section 24A-5 shall
not invalidate | 3 |
| the results of the remediation plan. | 4 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-510, eff. 8-28-07; 96-861, eff. 1-15-10.) | 5 |
| (105 ILCS 5/24A-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 24A-7) | 6 |
| Sec. 24A-7. Rules. The State Board of Education is | 7 |
| authorized to adopt such rules as
are deemed necessary to | 8 |
| implement and accomplish the purposes and
provisions of this | 9 |
| Article, including, but not limited to, rules (i) relating to | 10 |
| the methods for measuring student growth (including, but not | 11 |
| limited to, limitations on the age of useable data; the amount | 12 |
| of data needed to reliably and validly measure growth for the | 13 |
| purpose of teacher and principal evaluations; and whether and | 14 |
| at what time annual State assessments may be used as one of | 15 |
| multiple measures of student growth), (ii) defining the term | 16 |
| "significant factor" for purposes of including consideration | 17 |
| of student growth in performance ratings, (iii) controlling for | 18 |
| such factors as student characteristics (including, but not | 19 |
| limited to, students receiving special education and English | 20 |
| Language Learner services), student attendance, and student | 21 |
| mobility so as to best measure the impact that a teacher, | 22 |
| principal, school and school district has on students' academic | 23 |
| achievement, (iv) establishing minimum requirements for | 24 |
| district teacher and principal evaluation instruments and | 25 |
| procedures, and (v) establishing a model evaluation plan for |
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| use by school districts in which student growth shall comprise | 2 |
| 50% of the performance rating. Notwithstanding any provision in | 3 |
| this Section, such rules shall not preclude a school district | 4 |
| having 500,000 or more inhabitants from using an annual State | 5 |
| assessment as the sole measure of student growth for purposes | 6 |
| of teacher or principal evaluations. | 7 |
| The rules shall be developed through a process involving | 8 |
| collaboration with a Performance Evaluation Advisory Council, | 9 |
| which shall be convened and staffed by the State Board of | 10 |
| Education. Members of the Council shall be selected by the | 11 |
| State Superintendent and include, without limitation, | 12 |
| representatives of teacher unions and school district | 13 |
| management, persons with expertise in performance evaluation | 14 |
| processes and systems, as well as other stakeholders. The | 15 |
| Performance Evaluation Advisory Council shall meet at least | 16 |
| quarterly following the effective date of this amendatory Act | 17 |
| of the 96th General Assembly until June 30, 2017. | 18 |
| Prior to the applicable implementation date, these rules | 19 |
| shall not apply to teachers assigned to schools identified in | 20 |
| an agreement entered into between the board of a school | 21 |
| district operating under Article 34 of this Code and the | 22 |
| exclusive representative of the district's teachers in | 23 |
| accordance with Section 34-85c of this Code. | 24 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-510, eff. 8-28-07; 96-861, eff. 1-15-10.) | 25 |
| (105 ILCS 5/26-2a) (from Ch. 122, par. 26-2a) |
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| Sec. 26-2a. A "truant" is defined as a child subject to | 2 |
| compulsory school
attendance and who is absent without valid | 3 |
| cause from such attendance for
a school day or portion thereof. | 4 |
| "Valid cause" for absence shall be illness, observance of a | 5 |
| religious
holiday, death in the immediate family,
family | 6 |
| emergency, and shall include such other situations beyond the | 7 |
| control
of the student as determined by the board of education | 8 |
| in each district,
or such other circumstances which cause | 9 |
| reasonable concern to the parent
for the safety or health of | 10 |
| the student. | 11 |
| "Chronic or habitual truant" shall be defined as a child | 12 |
| subject to compulsory
school attendance and who is absent | 13 |
| without valid cause from such attendance
for 10% or more of the | 14 |
| previous 180 regular attendance days. | 15 |
| "Truant minor" is defined as a chronic truant to whom | 16 |
| supportive
services, including prevention, diagnostic, | 17 |
| intervention and remedial
services, alternative programs and | 18 |
| other school and community resources
have been provided and | 19 |
| have failed to result in the cessation of chronic
truancy, or | 20 |
| have been offered and refused. | 21 |
| A "dropout" is defined as any child enrolled in grades 9 1 | 22 |
| through 12 whose
name has been removed from the district | 23 |
| enrollment roster for any reason
other than the student's his | 24 |
| death, extended illness, removal for medical non-compliance, | 25 |
| expulsion, aging out, graduation , or completion of a
program of | 26 |
| studies and who has not transferred to another public or |
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| private school and is not known to be home-schooled by his or | 2 |
| her parents or guardians or continuing school in another | 3 |
| country . | 4 |
| "Religion" for the purposes of this Article, includes all | 5 |
| aspects of
religious observance and practice, as well as | 6 |
| belief. | 7 |
| (Source: P.A. 84-1308; 84-1420; 84-1424; 84-1438.) | 8 |
| Section 10. The School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act is | 9 |
| amended by changing Section 4 as follows: | 10 |
| (105 ILCS 125/4) (from Ch. 122, par. 712.4) | 11 |
| Sec. 4. Accounts; copies of menus served; free lunch | 12 |
| program required;
report. School boards and welfare centers | 13 |
| shall keep an accurate, detailed
and separate account of all | 14 |
| moneys expended for school breakfast programs,
school lunch | 15 |
| programs, free breakfast programs, free lunch programs,
and | 16 |
| summer food service programs,
and of the amounts for which they | 17 |
| are reimbursed by any governmental agency,
moneys received from | 18 |
| students and from any other contributors to the program.
School | 19 |
| boards and welfare centers shall also keep on file a copy of | 20 |
| all menus
served under the programs, which together with all | 21 |
| records of receipts and
disbursements, shall be made available | 22 |
| to representatives of the State Board
of Education at any time.
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| Every public school must have a free lunch program.
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| In 2010 and in each subsequent year, the State Board of |
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| Education
shall provide to the Governor and the General | 2 |
| Assembly, by a date not later
than April 1, a report that | 3 |
| provides all of the following:
| 4 |
| (1) A list by school district of (i) all schools | 5 |
| participating in the school breakfast program, (ii) all | 6 |
| schools' total student
enrollment, (iii) all schools' | 7 |
| number of children eligible for free, reduced price,
and | 8 |
| paid breakfasts and lunches, (iv) all schools' incentive | 9 |
| moneys received, and (v) all schools' participation in | 10 |
| Provision Two or Provision Three under the Child Nutrition | 11 |
| Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.).
| 12 |
| (2) (Blank).
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| (3) A list of schools that have dropped a
school | 14 |
| breakfast program during the past year and the reason or | 15 |
| reasons why. | 16 |
| (3.5) A list of school districts and schools granted an | 17 |
| exemption from a regional superintendent of schools for | 18 |
| operating a school breakfast program in the next year and | 19 |
| the reason or reasons why.
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| (Source: P.A. 96-158, eff. 8-7-09.) | 21 |
| Section 13. The School Construction Law is amended by | 22 |
| changing Section 5-200 as follows: | 23 |
| (105 ILCS 230/5-200) | 24 |
| Sec. 5-200. School energy efficiency grants. |
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| (a) The State Board of Education is authorized to make | 2 |
| grants to school districts, without regard to enrollment, for | 3 |
| school energy efficiency projects. These grants shall be paid | 4 |
| out of moneys appropriated for that purpose from the School | 5 |
| Infrastructure Fund. No grant under this Section for one fiscal | 6 |
| year shall exceed $250,000, but a school district may receive | 7 |
| grants for more than one project during one fiscal year. A | 8 |
| school district must provide local matching funds in an amount | 9 |
| equal to the amount of the grant under this Section. A school | 10 |
| district has no entitlement to a grant under this Section. | 11 |
| (b) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to | 12 |
| implement this Section. These rules need not be the same as the | 13 |
| rules for school construction project grants or school | 14 |
| maintenance project grants.
The rules may specify: | 15 |
| (1) the manner of applying for grants; | 16 |
| (2) project eligibility requirements; | 17 |
| (3) restrictions on the use of grant moneys; | 18 |
| (4) the manner in which school districts must account | 19 |
| for the use of grant moneys; and | 20 |
| (5) any other provision that the State Board determines | 21 |
| to be necessary or useful for the administration of this | 22 |
| Section. | 23 |
| (c) In each school year in which school energy efficiency | 24 |
| project grants are awarded, 20% of the total amount awarded | 25 |
| shall be awarded to a school district in a city with a | 26 |
| population of more than 500,000, provided that the school |
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| district complies with the requirements of this Section and the | 2 |
| rules adopted under this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09.) | 4 |
| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.97 rep.) | 5 |
| Section 15. The School Code is amended by repealing Section | 6 |
| 2-3.97.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 8 |
| becoming law.
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