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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 Grow
Your Own Teacher Education Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 5, 10, 20, and 25 as follows: | 6 |
| (110 ILCS 48/5)
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| Sec. 5. Purpose. The Grow Your Own Teacher preparation
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| programs established under this Act shall comprise a major new
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| statewide initiative, known as the Grow Your Own Teacher
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| Education Initiative, to prepare highly skilled, committed
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| teachers who will teach in hard-to-staff schools and
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| hard-to-staff teaching positions and who will remain in these
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| schools for substantial periods of time. | 14 |
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The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall
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| effectively recruit and prepare parent and community leaders
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| and paraeducators to become effective teachers statewide in | 17 |
| hard-to-staff schools serving a substantial percentage of | 18 |
| low-income students and
hard-to-staff teaching positions in | 19 |
| schools
serving a substantial percentage of low-income | 20 |
| students.
Further, the Initiative shall increase the diversity | 21 |
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teachers, including diversity based on race and , ethnicity , | 22 |
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disability .
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| The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall ensure
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| educational rigor by effectively preparing candidates in
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| accredited bachelor's degree programs in teaching, through
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| which graduates shall meet the requirements to secure an
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| Illinois initial teaching certificate.
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| The goal of the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative | 6 |
| is to add 1,000 teachers to low-income, hard-to-staff Illinois | 7 |
| schools by 2016 with an average retention period of 7 years, as | 8 |
| opposed to the current rate of 2.5 years for new teachers in | 9 |
| such areas .
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| (Source: P.A. 94-979, eff. 6-30-06; 95-476, eff. 1-1-08.) | 11 |
| (110 ILCS 48/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act: | 13 |
| "Accredited teacher preparation program" means a State or
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| regionally accredited , Illinois approved teacher education | 15 |
| higher education program authorized to
prepare individuals to | 16 |
| fulfill all of the requirements to
receive an Illinois initial | 17 |
| teaching certificate. | 18 |
| "Cohort" means a group of teacher education candidates who | 19 |
| are enrolled in and share experiences in the same program and | 20 |
| are linked by their desire to become Illinois teachers in | 21 |
| hard-to-staff schools and by their need for the services and | 22 |
| supports offered by the Initiative. | 23 |
| "Community organization" means a nonprofit organization | 24 |
| that has a demonstrated capacity to train, develop, and | 25 |
| organize parents and community leaders into a constituency that |
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| will hold the school and the school district accountable for | 2 |
| achieving high academic standards; in addition to | 3 |
| organizations with a geographic focus, "community | 4 |
| organization" includes general parent organizations, | 5 |
| organizations of special education or bilingual education | 6 |
| parents, and school employee unions. | 7 |
| "Developmental classes" means classes in basic skill | 8 |
| areas, such as mathematics and language arts that are | 9 |
| prerequisite to, but not counted towards, degree requirements | 10 |
| of a teacher preparation program.
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| "Eligible school" means a public elementary , middle, or | 12 |
| secondary school in this State that serves a substantial | 13 |
| percentage of low-income students and that is either hard to | 14 |
| staff or has hard-to-staff teaching positions.
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| "Hard-to-staff school" means a public elementary, middle, | 16 |
| or secondary school in this State that , based on data compiled | 17 |
| by the State Board of Education, serves a substantial | 18 |
| percentage of low-income students, as defined by the State | 19 |
| Board
ranks in the upper third among public schools of its type | 20 |
| (elementary, middle, or secondary) in terms of rate of | 21 |
| attrition of its teachers . | 22 |
| "Hard-to-staff teaching position" means a teaching
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| category (such as special education, bilingual education, | 24 |
| mathematics, or science)
in which statewide data compiled by | 25 |
| the State Board of Education
indicates a multi-year pattern of | 26 |
| substantial
teacher shortage or that has been identified as a |
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| critical need by the local school board.
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| "Initiative" means the Grow Your Own Teacher Education
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| Initiative created under this Act.
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| "Paraeducator" "Paraeducators" means an individual | 5 |
| individuals with a history of
demonstrated accomplishments in | 6 |
| school staff positions (such
as teacher assistants, | 7 |
| school-community liaisons, school
clerks, and security aides) | 8 |
| in schools that meet the definition of a hard-to-staff school | 9 |
| under this Section serving a substantial
percentage of | 10 |
| low-income students .
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| "Parent and community leader leaders " means an individual | 12 |
| who has or had a child enrolled in a school or schools that | 13 |
| meet the definition of a hard-to-staff school under this | 14 |
| Section and who has a history of active involvement in the | 15 |
| school or who has individuals with a history of working to | 16 |
| improve schools serving a
substantial percentage of low-income | 17 |
| students, including membership in a community organization. | 18 |
| "Community organization" means a nonprofit organization | 19 |
| that has a demonstrated capacity to train, develop, and | 20 |
| organize parents and community leaders into a constituency that | 21 |
| will hold the school and the school district accountable for | 22 |
| achieving high academic standards; in addition to | 23 |
| organizations with a geographic focus, "community | 24 |
| organization" includes general parent organizations, | 25 |
| organizations of special education or bilingual education | 26 |
| parents, and school employee unions.
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| "Program" means a Grow Your Own Teacher preparation program
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| established by a consortium under this Act.
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| "Schools serving a substantial percentage of low-income
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| students" means schools that maintain any of grades | 5 |
| pre-kindergarten through 8, in which at least 35% of the | 6 |
| students are eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches | 7 |
| and schools that maintain any of grades 9 through 12, in which | 8 |
| at least 25% of the students are eligible to receive free or | 9 |
| reduced price lunches. | 10 |
| "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-979, eff. 6-30-06; 95-476, eff. 1-1-08.) | 12 |
| (110 ILCS 48/20)
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| Sec. 20. Selection of grantees. The State Board shall award | 14 |
| grants to qualified consortia that reflect the distribution and | 15 |
| diversity of hard-to-staff schools and hard-to-staff positions | 16 |
| across this State. In awarding grants, the State Board shall | 17 |
| select programs that successfully address Initiative criteria | 18 |
| and that reflect a diversity of strategies in terms of serving | 19 |
| urban areas, serving rural areas, the nature of the | 20 |
| participating institutions of higher education, and the nature | 21 |
| of hard-to-staff schools and
hard-to-staff teaching positions | 22 |
| on which a program is focused.
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| The State Board shall select consortia that meet the | 24 |
| following requirements:
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| (1) A consortium shall be composed of at least one |
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| 4-year institution of higher education with an Illinois | 2 |
| approved accredited teacher preparation program, at least | 3 |
| one school district or group of schools, and one or more | 4 |
| community organizations. The consortium membership may | 5 |
| also include a 2-year institution of higher education , or a | 6 |
| school employee union , or a regional office of education or | 7 |
| both .
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| (2) The 4-year institution of higher education | 9 |
| participating in the consortium shall have past, | 10 |
| demonstrated success in preparing teachers for elementary | 11 |
| or secondary schools serving a substantial percentage of | 12 |
| low-income students. | 13 |
| (3) The consortium shall focus on a clearly defined set | 14 |
| of eligible schools that will participate in the program. | 15 |
| The consortium shall articulate the steps that it will | 16 |
| carry out in preparing teachers for its participating
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| schools and in preparing teachers for one or more | 18 |
| hard-to-staff teaching positions in those
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| (4) A candidate in a program under the Initiative must | 20 |
| hold a high school diploma or its equivalent , and must meet | 21 |
| either the definition of "parent and community leader | 22 |
| leaders " or the definition of "paraeducator" | 23 |
| "paraeducators" contained in Section 10 of this Act , must | 24 |
| not have attended college right after high school or must | 25 |
| have experienced an interruption in his or her college | 26 |
| education, and does not hold a bachelor's degree . |
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| (5) The consortium shall employ effective procedures | 2 |
| for teaching the skills and knowledge needed to prepare | 3 |
| highly competent teachers. Professional preparation shall | 4 |
| include on-going direct experience in target schools and | 5 |
| evaluation of this experience. | 6 |
| (6) The consortium shall offer the program to cohorts | 7 |
| of candidates , as defined in Section 10 of this Act, who | 8 |
| begin by moving through the program together. The program | 9 |
| shall be offered on a schedule that enables candidates to | 10 |
| work full time while participating in the program and | 11 |
| allows paraeducators to continue in their current | 12 |
| positions. In any fiscal year in which an appropriation for | 13 |
| the Initiative is made, the
consortium shall guarantee that | 14 |
| support will be available to an admitted cohort for the | 15 |
| cohort's education training for that fiscal year. At the | 16 |
| beginning of the Initiative, programs that are already | 17 |
| operating and existing cohorts of candidates under this | 18 |
| model shall be eligible for funding. | 19 |
| (7) The institutions of higher education participating | 20 |
| in the consortium shall document and agree to expend the | 21 |
| same amount of funds in implementing the program that these | 22 |
| institutions spend per student on similar educational | 23 |
| programs. Grants received by the consortium shall | 24 |
| supplement and not supplant these amounts. | 25 |
| (8) The State Board shall establish additional | 26 |
| criteria for review of proposals, including criteria that |
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| address the following issues: | 2 |
| (A) Previous experience of the institutions of | 3 |
| higher education in preparing candidates for | 4 |
| hard-to-staff schools and positions and in working | 5 |
| with students with non-traditional backgrounds. | 6 |
| (B) The quality of the implementation plan, | 7 |
| including strategies for overcoming institutional | 8 |
| barriers to the progress of non-traditional | 9 |
| candidates. | 10 |
| (C) If a community college is a participant, the | 11 |
| nature and extent of existing articulation agreements | 12 |
| and guarantees between the community college and the | 13 |
| 4-year institution of higher education. | 14 |
| (D) The number of candidates to be educated trained | 15 |
| in the planned cohort or cohorts and the capacity of | 16 |
| the consortium for adding cohorts in future cycles. | 17 |
| (E) Experience of the community organization or | 18 |
| organizations in organizing parents and community | 19 |
| leaders to achieve school improvement and a strong | 20 |
| relational school culture. | 21 |
| (F) The qualifications of the person or persons | 22 |
| designated by the 4-year institution of higher | 23 |
| education to be responsible for cohort support and the | 24 |
| development of a shared learning and social | 25 |
| environment among candidates. | 26 |
| (G) The consortium's plan for collective |
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| consortium decision-making, involving all consortium | 2 |
| members, including mechanisms for community and | 3 |
| candidate input. | 4 |
| (H) The consortium's plan for direct impact of the | 5 |
| program on the quality of education in the eligible | 6 |
| schools. | 7 |
| (I) The relevance of the curriculum to the needs of | 8 |
| the eligible schools and positions, and the use in | 9 |
| curriculum and instructional planning of principles | 10 |
| for effective education for adults. | 11 |
| (J) The availability of classes under the program | 12 |
| in places and times accessible to the candidates. | 13 |
| (K) Provision of a level of performance to be | 14 |
| maintained by candidates as a condition of continuing | 15 |
| in the program. | 16 |
| (L) The plan of the 4-year institution of higher | 17 |
| education to ensure that candidates take advantage of | 18 |
| existing financial aid resources before using the loan | 19 |
| funds described in Section 25 of this Act. | 20 |
| (M) The availability of supportive services, | 21 |
| including , but not limited to, counseling, tutoring, | 22 |
| transportation, technology and technology support, and | 23 |
| child care. | 24 |
| (N) A plan for continued participation of | 25 |
| graduates of the program in a program of support for at | 26 |
| least 2 years, including mentoring and group meetings. |
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| (O) A plan for testing and qualitative evaluation | 2 |
| of candidates' teaching skills that ensures that | 3 |
| graduates of the program are as prepared for teaching | 4 |
| as other individuals completing the institution of | 5 |
| higher education's preparation program for the | 6 |
| certificate sought. | 7 |
| (P) A plan for internal evaluation that provides | 8 |
| reports at least yearly on the progress of candidates | 9 |
| towards graduation and the impact of the program on the | 10 |
| target schools and their communities. | 11 |
| (Q) Contributions from schools, school districts, | 12 |
| and other consortia members to the program, including | 13 |
| stipends for candidates during their student teaching. | 14 |
| (R) Consortium commitment for sustaining the | 15 |
| program over time, as evidenced by plans for reduced | 16 |
| requirements for external funding , in subsequent | 17 |
| cycles.
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| (S) The inclusion in the planned program of | 19 |
| strategies derived from community organizing that will | 20 |
| help candidates develop tools for working with parents | 21 |
| and other community members.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-979, eff. 6-30-06; 95-476, eff. 1-1-08.) | 23 |
| (110 ILCS 48/25)
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| Sec. 25. Expenditures under the Initiative. | 25 |
| (a) Every program under the Initiative shall implement a |
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| program of forgivable loans to cover any portion of tuition , | 2 |
| books, and fees and direct expenses of candidates under the | 3 |
| program in excess of the candidates' grants-in-aid and other | 4 |
| forgivable loans received . All students admitted to a cohort | 5 |
| shall be eligible for a forgivable student loan such loans . | 6 |
| Loans shall be fully forgiven if a graduate completes 5 years | 7 |
| of service in hard-to-staff schools
or hard-to-staff teaching | 8 |
| positions, with partial forgiveness for shorter periods of | 9 |
| service. The State Board shall establish standards for the | 10 |
| approval of requests for waivers or deferrals from individuals | 11 |
| to waive of this obligation for individual candidates . The | 12 |
| State Board shall also define standards for the fiscal | 13 |
| management of these loan funds. | 14 |
| (b) The State Board shall award grants Grants under the | 15 |
| Initiative shall be awarded in such a way as to provide the | 16 |
| required support for a cohort of candidates for any fiscal year | 17 |
| in which an appropriation for the Initiative is made. Program | 18 |
| budgets must show expenditures and needed funds for the entire | 19 |
| period that candidates are expected to be enrolled. | 20 |
| (c) No funds under the Initiative may be used to supplant | 21 |
| the average per-capita expenditures by the institution of | 22 |
| higher education for candidates. | 23 |
| (d) Where necessary, program budgets shall include the | 24 |
| costs of child care and other indirect expenses, such as | 25 |
| transportation, tutoring, technology, and technology support, | 26 |
| that are necessary to permit candidates to maintain their class |
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| schedules. Grant funds may be used by any member of a | 2 |
| consortium to offset such costs , and the services may be , | 3 |
| whether the needed services are provided by the community | 4 |
| organization or organizations, by any other are provided by | 5 |
| another member of the consortium, or by independent contractors | 6 |
| are independently contracted for . | 7 |
| (e) The institution of higher education may expend grant | 8 |
| funds to cover the additional costs of offering classes in | 9 |
| community settings and for tutoring services. | 10 |
| (f) The community organization or organizations may | 11 |
| receive a portion of the grant money for the expenses of | 12 |
| recruitment, community orientation, and counseling of | 13 |
| potential candidates, for providing space in the community, and | 14 |
| for working with school personnel to facilitate individual work | 15 |
| experiences and support of candidates. | 16 |
| (g) The school district or school employee union or both | 17 |
| may receive a portion of the grant money for expenses of | 18 |
| supporting the work experiences of candidates and providing | 19 |
| mentors for graduates.
Notwithstanding the provisions of | 20 |
| Section 10-20.15 of the School Code, school districts may also | 21 |
| use these or other applicable public funds to pay participants | 22 |
| in programs under the Initiative for student teaching required | 23 |
| by an accredited teacher preparation program. | 24 |
| (h) One or more members member of the consortium may expend | 25 |
| funds to cover the salary of a site-based cohort coordinator. | 26 |
| (i) Grant funds may also be expended to pay directly for |
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| required developmental classes for candidates beginning a | 2 |
| program.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-979, eff. 6-30-06; 95-476, eff. 1-1-08.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 |
| becoming law.
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