Full Text of HB5003 94th General Assembly
HB5003 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB5003
Introduced 01/24/06, by Rep. Roger L. Eddy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/10-17a |
from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a |
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Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district's school report card assessing the performance of its schools and students must include for the school district (i) the percentage of teachers in contractual continued service or who have achieved permanent appointment status, (ii) the number of minutes the district's schools are in session during the school year (minimum of 880 hours), and (iii) the percentage of students in grades 9 through 12 who elect to take an advanced math or advanced science course. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 10-17a as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
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| Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability.
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| (1) Policy and
Purpose. It shall be the policy of the State | 9 |
| of Illinois that each school
district in this State, including | 10 |
| special charter districts and districts
subject to the | 11 |
| provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents, taxpayers
of | 12 |
| such district, the Governor, the General Assembly, and the | 13 |
| State
Board of Education a school report card assessing the | 14 |
| performance of its
schools and students. The report card shall | 15 |
| be an index of school
performance measured against statewide | 16 |
| and local standards and will provide
information to make prior | 17 |
| year comparisons and to set future year targets
through the | 18 |
| school improvement plan.
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| (2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall | 20 |
| prepare a report
card in accordance with the guidelines set | 21 |
| forth in this Section which
describes the performance of its | 22 |
| students by school attendance centers and
by district and the | 23 |
| district's financial resources and use of financial
resources. | 24 |
| Such report
card shall be presented at a regular school board | 25 |
| meeting subject to
applicable notice requirements,
posted on | 26 |
| the
school district's Internet web site, if the district | 27 |
| maintains an Internet web
site,
made available
to a newspaper | 28 |
| of general circulation serving the district, and, upon
request, | 29 |
| sent
home to a parent (unless the district does not maintain an | 30 |
| Internet web site,
in which case
the report card shall be sent | 31 |
| home to parents without request). If the
district posts the | 32 |
| report card on its Internet web
site, the district
shall send a
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| written notice home to parents stating (i) that the report card | 2 |
| is available on
the web site,
(ii) the address of the web site, | 3 |
| (iii) that a printed copy of the report card
will be sent to
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| parents upon request, and (iv) the telephone number that | 5 |
| parents may
call to
request a printed copy of the report card.
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| In addition, each school district shall submit the
completed | 7 |
| report card to the office of the district's Regional
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| Superintendent which shall make copies available to any | 9 |
| individuals
requesting them.
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| The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior | 11 |
| to October 31
in each school year. The report card shall | 12 |
| contain, but
not be limited to, actual local school attendance | 13 |
| center, school district
and statewide data indicating the | 14 |
| present performance of the school, the
State norms and the | 15 |
| areas for planned improvement for the school and school
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| district.
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| (3) (a) The report card shall include the following | 18 |
| applicable
indicators of attendance center, district, and | 19 |
| statewide student
performance: percent of students who exceed, | 20 |
| meet, or do not meet
standards established by the
State Board | 21 |
| of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a; composite and subtest
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| means on
nationally normed achievement tests for
college bound | 23 |
| students; student attendance rates; chronic
truancy rate; | 24 |
| dropout rate;
graduation rate;
and student
mobility, turnover
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| shown as a percent of transfers out and a percent of transfers | 26 |
| in.
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| (b) The report card shall include the following | 28 |
| descriptions for the
school,
district, and State: average
class | 29 |
| size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics, science,
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| English and social science at primary,
middle and junior high | 31 |
| school grade levels;
number of students taking the Prairie | 32 |
| State Achievement Examination under
subsection (c) of
Section | 33 |
| 2-3.64, the number of those students who received a score of | 34 |
| excellent,
and
the average score by school of students taking | 35 |
| the examination;
pupil-teacher ratio; pupil-administrator | 36 |
| ratio;
operating expenditure per
pupil; district expenditure |
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| by fund; average administrator salary; and average
teacher | 2 |
| salary.
The report card shall also specify the amount of money | 3 |
| that the district
receives from all sources, including without | 4 |
| limitation subcategories
specifying the amount from local | 5 |
| property taxes, the amount from
general State aid, the amount | 6 |
| from other State funding, and the amount
from other income.
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| (b-5) The report card shall include the following | 8 |
| descriptions for the school district: the percentage of | 9 |
| teachers in contractual continued service or who have achieved | 10 |
| permanent appointment status; the number of minutes the | 11 |
| district's schools are in session during the school year | 12 |
| (minimum of 880 hours); and the percentage of students in | 13 |
| grades 9 through 12 who elect to take an advanced math or | 14 |
| advanced science course.
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| (c) The report card shall include applicable indicators of | 16 |
| parental
involvement in each attendance center. The parental | 17 |
| involvement component
of the report card shall include the | 18 |
| percentage of students whose parents
or guardians have had one | 19 |
| or more personal contacts with the students'
teachers during | 20 |
| the school year concerning the students' education, and such
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| other information, commentary, and suggestions as the school | 22 |
| district
desires. For the purposes of this paragraph, "personal | 23 |
| contact" includes,
but is not limited to, parent-teacher | 24 |
| conferences, parental visits to
school, school visits to home, | 25 |
| telephone conversations, and written
correspondence. The | 26 |
| parental involvement component shall not single out or
identify | 27 |
| individual students, parents, or guardians by name.
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| (d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State | 29 |
| Board of
Education and provided to school districts by the most | 30 |
| efficient, economic,
and appropriate means.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-604, eff. 7-1-02; 92-631, eff. 7-11-02; | 32 |
| revised 7-26-02.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 34 |
| becoming law.
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