Full Text of HB7053 93rd General Assembly
HB7053 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB7053
Introduced 02/09/04, by David E. Miller - John A. Fritchey SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/21-1a |
from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a |
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Amends the Teacher Certification Article of the School Code. Provides that a teacher from another state or territory of the United States who has successfully achieved National Board certification must not be required to take an examination in order to receive a Master Certificate.
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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 |
| 21-1a as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/21-1a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a)
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| Sec. 21-1a. Tests required for certification and teacher | 8 |
| preparation.
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| (a) After July 1, 1988, in addition to all other | 10 |
| requirements, early
childhood, elementary, special, high | 11 |
| school, school service personnel, or,
except as provided in | 12 |
| Section 34-6, administrative certificates shall be
issued to | 13 |
| persons who have satisfactorily passed a test of basic skills | 14 |
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subject matter knowledge.
The tests of basic skills and | 15 |
| subject matter
knowledge shall be the tests which from time to | 16 |
| time are designated by the
State Board of Education in | 17 |
| consultation with the State Teacher
Certification Board and may | 18 |
| be tests prepared by an educational testing
organization or | 19 |
| tests designed by the State Board of Education in
consultation | 20 |
| with the State Teacher Certification Board. The areas to be
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| covered by the test of basic skills shall include the basic | 22 |
| skills of
reading, writing, grammar and mathematics. The test | 23 |
| of subject matter
knowledge shall assess content knowledge in | 24 |
| the specific subject field. The
tests shall be designed to be | 25 |
| racially neutral to assure that no
person in taking the tests | 26 |
| is thereby discriminated against on the basis of
race, color, | 27 |
| national origin or other factors unrelated to the person's
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| ability to perform as a certificated employee. The score | 29 |
| required to pass
the tests of basic skills and subject matter | 30 |
| knowledge shall be fixed by
the State Board of Education in | 31 |
| consultation with the State Teacher
Certification Board. The | 32 |
| tests shall be held not fewer than 3 times a year
at such time |
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| and place as may be designated by the State Board of Education
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| in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
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| (b) Except as provided in Section 34-6, the provisions of | 4 |
| subsection
(a) of this Section shall apply equally in any | 5 |
| school district subject to
Article 34, provided that the State | 6 |
| Board of Education shall determine
which certificates issued | 7 |
| under Sections 34-8.1 and 34-83 prior to July 1,
1988 are | 8 |
| comparable to any early childhood certificate, elementary | 9 |
| school
certificate, special certificate, high school | 10 |
| certificate, school service
personnel certificate or | 11 |
| administrative certificate issued under this
Article as of July | 12 |
| 1, 1988.
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| (c) A person who holds an early childhood, elementary, | 14 |
| special, high
school or school service personnel certificate | 15 |
| issued under this Article on
or at any time before July 1, | 16 |
| 1988, including a person who has been
issued any such | 17 |
| certificate pursuant to Section 21-11.1 or in exchange for
a | 18 |
| comparable certificate theretofore issued under Section 34-8.1 | 19 |
| or Section
34-83, shall not be required to take or pass the | 20 |
| tests in order to
thereafter have such certificate renewed.
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| (d) The State Board of Education in consultation with the | 22 |
| State Teacher
Certification Board shall conduct a pilot | 23 |
| administration of the tests by
administering the test to | 24 |
| students completing teacher education programs in
the 1986-87 | 25 |
| school year for the purpose of determining the effect and
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| impact of testing candidates for certification.
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| Beginning with the 2002-2003 academic year, a student may | 28 |
| not enroll
in a teacher preparation program at a recognized | 29 |
| teacher training
institution until he or she has passed the | 30 |
| basic skills test.
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| Beginning with the 2004-2005 academic year, a preservice
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| education teacher may not student teach until he or she has | 33 |
| passed the
subject matter test in the discipline in which he or | 34 |
| she will student
teach.
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| (e) The rules and regulations developed to implement the | 36 |
| required test
of basic skills and subject matter knowledge |
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| shall include the requirements
of subsections (a), (b), and (c) | 2 |
| and shall include specific regulations to
govern test | 3 |
| selection; test validation and determination of a passing
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| score; administration of the tests; frequency of | 5 |
| administration; applicant
fees; frequency of applicants' | 6 |
| taking the tests; the years for which a
score is valid; and, | 7 |
| waiving certain additional tests for additional
certificates | 8 |
| to individuals who have satisfactorily passed the test of
basic | 9 |
| skills and subject matter knowledge as required in subsection | 10 |
| (a).
The State Board of Education shall provide, by rule, | 11 |
| specific policies that
assure uniformity in the difficulty | 12 |
| level of each form of the basic skills
test and each subject | 13 |
| matter knowledge test from test-to-test and
year-to-year. The | 14 |
| State Board of Education shall also set a passing
score for the | 15 |
| tests.
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| (f) The State Teacher Certification Board may issue a | 17 |
| nonrenewable
temporary certificate between July 1, 1988 and | 18 |
| August 31, 1988 to
individuals who have taken the tests of | 19 |
| basic skills and subject matter
knowledge prescribed by this | 20 |
| Section but have not received such test scores
by August 31, | 21 |
| 1988. Such temporary certificates shall expire on
December 31, | 22 |
| 1988.
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| (g) Beginning February 15, 2000, the State Board of
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| Education, in
consultation with the State Teacher | 25 |
| Certification Board,
shall implement and administer a new | 26 |
| system of certification for teachers in
the State of Illinois. | 27 |
| The State Board of Education, in consultation with the
State | 28 |
| Teacher Certification Board, shall design
and implement a | 29 |
| system of examinations and various other criteria which
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| be required prior to the issuance of Initial Teaching | 31 |
| Certificates and
Standard Teaching Certificates. These | 32 |
| examinations and indicators shall be
based on national and | 33 |
| State professional teaching standards,
as determined by
the | 34 |
| State Board of Education, in consultation with the State | 35 |
| Teacher
Certification Board. A teacher from another state or | 36 |
| territory of the United States who has successfully achieved |
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| National Board certification through the National Board for | 2 |
| Professional Teaching Standards must not be required to take an | 3 |
| examination under this Section in order to receive a Master | 4 |
| Certificate. The State
Board of Education may adopt any and all | 5 |
| regulations necessary to implement and
administer
this | 6 |
| Section.
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| (h) The State Board of Education shall report to the | 8 |
| Illinois
General Assembly and the Governor with | 9 |
| recommendations for further changes and
improvements to the | 10 |
| teacher certification system no later than July 1,
1999
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| an annual basis until July 1, 2001.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff.
7-12-99; 92-734, eff. 7-25-02.)
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