(105 ILCS 5/30-14.8)
Sec. 30-14.8.
Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program.
(a) The General Assembly finds that the Christa McAuliffe federal fellowship
is an award expressly and exclusively for the benefit of one or more elementary
or secondary teachers, provides funding for a sabbatical for the recipient of
the fellowship, has no express relationship to post-secondary educational
benefits under State and federal grant and loan programs administered by the
Illinois Student Assistance Commission (hereinafter in this Section sometimes
referred to as the "Commission"), and therefore is a program that from and
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995 should be administered
in this State by the State Board of Education.
(b) There is hereby transferred to the State Board of Education from the
Illinois Student Assistance Commission all authority and responsibility
exercised by the Commission before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1995 with respect to the administration within this State of the Christa
McAuliffe federal fellowship program. From and after the effective date of
this amendatory Act, the State Board of Education shall administer on behalf of
the State of Illinois and in accordance with all applicable rules and
regulations the conduct and operation of the Christa McAuliffe federal
fellowship program within this State.
(c) The Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall transfer to the State
Board of Education, as successor to the Commission for all purposes of
administering the Christa McAuliffe federal fellowship program, all books,
accounts, records, papers, documents, contracts, agreements, and pending
business in the possession or under the control of the Commission and relating
to its administration of the Christa McAuliffe fellowship program in this
State.
All pending applications made before the effective date of this amendatory Act
of 1995 for scholarship awards under the Christa McAuliffe fellowship program
and all scholarships awarded under that program before the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1995 shall be unaffected by the transfer to the State
Board of Education of all responsibilities and authority formerly exercised by
the Commission with respect to that program. The Commission shall furnish to
the State Board of Education such other information as the State Board of
Education may request to assist it in administering this Section.
(Source: P.A. 89-106, eff. 7-7-95.)
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