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90_HB2089

      105 ILCS 5/14-9.01        from Ch. 122, par. 14-9.01
          Amends the School Code.  Makes a  change  in  punctuation
      and adds a gender neutral reference to provisions relating to
      qualifications  of  personnel  who  teach classes or programs
      authorized by the Article of  the  School  Code  relating  to
      children with disabilities.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  School  Code by changing Section
 2    14-9.01.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by changing
 6    Section 14-9.01 as follows:
 7        (105 ILCS 5/14-9.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-9.01)
 8        Sec.   14-9.01.   Qualifications   of   teachers,   other
 9    professional personnel, and  necessary  workers.   No  person
10    shall be employed to teach any class or program authorized by
11    this  Article who does not hold a valid teacher's certificate
12    as provided by law and unless he or she has had such  special
13    training  as  the  State  Board of Education may require.  No
14    special certificate or endorsement to a  special  certificate
15    issued  under Section 21.4 on or after July 1, 1994, shall be
16    valid for teaching students with visual  disabilities  unless
17    the  person  to whom the certificate or endorsement is issued
18    has attained satisfactory performance on an examination  that
19    is  designed  to  assess  competency  in  Braille reading and
20    writing skills according to standards that the State Board of
21    Education may adopt.  Evidence of successfully completing the
22    examination of Braille reading and  writing  skills  must  be
23    submitted  to  the  State  Board  of  Education  prior  to an
24    applicant's examination of the subject matter knowledge  test
25    required  under  Section  21-1a.   Beginning July 1, 1995, in
26    addition to other requirements, a candidate  for  a  teaching
27    certification  in  the  area  of the deaf and hard of hearing
28    granted by the Illinois State Board of Education for teaching
29    deaf and  hard  of  hearing  students  in  grades  pre-school
30    through  grade  12  must demonstrate a minimum proficiency in
31    sign language as determined by the Illinois  State  Board  of
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 1    Education.   All other professional personnel employed in any
 2    class, service, or program authorized by this  Article  shall
 3    hold  such  certificates  and  shall  have  had  such special
 4    training  as  the  State  Board  of  Education  may  require;
 5    provided that in a school district  organized  under  Article
 6    34,  the  school  district  may  employ  speech  and language
 7    pathologists   who   are   licensed   under   the    Illinois
 8    Speech-Language  Pathology and Audiology Practice Act but who
 9    do not hold a certificate issued under the School Code if the
10    district certifies  that  a  chronic  shortage  of  certified
11    personnel  exists.   Nothing  contained in this Act prohibits
12    the school board from employing necessary workers  to  assist
13    the  teacher  with the special educational facilities, except
14    that all such necessary workers must have had  such  training
15    as the State Board of Education may require.
16        No  later  than  January  1,  1993,  the  State  Board of
17    Education shall develop, in consultation  with  the  Advisory
18    Council  on  the  Education of Children with Disabilities and
19    the Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, rules  governing
20    the  qualifications  for certification of teachers and school
21    service  personnel  providing  services  to  limited  English
22    proficient students receiving special education  and  related
23    services.
24        The  employment  of  any  teacher  in a special education
25    program  provided  for  in  Sections  14-1.01  to   14-14.01,
26    inclusive,  shall  be  subject  to the provisions of Sections
27    24-11 to 24-16, inclusive.  Any teacher employed in a special
28    education program,  prior  to  the  effective  date  of  this
29    amendatory  Act  of  1987,  in  which  2  or  more  districts
30    participate shall enter upon contractual continued service in
31    each of the participating districts subject to the provisions
32    of Sections 24-11 to 24-16, inclusive.
33    (Source: P.A.  88-45;  88-49;  88-670,  eff. 12-2-94; 89-397,
34    eff. 8-20-95; 89-636, eff. 8-9-96; 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)

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