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90_HB3177
105 ILCS 405/2-2.5 new
Amends the Adult Education Act. Requires the State Board
of Education to administer a 5-year pilot grant program under
which, from appropriations made for the program's
implementation, annual cost of instruction grants are
distributed to Jobs For Youth/Chicago, a community-based job
training and placement and adult education program. Requires
the grants to be used to provide persons in Cook County who
are between the ages of 17 and 24 years with basic adult
secondary education, job training, and other instruction
necessary to increase their employment qualifications.
Provides for implementation of the adult secondary education
program under an interagency agreement between the State
Board of Education and Jobs for Youth/Chicago, and requires
the State Board of Education, which is to supervise the
program's implementation, to determine the annual amount of a
cost of instruction grant based upon performance outcomes of
students in the program and standards established by the
State Board of Education for program implementation.
Effective July 1, 1998.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Adult Education Act by adding Section
2 2-2.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Adult Education Act is amended by adding
6 Section 2-2.5 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 405/2-2.5 new)
8 Sec. 2-2.5. Pilot adult secondary education grant
9 program. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act or
10 any other law of this State, the State Board of Education
11 shall administer a 5-year pilot grant program under which,
12 from appropriations made for purposes of this Section for
13 fiscal year 1999 and each of the succeeding 4 fiscal years,
14 the State Board of Education shall distribute an annual cost
15 of instruction grant to Jobs For Youth/Chicago, a
16 community-based job training and placement and adult
17 education program. The grants shall be used to provide
18 persons between the ages of 17 and 24 years who reside within
19 a county that has a population in excess of 3,000,000
20 inhabitants with a basic adult secondary education program,
21 job training, and other instruction necessary to increase
22 their qualifications for employment. The adult secondary
23 education program shall be implemented pursuant to the terms
24 of an interagency agreement entered into between the State
25 Board of Education and Jobs For Youth/Chicago. The State
26 Board of Education shall supervise implementation of the
27 pilot program and determine the annual amount of the cost of
28 instruction grant to be distributed based upon performance
29 outcomes of students in the program and standards established
30 by the State Board of Education for the program's
31 implementation.
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
2 1, 1998.