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          Amends the School Code. Creates the Professional  Teacher
      Standards  Board  consisting  of  23 members appointed by the
      Governor  to  administer  the  Article  of  the  School  Code
      governing   the   certification   of   teachers   and   other
      certificated school personnel and the approval of teacher and
      administrator preparation programs.  Gives  the  Professional
      Teacher  Standards  Board  all  powers  and  duties currently
      exercised by the State  Board  of  Education  and  the  State
      Teacher Certification Board with respect to administration of
      the certification and program approval process, and abolishes
      the   State  Teacher  Certification  Board.   Authorizes  the
      Professional Teacher Standards Board to employ  an  Executive
      Director  and  such  other  staff members as are necessary to
      exercise its powers and duties and carry out  its  functions.
      Provides  that  a Standard Certificate may be renewed every 7
      (instead  of  5)  years  based  on  proof   of   professional
      development  (instead  of on proof of continuing education or
      professional development).  Makes  other  changes.  Effective
      January 1, 1999.
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 1        AN ACT relating to certification of school personnel.
 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section 5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Sections  2-3.11,  10-21.9,  10-22.20a,  10-22.24a, 10-22.34,
 6    14-1.09.1, 14-8.05, 14C-2, 21-1, 21-1a, 21-1b,  21-1c,  21-2,
 7    21-2.1,  21-2b, 21-3, 21-4, 21-5, 21-5a, 21-5b, 21-5c, 21-5d,
 8    21-7.1,  21-9,  21-10,  21-11,  21-11.1,  21-11.2,   21-11.3,
 9    21-11.4,  21-12,  21-14, 21-16, 21-17, 21-19, 21-21, 21-21.1,
10    21-23, 21-23b, 21-24, 21-25, 34-18.5, and  34-83  and  adding
11    Section 21-0.05 as follows:
12        (105 ILCS 5/2-3.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11)
13        Sec.  2-3.11.   Report  to Governor and General Assembly.
14    To report to the Governor and General Assembly annually on or
15    before January 14 the condition of the schools of  the  State
16    for the preceding year, ending on June 30.
17        Such  annual  report  shall  contain reports of the State
18    Teacher  Certification  Board;  the  schools  of  the   State
19    charitable institutions; reports on driver education, special
20    education,  and  transportation; and for such year the annual
21    statistical  reports  of  the  State  Board   of   Education,
22    including the number and kinds of school districts; number of
23    school  attendance centers; number of men and women teachers;
24    enrollment  by   grades;   total   enrollment;   total   days
25    attendance;  total  days  absence;  average daily attendance;
26    number of elementary and secondary school graduates; assessed
27    valuation; tax levies and tax  rates  for  various  purposes;
28    amount  of teachers' orders, anticipation warrants, and bonds
29    outstanding; and number of men and women teachers  and  total
30    enrollment  of private schools. The report shall give for all
31    school districts receipts from all sources  and  expenditures
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 1    for  all  purposes for each fund; the total operating expense
 2    and  the  per  capita  cost;   federal  and  state  aids  and
 3    reimbursements; new school buildings, and recognized schools;
 4    together with such other information and suggestions  as  the
 5    State  Board  of  Education may deem important in relation to
 6    the schools and  school  laws  and  the  means  of  promoting
 7    education throughout the state.
 8    (Source: P.A. 84-1308; 84-1424.)
 9        (105 ILCS 5/10-21.9) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9)
10        Sec. 10-21.9.  Criminal background investigations.
11        (a)  After  August  1,  1985,  certified and noncertified
12    applicants for employment  with  a  school  district,  except
13    school  bus driver applicants, are required as a condition of
14    employment to authorize an investigation to determine if such
15    applicants have been  convicted  of  any  of  the  enumerated
16    criminal  or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section.
17    Authorization for the investigation shall be furnished by the
18    applicant  to  the  school  district,  except  that  if   the
19    applicant  is a substitute teacher seeking employment in more
20    than  one  school  district,  a  teacher  seeking  concurrent
21    part-time employment positions  with  more  than  one  school
22    district  (as a reading specialist, special education teacher
23    or otherwise), or an educational support  personnel  employee
24    seeking employment positions with more than one district, any
25    such   district   may   require   the  applicant  to  furnish
26    authorization  for  the   investigation   to   the   regional
27    superintendent of the educational service region in which are
28    located  the  school  districts  in  which  the  applicant is
29    seeking employment as a substitute  or  concurrent  part-time
30    teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee.
31    Upon  receipt  of  this authorization, the school district or
32    the appropriate regional superintendent, as the case may  be,
33    shall  submit  the applicant's name, sex, race, date of birth
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 1    and social security number to the Department of State  Police
 2    on   forms   prescribed   by  the  Department.  The  regional
 3    superintendent submitting the requisite  information  to  the
 4    Department  of  State Police shall promptly notify the school
 5    districts in which the applicant is seeking employment  as  a
 6    substitute  or  concurrent  part-time  teacher  or concurrent
 7    educational support personnel employee that the investigation
 8    of the applicant has been requested. The Department of  State
 9    Police  shall  conduct  an  investigation to ascertain if the
10    applicant being considered for employment has been  convicted
11    of  any  of  the  enumerated  criminal  or  drug  offenses in
12    subsection (c).   The  Department  shall  charge  the  school
13    district or the appropriate regional superintendent a fee for
14    conducting  such  investigation, which fee shall be deposited
15    in the State Police Services Fund and shall  not  exceed  the
16    cost of the inquiry; and the applicant shall not be charged a
17    fee  for  such investigation by the school district or by the
18    regional superintendent.   The  regional  superintendent  may
19    seek  reimbursement  from the State Board of Education or the
20    appropriate school district or districts for fees paid by the
21    regional superintendent to the Department  for  the  criminal
22    background investigations required by this Section.
23        (b)  The  Department  shall furnish, pursuant to positive
24    identification, records of convictions,  until  expunged,  to
25    the  president  of  the  school board for the school district
26    which  requested  the  investigation,  or  to  the   regional
27    superintendent   who   requested   the   investigation.   Any
28    information concerning the record of convictions obtained  by
29    the   president   of   the   school  board  or  the  regional
30    superintendent  shall  be  confidential  and  may   only   be
31    transmitted  to  the superintendent of the school district or
32    his designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if  the
33    investigation  was  requested  by  the  school  district, the
34    presidents  of  the  appropriate   school   boards   if   the
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 1    investigation  was  requested  from  the  Department of State
 2    Police   by   the   regional   superintendent,   the    State
 3    Superintendent   of   Education,   the  Professional  Teacher
 4    Standards Board State  Teacher  Certification  Board  or  any
 5    other   person  necessary  to  the  decision  of  hiring  the
 6    applicant  for  employment.   A  copy  of   the   record   of
 7    convictions  obtained  from  the  Department  of State Police
 8    shall be provided to the  applicant  for  employment.  If  an
 9    investigation  of an applicant for employment as a substitute
10    or concurrent part-time  teacher  or  concurrent  educational
11    support  personnel  employee in more than one school district
12    was  requested  by  the  regional  superintendent,  and   the
13    Department of State Police upon investigation ascertains that
14    the applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated
15    criminal  or  drug offenses in subsection (c) and so notifies
16    the regional superintendent, then the regional superintendent
17    shall issue to the applicant a certificate evidencing that as
18    of the date specified by the Department of State  Police  the
19    applicant  has  not  been  convicted of any of the enumerated
20    criminal or drug offenses  in  subsection  (c).   The  school
21    board  of  any  school  district  located  in the educational
22    service region served  by  the  regional  superintendent  who
23    issues such a certificate to an applicant for employment as a
24    substitute teacher in more than one such district may rely on
25    the certificate issued by the regional superintendent to that
26    applicant,  or  may  initiate  its  own  investigation of the
27    applicant through the Department of State Police as  provided
28    in  subsection  (a). Any person who releases any confidential
29    information  concerning  any  criminal  convictions   of   an
30    applicant  for  employment  shall  be  guilty  of  a  Class A
31    misdemeanor,  unless  the  release  of  such  information  is
32    authorized by this Section.
33        (c)  No school board shall knowingly employ a person  who
34    has  been  convicted  for  committing  attempted first degree
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 1    murder or for committing or attempting to commit first degree
 2    murder or a Class  X  felony  or  any  one  or  more  of  the
 3    following offenses: (i) those defined in Sections 11-6, 11-9,
 4    11-14,  11-15,  11-15.1, 11-16, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-19.1,
 5    11-19.2, 11-20, 11-20.1, 11-21, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1,  12-15
 6    and  12-16 of the "Criminal Code of 1961"; (ii) those defined
 7    in  the  "Cannabis  Control  Act"  except  those  defined  in
 8    Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 5(a) of that Act; (iii) those defined
 9    in the "Illinois Controlled Substances  Act";  and  (iv)  any
10    offense  committed or attempted in any other state or against
11    the  laws  of  the  United  States,  which  if  committed  or
12    attempted in this State, would have been punishable as one or
13    more of the foregoing  offenses.  Further,  no  school  board
14    shall  knowingly employ a person who has been found to be the
15    perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under 18
16    years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of  the
17    Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
18        (d)  No  school board shall knowingly employ a person for
19    whom  a  criminal  background  investigation  has  not   been
20    initiated.
21        (e)  Upon  receipt  of the record of a conviction of or a
22    finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate  issued
23    pursuant  to  Article  21  or  Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
24    School  Code,  the  appropriate  regional  superintendent  of
25    schools  or  the  State  Superintendent  of  Education  shall
26    initiate   the   certificate   suspension   and    revocation
27    proceedings authorized by law.
28        (f)  After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section
29    shall  apply  to  all  employees  of persons or firms holding
30    contracts with any school district including, but not limited
31    to, food  service  workers,  school  bus  drivers  and  other
32    transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
33    the  pupils  of  any school in such district. For purposes of
34    criminal background investigations on employees of persons or
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 1    firms holding contracts with more than  one  school  district
 2    and  assigned  to more than one school district, the regional
 3    superintendent of the educational service region in which the
 4    contracting school districts are located may, at the  request
 5    of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the
 6    authorization   for   investigation  prepared  by  each  such
 7    employee and submitting the same to the Department  of  State
 8    Police.   Any information concerning the record of conviction
 9    of any such employee obtained by the regional  superintendent
10    shall   be   promptly   reported  to  the  president  of  the
11    appropriate school board or school boards.
12    (Source: P.A. 89-428, eff. 12-13-95;  89-462,  eff.  5-29-96;
13    89-610, eff. 8-6-96; 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)
14        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.20a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20a)
15        Sec.  10-22.20a.   Advanced  vocational training program,
16    and career education. To enter  into  joint  agreements  with
17    community  college  districts  and other school districts for
18    the  purpose  of  providing  career  education  or   advanced
19    vocational training of students in the 11th and higher grades
20    who  desire  preparation  for  a  trade.   Transportation for
21    students to any facility covered  by  a  joint  agreement  as
22    described   in   this   Section  shall  be  provided  by  the
23    participating school district, or by the participating school
24    district in conjunction with other school districts.    Joint
25    agreements  entered  into  under  this  Section  may  include
26    provisions  for joint authority to acquire and improve sites,
27    construct and equip facilities thereon and  lease  and  equip
28    facilities  deemed  necessary  by  the  parties  to the joint
29    agreement, to maintain programs and to provide for  financing
30    of  the  foregoing  jointly by the respective parties, all in
31    accordance with the terms of the joint agreement.
32        Nothing herein contained shall be construed  to  restrict
33    or  prohibit  the  rights  of  community college districts or
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 1    school districts to enter into  joint  agreements  under  the
 2    provisions  of  the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, as now
 3    or hereinafter amended.
 4        The  duration  of  the  career  education   or   advanced
 5    vocational  training  program  shall  be  such  period as the
 6    school district may approve but it may not exceed 2 years for
 7    any school district pupil.  Participation in the  program  is
 8    accorded the same credit toward a high school diploma as time
 9    spent in other courses.
10        The  participating  community  college  shall  bill  each
11    participating  student's  school district for an amount equal
12    to the per capita cost of  operating  the  community  college
13    attended  or  a  charge  for  participation  may  be  made in
14    accordance with the joint  agreement  between  the  community
15    college  district  and  the  student's school district.  Such
16    agreement shall not provide for payments  in  excess  of  the
17    actual  cost  of operating the course or courses in which the
18    student is enrolled.   Participating  high  schools  may  use
19    State aid monies to pay the charges.
20        The   community  college  instructors  teaching  in  such
21    programs need not be certified by  the  Professional  Teacher
22    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
23    (Source: P.A. 79-76.)
24        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.24a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.24a)
25        Sec. 10-22.24a.  To employ school counselors certified as
26    such  by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
27    Teacher   Certification   Board,   and  to  supervise  school
28    counselor interns enrolled in  a  school  counseling  program
29    approved  by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
30    Teacher Certification Board.
31    (Source: P.A. 82-998.)
32        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.34) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34)
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 1        Sec. 10-22.34. Non-certificated personnel.
 2        (a)  School Boards may employ non-teaching  personnel  or
 3    utilize volunteer personnel for:  (1) non-teaching duties not
 4    requiring instructional judgment or evaluation of pupils; and
 5    (2) supervising study halls, long distance teaching reception
 6    areas  used incident to instructional programs transmitted by
 7    electronic media such as computers,  video,  and  audio,  and
 8    detention   and   discipline   areas,   and  school-sponsored
 9    extracurricular activities.
10        (b)  School  boards   may   further   utilize   volunteer
11    non-certificated   personnel   or   employ   non-certificated
12    personnel  to  assist  in the instruction of pupils under the
13    immediate  supervision  of  a  teacher,   holding   a   valid
14    certificate,  directly  engaged in teaching subject matter or
15    conducting activities.  The  teacher  shall  be  continuously
16    aware  of  the non-certificated persons' activities and shall
17    be able to  control  or  modify  them.  The  State  Board  of
18    Education,  in  consultation  with  the  Professional Teacher
19    Standards Board  State  Teacher  Certification  Board,  shall
20    determine   qualifications   of   such  personnel  and  shall
21    prescribe rules for determining the duties and activities  to
22    be  assigned  to  such  personnel.  In  the  determination of
23    qualifications  of  such  personnel,  the  State   Board   of
24    Education  shall  accept  coursework  earned  in a recognized
25    institution  or  from  an  institution  of  higher   learning
26    accredited   by   the  North  Central  Association  or  other
27    comparable regional accrediting association.
28        (c)  School boards may also  employ  students  holding  a
29    bachelor's  degree  from  a  recognized institution of higher
30    learning as part time teaching interns when such students are
31    enrolled in a college or university internship program, which
32    has prior approval  by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
33    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
34    Teacher Certification Board, leading to a masters degree.
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 1        (d)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  require  constant
 2    supervision  of  a  student  teacher  enrolled  in  a student
 3    teaching course at a college  or  university,  provided  such
 4    activity  has the prior approval of the representative of the
 5    higher  education  institution  and   teaching   plans   have
 6    previously   been   discussed   with   and  approved  by  the
 7    supervising teacher and further provided that  such  teaching
 8    is  within guidelines established by the Professional Teacher
 9    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
10    the State Teacher Certification Board.
11    (Source: P.A. 88-89; 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
12        (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09.1)
13        Sec. 14-1.09.1.  School psychological services.   In  the
14    public  schools,  school  psychological  services provided by
15    qualified  specialists  who  hold  Type  73  School   Service
16    Personnel  Certificates endorsed for school psychology issued
17    by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher
18    Certification  Board may include, but are not limited to: (i)
19    administration  and  interpretation  of   psychological   and
20    educational   evaluations;   (ii)   developing   school-based
21    prevention  programs, including violence prevention programs;
22    (iii) counseling with  students,  parents,  and  teachers  on
23    educational and mental health issues; (iv) acting as liaisons
24    between public schools and community agencies; (v) evaluating
25    program  effectiveness;  (vi)  providing  crisis intervention
26    within the school setting; (vii) helping  teachers,  parents,
27    and  others  involved  in  the educational process to provide
28    optimum teaching and learning conditions  for  all  students;
29    (viii)  supervising  school  psychologist interns enrolled in
30    school  psychology   programs   that   meet   the   standards
31    established  by  the  State  Board  of  Education;  and  (ix)
32    screening  of  school  enrollments  to  identify children who
33    should be referred for individual  study.   Nothing  in  this
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 1    Section   prohibits   other   qualified   professionals  from
 2    providing  those  services  listed   for   which   they   are
 3    appropriately trained.
 4    (Source: P.A. 89-339, eff. 8-17-95.)
 5        (105 ILCS 5/14-8.05) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-8.05)
 6        Sec. 14-8.05.  Behavioral intervention.
 7        (a)  The   General   Assembly  finds  and  declares  that
 8    principals and teachers of students with disabilities require
 9    training  and  guidance  that  provide   ways   for   working
10    successfully  with  children who have difficulties conforming
11    to acceptable behavioral patterns  in  order  to  provide  an
12    environment in which learning can occur.  It is the intent of
13    the General Assembly:
14             (1)  That  when  behavioral  interventions are used,
15        they be used in consideration  of  the  pupil's  physical
16        freedom  and social interaction, and be administered in a
17        manner that respects human dignity and  personal  privacy
18        and  that  ensures  a  pupil's  right to placement in the
19        least restrictive educational environment.
20             (2)  That behavioral management plans  be  developed
21        and  used, to the extent possible, in a consistent manner
22        when a local educational agency has placed the pupil in a
23        day or residential setting for education purposes.
24             (3)  That a statewide study be conducted of the  use
25        of    behavioral   interventions   with   students   with
26        disabilities  receiving  special  education  and  related
27        services.
28             (4)  That  training  programs   be   developed   and
29        implemented  in  institutions  of  higher  education that
30        train teachers, and that in-service training programs  be
31        made  available  as  necessary  in  school  districts, in
32        educational   service   centers,    and    by    regional
33        superintendents  of  schools  to  assure  that adequately
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 1        trained staff are available to work effectively with  the
 2        behavioral    intervention   needs   of   students   with
 3        disabilities.
 4        (b)  On  or  before  September  30,   1993,   the   State
 5    Superintendent  of  Education shall conduct a statewide study
 6    of the use of behavioral  interventions  with  students  with
 7    disabilities   receiving   special   education   and  related
 8    services.  The study shall include, but  not  necessarily  be
 9    limited  to  identification  of  the  frequency in the use of
10    behavioral  interventions;  the  number  of  districts   with
11    policies  in  place  for  working  with  children  exhibiting
12    continuous  serious behavioral problems; how policies, rules,
13    or regulations within districts differ between emergency  and
14    routine  behavioral  interventions  commonly  practiced;  the
15    nature and extent of costs for training provided to personnel
16    for   implementing   a   program  of  nonaversive  behavioral
17    interventions;  and  the  nature  and  extent  of  costs  for
18    training provided to parents of  students  with  disabilities
19    who  would  be receiving behavioral interventions.  The scope
20    of the study  shall  be  developed  by  the  State  Board  of
21    Education,   in  consultation  with  individuals  and  groups
22    representing   parents,   teachers,    administrators,    and
23    advocates.   On  or  before June 30, 1994, the State Board of
24    Education  shall  issue  guidelines  based  on  the   study's
25    findings.   The  guidelines shall address, but not be limited
26    to, the following:  (i) appropriate behavioral interventions,
27    and (ii) how to properly document the need  for  and  use  of
28    behavioral   interventions   in  the  process  of  developing
29    individualized   education   plans    for    students    with
30    disabilities.  The guidelines shall be used as a reference to
31    assist   school  boards  in  developing  local  policies  and
32    procedures in accordance with this Section.  The State  Board
33    of  Education,  with  the  advice of parents of students with
34    disabilities and  other  parents,  teachers,  administrators,
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 1    advocates for persons with disabilities, and individuals with
 2    knowledge  or expertise in the development and implementation
 3    of behavioral interventions for  persons  with  disabilities,
 4    shall  review its behavioral intervention guidelines at least
 5    once  every   3   years   to   determine   their   continuing
 6    appropriateness   and   effectiveness  and  shall  make  such
 7    modifications in the guidelines as it deems necessary.
 8        (c)  Each school board  must  establish  and  maintain  a
 9    committee  to  develop  policies and procedures on the use of
10    behavioral interventions for students with  disabilities  who
11    require behavioral intervention.  The policies and procedures
12    shall  be adopted and implemented by school boards by January
13    1, 1996 and shall:  (i)  be  developed  with  the  advice  of
14    parents  with  students  with disabilities and other parents,
15    teachers,  administrators,   advocates   for   persons   with
16    disabilities,  and individuals with knowledge or expertise in
17    the   development   and    implementation    of    behavioral
18    interventions  for  persons with disabilities; (ii) emphasize
19    positive interventions  that  are  designed  to  develop  and
20    strengthen  desirable behaviors; (iii) incorporate procedures
21    and methods consistent with generally  accepted  practice  in
22    the  field  of behavioral intervention; (iv) include criteria
23    for determining when a student with disabilities may  require
24    a   behavioral   intervention  plan;  (v)  reflect  that  the
25    guidelines of the State Board of Education have been reviewed
26    and considered and provide the address of the State Board  of
27    Education  so  that  copies  of  the State Board of Education
28    behavioral guidelines may  be  requested;  and  (vi)  include
29    procedures  for  monitoring the use of restrictive behavioral
30    interventions. Each school board shall (i) furnish a copy  of
31    its local policies and procedures to parents and guardians of
32    all  students  with  individualized education plans within 15
33    days after the policies and procedures have been  adopted  by
34    the  school  board,  or within 15 days after the school board
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 1    has amended its policies and procedures, or at  the  time  an
 2    individualized  education  plan  is first implemented for the
 3    student,  and  (ii)  require  that  each  school  inform  its
 4    students of the existence  of  the  policies  and  procedures
 5    annually.  Provided,  at  the annual individualized education
 6    plan review, the school board shall  (1)  explain  the  local
 7    policies  and  procedures,  (2)  furnish  a copy of the local
 8    policies to parents and guardians, and  (3)  make  available,
 9    upon  request  of  any parents and guardians, a copy of local
10    procedures.
11        (d)  The State Superintendent of Education shall  consult
12    with  representatives of institutions of higher education and
13    the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State   Teacher
14    Certification   Board  in  regard  to  the  current  training
15    requirements for teachers to ensure that sufficient  training
16    is   available   in   appropriate   behavioral  interventions
17    consistent  with  professionally   accepted   practices   and
18    standards for people entering the field of education.
19    (Source: P.A. 89-191, eff. 7-21-95; 90-63, eff. 7-3-97.)
20        (105 ILCS 5/14C-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 14C-2)
21        Sec.  14C-2.  Definitions.  Unless  the context indicates
22    otherwise, the terms used in this Article have the  following
23    meanings:
24        (a)  "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
25        (b)  "Certification Board" means the Professional Teacher
26    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
27        (c)  "School   District"   means   any   school  district
28    established under this Code.
29        (d)  "Children of limited English-speaking ability" means
30    (1) children who were not born in  the  United  States  whose
31    native  tongue  is  a language other than English and who are
32    incapable of performing ordinary classwork  in  English;  and
33    (2)  children  who  were born in the United States of parents
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 1    possessing no or limited English-speaking ability and who are
 2    incapable of performing ordinary classwork in English.
 3        (e)  "Teacher of transitional bilingual education"  means
 4    a  teacher  with a speaking and reading ability in a language
 5    other than English in which transitional bilingual  education
 6    is offered and with communicative skills in English.
 7        (f)  "Program  in transitional bilingual education" means
 8    a full-time program of instruction (1) in all  those  courses
 9    or  subjects  which a child is required by law to receive and
10    which are required by the child's school district which shall
11    be given in the native language of the  children  of  limited
12    English-speaking  ability who are enrolled in the program and
13    also in English, (2) in the reading and writing of the native
14    language of the children of limited English-speaking  ability
15    who   are   enrolled   in   the   program  and  in  the  oral
16    comprehension, speaking, reading and writing of English,  and
17    (3)  in  the history and culture of the country, territory or
18    geographic area which is the native land of  the  parents  of
19    children of limited English-speaking ability who are enrolled
20    in  the  program and in the history and culture of the United
21    States; or a part-time program of instruction  based  on  the
22    educational    needs    of    those   children   of   limited
23    English-speaking ability who do not need a full-time  program
24    of instruction.
25    (Source: P.A. 86-1028.)
26        (105 ILCS 5/21-0.05 new)
27        Sec. 21-0.05.  Professional Teacher Standards Board.
28        (a)  The  Professional  Teacher Standards Board is hereby
29    created.  The  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  shall
30    consist  of  23  members  appointed  by the Governor.  Of the
31    members so appointed, 3 shall be  administrative  or  faculty
32    members of public or private colleges or universities located
33    in  the  State,  one  shall  be  a regional superintendent of
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 1    schools who has been nominated by a  regional  superintendent
 2    organization,  3  shall  be school administrators employed in
 3    the public schools of the State who have each been  nominated
 4    by  an  administrator  organization,  12  shall  be classroom
 5    teachers employed in the public schools of the State who have
 6    each been nominated by a professional teachers' organization,
 7    2 shall be parents of students attending  public  schools  of
 8    the  State who have each been nominated by a statewide parent
 9    organization, and 2 shall be representatives of the  business
10    community   of  the  State.   At  least  one  of  the  school
11    administrators and 4 of the classroom teachers  so  appointed
12    shall  be  employees  of a school district that is subject to
13    the provisions of Article 34.  One of the parents and one  of
14    the  representatives  of  the business community so appointed
15    shall be members of the Democratic party and the other parent
16    and representative of the business community shall be members
17    of the Republican party.  Whenever a vacancy in  a  classroom
18    teacher  position on the Professional Teacher Standards Board
19    is  to  be  filled  as  provided  in   this   Section,   each
20    professional  teachers'  organization is entitled to nominate
21    for each such vacancy one candidate for each 20,000, or major
22    portion thereof, members of that organization who hold  valid
23    teaching  certificates.   The nominations of the professional
24    teachers' organization shall be submitted by the organization
25    to the Governor not less than 60 days prior to the expiration
26    of the term of a person holding a classroom teacher  position
27    on  the Professional Teacher Standards Board or not more than
28    60 days after a vacancy in such a  position  occurs  for  any
29    other  reason.  The nominations shall be in writing and shall
30    be signed by the president and secretary of the  organization
31    submitting   the   nominations.   Of  the  members  initially
32    appointed to the Professional Teacher Standards Board:  2  of
33    the  3 administrative or faculty members of public or private
34    colleges or universities shall be appointed  to  serve  terms
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 1    expiring  on  the third Monday of January, 2001 and the other
 2    administrative or faculty member shall be appointed to  serve
 3    a  term  expiring  on  the third Monday of January, 2003; the
 4    regional superintendent of  schools  shall  be  appointed  to
 5    serve a term expiring on the third Monday of January, 2001; 2
 6    of  the  3  school administrators shall be appointed to serve
 7    terms expiring on the third Monday of January, 2001  and  the
 8    other school administrator shall be appointed to serve a term
 9    expiring  on  the  third Monday of January, 2003; 6 of the 12
10    classroom teachers shall be appointed to serve terms expiring
11    on the third Monday of January, 2001  with  the  remaining  6
12    classroom teachers being appointed to serve terms expiring on
13    the  third  Monday of January, 2003; one of the parents shall
14    be appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday  of
15    January,  2001  and  the  other  parent shall be appointed to
16    serve a term expiring on the third Monday of  January,  2003;
17    and  one  of  the  representatives  of the business community
18    shall be appointed to serve a  term  expiring  on  the  third
19    Monday  of  January, 2001 and the other representative of the
20    business  community  shall  be  appointed  to  serve  a  term
21    expiring on the third Monday of January, 2003. The successors
22    in office of  the  members  initially  appointed  under  this
23    subsection  shall  each serve terms of 4 years, commencing on
24    the third Monday of January of the  appropriate  odd-numbered
25    year.    All   members  shall  serve  until  a  successor  is
26    appointed, and any vacancy shall be filled for the balance of
27    the unexpired term in the same manner as an appointment for a
28    full term is made.  No member shall be eligible to serve as a
29    member of the Professional Teacher Standards Board  for  more
30    than 2 terms.
31        (b)  The  State  Teacher Certification Board is abolished
32    and the terms of its members are terminated when  12  of  the
33    initial  members of the Professional Teacher Standards Board,
34    which shall constitute a quorum of that Board, are  appointed
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 1    as   provided   in   subsection  (a).   The  members  of  the
 2    Professional Teacher Standards Board shall  take  office  and
 3    assume,   exercise,  and  perform  the  powers,  duties,  and
 4    responsibilities of that Board  under  this  Article  when  a
 5    quorum  of  the  initial  members of that Board is appointed.
 6    Until the State Teacher Certification Board is abolished upon
 7    the appointment of 12 persons to serve as initial members  of
 8    the Professional Teacher Standards Board, but not thereafter,
 9    the  State  Teacher  Certification  Board  shall exercise the
10    powers and duties that  it  was  authorized  or  required  to
11    exercise   and  perform  under  this  Article  prior  to  its
12    abolition.
13        (c)  The  chairperson   of   the   Professional   Teacher
14    Standards  Board shall be elected by the members of the Board
15    from among their number to serve for a term of one  year.   A
16    person  elected  to  serve as chairperson of the Board may be
17    reelected by the members of the Board to succeed  himself  or
18    herself  in  that  office.   The  members of the Professional
19    Teacher  Standards  Board  shall  meet  promptly   upon   the
20    appointment   of   a   quorum  of  the  members  to  organize
21    themselves, elect from their number a  chairperson  and  such
22    other  officers  as  they  deem  necessary, and establish the
23    dates of the regular meetings of the Board. The Board   shall
24    hold  special  meetings upon the call of the chairperson or a
25    majority of its members.  Members of the Professional Teacher
26    Standards Board shall be  reimbursed  for  all  ordinary  and
27    necessary  expenses  incurred  in  performing their duties as
28    members of the Board.
29        (d)  The Professional Teacher Standards Board, as a State
30    agency that is eligible for appropriations, shall comply with
31    the provisions of the Bureau of the Budget Act applicable  to
32    State agencies.
33        (e)  The  Professional Teacher Standards Board, acting in
34    accordance with the provisions of this Article and exercising
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 1    the exclusive powers granted to it under Section 21-1c, shall
 2    have the power and authority to do all of the following:
 3             (1)  set standards  for  teaching,  supervising,  or
 4        holding  other  certificated  employment  in  the  public
 5        schools,  and  administer  the  certification  process as
 6        provided in this Article;
 7             (2)  approve and evaluate teacher and  administrator
 8        preparation programs;
 9             (3)  revoke  and  suspend  certificates  issued  for
10        teaching,  supervising,  or  holding  other  certificated
11        employment in the public schools;
12             (3.5)  renew  certificates of teachers employed by a
13        school district subject to Article 34;
14             (4)  enter  into  agreements   with   other   states
15        relative   to   reciprocal   approval   of   teacher  and
16        administrator preparation programs;
17             (5)  establish standards for  the  issuance  of  new
18        types of certificates;
19             (6)  employ  and  direct  an  Executive Director and
20        such other staff as the Board deems necessary to exercise
21        its powers and duties under this Article, subject to  the
22        following conditions: all employees of the State Board of
23        Education  who shall lose their employment with the State
24        Board of Education as the result of the establishment  of
25        the   Professional   Teacher   Standards  Board  and  the
26        attendant  transfer  of   power   and   duties   to   the
27        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board shall be afforded
28        the  right   to   transfer   their   employment   without
29        interruption  from  the  State  Board of Education to the
30        Professional Teacher  Standards  Board,  retaining  their
31        seniority  status  and  salary as it then exists with the
32        State Board of Education;
33             (7)  establish standards for  induction,  mentoring,
34        and professional development programs;
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 1             (8)  take   such   other   action  relating  to  the
 2        improvement of instruction in the public schools  through
 3        teacher  education  and professional development and that
 4        attracts  qualified  candidates  into  teacher   training
 5        programs as is appropriate and consistent with applicable
 6        laws; and
 7             (9)  make  and  prescribe rules and regulations that
 8        are necessary for the administration of this Article.
 9        (f)  The  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board   shall
10    establish   a   committee  on  administrative  certification,
11    comprised solely of Board  members.   The  Board  may  create
12    standing  committees, comprised solely of Board members, when
13    deemed necessary by the Board to carry out its functions  and
14    responsibilities  under  this Article.  In addition the Board
15    may establish advisory committees  if  the  Board  determines
16    that such action may be necessary or appropriate.
17        (105 ILCS 5/21-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1)
18        Sec.  21-1.   Qualification  of  teachers.  No one may be
19    certified to teach or supervise in the public schools of this
20    State who is not of good character, good health, a citizen of
21    the United States  or  legally  present  and  authorized  for
22    employment, and at least 19 years of age.  If the holder of a
23    certificate under this Section is not a citizen of the United
24    States 6 years after the date of the issuance of the original
25    certificate, any certificate held by such person on that date
26    shall  be  cancelled  by  the board of education and no other
27    certificate to teach shall be issued  to  such  person  until
28    such person is a citizen of the United States.
29        Citizenship  is  not  required  for  the  issuance  of  a
30    temporary  part-time  certificate to participants in approved
31    training programs  for  exchange  students  as  described  in
32    Section  21-10.2.  A certificate issued under this plan shall
33    expire on June 30 following the date of issue.   One  renewal
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 1    for  one  year  is  authorized  if  the  holder remains as an
 2    official participant in an approved exchange program.
 3        In determining good character  under  this  Section,  any
 4    felony   conviction  of  the  applicant  may  be  taken  into
 5    consideration, but such a conviction shall not operate  as  a
 6    bar to registration.
 7        No  person  otherwise qualified shall be denied the right
 8    to be certified, to  receive  training  for  the  purpose  of
 9    becoming  a  teacher or to engage in practice teaching in any
10    school because of a physical  disability  including  but  not
11    limited  to  visual  and  hearing disabilities; nor shall any
12    school district refuse to employ a teacher on  such  grounds,
13    provided  that  the person is able to carry out the duties of
14    the position for which he applies.
15        No person may be granted or continue to hold  a  teaching
16    certificate  who  has knowingly altered or misrepresented his
17    or her  teaching  qualifications  in  order  to  acquire  the
18    certificate.   Any  other certificate held by such person may
19    be suspended or revoked by the Professional Teacher Standards
20    Board State Teacher Certification Board, depending  upon  the
21    severity of the alteration or misrepresentation.
22        No  one  may teach or supervise in the public schools nor
23    receive for teaching or supervising any part  of  any  public
24    school fund, who does not hold a certificate of qualification
25    granted,  on  or  after  January  1, 1999 by the Professional
26    Teacher Standards Board, or granted prior to that date by the
27    State  Board  of  Education   or   by   the   State   Teacher
28    Certification  Board and a regional superintendent of schools
29    as hereinafter provided, or by the board of  education  of  a
30    city  having  a  population  exceeding  500,000  inhabitants,
31    except as provided in Section 34-6 and in Section 10-22.34 or
32    Section 10-22.34b. However, the provisions of this Article do
33    not  apply to a member of the armed forces who is employed as
34    a teacher of subjects in the Reserve Officer's Training Corps
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 1    of any school.  Sections 21-2 through 21-24 do not  apply  to
 2    cities  having  a  population  exceeding 500,000 inhabitants,
 3    beginning until July 1, 1988.
 4        Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  this  Act,  the
 5    board  of  education  of  any  school district may grant to a
 6    teacher of the district a leave of absence with full pay  for
 7    a  period of not more than one year to permit such teacher to
 8    teach in a foreign state under the provisions of the Exchange
 9    Teacher  Program  established  under  Public  Law  584,  79th
10    Congress, and Public Law 402, 80th Congress, as amended.  The
11    school board granting such leave of absence may  employ  with
12    or  without  pay  a national of the foreign state wherein the
13    teacher on leave of absence will teach, if  the  national  is
14    qualified  to  teach  in  that  foreign  state,  and  if that
15    national will teach in a grade level similar to the one which
16    was taught in such foreign state.  The  Professional  Teacher
17    Standards Board State Board of Education shall promulgate and
18    enforce  such  reasonable  rules  and  regulations  as may be
19    necessary to effectuate the provisions of this Article or may
20    adopt for such purposes any  of  the  rules  and  regulations
21    promulgated  prior  to  January 1, 1999 by the State Board of
22    Education or by the State Teacher Certification  Board  prior
23    to the abolition of that Board paragraph.
24    (Source:  P.A.  88-189;  89-159,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-397, eff.
25    8-20-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
26        (105 ILCS 5/21-1a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a)
27        Sec. 21-1a. Tests required for certification.
28        (a)  After  July  1,  1988,  in  addition  to  all  other
29    requirements,  early  childhood,  elementary,  special,  high
30    school, school service personnel, or, except as  provided  in
31    Section  34-6, administrative certificates shall be issued to
32    persons who have satisfactorily passed a test of basic skills
33    and subject matter knowledge.  The tests of basic skills  and
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 1    subject  matter  knowledge shall be the tests which from time
 2    to time are designated by the Professional Teacher  Standards
 3    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
 4    Teacher  Certification  Board and may be tests prepared by an
 5    educational testing organization or  tests  designed  by  the
 6    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
 7    in  consultation  with the State Teacher Certification Board.
 8    The areas to be covered by the test  of  basic  skills  shall
 9    include  the  basic  skills of reading, writing, grammar, and
10    mathematics.  The test  of  subject  matter  knowledge  shall
11    assess  content  knowledge in the specific subject field. The
12    tests shall be designed to be racially neutral to assure that
13    no person  in  taking  the  tests  is  thereby  discriminated
14    against on the basis of race, color, national origin or other
15    factors  unrelated  to  the  person's ability to perform as a
16    certificated employee.  The score required to pass the  tests
17    of  basic  skills and subject matter knowledge shall be fixed
18    by the Professional Teacher Standards Board  State  Board  of
19    Education    in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
20    Certification Board.  The tests shall be held not fewer  than
21    3 times a year at such time and place as may be designated by
22    the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board of
23    Education   in   consultation   with   the   State    Teacher
24    Certification Board.
25        (b)  Except  as  provided in Section 34-6, the provisions
26    of subsection (a) of this Section shall apply equally in  any
27    school  district  subject  to  Article  34, provided that the
28    State Board of Education shall determine  which  certificates
29    issued  under Sections 34-8.1 and 34-83 prior to July 1, 1988
30    are comparable to any early childhood certificate, elementary
31    school  certificate,   special   certificate,   high   school
32    certificate,   school   service   personnel   certificate  or
33    administrative certificate issued under this  Article  as  of
34    July 1, 1988.
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 1        (c)  A  person  who holds an early childhood, elementary,
 2    special, high school or school service personnel  certificate
 3    issued  under  this  Article on or at any time before July 1,
 4    1988, including  a  person  who  has  been  issued  any  such
 5    certificate  pursuant to Section 21-11.1 or in exchange for a
 6    comparable  certificate  theretofore  issued  under   Section
 7    34-8.1  or  Section  34-83,  shall not be required to take or
 8    pass the tests in order to thereafter have  such  certificate
 9    renewed.
10        (d)  (Blank).   The   State   Board   of   Education   in
11    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board shall
12    conduct  a pilot administration of the tests by administering
13    the test to students completing teacher education programs in
14    the 1986-87 school year for the purpose  of  determining  the
15    effect and impact of testing candidates for certification.
16        (e)  The rules and regulations developed to implement the
17    required  test  of  basic skills and subject matter knowledge
18    shall include the requirements of subsections (a),  (b),  and
19    (c)  and  shall  include  specific regulations to govern test
20    selection; test validation and  determination  of  a  passing
21    score;    administration   of   the   tests;   frequency   of
22    administration;  applicant  fees;  frequency  of  applicants'
23    taking the tests; the years for which a score is valid;  and,
24    waiving  certain additional tests for additional certificates
25    to individuals who have satisfactorily  passed  the  test  of
26    basic  skills  and  subject  matter  knowledge as required in
27    subsection (a).  The  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
28    State  Board  of  Education  shall provide, by rule, specific
29    policies that assure uniformity in the  difficulty  level  of
30    each  form  of  the basic skills test and each subject matter
31    knowledge  test  from  test-to-test  and  year-to-year.   The
32    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
33    shall also set a passing score for the tests.
34        (f)  (Blank). The State Teacher Certification  Board  may
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 1    issue  a  nonrenewable  temporary certificate between July 1,
 2    1988 and August 31, 1988 to individuals who  have  taken  the
 3    tests of basic skills and subject matter knowledge prescribed
 4    by  this  Section  but  have not received such test scores by
 5    August 31, 1988.  Such temporary certificates shall expire on
 6    December 31, 1988.
 7        (g)  Beginning January 1, 1999, the Professional  Teacher
 8    Standards  Board  State  Board  of Education, in consultation
 9    with the State Teacher Certification Board,  shall  implement
10    and  administer a new system of certification for teachers in
11    the State of Illinois.  The  Professional  Teacher  Standards
12    Board  State  Board  of  Education,  in consultation with the
13    State Teacher Certification Board, shall design and implement
14    a system of examinations and  various  other  criteria  which
15    shall  be  required prior to the issuance of Initial Teaching
16    Certificates  and  Standard  Teaching  Certificates.    These
17    examinations  and  indicators  shall  be  based  on  national
18    professional   teaching   standards,  as  determined  by  the
19    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
20    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
21    Certification Board. The Professional Teacher Standards Board
22    State  Board  of  Education may adopt any and all regulations
23    necessary to implement and administer this Section.
24        (h)  The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
25    of Education shall report to the  Illinois  General  Assembly
26    and the Governor with recommendations for further changes and
27    improvements  to  the  teacher  certification system no later
28    than January 1, 2000  1999  and  on  an  annual  basis  until
29    January 1, 2002 2001.
30    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
31        (105 ILCS 5/21-1b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b)
32        Sec.  21-1b.   Subject  endorsement on certificates.  All
33    certificates initially issued under this Article  after  June
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 1    30,  1986,  shall be specifically endorsed by the State Board
 2    of Education for each subject the holder of  the  certificate
 3    is  legally  qualified to teach, such endorsements to be made
 4    in accordance with standards promulgated by the  Professional
 5    Teacher   Standards   Board   State  Board  of  Education  in
 6    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.  All
 7    certificates which are issued under  this  Article  prior  to
 8    July  1, 1986 may, by application to the Professional Teacher
 9    Standards Board State Board  of  Education,  be  specifically
10    endorsed  for each subject the holder is legally qualified to
11    teach. All subject endorsements made on or after  January  1,
12    1999  to  new  or  existing  certificates as provided in this
13    Section shall be made by the Professional  Teacher  Standards
14    Board.  Each  application  for  endorsement  of  an  existing
15    teaching   certificate   shall   be   accompanied  by  a  $20
16    nonrefundable fee.
17        Commencing January 1, 1994, an additional  $10  shall  be
18    charged  for  each  application  for  endorsement.   There is
19    hereby created a Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund as  a
20    special  fund within the State Treasury.  The proceeds of the
21    additional $10 fee shall be paid into the Teacher Certificate
22    Fee Revolving Fund; and the moneys  in  that  Fund  shall  be
23    appropriated  to the Professional Teacher Standards Board and
24    used by that  Board  to  provide  the  technology  and  other
25    resources  necessary  for the timely and efficient processing
26    of certification requests.
27    (Source: P.A. 88-224.)
28        (105 ILCS 5/21-1c) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1c)
29        Sec. 21-1c.  Exclusive certificate authority.   Only  the
30    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
31    and  State  Teacher Certification Board, acting in accordance
32    with the applicable provisions of this  Act  and  the  rules,
33    regulations  and standards promulgated thereunder, shall have
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 1    the authority to issue or endorse  any  certificate  required
 2    for  teaching, supervising or holding certificated employment
 3    in the public schools; and no other State agency  shall  have
 4    any  power  or  authority  (i)  to establish or prescribe any
 5    qualifications or other requirements applicable to teacher or
 6    administrator training and certification or to  the  issuance
 7    or endorsement of any such certificate required for teaching,
 8    supervising,  or  holding  certified employment in the public
 9    schools, or (ii) to establish or prescribe any  licensure  or
10    equivalent  requirement  which  must be satisfied in order to
11    teach, supervise  or  hold  certificated  employment  in  the
12    public schools.
13    (Source: P.A. 86-1441.)
14        (105 ILCS 5/21-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2)
15        Sec. 21-2.  Grades of certificates.
16        (a)  Until January 1, 1999, all certificates issued under
17    this  Article  shall  be  State certificates valid, except as
18    limited in Section 21-1,  in  every  school  district  coming
19    under the provisions of this Act and shall be limited in time
20    and    designated    as   follows:   Provisional   vocational
21    certificate, temporary  provisional  vocational  certificate,
22    early  childhood  certificate, elementary school certificate,
23    special certificate, high school certificate, school  service
24    personnel     certificate,     administrative    certificate,
25    provisional certificate,  and  substitute  certificate.   The
26    requirement  of  student  teaching  under close and competent
27    supervision for  obtaining  a  teaching  certificate  may  be
28    waived  by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards Board State
29    Teacher Certification Board upon  presentation  to  that  the
30    Board  by  the  teacher  of  evidence  of  5 years successful
31    teaching experience on a  valid  certificate  and  graduation
32    from  a  recognized  institution  of  higher  learning with a
33    bachelor's degree with not less than 120 semester hours and a
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 1    minimum of 16 semester hours in professional education.
 2        (b)  Initial Teaching Certificate.  Beginning January  1,
 3    1999,  persons  who  (1)  have  completed an approved teacher
 4    preparation program,  (2)  are  recommended  by  an  approved
 5    teacher  preparation program, (3) have successfully completed
 6    the Initial Teaching Certification examinations  required  by
 7    the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board of
 8    Education, and (4) have met all other criteria established by
 9    the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
10    Education    in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
11    Certification Board, shall  be  issued  an  Initial  Teaching
12    Certificate valid for 4 years.  Initial Teaching Certificates
13    shall   be  issued  for  categories  corresponding  to  Early
14    Childhood  Education,  Elementary  Education,  and  Secondary
15    Education,  with  special  certification   designations   for
16    Special  Education, Bilingual Education, fundamental learning
17    areas  (including  Language   Arts,   Reading,   Mathematics,
18    Science,  Social  Science,  Physical  Development and Health,
19    Fine Arts, and Foreign Language), and other areas  designated
20    by  the  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
21    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
22    Certification Board.
23        (c)  Standard Certificate.  Beginning  January  1,  1999,
24    persons  who  (1)  have completed 4 years of teaching with an
25    Initial Certificate, have successfully completed the Standard
26    Teaching Certificate examinations, and  have  met  all  other
27    criteria  established  by  the Professional Teacher Standards
28    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
29    Teacher Certification Board,  or  (2)  were  issued  teaching
30    certificates  prior to January 1, 1999 and are renewing those
31    certificates  after  January  1,  1999,  shall  be  issued  a
32    Standard Certificate valid for 5 years, which may be  renewed
33    thereafter   every   5  years  by  the  Professional  Teacher
34    Standards Board State Teacher Certification  Board  based  on
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 1    proof  of  continuing  education or professional development.
 2    Standard  Certificates  shall  be   issued   for   categories
 3    corresponding   to   Early  Childhood  Education,  Elementary
 4    Education,   and   Secondary    Education,    with    special
 5    certification  designations  for Special Education, Bilingual
 6    Education, fundamental  learning  areas  (including  Language
 7    Arts, Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Physical
 8    Development and Health, Fine Arts, and Foreign Language), and
 9    other  areas designated by the Professional Teacher Standards
10    Board State Board of  Education,  in  consultation  with  the
11    State Teacher Certification Board.
12        (d)  Master  Certificate.   Beginning  January  1,  1999,
13    persons   who   have  successfully  achieved  National  Board
14    certification through the  National  Board  for  Professional
15    Teaching  Standards  shall  be  issued  a Master Certificate,
16    valid for 7 years and  renewable  thereafter  every  7  years
17    through   compliance  with  requirements  set  forth  by  the
18    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
19    Education.
20    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
21        (105 ILCS 5/21-2.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2.1)
22        Sec. 21-2.1.  Early childhood certificate.
23        (a)  An  early childhood certificate shall be valid for 4
24    years for teaching children up to 6 years of  age,  exclusive
25    of  children enrolled in kindergarten, in facilities approved
26    by   the   Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State
27    Superintendent of Education.  Beginning July  1,  1988,  such
28    certificate  shall be valid for 4 years for Teaching children
29    through grade 3 in facilities approved  by  the  Professional
30    Teacher  Standards  Board  State Superintendent of Education.
31    Subject to the provisions  of  Section  21-1a,  it  shall  be
32    issued  to  persons  who  have  graduated  from  a recognized
33    institution of higher learning with a bachelor's  degree  and
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 1    with not fewer than 120 semester hours including professional
 2    education  or  human  development  or, until July 1, 1992, to
 3    persons who have early childhood  education  instruction  and
 4    practical  experience involving supervised work with children
 5    under 6 years of age or with children through grade  3.  Such
 6    persons   shall   be  recommended  for  the  early  childhood
 7    certificate by a recognized institution as  having  completed
 8    an   approved  program  of  preparation  which  includes  the
 9    requisite hours and academic  and  professional  courses  and
10    practical  experience  approved  by  the Professional Teacher
11    Standards  Board  State  Superintendent   of   Education   in
12    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
13        (b)  Beginning  January  1,  1999,  Initial  and Standard
14    Early Childhood Education Certificates  shall  be  issued  to
15    persons who meet the criteria established by the Professional
16    Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education.
17    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
18        (105 ILCS 5/21-2b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2b)
19        Sec.  21-2b.   Teacher  education  program  entrance.  In
20    consultation with the State Teacher Certification  Board  The
21    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
22    shall  develop  procedures  which  ensure  that  all students
23    entering approved teacher education programs  are  proficient
24    in the areas of reading, mathematics and language arts.  Each
25    institution   of   higher   learning   shall  submit  to  the
26    Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State    Teacher
27    Certification  Board  a  plan which sets forth procedures for
28    implementation of this Section.
29    (Source: P.A. 84-126.)
30        (105 ILCS 5/21-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-3)
31        Sec. 21-3.  Elementary certificate.
32        (a)  An elementary school certificate shall be valid  for
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 1    4  years  for teaching in the kindergarten and lower 9 grades
 2    of the common schools.  Subject to the provisions of  Section
 3    21-1a,  it shall be issued to persons who have graduated from
 4    a recognized institution of higher learning with a bachelor's
 5    degree and with not fewer than 120 semester hours and with  a
 6    minimum  of  16  semester  hours  in  professional education,
 7    including  5  semester  hours  in  student   teaching   under
 8    competent  and  close  supervision.  Such  persons  shall  be
 9    recommended  for  the  elementary certificate by a recognized
10    institution  as  having  completed  an  approved  program  of
11    preparation which includes intensive preservice  training  in
12    the   humanities,  natural  sciences,  mathematics,  and  the
13    academic   and   professional   courses   approved   by   the
14    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent  of
15    Education    in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
16    Certification Board.
17        (b)  Beginning January  1,  1999,  Initial  and  Standard
18    Elementary  Certificates  shall be issued to persons who meet
19    all of the criteria established by the  Professional  Teacher
20    Standards  Board  State  Board  of  Education  for elementary
21    education.
22    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
23        (105 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-4)
24        Sec. 21-4.  Special certificate.
25        (a)  A special certificate shall be valid for 4 years for
26    teaching the special subjects named therein in all grades  of
27    the  common  schools.  Subject  to  the provisions of Section
28    21-1a, it shall be issued to persons who have graduated  from
29    a recognized institution of higher learning with a bachelor's
30    degree and with not fewer than 120 semester hours including a
31    minimum  of 16 semester hours in professional education, 5 of
32    which shall be in student teaching under competent and  close
33    supervision. When the holder of such certificate has earned a
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 1    master's degree, including 8 eight semester hours of graduate
 2    professional  education  from  a  recognized  institution  of
 3    higher learning and with 2 two years' teaching experience, it
 4    may be endorsed for supervision.
 5        Such   persons  shall  be  recommended  for  the  special
 6    certificate by a recognized institution as  having  completed
 7    an  approved  program  of preparation which includes academic
 8    and professional courses approved by the Professional Teacher
 9    Standards  Board  State  Superintendent   of   Education   in
10    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
11        (b)  Beginning  January  1,  1999,  special certification
12    designations shall be issued for Special Education, Bilingual
13    Education,  fundamental  learning   areas   (Language   Arts,
14    Reading,   Mathematics,  Science,  Social  Science,  Physical
15    Development and Health, Fine Arts, and Foreign Language), and
16    other areas designated by the Professional Teacher  Standards
17    Board  State  Board  of Education, to persons who meet all of
18    the  criteria  established  by   the   Professional   Teacher
19    Standards  Board  State  Board  of Education, in consultation
20    with the State Teacher Certification Board.
21    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
22        (105 ILCS 5/21-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-5)
23        Sec. 21-5.  High school certificate.
24        (a)  A high school certificate shall be valid for 4 years
25    for teaching in grades  6  to  12  inclusive  of  the  common
26    schools. Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, it shall
27    be  issued  to  persons  who have graduated from a recognized
28    institution of higher learning with a bachelor's  degree  and
29    with  not fewer than 120 semester hours including 16 semester
30    hours in professional education,  5  of  which  shall  be  in
31    student  teaching  under  competent and close supervision and
32    with one or more  teaching  fields.  Such  persons  shall  be
33    recommended  for  the high school certificate by a recognized
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 1    institution  as  having  completed  an  approved  program  of
 2    preparation which  includes  the  academic  and  professional
 3    courses  approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
 4    State Superintendent of Education in  consultation  with  the
 5    State Teacher Certification Board.
 6        (b)  Beginning  January  1,  1999,  Initial  and Standard
 7    Secondary Certificates shall be issued to  persons  who  meet
 8    all  of  the criteria established by the Professional Teacher
 9    Standards  Board  State  Board  of  Education  for  secondary
10    education.
11    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
12        (105 ILCS 5/21-5a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-5a)
13        Sec. 21-5a.  Alternative math-science certification.  The
14    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
15    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
16    Certification   Board,  shall  establish  and  implement  and
17    administer an alternative certification program  under  which
18    persons  who  qualify  for admission to, and who successfully
19    complete the program and  meet  the  additional  requirements
20    established  by  this  Section  shall  be  issued  an initial
21    teaching certificate for  teaching  mathematics,  science  or
22    mathematics  and science in grades 9 through 12 of the common
23    schools.   In  establishing  an   alternative   certification
24    program   under   this   Section,  the  Professional  Teacher
25    Standards Board State Board of Education shall  designate  an
26    appropriate  area within the State where the program shall be
27    offered and made available to persons qualified for admission
28    to  the  program.   In  addition,  the  Professional  Teacher
29    Standards Board State Board of Education, in cooperation with
30    one or more recognized institutions of higher learning, shall
31    develop, evaluate, and revise as  necessary  a  comprehensive
32    course  of  study  that  persons admitted to the program must
33    successfully complete in order to satisfy one  criterion  for
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 1    issuance  of  an  initial certificate under this Section. The
 2    comprehensive course of study so developed shall include  one
 3    semester of practice teaching.
 4        An  initial  teaching  certificate, valid for 4 years for
 5    teaching mathematics, science, or mathematics and science  in
 6    grades  9  through  12 of the common schools and renewable as
 7    provided in Section 21-14, shall be issued under this Section
 8    21-5a to persons who qualify for admission to the alternative
 9    certification program and who at the time of applying for  an
10    initial teaching certificate under this Section:
11             (1)  have   graduated  with  a  master's  degree  in
12        mathematics or any science discipline from an institution
13        of  higher  learning  whose  scholarship  standards   are
14        approved  by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards Board
15        State Board of Education for purposes of the  alternative
16        certification program;
17             (2)  have  been employed for at least 10 years in an
18        area requiring knowledge  and  practical  application  of
19        their  academic  background  in  mathematics or a science
20        discipline;
21             (3)  have  successfully  completed  the  alternative
22        certification program and  the  course  of  comprehensive
23        study,  including  one  semester  of  practice  teaching,
24        developed  as  part  of  the  program as provided in this
25        Section  and  approved  by   the   Professional   Teacher
26        Standards Board State Board of Education; and
27             (4)  have   passed   the  examinations  required  by
28        Section 21-1a.
29        The   alternative   certification   program   shall    be
30    implemented  at  the  commencement  of the 1992-1993 academic
31    year.
32        The Professional Teacher Standards Board State  Board  of
33    Education  shall  establish  criteria  for  admission  to the
34    alternative certification program and shall adopt  rules  and
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 1    regulations  that  are  consistent with this Section and that
 2    the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
 3    Education  deems  necessary  to  establish  and implement and
 4    administer the program.
 5    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
 6        (105 ILCS 5/21-5b)
 7        Sec. 21-5b.  Alternative certification.  The Professional
 8    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of   Education,   in
 9    consultation  with  the  State  Teacher  Certification Board,
10    shall establish and implement  an  alternative  certification
11    program  under which persons who meet the requirements of and
12    successfully complete the program established by this Section
13    shall be  issued  an  alternative  teaching  certificate  for
14    teaching in the schools situated in a school district that is
15    located  in  a  city having a population in excess of 500,000
16    inhabitants. The program shall be limited to  not  more  than
17    260  new participants during each year that the program is in
18    effect. In establishing an alternative certification  program
19    under  this Section, the Professional Teacher Standards Board
20    State Board of Education shall designate the City of  Chicago
21    as  the  area  in  the  State where the program shall be made
22    available. In addition, the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
23    Board  State  Board  of  Education,  in  cooperation  with  a
24    partnership  formed  with  a  university  that  offers 4-year
25    baccalaureate and masters  degree  programs  and  that  is  a
26    recognized institution as defined in Section 21-21 and one or
27    more  not-for-profit organizations in the State which support
28    excellence in teaching, shall within 30 days after submission
29    by the partnership approve a course of study developed by the
30    partnership that persons in  the  program  must  successfully
31    complete in order to satisfy one criterion for issuance of an
32    alternative  certificate  under this Section. The Alternative
33    Teacher Certification program course of  study  must  include
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 1    the  current content and skills contained in the university's
 2    current courses  for  State  certification  which  have  been
 3    approved  by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
 4    Board of Education, in consultation with  the  State  Teacher
 5    Certification  Board,  as  the  requirement for State teacher
 6    certification.
 7        The alternative certification program  established  under
 8    this  Section  shall  be  known  as  the  Alternative Teacher
 9    Certification program.  The Alternative Teacher Certification
10    Program shall be offered by the  submitting  partnership  and
11    may be offered in conjunction with one or more not-for-profit
12    organizations  in  the  State  which  support  excellence  in
13    teaching.   The program shall be comprised of the following 3
14    phases: (a) the first phase is the course of study offered on
15    an  intensive  basis  in  education   theory,   instructional
16    methods,  and  practice teaching; (b) the second phase is the
17    person's assignment to a full-time teaching position for  one
18    school  year;  and  (c)  the  third  phase is a comprehensive
19    assessment of the person's  teaching  performance  by  school
20    officials    and   the   partnership   participants   and   a
21    recommendation by the partner institution of higher education
22    to the Professional Teacher Standards Board  State  Board  of
23    Education  that  the  person be issued a standard alternative
24    teaching   certificate.    Successful   completion   of   the
25    Alternative Teacher Certification program shall be deemed  to
26    satisfy  any  other  practice or student teaching and subject
27    matter requirements established by law.
28        A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for
29    one year of teaching in the common schools and not renewable,
30    shall be issued under this Section 21-5b to  persons  who  at
31    the time of applying for the provisional alternative teaching
32    certificate under this Section:
33             (1)  have  graduated  from  an accredited college or
34        university with a bachelor's degree;
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 1             (2)  have successfully completed the first phase  of
 2        the Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided
 3        in this Section; and
 4             (3)  have  passed  the  tests  of  basic  skills and
 5        subject matter knowledge required by Section 21-1a.
 6        A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate
 7    under this Section shall be treated as a regularly  certified
 8    teacher  for  purposes  of  compensation, benefits, and other
 9    terms and conditions of employment afforded teachers  in  the
10    school who are members of a bargaining unit represented by an
11    exclusive bargaining representative, if any.
12        A  standard alternative teaching certificate, valid for 4
13    years for teaching  in  the  schools  situated  in  a  school
14    district  that  is  located  in a city having a population in
15    excess of 500,000 inhabitants and renewable  as  provided  in
16    Section  21-14,  shall  be issued under this Section 21-5b to
17    persons  who  first  complete  the   requirements   for   the
18    provisional  alternative  teaching certificate and who at the
19    time  of  applying  for  a  standard   alternative   teaching
20    certificate  under  this  Section have successfully completed
21    the second  and  third  phases  of  the  Alternative  Teacher
22    Certification program as provided in this Section.
23        This   alternative   certification   program   shall   be
24    implemented   so   that  the  first  provisional  alternative
25    teaching certificates issued under this Section are effective
26    upon the commencement of the 1997-1998 academic year and  the
27    first standard alternative teaching certificates issued under
28    this  Section  are  effective  upon  the  commencement of the
29    1998-1999 academic year.
30        The Professional Teacher Standards Board State  Board  of
31    Education,  in  cooperation with the partnership establishing
32    the Alternative Teacher Certification  program,  shall  adopt
33    rules  and  regulations that are consistent with this Section
34    and that the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
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 1    of Education deems necessary to establish and  implement  the
 2    program.
 3    (Source: P.A. 89-708, eff. 2-14-97.)
 4        (105 ILCS 5/21-5c)
 5        Sec.  21-5c.  Alternative route to teacher certification.
 6    The Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
 7    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
 8    Certification   Board,   shall  establish  and  implement  an
 9    alternative route  to  teacher  certification  program  under
10    which  persons  who meet the requirements of and successfully
11    complete the program established by  this  Section  shall  be
12    issued  an  initial  teaching  certificate  for  teaching  in
13    schools  in  this  State.  The Professional Teacher Standards
14    Board State Board of Education  shall  approve  a  course  of
15    study  that persons in the program must successfully complete
16    in  order  to  satisfy  one  criterion  for  issuance  of   a
17    certificate  under  this  Section.   The Alternative Route to
18    Teacher Certification program course of  study  must  include
19    the  current  content  and skills contained in a university's
20    current courses  for  State  certification  which  have  been
21    approved  by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
22    Board of Education, in consultation with  the  State  Teacher
23    Certification  Board,  as  the  requirement for State teacher
24    certification.
25        The program established under this Section shall be known
26    as the Alternative Route to  Teacher  Certification  program.
27    The  program  may  be offered in conjunction with one or more
28    not-for-profit organizations in the State.  The program shall
29    be comprised of the following 3 phases: (a) a course of study
30    offered  on  an  intensive   basis   in   education   theory,
31    instructional   methods,   and  practice  teaching;  (b)  the
32    person's assignment to a full-time teaching position for  one
33    school year, including the designation of a mentor teacher to
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 1    advise  and  assist the person with that teaching assignment;
 2    and (c) a comprehensive assessment of the  person's  teaching
 3    performance  by school officials and program participants and
 4    a recommendation by the institution of  higher  education  to
 5    the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board of
 6    Education that the  person  be  issued  an  initial  teaching
 7    certificate.   Successful completion of the Alternative Route
 8    to Teacher Certification program shall be deemed  to  satisfy
 9    any  other  practice  or  student teaching and subject matter
10    requirements established by law.
11        A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for
12    one year of teaching in the common schools and not renewable,
13    shall be issued under this Section 21-5c to  persons  who  at
14    the time of applying for the provisional alternative teaching
15    certificate under this Section:
16             (1)  have  graduated  from  an accredited college or
17        university with a bachelor's degree;
18             (2)  have been employed for a period of at  least  5
19        years   in   an   area   requiring   application  of  the
20        individual's education;
21             (3)  have successfully completed the first phase  of
22        the Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided
23        in this Section; and
24             (4)  have  passed  the  tests  of  basic  skills and
25        subject matter knowledge required by Section 21-1a.
26        An initial teaching certificate, valid  for  teaching  in
27    the  common  schools,  shall  be issued under Section 21-3 or
28    21-5 to persons who first complete the requirements  for  the
29    provisional  alternative  teaching certificate and who at the
30    time of applying for an  initial  teaching  certificate  have
31    successfully  completed  the  second  and third phases of the
32    Alternative  Route  to  Teacher  Certification   program   as
33    provided in this Section.
34        A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate
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 1    or  an initial teaching certificate earned under this Section
 2    shall  be  treated  as  a  regularly  certified  teacher  for
 3    purposes of  compensation,  benefits,  and  other  terms  and
 4    conditions  of employment afforded teachers in the school who
 5    are members of a bargaining unit represented by an  exclusive
 6    bargaining representative, if any.
 7        The  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
 8    Education may adopt rules and regulations that are consistent
 9    with this Section and that the Professional Teacher Standards
10    Board State Board deems necessary to establish and  implement
11    the program.
12    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
13        (105 ILCS 5/21-5d)
14        Sec.   21-5d.    Alternative   route   to  administrative
15    certification.   The  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
16    State Board of Education,  in  consultation  with  the  State
17    Teacher  Certification Board and an advisory panel consisting
18    of no less than  7  administrators  appointed  by  the  State
19    Superintendent of Education, shall establish and implement an
20    alternative  route  to  administrative  certification program
21    under  which  persons  who  meet  the  requirements  of   and
22    successfully complete the program established by this Section
23    shall  be  issued  a  standard administrative certificate for
24    serving as an administrator in schools in  this  State.   For
25    the  purposes  of  this Section only, "administrator" means a
26    person  holding  any  administrative  position  for  which  a
27    standard   administrative   certificate   with   a    general
28    administrative  endorsement,  chief  school business official
29    endorsement,  or  superintendent  endorsement  is   required,
30    except   a   principal   or   an  assistant  principal.   The
31    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
32    shall approve a course of study that persons in  the  program
33    must  successfully complete in order to satisfy one criterion
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 1    for issuance  of  a  certificate  under  this  Section.   The
 2    Alternative  Route  to  Administrative  Certification program
 3    course of study must include the current content  and  skills
 4    contained   in  a  university's  current  courses  for  State
 5    certification which have been approved  by  the  Professional
 6    Teacher   Standards   Board  State  Board  of  Education,  in
 7    consultation with the State Teacher Certification  Board,  as
 8    the requirement for administrative certification.
 9        The program established under this Section shall be known
10    as  the  Alternative  Route  to  Administrative Certification
11    program.  The program shall be comprised of the  following  3
12    phases:  (a)  a course of study offered on an intensive basis
13    in  education  management,  governance,   organization,   and
14    planning; (b) the person's assignment to a full-time position
15    for   one   school  year  as  an  administrator;  and  (c)  a
16    comprehensive  assessment  of  the  person's  performance  by
17    school officials and a  recommendation  to  the  Professional
18    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board of Education that the
19    person  be  issued  a  standard  administrative  certificate.
20    Successful   completion   of   the   Alternative   Route   to
21    Administrative  Certification  program  shall  be  deemed  to
22    satisfy any other supervisory, administrative, or  management
23    experience requirements established by law.
24        A  provisional  alternative  administrative  certificate,
25    valid  for  one  year  of  serving as an administrator in the
26    common schools and not renewable, shall be issued under  this
27    Section  21-5d to persons who at the time of applying for the
28    provisional alternative administrative certificate under this
29    Section:
30             (1)  have graduated from an  accredited  college  or
31        university  with  a master's degree in a management field
32        or with a  bachelor's  degree  and  the  life  experience
33        equivalent  of a master's degree in a management field as
34        determined by the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
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 1        State Board of Education;
 2             (2)  have  been  employed for a period of at least 5
 3        years in a management level position;
 4             (3)  have successfully completed the first phase  of
 5        the  Alternative  Route  to  Administrative Certification
 6        program as provided in this Section; and
 7             (4)  have passed any  examination  required  by  the
 8        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
 9        Education.
10        A  standard  administrative  certificate  with  a general
11    administrative endorsement, chief  school  business  official
12    endorsement,  or  superintendent  endorsement,  renewable  as
13    provided  in  Section  21-14,  shall  be issued under Section
14    21-7.1 to persons who first complete the requirements for the
15    provisional alternative administrative certificate and who at
16    the  time  of  applying   for   a   standard   administrative
17    certificate  have successfully completed the second and third
18    phases   of   the   Alternative   Route   to   Administrative
19    Certification program as provided in this Section.
20        The Professional Teacher Standards Board State  Board  of
21    Education may adopt rules and regulations that are consistent
22    with this Section and that the Professional Teacher Standards
23    Board  State Board deems necessary to establish and implement
24    the program.
25    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
26        (105 ILCS 5/21-7.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1)
27        Sec. 21-7.1.  Administrative certificate.
28        (a)  After January 1, 1986, an administrative certificate
29    valid for 5 years of supervising  and  administering  in  the
30    public  common  schools  may  be  issued  to persons who have
31    graduated from a recognized institution  of  higher  learning
32    with  a  master's degree and who have been certified by these
33    institutions of higher learning as having completed a program
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 1    of preparation for one or more of  these  endorsements.  Such
 2    programs  of  academic  and professional preparation required
 3    for endorsement shall be administered by the  institution  in
 4    accordance  with  standards  set  forth  by  the Professional
 5    Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of Education  in
 6    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
 7        (b)  No  administrative  certificate  shall be issued for
 8    the first  time  after  June  30,  1987  and  no  endorsement
 9    provided  for  by this Section shall be made or affixed to an
10    administrative certificate for the first time after June  30,
11    1987   unless   the   person   to  whom  such  administrative
12    certificate is  to  be  issued  or  to  whose  administrative
13    certificate  such  endorsement  is  to  be  affixed  has been
14    required to demonstrate as a part of a program of academic or
15    professional   preparation   for   such   certification    or
16    endorsement: (i) an understanding of the knowledge called for
17    in establishing productive parent-school relationships and of
18    the   procedures   fostering   the   involvement  which  such
19    relationships  demand;  and  (ii)  an  understanding  of  the
20    knowledge required for establishing  a  high  quality  school
21    climate   and   promoting  good  classroom  organization  and
22    management, including  rules  of  conduct  and  instructional
23    procedures   appropriate   to   accomplishing  the  tasks  of
24    schooling; and (iii) a demonstration  of  the  knowledge  and
25    skills called for in providing instructional leadership.  The
26    standards   for   demonstrating   an  understanding  of  such
27    knowledge shall be set  forth  by  the  Professional  Teacher
28    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
29    the   State   Teacher   Certification  Board,  and  shall  be
30    administered  by  the  recognized  institutions   of   higher
31    learning as part of the programs of academic and professional
32    preparation  required for certification and endorsement under
33    this Section.  As  used  in  this  subsection:  "establishing
34    productive  parent-school relationships" means the ability to
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 1    maintain effective communication between parents  and  school
 2    personnel,  to  encourage  parental involvement in schooling,
 3    and  to  motivate  school  personnel  to  engage  parents  in
 4    encouraging student achievement, including the development of
 5    programs and policies which serve to accomplish this purpose;
 6    and "establishing a high quality school  climate"  means  the
 7    ability   to   promote   academic  achievement,  to  maintain
 8    discipline,  to  recognize  substance  abuse  problems  among
 9    students and utilize appropriate law  enforcement  and  other
10    community  resources  to  address  these problems, to support
11    teachers  and  students  in  their  education  endeavors,  to
12    establish learning objectives, and to  provide  instructional
13    leadership,   including   the  development  of  policies  and
14    programs  which  serve  to  accomplish  this   purpose;   and
15    "providing  instructional  leadership"  means  the ability to
16    effectively evaluate school  personnel,  to  possess  general
17    communication  and interpersonal skills, and to establish and
18    maintain appropriate classroom  learning  environments.   The
19    provisions  of  this  subsection shall not apply to or affect
20    the initial issuance or making on or before June 30, 1987  of
21    any  administrative  certificate  or endorsement provided for
22    under this Section, nor shall such  provisions  apply  to  or
23    affect   the   renewal  after  June  30,  1987  of  any  such
24    certificate or endorsement initially issued  or  made  on  or
25    before June 30, 1987.
26        (c)  Administrative certificates shall be renewed every 5
27    five  years  with  the  first  renewal  being  5  five  years
28    following   the   initial   receipt   of   an  administrative
29    certificate. Renewal requirements  for  administrators  whose
30    positions  require certification shall be based upon evidence
31    of  continuing  professional  education  which  promotes  the
32    following goals:  (1) Improving administrators' knowledge  of
33    instructional  practices  and  administrative procedures; (2)
34    Maintaining  the  basic  level  of  competence  required  for
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 1    initial certification;  and  (3)  Improving  the  mastery  of
 2    skills  and  knowledge  regarding the improvement of teaching
 3    performance in clinical settings and assessment of the levels
 4    of  student  performance  in  their  schools.    Evidence  of
 5    continuing professional education must  include  verification
 6    of biennial attendance in a program developed by the Illinois
 7    Administrators'    Academy   and   verification   of   annual
 8    participation in a school district  approved  activity  which
 9    contributes   to   continuing  professional  education.   The
10    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
11    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
12    Certification  Board,  shall develop, evaluate, and revise as
13    necessary procedures for implementing this Section and  shall
14    administer   the   renewal  of  administrative  certificates.
15    Failure  to  submit  satisfactory  evidence   of   continuing
16    professional  education  which  contributes  to promoting the
17    goals  of  this  Section  shall   result   in   a   loss   of
18    administrative certification.
19        (d)  Any  limited  or life supervisory certificate issued
20    prior to July 1, 1968 shall continue  to  be  valid  for  all
21    administrative   and  supervisory  positions  in  the  public
22    schools for which it is valid as of that date as long as  its
23    holder  meets the requirements for registration or renewal as
24    set forth in the statutes or until revoked according to law.
25        (e)  The  administrative  or  supervisory  positions  for
26    which the certificate shall be valid shall be  determined  by
27    one  or  more of 3 endorsements: general supervisory, general
28    administrative and superintendent.
29        Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a,  endorsements
30    shall  be  made  under  conditions set forth in this Section.
31    The Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
32    Education  shall,  in  consultation  with  the  State Teacher
33    Certification Board, adopt rules  pursuant  to  the  Illinois
34    Administrative  Procedure  Act, establishing requirements for
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 1    obtaining  administrative  certificates  where  the   minimum
 2    administrative  or supervisory requirements surpass those set
 3    forth in this Section.
 4        If the Professional Teacher Standards  Board  establishes
 5    State  Teacher  Certification Board shall file with the State
 6    Board of Education a written recommendation when  considering
 7    additional administrative or supervisory requirements, those.
 8    All additional requirements shall be based upon the requisite
 9    knowledge  necessary  to  perform the those tasks required by
10    the certificate.  The Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
11    State Board of Education shall in consultation with the State
12    Teacher  Certification  Board, establish standards within its
13    rules which  shall  include  the  academic  and  professional
14    requirements  necessary  for  certification.  These standards
15    shall at a minimum contain, but not be limited to, those used
16    by the Professional Teacher Standards Board  State  Board  of
17    Education in determining whether additional knowledge will be
18    required.   Additionally,  the Professional Teacher Standards
19    Board State Board of Education shall in consultation with the
20    State  Teacher  Certification  Board,  establish   provisions
21    within  its  rules  whereby  any  member  of  the educational
22    community  or  the  public  may   file   a   formal   written
23    recommendation or inquiry regarding requirements.
24             (1)  The  general  supervisory  endorsement shall be
25        affixed to the administrative certificate of  any  holder
26        who  has at least 16 semester hours of graduate credit in
27        professional education  including  8  semester  hours  of
28        graduate credit in curriculum and research and who has at
29        least  2 years of full-time teaching experience or school
30        service personnel experience in public  schools,  schools
31        under  the  supervision of the Department of Corrections,
32        schools under the administration  of  the  Department  of
33        Rehabilitation Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the
34        standards  established  by  the  State  Superintendent of
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 1        Education   or   comparable   out-of-state    recognition
 2        standards   approved   by  the  State  Superintendent  of
 3        Education.
 4             Such endorsement shall be required for  supervisors,
 5        curriculum  directors  and  for  such similar and related
 6        positions  as  determined  by  the  Professional  Teacher
 7        Standards Board  State  Superintendent  of  Education  in
 8        consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
 9             (2)  The general administrative endorsement shall be
10        affixed  to  the administrative certificate of any holder
11        who has at least 20 semester hours of graduate credit  in
12        educational administration and supervision and who has at
13        least  2 years of full-time teaching experience or school
14        service personnel experience in public  schools,  schools
15        under  the  supervision of the Department of Corrections,
16        schools under the administration  of  the  Department  of
17        Rehabilitation Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the
18        standards  established  by  the  State  Superintendent of
19        Education   or   comparable   out-of-state    recognition
20        standards   approved   by  the  State  Superintendent  of
21        Education.
22             Such endorsement shall be  required  for  principal,
23        assistant     principal,     assistant    or    associate
24        superintendent, junior college dean and  for  related  or
25        similar  positions  as  determined  by  the  Professional
26        Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of Education
27        in  consultation  with  the  State  Teacher Certification
28        Board.
29             Notwithstanding any other provisions  of  this  Act,
30        after  January  1,  1990  and  until January 1, 1991, any
31        teacher employed by a  district  subject  to  Article  34
32        shall   be   entitled   to   receive   an  administrative
33        certificate with  a  general  administrative  endorsement
34        affixed thereto if he or she: (i) had at least 3 years of
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 1        experience as a certified teacher for such district prior
 2        to  August 1, 1985; (ii) obtained a Master's degree prior
 3        to August 1, 1985; (iii) completed at least 20  hours  of
 4        graduate  credit in education courses (including at least
 5        12 hours in educational administration  and  supervision)
 6        prior  to  September  1,  1987;  and  (iv) has received a
 7        rating of superior for at least each of the last 5 years.
 8        Any person who obtains an administrative certificate with
 9        a  general  administrative  endorsement  affixed  thereto
10        under this paragraph shall not be qualified to  serve  in
11        any administrative position except assistant principal.
12             (3)  The  chief school business official endorsement
13        shall be affixed to the administrative certificate of any
14        holder who qualifies by having a Master's degree,  2  two
15        years  of  administrative  experience  in school business
16        management,  and  a  minimum  of  20  semester  hours  of
17        graduate  credit  in  a  program   established   by   the
18        Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent
19        of  Education  in  consultation  with  the  State Teacher
20        Certification  Board  for  the  preparation   of   school
21        business  administrators.  Such endorsement shall also be
22        affixed to the administrative certificate of  any  holder
23        who  qualifies  by  having  a Master's Degree in Business
24        Administration, Finance or Accounting from  a  regionally
25        accredited institution of higher education.
26             After  June  30,  1977,  such  endorsement  shall be
27        required for any individual first  employed  as  a  chief
28        school business official.
29        (4)  The  superintendent  endorsement shall be affixed to
30    the  administrative  certificate  of  any  holder   who   has
31    completed  30  semester  hours  of graduate credit beyond the
32    master's  degree  in  a  program  for  the   preparation   of
33    superintendents  of  schools  including  16 semester hours of
34    graduate credit in professional  education  and  who  has  at
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 1    least 2 years experience as an administrator or supervisor in
 2    the  public  schools  or  the  State  Board  of Education  or
 3    education service regions or in nonpublic schools meeting the
 4    standards  established  by  the   State   Superintendent   of
 5    Education  or  comparable  out-of-state recognition standards
 6    approved by the State Superintendent of Education  and  holds
 7    general supervisory or general administrative endorsement, or
 8    who  has  had  2  years  of  experience  as  a  supervisor or
 9    administrator  while   holding   an   all-grade   supervisory
10    certificate  or  a  certificate  comparable  in  validity and
11    educational and experience requirements.
12        After June 30, 1968, such endorsement shall  be  required
13    for  a  superintendent  of schools, except as provided in the
14    second paragraph of this Section and in Section 34-6.
15        Any person appointed to the  position  of  superintendent
16    between the effective date of this Act and June 30, 1993 in a
17    school  district  organized  pursuant  to  Article 32 with an
18    enrollment of at least 20,000 pupils shall be exempt from the
19    provisions of this subsection (4) until June 30, 1996.
20        (f)  All official interpretations or acts of  issuing  or
21    denying  administrative  certificates  or endorsements by the
22    State Teacher's Certification Board, State Board of Education
23    or the State Superintendent of Education, from the passage of
24    P.A. 81-1208 on November 8, 1979 through September  24,  1981
25    are  hereby declared valid and legal acts in all respects and
26    further that the purported repeal of the provisions  of  this
27    Section by P.A. 81-1208 and P.A. 81-1509 is declared null and
28    void.
29    (Source: P.A. 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
30        (105 ILCS 5/21-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-9)
31        Sec. 21-9.  Substitute certificates.
32        (a)  A  substitute teacher's certificate may be issued by
33    the Professional Teacher Standards Board for teaching in  all
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 1    grades of the common schools.  Such certificate may be issued
 2    by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board upon request of
 3    the  regional superintendent of schools  of  any   region  in
 4    which  the  teacher  is  to  teach.   A  substitute teacher's
 5    certificate is valid for teaching in the  public  schools  of
 6    any   county.    Such   certificate  may  be  issued  by  the
 7    Professional Teacher Standards Board to  persons  who  either
 8    (i)  (a) hold a certificate  valid for teaching in the common
 9    schools as shown on the face of  the  certificate,  (ii)  (b)
10    hold  a bachelor of arts degree from an institution of higher
11    learning accredited by the North Central Association or other
12    comparable regional  accrediting  association  or  have  been
13    graduated  from  a  recognized institution of higher learning
14    with a bachelor's degree, or (iii) (c) have had  2  years  of
15    teaching experience and meet such other rules and regulations
16    as may be adopted by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
17    State  Board  of  Education  in  consultation  with the State
18    Teacher Certification Board.  Such certificate  shall  expire
19    on June 30 in the fourth year from date of issue.
20        (b)  A teacher holding a substitute teacher's certificate
21    may  teach  only  in  the place of a certified teacher who is
22    under contract with the employing board and  may  teach  only
23    when  no  appropriate fully certified teacher is available to
24    teach in a substitute capacity.  A teacher holding  an  early
25    childhood  certificate,  an  elementary  certificate,  a high
26    school  certificate,  or  a  special  certificate  may   also
27    substitute  teach  in  grades K-12 but only in the place of a
28    certified teacher who is under contract  with  the  employing
29    board.   A substitute teacher may teach only for a period not
30    to exceed 90 paid school days or 450 paid school hours in any
31    one school district in  any  one  school  term.   Where  such
32    teaching  is partly on a daily and partly on an hourly basis,
33    a school day shall be considered as  5  hours.  The  teaching
34    limitations  imposed by this subsection upon teachers holding
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 1    substitute  certificates  shall  not  apply  in  any   school
 2    district operating under Article 34.
 3    (Source: P.A. 89-212, eff. 8-4-95.)
 4        (105 ILCS 5/21-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-10)
 5        Sec. 21-10. Provisional certificate.
 6        (A)  (Blank).  Until  July  1,  1972,  the  State Teacher
 7    Certification Board may issue a provisional certificate valid
 8    for teaching in elementary, high school  or  special  subject
 9    fields subject to the following conditions:
10        A  provisional  certificate may be issued to a person who
11    presents certified evidence of  having  earned  a  bachelor's
12    degree from a recognized institution of higher learning.  The
13    academic  and  professional courses offered as a basis of the
14    provisional certificate shall  be  courses  approved  by  the
15    State  Board  of  Education  in  consultation  with the State
16    Teacher Certification Board.
17        A certificate earned under this plan may  be  renewed  at
18    the  end of each two-year period upon evidence filed with the
19    State Teacher Certification Board that the holder has  earned
20    8  semester  hours  of credit within the period; provided the
21    requirements for the certificate of the same type issued  for
22    the teaching position for which the teacher is employed shall
23    be  met  by  the  end of the second renewal period.  A second
24    provisional certificate shall not be issued.  The credits  so
25    earned  must  be  approved by the State Board of Education in
26    consultation with the State Teacher Certification  Board  and
27    must   meet  the  general  pattern  for  a  similar  type  of
28    certificate issued on the basis of credit.  No  more  than  4
29    semester hours shall be chosen from elective subjects.
30        (B)  After  July  1,  1972 and until January 1, 1999, the
31    State Teacher Certification Board may issue, and on and after
32    January 1, 1999 the Professional Teacher Standards Board  may
33    issue,  a provisional certificate valid for teaching in early
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 1    childhood, elementary, high school or special subject fields,
 2    or for providing service as school service personnel  or  for
 3    administering  schools subject to the following conditions: A
 4    provisional certificate may be issued to a person  who  meets
 5    the  requirements  for  a  regular  teaching,  school service
 6    personnel or administrative certificate in another State  and
 7    who presents certified evidence of having earned a bachelor's
 8    degree from a recognized institution of higher learning.  The
 9    academic  and  professional courses offered as a basis of the
10    provisional certificate shall  be  courses  approved  by  the
11    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
12    in  consultation  with the State Teacher Certification Board.
13    A certificate earned under this plan is valid for a period of
14    2 years and shall not be renewed; however, the individual  to
15    whom  this  certificate  is issued shall have passed or shall
16    pass the examinations set forth by the  Professional  Teacher
17    Standards  Board  State Board of Education within 9 months of
18    the date of issuance of the provisional certificate.  Failure
19    to pass the tests, required in Section 21-1a, shall result in
20    the cancellation of the provisional certificate.
21        (C)  The   Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
22    Teacher Certification Board  may  also  issue  a  provisional
23    vocational certificate and a temporary provisional vocational
24    certificate.
25             (1)  The  requirements  for a provisional vocational
26        certificate  shall  be  determined  by  the  Professional
27        Teacher Standards Board,  State  Board  of  Education  in
28        consultation with the State Teacher Board; provided that,
29        as   a  minimum  requirement,  the  person  to  whom  the
30        certificate is to be issued  has  earned,  the  following
31        minimum  requirements are met: (a) after July 1, 1972, at
32        least 30 semester  hours  of  credit  from  a  recognized
33        institution  of  higher  learning;  and (b) after July 1,
34        1974, at  least  60  semester  hours  of  credit  from  a
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 1        recognized institution of higher learning.
 2             (2)  The  requirements  for  a temporary provisional
 3        vocational  certificate  shall  be  determined   by   the
 4        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board,  State  Board of
 5        Education  in  consultation  with   the   State   Teacher
 6        Certification   Board;   provided   that,  as  a  minimum
 7        requirement, the person to whom the certificate is to  be
 8        issued  has,  the following minimum requirements are met:
 9        (a) after July 1, 1973, at  least  4,000  hours  of  work
10        experience in the skill to be certified for teaching; and
11        (b)  after  July  1,  1975,  at least 8,000 hours of work
12        experience in the skill to  be  certified  for  teaching.
13        Any  certificate  issued  under  the  provisions  of this
14        paragraph shall expire on June 30 following the  date  of
15        issue.   Renewals  may  be granted on a yearly basis, but
16        shall not be granted to any person who does not file with
17        the Professional Teacher Standards  Board  State  Teacher
18        Certification  Board  a  transcript  showing  at  least 3
19        semester hours of credit earned during the previous  year
20        in   a  recognized  institution  of  learning.   No  such
21        certificate shall be issued except upon certification  by
22        the  employing  board,  subject  to  the  approval of the
23        regional superintendent of  schools,  that  no  qualified
24        teacher  holding  a  regular certificate or a provisional
25        vocational  certificate  is  available  and  that  actual
26        circumstances and need require such issuance.
27        The courses or work experience offered as a basis for the
28    issuance of the provisional  vocational  certificate  or  the
29    temporary   provisional   vocational   certificate  shall  be
30    approved by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State
31    Board  of  Education  in  consultation with the State Teacher
32    Certification Board.
33        (D)  Until July 1, 1972, the State Teacher  Certification
34    Board   may   also   issue  a  provisional  foreign  language
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 1    certificate valid  for  4  years  for  teaching  the  foreign
 2    language  named  therein  in all grades of the common schools
 3    and shall be issued to persons  who  have  graduated  from  a
 4    recognized institution of higher learning with not fewer than
 5    120   semester  hours  of  credit  and  who  have  met  other
 6    requirements as determined by the State Board of Education in
 7    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.   If
 8    the holder of a provisional foreign language certificate that
 9    was issued under this subsection before July 1, 1972 has been
10    suspended  because the holder of that provisional certificate
11    did not become is not a citizen of the United States within 6
12    years of the date of issuance of  the  original  certificate,
13    such  certificate  shall  remain be suspended by the regional
14    superintendent of schools of the region in which  the  holder
15    is  engaged  to  teach  and  shall  not  be reinstated by the
16    Professional Teacher Standards Board until the  holder  is  a
17    citizen of the United States.
18        (E)  Notwithstanding   anything   in   this  Act  to  the
19    contrary, the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
20    Teacher Certification Board shall issue part-time provisional
21    certificates  to  eligible  individuals who are professionals
22    and craftsmen.
23        The requirements for  a  part-time  provisional  teachers
24    certificate  shall  be determined by the Professional Teacher
25    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
26    the State Teacher Certification Board, provided the following
27    minimum requirements are met:  60 semester  hours  of  credit
28    from  a  recognized  institution  of  higher learning or 4000
29    hours of work experience in the skill  to  be  certified  for
30    teaching.
31        A  part-time  provisional  certificate  may be issued for
32    teaching no more than 2 courses of study for grades 6 through
33    12.
34        A part-time provisional  teachers  certificate  shall  be
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 1    valid  for  2  years  and may be renewed at the end of each 2
 2    year period.
 3    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
 4        (105 ILCS 5/21-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11)
 5        Sec. 21-11. General Certificate. The Professional Teacher
 6    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board may issue a
 7    general certificate for part-time teachers of adult education
 8    subjects. Such certificates shall  be  for  teaching  in  the
 9    subject or subjects named on the certificate.
10        The requirement for this certificate is determined by the
11    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
12    in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
13        This  certificate  may  be  issued  by  the  Professional
14    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher Certification Board
15    upon the request of the board employing such teacher and  the
16    approval  of  the  regional  superintendent of schools of the
17    region in which the teaching is done.
18        Any teacher who holds any  other  valid  certificate  for
19    teaching   in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois  may  teach
20    noncredit courses assigned by the superintendent  of  schools
21    upon the authority of the board of education.
22    (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)
23        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.1)
24        Sec.     21-11.1.      Certificates     for    equivalent
25    qualifications. An applicant who holds or is eligible to hold
26    a teacher's certificate or license under the laws of  another
27    state  or  territory  of  the  United States may be granted a
28    corresponding  teacher's  certificate  in  Illinois  on   the
29    written  authorization  of the Professional Teacher Standards
30    Board  State  Board  of  Education  and  the  State   Teacher
31    Certification Board upon the following conditions:
32             (1)  That the applicant is at least 19 years of age,
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 1        is  of  good  character, good health and a citizen of the
 2        United States; and
 3             (2)  That the requirements for a  similar  teacher's
 4        certificate in the particular state or territory were, at
 5        the  date  of  issuance of the certificate, substantially
 6        equal to the  requirements  in  force  at  the  time  the
 7        application is made for the certificate in this State.
 8        After  January  1,  1988,  in  addition to satisfying the
 9    foregoing conditions and requirements,  an  applicant  for  a
10    corresponding  teaching certificate in Illinois also shall be
11    required  to  pass  the  examinations  required   under   the
12    provisions  of  Section 21-1a as directed by the Professional
13    Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education.
14        In determining good character  under  this  Section,  any
15    felony   conviction  of  the  applicant  may  be  taken  into
16    consideration, but the conviction shall not operate as a  bar
17    to registration.
18        The  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
19    Education   in   consultation   with   the   State    Teacher
20    Certification  Board  shall  prescribe  rules and regulations
21    establishing the similarity of certificates in  other  states
22    and   the   standards  for  determining  the  equivalence  of
23    requirements.
24    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
25        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.2)
26        Sec.  21-11.2.   Additional   certificates;   experienced
27    employed  teachers.   Experienced certified teachers employed
28    in  Illinois  public  or  private  elementary  and  secondary
29    schools seeking additional teaching certificates as  provided
30    in  Sections  21-2.1,  21-3,  21-4,  and  21-5  may submit an
31    application for evaluation of credentials to the Professional
32    Teacher Standards Board State  Teacher  Certification  Board.
33    Individuals  obtaining a certificate by transcript evaluation
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 1    shall meet the minimum requirements for  the  certificate  as
 2    approved  by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
 3    Superintendent of Education in consultation  with  the  State
 4    Teacher Certification Board.
 5    (Source: P.A. 82-911.)
 6        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.3)
 7        Sec.  21-11.3.  Resident teacher certificate.  A resident
 8    teacher certificate shall be valid for 2 years for employment
 9    as a resident teacher in a public school.  It shall be issued
10    only  to  persons  who  have  graduated  from  a   recognized
11    institution of higher education with a bachelor's degree, who
12    are  enrolled  in  a  program  of preparation approved by the
13    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent  of
14    Education    in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
15    Certification Board, and  who  have  passed  the  appropriate
16    tests  as  required in Section 21-1a and as determined by the
17    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
18    Education.   A resident teacher certificate may be issued for
19    teaching children through grade 3 or for grades K-9, 6-12, or
20    K-12 in a special subject area and  may  not  be  renewed.  A
21    resident teacher may teach only in conjunction with and under
22    the  direction  of a certified teacher and shall not teach in
23    place of a certified teacher.
24    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
25        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.4)
26        Sec. 21-11.4.  Illinois Teacher Corps.
27        (a)  The General Assembly finds and determines  that  (i)
28    it   is   important  to  encourage  the  entry  of  qualified
29    professionals into elementary and  secondary  teaching  as  a
30    second career; and (ii) there are a number of individuals who
31    have bachelors' degrees, experience in the work force, and an
32    interest  in serving youth that creates a special talent pool
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 1    with great potential for  enriching  the  lives  of  Illinois
 2    children  as  teachers.  To provide this talent pool with the
 3    opportunity to serve children as teachers, school  districts,
 4    colleges,  and  universities  are  encouraged, as part of the
 5    public policy of this  State,  to  enter  into  collaborative
 6    programs   to   educate   and  induct  these  non-traditional
 7    candidates into the teaching profession.  To  facilitate  the
 8    certification  of  such  candidates, the Professional Teacher
 9    Standards Board State Board  of  Education,  in  consultation
10    with  the  State  Teacher  Certification  Board, shall assist
11    institutions of higher education and  school  districts  with
12    the implementation of the Illinois Teacher Corps.
13        (b)  Individuals  who  wish  to become candidates for the
14    Illinois Teacher Corps program must earn a  resident  teacher
15    certificate as defined in Section 21-11.3, including:
16             (1)  graduation  from  a  recognized  institution of
17        higher education with a bachelor's degree and at least  a
18        3.00 out of a 4.00 grade point average;
19             (2)  a minimum of 5 years of professional experience
20        in the area the candidate wishes to teach;
21             (3)  passing   the   examinations  required  by  the
22        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
23        Education;
24             (4)  enrollment in a  Masters  of  Education  Degree
25        program  approved  by  the Professional Teacher Standards
26        Board State Superintendent of Education  in  consultation
27        with the State Teacher Certification Board; and
28             (5)  completion of a 6 week summer intensive teacher
29        preparation  course  which  is the first component of the
30        Masters Degree program.
31        (c)  School districts may hire an Illinois Teacher  Corps
32    candidate  after  the  candidate  has  received  his  or  her
33    resident  teacher  certificate.   The school district has the
34    responsibility of ensuring that the  candidates  receive  the
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 1    supports   necessary   to  become  qualified,  competent  and
 2    productive teachers.  To be eligible to  participate  in  the
 3    Illinois Teacher Corps program, school districts must provide
 4    a minimum of the following supports to the candidates:
 5             (1)  a  salary  and  benefits  package as negotiated
 6        through the teacher contracts;
 7             (2)  a mentor certified  teacher  who  will  provide
 8        guidance  to  one  or  more  candidates  under  a program
 9        developed collaboratively  by  the  school  district  and
10        university;
11             (3)  at  least  quarterly  evaluations  performed of
12        each candidate jointly by  the  mentor  teacher  and  the
13        principal of the school or the principal's designee; and
14             (4)  a  written  and signed document from the school
15        district outlining the support the  district  intends  to
16        provide   to   the   candidates,   for  approval  by  the
17        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board   State   Teacher
18        Certification Board.
19        (d)  Illinois institutions of higher education shall work
20    collaboratively  with  school  districts and the Professional
21    Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board  to
22    academically   prepare   the   candidates  for  the  teaching
23    profession.  To be eligible to participate,  the  College  or
24    School  of  Education of a participating Illinois institution
25    of higher education must develop a curriculum that  provides,
26    upon  completion,  a  Masters  Degree  in  Education  for the
27    candidates.  The Masters Degree program must:
28             (1)  receive approval from the Professional  Teacher
29        Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board; and
30             (2)  take  no  longer  than 3 summers and 2 academic
31        years  to  complete,  and  balance  the  needs  and  time
32        constraints of the candidates.
33        (e)  Upon successful completion  of  the  Masters  Degree
34    program,   the   candidate    receives  an  Initial  Teaching
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 1    Certificate in the State of Illinois.
 2        (f)  If an individual wishes to become a candidate in the
 3    Illinois Teacher Corps program, but does not possess 5  years
 4    of  professional  experience,  the individual may qualify for
 5    the  program  by  participating  in  a  one  year  internship
 6    teacher preparation program with a school district.  The  one
 7    year  internship  shall  be  developed collaboratively by the
 8    school  district  and  the  Illinois  institution  of  higher
 9    education, and shall be approved by the Professional  Teacher
10    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
11        (g)  The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
12    of   Education  is  authorized  to  award  grants  to  school
13    districts that seek to prepare candidates  for  the  teaching
14    profession  who have bachelors' degrees and professional work
15    experience in subjects relevant to teaching fields,  but  who
16    do  not  have formal preparation for teaching.  Grants may be
17    made to school districts for up to $3,000 per candidate  when
18    the  school district, in cooperation with a public or private
19    university and the school district's teacher bargaining unit,
20    develop a program designed to prepare  teachers  pursuant  to
21    the Illinois Teacher Corps program under this Section.
22    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
23        (105 ILCS 5/21-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-12)
24        Sec.  21-12.  Printing  of; Seal; Signature; Credentials.
25    All certificates shall be printed by and bear the seal of the
26    Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State    Teacher
27    Certification  Board  and  the  signatures of the chairperson
28    chairman and of the secretary of that the Board. All  college
29    credentials  offered  as  the basis of a certificate shall be
30    presented  to  the  secretary  of  the  Professional  Teacher
31    Standards  Board  State  Teacher  Certification   Board   for
32    inspection   and   approval.  After  January  1,  1964,  each
33    application for a certificate or  evaluation  of  credentials
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 1    shall be accompanied by an evaluation fee of $20 which is not
 2    refundable.
 3        Commencing  January  1,  1994, an additional $10 shall be
 4    charged for each application for a certificate or  evaluation
 5    of  credentials  which  is  not  refundable.  There is hereby
 6    created a Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund as a special
 7    fund  within  the  State  Treasury.   The  proceeds  of   the
 8    additional $10 fee shall be paid into the Teacher Certificate
 9    Fee  Revolving  Fund;  and  the  moneys in that Fund shall be
10    appropriated to the Professional Teacher Standards Board  and
11    used  by  that  Board  to  provide  the  technology and other
12    resources necessary for the timely and  efficient  processing
13    of certification requests.
14        When  evaluation  verifies  the  requirements for a valid
15    certificate, the applicant shall  be  issued  an  entitlement
16    card  that  may  be presented to a regional superintendent of
17    schools together with a fee of one dollar for issuance  of  a
18    certificate.
19        The applicant shall be notified of any deficiencies.
20    (Source: P.A. 88-224.)
21        (105 ILCS 5/21-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-14)
22        Sec. 21-14. Registration and renewal of certificates.
23        (a)  A  limited  four-year  certificate  or a certificate
24    issued  after  July  1,  1955,  shall  be  renewable  at  its
25    expiration  or  within  60  days  thereafter  by  the  county
26    superintendent of schools having supervision and control over
27    the school where  the  teacher  is  teaching  upon  certified
28    evidence  of meeting the requirements for renewal as required
29    by this  Act  and  prescribed  by  the  Professional  Teacher
30    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
31    the   State   Teacher  Certification  Board.   An  elementary
32    supervisory certificate shall not be renewed at  the  end  of
33    the  first four-year period covered by the certificate unless
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 1    the holder thereof has  filed  certified  evidence  with  the
 2    Professional    Teacher   Standards   Board   State   Teacher
 3    Certification Board that he has a master's degree or that  he
 4    has  earned  8  semester  hours  of  credit  in  the field of
 5    educational administration and supervision  in  a  recognized
 6    institution of higher learning.  The holder shall continue to
 7    earn  8  semester hours of credit each four-year period until
 8    such time as he has earned a master's degree.
 9        All certificates not  renewed  or  registered  as  herein
10    provided  shall  lapse  after  a  period  of 4 years from the
11    expiration  of  the  last   year   of   registration.    Such
12    certificates  may  be  reinstated  for a one year period upon
13    payment  of  all   accumulated   registration   fees.    Such
14    reinstated certificates shall only be renewed: (1) by earning
15    5  semester  hours  of  credit in a recognized institution of
16    higher learning in the field of professional education or  in
17    courses  related to the holder's contractual teaching duties;
18    or (2) by presenting evidence  of  holding  a  valid  regular
19    certificate  of  some  other  type.   Any  certificate may be
20    voluntarily  surrendered  by  the  certificate   holder.    A
21    voluntarily  surrendered  certificate  shall  be treated as a
22    revoked certificate.
23        (b)  When  those  teaching  certificates  issued   before
24    January  1, 1999 are renewed for the first time after January
25    1, 1999, all such teaching certificates  shall  be  exchanged
26    for  Standard Teaching Certificates as provided in subsection
27    (c) of Section  21-2.   All  Initial  and  Standard  Teaching
28    Certificates,   including   those   issued   to  persons  who
29    previously held teaching certificates issued  before  January
30    1, 1999, shall be renewable under the conditions set forth in
31    this subsection (b).
32        Initial  Teaching  Certificates are valid for 4 years and
33    are  nonrenewable.    Standard  Teaching   Certificates   are
34    renewable  every  5  years  as  provided in subsection (c) of
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 1    Section 21-2.
 2    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
 3        (105 ILCS 5/21-16) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-16)
 4        Sec. 21-16. Fees;  Requirement  for  registration.  Every
 5    applicant when issued a certificate shall pay to the regional
 6    superintendent  of  schools  a fee of $1, which shall be paid
 7    into the institute fund. Every certificate issued  under  the
 8    provisions  of  this  Act shall be registered annually or, at
 9    the option of the holder of the  certificate,  once  every  3
10    years.   The   regional   superintendent  of  schools  having
11    supervision and control over the school where the teaching is
12    done shall register the certificate before the holder  begins
13    to  teach,  otherwise it shall be registered in any county in
14    the State of Illinois;  and  one  fee  of  $4  per  year  for
15    registration  or  renewal  of  one or more certificates which
16    have been issued to the same holder shall be  paid  into  the
17    institute fund.
18        Requirements  for registration of any certificate limited
19    in time shall include evidence of professional growth defined
20    as successful teaching experience since last registration  of
21    certificate,  attendance at professional meetings, membership
22    in professional organizations, additional credits  earned  in
23    recognized teacher-training institutions, travel specifically
24    for educational experience, reading of professional books and
25    periodicals,  filing  all reports as required by the regional
26    superintendent of schools and  the  State  Superintendent  of
27    Education   or   such   other   professional   experience  or
28    combination of experiences as are presented  by  the  teacher
29    and  are approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
30    State Superintendent of Education in  consultation  with  the
31    State  Teacher  Certification  Board. A duplicate certificate
32    may be issued to the holder of a valid  life  certificate  or
33    valid certificate limited in time by the Professional Teacher
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 1    Standards  Board  State Superintendent of Education; however,
 2    it  shall  only  be  issued  upon  request  of   a   regional
 3    superintendent  of  schools  and upon payment to the regional
 4    superintendent of schools who requests such duplicate  a  fee
 5    of $4.
 6    (Source: P.A. 87-745.)
 7        (105 ILCS 5/21-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-17)
 8        Sec.  21-17.  Fee for original and duplicate certificate.
 9    A duplicate certificate shall be issued by  the  Professional
10    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Superintendent of Education
11    when requested by the regional superintendent of  schools  as
12    provided  in  Section  21-16.  The  request  for  a duplicate
13    certificate shall be accompanied by a fee of $4.
14    (Source: P.A. 81-940.)
15        (105 ILCS 5/21-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-19)
16        Sec. 21-19. Annual  report  by  certificate  holder.  The
17    holder  of  any  certificate,  shall  annually within 30 days
18    after assuming the duties of any teaching position report  to
19    the  regional  superintendent  having supervision and control
20    over the school where the  teacher  is  employed  information
21    relative  to  training,  experience,  salary  and  other data
22    required by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State
23    Board  of  Education.  The  reports shall be collected in the
24    office of the regional  superintendent  and  filed  with  the
25    Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State  Board  of
26    Education.
27    (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)
28        (105 ILCS 5/21-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-21)
29        Sec.  21-21.   Definitions;  Granting  of   recognition).
30    "Recognized",  as used in this Article in connection with the
31    word "school" or "institution", means such  school,  college,
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 1    university,  private junior college, public community college
 2    or special or technical school  as  maintains  an  equipment,
 3    course   of  study,  a  standard  of  scholarship  and  other
 4    requirements set by the Professional Teacher Standards  Board
 5    State  Board  of  Education  in  consultation  with the State
 6    Teacher Certification Board. Application for  recognition  of
 7    such  school or institution as a teacher training institution
 8    shall be made to the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
 9    State  Board of Education. The Professional Teacher Standards
10    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
11    Teacher Certification Board shall set the criteria  by  which
12    the  school  or  institution  shall be judged and through the
13    secretary of that the Board shall  arrange  for  an  official
14    inspection  and  shall  grant  recognition  of such school or
15    institution as may meet the  required  standards.    If  such
16    standards  include  requirements  with regard to education in
17    acquiring  skills  in  working  with  culturally  distinctive
18    students, as defined by the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
19    Board  State  Board  of  Education,  then  the  rules  of the
20    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
21    shall include the criteria used to evaluate  compliance  with
22    this   requirement.  No  school  or  institution  shall  make
23    assignments of student  teachers  or  teachers  for  practice
24    teaching  so  as to promote segregation on the basis of race,
25    creed, color, religion, sex or national origin.
26        All courses listed or credentials required as  the  basis
27    of any certificate or for its renewal shall be the equivalent
28    of   courses   offered   by  a  recognized  teacher  training
29    institution. The Professional Teacher Standards  Board  State
30    Board  of  Education  in  consultation with the State Teacher
31    Certification Board shall have the power to define a major or
32    minor when used as a basis for recognition and  certification
33    purposes.
34    (Source: P.A. 84-793.)
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 1        (105 ILCS 5/21-21.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-21.1)
 2        Sec.    21-21.1.     Denial    of    recommendation   for
 3    certification.   Each  college  or  university  providing   a
 4    teacher education program approved and recognized pursuant to
 5    the provisions of this Article shall establish procedures and
 6    standards to assure that no student is denied the opportunity
 7    to receive the institutional recommendation for certification
 8    for reasons which are not directly related to the candidate's
 9    anticipated  performance  as  a  certificated employee.  Such
10    standards and procedures shall include the specific  criteria
11    used   by  the  institution  for  admission,  retention,  and
12    recommendation for certification, periodic evaluations of the
13    candidate's progress toward an institutional  recommendation,
14    counseling  and  other  supportive  services  to  correct any
15    deficiencies which are considered remedial, and provisions to
16    assure that no person is discriminated against on  the  basis
17    of  race, color, national origin or a disability unrelated to
18    the person's ability to perform as a  certificated  employee.
19    Each  institution  shall also establish a grievance procedure
20    for  those  candidates  who  are  denied  the   institutional
21    recommendation   for   certification.    Within  10  days  of
22    notification of such denial, the college or university  shall
23    notify  the  candidate,  in  writing,  of the reasons for the
24    denial of recommendation for certification.  Within  30  days
25    of  notification of the denial, the candidate may request the
26    college or university to review the  denial.   If,  after  an
27    additional  30 days to complete such review, the candidate is
28    denied recommendation for certification,  the  candidate  may
29    appeal  to  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards Board State
30    Teacher Certification Board within 10  days  of  notification
31    for  a  review  of the institution's decision.  The candidate
32    shall have the right to be present at  any  such  review,  to
33    present  evidence,  and  to  be represented by counsel.  Upon
34    such review the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State
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 1    Teacher  Certification Board shall take recommend appropriate
 2    action  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Education.   Each
 3    institution's  standards  and   procedures,   including   the
 4    criteria  for  admission,  retention,  and  the institutional
 5    recommendation  for  certification,  and  the   institution's
 6    grievance  procedures,  shall  be  subject to approval by the
 7    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent  of
 8    Education    in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
 9    Certification Board.  Each  applicant  to  the  institution's
10    teacher  education  program  shall be provided with a copy of
11    the procedures established pursuant to this Section.
12    (Source: P.A. 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
13        (105 ILCS 5/21-23) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23)
14        Sec. 21-23.  Suspension or revocation of certificate.
15        (a)  Any certificate issued  pursuant  to  this  Article,
16    including  but  not limited to any administrative certificate
17    or endorsement, may be suspended for a period not  to  exceed
18    one  calendar  year  by  the regional superintendent or for a
19    period  not  to  exceed  5  calendar  years  by   the   State
20    Superintendent  of  Education  upon evidence of immorality, a
21    condition of health detrimental to  the  welfare  of  pupils,
22    incompetency,  unprofessional  conduct,  the  neglect  of any
23    professional duty, willful failure to report an  instance  of
24    suspected  child  abuse  or neglect as required by the Abused
25    and Neglected  Child  Reporting  Act,  failure  to  establish
26    satisfactory  repayment  on an educational loan guaranteed by
27    the Illinois Student Assistance  Commission,  or  other  just
28    cause.   Unprofessional  conduct  shall  include  refusal  to
29    attend  or  participate  in,  institutes, teachers' meetings,
30    professional  readings,   or   to   meet   other   reasonable
31    requirements   of   the   regional  superintendent  or  State
32    Superintendent of  Education.   Unprofessional  conduct  also
33    includes  conduct  that  violates  the  standards, ethics, or
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 1    rules applicable to the security, administration, monitoring,
 2    or  scoring  of,  or  the  reporting  of  scores  from,   any
 3    assessment  test or the Prairie State Achievement Examination
 4    administered  under  Section  2-3.64  or  that  is  known  or
 5    intended to produce  or  report  manipulated  or  artificial,
 6    rather  than  actual,  assessment  or  achievement results or
 7    gains from the administration of those tests or examinations.
 8    It shall also include neglect or unnecessary delay in  making
 9    of statistical and other reports required by school officers.
10    The   regional  superintendent  or  State  Superintendent  of
11    Education shall upon receipt of  evidence  of  immorality,  a
12    condition  of  health  detrimental  to the welfare of pupils,
13    incompetency, unprofessional  conduct,  the  neglect  of  any
14    professional duty or other just cause serve written notice to
15    the  individual  and  afford the individual opportunity for a
16    hearing prior to  suspension.   If  a  hearing  is  requested
17    within  10 days of notice of opportunity for hearing it shall
18    act as a stay of proceedings  not  to  exceed  30  days.   No
19    certificate  shall  be  suspended  until  the  teacher has an
20    opportunity for a hearing at the educational service  region.
21    When  a  certificate  is suspended, the right of appeal shall
22    lie to the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
23    Certification Board.  When an appeal is taken within 10  days
24    after  notice  of  suspension  it  shall  act  as  a  stay of
25    proceedings not to exceed  60  days.   If  a  certificate  is
26    suspended  for  a  period  greater  than  one year, the State
27    Superintendent of Education shall review the suspension prior
28    to the expiration of that period  to  determine  whether  the
29    cause  for  the  suspension has been remedied or continues to
30    exist.  Upon determining that the cause  for  suspension  has
31    not  abated,  the State Superintendent of Education may order
32    that the suspension be continued for an  appropriate  period.
33    Nothing  in  this Section prohibits the continuance of such a
34    suspension  for   an   indefinite   period   if   the   State
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 1    Superintendent  determines  that the cause for the suspension
 2    remains unabated.  Any certificate may  be  revoked  for  the
 3    same reasons as for suspension by the State Superintendent of
 4    Education.  No certificate shall be revoked until the teacher
 5    has an opportunity for  a  hearing  before  the  Professional
 6    Teacher  Standards  Board  State Teacher Certification Board,
 7    which hearing must be held within 60 days from the  date  the
 8    appeal is taken.
 9        The  Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board may
10    refuse to issue or may suspend the certificate of any  person
11    who  fails  to  file  a return, or to pay the tax, penalty or
12    interest shown in  a  filed  return,  or  to  pay  any  final
13    assessment  of  tax,  penalty or interest, as required by any
14    tax Act administered by the Illinois Department  of  Revenue,
15    until  such  time as the requirements of any such tax Act are
16    satisfied.
17        (b)  Any certificate issued pursuant to this Article  may
18    be  suspended for an appropriate length of time as determined
19    by either the regional superintendent or State Superintendent
20    of Education upon evidence that the holder of the certificate
21    has been named as a perpetrator in an indicated report  filed
22    pursuant  to  the  Abused  and Neglected Child Reporting Act,
23    approved June 26, 1975, as amended, and upon proof  by  clear
24    and  convincing evidence that the licensee has caused a child
25    to be an abused child or neglected child as defined  in  that
26    the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
27        The  regional  superintendent  or State Superintendent of
28    Education  shall,  upon  receipt   of   evidence   that   the
29    certificate  holder  has  been  named  a  perpetrator  in any
30    indicated report, serve written notice to the individual  and
31    afford  the  individual  opportunity  for  a hearing prior to
32    suspension.  If a hearing is  requested  within  10  days  of
33    notice  of opportunity for hearing, it shall act as a stay of
34    proceedings not to exceed 30 days.  No certificate  shall  be
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 1    suspended  until the teacher has an opportunity for a hearing
 2    at the educational service  region.  When  a  certificate  is
 3    suspended,  the right of appeal shall lie to the Professional
 4    Teacher Standards Board State  Teacher  Certification  Board.
 5    When  an  appeal  is  taken  within  10  days after notice of
 6    suspension it shall act as  a  stay  of  proceedings  not  to
 7    exceed  60  days.   The  State  Superintendent may revoke any
 8    certificate upon proof at hearing  by  clear  and  convincing
 9    evidence that the certificate holder has caused a child to be
10    an  abused  child or neglected child as defined in the Abused
11    and Neglected Child Reporting Act.  No certificate  shall  be
12    revoked  until  the  teacher has an opportunity for a hearing
13    before the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
14    Certification Board, which hearing must  be  held  within  60
15    days from the date the appeal is taken.
16        (c)  The  State  Superintendent  of Education or a person
17    designated by him shall have the power to administer oaths to
18    witnesses at any hearing conducted  before  the  Professional
19    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher Certification Board
20    pursuant  to  this  Section.   The  State  Superintendent  of
21    Education or a person designated  by  him  is  authorized  to
22    subpoena  and bring before the Professional Teacher Standards
23    Board State Teacher Certification Board any  person  in  this
24    State and to take testimony either orally or by deposition or
25    by  exhibit,  with  the same fees and mileage and in the same
26    manner as prescribed by law in judicial  proceedings  in  the
27    civil cases in circuit courts of this State.
28        Any  circuit  court,  upon  the  application of the State
29    Superintendent of Education,  may,  by  order  duly  entered,
30    require  the  attendance  of  witnesses and the production of
31    relevant  books  and  papers  at  any   hearing   the   State
32    Superintendent of Education is authorized to conduct pursuant
33    to  this  Section,  and the court may compel obedience to its
34    orders by proceedings for contempt.
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 1        (d)  As used in this Section, "teacher" means any  school
 2    district  employee  regularly  required  to  be certified, as
 3    provided in this Article, in order to teach or  supervise  in
 4    the public schools.
 5    (Source: P.A. 89-610, eff. 8-6-96.)
 6        (105 ILCS 5/21-23b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23b)
 7        Sec. 21-23b.  Conviction of felony.
 8        (a)  Whenever  the holder of any certificate issued under
 9    this Article is employed by the school board  of  any  school
10    district,  including  a  special  charter  district or school
11    district organized under Article 34, and is convicted, either
12    after a bench trial, trial by jury, or plea of guilty, of any
13    offense  for  which  a  sentence  to  death  or  a  term   of
14    imprisonment  in  a  penitentiary  for  one  year  or more is
15    provided,  the  school  board  shall  promptly   notify   the
16    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
17    in writing of the name of the certificate holder, the fact of
18    the  conviction,  and  the  name and location of the court in
19    which the conviction occurred.
20        (b)  Whenever the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
21    State  Board  of  Education  receives  notice of a conviction
22    under subsection (a) or otherwise learns that any person  who
23    is  a  "teacher" as that term is defined in Section 16-106 of
24    the Illinois Pension Code has been convicted, either after  a
25    bench trial, trial by jury, or plea of guilty, of any offense
26    for  which a sentence to death or a term of imprisonment in a
27    penitentiary  for  one  year  or  more   is   provided,   the
28    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
29    shall promptly notify in writing the board of trustees of the
30    Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, and the
31    board  of trustees of the Public School Teachers' Pension and
32    Retirement Fund of the City of Chicago, and the  State  Board
33    of  Education  of  the  name  of  the  certificate  holder or
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 1    teacher, the fact of the conviction, the name and location of
 2    the court in which the conviction occurred,  and  the  number
 3    assigned  in  that  court to the case in which the conviction
 4    occurred.
 5    (Source: P.A. 87-1001.)
 6        (105 ILCS 5/21-24) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-24)
 7        Sec. 21-24.  Administrative Review Law. The provisions of
 8    the  Administrative  Review  Law,  and  all  amendments   and
 9    modifications thereof and the rules adopted pursuant thereto,
10    shall  apply to and govern all proceedings instituted for the
11    judicial review of  final  administrative  decisions  of  the
12    Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State  Board  of
13    Education, the State Teacher  Certification  Board,  and  the
14    regional  superintendent  of  schools under this Article. The
15    term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101
16    of the Code of Civil  Procedure.   The  commencement  of  any
17    action  for review shall operate as a stay of enforcement and
18    no action based on any decision of the  Professional  Teacher
19    Standards  Board  State  Board  of  Education,  State Teacher
20    Certification Board or the regional superintendent of schools
21    shall be taken pending final disposition of such review.
22    (Source: P.A. 84-551.)
23        (105 ILCS 5/21-25) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-25)
24        Sec.  21-25.   School  service   personnel   certificate.
25    Subject  to the provisions of Section 21-1a, a school service
26    personnel certificate shall be issued to those applicants  of
27    good  character,  good health, a citizen of the United States
28    and at least 19 years of age who  have  a  bachelor's  degree
29    with  not  fewer  than  120  semester hours from a recognized
30    institution of higher learning and who meets the requirements
31    established by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
32    Superintendent of Education in consultation  with  the  State
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 1    Teacher  Certification  Board.   A  school  service personnel
 2    certificate with a school nurse endorsement may be issued  to
 3    a  person  who  holds  a  bachelor  of science degree from an
 4    institution  of  higher  learning  accredited  by  the  North
 5    Central Association or other comparable regional  accrediting
 6    association.
 7        Such  certificate  shall  be  endorsed  with  the area of
 8    service as determined by the Professional  Teacher  Standards
 9    Board  State Superintendent of Education in consultation with
10    the State Teacher Certification Board.
11        The holder of such certificate shall be entitled  to  all
12    of  the  rights  and  privileges  granted  holders of a valid
13    teaching    certificate,    including    teacher    benefits,
14    compensation and working conditions.
15        When the holder of such certificate has earned a master's
16    degree, including 8 semester hours of  graduate  professional
17    education  from  a recognized institution of higher learning,
18    and has at least 2  years  of  successful  school  experience
19    while  holding  such  certificate,  the  certificate  may  be
20    endorsed for supervision.
21    (Source: P.A. 88-386.)
22        (105 ILCS 5/34-18.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5)
23        Sec. 34-18.5.  Criminal background investigations.
24        (a)  After  August  1,  1985,  certified and noncertified
25    applicants  for  employment  with  the  school  district  are
26    required  as  a  condition  of  employment  to  authorize  an
27    investigation to  determine  if  such  applicants  have  been
28    convicted  of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses
29    in subsection (c) of  this  Section.  Authorization  for  the
30    investigation  shall  be  furnished  by  the applicant to the
31    school district, except that if the applicant is a substitute
32    teacher seeking employment in more than one school  district,
33    or   a   teacher   seeking  concurrent  part-time  employment
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 1    positions with more than one school district  (as  a  reading
 2    specialist,  special  education  teacher or otherwise), or an
 3    educational support  personnel  employee  seeking  employment
 4    positions  with more than one district, any such district may
 5    require  the  applicant  to  furnish  authorization  for  the
 6    investigation  to  the   regional   superintendent   of   the
 7    educational  service  region  in which are located the school
 8    districts in which the applicant is seeking employment  as  a
 9    substitute  or  concurrent  part-time  teacher  or concurrent
10    educational support personnel employee. Upon receipt of  this
11    authorization,   the   school  district  or  the  appropriate
12    regional superintendent, as the case may be, shall submit the
13    applicant's  name,  sex,  race,  date  of  birth  and  social
14    security number to the Department of State  Police  on  forms
15    prescribed  by  the  Department.  The regional superintendent
16    submitting the requisite information  to  the  Department  of
17    State  Police  shall  promptly notify the school districts in
18    which the applicant is seeking employment as a substitute  or
19    concurrent   part-time   teacher  or  concurrent  educational
20    support personnel employee  that  the  investigation  of  the
21    applicant  has been requested. The Department of State Police
22    shall conduct an investigation to ascertain if the  applicant
23    being  considered for employment has been convicted of any of
24    the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in  subsection  (c).
25    The  Department  shall  charge  the  school  district  or the
26    appropriate regional superintendent a fee for conducting such
27    investigation, which fee shall  be  deposited  in  the  State
28    Police  Services  Fund  and  shall not exceed the cost of the
29    inquiry; and the applicant shall not be  charged  a  fee  for
30    such  investigation by the school district or by the regional
31    superintendent.   The  regional   superintendent   may   seek
32    reimbursement  from  the  State  Board  of  Education  or the
33    appropriate school district or districts for fees paid by the
34    regional superintendent to the Department  for  the  criminal
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 1    background investigations required by this Section.
 2        (b)  The  Department  shall furnish, pursuant to positive
 3    identification, records of convictions,  until  expunged,  to
 4    the  president  of  the  board  of  education  for the school
 5    district  which  requested  the  investigation,  or  to   the
 6    regional superintendent who requested the investigation.  Any
 7    information  concerning the record of convictions obtained by
 8    the president of the  board  of  education  or  the  regional
 9    superintendent   shall   be  confidential  and  may  only  be
10    transmitted to  the  general  superintendent  of  the  school
11    district   or   his   designee,   the   appropriate  regional
12    superintendent if the  investigation  was  requested  by  the
13    board of education for the school district, the presidents of
14    the  appropriate  board  of education or school boards if the
15    investigation was requested  from  the  Department  of  State
16    Police    by   the   regional   superintendent,   the   State
17    Superintendent  of  Education,   the   Professional   Teacher
18    Standards  Board  State  Teacher  Certification  Board or any
19    other  person  necessary  to  the  decision  of  hiring   the
20    applicant for employment. A copy of the record of convictions
21    obtained  from  the  Department  of  State  Police  shall  be
22    provided to the applicant for employment. If an investigation
23    of  an applicant for employment as a substitute or concurrent
24    part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel
25    employee in more than one school district  was  requested  by
26    the  regional  superintendent,  and  the  Department of State
27    Police upon investigation ascertains that the  applicant  has
28    not  been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
29    offenses in subsection  (c)  and  so  notifies  the  regional
30    superintendent,  then the regional superintendent shall issue
31    to the applicant a certificate evidencing that as of the date
32    specified by the Department of State Police the applicant has
33    not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or  drug
34    offenses  in  subsection (c).  The school board of any school
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 1    district located in the educational service region served  by
 2    the  regional superintendent who issues such a certificate to
 3    an applicant for employment as  a  substitute  or  concurrent
 4    part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel
 5    employee  in  more  than  one  such  district may rely on the
 6    certificate issued by the  regional  superintendent  to  that
 7    applicant,  or  may  initiate  its  own  investigation of the
 8    applicant through the Department of State Police as  provided
 9    in  subsection  (a). Any person who releases any confidential
10    information  concerning  any  criminal  convictions   of   an
11    applicant  for  employment  shall  be  guilty  of  a  Class A
12    misdemeanor,  unless  the  release  of  such  information  is
13    authorized by this Section.
14        (c)  The board of education shall not knowingly employ  a
15    person  who has been convicted for committing attempted first
16    degree murder or for committing or attempting to commit first
17    degree murder or a Class X felony or any one or more  of  the
18    following  offenses:   (i)  those  defined  in Sections 11-6,
19    11-9, 11-14, 11-15,  11-15.1,  11-16,  11-17,  11-18,  11-19,
20    11-19.1,   11-19.2,  11-20,  11-20.1,  11-21,  12-13,  12-14,
21    12-14.1, 12-15 and 12-16 of the Criminal Code of  1961;  (ii)
22    those  defined  in  the  Cannabis  Control  Act, except those
23    defined in Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 5(a) of  that  Act;  (iii)
24    those  defined in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act; and
25    (iv) any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
26    against the laws of the United States, which if committed  or
27    attempted in this State, would have been punishable as one or
28    more  of  the  foregoing  offenses.  Further,  the  board  of
29    education  shall  not  knowingly employ a person who has been
30    found to be the perpetrator of sexual or  physical  abuse  of
31    any minor under 18 years of age pursuant to proceedings under
32    Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
33        (d)  The  board of education shall not knowingly employ a
34    person for whom a criminal background investigation  has  not
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 1    been initiated.
 2        (e)  Upon  receipt  of the record of a conviction of or a
 3    finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate  issued
 4    pursuant  to  Article  21  or  Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
 5    School  Code,  the  board   of   education   or   the   State
 6    Superintendent  of  Education  shall initiate the certificate
 7    suspension and revocation proceedings authorized by law.
 8        (f)  After March 19, 1990, the provisions of this Section
 9    shall apply to all employees  of  persons  or  firms  holding
10    contracts with any school district including, but not limited
11    to,  food  service  workers,  school  bus  drivers  and other
12    transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
13    the pupils of any school in such district.  For  purposes  of
14    criminal background investigations on employees of persons or
15    firms  holding  contracts  with more than one school district
16    and assigned to more than one school district,  the  regional
17    superintendent of the educational service region in which the
18    contracting  school districts are located may, at the request
19    of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the
20    authorization  for  investigation  prepared  by   each   such
21    employee  and  submitting the same to the Department of State
22    Police.  Any information concerning the record of  conviction
23    of  any such employee obtained by the regional superintendent
24    shall  be  promptly  reported  to  the   president   of   the
25    appropriate school board or school boards.
26    (Source: P.A.  89-428,  eff.  12-13-95; 89-462, eff. 5-29-96;
27    89-610, eff. 8-6-96; 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)
28        (105 ILCS 5/34-83) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-83)
29        Sec.  34-83.   Board  of  examiners  -   Certificates   -
30    Examinations.  A  board  of  3  examiners  shall  examine all
31    applicants required to hold certificates  to  teach  and  the
32    board of education shall issue gratuitously to those who pass
33    a   required  test  of  character,  scholarship  and  general
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 1    fitness,  such  certificates  to  teach  as  they  are  found
 2    entitled to receive. No person may be granted or continue  to
 3    hold  a  teaching  certificate  who  has knowingly altered or
 4    misrepresented his or her teaching qualifications in order to
 5    acquire the certificate.  Any other certificate held by  such
 6    person may be suspended or revoked by the board of examiners,
 7    depending   upon   the   severity   of   the   alteration  or
 8    misrepresentation. The board of examiners  shall  consist  of
 9    the  general superintendent of schools and 2 persons approved
10    and appointed by the board of education upon  the  nomination
11    of  the  general  superintendent  of  schools.  The  board of
12    examiners shall  hold  such  examinations  as  the  board  of
13    education  may  prescribe,  upon  the  recommendation  of the
14    general superintendent  of  schools  and  shall  prepare  all
15    necessary  eligible  lists, which shall be kept in the office
16    of the general superintendent  of  schools  and  be  open  to
17    public  inspection.  Members  of the board of examiners shall
18    hold office for a term of 2 years.
19        The  board  of  examiners  created  herein  is  abolished
20    effective July 1, 1988.  Commencing July  1,  1988,  all  new
21    teachers   employed   by   the   board  shall  hold  teaching
22    certificates issued by the State Teacher Certification  Board
23    under   Article   21.    The  State  Board  of  Education  in
24    consultation with  the  board  of  examiners  and  the  State
25    Teacher  Certification Board shall develop procedures whereby
26    Teachers currently holding valid certificates issued  by  the
27    board  of  examiners prior to its abolition, and all teachers
28    employed by the board after August 1, 1985 and prior to  July
29    1,   1988,   shall  no  later  than  July  1,  1988  exchange
30    certificates issued by the board of examiners for  comparable
31    certificates  issued  under  Article  21 by the State Teacher
32    Certification Board.  On the exchange of a certificate on  or
33    before  July  1,  1988, the State Teacher Certification Board
34    shall not  require  any  additional  qualifications  for  the
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 1    issuance  of  the comparable certificate are not required. If
 2    prior to July 1, 1988 the board of examiners has issued types
 3    of teaching certificates which  are  not  comparable  to  the
 4    types  of  certificates  issued under Article 21 by the State
 5    Teacher Certification Board, such certificates shall continue
 6    to be valid  for  and  shall  be  renewable  by  the  holders
 7    thereof,  and  no additional qualifications shall be required
 8    by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher
 9    Certification Board for any such renewal.
10        The  State  Board  of  Education  shall report by July 1,
11    1986, to the Illinois General Assembly on the procedures  for
12    exchange  it  has developed in consultation with the board of
13    examiners  and  the  State  Teacher  Certification  Board  as
14    required in this Section.
15    (Source: P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
16        Section 10.  The Higher Education Student Assistance  Act
17    is amended by changing Section 65.20 as follows:
18        (110 ILCS 947/65.20)
19        Sec. 65.20.  Science-mathematics teacher scholarships.
20        (a)  The  Commission  may  annually  award  a  number  of
21    scholarships,  not  to  exceed  200, to persons holding valid
22    teaching certificates issued under Article 21 of  the  School
23    Code.  Such scholarships shall be issued to teachers who make
24    application  to  the Commission and who agree to take courses
25    at  qualified  institutions  of  higher  learning  that  will
26    prepare them to teach science or mathematics at the secondary
27    school level.
28        (b)  Scholarships awarded under  this  Section  shall  be
29    issued pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Commission;
30    provided  that no rule or regulation promulgated by the State
31    Board of Education  prior  to  the  effective  date  of  this
32    amendatory Act of 1993 pursuant to the exercise of any right,
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 1    power,  duty,  responsibility  or  matter of pending business
 2    transferred  from  the  State  Board  of  Education  to   the
 3    Commission  under this Section shall be affected thereby, and
 4    all such rules and regulations shall  become  the  rules  and
 5    regulations  of  the  Commission until modified or changed by
 6    the  Commission  in  accordance  with   law.    In   awarding
 7    scholarships,  the  Commission  shall  give priority to those
 8    teachers with the greatest amount of seniority within  school
 9    districts.
10        (c)  Each scholarship shall be utilized by its holder for
11    the payment of tuition at any qualified institution of higher
12    learning.   Such  tuition shall be available only for courses
13    that will enable the teacher to be certified to teach science
14    or mathematics at the secondary school level. The Commission,
15    in consultation with the Professional Teacher Standards Board
16    State Teacher  Certification  Board,  shall  determine  which
17    courses are eligible for tuition payments under this Section.
18        (d)  The  Commission shall make tuition payments directly
19    to the qualified institution of  higher  learning  which  the
20    teacher  attends  for  the  courses  prescribed  or  may make
21    payments to the teacher.  Any teacher who  receives  payments
22    and  who  fails  to  enroll  in  the courses prescribed shall
23    refund the payments to the Commission.
24        (e)  Following the completion of the  program  of  study,
25    the  teacher  must  accept  employment  within  2  years in a
26    secondary school in Illinois within 60 miles of the teacher's
27    residence to teach science or mathematics; provided, however,
28    that the teacher  instead  may  elect  to  accept  employment
29    within  such 2 year period to teach science or mathematics in
30    a secondary school in Illinois which is more  than  60  miles
31    from  the  teacher's  residence.  Teachers who fail to comply
32    with this provision  shall  refund  all  of  the  scholarship
33    awarded   to  the  Commission,  whether  payments  were  made
34    directly to the institutions of higher  learning  or  to  the
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 1    teachers, and this condition shall be agreed to in writing by
 2    all  scholarship  recipients  at  the time the scholarship is
 3    awarded.  No teacher shall  be  required  to  refund  tuition
 4    payments  if  his  or  her  failure to obtain employment as a
 5    mathematics or science teacher in a secondary school  is  the
 6    result  of financial conditions within school districts.  The
 7    rules and regulations promulgated as provided in this Section
 8    shall include provisions regarding the waiving  and  deferral
 9    of such payments.
10        (f)  The  Commission,  with  the cooperation of the State
11    Board  of  Education,  shall   assist   teachers   who   have
12    participated  in  the scholarship program established by this
13    Section  in  finding    employment  to   teach   science   or
14    mathematics at the secondary level.
15        (g)  This  Section  is  substantially the same as Section
16    30-4b of the School Code, which Section is repealed  by  this
17    amendatory   Act  of  1993,  and  shall  be  construed  as  a
18    continuation of the science-mathematics  teacher  scholarship
19    program  established  by  that prior law, and not as a new or
20    different science-mathematics  teacher  scholarship  program.
21    The   State   Board   of  Education  shall  transfer  to  the
22    Commission, as the successor to the State Board of  Education
23    for  all  purposes  of  administering    and implementing the
24    provisions of this Section,  all  books,  accounts,  records,
25    papers,   documents,   contracts,   agreements,  and  pending
26    business in  any  way  relating  to  the  science-mathematics
27    teacher scholarship program continued under this Section; and
28    all  scholarships  at any time awarded under that program by,
29    and all applications for any such scholarships  at  any  time
30    made  to, the State Board of Education shall be unaffected by
31    the transfer to the Commission of all responsibility for  the
32    administration  and implementation of the science-mathematics
33    teacher scholarship program  continued  under  this  Section.
34    The  State Board of Education shall furnish to the Commission
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 1    such other information  as  the  Commission  may  request  to
 2    assist it in administering this Section.
 3        (h)  Appropriations for the scholarships outlined in this
 4    Section   shall   be   made  to  the  Commission  from  funds
 5    appropriated by the General Assembly.
 6        (i)  For the purposes of this Section:
 7        "Qualified institution  of  higher  learning"  means  the
 8    University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago
 9    State  University,  Eastern  Illinois  University,  Governors
10    State  University,  Illinois  State  University, Northeastern
11    Illinois University, Northern  Illinois  University,  Western
12    Illinois   University,  and  the  public  community  colleges
13    subject to the Public Community College Act.
14        "Secondary school level" means grades 9 through 12  or  a
15    portion of such grades.
16    (Source:  P.A.  88-228;  88-670,  eff.  12-2-94;  89-4,  eff.
17    1-1-96.)
18        Section  15.   The Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act is
19    amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
20        (225 ILCS 15/4) (from Ch. 111, par. 5354)
21        Sec. 4.  Application of Act.
22        (a)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
23    activities  of  and services of a student, intern or resident
24    in psychology seeking to fulfill educational requirements  or
25    the experience requirements in order to qualify for a license
26    under  this  Act,  or  an  individual  seeking to fulfill the
27    postdoctoral experience requirements in order to qualify  for
28    licensure  under  this  Act provided that such activities and
29    services are under the direct supervision, order, control and
30    full  professional  responsibility  of  a  licensed  clinical
31    psychologist and  provided  that  such  student,  intern,  or
32    resident  be  designated by a title "intern" or "resident" or
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 1    other designation of trainee status.   Supervised  experience
 2    in  which  the  supervisor receives monetary payment or other
 3    considerations from the supervisee or in which the supervisor
 4    is hired by or otherwise employed by the supervisee shall not
 5    be accepted by the Department as  fulfilling  the  practicum,
 6    internship  or  2 years of satisfactory supervised experience
 7    requirements for licensure. Nothing contained in this Section
 8    shall be construed as permitting such students,  interns,  or
 9    residents  to  offer their services as clinical psychologists
10    to any other person or persons and to accept remuneration for
11    such  clinical   psychological   services   other   than   as
12    specifically  excepted herein, unless they have been licensed
13    under the provisions of this Act.
14        (b)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting
15    persons licensed as clinical psychologists to engage  in  any
16    manner  in the practice of medicine as defined in the laws of
17    this State.  Persons licensed as clinical  psychologists  who
18    render services to persons in need of mental treatment or who
19    are  mentally  ill  shall  as  appropriate  initiate  genuine
20    collaboration  with  a  physician  licensed  in  Illinois  to
21    practice medicine in all its branches.
22        (c)  Nothing   in   this   Act   shall  be  construed  as
23    restricting an individual certified as a school  psychologist
24    by  the State Board of Education, who is at least 21 years of
25    age and has had at least 3 years of full-time experience as a
26    certified school psychologist, from using  the  title  school
27    psychologist   and  offering  school  psychological  services
28    limited  to  those  services  set  forth  in  the  rules  and
29    regulations that govern the administration and  operation  of
30    special  education pertaining to children and youth ages 0-21
31    prepared by the State Board of  Education.   Anyone  offering
32    such  services  under  the provisions of this paragraph shall
33    use the term school psychologist and describe  such  services
34    as  "School Psychological Services".  This exemption shall be
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 1    limited  to  the  practice  of  school  psychology  only   as
 2    manifested  through psychoeducational problems, and shall not
 3    be construed to allow a school psychologist to function as  a
 4    general practitioner of clinical psychology, unless otherwise
 5    licensed  under this Act.  However, nothing in this paragraph
 6    prohibits a  school  psychologist  from  making  evaluations,
 7    recommendations  or  interventions regarding the placement of
 8    children  in  educational  programs  or   special   education
 9    classes,  nor  shall  it  prohibit  school psychologists from
10    providing   clinical   psychological   services   under   the
11    supervision  of  a  licensed  clinical  psychologist.    This
12    paragraph   shall  not  be  construed  to  mandate  insurance
13    companies to reimburse school psychologists directly for  the
14    services  of school psychologists.  Nothing in this paragraph
15    shall be construed to exclude anyone duly licensed under this
16    Act  from  offering  psychological  services  in  the  school
17    setting.  School psychologists providing services  under  the
18    provisions  of this paragraph shall not provide such services
19    outside their employment to any child who is a student in the
20    district or districts which employ such school  psychologist.
21    School  psychologists,  as described in this paragraph, shall
22    be under the regulatory  authority  of  the  State  Board  of
23    Education  and the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
24    Teacher Certification Board.
25        (d)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
26    activities and use of the official title of "psychologist" on
27    the  part  of  a  person  not  licensed  under  this  Act who
28    possesses a doctoral degree earned in a program  concentrated
29    primarily  on  the  study  of  psychology  and is an academic
30    employee of a duly chartered institution of higher  education
31    insofar  as  such  person  engages in public speaking with or
32    without remuneration, provided that such person is not in any
33    manner  held  out  to  the  public  as  practicing   clinical
34    psychology  as  defined  in  paragraph 5 of Section 2 of this
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 1    Act, unless he or she has been licensed under the  provisions
 2    of this Act.
 3        (e)  Nothing  in this Act shall be construed to regulate,
 4    control, or restrict the  clinical  practice  of  any  person
 5    licensed,  registered,  or  certified in this State under any
 6    other Act, provided that such person is  not  in  any  manner
 7    held  out  to  the public as rendering clinical psychological
 8    services as defined in paragraph 7 of Section 2 of this Act.
 9        (f)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
10    activities and use of the title "psychologist" on the part of
11    a  person  who  practices  psychology and (i) who possesses a
12    doctoral degree earned in a program concentrated primarily on
13    the study of psychology; and (ii) whose services involve  the
14    development  and  application  of  psychological  theory  and
15    methodology  to  problems  of  organizations  and problems of
16    individuals  and  groups  in  organizational  settings;   and
17    provided  further  that such person is not in any manner held
18    out to the public as practicing clinical  psychology  and  is
19    not  held  out  to  the  public  by any title, description or
20    designation stating or implying that he or she is a  clinical
21    psychologist  unless  he  or  she has been licensed under the
22    provisions of this Act.
23    (Source: P.A. 89-702, eff. 7-1-97.)
24        Section 20.   The  Professional  Counselor  and  Clinical
25    Professional  Counselor  Licensing Act is amended by changing
26    Section 15 as follows:
27        (225 ILCS 107/15)
28        Sec. 15.  Exemptions.
29        (a)  This Act  does  not  prohibit  any  persons  legally
30    regulated in this State by any other Act from engaging in the
31    practice for which they are authorized as long as they do not
32    represent   themselves   by   the   title   of  "professional
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 1    counselor",  "licensed  professional  counselor",   "clinical
 2    professional  counselor",  or "licensed clinical professional
 3    counselor". This  Act  does  not  prohibit  the  practice  of
 4    nonregulated  professions  whose practitioners are engaged in
 5    the delivery of human services as long as these practitioners
 6    do  not  represent  themselves  as  or  use  the   title   of
 7    "professional  counselor", "licensed professional counselor",
 8    "clinical  professional  counselor",  or  "licensed  clinical
 9    professional counselor".
10        (b)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
11    activities  and services of a student, intern, or resident in
12    professional counseling or clinical  professional  counseling
13    seeking  to  fulfill  educational  requirements  in  order to
14    qualify for a  license  under  this  Act,  or  an  individual
15    seeking to fulfill the post-degree experience requirements in
16    order  to  qualify  for  licensing  under  this  Act,  if the
17    activities and services are supervised as specified  in  this
18    Act,  and that the student, intern, or resident is designated
19    by a title "intern" or "resident"  or  other  designation  of
20    trainee  status.  Nothing  contained in this Section shall be
21    construed to permit students, interns, or residents to  offer
22    their   services   as  professional  counselors  or  clinical
23    professional counselors to any other  person  and  to  accept
24    remuneration  for  such  professional  counseling or clinical
25    professional counseling services other than  as  specifically
26    excepted  in  this  Section,  unless  they have been licensed
27    under this Act.
28        (c)  Corporations,  partnerships,  and  associations  may
29    employ practicum students, interns, or post-degree candidates
30    seeking  to   fulfill   educational   requirements   or   the
31    professional  experience requirements needed to qualify for a
32    license under this  Act  if  their  activities  and  services
33    constitute a part of the student's supervised course of study
34    or  post-degree professional experience requirements. Nothing
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 1    in this paragraph shall prohibit a corporation,  partnership,
 2    or  association  from contracting with a licensed health care
 3    professional to provide services.
 4        (d)  Nothing in this Act shall prevent the employment, by
 5    a professional counselor or clinical professional  counselor,
 6    person, association, partnership, or a corporation furnishing
 7    professional  counseling  or clinical professional counseling
 8    services  for  remuneration,  of  persons  not  licensed   as
 9    professional  counselors  or clinical professional counselors
10    under this Act to perform services in various  capacities  as
11    needed if these persons are not in any manner held out to the
12    public  or  do  not  hold themselves out to the public by any
13    title or  designation  stating  or  implying  that  they  are
14    professional counselors or clinical professional counselors.
15        (e)  Nothing  in this Act shall be construed to limit the
16    services of a person, not licensed under  the  provisions  of
17    this  Act,  in  the  employ  of  a federal, State, county, or
18    municipal  agency   or   other   political   subdivision   or
19    not-for-profit  corporation  providing  human services if (1)
20    the services are a part of the duties in his or her  salaried
21    position,  (2) the services are performed solely on behalf of
22    his or her employer, and (3) that  person  does  not  in  any
23    manner  represent  himself  or herself as or use the title of
24    "professional counselor", "licensed professional  counselor",
25    "clinical  professional  counselor",  or  "licensed  clinical
26    professional counselor".
27        (f)  Duly    recognized    members   of   any   religious
28    organization shall not  be  restricted  from  functioning  in
29    their  ministerial  capacity  provided  they do not represent
30    themselves  as  being  professional  counselors  or  clinical
31    professional  counselors,  or  as   providing   "professional
32    counseling"  or  "clinical professional counseling". This Act
33    shall not apply or  be  construed  so  as  to  apply  to  the
34    employees  or agents of a church or religious organization or
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 1    an organization  owned,  controlled,  or  affiliated  with  a
 2    church   or   religious   organization,  unless  the  church,
 3    religious organization, or owned, controlled,  or  affiliated
 4    organization  designates  or  holds these employees or agents
 5    out to the public  as  professional  counselors  or  clinical
 6    professional  counselors or holds out their services as being
 7    "professional   counseling"   or    "clinical    professional
 8    counseling".
 9        (g)  Nothing  in  this Act shall prohibit individuals not
10    licensed under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  who  work  in
11    self-help  groups or programs or not-for-profit organizations
12    from  providing  services  in  those  groups,  programs,   or
13    organizations, as long as those persons are not in any manner
14    held  out to the public as practicing professional counseling
15    or  clinical  professional  counseling,  or   do   not   hold
16    themselves  out  to  the  public  by any title or designation
17    stating or implying that they are professional counselors  or
18    clinical professional counselors.
19        (h)  Nothing  in this Act shall be construed to limit the
20    activities and use of the  official  title  of  "professional
21    counselor"  or  "clinical professional counselor" on the part
22    of a person not licensed under this Act who  is  an  academic
23    employee  of a duly chartered institution of higher education
24    and who holds  educational  and  professional  qualifications
25    equivalent  to  those  required for licensing under this Act,
26    insofar as such activities are performed in the person's role
27    as an academic employee, or insofar as such person engages in
28    public speaking with or without remuneration.
29        (i)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
30    licensure  under  this  Act or limit the services of a school
31    counselor certified by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
32    Board  State  Teacher  Certification  Board  and  employed as
33    authorized by Section 10-22-24a or any  other   provision  of
34    the  School  Code as long as that person is not in any manner
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 1    held out to the  public  as  a  "professional  counselor"  or
 2    "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his or
 3    her  services as being "professional counseling" or "clinical
 4    professional counseling".
 5        (j)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
 6    any  hospital,  clinic, home health agency, hospice, or other
 7    entity that provides health care to  employ  or  to  contract
 8    with a person licensed under this Act to provide professional
 9    counseling  or  clinical  professional  counseling  services.
10    These  persons  may  not  hold  themselves  out  or represent
11    themselves to the public as being licensed under this Act.
12        (k)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
13    licensure  under  this  Act or limit the services of a person
14    employed by a private  elementary  or  secondary  school  who
15    provides counseling within the scope of his or her employment
16    as  long  as that person is not in any manner held out to the
17    public   as   a   "professional   counselor"   or   "clinical
18    professional counselor" or does  not  hold  out  his  or  her
19    services  as  being  "professional  counseling"  or "clinical
20    professional counseling".
21        (l)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
22    licensure  under  this  Act  or  limit the services of a rape
23    crisis counselor who is an employee or volunteer  of  a  rape
24    crisis organization as defined in Section 8-802.1 of the Code
25    of  Civil  Procedure  as  long  as  that person is not in any
26    manner held out to the public as a  "professional  counselor"
27    or "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his
28    or   her  services  as  being  "professional  counseling"  or
29    "clinical professional counseling".
30        (m)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  prevent
31    any  licensed social worker, licensed clinical social worker,
32    or   licensed   clinical   psychologist    from    practicing
33    professional  counseling as long as that person is not in any
34    manner held out to the public as a  "professional  counselor"
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 1    or "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his
 2    or   her  services  as  being  "professional  counseling"  or
 3    "clinical professional counseling".
 4        (n)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
 5    activities  and  use  of  the official title of "professional
 6    counselor" or "clinical professional counselor" on  the  part
 7    of  a  person  not licensed under this Act who is a physician
 8    licensed to practice medicine in all of  its  branches  under
 9    the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
10        (o)  Nothing  in  this  Act shall be construed to require
11    licensure under this Act or limit the services of a  domestic
12    violence  counselor  who  is  an  employee  or volunteer of a
13    domestic violence program as defined in Section  227  of  the
14    Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
15    (Source: P.A.   87-1011;  87-1212;  87-1269;  88-45;  88-424;
16    88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
17        (105 ILCS 5/21-0.01 rep.)
18        (105 ILCS 5/21-13 rep.)
19        (105 ILCS 5/21-26 rep.)
20        Section 25.  The School  Code  is  amended  by  repealing
21    Sections 21-0.01, 21-13, and 21-26.
22        Section  99.   Effective  date.   This  Act  takes effect
23    January 1, 1999.
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 1                                INDEX
 2               Statutes amended in order of appearance
 3    105 ILCS 5/2-3.11         from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11
 4    105 ILCS 5/10-21.9        from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9
 5    105 ILCS 5/10-22.20a      from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20a
 6    105 ILCS 5/10-22.24a      from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.24a
 7    105 ILCS 5/10-22.34       from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34
 8    105 ILCS 5/14-1.09.1
 9    105 ILCS 5/14-8.05        from Ch. 122, par. 14-8.05
10    105 ILCS 5/14C-2          from Ch. 122, par. 14C-2
11    105 ILCS 5/21-0.05 new
12    105 ILCS 5/21-1           from Ch. 122, par. 21-1
13    105 ILCS 5/21-1a          from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a
14    105 ILCS 5/21-1b          from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b
15    105 ILCS 5/21-1c          from Ch. 122, par. 21-1c
16    105 ILCS 5/21-2           from Ch. 122, par. 21-2
17    105 ILCS 5/21-2.1         from Ch. 122, par. 21-2.1
18    105 ILCS 5/21-2b          from Ch. 122, par. 21-2b
19    105 ILCS 5/21-3           from Ch. 122, par. 21-3
20    105 ILCS 5/21-4           from Ch. 122, par. 21-4
21    105 ILCS 5/21-5           from Ch. 122, par. 21-5
22    105 ILCS 5/21-5a          from Ch. 122, par. 21-5a
23    105 ILCS 5/21-5b
24    105 ILCS 5/21-5c
25    105 ILCS 5/21-5d
26    105 ILCS 5/21-7.1         from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1
27    105 ILCS 5/21-9           from Ch. 122, par. 21-9
28    105 ILCS 5/21-10          from Ch. 122, par. 21-10
29    105 ILCS 5/21-11          from Ch. 122, par. 21-11
30    105 ILCS 5/21-11.1        from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.1
31    105 ILCS 5/21-11.2        from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.2
32    105 ILCS 5/21-11.3        from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.3
33    105 ILCS 5/21-11.4
34    105 ILCS 5/21-12          from Ch. 122, par. 21-12
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 1    105 ILCS 5/21-14          from Ch. 122, par. 21-14
 2    105 ILCS 5/21-16          from Ch. 122, par. 21-16
 3    105 ILCS 5/21-17          from Ch. 122, par. 21-17
 4    105 ILCS 5/21-19          from Ch. 122, par. 21-19
 5    105 ILCS 5/21-21          from Ch. 122, par. 21-21
 6    105 ILCS 5/21-21.1        from Ch. 122, par. 21-21.1
 7    105 ILCS 5/21-23          from Ch. 122, par. 21-23
 8    105 ILCS 5/21-23b         from Ch. 122, par. 21-23b
 9    105 ILCS 5/21-24          from Ch. 122, par. 21-24
10    105 ILCS 5/21-25          from Ch. 122, par. 21-25
11    105 ILCS 5/34-18.5        from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5
12    105 ILCS 5/34-83          from Ch. 122, par. 34-83
13    110 ILCS 947/65.20
14    225 ILCS 15/4             from Ch. 111, par. 5354
15    225 ILCS 107/15
16    105 ILCS 5/21-0.01 rep.
17    105 ILCS 5/21-13 rep.
18    105 ILCS 5/21-26 rep.

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