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90_HB3794
105 ILCS 5/2-3.126 new
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of
Education to develop a class size reduction schedule for
grades K-3 under which the pupil-teacher ratio in each of
those grades in each school district in which any or all of
those grades are maintained does not exceed or will be
reduced to a maximum of 20 pupils to one teacher per class.
Requires the State Board of Education to submit the proposed
schedule, together with an evaluation thereof and any
recommended legislation needed to implement and administer a
class size restriction grant program for those grades, to the
Governor and General Assembly by October 1, 1998. Also
requires the State Board of Education to submit an annual
budget request, beginning in 1999, for all amounts necessary
to implement and administer the program each year until the
maximum pupil-teacher ratio for classes offered in grades K-3
is achieved on a statewide basis. Effective July 1, 1998.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by adding Section
2 2-3.126.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
6 2-3.126 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.126 new)
8 Sec. 2-3.126. Class size reduction program. The State
9 Board of Education shall develop and evaluate a statewide
10 class size reduction schedule for grades kindergarten through
11 3, under which the pupil-teacher ratio in each of those
12 grades in each school district in which any or all of those
13 grades are maintained does not exceed or will be reduced to a
14 maximum of 20 pupils to one teacher per class.
15 The State Board of Education shall submit its K-3 class
16 size reduction schedule, together with its evaluation thereof
17 and recommendations for any legislation that may be required
18 to implement and administer a class size reduction grant
19 program for those grades, to the Governor and the General
20 Assembly not later than October 1, 1998.
21 The State Board of Education also shall submit to the
22 Governor and the General Assembly, not later than the 2nd
23 Wednesday of January of each calendar year, an annual budget
24 request for all amounts necessary to implement and
25 administer, during the school year that commences in that
26 calendar year, a statewide class size reduction grant program
27 for grades kindergarten through 3.
28 The grant program to be implemented under this Section
29 shall lapse when the maximum 20-to-one pupil-teacher ratio
30 for grades kindergarten through 3 is achieved on a statewide
31 basis as provided in this Section.
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1 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
2 1, 1998.