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90_SB1647
105 ILCS 5/2-3.62 from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62
105 ILCS 5/13A-10
Amends the School Code. Disbands each of the 3
educational service centers in suburban Cook County on July
1, 1998, provides for assumption of their program
responsibilities by the regional office of education for the
educational service region in which those centers were
located, and adds that the regional superintendent of schools
for that educational service region shall serve as the chief
administrator of all programs and services formerly provided
by the 3 disbanded educational service centers. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Sections
2 2-3.62 and 13A-10.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Sections 2-3.62 and 13A-10 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.62) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.62)
8 Sec. 2-3.62. Educational Service Centers.
9 (a) A regional network of educational service centers
10 shall be established by the State Board of Education to
11 coordinate and combine existing services in a manner which is
12 practical and efficient and to provide new services to
13 schools as provided in this Section. Services to be made
14 available by such centers shall include the planning,
15 implementation and evaluation of:
16 (1) education for gifted children through area
17 service centers, experimental projects and institutes as
18 provided in Section 14A-6;
19 (2) computer technology education including the
20 evaluation, use and application of state-of-the-art
21 technology in computer software as provided in Section
22 2-3.43;
23 (3) mathematics, science and reading resources for
24 teachers including continuing education, inservice
25 training and staff development.
26 The centers may provide training, technical assistance,
27 coordination and planning in other program areas such as
28 school improvement, school accountability, career guidance,
29 early childhood education, alcohol/drug education and
30 prevention, family life - sex education, electronic
31 transmission of data from school districts to the State,
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1 alternative education and regional special education, and
2 telecommunications systems that provide distance learning.
3 Such telecommunications systems may be obtained through the
4 Department of Central Management Services pursuant to Section
5 67.18 of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. The
6 programs and services of educational service centers may be
7 offered to private school teachers and private school
8 students within each service center area provided public
9 schools have already been afforded adequate access to such
10 programs and services.
11 The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and
12 regulations necessary to implement this Section. The rules
13 shall include detailed standards which delineate the scope
14 and specific content of programs to be provided by each
15 Educational Service Center, as well as the specific planning,
16 implementation and evaluation services to be provided by each
17 Center relative to its programs. The Board shall also
18 provide the standards by which it will evaluate the programs
19 provided by each Center.
20 (b) Centers serving Class 1 county school units shall be
21 governed by an 11-member board, 3 members of which shall be
22 public school teachers nominated by the local bargaining
23 representatives to the appropriate regional superintendent
24 for appointment and no more than 3 members of which shall be
25 from each of the following categories, including but not
26 limited to superintendents, regional superintendents, school
27 board members and a representative of an institution of
28 higher education. The members of the board shall be
29 appointed by the regional superintendents whose school
30 districts are served by the educational service center. The
31 composition of the board will reflect the revisions of this
32 amendatory Act of 1989 as the terms of office of current
33 members expire.
34 (c) The centers shall be of sufficient size and number
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1 to assure delivery of services to all local school districts
2 in the State.
3 (d) From monies appropriated for this program the State
4 Board of Education shall provide grants to qualifying
5 Educational Service Centers applying for such grants in
6 accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the
7 State Board of Education to implement this Section.
8 (e) The governing authority of each of the 18 regional
9 educational service centers shall appoint a family life - sex
10 education advisory board consisting of 2 parents, 2 teachers,
11 2 school administrators, 2 school board members, 2 health
12 care professionals, one library system representative, and
13 the director of the regional educational service center who
14 shall serve as chairperson of the advisory board so
15 appointed. Members of the family life - sex education
16 advisory boards shall serve without compensation. Each of
17 the advisory boards appointed pursuant to this subsection
18 shall develop a plan for regional teacher-parent family life
19 - sex education training sessions and shall file a written
20 report of such plan with the governing board of their
21 regional educational service center. The directors of each
22 of the regional educational service centers shall thereupon
23 meet, review each of the reports submitted by the advisory
24 boards and combine those reports into a single written report
25 which they shall file with the Citizens Council on School
26 Problems prior to the end of the regular school term of the
27 1987-1988 school year.
28 (f) The 14 educational service centers serving Class I
29 county school units shall be disbanded on the first Monday of
30 August, 1995, and their statutory responsibilities and
31 programs shall be assumed by the regional offices of
32 education, subject to rules and regulations developed by the
33 State Board of Education. Each of the 3 educational service
34 centers in a Class II county school unit outside a city of
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1 500,000 or more population shall be disbanded on July 1,
2 1998, and their statutory responsibilities and programs shall
3 be assumed by the regional office of education serving that
4 portion of the Class II county school unit formerly served by
5 those disbanded educational service centers. The regional
6 superintendents of schools in each educational service region
7 elected by the voters residing in all Class I counties shall
8 serve as the chief administrators for all these programs and
9 services provided in their respective educational service
10 regions pursuant to or as authorized under this Section and
11 Section 13A-10 of the School Code. Subject to the approval
12 By rule of the State Board of Education, any the 10
13 educational service region may regions of lowest population
14 shall provide such services under cooperative agreements with
15 other larger regions.
16 (Source: P.A. 88-89; 89-335, eff. 1-1-96.)
17 (105 ILCS 5/13A-10)
18 Sec. 13A-10. Alternative School Programs in Class II
19 Counties. Until July 1, 1998, the executive director of
20 educational service centers located in a Class II county
21 school unit counties outside a city of 500,000 or more
22 inhabitants shall, for the educational service center area,
23 perform the duties assigned by this Article to regional
24 superintendents. Beginning July 1, 1998 and thereafter, those
25 duties shall again be the responsibility of and performed by
26 the regional superintendent of schools of the educational
27 service region serving that portion of the Class II county
28 school unit outside a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants.
29 (Source: P.A. 89-383, eff. 8-18-95; 89-629, eff. 8-9-96.)
30 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
31 becoming law.