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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 230
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 230 on page 1,
3 lines 1 and 6, by replacing "Section" each time it appears
4 with "Sections 27A-4 and"; and
5 on page 1, immediately below line 6, by inserting the
6 following:
7 "(105 ILCS 5/27A-4)
8 Sec. 27A-4. General Provisions.
9 (a) The General Assembly does not intend to alter or
10 amend the provisions of any court-ordered desegregation plan
11 in effect for any school district. A charter school shall be
12 subject to all federal and State laws and constitutional
13 provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
14 disability, race, creed, color, gender, national origin,
15 religion, ancestry, marital status, or need for special
16 education services.
17 (b) The total number of charter schools operating under
18 this Article at any one time shall not exceed 45. Not more
19 than that 15 charter schools shall operate at any one time in
20 any city having a population exceeding 500,000; not more than
21 15 charter schools, with not more than one charter school per
22 school district, shall operate at any one time in the
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1 counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will, and that
2 portion of Cook County that is located outside a city having
3 a population exceeding 500,000; and not more than 15 charter
4 schools, with not more than one charter school per school
5 district, shall operate at any one time in the remainder of
6 the State.
7 For purposes of implementing this Section, the State
8 Board shall assign a number to each charter submission it
9 receives under Section 27A-6 for its review and
10 certification, based on the chronological order in which the
11 submission is received by it. The State Board shall promptly
12 notify local school boards when the maximum numbers of
13 certified charter schools authorized to operate have been
14 reached.
15 (c) No charter shall be granted under this Article that
16 would convert any existing private, parochial, or non-public
17 school to a charter school.
18 (d) Enrollment in a charter school shall be open to any
19 pupil who resides within the geographic boundaries of the
20 area served by the local school board. However, no more than
21 50% of the number of resident pupils enrolled in any one
22 grade in a school district with only a single attendance
23 center covering that grade may be enrolled in a charter
24 school at one time.
25 (e) Nothing in this Article shall prevent 2 or more
26 local school boards from jointly issuing a charter to a
27 single shared charter school, provided that all of the
28 provisions of this Article are met as to those local school
29 boards.
30 (f) No local school board shall require any employee of
31 the school district to be employed in a charter school.
32 (g) No local school board shall require any pupil
33 residing within the geographic boundary of its district to
34 enroll in a charter school.
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1 (h) If there are more eligible applicants for enrollment
2 in a charter school than there are spaces available,
3 successful applicants shall be selected by lottery. However,
4 priority shall be given to siblings of pupils enrolled in the
5 charter school and to pupils who were enrolled in the charter
6 school the previous school year, unless expelled for cause.
7 Dual enrollment at both a charter school and a public school
8 or non-public school shall not be allowed. A pupil who is
9 suspended or expelled from a charter school shall be deemed
10 to be suspended or expelled from the public schools of the
11 school district in which the pupil resides.
12 (i) No charter school established under this Article may
13 be authorized to open prior to the school year beginning in
14 the fall of 1996.
15 (Source: P.A. 89-450, eff. 4-10-96; revised 2-24-98.)".