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91_SB1604
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 10-17a.
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 Section 10-17a as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
8 Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability.
9 (1) Policy and Purpose. It shall be the policy of the
10 State of Illinois that each school district in this State,
11 including special charter districts and districts subject to
12 the provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents,
13 taxpayers of such district, the Governor, the General
14 Assembly, and the State Board of Education a school report
15 card assessing the performance of its schools and students.
16 The report card shall be an index of school performance
17 measured against statewide and local standards and will
18 provide information to make prior year comparisons and to set
19 future year targets through the school improvement plan.
20 (2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall
21 prepare a report card in accordance with the guidelines set
22 forth in this Section which describes the performance of its
23 students by school attendance centers and by district and the
24 district's use of financial resources. Such report card
25 shall be presented at a regular school board meeting subject
26 to applicable notice requirements, and such report cards
27 shall be made available to a newspaper of general circulation
28 serving the district and shall be sent home to parents. In
29 addition, each school district shall submit the completed
30 report card to the office of the district's Regional
31 Superintendent which shall make copies available to any
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1 individuals requesting them.
2 The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior
3 to October 31 in each school year and shall be disseminated
4 30 calendar days after receipt of the report card by the
5 school district. The report card shall contain, but not be
6 limited to, actual local school attendance center, school
7 district and statewide data indicating the present
8 performance of the school, the State norms and the areas for
9 planned improvement for the school and school district.
10 (3) (a) The report card shall include the following
11 applicable indicators of attendance center, district, and
12 statewide student performance: percent of students who
13 exceed, meet, or do not meet standards established by the
14 State Board of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a;
15 composite and subtest means on nationally normed achievement
16 tests for college bound students; student attendance rates;
17 chronic truancy rate; dropout rate; graduation rate; and
18 student mobility, turnover shown as a percent of transfers
19 out and a percent of transfers in.
20 (b) The report card shall include the following
21 descriptions for the school, district, and State: average
22 class size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics,
23 science, English and social science at primary, middle and
24 junior high school grade levels; number of students taking
25 the Prairie State Achievement Examination under subsection
26 (c) of Section 2-3.64, the number of those students who
27 received a score of excellent, and the average score by
28 school of students taking the examination; pupil-teacher
29 ratio; pupil-administrator ratio; operating expenditure per
30 pupil; district expenditure by fund; average administrator
31 salary; and average teacher salary.
32 (c) The report card shall include applicable indicators
33 of parental involvement in each attendance center. The
34 parental involvement component of the report card shall
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1 include the percentage of students whose parents or guardians
2 have had one or more personal contacts with the students'
3 teachers during the school year concerning the students'
4 education, and such other information, commentary, and
5 suggestions as the school district desires. For the purposes
6 of this paragraph, "personal contact" includes, but is not
7 limited to, parent-teacher conferences, parental visits to
8 school, school visits to home, telephone conversations, and
9 written correspondence. The parental involvement component
10 shall not single out or identify individual students,
11 parents, or guardians by name.
12 (d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State
13 Board of Education and provided to school districts.
14 (Source: P.A. 89-610, eff. 8-6-96.)
15 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
16 July 1, 2000.