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92_HB2204
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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, 21-11.1, 21-11.2, 21-11.3, 21-11.4,
9 21-12, 21-14, 21-16, 21-17, 21-19, 21-21, 21-21.1, 21-23,
10 21-23b, 21-24, 21-25, 34-18.5, and 34-83 and adding Section
11 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 or have been convicted, within 7 years of the application for
18 employment with the school district, of any other felony
19 under the laws of this State or of any offense committed or
20 attempted in any other state or against the laws of the
21 United States that, if committed or attempted in this State,
22 would have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this
23 State. Authorization for the investigation shall be furnished
24 by the applicant to the school district, except that if the
25 applicant is a substitute teacher seeking employment in more
26 than one school district, a teacher seeking concurrent
27 part-time employment positions with more than one school
28 district (as a reading specialist, special education teacher
29 or otherwise), or an educational support personnel employee
30 seeking employment positions with more than one district, any
31 such district may require the applicant to furnish
32 authorization for the investigation to the regional
33 superintendent of the educational service region in which are
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1 located the school districts in which the applicant is
2 seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
3 teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee.
4 Upon receipt of this authorization, the school district or
5 the appropriate regional superintendent, as the case may be,
6 shall submit the applicant's name, sex, race, date of birth
7 and social security number to the Department of State Police
8 on forms prescribed by the Department. The regional
9 superintendent submitting the requisite information to the
10 Department of State Police shall promptly notify the school
11 districts in which the applicant is seeking employment as a
12 substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent
13 educational support personnel employee that the investigation
14 of the applicant has been requested. The Department of State
15 Police shall conduct an investigation to ascertain if the
16 applicant being considered for employment has been convicted
17 of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in
18 subsection (c) or has been convicted, within 7 years of the
19 application for employment with the school district, of any
20 other felony under the laws of this State or of any offense
21 committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws
22 of the United States that, if committed or attempted in this
23 State, would have been punishable as a felony under the laws
24 of this State. The Department shall charge the school
25 district or the appropriate regional superintendent a fee for
26 conducting such investigation, which fee shall be deposited
27 in the State Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the
28 cost of the inquiry; and the applicant shall not be charged a
29 fee for such investigation by the school district or by the
30 regional superintendent. The regional superintendent may
31 seek reimbursement from the State Board of Education or the
32 appropriate school district or districts for fees paid by the
33 regional superintendent to the Department for the criminal
34 background investigations required by this Section.
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1 (b) The Department shall furnish, pursuant to positive
2 identification, records of convictions, until expunged, to
3 the president of the school board for the school district
4 which requested the investigation, or to the regional
5 superintendent who requested the investigation. Any
6 information concerning the record of convictions obtained by
7 the president of the school board or the regional
8 superintendent shall be confidential and may only be
9 transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or
10 his designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if the
11 investigation was requested by the school district, the
12 presidents of the appropriate school boards if the
13 investigation was requested from the Department of State
14 Police by the regional superintendent, the State
15 Superintendent of Education, the Professional Teacher
16 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board or any
17 other person necessary to the decision of hiring the
18 applicant for employment. A copy of the record of
19 convictions obtained from the Department of State Police
20 shall be provided to the applicant for employment. If an
21 investigation of an applicant for employment as a substitute
22 or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent educational
23 support personnel employee in more than one school district
24 was requested by the regional superintendent, and the
25 Department of State Police upon investigation ascertains that
26 the applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated
27 criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) or has not been
28 convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment
29 with the school district, of any other felony under the laws
30 of this State or of any offense committed or attempted in any
31 other state or against the laws of the United States that, if
32 committed or attempted in this State, would have been
33 punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and so
34 notifies the regional superintendent, then the regional
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1 superintendent shall issue to the applicant a certificate
2 evidencing that as of the date specified by the Department of
3 State Police the applicant has not been convicted of any of
4 the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) or
5 has not been convicted, within 7 years of the application for
6 employment with the school district, of any other felony
7 under the laws of this State or of any offense committed or
8 attempted in any other state or against the laws of the
9 United States that, if committed or attempted in this State,
10 would have been punishable as a felony under the laws of this
11 State. The school board of any school district located in
12 the educational service region served by the regional
13 superintendent who issues such a certificate to an applicant
14 for employment as a substitute teacher in more than one such
15 district may rely on the certificate issued by the regional
16 superintendent to that applicant, or may initiate its own
17 investigation of the applicant through the Department of
18 State Police as provided in subsection (a). Any person who
19 releases any confidential information concerning any criminal
20 convictions of an applicant for employment shall be guilty of
21 a Class A misdemeanor, unless the release of such information
22 is authorized by this Section.
23 (c) No school board shall knowingly employ a person who
24 has been convicted for committing attempted first degree
25 murder or for committing or attempting to commit first degree
26 murder or a Class X felony or any one or more of the
27 following offenses: (i) those defined in Sections 11-6, 11-9,
28 11-14, 11-15, 11-15.1, 11-16, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-19.1,
29 11-19.2, 11-20, 11-20.1, 11-21, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1, 12-15
30 and 12-16 of the "Criminal Code of 1961"; (ii) those defined
31 in the "Cannabis Control Act" except those defined in
32 Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 5(a) of that Act; (iii) those defined
33 in the "Illinois Controlled Substances Act"; and (iv) any
34 offense committed or attempted in any other state or against
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1 the laws of the United States, which if committed or
2 attempted in this State, would have been punishable as one or
3 more of the foregoing offenses. Further, no school board
4 shall knowingly employ a person who has been found to be the
5 perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under 18
6 years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the
7 Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
8 (d) No school board shall knowingly employ a person for
9 whom a criminal background investigation has not been
10 initiated.
11 (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a
12 finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate issued
13 pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
14 School Code, the appropriate regional superintendent of
15 schools or the State Superintendent of Education shall
16 initiate the certificate suspension and revocation
17 proceedings authorized by law.
18 (f) After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section
19 shall apply to all employees of persons or firms holding
20 contracts with any school district including, but not limited
21 to, food service workers, school bus drivers and other
22 transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
23 the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of
24 criminal background investigations on employees of persons or
25 firms holding contracts with more than one school district
26 and assigned to more than one school district, the regional
27 superintendent of the educational service region in which the
28 contracting school districts are located may, at the request
29 of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the
30 authorization for investigation prepared by each such
31 employee and submitting the same to the Department of State
32 Police. Any information concerning the record of conviction
33 of any such employee obtained by the regional superintendent
34 shall be promptly reported to the president of the
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1 appropriate school board or school boards.
2 (Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98; 91-885, eff. 7-6-00.)
3 (105 ILCS 5/10-22.20a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20a)
4 Sec. 10-22.20a. Advanced vocational training program,
5 and career education. To enter into joint agreements with
6 community college districts and other school districts for
7 the purpose of providing career education or advanced
8 vocational training of students in the 11th and higher grades
9 who desire preparation for a trade. Transportation for
10 students to any facility covered by a joint agreement as
11 described in this Section shall be provided by the
12 participating school district, or by the participating school
13 district in conjunction with other school districts. Joint
14 agreements entered into under this Section may include
15 provisions for joint authority to acquire and improve sites,
16 construct and equip facilities thereon and lease and equip
17 facilities deemed necessary by the parties to the joint
18 agreement, to maintain programs and to provide for financing
19 of the foregoing jointly by the respective parties, all in
20 accordance with the terms of the joint agreement.
21 Nothing herein contained shall be construed to restrict
22 or prohibit the rights of community college districts or
23 school districts to enter into joint agreements under the
24 provisions of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, as now
25 or hereinafter amended.
26 The duration of the career education or advanced
27 vocational training program shall be such period as the
28 school district may approve but it may not exceed 2 years for
29 any school district pupil. Participation in the program is
30 accorded the same credit toward a high school diploma as time
31 spent in other courses.
32 The participating community college shall bill each
33 participating student's school district for an amount equal
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1 to the per capita cost of operating the community college
2 attended or a charge for participation may be made in
3 accordance with the joint agreement between the community
4 college district and the student's school district. Such
5 agreement shall not provide for payments in excess of the
6 actual cost of operating the course or courses in which the
7 student is enrolled. Participating high schools may use
8 State aid monies to pay the charges.
9 The community college instructors teaching in such
10 programs need not be certified by the Professional Teacher
11 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
12 (Source: P.A. 79-76.)
13 (105 ILCS 5/10-22.24a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.24a)
14 Sec. 10-22.24a. School counselor. To employ school
15 counselors. A school counselor is a qualified guidance
16 specialist who holds or is qualified for an elementary,
17 secondary, or special K-12 certificate issued by the
18 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
19 Certification Board and a School Service Personnel
20 certificate endorsed in guidance issued by the Professional
21 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
22 Individuals who have completed approved programs in other
23 states may apply for a School Service Personnel certificate
24 endorsed in guidance if a review of their credentials
25 indicates that they hold or qualify for an elementary, high
26 school, or special certificate in their own state.
27 (Source: P.A. 91-70, eff. 7-9-99.)
28 (105 ILCS 5/10-22.34) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34)
29 Sec. 10-22.34. Non-certificated personnel.
30 (a) School Boards may employ non-teaching personnel or
31 utilize volunteer personnel for: (1) non-teaching duties not
32 requiring instructional judgment or evaluation of pupils; and
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1 (2) supervising study halls, long distance teaching reception
2 areas used incident to instructional programs transmitted by
3 electronic media such as computers, video, and audio, and
4 detention and discipline areas, and school-sponsored
5 extracurricular activities.
6 (b) School boards may further utilize volunteer
7 non-certificated personnel or employ non-certificated
8 personnel to assist in the instruction of pupils under the
9 immediate supervision of a teacher, holding a valid
10 certificate, directly engaged in teaching subject matter or
11 conducting activities. The teacher shall be continuously
12 aware of the non-certificated persons' activities and shall
13 be able to control or modify them. The State Board of
14 Education, in consultation with the Professional Teacher
15 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board, shall
16 determine qualifications of such personnel and shall
17 prescribe rules for determining the duties and activities to
18 be assigned to such personnel. In the determination of
19 qualifications of such personnel, the State Board of
20 Education shall accept coursework earned in a recognized
21 institution or from an institution of higher learning
22 accredited by the North Central Association or other
23 comparable regional accrediting association.
24 (c) School boards may also employ students holding a
25 bachelor's degree from a recognized institution of higher
26 learning as part time teaching interns when such students are
27 enrolled in a college or university internship program, which
28 has prior approval by the Professional Teacher Standards
29 Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
30 Teacher Certification Board, leading to a masters degree.
31 (d) Nothing in this Section shall require constant
32 supervision of a student teacher enrolled in a student
33 teaching course at a college or university, provided such
34 activity has the prior approval of the representative of the
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1 higher education institution and teaching plans have
2 previously been discussed with and approved by the
3 supervising teacher and further provided that such teaching
4 is within guidelines established by the Professional Teacher
5 Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
6 the State Teacher Certification Board.
7 (Source: P.A. 88-89; 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
8 (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09.1)
9 Sec. 14-1.09.1. School psychological services. In the
10 public schools, school psychological services provided by
11 qualified specialists who hold Type 73 School Service
12 Personnel Certificates endorsed for school psychology issued
13 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
14 Certification Board may include, but are not limited to: (i)
15 administration and interpretation of psychological and
16 educational evaluations; (ii) developing school-based
17 prevention programs, including violence prevention programs;
18 (iii) counseling with students, parents, and teachers on
19 educational and mental health issues; (iv) acting as liaisons
20 between public schools and community agencies; (v) evaluating
21 program effectiveness; (vi) providing crisis intervention
22 within the school setting; (vii) helping teachers, parents,
23 and others involved in the educational process to provide
24 optimum teaching and learning conditions for all students;
25 (viii) supervising school psychologist interns enrolled in
26 school psychology programs that meet the standards
27 established by the State Board of Education; and (ix)
28 screening of school enrollments to identify children who
29 should be referred for individual study. Nothing in this
30 Section prohibits other qualified professionals from
31 providing those services listed for which they are
32 appropriately trained.
33 (Source: P.A. 89-339, eff. 8-17-95.)
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1 (105 ILCS 5/14-8.05) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-8.05)
2 Sec. 14-8.05. Behavioral intervention.
3 (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that
4 principals and teachers of students with disabilities require
5 training and guidance that provide ways for working
6 successfully with children who have difficulties conforming
7 to acceptable behavioral patterns in order to provide an
8 environment in which learning can occur. It is the intent of
9 the General Assembly:
10 (1) That when behavioral interventions are used,
11 they be used in consideration of the pupil's physical
12 freedom and social interaction, and be administered in a
13 manner that respects human dignity and personal privacy
14 and that ensures a pupil's right to placement in the
15 least restrictive educational environment.
16 (2) That behavioral management plans be developed
17 and used, to the extent possible, in a consistent manner
18 when a local educational agency has placed the pupil in a
19 day or residential setting for education purposes.
20 (3) That a statewide study be conducted of the use
21 of behavioral interventions with students with
22 disabilities receiving special education and related
23 services.
24 (4) That training programs be developed and
25 implemented in institutions of higher education that
26 train teachers, and that in-service training programs be
27 made available as necessary in school districts, in
28 educational service centers, and by regional
29 superintendents of schools to assure that adequately
30 trained staff are available to work effectively with the
31 behavioral intervention needs of students with
32 disabilities.
33 (b) On or before September 30, 1993, the State
34 Superintendent of Education shall conduct a statewide study
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1 of the use of behavioral interventions with students with
2 disabilities receiving special education and related
3 services. The study shall include, but not necessarily be
4 limited to identification of the frequency in the use of
5 behavioral interventions; the number of districts with
6 policies in place for working with children exhibiting
7 continuous serious behavioral problems; how policies, rules,
8 or regulations within districts differ between emergency and
9 routine behavioral interventions commonly practiced; the
10 nature and extent of costs for training provided to personnel
11 for implementing a program of nonaversive behavioral
12 interventions; and the nature and extent of costs for
13 training provided to parents of students with disabilities
14 who would be receiving behavioral interventions. The scope
15 of the study shall be developed by the State Board of
16 Education, in consultation with individuals and groups
17 representing parents, teachers, administrators, and
18 advocates. On or before June 30, 1994, the State Board of
19 Education shall issue guidelines based on the study's
20 findings. The guidelines shall address, but not be limited
21 to, the following: (i) appropriate behavioral interventions,
22 and (ii) how to properly document the need for and use of
23 behavioral interventions in the process of developing
24 individualized education plans for students with
25 disabilities. The guidelines shall be used as a reference to
26 assist school boards in developing local policies and
27 procedures in accordance with this Section. The State Board
28 of Education, with the advice of parents of students with
29 disabilities and other parents, teachers, administrators,
30 advocates for persons with disabilities, and individuals with
31 knowledge or expertise in the development and implementation
32 of behavioral interventions for persons with disabilities,
33 shall review its behavioral intervention guidelines at least
34 once every 3 years to determine their continuing
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1 appropriateness and effectiveness and shall make such
2 modifications in the guidelines as it deems necessary.
3 (c) Each school board must establish and maintain a
4 committee to develop policies and procedures on the use of
5 behavioral interventions for students with disabilities who
6 require behavioral intervention. The policies and procedures
7 shall be adopted and implemented by school boards by January
8 1, 1996, shall be amended as necessary to comply with the
9 rules established by the State Board of Education under
10 Section 2-3.130 2-3.126 of this Code not later than one month
11 after commencement of the school year after the State Board
12 of Education's rules are adopted, and shall: (i) be developed
13 with the advice of parents with students with disabilities
14 and other parents, teachers, administrators, advocates for
15 persons with disabilities, and individuals with knowledge or
16 expertise in the development and implementation of behavioral
17 interventions for persons with disabilities; (ii) emphasize
18 positive interventions that are designed to develop and
19 strengthen desirable behaviors; (iii) incorporate procedures
20 and methods consistent with generally accepted practice in
21 the field of behavioral intervention; (iv) include criteria
22 for determining when a student with disabilities may require
23 a behavioral intervention plan; (v) reflect that the
24 guidelines of the State Board of Education have been reviewed
25 and considered and provide the address of the State Board of
26 Education so that copies of the State Board of Education
27 behavioral guidelines may be requested; and (vi) include
28 procedures for monitoring the use of restrictive behavioral
29 interventions. Each school board shall (i) furnish a copy of
30 its local policies and procedures to parents and guardians of
31 all students with individualized education plans within 15
32 days after the policies and procedures have been adopted by
33 the school board, or within 15 days after the school board
34 has amended its policies and procedures, or at the time an
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1 individualized education plan is first implemented for the
2 student, and (ii) require that each school inform its
3 students of the existence of the policies and procedures
4 annually. Provided, at the annual individualized education
5 plan review, the school board shall (1) explain the local
6 policies and procedures, (2) furnish a copy of the local
7 policies to parents and guardians, and (3) make available,
8 upon request of any parents and guardians, a copy of local
9 procedures.
10 (d) The State Superintendent of Education shall consult
11 with representatives of institutions of higher education and
12 the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
13 Certification Board in regard to the current training
14 requirements for teachers to ensure that sufficient training
15 is available in appropriate behavioral interventions
16 consistent with professionally accepted practices and
17 standards for people entering the field of education.
18 (Source: P.A. 90-63, eff. 7-3-97; 91-600, eff. 8-14-99;
19 revised 11-8-99.)
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 15 members appointed by the Governor. Of the
31 members so appointed, 2 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, 2 shall be school administrators employed in
3 the public schools of the State who have each been nominated
4 by an administrator organization, 8 shall be classroom
5 teachers employed in the public schools of the State, with 4
6 nominated by one professional teachers' organization and 4
7 nominated by another professional teachers' organization, and
8 2 shall be private sector members who are each either a
9 parent of a student attending a public school of the State,
10 who has been nominated by a statewide parent organization, or
11 a representative of the business community of the State. At
12 least one of the school administrators and 2 of the classroom
13 teachers so appointed shall be employees of a school district
14 that is subject to the provisions of Article 34. Whenever a
15 vacancy in a classroom teacher position on the Professional
16 Teacher Standards Board is to be filled as provided in this
17 Section, the professional teachers' organization that
18 nominated the member who vacated the office is entitled to
19 nominate a candidate for the vacancy. The nominations of a
20 professional teachers' organization shall be submitted by the
21 organization to the Governor not less than 60 days prior to
22 the expiration of the term of a person holding a classroom
23 teacher position on the Professional Teacher Standards Board
24 or not more than 60 days after a vacancy in such a position
25 occurs for any other reason. The nominations shall be in
26 writing and shall be signed by the president and secretary of
27 the organization submitting the nominations. Of the members
28 initially appointed to the Professional Teacher Standards
29 Board: one of the 2 administrative or faculty members of
30 public or private colleges or universities shall be appointed
31 to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of January, 2004
32 and the other administrative or faculty member shall be
33 appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of
34 January, 2006; the regional superintendent of schools shall
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1 be appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of
2 January, 2004; one of the 2 school administrators shall be
3 appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of
4 January, 2004 and the other school administrator shall be
5 appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of
6 January, 2006; 4 of the 8 classroom teachers shall be
7 appointed to serve terms expiring on the third Monday of
8 January, 2004 with the remaining 4 classroom teachers being
9 appointed to serve terms expiring on the third Monday of
10 January, 2006; and one of the private sector members shall be
11 appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of
12 January, 2004 and the other private sector member shall be
13 appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of
14 January, 2006. The successors in office of the members
15 initially appointed under this subsection shall each serve
16 terms of 4 years, commencing on the third Monday of January
17 of the appropriate odd-numbered year. All members shall
18 serve until a successor is appointed, and any vacancy shall
19 be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in the same
20 manner as an appointment for a full term is made.
21 (b) The State Teacher Certification Board is abolished
22 and the terms of its members are terminated when 8 of the
23 initial members of the Professional Teacher Standards Board,
24 which shall constitute a quorum of that Board, are appointed
25 as provided in subsection (a). The members of the
26 Professional Teacher Standards Board shall take office and
27 assume, exercise, and perform the powers, duties, and
28 responsibilities of that Board under this Article when a
29 quorum of the initial members of that Board is appointed.
30 Until the State Teacher Certification Board is abolished upon
31 the appointment of 8 persons to serve as initial members of
32 the Professional Teacher Standards Board, but not thereafter,
33 the State Teacher Certification Board shall exercise the
34 powers and duties that it was authorized or required to
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1 exercise and perform under this Article prior to its
2 abolition.
3 (c) The chairperson of the Professional Teacher
4 Standards Board shall be elected by the members of the Board
5 from among their number to serve for a term of one year. A
6 person elected to serve as chairperson of the Board may be
7 reelected by the members of the Board to succeed himself or
8 herself in that office. The members of the Professional
9 Teacher Standards Board shall meet promptly upon the
10 appointment of a quorum of the members to organize
11 themselves, elect from their number a chairperson and such
12 other officers as they deem necessary, and establish the
13 dates of the regular meetings of the Board. The Board shall
14 hold special meetings upon the call of the chairperson or a
15 majority of its members. Members of the Professional Teacher
16 Standards Board shall be reimbursed for all ordinary and
17 necessary expenses incurred in performing their duties as
18 members of the Board.
19 (d) The Professional Teacher Standards Board, as a State
20 agency that is eligible for appropriations, shall comply with
21 the provisions of the Bureau of the Budget Act applicable to
22 State agencies.
23 (e) The Professional Teacher Standards Board, acting in
24 accordance with the provisions of this Article and exercising
25 the exclusive powers granted to it under Section 21-1c, shall
26 have the power and authority to do all of the following:
27 (1) set standards for teaching, supervising, or
28 holding other certificated employment in the public
29 schools, and administer the certification process as
30 provided in this Article;
31 (2) approve and evaluate teacher and administrator
32 preparation programs;
33 (3) revoke and suspend certificates issued for
34 teaching, supervising, or holding other certificated
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1 employment in the public schools;
2 (4) enter into agreements with other states
3 relative to reciprocal approval of teacher and
4 administrator preparation programs;
5 (5) establish standards for the issuance of new
6 types of certificates;
7 (6) employ and direct an Executive Director and
8 such other staff as the Board deems necessary to exercise
9 its powers and duties under this Article, subject to the
10 following conditions: all employees of the State Board of
11 Education who shall lose their employment with the State
12 Board of Education as the result of the establishment of
13 the Professional Teacher Standards Board and the
14 attendant transfer of power and duties to the
15 Professional Teacher Standards Board shall be afforded
16 the right to transfer their employment without
17 interruption from the State Board of Education to the
18 Professional Teacher Standards Board, retaining their
19 seniority status and salary as it then exists with the
20 State Board of Education;
21 (7) establish standards for induction, mentoring,
22 and professional development programs;
23 (8) take such other action relating to the
24 improvement of instruction in the public schools through
25 teacher education and professional development and that
26 attracts qualified candidates into teacher training
27 programs as is appropriate and consistent with applicable
28 laws; and
29 (9) make and prescribe rules and regulations that
30 are necessary for the administration of this Article.
31 (f) The Board may create standing committees, comprised
32 solely of Board members, when deemed necessary by the Board
33 to carry out its functions and responsibilities under this
34 Article. In addition the Board may establish advisory
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1 committees if the Board determines that such action may be
2 necessary or appropriate.
3 (105 ILCS 5/21-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1)
4 Sec. 21-1. Qualification of teachers. No one may be
5 certified to teach or supervise in the public schools of this
6 State who is not of good character, good health, a citizen of
7 the United States or legally present and authorized for
8 employment, and at least 19 years of age. If the holder of a
9 certificate under this Section is not a citizen of the United
10 States 6 years after the date of the issuance of the original
11 certificate, any certificate held by such person on that date
12 shall be cancelled by the board of education and no other
13 certificate to teach shall be issued to such person until
14 such person is a citizen of the United States.
15 Citizenship is not required for the issuance of a
16 temporary part-time certificate to participants in approved
17 training programs for exchange students as described in
18 Section 21-10.2. A certificate issued under this plan shall
19 expire on June 30 following the date of issue. One renewal
20 for one year is authorized if the holder remains as an
21 official participant in an approved exchange program.
22 In determining good character under this Section, any
23 felony conviction of the applicant may be taken into
24 consideration, but such a conviction shall not operate as a
25 bar to registration.
26 No person otherwise qualified shall be denied the right
27 to be certified, to receive training for the purpose of
28 becoming a teacher or to engage in practice teaching in any
29 school because of a physical disability including but not
30 limited to visual and hearing disabilities; nor shall any
31 school district refuse to employ a teacher on such grounds,
32 provided that the person is able to carry out the duties of
33 the position for which he applies.
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1 No person may be granted or continue to hold a teaching
2 certificate who has knowingly altered or misrepresented his
3 or her teaching qualifications in order to acquire the
4 certificate. Any other certificate held by such person may
5 be suspended or revoked by the Professional Teacher Standards
6 Board State Teacher Certification Board, depending upon the
7 severity of the alteration or misrepresentation.
8 No one may teach or supervise in the public schools nor
9 receive for teaching or supervising any part of any public
10 school fund, who does not hold a certificate of qualification
11 granted, on or after January 1, 2003 by the Professional
12 Teacher Standards Board, or granted prior to that date by the
13 State Board of Education or by the State Teacher
14 Certification Board and a regional superintendent of schools
15 as hereinafter provided, or by the board of education of a
16 city having a population exceeding 500,000 inhabitants,
17 except as provided in Section 34-6 and in Section 10-22.34 or
18 Section 10-22.34b. However, the provisions of this Article do
19 not apply to a member of the armed forces who is employed as
20 a teacher of subjects in the Reserve Officer's Training Corps
21 of any school. Sections 21-2 through 21-24 do not apply to
22 cities having a population exceeding 500,000 inhabitants,
23 beginning until July 1, 1988.
24 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the
25 board of education of any school district may grant to a
26 teacher of the district a leave of absence with full pay for
27 a period of not more than one year to permit such teacher to
28 teach in a foreign state under the provisions of the Exchange
29 Teacher Program established under Public Law 584, 79th
30 Congress, and Public Law 402, 80th Congress, as amended. The
31 school board granting such leave of absence may employ with
32 or without pay a national of the foreign state wherein the
33 teacher on leave of absence will teach, if the national is
34 qualified to teach in that foreign state, and if that
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1 national will teach in a grade level similar to the one which
2 was taught in such foreign state. The Professional Teacher
3 Standards Board State Board of Education shall promulgate and
4 enforce such reasonable rules and regulations as may be
5 necessary to effectuate the provisions of this Article or may
6 adopt for such purposes any of the rules and regulations
7 promulgated prior to July 1, 2002 by the State Board of
8 Education or by the State Teacher Certification Board prior
9 to the abolition of that Board paragraph.
10 (Source: P.A. 88-189; 89-159, eff. 1-1-96; 89-397, eff.
11 8-20-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
12 (105 ILCS 5/21-1a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a)
13 Sec. 21-1a. Tests required for certification.
14 (a) After July 1, 1988, in addition to all other
15 requirements, early childhood, elementary, special, high
16 school, school service personnel, or, except as provided in
17 Section 34-6, administrative certificates shall be issued to
18 persons who have satisfactorily passed a test of basic skills
19 and subject matter knowledge. The tests of basic skills and
20 subject matter knowledge shall be the tests which from time
21 to time are designated by the Professional Teacher Standards
22 Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
23 Teacher Certification Board and may be tests prepared by an
24 educational testing organization or tests designed by the
25 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
26 in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
27 The areas to be covered by the test of basic skills shall
28 include the basic skills of reading, writing, grammar and
29 mathematics. The test of subject matter knowledge shall
30 assess content knowledge in the specific subject field. The
31 tests shall be designed to be racially neutral to assure that
32 no person in taking the tests is thereby discriminated
33 against on the basis of race, color, national origin or other
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1 factors unrelated to the person's ability to perform as a
2 certificated employee. The score required to pass the tests
3 of basic skills and subject matter knowledge shall be fixed
4 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
5 Education in consultation with the State Teacher
6 Certification Board. The tests shall be held not fewer than
7 3 times a year at such time and place as may be designated by
8 the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
9 Education in consultation with the State Teacher
10 Certification Board.
11 (b) Except as provided in Section 34-6, the provisions
12 of subsection (a) of this Section shall apply equally in any
13 school district subject to Article 34, provided that the
14 State Board of Education shall determine which certificates
15 issued under Sections 34-8.1 and 34-83 prior to July 1, 1988
16 are comparable to any early childhood certificate, elementary
17 school certificate, special certificate, high school
18 certificate, school service personnel certificate or
19 administrative certificate issued under this Article as of
20 July 1, 1988.
21 (c) A person who holds an early childhood, elementary,
22 special, high school or school service personnel certificate
23 issued under this Article on or at any time before July 1,
24 1988, including a person who has been issued any such
25 certificate pursuant to Section 21-11.1 or in exchange for a
26 comparable certificate theretofore issued under Section
27 34-8.1 or Section 34-83, shall not be required to take or
28 pass the tests in order to thereafter have such certificate
29 renewed.
30 (d) (Blank). The State Board of Education in
31 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board shall
32 conduct a pilot administration of the tests by administering
33 the test to students completing teacher education programs in
34 the 1986-87 school year for the purpose of determining the
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1 effect and impact of testing candidates for certification.
2 (e) The rules and regulations developed to implement the
3 required test of basic skills and subject matter knowledge
4 shall include the requirements of subsections (a), (b), and
5 (c) and shall include specific regulations to govern test
6 selection; test validation and determination of a passing
7 score; administration of the tests; frequency of
8 administration; applicant fees; frequency of applicants'
9 taking the tests; the years for which a score is valid; and,
10 waiving certain additional tests for additional certificates
11 to individuals who have satisfactorily passed the test of
12 basic skills and subject matter knowledge as required in
13 subsection (a). The Professional Teacher Standards Board
14 State Board of Education shall provide, by rule, specific
15 policies that assure uniformity in the difficulty level of
16 each form of the basic skills test and each subject matter
17 knowledge test from test-to-test and year-to-year. The
18 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
19 shall also set a passing score for the tests.
20 (f) (Blank). The State Teacher Certification Board may
21 issue a nonrenewable temporary certificate between July 1,
22 1988 and August 31, 1988 to individuals who have taken the
23 tests of basic skills and subject matter knowledge prescribed
24 by this Section but have not received such test scores by
25 August 31, 1988. Such temporary certificates shall expire on
26 December 31, 1988.
27 (g) Beginning February 15, 1999 and until July 1, 2002,
28 the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State
29 Teacher Certification Board, shall implement and administer
30 the a new system of certification for teachers in the State
31 of Illinois. Beginning on July 1, 2002 the Professional
32 Teachers Standards Board shall implement and administer this
33 system of certification. The Professional Teacher Standards
34 Board State Board of Education, in consultation with the
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1 State Teacher Certification Board, shall design and implement
2 a system of examinations and various other criteria which
3 shall be required prior to the issuance of Initial Teaching
4 Certificates and Standard Teaching Certificates. These
5 examinations and indicators shall be based on national and
6 State professional teaching standards, as determined by the
7 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
8 Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
9 Certification Board. The Professional Teacher Standards Board
10 The State Board of Education may adopt any and all
11 regulations necessary to implement and administer this
12 Section.
13 (h) The State Board of Education shall report to the
14 Illinois General Assembly and the Governor with
15 recommendations for further changes and improvements to the
16 teacher certification system no later than July 1, 1999 and
17 on an annual basis until July 1, 2001.
18 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99;
19 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
20 (105 ILCS 5/21-1b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b)
21 Sec. 21-1b. Subject endorsement on certificates. All
22 certificates initially issued under this Article after June
23 30, 1986, shall be specifically endorsed by the State Board
24 of Education for each subject the holder of the certificate
25 is legally qualified to teach, such endorsements to be made
26 in accordance with standards promulgated by the State Board
27 of Education in consultation with the Professional Teacher
28 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board. All
29 certificates which are issued under this Article prior to
30 July 1, 1986 may, by application to the Professional Teacher
31 Standards Board State Board of Education, be specifically
32 endorsed for each subject the holder is legally qualified to
33 teach. All subject endorsements made on or after July 1,
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1 2002 to new or existing certificates as provided in this
2 Section shall be made by the Professional Teacher Standards
3 Board. Endorsements issued under this Section shall not
4 apply to substitute teacher's certificates issued under
5 Section 21-9 of this Code.
6 Commencing July 1, 1999, each application for endorsement
7 of an existing teaching certificate shall be accompanied by a
8 $30 nonrefundable fee. There is hereby created a Teacher
9 Certificate Fee Revolving Fund as a special fund within the
10 State Treasury. The proceeds of each $30 fee shall be paid
11 into the Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund; and the
12 moneys in that Fund shall be appropriated to the Professional
13 Teacher Standards Board and used by that Board to provide the
14 technology and other resources necessary for the timely and
15 efficient processing of certification requests.
16 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
17 (105 ILCS 5/21-1b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b)
18 Sec. 21-1b. Subject endorsement on certificates. All
19 certificates initially issued under this Article after June
20 30, 1986, shall be specifically endorsed by the State Board
21 of Education for each subject the holder of the certificate
22 is legally qualified to teach, such endorsements to be made
23 in accordance with standards promulgated by the Professional
24 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education in
25 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. All
26 certificates which are issued under this Article prior to
27 July 1, 1986 may, by application to the Professional Teacher
28 Standards Board State Board of Education, be specifically
29 endorsed for each subject the holder is legally qualified to
30 teach. All subject endorsements made on or after July 1,
31 2002 to new or existing certificates as provided in this
32 Section shall be made by the Professional Teacher Standards
33 Board. Endorsements issued under this Section shall not
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1 apply to substitute teacher's certificates issued under
2 Section 21-9 of this Code.
3 Commencing July 1, 1999, each application for endorsement
4 of an existing teaching certificate shall be accompanied by a
5 $30 nonrefundable fee. There is hereby created a Teacher
6 Certificate Fee Revolving Fund as a special fund within the
7 State Treasury. The proceeds of each $30 fee shall be paid
8 into the Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund; and the
9 moneys in that Fund shall be appropriated to the Professional
10 Teacher Standards Board and used by that Board to provide the
11 technology and other resources necessary for the timely and
12 efficient processing of certification requests.
13 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
14 (105 ILCS 5/21-1c) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1c)
15 Sec. 21-1c. Exclusive certificate authority. Only the
16 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
17 and State Teacher Certification Board, acting in accordance
18 with the applicable provisions of this Act and the rules,
19 regulations and standards promulgated thereunder, shall have
20 the authority to issue or endorse any certificate required
21 for teaching, supervising or holding certificated employment
22 in the public schools; and no other State agency shall have
23 any power or authority (i) to establish or prescribe any
24 qualifications or other requirements applicable to teacher or
25 administrator training and certification or to the issuance
26 or endorsement of any such certificate, required for
27 teaching, supervising, or holding certified employment in the
28 public schools, or (ii) to establish or prescribe any
29 licensure or equivalent requirement which must be satisfied
30 in order to teach, supervise or hold certificated employment
31 in the public schools. This Section does not prohibit the
32 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
33 Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
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1 Certification Board, from delegating to regional
2 superintendents of schools the authority to grant temporary
3 employment authorizations to teacher applicants whose
4 qualifications have been confirmed by the Professional
5 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education, in
6 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
8 (105 ILCS 5/21-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2)
9 Sec. 21-2. Grades of certificates.
10 (a) Until February 15, 2000, all certificates issued
11 under this Article shall be State certificates valid, except
12 as limited in Section 21-1, in every school district coming
13 under the provisions of this Act and shall be limited in time
14 and designated as follows: Provisional vocational
15 certificate, temporary provisional vocational certificate,
16 early childhood certificate, elementary school certificate,
17 special certificate, high school certificate, school service
18 personnel certificate, administrative certificate,
19 provisional certificate, and substitute certificate. The
20 requirement of student teaching under close and competent
21 supervision for obtaining a teaching certificate may be
22 waived by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
23 Teacher Certification Board upon presentation to that the
24 Board by the teacher of evidence of 5 years successful
25 teaching experience on a valid certificate and graduation
26 from a recognized institution of higher learning with a
27 bachelor's degree with not less than 120 semester hours and a
28 minimum of 16 semester hours in professional education.
29 (b) Initial Teaching Certificate. Beginning February
30 15, 2000, persons who (1) have completed an approved teacher
31 preparation program, (2) are recommended by an approved
32 teacher preparation program, (3) have successfully completed
33 the Initial Teaching Certification examinations required by
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1 the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
2 Education, and (4) have met all other criteria established by
3 the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
4 Education in consultation with the State Teacher
5 Certification Board, shall be issued an Initial Teaching
6 Certificate valid for 4 years of teaching, as defined in
7 Section 21-14 of this Code. Initial Teaching Certificates
8 shall be issued for categories corresponding to Early
9 Childhood, Elementary, Secondary, and Special K-12, with
10 special certification designations for Special Education,
11 Bilingual Education, fundamental learning areas (including
12 Language Arts, Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Science,
13 Physical Development and Health, Fine Arts, and Foreign
14 Language), and other areas designated by the Professional
15 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education, in
16 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
17 (c) Standard Certificate. Beginning February 15, 2000,
18 persons who (1) have completed 4 years of teaching, as
19 defined in Section 21-14 of this Code, with an Initial
20 Certificate or an Initial Alternative Teaching Certificate
21 and have met all other criteria established by the State
22 Board of Education in consultation with the State Teacher
23 Certification Board before July 1, 2002 and by the
24 Professional Teachers Standards Board on and after July 1,
25 2002, (2) have completed 4 years of teaching on a valid
26 equivalent certificate in another State or territory of the
27 United States, or have completed 4 years of teaching in a
28 nonpublic Illinois elementary or secondary school with an
29 Initial Certificate or an Initial Alternative Teaching
30 Certificate, and have met all other criteria established by
31 the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State
32 Teacher Certification Board, before July 1, 2002 and by the
33 Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
34 2002, or (3) were issued teaching certificates prior to
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1 February 15, 2000 and are renewing those certificates after
2 February 15, 2000, shall be issued a Standard Certificate
3 valid for 5 years, which may be renewed thereafter every 5
4 years by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
5 Teacher Certification Board based on proof of continuing
6 education or professional development. Beginning July 1,
7 2003, persons who have completed 4 years of teaching, as
8 described in clauses (1) and (2) of this subsection (c), have
9 successfully completed the Standard Teaching Certificate
10 Examinations, and have met all other criteria established by
11 the Professional Teacher Standards State Board of Education,
12 in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board,
13 shall be issued Standard Certificates. Standard Certificates
14 shall be issued for categories corresponding to Early
15 Childhood, Elementary, Secondary, and Special K-12, with
16 special certification designations for Special Education,
17 Bilingual Education, fundamental learning areas (including
18 Language Arts, Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Science,
19 Physical Development and Health, Fine Arts, and Foreign
20 Language), and other areas designated by the Professional
21 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education, in
22 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
23 (d) Master Certificate. Beginning February 15, 2000,
24 persons who have successfully achieved National Board
25 certification through the National Board for Professional
26 Teaching Standards shall be issued a Master Certificate,
27 valid for 10 years and renewable thereafter every 10 years
28 through compliance with requirements set forth by the State
29 Board of Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
30 Certification Board, before July 1, 2002 and by the
31 Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
32 2002. However, each teacher who holds a Master Certificate
33 shall be eligible for a teaching position in this State in
34 the areas for which he or she holds a Master Certificate
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1 without satisfying any other requirements of this Code,
2 except for those requirements pertaining to criminal
3 background checks. A teacher who holds a Master Certificate
4 shall be deemed to meet State certification renewal
5 requirements in the area or areas for which he or she holds a
6 Master Certificate for the 10-year term of the teacher's
7 Master Certificate.
8 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-653, eff. 7-29-98;
9 90-811, eff. 1-26-99; 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 91-606, eff.
10 8-16-99; 91-609, eff. 1-1-00; revised 10-7-99.)
11 (105 ILCS 5/21-2.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2.1)
12 Sec. 21-2.1. Early childhood certificate.
13 (a) An early childhood certificate shall be valid for 4
14 years for teaching children up to 6 years of age, exclusive
15 of children enrolled in kindergarten, in facilities approved
16 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
17 Superintendent of Education. Beginning July 1, 1988, such
18 certificate shall be valid for 4 years for Teaching children
19 through grade 3 in facilities approved by the State
20 Superintendent of Education before July 1, 2002 and by the
21 Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
22 2002. Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, it shall
23 be issued to persons who have graduated from a recognized
24 institution of higher learning with a bachelor's degree and
25 with not fewer than 120 semester hours including professional
26 education or human development or, until July 1, 1992, to
27 persons who have early childhood education instruction and
28 practical experience involving supervised work with children
29 under 6 years of age or with children through grade 3. Such
30 persons shall be recommended for the early childhood
31 certificate by a recognized institution as having completed
32 an approved program of preparation which includes the
33 requisite hours and academic and professional courses and
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1 practical experience approved by the Professional Teacher
2 Standards Board State Superintendent of Education in
3 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
4 (b) Beginning February 15, 2000, Initial and Standard
5 Early Childhood Education Certificates shall be issued to
6 persons who meet the criteria established by the State Board
7 of Education before July 1, 2002 and by the Professional
8 Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1, 2002.
9 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99;
10 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
11 (105 ILCS 5/21-2b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2b)
12 Sec. 21-2b. Teacher education program entrance. In
13 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board The
14 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
15 shall develop procedures which ensure that all students
16 entering approved teacher education programs are proficient
17 in the areas of reading, mathematics and language arts. Each
18 institution of higher learning shall submit to the
19 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
20 Certification Board a plan which sets forth procedures for
21 implementation of this Section.
22 (Source: P.A. 84-126.)
23 (105 ILCS 5/21-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-3)
24 Sec. 21-3. Elementary certificate.
25 (a) An elementary school certificate shall be valid for
26 4 years for teaching in the kindergarten and lower 9 grades
27 of 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 and with a
31 minimum of 16 semester hours in professional education,
32 including 5 semester hours in student teaching under
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1 competent and close supervision. Such persons shall be
2 recommended for the elementary certificate by a recognized
3 institution as having completed an approved program of
4 preparation which includes intensive preservice training in
5 the humanities, natural sciences, mathematics, and the
6 academic and professional courses approved by the
7 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of
8 Education in consultation with the State Teacher
9 Certification Board.
10 (b) Beginning February 15, 2000, Initial and Standard
11 Elementary Certificates shall be issued to persons who meet
12 all of the criteria established by the State Board of
13 Education for elementary education before July 1, 2002 and by
14 the Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
15 2002.
16 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99;
17 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
18 (105 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-4)
19 Sec. 21-4. Special certificate.
20 (a) A special certificate shall be valid for 4 years for
21 teaching the special subjects named therein in all grades of
22 the common schools. Subject to the provisions of Section
23 21-1a, it shall be issued to persons who have graduated from
24 a recognized institution of higher learning with a bachelor's
25 degree and with not fewer than 120 semester hours including a
26 minimum of 16 semester hours in professional education, 5 of
27 which shall be in student teaching under competent and close
28 supervision. When the holder of such certificate has earned a
29 master's degree, including 8 eight semester hours of graduate
30 professional education from a recognized institution of
31 higher learning and with 2 two years' teaching experience, it
32 may be endorsed for supervision.
33 Such persons shall be recommended for the special
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1 certificate by a recognized institution as having completed
2 an approved program of preparation which includes academic
3 and professional courses approved by the Professional Teacher
4 Standards Board State Superintendent of Education in
5 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
6 (b) Those persons holding special certificates on
7 February 15, 2000 shall be eligible for one of the following:
8 (1) The issuance of Standard Elementary and
9 Standard Secondary Certificates with appropriate special
10 certification designations as determined by the State
11 Board of Education, in consultation with the State
12 Teacher Certification Board, before July 1, 2002 and by
13 the Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after
14 July 1, 2002 and consistent with rules adopted by the
15 State Board of Education before July 1, 2002 and by the
16 Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
17 2002. These certificates shall be renewed as provided in
18 subsection (c) of Section 21-2.
19 (2) The issuance of Standard Special K-12
20 Certificates with appropriate special certification
21 designations, which shall be renewed as provided in
22 subsection (c) of Section 21-2. These certificates shall
23 not be eligible for additional certification designations
24 except as approved by the Professional Teacher Standards
25 Board State Board of Education, in consultation with the
26 State Teacher Certification Board.
27 (c) Those persons eligible to receive K-12 certification
28 after February 15, 2000 shall be issued Initial Elementary
29 and Initial Secondary Certificates with appropriate special
30 certification designations pursuant to this Section or
31 Initial Special K-12 Certificates with appropriate special
32 certification designations pursuant to this Section. These
33 Initial K-12 Special Certificates shall not be eligible for
34 additional certification designations except as approved by
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1 the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State
2 Teacher Certification Board, before July 1, 2002 and by the
3 Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
4 2002.
5 (d) All persons holding a special certificate with a
6 special education endorsement are exempt from the provisions
7 of Section 2-3.71 of this Code, provided they meet all the
8 other requirements for teaching as established by the
9 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
10 Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
11 Certification Board.
12 Beginning February 15, 2000, all persons exchanging a
13 special certificate pursuant to subsection (b) of this
14 Section with a special education endorsement or receiving a
15 special education designation on either a special certificate
16 or an elementary certificate issued pursuant to subsection
17 (c) of this Section are exempt from the provisions of Section
18 2-3.71 of this Code, provided they meet all the other
19 requirements for teaching as established by the State Board
20 of Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
21 Certification Board, before July 1, 2002 and by the
22 Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
23 2002.
24 Certificates exchanged or issued pursuant to this
25 subsection (d) shall be valid for teaching children with
26 disabilities, as defined in Section 14-1.02 of this Code, and
27 these special certificates shall be called Initial or
28 Standard Special Preschool - Age 21 Certificates. Nothing in
29 this subsection (d) shall be construed to adversely affect
30 the rights of any person presently certificated, any person
31 whose certification is currently pending, or any person who
32 is currently enrolled or enrolls prior to February 15, 2000
33 in an approved Special K-12 certification program.
34 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-653, eff. 7-29-98;
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1 90-811, eff. 1-26-99; 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 91-765, eff.
2 6-9-00.)
3 (105 ILCS 5/21-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-5)
4 Sec. 21-5. High school certificate.
5 (a) A high school certificate shall be valid for 4 years
6 for teaching in grades 6 to 12 inclusive of the common
7 schools. Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, it shall
8 be issued to persons who have graduated from a recognized
9 institution of higher learning with a bachelor's degree and
10 with not fewer than 120 semester hours including 16 semester
11 hours in professional education, 5 of which shall be in
12 student teaching under competent and close supervision and
13 with one or more teaching fields. Such persons shall be
14 recommended for the high school certificate by a recognized
15 institution as having completed an approved program of
16 preparation which includes the academic and professional
17 courses approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
18 State Superintendent of Education in consultation with the
19 State Teacher Certification Board.
20 (b) Beginning February 15, 2000, Initial and Standard
21 Secondary Certificates shall be issued to persons who meet
22 all of the criteria established by the State Board of
23 Education before July 1, 2002 and by the Professional Teacher
24 Standards Board on and after July 1, 2002 for secondary
25 education.
26 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99;
27 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
28 (105 ILCS 5/21-5a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-5a)
29 Sec. 21-5a. Alternative math-science certification. The
30 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
31 Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
32 Certification Board, shall establish and implement and
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1 administer an alternative certification program under which
2 persons who qualify for admission to, and who successfully
3 complete the program and meet the additional requirements
4 established by this Section shall be issued an initial
5 teaching certificate for teaching mathematics, science or
6 mathematics and science in grades 9 through 12 of the common
7 schools. In establishing an alternative certification
8 program under this Section, the Professional Teacher
9 Standards Board State Board of Education shall designate an
10 appropriate area within the State where the program shall be
11 offered and made available to persons qualified for admission
12 to the program. In addition, the Professional Teacher
13 Standards Board State Board of Education, in cooperation with
14 one or more recognized institutions of higher learning, shall
15 develop, evaluate, and revise as necessary a comprehensive
16 course of study that persons admitted to the program must
17 successfully complete in order to satisfy one criterion for
18 issuance of an initial certificate under this Section. The
19 comprehensive course of study so developed shall include one
20 semester of practice teaching.
21 An initial teaching certificate, valid for 4 years for
22 teaching mathematics, science, or mathematics and science in
23 grades 9 through 12 of the common schools and renewable as
24 provided in Section 21-14, shall be issued under this Section
25 21-5a to persons who qualify for admission to the alternative
26 certification program and who at the time of applying for an
27 initial teaching certificate under this Section:
28 (1) have graduated with a master's degree in
29 mathematics or any science discipline from an institution
30 of higher learning whose scholarship standards are
31 approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
32 State Board of Education for purposes of the alternative
33 certification program;
34 (2) have been employed for at least 10 years in an
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1 area requiring knowledge and practical application of
2 their academic background in mathematics or a science
3 discipline;
4 (3) have successfully completed the alternative
5 certification program and the course of comprehensive
6 study, including one semester of practice teaching,
7 developed as part of the program as provided in this
8 Section and approved by the Professional Teacher
9 Standards Board State Board of Education; and
10 (4) have passed the examinations required by
11 Section 21-1a.
12 The alternative certification program shall be
13 implemented at the commencement of the 1992-1993 academic
14 year.
15 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
16 Education shall establish criteria for admission to the
17 alternative certification program and shall adopt rules and
18 regulations that are consistent with this Section and that
19 the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
20 Education deems necessary to establish and implement and
21 administer the program.
22 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
23 (105 ILCS 5/21-5b)
24 Sec. 21-5b. Alternative certification. The Professional
25 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education, in
26 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board,
27 shall establish and implement an alternative certification
28 program under which persons who meet the requirements of and
29 successfully complete the program established by this Section
30 shall be issued an alternative teaching certificate for
31 teaching in the schools. The program shall be limited to not
32 more than 260 new participants during each year that the
33 program is in effect. The Professional Teacher Standards
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1 Board State Board of Education, in cooperation with a
2 partnership formed with a university that offers 4-year
3 baccalaureate and masters degree programs and that is a
4 recognized institution as defined in Section 21-21 and one or
5 more not-for-profit organizations in the State which support
6 excellence in teaching, shall within 30 days after submission
7 by the partnership approve a course of study developed by the
8 partnership that persons in the program must successfully
9 complete in order to satisfy one criterion for issuance of an
10 alternative certificate under this Section. The Alternative
11 Teacher Certification program course of study must include
12 the current content and skills contained in the university's
13 current courses for State certification which have been
14 approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
15 Board of Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
16 Certification Board, as the requirement for State teacher
17 certification.
18 The alternative certification program established under
19 this Section shall be known as the Alternative Teacher
20 Certification program. The Alternative Teacher Certification
21 Program shall be offered by the submitting partnership and
22 may be offered in conjunction with one or more not-for-profit
23 organizations in the State which support excellence in
24 teaching. The program shall be comprised of the following 3
25 phases: (a) the first phase is the course of study offered on
26 an intensive basis in education theory, instructional
27 methods, and practice teaching; (b) the second phase is the
28 person's assignment to a full-time teaching position for one
29 school year; and (c) the third phase is a comprehensive
30 assessment of the person's teaching performance by school
31 officials and the partnership participants and a
32 recommendation by the partner institution of higher education
33 to the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
34 Education that the person be issued a standard alternative
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1 teaching certificate. Successful completion of the
2 Alternative Teacher Certification program shall be deemed to
3 satisfy any other practice or student teaching and subject
4 matter requirements established by law.
5 A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for
6 one year of teaching in the common schools and not renewable,
7 shall be issued under this Section 21-5b to persons who at
8 the time of applying for the provisional alternative teaching
9 certificate under this Section:
10 (1) have graduated from an accredited college or
11 university with a bachelor's degree;
12 (2) have successfully completed the first phase of
13 the Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided
14 in this Section;
15 (3) have passed the tests of basic skills and
16 subject matter knowledge required by Section 21-1a; and
17 (4) have been employed for a period of at least 5
18 years in an area requiring application of the
19 individual's education; however, this requirement does
20 not apply with respect to a provisional alternative
21 teaching certificate for teaching in schools situated in
22 a school district that is located in a city having a
23 population in excess of 500,000 inhabitants.
24 A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate
25 under this Section shall be treated as a regularly certified
26 teacher for purposes of compensation, benefits, and other
27 terms and conditions of employment afforded teachers in the
28 school who are members of a bargaining unit represented by an
29 exclusive bargaining representative, if any.
30 Until February 15, 2000, a standard alternative teaching
31 certificate, valid for 4 years for teaching in the schools
32 and renewable as provided in Section 21-14, shall be issued
33 under this Section 21-5b to persons who first complete the
34 requirements for the provisional alternative teaching
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1 certificate and who at the time of applying for a standard
2 alternative teaching certificate under this Section have
3 successfully completed the second and third phases of the
4 Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided in this
5 Section. Alternatively, beginning February 15, 2000, at the
6 end of the 4-year validity period, persons who were issued a
7 standard alternative teaching certificate shall be eligible,
8 on the same basis as holders of an Initial Teaching
9 Certificate issued under subsection (b) of Section 21-2 of
10 this Code, to apply for a Standard Teaching Certificate,
11 provided they meet the requirements of subsection (c) of
12 Section 21-2 of this Code and further provided that a person
13 who does not apply for and receive a Standard Teaching
14 Certificate shall be able to teach only in schools situated
15 in a school district that is located in a city having a
16 population in excess of 500,000 inhabitants.
17 Beginning February 15, 2000, persons who have completed
18 the requirements for a standard alternative teaching
19 certificate under this Section shall be issued an Initial
20 Alternative Teaching Certificate valid for 4 years of
21 teaching and not renewable. At the end of the 4-year
22 validity period, these persons shall be eligible, on the same
23 basis as holders of an Initial Teaching Certificate issued
24 under subsection (b) of Section 21-2 of this Code, to apply
25 for a Standard Teaching Certificate, provided they meet the
26 requirements of subsection (c) of Section 21-2.
27 This alternative certification program shall be
28 implemented so that the first provisional alternative
29 teaching certificates issued under this Section are effective
30 upon the commencement of the 1997-1998 academic year and the
31 first standard alternative teaching certificates issued under
32 this Section are effective upon the commencement of the
33 1998-1999 academic year.
34 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
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1 Education, in cooperation with the partnership establishing
2 the Alternative Teacher Certification program, shall adopt
3 rules and regulations that are consistent with this Section
4 and that the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
5 of Education deems necessary to establish and implement the
6 program.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-609, eff. 1-1-00.)
8 (105 ILCS 5/21-5c)
9 Sec. 21-5c. Alternative route to teacher certification.
10 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
11 Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
12 Certification Board, shall establish and implement an
13 alternative route to teacher certification program under
14 which persons who meet the requirements of and successfully
15 complete the program established by this Section shall be
16 issued an initial teaching certificate for teaching in
17 schools in this State. The Professional Teacher Standards
18 Board State Board of Education shall approve a course of
19 study that persons in the program must successfully complete
20 in order to satisfy one criterion for issuance of a
21 certificate under this Section. The Alternative Route to
22 Teacher Certification program course of study must include
23 the current content and skills contained in a university's
24 current courses for State certification which have been
25 approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
26 Board of Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
27 Certification Board, as the requirement for State teacher
28 certification.
29 The program established under this Section shall be known
30 as the Alternative Route to Teacher Certification program.
31 The program may be offered in conjunction with one or more
32 not-for-profit organizations in the State. The program shall
33 be comprised of the following 3 phases: (a) a course of study
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1 offered on an intensive basis in education theory,
2 instructional methods, and practice teaching; (b) the
3 person's assignment to a full-time teaching position for one
4 school year, including the designation of a mentor teacher to
5 advise and assist the person with that teaching assignment;
6 and (c) a comprehensive assessment of the person's teaching
7 performance by school officials and program participants and
8 a recommendation by the institution of higher education to
9 the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
10 Education that the person be issued an initial teaching
11 certificate. Successful completion of the Alternative Route
12 to Teacher Certification program shall be deemed to satisfy
13 any other practice or student teaching and subject matter
14 requirements established by law.
15 A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for
16 one year of teaching in the common schools and not renewable,
17 shall be issued under this Section 21-5c to persons who at
18 the time of applying for the provisional alternative teaching
19 certificate under this Section:
20 (1) have graduated from an accredited college or
21 university with a bachelor's degree;
22 (2) have been employed for a period of at least 5
23 years in an area requiring application of the
24 individual's education;
25 (3) have successfully completed the first phase of
26 the Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided
27 in this Section; and
28 (4) have passed the tests of basic skills and
29 subject matter knowledge required by Section 21-1a.
30 An initial teaching certificate, valid for teaching in
31 the common schools, shall be issued under Section 21-3 or
32 21-5 to persons who first complete the requirements for the
33 provisional alternative teaching certificate and who at the
34 time of applying for an initial teaching certificate have
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1 successfully completed the second and third phases of the
2 Alternative Route to Teacher Certification program as
3 provided in this Section.
4 A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate
5 or an initial teaching certificate earned under this Section
6 shall be treated as a regularly certified teacher for
7 purposes of compensation, benefits, and other terms and
8 conditions of employment afforded teachers in the school who
9 are members of a bargaining unit represented by an exclusive
10 bargaining representative, if any.
11 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
12 Education may adopt rules and regulations that are consistent
13 with this Section and that the Professional Teacher Standards
14 Board State Board deems necessary to establish and implement
15 the program.
16 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
17 (105 ILCS 5/21-5d)
18 Sec. 21-5d. Alternative route to administrative
19 certification. The Professional Teacher Standards Board
20 State Board of Education, in consultation with the State
21 Teacher Certification Board and an advisory panel consisting
22 of no less than 7 administrators appointed by the State
23 Superintendent of Education, shall establish and implement an
24 alternative route to administrative certification program
25 under which persons who meet the requirements of and
26 successfully complete the program established by this Section
27 shall be issued a standard administrative certificate for
28 serving as an administrator in schools in this State. For
29 the purposes of this Section only, "administrator" means a
30 person holding any administrative position for which a
31 standard administrative certificate with a general
32 administrative endorsement, chief school business official
33 endorsement, or superintendent endorsement is required,
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1 except a principal or an assistant principal. The
2 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
3 shall approve a course of study that persons in the program
4 must successfully complete in order to satisfy one criterion
5 for issuance of a certificate under this Section. The
6 Alternative Route to Administrative Certification program
7 course of study must include the current content and skills
8 contained in a university's current courses for State
9 certification which have been approved by the Professional
10 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education, in
11 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board, as
12 the requirement for administrative certification.
13 The program established under this Section shall be known
14 as the Alternative Route to Administrative Certification
15 program. The program shall be comprised of the following 3
16 phases: (a) a course of study offered on an intensive basis
17 in education management, governance, organization, and
18 planning; (b) the person's assignment to a full-time position
19 for one school year as an administrator; and (c) a
20 comprehensive assessment of the person's performance by
21 school officials and a recommendation to the Professional
22 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education that the
23 person be issued a standard administrative certificate.
24 Successful completion of the Alternative Route to
25 Administrative Certification program shall be deemed to
26 satisfy any other supervisory, administrative, or management
27 experience requirements established by law.
28 A provisional alternative administrative certificate,
29 valid for one year of serving as an administrator in the
30 common schools and not renewable, shall be issued under this
31 Section 21-5d to persons who at the time of applying for the
32 provisional alternative administrative certificate under this
33 Section:
34 (1) have graduated from an accredited college or
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1 university with a master's degree in a management field
2 or with a bachelor's degree and the life experience
3 equivalent of a master's degree in a management field as
4 determined by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
5 State Board of Education;
6 (2) have been employed for a period of at least 5
7 years in a management level position;
8 (3) have successfully completed the first phase of
9 the Alternative Route to Administrative Certification
10 program as provided in this Section; and
11 (4) have passed any examination required by the
12 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
13 Education.
14 A standard administrative certificate with a general
15 administrative endorsement, chief school business official
16 endorsement, or superintendent endorsement, renewable as
17 provided in Section 21-14, shall be issued under Section
18 21-7.1 to persons who first complete the requirements for the
19 provisional alternative administrative certificate and who at
20 the time of applying for a standard administrative
21 certificate have successfully completed the second and third
22 phases of the Alternative Route to Administrative
23 Certification program as provided in this Section.
24 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
25 Education may adopt rules and regulations that are consistent
26 with this Section and that the Professional Teacher Standards
27 Board State Board deems necessary to establish and implement
28 the program.
29 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
30 (105 ILCS 5/21-7.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1)
31 Sec. 21-7.1. Administrative certificate.
32 (a) After July 1, 1999, an administrative certificate
33 valid for 5 years of supervising and administering in the
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1 public common schools may be issued to persons who have
2 graduated from a regionally accredited institution of higher
3 learning with a master's degree and who have been recommended
4 by a recognized institution of higher learning as having
5 completed a program of preparation for one or more of these
6 endorsements. Such programs of academic and professional
7 preparation required for endorsement shall be administered by
8 the institution in accordance with standards set forth by the
9 State Superintendent of Education in consultation with the
10 State Teacher Certification Board before July 1, 2002 and by
11 the Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
12 2002.
13 (b) No administrative certificate shall be issued for
14 the first time after June 30, 1987 and no endorsement
15 provided for by this Section shall be made or affixed to an
16 administrative certificate for the first time after June 30,
17 1987 unless the person to whom such administrative
18 certificate is to be issued or to whose administrative
19 certificate such endorsement is to be affixed has been
20 required to demonstrate as a part of a program of academic or
21 professional preparation for such certification or
22 endorsement: (i) an understanding of the knowledge called for
23 in establishing productive parent-school relationships and of
24 the procedures fostering the involvement which such
25 relationships demand; and (ii) an understanding of the
26 knowledge required for establishing a high quality school
27 climate and promoting good classroom organization and
28 management, including rules of conduct and instructional
29 procedures appropriate to accomplishing the tasks of
30 schooling; and (iii) a demonstration of the knowledge and
31 skills called for in providing instructional leadership. The
32 standards for demonstrating an understanding of such
33 knowledge shall be set forth by the Professional Teacher
34 Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
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1 the State Teacher Certification Board, and shall be
2 administered by the recognized institutions of higher
3 learning as part of the programs of academic and professional
4 preparation required for certification and endorsement under
5 this Section. As used in this subsection: "establishing
6 productive parent-school relationships" means the ability to
7 maintain effective communication between parents and school
8 personnel, to encourage parental involvement in schooling,
9 and to motivate school personnel to engage parents in
10 encouraging student achievement, including the development of
11 programs and policies which serve to accomplish this purpose;
12 and "establishing a high quality school climate" means the
13 ability to promote academic achievement, to maintain
14 discipline, to recognize substance abuse problems among
15 students and utilize appropriate law enforcement and other
16 community resources to address these problems, to support
17 teachers and students in their education endeavors, to
18 establish learning objectives and to provide instructional
19 leadership, including the development of policies and
20 programs which serve to accomplish this purpose; and
21 "providing instructional leadership" means the ability to
22 effectively evaluate school personnel, to possess general
23 communication and interpersonal skills, and to establish and
24 maintain appropriate classroom learning environments. The
25 provisions of this subsection shall not apply to or affect
26 the initial issuance or making on or before June 30, 1987 of
27 any administrative certificate or endorsement provided for
28 under this Section, nor shall such provisions apply to or
29 affect the renewal after June 30, 1987 of any such
30 certificate or endorsement initially issued or made on or
31 before June 30, 1987.
32 (c) Administrative certificates shall be renewed every 5
33 five years with the first renewal being 5 five years
34 following the initial receipt of an administrative
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1 certificate. Renewal requirements for administrators whose
2 positions require certification shall be based upon evidence
3 of continuing professional education which promotes the
4 following goals: (1) Improving administrators' knowledge of
5 instructional practices and administrative procedures; (2)
6 Maintaining the basic level of competence required for
7 initial certification; and (3) Improving the mastery of
8 skills and knowledge regarding the improvement of teaching
9 performance in clinical settings and assessment of the levels
10 of student performance in their schools. Evidence of
11 continuing professional education must include verification
12 of biennial attendance in a program developed by the Illinois
13 Administrators' Academy and verification of annual
14 participation in a school district approved activity which
15 contributes to continuing professional education. The
16 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
17 Education, in consultation with the State Teacher
18 Certification Board, shall develop, evaluate, and revise as
19 necessary procedures for implementing this Section and shall
20 administer the renewal of administrative certificates.
21 Failure to submit satisfactory evidence of continuing
22 professional education which contributes to promoting the
23 goals of this Section shall result in a loss of
24 administrative certification.
25 (d) Any limited or life supervisory certificate issued
26 prior to July 1, 1968 shall continue to be valid for all
27 administrative and supervisory positions in the public
28 schools for which it is valid as of that date as long as its
29 holder meets the requirements for registration or renewal as
30 set forth in the statutes or until revoked according to law.
31 (e) The administrative or supervisory positions for
32 which the certificate shall be valid shall be determined by
33 one or more of 3 endorsements: general supervisory, general
34 administrative and superintendent.
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1 Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, endorsements
2 shall be made under conditions set forth in this Section.
3 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
4 Education shall, in consultation with the State Teacher
5 Certification Board, adopt rules pursuant to the Illinois
6 Administrative Procedure Act, establishing requirements for
7 obtaining administrative certificates where the minimum
8 administrative or supervisory requirements surpass those set
9 forth in this Section.
10 If the Professional Teacher Standards Board establishes
11 State Teacher Certification Board shall file with the State
12 Board of Education a written recommendation when considering
13 additional administrative or supervisory requirements, those.
14 All additional requirements shall be based upon the requisite
15 knowledge necessary to perform the those tasks required by
16 the certificate. The Professional Teacher Standards Board
17 State Board of Education shall in consultation with the State
18 Teacher Certification Board, establish standards within its
19 rules which shall include the academic and professional
20 requirements necessary for certification. These standards
21 shall at a minimum contain, but not be limited to, those used
22 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
23 Education in determining whether additional knowledge will be
24 required. Additionally, the Professional Teacher Standards
25 Board State Board of Education shall in consultation with the
26 State Teacher Certification Board, establish provisions
27 within its rules whereby any member of the educational
28 community or the public may file a formal written
29 recommendation or inquiry regarding requirements.
30 (1) Until July 1, 2003, the general supervisory
31 endorsement shall be affixed to the administrative
32 certificate of any holder who has at least 16 semester
33 hours of graduate credit in professional education
34 including 8 semester hours of graduate credit in
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1 curriculum and research and who has at least 2 years of
2 full-time teaching experience or school service personnel
3 experience in public schools, schools under the
4 supervision of the Department of Corrections, schools
5 under the administration of the Department of
6 Rehabilitation Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the
7 standards established by the State Superintendent of
8 Education or comparable out-of-state recognition
9 standards approved by the State Superintendent of
10 Education.
11 Such endorsement shall be required for supervisors,
12 curriculum directors and for such similar and related
13 positions as determined by the Professional Teacher
14 Standards Board State Superintendent of Education in
15 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
16 (2) The general administrative endorsement shall be
17 affixed to the administrative certificate of any holder
18 who has at least 20 semester hours of graduate credit in
19 educational administration and supervision and who has at
20 least 2 years of full-time teaching experience or school
21 service personnel experience in public schools, schools
22 under the supervision of the Department of Corrections,
23 schools under the administration of the Department of
24 Rehabilitation Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the
25 standards established by the State Superintendent of
26 Education or comparable out-of-state recognition
27 standards approved by the State Superintendent of
28 Education.
29 Such endorsement shall be required for principal,
30 assistant principal, assistant or associate
31 superintendent, junior college dean and for related or
32 similar positions as determined by the Professional
33 Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of Education
34 in consultation with the State Teacher Certification
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1 Board.
2 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act,
3 after January 1, 1990 and until January 1, 1991, any
4 teacher employed by a district subject to Article 34
5 shall be entitled to receive an administrative
6 certificate with a general administrative endorsement
7 affixed thereto if he or she: (i) had at least 3 years of
8 experience as a certified teacher for such district prior
9 to August 1, 1985; (ii) obtained a Master's degree prior
10 to August 1, 1985; (iii) completed at least 20 hours of
11 graduate credit in education courses (including at least
12 12 hours in educational administration and supervision)
13 prior to September 1, 1987; and (iv) has received a
14 rating of superior for at least each of the last 5 years.
15 Any person who obtains an administrative certificate with
16 a general administrative endorsement affixed thereto
17 under this paragraph shall not be qualified to serve in
18 any administrative position except assistant principal.
19 (3) The chief school business official endorsement
20 shall be affixed to the administrative certificate of any
21 holder who qualifies by having a Master's degree, two
22 years of administrative experience in school business
23 management, and a minimum of 20 semester hours of
24 graduate credit in a program established by the
25 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent
26 of Education in consultation with the State Teacher
27 Certification Board for the preparation of school
28 business administrators. Such endorsement shall also be
29 affixed to the administrative certificate of any holder
30 who qualifies by having a Master's Degree in Business
31 Administration, Finance or Accounting from a regionally
32 accredited institution of higher education.
33 After June 30, 1977, such endorsement shall be
34 required for any individual first employed as a chief
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1 school business official.
2 (4) The superintendent endorsement shall be affixed to
3 the administrative certificate of any holder who has
4 completed 30 semester hours of graduate credit beyond the
5 master's degree in a program for the preparation of
6 superintendents of schools including 16 semester hours of
7 graduate credit in professional education and who has at
8 least 2 years experience as an administrator or supervisor in
9 the public schools or the State Board of Education or
10 education service regions or in nonpublic schools meeting the
11 standards established by the State Superintendent of
12 Education or comparable out-of-state recognition standards
13 approved by the State Superintendent of Education and holds
14 general supervisory or general administrative endorsement, or
15 who has had 2 years of experience as a supervisor or
16 administrator while holding an all-grade supervisory
17 certificate or a certificate comparable in validity and
18 educational and experience requirements.
19 After June 30, 1968, such endorsement shall be required
20 for a superintendent of schools, except as provided in the
21 second paragraph of this Section and in Section 34-6.
22 Any person appointed to the position of superintendent
23 between the effective date of this Act and June 30, 1993 in a
24 school district organized pursuant to Article 32 with an
25 enrollment of at least 20,000 pupils shall be exempt from the
26 provisions of this Subsection (4) until June 30, 1996.
27 (f) All official interpretations or acts of issuing or
28 denying administrative certificates or endorsements by the
29 State Teacher's Certification Board, State Board of Education
30 or the State Superintendent of Education, from the passage of
31 P.A. 81-1208 on November 8, 1979 through September 24, 1981
32 are hereby declared valid and legal acts in all respects and
33 further that the purported repeal of the provisions of this
34 Section by P.A. 81-1208 and P.A. 81-1509 is declared null and
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1 void.
2 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
3 (105 ILCS 5/21-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-9)
4 Sec. 21-9. Substitute certificates and substitute
5 teaching.
6 (a) A substitute teacher's certificate may be issued by
7 the Professional Teacher Standards Board for teaching in all
8 grades of the common schools. Such certificate may be issued
9 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board upon request of
10 the regional superintendent of schools of any region in
11 which the teacher is to teach. A substitute teacher's
12 certificate is valid for teaching in the public schools of
13 any county. Such certificate may be issued by the
14 Professional Teacher Standards Board to persons who either
15 (i) (a) hold a certificate valid for teaching in the common
16 schools as shown on the face of the certificate, (ii) (b)
17 hold a bachelor of arts degree from an institution of higher
18 learning accredited by the North Central Association or other
19 comparable regional accrediting association or have been
20 graduated from a recognized institution of higher learning
21 with a bachelor's degree, or (iii) (c) have had 2 years of
22 teaching experience and meet such other rules and regulations
23 as may be adopted by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
24 State Board of Education in consultation with the State
25 Teacher Certification Board. Such certificate shall expire
26 on June 30 in the fourth year from date of issue. Substitute
27 teacher's certificates are not subject to endorsement as
28 described in Section 21-1b of this Code.
29 (b) A teacher holding a substitute teacher's certificate
30 may teach only in the place of a certified teacher who is
31 under contract with the employing board and may teach only
32 when no appropriate fully certified teacher is available to
33 teach in a substitute capacity. A teacher holding an early
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1 childhood certificate, an elementary certificate, a high
2 school certificate, or a special certificate may also
3 substitute teach in grades K-12 but only in the place of a
4 certified teacher who is under contract with the employing
5 board. A substitute teacher may teach only for a period not
6 to exceed 90 paid school days or 450 paid school hours in any
7 one school district in any one school term. Where such
8 teaching is partly on a daily and partly on an hourly basis,
9 a school day shall be considered as 5 hours. The teaching
10 limitations imposed by this subsection upon teachers holding
11 substitute certificates shall not apply in any school
12 district operating under Article 34.
13 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
14 (105 ILCS 5/21-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-10)
15 Sec. 21-10. Provisional certificate.
16 (A) (Blank). Until July 1, 1972, the State Teacher
17 Certification Board may issue a provisional certificate valid
18 for teaching in elementary, high school or special subject
19 fields subject to the following conditions:
20 A provisional certificate may be issued to a person who
21 presents certified evidence of having earned a bachelor's
22 degree from a recognized institution of higher learning. The
23 academic and professional courses offered as a basis of the
24 provisional certificate shall be courses approved by the
25 State Board of Education in consultation with the State
26 Teacher Certification Board.
27 A certificate earned under this plan may be renewed at
28 the end of each two-year period upon evidence filed with the
29 State Teacher Certification Board that the holder has earned
30 8 semester hours of credit within the period; provided the
31 requirements for the certificate of the same type issued for
32 the teaching position for which the teacher is employed shall
33 be met by the end of the second renewal period. A second
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1 provisional certificate shall not be issued. The credits so
2 earned must be approved by the State Board of Education in
3 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board and
4 must meet the general pattern for a similar type of
5 certificate issued on the basis of credit. No more than 4
6 semester hours shall be chosen from elective subjects.
7 (B) After July 1, 1972 and until July 1, 2002, the State
8 Teacher Certification Board may issue, and on and after July
9 1, 2002 the Professional Teacher Standards Board may issue, a
10 provisional certificate valid for teaching in early
11 childhood, elementary, high school or special subject fields,
12 or for providing service as school service personnel or for
13 administering schools subject to the following conditions: A
14 provisional certificate may be issued to a person who meets
15 the requirements for a regular teaching, school service
16 personnel or administrative certificate in another State and
17 who presents certified evidence of having earned a bachelor's
18 degree from a recognized institution of higher learning. The
19 academic and professional courses offered as a basis of the
20 provisional certificate shall be courses approved by the
21 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
22 in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
23 A certificate earned under this plan is valid for a period of
24 2 years and shall not be renewed; however, the individual to
25 whom this certificate is issued shall have passed or shall
26 pass the examinations set forth by the Professional Teacher
27 Standards Board State Board of Education within 9 months of
28 the date of issuance of the provisional certificate. Failure
29 to pass the tests, required in Section 21-1a, shall result in
30 the cancellation of the provisional certificate.
31 (C) The Professional Teacher Standards Board State
32 Teacher Certification Board may also issue a provisional
33 vocational certificate and a temporary provisional vocational
34 certificate.
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1 (1) The requirements for a provisional vocational
2 certificate shall be determined by the Professional
3 Teacher Standards Board, State Board of Education in
4 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board;
5 provided that, as a minimum requirement, the person to
6 whom the certificate is to be issued has earned, the
7 following minimum requirements are met: (a) after July 1,
8 1972, at least 30 semester hours of credit from a
9 recognized institution of higher learning; and (b) after
10 July 1, 1974, at least 60 semester hours of credit from a
11 recognized institution of higher learning.
12 (2) The requirements for a temporary provisional
13 vocational certificate shall be determined by the
14 Professional Teacher Standards Board, State Board of
15 Education in consultation with the State Teacher
16 Certification Board; provided that, as a minimum
17 requirement, the person to whom the certificate is to be
18 issued has, the following minimum requirements are met:
19 (a) after July 1, 1973, at least 4,000 hours of work
20 experience in the skill to be certified for teaching; and
21 (b) after July 1, 1975, at least 8,000 hours of work
22 experience in the skill to be certified for teaching.
23 Any certificate issued under the provisions of this
24 paragraph shall expire on June 30 following the date of
25 issue. Renewals may be granted on a yearly basis, but
26 shall not be granted to any person who does not file with
27 the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
28 Certification Board a transcript showing at least 3
29 semester hours of credit earned during the previous year
30 in a recognized institution of learning. No such
31 certificate shall be issued except upon certification by
32 the employing board, subject to the approval of the
33 regional superintendent of schools, that no qualified
34 teacher holding a regular certificate or a provisional
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1 vocational certificate is available and that actual
2 circumstances and need require such issuance.
3 The courses or work experience offered as a basis for the
4 issuance of the provisional vocational certificate or the
5 temporary provisional vocational certificate shall be
6 approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
7 Board of Education in consultation with the State Teacher
8 Certification Board.
9 (D) Until July 1, 1972, the State Teacher Certification
10 Board may also issue a provisional foreign language
11 certificate valid for 4 years for teaching the foreign
12 language named therein in all grades of the common schools
13 and shall be issued to persons who have graduated from a
14 recognized institution of higher learning with not fewer than
15 120 semester hours of credit and who have met other
16 requirements as determined by the State Board of Education in
17 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. If
18 the holder of a provisional foreign language certificate that
19 was issued under this subsection before July 1, 1972 has been
20 suspended because the holder of that provisional certificate
21 did not become is not a citizen of the United States within 6
22 years of the date of issuance of the original certificate,
23 such certificate shall remain be suspended by the regional
24 superintendent of schools of the region in which the holder
25 is engaged to teach and shall not be reinstated by the
26 Professional Teacher Standards Board until the holder is a
27 citizen of the United States.
28 (E) Notwithstanding anything in this Act to the
29 contrary, the Professional Teacher Standards State Teacher
30 Certification Board shall issue part-time provisional
31 certificates to eligible individuals who are professionals
32 and craftsmen.
33 The requirements for a part-time provisional teachers
34 certificate shall be determined by the Professional Teacher
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1 Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
2 the State Teacher Certification Board, provided the following
3 minimum requirements are met: 60 semester hours of credit
4 from a recognized institution of higher learning or 4000
5 hours of work experience in the skill to be certified for
6 teaching.
7 A part-time provisional certificate may be issued for
8 teaching no more than 2 courses of study for grades 6 through
9 12.
10 A part-time provisional teachers certificate shall be
11 valid for 2 years and may be renewed at the end of each 2
12 year period.
13 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
14 (105 ILCS 5/21-11.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.1)
15 Sec. 21-11.1. Certificates for equivalent
16 qualifications. An applicant who holds or is eligible to hold
17 a teacher's certificate or license under the laws of another
18 state or territory of the United States may be granted a
19 corresponding teacher's certificate in Illinois on the
20 written authorization of the Professional Teacher Standards
21 Board State Board of Education and the State Teacher
22 Certification Board upon the following conditions:
23 (1) That the applicant is at least 19 years of age,
24 is of good character, good health and a citizen of the
25 United States; and
26 (2) That the requirements for a similar teacher's
27 certificate in the particular state or territory were, at
28 the date of issuance of the certificate, substantially
29 equal to the requirements in force at the time the
30 application is made for the certificate in this State.
31 After January 1, 1988, in addition to satisfying the
32 foregoing conditions and requirements, an applicant for a
33 corresponding teaching certificate in Illinois also shall be
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1 required to pass the examinations required under the
2 provisions of Section 21-1a as directed by the Professional
3 Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education.
4 In determining good character under this Section, any
5 felony conviction of the applicant may be taken into
6 consideration, but the conviction shall not operate as a bar
7 to registration.
8 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
9 Education in consultation with the State Teacher
10 Certification Board shall prescribe rules and regulations
11 establishing the similarity of certificates in other states
12 and the standards for determining the equivalence of
13 requirements.
14 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
15 (105 ILCS 5/21-11.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.2)
16 Sec. 21-11.2. Additional certificates; experienced
17 employed teachers. Experienced certified teachers employed
18 in Illinois public or private elementary and secondary
19 schools seeking additional teaching certificates as provided
20 in Sections 21-2.1, 21-3, 21-4, and 21-5 may submit an
21 application for evaluation of credentials to the Professional
22 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
23 Individuals obtaining a certificate by transcript evaluation
24 shall meet the minimum requirements for the certificate as
25 approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
26 Superintendent of Education in consultation with the State
27 Teacher Certification Board.
28 (Source: P.A. 82-911.)
29 (105 ILCS 5/21-11.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.3)
30 Sec. 21-11.3. Resident teacher certificate. A resident
31 teacher certificate shall be valid for 2 years for employment
32 as a resident teacher in a public school. It shall be issued
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1 only to persons who have graduated from a regionally
2 accredited institution of higher education with a bachelor's
3 degree, who are enrolled in a program of preparation approved
4 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
5 Superintendent of Education in consultation with the State
6 Teacher Certification Board, and who have passed the
7 appropriate tests as required in Section 21-1a and as
8 determined by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
9 Board of Education. A resident teacher certificate may be
10 issued for teaching children through grade 3 or for grades
11 K-9, 6-12, or K-12 in a special subject area and may not be
12 renewed. A resident teacher may teach only in conjunction
13 with and under the direction of a certified teacher and shall
14 not teach in place of a certified teacher.
15 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
16 (105 ILCS 5/21-11.4)
17 Sec. 21-11.4. Illinois Teacher Corps.
18 (a) The General Assembly finds and determines that (i)
19 it is important to encourage the entry of qualified
20 professionals into elementary and secondary teaching as a
21 second career; and (ii) there are a number of individuals who
22 have bachelors' degrees, experience in the work force, and an
23 interest in serving youth that creates a special talent pool
24 with great potential for enriching the lives of Illinois
25 children as teachers. To provide this talent pool with the
26 opportunity to serve children as teachers, school districts,
27 colleges, and universities are encouraged, as part of the
28 public policy of this State, to enter into collaborative
29 programs to educate and induct these non-traditional
30 candidates into the teaching profession. To facilitate the
31 certification of such candidates, Professional Teacher
32 Standards Board the State Board of Education, in consultation
33 with the State Teacher Certification Board, shall assist
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1 institutions of higher education and school districts with
2 the implementation of the Illinois Teacher Corps.
3 (b) Individuals who wish to become candidates for the
4 Illinois Teacher Corps program must earn a resident teacher
5 certificate as defined in Section 21-11.3, including:
6 (1) graduation from a regionally accredited
7 institution of higher education with a bachelor's degree
8 and at least a 3.00 out of a 4.00 grade point average;
9 (2) a minimum of 5 years of professional experience
10 in the area the candidate wishes to teach;
11 (3) passing the examinations required by the
12 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
13 Education;
14 (4) enrollment in a Masters of Education Degree
15 program approved by the Professional Teacher Standards
16 Board State Superintendent of Education in consultation
17 with the State Teacher Certification Board; and
18 (5) completion of a 6 week summer intensive teacher
19 preparation course which is the first component of the
20 Masters Degree program.
21 (c) School districts may hire an Illinois Teacher Corps
22 candidate after the candidate has received his or her
23 resident teacher certificate. The school district has the
24 responsibility of ensuring that the candidates receive the
25 supports necessary to become qualified, competent and
26 productive teachers. To be eligible to participate in the
27 Illinois Teacher Corps program, school districts must provide
28 a minimum of the following supports to the candidates:
29 (1) a salary and benefits package as negotiated
30 through the teacher contracts;
31 (2) a mentor certified teacher who will provide
32 guidance to one or more candidates under a program
33 developed collaboratively by the school district and
34 university;
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1 (3) at least quarterly evaluations performed of
2 each candidate jointly by the mentor teacher and the
3 principal of the school or the principal's designee; and
4 (4) a written and signed document from the school
5 district outlining the support the district intends to
6 provide to the candidates, for approval by the
7 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
8 Certification Board.
9 (d) Illinois institutions of higher education shall work
10 collaboratively with school districts and the Professional
11 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board to
12 academically prepare the candidates for the teaching
13 profession. To be eligible to participate, the College or
14 School of Education of a participating Illinois institution
15 of higher education must develop a curriculum that provides,
16 upon completion, a Masters Degree in Education for the
17 candidates. The Masters Degree program must:
18 (1) receive approval from the Professional Teacher
19 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board; and
20 (2) take no longer than 3 summers and 2 academic
21 years to complete, and balance the needs and time
22 constraints of the candidates.
23 (e) Upon successful completion of the Masters Degree
24 program, the candidate receives an Initial Teaching
25 Certificate in the State of Illinois.
26 (f) If an individual wishes to become a candidate in the
27 Illinois Teacher Corps program, but does not possess 5 years
28 of professional experience, the individual may qualify for
29 the program by participating in a one year internship
30 teacher preparation program with a school district. The one
31 year internship shall be developed collaboratively by the
32 school district and the Illinois institution of higher
33 education, and shall be approved by the Professional Teacher
34 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
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1 (g) The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
2 of Education is authorized to award grants to school
3 districts that seek to prepare candidates for the teaching
4 profession who have bachelors' degrees and professional work
5 experience in subjects relevant to teaching fields, but who
6 do not have formal preparation for teaching. Grants may be
7 made to school districts for up to $3,000 per candidate when
8 the school district, in cooperation with a public or private
9 university and the school district's teacher bargaining unit,
10 develop a program designed to prepare teachers pursuant to
11 the Illinois Teacher Corps program under this Section.
12 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
13 (105 ILCS 5/21-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-12)
14 Sec. 21-12. Printing; Seal; Signature; Credentials. All
15 certificates shall be printed by and bear the signatures of
16 the chairperson chairman and of the secretary of the
17 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
18 Certification Board. Each certificate shall show the
19 integrally printed seal of the Professional Teacher Standards
20 Board State Teacher Certification Board. All college
21 credentials offered as the basis of a certificate shall be
22 presented to the secretary of the Professional Teacher
23 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board for
24 inspection and approval.
25 Commencing July 1, 1999, each application for a
26 certificate or evaluation of credentials shall be accompanied
27 by an evaluation fee of $30 payable to the State
28 Superintendent of Education before July 1, 2002 and to the
29 Professional Teacher Standards Board on and after July 1,
30 2002, which is not refundable, except that no application or
31 evaluation fee shall be required for a Master Certificate
32 issued pursuant to subsection (d) of Section 21-2 of this
33 Code. The proceeds of each $30 fee shall be paid into the
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1 Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund, created under Section
2 21-1b of this Code; and the moneys in that Fund shall be
3 appropriated to the Professional Teacher Standards Board and
4 used by that Board to provide the technology and other
5 resources necessary for the timely and efficient processing
6 of certification requests.
7 When evaluation verifies the requirements for a valid
8 certificate, the applicant shall be issued an entitlement
9 card that may be presented to a regional superintendent of
10 schools for issuance of a certificate.
11 The applicant shall be notified of any deficiencies.
12 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
13 (105 ILCS 5/21-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-14)
14 Sec. 21-14. Registration and renewal of certificates.
15 (a) A limited four-year certificate or a certificate
16 issued after July 1, 1955, shall be renewable at its
17 expiration or within 60 days thereafter by the county
18 superintendent of schools having supervision and control over
19 the school where the teacher is teaching upon certified
20 evidence of meeting the requirements for renewal as required
21 by this Act and prescribed by the State Board of Education in
22 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board
23 before July 1, 2002 and by the Professional Teacher Standards
24 Board on and after July 1, 2002. An elementary supervisory
25 certificate shall not be renewed at the end of the first
26 four-year period covered by the certificate unless the holder
27 thereof has filed certified evidence with the Professional
28 Teacher Standards State Teacher Certification Board that he
29 has a master's degree or that he has earned 8 semester hours
30 of credit in the field of educational administration and
31 supervision in a recognized institution of higher learning.
32 The holder shall continue to earn 8 semester hours of credit
33 each four-year period until such time as he has earned a
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1 master's degree.
2 All certificates not renewed or registered as herein
3 provided shall lapse after a period of 5 years from the
4 expiration of the last year of registration. Such
5 certificates may be reinstated for a one year period upon
6 payment of all accumulated registration fees. Such
7 reinstated certificates shall only be renewed: (1) by earning
8 5 semester hours of credit in a recognized institution of
9 higher learning in the field of professional education or in
10 courses related to the holder's contractual teaching duties;
11 or (2) by presenting evidence of holding a valid regular
12 certificate of some other type. Any certificate may be
13 voluntarily surrendered by the certificate holder. A
14 voluntarily surrendered certificate shall be treated as a
15 revoked certificate.
16 (b) When those teaching certificates issued before
17 February 15, 2000 are renewed for the first time after
18 February 15, 2000, all such teaching certificates shall be
19 exchanged for Standard Teaching Certificates as provided in
20 subsection (c) of Section 21-2. All Initial and Standard
21 Teaching Certificates, including those issued to persons who
22 previously held teaching certificates issued before February
23 15, 2000, shall be renewable under the conditions set forth
24 in this subsection (b).
25 Initial Teaching Certificates are nonrenewable and are
26 valid for 4 years of teaching. Standard Teaching
27 Certificates are renewable every 5 years as provided in
28 subsection (c) of Section 21-2 and subsection (c) of this
29 Section. For purposes of this Section, "teaching" is defined
30 as employment and performance of services in an Illinois
31 public or State-operated elementary school, secondary school,
32 or cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
33 board of control, in a certificated teaching position, or a
34 charter school operating in compliance with the Charter
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1 Schools Law.
2 (c) In compliance with subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of
3 this Code, which provides that a Standard Teaching
4 Certificate may be renewed by the Professional Teacher
5 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board based upon
6 proof of continuing professional development, the
7 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
8 and the State Teacher Certification Board shall jointly:
9 (1) establish a procedure for renewing Standard
10 Teaching Certificates, which shall include but not be
11 limited to annual timelines for the renewal process and
12 the components set forth in subsections (d) through (k)
13 of this Section;
14 (2) establish the standards for certificate
15 renewal;
16 (3) approve the providers of continuing
17 professional development activities;
18 (4) determine the maximum credit for each category
19 of continuing professional development activities, based
20 upon recommendations submitted by a continuing
21 professional development activity task force, which shall
22 consist of 6 staff members from the State Board of
23 Education, appointed by the State Superintendent of
24 Education, and 6 teacher representatives, 3 of whom are
25 selected by the Illinois Education Association and 3 of
26 whom are selected by the Illinois Federation of Teachers;
27 (5) designate the type and amount of documentation
28 required to show that continuing professional development
29 activities have been completed; and
30 (6) provide, on a timely basis to all Illinois
31 teachers, certificate holders, regional superintendents
32 of schools, school districts, and others with an interest
33 in continuing professional development, information about
34 the standards and requirements established pursuant to
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1 this subsection (c).
2 (d) Any Standard Teaching Certificate held by an
3 individual employed and performing services in an Illinois
4 public or State-operated elementary school, secondary school,
5 or cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
6 board of control in a certificated teaching position or a
7 charter school in compliance with the Charter Schools Law
8 must be maintained Valid and Active through certificate
9 renewal activities specified in the certificate renewal
10 procedure established pursuant to subsection (c) of this
11 Section, provided that a holder of a Valid and Active
12 certificate who is only employed on either a part-time basis
13 or day-to-day basis as a substitute teacher shall pay only
14 the required registration fee to renew his or her certificate
15 and maintain it as Valid and Active. All other Standard
16 Teaching Certificates held may be maintained as Valid and
17 Exempt through the registration process provided for in the
18 certificate renewal procedure established pursuant to
19 subsection (c) of this Section. A Valid and Exempt
20 certificate must be immediately activated, through procedures
21 developed jointly by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
22 State Board of Education and the State Teacher Certification
23 Board, upon the certificate holder becoming employed and
24 performing services in an Illinois public or State-operated
25 elementary school, secondary school, or cooperative or joint
26 agreement with a governing body or board of control in a
27 certificated teaching position or a charter school operating
28 in compliance with the Charter Schools Law. A holder of a
29 Valid and Exempt certificate may activate his or her
30 certificate through procedures provided for in the
31 certificate renewal procedure established pursuant to
32 subsection (c) of this Section.
33 (e)(1) A Standard Teaching Certificate that has been
34 maintained as Valid and Active for the 5 years of the
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1 certificate's validity shall be renewed as Valid and Active
2 upon the certificate holder: (i) completing at least 8
3 semester hours of coursework as described in subdivision (A)
4 of paragraph (3) of this subsection (e); (ii) earning at
5 least 24 continuing education units as described in
6 subdivision (B) of paragraph (3) of this subsection (e);
7 (iii) completing the National Board for Professional Teaching
8 Standards process as described in subdivision (C) of
9 paragraph (3) of this subsection (e); or (iv) earning 120
10 continuing professional development units ("CPDU") as
11 described in subdivision (D) of paragraph (3) of this
12 subsection (e). The maximum continuing professional
13 development units for each continuing professional
14 development activity identified in subdivisions (E) through
15 (I) of paragraph (3) of this subsection (e) shall be jointly
16 determined by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
17 Board of Education and the State Teacher Certification Board.
18 If, however, the certificate holder has maintained the
19 certificate as Valid and Exempt for a portion of the 5-year
20 period of validity, the number of continuing professional
21 development units needed to renew the certificate as Valid
22 and Active shall be proportionately reduced by the amount of
23 time the certificate was Valid and Exempt. Furthermore, if a
24 certificate holder is employed and performs teaching services
25 on a part-time basis for all or a portion of the
26 certificate's 5-year period of validity, the number of
27 continuing professional development units needed to renew the
28 certificate as Valid and Active shall be reduced by 50% for
29 the amount of time the certificate holder has been employed
30 and performed teaching services on a part-time basis.
31 Part-time shall be defined as less than 50% of the school day
32 or school term.
33 (2) Each Valid and Active Standard Teaching Certificate
34 holder shall develop a certificate renewal plan for
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1 satisfying the continuing professional development
2 requirement provided for in subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of
3 this Code. Certificate holders with multiple certificates
4 shall develop a certificate renewal plan that addresses only
5 that certificate or those certificates that are required of
6 his or her certificated teaching position, if the certificate
7 holder is employed and performing services in an Illinois
8 public or State-operated elementary school, secondary school,
9 or cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
10 board of control, or that certificate or those certificates
11 most closely related to his or her teaching position, if the
12 certificate holder is employed in a charter school. Except
13 as otherwise provided in this subsection (e), a certificate
14 renewal plan shall include a minimum of 3 individual
15 improvement goals developed by the certificate holder and
16 shall reflect purposes (A), (B), and (C) and may reflect
17 purpose (D) of the following continuing professional
18 development purposes:
19 (A) Advance both the certificate holder's knowledge
20 and skills as a teacher consistent with the Illinois
21 Professional Teaching Standards and the Illinois Content
22 Area Standards in the certificate holder's areas of
23 certification, endorsement, or teaching assignment in
24 order to keep the certificate holder current in those
25 areas.
26 (B) Develop the certificate holder's knowledge and
27 skills in areas determined to be critical for all
28 Illinois teachers, as defined by the Professional Teacher
29 Standards Board State Board of Education, known as "State
30 priorities".
31 (C) Address the knowledge, skills, and goals of the
32 certificate holder's local school improvement plan, if
33 the teacher is employed in an Illinois public or
34 State-operated elementary school, secondary school, or
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1 cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
2 board of control.
3 (D) Expand knowledge and skills in an additional
4 teaching field or toward the acquisition of another
5 teaching certificate, endorsement, or relevant education
6 degree.
7 A certificate renewal plan must include a description of how
8 these goals are to be achieved and an explanation of selected
9 continuing professional development activities to be
10 completed, each of which must meet one or more of the
11 continuing professional development purposes specified in
12 this paragraph (2). The plan shall identify potential
13 activities and include projected timelines for those
14 activities that will assure completion of the plan before the
15 expiration of the 5-year validity of the Standard Teaching
16 Certificate. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection
17 (e), at least 50% of continuing professional development
18 units must relate to purposes (A) and (B) set forth in this
19 paragraph (2): the advancement of a certificate holder's
20 knowledge and skills as a teacher consistent with the
21 Illinois Professional Teaching Standards and the Illinois
22 Content Area Standards in the certificate holder's areas of
23 certification, endorsement, or teaching assignment in order
24 to keep the certificate holder current in those areas and the
25 development of a certificate holder's knowledge and skills in
26 the State priorities that exist at the time the certificate
27 renewal plan is developed.
28 (3) Continuing professional development activities
29 included in a certificate renewal plan may include, but are
30 not limited to, the following activities:
31 (A) at least 8 semester hours of coursework in an
32 approved education-related program, of which at least 2
33 semester hours relate to the continuing professional
34 development purpose set forth in purpose (A) of paragraph
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1 (2) of this subsection (e), provided that such a plan
2 need not include any other continuing professional
3 development activities nor reflect or contain activities
4 related to the other continuing professional development
5 purposes set forth in paragraph (2) of this subsection
6 (e);
7 (B) continuing education units that satisfy the
8 continuing professional development purposes set forth in
9 paragraph (2) of this subsection (e), with each
10 continuing education unit equal to 5 clock hours,
11 provided that a plan that includes at least 24 continuing
12 education units (or 120 clock/contact hours) need not
13 include any other continuing professional development
14 activities;
15 (C) completion of the National Board of
16 Professional Teaching Standards ("NBPTS") process,
17 provided that a plan that includes completion of the
18 NBPTS process need not include any other continuing
19 professional development activities nor reflect or
20 contain activities related to the continuing professional
21 development purposes set forth in paragraph (2) of
22 subsection (e) of this Section;
23 (D) completion of 120 continuing professional
24 development units that satisfy the continuing
25 professional development purposes set forth in paragraph
26 (2) of this subsection (e) and may include without
27 limitation the activities identified in subdivisions (E)
28 through (I) of this paragraph (3);
29 (E) collaboration and partnership activities
30 related to improving the teacher's knowledge and skills
31 as a teacher, including the following:
32 (i) participating on collaborative planning
33 and professional improvement teams and committees;
34 (ii) peer review and coaching;
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1 (iii) mentoring in a formal mentoring program,
2 including service as a consulting teacher
3 participating in a remediation process formulated
4 under Section 24A-5 of this Code;
5 (iv) participating in site-based management or
6 decision making teams, relevant committees, boards,
7 or task forces directly related to school
8 improvement plans;
9 (v) coordinating community resources in
10 schools, if the project is a specific goal of the
11 school improvement plan;
12 (vi) facilitating parent education programs
13 for a school, school district, or regional office of
14 education directly related to student achievement or
15 school improvement plans;
16 (vii) participating in business, school, or
17 community partnerships directly related to student
18 achievement or school improvement plans;
19 (viii) supervising a student teacher or
20 teacher education candidate in clinical supervision,
21 provided that the supervision may only be counted
22 once during the course of 5 years;
23 (F) college or university coursework related to
24 improving the teacher's knowledge and skills as a teacher
25 as follows:
26 (i) completing undergraduate or graduate
27 credit earned from a regionally accredited
28 institution in coursework relevant to the
29 certificate area being renewed, provided the
30 coursework meets Illinois Professional Teaching
31 Standards or Illinois Content Area Standards and
32 supports the essential characteristics of quality
33 professional development; or
34 (ii) teaching college or university courses in
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1 areas relevant to the certificate area being
2 renewed, provided that the teaching may only be
3 counted once during the course of 5 years;
4 (G) conferences, workshops, institutes, seminars,
5 and symposiums related to improving the teacher's
6 knowledge and skills as a teacher, including the
7 following:
8 (i) completing non-university credit directly
9 related to student achievement, school improvement
10 plans, or State priorities;
11 (ii) participating in or presenting at
12 workshops, seminars, conferences, institutes, and
13 symposiums;
14 (iii) training as external reviewers for
15 Quality Assurance;
16 (iv) training as reviewers of university
17 teacher preparation programs;
18 (H) other educational experiences related to
19 improving the teacher's knowledge and skills as a
20 teacher, including the following:
21 (i) participating in action research and
22 inquiry projects;
23 (ii) observing programs or teaching in
24 schools, related businesses, or industry that is
25 systematic, purposeful, and relevant to certificate
26 renewal;
27 (iii) traveling related to ones teaching
28 assignment, directly related to student achievement
29 or school improvement plans and approved at least 30
30 days prior to the travel experience, provided that
31 the traveling shall not include time spent commuting
32 to destinations where the learning experience will
33 occur;
34 (iv) participating in study groups related to
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1 student achievement or school improvement plans;
2 (v) serving on a statewide education-related
3 committee, including but not limited to the
4 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
5 Certification Board, State Board of Education
6 strategic agenda teams, or the State Advisory
7 Council on Education of Children with Disabilities;
8 (vi) participating in work/learn programs or
9 internships; or
10 (I) professional leadership experiences related to
11 improving the teacher's knowledge and skills as a
12 teacher, including the following:
13 (i) participating in curriculum development or
14 assessment activities at the school, school
15 district, regional office of education, State, or
16 national level;
17 (ii) participating in team or department
18 leadership in a school or school district;
19 (iii) participating on external or internal
20 school or school district review teams;
21 (iv) publishing educational articles, columns,
22 or books relevant to the certificate area being
23 renewed; or
24 (v) participating in non-strike related
25 professional association or labor organization
26 service or activities related to professional
27 development.
28 (4) A certificate renewal plan must initially be
29 approved by the certificate holder's local professional
30 development committee, as provided for in subsection (f) of
31 this Section. If the local professional development
32 committee does not approve the certificate renewal plan, the
33 certificate holder may appeal that determination to the
34 regional professional development review committee, as
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1 provided for in paragraph (2) of subsection (g) of this
2 Section. If the regional professional development review
3 committee disagrees with the local professional development
4 committee's determination, the certificate renewal plan shall
5 be deemed approved and the certificate holder may begin
6 satisfying the continuing professional development activities
7 set forth in the plan. If the regional professional
8 development review committee agrees with the local
9 professional development committee's determination, the
10 certificate renewal plan shall be deemed disapproved and
11 shall be returned to the certificate holder to develop a
12 revised certificate renewal plan. In all cases, the regional
13 professional development review committee shall immediately
14 notify both the local professional development committee and
15 the certificate holder of its determination.
16 (5) A certificate holder who wishes to modify the
17 continuing professional development activities or goals in
18 his or her certificate renewal plan must submit the proposed
19 modifications to his or her local professional development
20 committee for approval prior to engaging in the proposed
21 activities. If the local professional development committee
22 does not approve the proposed modification, the certificate
23 holder may appeal that determination to the regional
24 professional development review committee, as set forth in
25 paragraph (4) of this subsection (e).
26 (6) When a certificate holder changes assignments or
27 school districts during the course of completing a
28 certificate renewal plan, the professional development and
29 continuing education credit earned pursuant to the plan shall
30 transfer to the new assignment or school district and count
31 toward the total requirements. This certificate renewal plan
32 must be reviewed by the appropriate local professional
33 development committee and may be modified to reflect the
34 certificate holder's new work assignment or the school
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1 improvement plan of the new school district or school
2 building.
3 (f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code,
4 each school district, charter school, and cooperative or
5 joint agreement with a governing body or board of control
6 that employs certificated staff, shall establish and
7 implement, in conjunction with its exclusive representative,
8 if any, one or more local professional development
9 committees, as set forth in this subsection (f), which shall
10 perform the following functions:
11 (1) review and approve certificate renewal plans
12 and any modifications made to these plans, including
13 transferred plans;
14 (2) maintain a file of approved certificate renewal
15 plans;
16 (3) monitor certificate holders' progress in
17 completing approved certificate renewal plans;
18 (4) assist in the development of professional
19 development plans based upon needs identified in
20 certificate renewal plans;
21 (5) determine whether certificate holders have met
22 the requirements of their certificate renewal plans and
23 notify certificate holders of its determination;
24 (6) provide a certificate holder with the
25 opportunity to address the committee when it has
26 determined that the certificate holder has not met the
27 requirements of his or her certificate renewal plan;
28 (7) issue and forward recommendations for renewal
29 or nonrenewal of certificate holders' Standard Teaching
30 Certificates to the appropriate regional superintendent
31 of schools, based upon whether certificate holders have
32 met the requirements of their approved certificate
33 renewal plans, with 30-day written notice of its
34 recommendation provided to the certificate holder prior
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1 to forwarding the recommendation to the regional
2 superintendent of schools, provided that if the local
3 professional development committee's recommendation is
4 for certificate nonrenewal, the written notice provided
5 to the certificate holder shall include a return receipt;
6 and
7 (8) reconsider its recommendation of certificate
8 nonrenewal, upon request of the certificate holder within
9 30 days of receipt of written notification that the local
10 professional development committee will make such a
11 recommendation, and forward to the regional
12 superintendent of schools its recommendation within 30
13 days of receipt of the certificate holder's request.
14 Each local professional development committee shall
15 consist of at least 3 classroom teachers; one superintendent
16 or chief administrator of the school district, charter
17 school, or cooperative or joint agreement or his or her
18 designee; and one at-large member who shall be either (i) a
19 parent, (ii) a member of the business community, (iii) a
20 community member, or (iv) an administrator, with preference
21 given to an individual chosen from among those persons listed
22 in items (i), (ii), and (iii) in order to secure
23 representation of an interest not already represented on the
24 committee. If mutually agreed upon by the school district,
25 charter school, or governing body or board of control of a
26 cooperative or joint agreement and its exclusive
27 representative, if any, additional members may be added to a
28 local professional development committee, provided that a
29 majority of members are classroom teachers. The school
30 district, charter school, or governing body or board of
31 control of a cooperative or joint agreement and its exclusive
32 representative, if any, shall determine the term of service
33 of the members of a local professional development committee.
34 All individuals selected to serve on local professional
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1 development committees must be known to demonstrate the best
2 practices in teaching or their respective field of practice.
3 The exclusive representative, if any, shall select the
4 classroom teacher members of the local professional
5 development committee. If no exclusive representative
6 exists, then the classroom teacher members of a local
7 professional development committee shall be selected by the
8 classroom teachers that come within the local professional
9 development committee's authority. The school district,
10 charter school, or governing body or board of control of a
11 cooperative or joint agreement shall select the 2
12 non-classroom teacher members (the superintendent or chief
13 administrator of the school district, charter school, or
14 cooperative or joint agreement or his or her designee and the
15 at-large member) of a local professional development
16 committee. Vacancies in positions on a local professional
17 development committee shall be filled in the same manner as
18 the original selections. The members of a local professional
19 development committee shall select a chairperson. Local
20 professional development committee meetings shall be
21 scheduled so as not to interfere with committee members'
22 regularly scheduled teaching duties, except when otherwise
23 permitted by the policies of or agreed to or approved by the
24 school district, charter school, or governing body or board
25 of control of a cooperative or joint agreement, or its
26 designee.
27 The board of education or governing board shall convene
28 the first meeting of the local professional development
29 committee. All actions taken by the local professional
30 development committee shall require that a majority of
31 committee members be present, and no committee action may be
32 taken unless 50% or more of those present are teacher
33 members.
34 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
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1 Education and the State Teacher Certification Board shall
2 jointly provide local professional development committee
3 members with a training manual, and the members shall certify
4 that they have received and read the manual.
5 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection
6 (f), for a teacher employed and performing services in a
7 nonpublic or State-operated elementary or secondary school,
8 all references to a local professional development committee
9 shall mean the regional superintendent of schools of the
10 regional office of education for the geographic area where
11 the teaching is done.
12 (g)(1) Each regional superintendent of schools shall
13 review and concur or nonconcur with each recommendation for
14 renewal or nonrenewal of a Standard Teaching Certificate he
15 or she receives from a local professional development
16 committee or, if a certificate holder appeals the
17 recommendation to the regional professional development
18 review committee, the recommendation for renewal or
19 nonrenewal he or she receives from a regional professional
20 development review committee and, within 14 days of receipt
21 of the recommendation, shall provide the Professional Teacher
22 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board with
23 verification of the following, if applicable:
24 (A) a certificate renewal plan was filed and
25 approved by the appropriate local professional
26 development committee;
27 (B) the professional development and continuing
28 education activities set forth in the approved
29 certificate renewal plan have been satisfactorily
30 completed;
31 (C) the local professional development committee
32 has recommended the renewal of the certificate holder's
33 Standard Teaching Certificate and forwarded the
34 recommendation, along with all supporting documentation
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1 as jointly required by the Professional Teacher Standards
2 Board State Board of Education and the State Teacher
3 Certification Board, to the regional superintendent of
4 schools;
5 (D) the certificate holder has appealed his or her
6 local professional development committee's recommendation
7 of nonrenewal to the regional professional development
8 review committee and the result of that appeal;
9 (E) the regional superintendent of schools has
10 concurred or nonconcurred with the local professional
11 development committee's or regional professional
12 development review committee's recommendation to renew or
13 nonrenew the certificate holder's Standard Teaching
14 Certificate and made a recommendation to that effect; and
15 (F) the established registration fee for the
16 Standard Teaching Certificate has been paid.
17 At the same time the regional superintendent of schools
18 provides the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
19 Teacher Certification Board with the notice required by this
20 subsection (g), he or she shall also notify the certificate
21 holder in writing that this notice has been provided to the
22 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
23 Certification Board, provided that if the notice provided by
24 the regional superintendent of schools to the Professional
25 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board
26 includes a recommendation of certificate nonrenewal, the
27 written notice provided to the certificate holder shall be by
28 certified mail, return receipt requested.
29 (2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to
30 appeal his or her local professional development committee's
31 recommendation of nonrenewal to the regional professional
32 development review committee, within 14 days of receipt of
33 notice that the recommendation has been sent to the regional
34 superintendent of schools. Each regional superintendent of
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1 schools shall establish a regional professional development
2 review committee or committees for the purpose of advising
3 the regional superintendent of schools, upon request, and
4 handling certificate holder appeals. This committee shall
5 consist of at least 4 classroom teachers, one
6 non-administrative certificated educational employee, 2
7 administrators, and one at-large member who shall be either
8 (i) a parent, (ii) a member of the business community, (iii)
9 a community member, or (iv) an administrator, with preference
10 given to an individual chosen from among those persons listed
11 in items (i), (ii), and (iii) in order to secure
12 representation of an interest not already represented on the
13 committee. The teacher and non-administrative certificated
14 educational employee members of the review committee shall be
15 selected by their exclusive representative, if any, and the
16 administrators and at-large member shall be selected by the
17 regional superintendent of schools. A regional
18 superintendent of schools may add additional members to the
19 committee, provided that the same proportion of teachers to
20 administrators and at-large members on the committee is
21 maintained. Any additional teacher and non-administrative
22 certificated educational employee members shall be selected
23 by their exclusive representative, if any. Vacancies in
24 positions on a regional professional development review
25 committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original
26 selections. Committee members shall serve staggered 3-year
27 terms. All individuals selected to serve on regional
28 professional development review committees must be known to
29 demonstrate the best practices in teaching or their
30 respective field of practice.
31 The exclusive representative responsible for choosing the
32 individuals that serve on a regional professional development
33 review committee shall notify each school district, charter
34 school, or governing body or board of control of a
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1 cooperative or joint agreement employing the individuals
2 chosen to serve and provide their names to the appropriate
3 regional superintendent of schools. Regional professional
4 development review committee meetings shall be scheduled so
5 as not to interfere with the committee members' regularly
6 scheduled teaching duties, except when otherwise permitted by
7 the policies of or agreed to or approved by the school
8 district, charter school, or governing body or board of
9 control of a cooperative or joint agreement, or its designee,
10 provided that the school district, charter school, or
11 governing body or board of control shall not unreasonably
12 withhold permission for a committee member to attend regional
13 professional development review committee meetings.
14 In a city having a population exceeding 500,000 that does
15 not have a regional office of education, one or more separate
16 regional professional development review committees shall be
17 established as mutually agreed upon by the board of education
18 of the school district organized under Article 34 of this
19 Code and the exclusive representative. The composition of
20 each committee shall be the same as for a regional
21 professional development review committee, except that
22 members of the committee shall be jointly appointed by the
23 board of education and the exclusive representative. All
24 other provisions of this Section concerning regional
25 professional development review committees shall apply to
26 these committees.
27 The regional professional development review committee
28 may require information in addition to that received from a
29 certificate holder's local professional development committee
30 or request that the certificate holder appear before it,
31 shall either concur or nonconcur with a local professional
32 development committee's recommendation of nonrenewal, and
33 shall forward to the regional superintendent of schools its
34 recommendation of renewal or nonrenewal. All actions taken
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1 by the regional professional development review committee
2 shall require a quorum and be by a simple majority of those
3 present and voting. A record of all votes shall be
4 maintained. The committee shall have 45 days from receipt of
5 a certificate holder's appeal to make its recommendation to
6 the regional superintendent of schools.
7 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
8 Education and the State Teacher Certification Board shall
9 jointly provide regional professional development review
10 committee members with a training manual, and the members
11 shall be required to attend one training seminar sponsored
12 jointly by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
13 Board of Education and the State Teacher Certification Board.
14 (h)(1) The Professional Teacher Standards Board State
15 Teacher Certification Board shall review the regional
16 superintendent of schools' recommendations to renew or
17 nonrenew Standard Teaching Certificates and notify
18 certificate holders in writing whether their certificates
19 have been renewed or nonrenewed within 90 days of receipt of
20 the recommendations, unless a certificate holder has appealed
21 a regional superintendent of schools' recommendation of
22 nonrenewal, as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection
23 (h). The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
24 Certification Board shall verify that the certificate holder
25 has met the renewal criteria set forth in paragraph (1) of
26 subsection (g) of this Section.
27 (2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to
28 appeal a regional superintendent of school's recommendation
29 to nonrenew his or her Standard Teaching Certificate to the
30 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
31 Certification Board, within 14 days of receipt of notice that
32 the decision has been sent to the Professional Teacher
33 Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board, which
34 shall hold an appeal hearing within 60 days of receipt of the
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1 appeal. When such an appeal is taken, the certificate
2 holder's Standard Teaching Certificate shall continue to be
3 valid until the appeal is finally determined. The
4 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
5 Certification Board shall review the regional superintendent
6 of school's recommendation, the regional professional
7 development review committee's recommendation, if any, and
8 the local professional development committee's recommendation
9 and all relevant documentation to verify whether the
10 certificate holder has met the renewal criteria set forth in
11 paragraph (1) of subsection (g) of this Section. The
12 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
13 Certification Board may request that the certificate holder
14 appear before it. All actions taken by the Professional
15 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board
16 shall require a quorum and be by a simple majority of those
17 present and voting. A record of all votes shall be
18 maintained. The Professional Teacher Standards Board State
19 Teacher Certification Board shall notify the certificate
20 holder in writing, within 7 days of completing the review,
21 whether his or her Standard Teaching Certificate has been
22 renewed or nonrenewed, provided that if the Professional
23 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board
24 determines to nonrenew a certificate, the written notice
25 provided to the certificate holder shall be by certified
26 mail, return receipt requested. All certificate renewal or
27 nonrenewal decisions of the Professional Teacher Standards
28 Board State Teacher Certification Board are final and subject
29 to administrative review, as set forth in Section 21-24 of
30 this Code.
31 (i) Holders of Master Teaching Certificates shall meet
32 the same requirements and follow the same procedures as
33 holders of Standard Teaching Certificates, except that their
34 renewal cycle shall be as set forth in subsection (d) of
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1 Section 21-2 of this Code.
2 (j) Holders of Valid and Exempt Standard and Master
3 Teaching Certificates who are not employed and performing
4 services in an Illinois public or State-operated elementary
5 school, secondary school, or cooperative or joint agreement
6 with a governing body or board of control, in a certificated
7 teaching position, may voluntarily activate their
8 certificates by developing and submitting a certificate
9 renewal plan to the regional superintendent of schools of the
10 regional office of education for the geographic area where
11 their teaching is done, who, or whose designee, shall approve
12 the plan and serve as the certificate holder's local
13 professional development committee. These certificate
14 holders shall follow the same renewal criteria and procedures
15 as all other Standard and Master Teaching Certificate
16 holders, except that their continuing professional
17 development plans shall not be required to reflect or address
18 the knowledge, skills, and goals of a local school
19 improvement plan.
20 (k) Each school district, charter school, or cooperative
21 or joint agreement shall be paid an annual amount of not less
22 than $1,000, as determined by a formula based on the number
23 of Standard Teaching and Master Teaching Certificate holders,
24 subject to renewal and established by rule, not to exceed
25 $1,000,000 annually for all school districts, charter
26 schools, and cooperatives or joint agreements, for
27 administrative costs associated with conducting the meetings
28 of the local professional development committee. Each
29 regional office of education shall receive $2,000 annually to
30 pay school districts, charter schools, or cooperatives or
31 joint agreements for costs, as defined by rule, incurred in
32 staff attendance at regional professional development review
33 committee meetings and the training seminar required under
34 paragraph (2) of subsection (g) of this Section.
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1 (l) The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
2 of Education and the State Teacher Certification Board shall
3 jointly contract with an independent party to conduct a
4 comprehensive evaluation of the certificate renewal system
5 pursuant to this Section. The first report of this
6 evaluation shall be presented to the General Assembly on
7 January 1, 2005 and on January 1 of every third year
8 thereafter.
9 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-653, eff. 7-29-98;
10 90-811, eff. 1-26-99; 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
11 (105 ILCS 5/21-16) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-16)
12 Sec. 21-16. Fees; Requirement for registration.
13 (a) Until February 15, 2000, every applicant when issued
14 a certificate shall pay to the regional superintendent of
15 schools a fee of $1, which shall be paid into the institute
16 fund. Every certificate issued under the provisions of this
17 Act shall be registered annually or, at the option of the
18 holder of the certificate, once every 3 years. The regional
19 superintendent of schools having supervision and control over
20 the school where the teaching is done shall register the
21 certificate before the holder begins to teach, otherwise it
22 shall be registered in any county in the State of Illinois;
23 and one fee of $4 per year for registration or renewal of one
24 or more certificates which have been issued to the same
25 holder shall be paid into the institute fund.
26 Until February 15, 2000, requirements for registration of
27 any certificate limited in time shall include evidence of
28 professional growth defined as successful teaching experience
29 since last registration of certificate, attendance at
30 professional meetings, membership in professional
31 organizations, additional credits earned in recognized
32 teacher-training institutions, travel specifically for
33 educational experience, reading of professional books and
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1 periodicals, filing all reports as required by the regional
2 superintendent of schools and the State Superintendent of
3 Education or such other professional experience or
4 combination of experiences as are presented by the teacher
5 and are approved by the State Superintendent of Education in
6 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. A
7 duplicate certificate may be issued to the holder of a valid
8 life certificate or valid certificate limited in time by the
9 State Superintendent of Education; however, it shall only be
10 issued upon request of a regional superintendent of schools
11 and upon payment to the regional superintendent of schools
12 who requests such duplicate a fee of $4.
13 (b) Beginning February 15, 2000, all persons who are
14 issued Standard Teaching Certificates pursuant clause (2) of
15 subsection (c) of Section 21-2 and all persons who renew
16 Standard Teaching Certificates shall pay a $25 fee for
17 registration of all certificates held. All persons who are
18 issued Standard Teaching Certificates under clause (1) of
19 subsection (c) of Section 21-2 and all other applicants for
20 Standard Teaching Certificates shall pay an original
21 application fee, pursuant to Section 21-12, and a $25 fee for
22 registration of all certificates held. These certificates
23 shall be registered and the registration fee paid once every
24 5 years. Standard Teaching Certificate applicants and
25 holders shall not be required to pay any other registration
26 fees for issuance or renewal of their certificates, except as
27 provided in Section 21-17 of this Code. Beginning February
28 15, 2000, Master Teaching Certificates shall be issued and
29 renewed upon payment by the applicant or certificate holder
30 of a $50 fee for registration of all certificates held.
31 These certificates shall be registered and the fee paid once
32 every 10 years. Master Teaching Certificate applicants and
33 holders shall not be required to pay any other application or
34 registration fees for issuance or renewal of their
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1 certificates, except as provided in Section 21-17 of this
2 Code. All other certificates issued under the provisions of
3 this Code shall be registered for the validity period of the
4 certificate at the rate of $5 per year for the total number
5 of years for which the certificate is valid for registration
6 of all certificates held, or for a maximum of 5 years for
7 life certificates. The regional superintendent of schools
8 having supervision and control over the school where the
9 teaching is done shall register the certificate before the
10 holder begins to teach, otherwise it shall be registered in
11 any county in the State of Illinois. Each holder shall pay
12 the appropriate registration fee to the regional
13 superintendent of schools. The regional superintendent of
14 schools shall deposit the registration fees into the
15 institute fund. Any certificate holder who teaches in more
16 than one educational service region shall register the
17 certificate or certificates in all regions where the teaching
18 is done, but shall be required to pay one registration fee
19 for all certificates held, provided holders of certificates
20 issued pursuant to Section 21-9 of this Code shall be
21 required to pay one registration fee, in each educational
22 service region in which his or her certificate or
23 certificates are registered, for all certificates held.
24 A duplicate certificate may be issued to the holder of a
25 valid life certificate or valid certificate limited in time
26 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
27 Superintendent of Education; however, it shall only be issued
28 upon request of a regional superintendent of schools and upon
29 payment to the regional superintendent of schools who
30 requests the duplicate a fee of $4, which shall be deposited
31 into the institute fund.
32 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
33 (105 ILCS 5/21-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-17)
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1 Sec. 21-17. Fee and duplicate certificate. A duplicate
2 certificate shall be issued by the Professional Teacher
3 Standards Board State Superintendent of Education when
4 requested by the regional superintendent of schools as
5 provided in Section 21-16. The request for a duplicate
6 certificate shall be accompanied by a fee of $4, which shall
7 be deposited into the Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund.
8 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
9 (105 ILCS 5/21-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-19)
10 Sec. 21-19. Annual report by certificate holder. The
11 holder of any certificate, shall annually within 30 days
12 after assuming the duties of any teaching position report to
13 the regional superintendent having supervision and control
14 over the school where the teacher is employed information
15 relative to training, experience, salary and other data
16 required by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
17 Board of Education. The reports shall be collected in the
18 office of the regional superintendent and filed with the
19 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
20 Education.
21 (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)
22 (105 ILCS 5/21-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-21)
23 Sec. 21-21. Definitions; granting of recognition;
24 regional accreditation.
25 (a) "Recognized", as used in this Article in connection
26 with the word "school" or "institution", means such school,
27 college, university, private junior college, public community
28 college or special or technical school as maintains a course
29 of study, a standard of scholarship and other requirements
30 set by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
31 of Education in consultation with the State Teacher
32 Certification Board. Application for recognition of such
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1 school or institution as a teacher education institution
2 shall be made to the Professional Teacher Standards Board
3 State Board of Education. The Professional Teacher Standards
4 Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
5 Teacher Certification Board shall set the criteria by which
6 the school or institution shall be judged and through the
7 Secretary of that the Board shall arrange for an official
8 inspection and shall grant recognition of such school or
9 institution as may meet the required standards. If such
10 standards include requirements with regard to education in
11 acquiring skills in working with culturally distinctive
12 students, as defined by the Professional Teacher Standards
13 Board State Board of Education, then the rules of the
14 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
15 shall include the criteria used to evaluate compliance with
16 this requirement. No school or institution shall make
17 assignments of student teachers or teachers for practice
18 teaching so as to promote segregation on the basis of race,
19 creed, color, religion, sex or national origin.
20 All recommendations for initial or standard certification
21 shall be made by a recognized teacher training institution
22 operating a program of preparation for the certificate
23 approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
24 Superintendent of Education in consultation with the State
25 Teacher Certification Board. The Professional Teacher
26 Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
27 the State Teacher Certification Board shall have the power to
28 define a major or minor when used as a basis for recognition
29 and certification purposes.
30 (b) "Regionally accredited" or "accredited" as used in
31 this Article in connection with a university or institution
32 shall mean an institution of higher education accredited by
33 the North Central Association or other comparable regional
34 accrediting association.
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1 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
2 (105 ILCS 5/21-21.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-21.1)
3 Sec. 21-21.1. Denial of recommendation for
4 certification. Each college or university providing a
5 teacher education program approved and recognized pursuant to
6 the provisions of this Article shall establish procedures and
7 standards to assure that no student is denied the opportunity
8 to receive the institutional recommendation for certification
9 for reasons which are not directly related to the candidate's
10 anticipated performance as a certificated employee. Such
11 standards and procedures shall include the specific criteria
12 used by the institution for admission, retention, and
13 recommendation for certification, periodic evaluations of the
14 candidate's progress toward an institutional recommendation,
15 counseling and other supportive services to correct any
16 deficiencies which are considered remedial, and provisions to
17 assure that no person is discriminated against on the basis
18 of race, color, national origin or a disability unrelated to
19 the person's ability to perform as a certificated employee.
20 Each institution shall also establish a grievance procedure
21 for those candidates who are denied the institutional
22 recommendation for certification. Within 10 days of
23 notification of such denial, the college or university shall
24 notify the candidate, in writing, of the reasons for the
25 denial of recommendation for certification. Within 30 days
26 of notification of the denial, the candidate may request the
27 college or university to review the denial. If, after an
28 additional 30 days to complete such review, the candidate is
29 denied recommendation for certification, the candidate may
30 appeal to the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
31 Teacher Certification Board within 10 days of notification
32 for a review of the institution's decision. The candidate
33 shall have the right to be present at any such review, to
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1 present evidence, and to be represented by counsel. Upon
2 such review the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
3 Teacher Certification Board shall take recommend appropriate
4 action to the State Superintendent of Education. Each
5 institution's standards and procedures, including the
6 criteria for admission, retention, and the institutional
7 recommendation for certification, and the institution's
8 grievance procedures, shall be subject to approval by the
9 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of
10 Education in consultation with the State Teacher
11 Certification Board. Each applicant to the institution's
12 teacher education program shall be provided with a copy of
13 the procedures established pursuant to this Section.
14 (Source: P.A. 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)
15 (105 ILCS 5/21-23) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23)
16 Sec. 21-23. Suspension or revocation of certificate.
17 (a) Any certificate issued pursuant to this Article,
18 including but not limited to any administrative certificate
19 or endorsement, may be suspended for a period not to exceed
20 one calendar year by the regional superintendent or for a
21 period not to exceed 5 calendar years by the State
22 Superintendent of Education upon evidence of immorality, a
23 condition of health detrimental to the welfare of pupils,
24 incompetency, unprofessional conduct, the neglect of any
25 professional duty, willful failure to report an instance of
26 suspected child abuse or neglect as required by the Abused
27 and Neglected Child Reporting Act, failure to establish
28 satisfactory repayment on an educational loan guaranteed by
29 the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, or other just
30 cause. Unprofessional conduct shall include refusal to
31 attend or participate in, institutes, teachers' meetings,
32 professional readings, or to meet other reasonable
33 requirements of the regional superintendent or State
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1 Superintendent of Education. Unprofessional conduct also
2 includes conduct that violates the standards, ethics, or
3 rules applicable to the security, administration, monitoring,
4 or scoring of, or the reporting of scores from, any
5 assessment test or the Prairie State Achievement Examination
6 administered under Section 2-3.64 or that is known or
7 intended to produce or report manipulated or artificial,
8 rather than actual, assessment or achievement results or
9 gains from the administration of those tests or examinations.
10 It shall also include neglect or unnecessary delay in making
11 of statistical and other reports required by school officers.
12 The regional superintendent or State Superintendent of
13 Education shall upon receipt of evidence of immorality, a
14 condition of health detrimental to the welfare of pupils,
15 incompetency, unprofessional conduct, the neglect of any
16 professional duty or other just cause serve written notice to
17 the individual and afford the individual opportunity for a
18 hearing prior to suspension. If a hearing is requested
19 within 10 days of notice of opportunity for hearing it shall
20 act as a stay of proceedings not to exceed 30 days. No
21 certificate shall be suspended until the teacher has an
22 opportunity for a hearing at the educational service region.
23 When a certificate is suspended, the right of appeal shall
24 lie to the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
25 Certification Board. When an appeal is taken within 10 days
26 after notice of suspension it shall act as a stay of
27 proceedings not to exceed 60 days. If a certificate is
28 suspended for a period greater than one year, the State
29 Superintendent of Education shall review the suspension prior
30 to the expiration of that period to determine whether the
31 cause for the suspension has been remedied or continues to
32 exist. Upon determining that the cause for suspension has
33 not abated, the State Superintendent of Education may order
34 that the suspension be continued for an appropriate period.
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1 Nothing in this Section prohibits the continuance of such a
2 suspension for an indefinite period if the State
3 Superintendent determines that the cause for the suspension
4 remains unabated. Any certificate may be revoked for the
5 same reasons as for suspension by the State Superintendent of
6 Education. No certificate shall be revoked until the teacher
7 has an opportunity for a hearing before the Professional
8 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board,
9 which hearing must be held within 60 days from the date the
10 appeal is taken.
11 The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board may
12 refuse to issue or may suspend the certificate of any person
13 who fails to file a return, or to pay the tax, penalty or
14 interest shown in a filed return, or to pay any final
15 assessment of tax, penalty or interest, as required by any
16 tax Act administered by the Illinois Department of Revenue,
17 until such time as the requirements of any such tax Act are
18 satisfied.
19 (b) Any certificate issued pursuant to this Article may
20 be suspended for an appropriate length of time as determined
21 by either the regional superintendent or State Superintendent
22 of Education upon evidence that the holder of the certificate
23 has been named as a perpetrator in an indicated report filed
24 pursuant to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act,
25 approved June 26, 1975, as amended, and upon proof by clear
26 and convincing evidence that the licensee has caused a child
27 to be an abused child or neglected child as defined in that
28 the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
29 The regional superintendent or State Superintendent of
30 Education shall, upon receipt of evidence that the
31 certificate holder has been named a perpetrator in any
32 indicated report, serve written notice to the individual and
33 afford the individual opportunity for a hearing prior to
34 suspension. If a hearing is requested within 10 days of
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1 notice of opportunity for hearing, it shall act as a stay of
2 proceedings not to exceed 30 days. No certificate shall be
3 suspended until the teacher has an opportunity for a hearing
4 at the educational service region. When a certificate is
5 suspended, the right of appeal shall lie to the Professional
6 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
7 When an appeal is taken within 10 days after notice of
8 suspension it shall act as a stay of proceedings not to
9 exceed 60 days. The State Superintendent may revoke any
10 certificate upon proof at hearing by clear and convincing
11 evidence that the certificate holder has caused a child to be
12 an abused child or neglected child as defined in the Abused
13 and Neglected Child Reporting Act. No certificate shall be
14 revoked until the teacher has an opportunity for a hearing
15 before the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
16 Certification Board, which hearing must be held within 60
17 days from the date the appeal is taken.
18 (c) The State Superintendent of Education or a person
19 designated by him shall have the power to administer oaths to
20 witnesses at any hearing conducted before the Professional
21 Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board
22 pursuant to this Section. The State Superintendent of
23 Education or a person designated by him is authorized to
24 subpoena and bring before the Professional Teacher Standards
25 Board State Teacher Certification Board any person in this
26 State and to take testimony either orally or by deposition or
27 by exhibit, with the same fees and mileage and in the same
28 manner as prescribed by law in judicial proceedings in the
29 civil cases in circuit courts of this State.
30 Any circuit court, upon the application of the State
31 Superintendent of Education, may, by order duly entered,
32 require the attendance of witnesses and the production of
33 relevant books and papers at any hearing the State
34 Superintendent of Education is authorized to conduct pursuant
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1 to this Section, and the court may compel obedience to its
2 orders by proceedings for contempt.
3 (d) As used in this Section, "teacher" means any school
4 district employee regularly required to be certified, as
5 provided in this Article, in order to teach or supervise in
6 the public schools.
7 (Source: P.A. 89-610, eff. 8-6-96.)
8 (105 ILCS 5/21-23b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23b)
9 Sec. 21-23b. Conviction of felony.
10 (a) Whenever the holder of any certificate issued under
11 this Article is employed by the school board of any school
12 district, including a special charter district or school
13 district organized under Article 34, and is convicted, either
14 after a bench trial, trial by jury, or plea of guilty, of any
15 offense for which a sentence to death or a term of
16 imprisonment in a penitentiary for one year or more is
17 provided, the school board shall promptly notify the
18 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
19 in writing of the name of the certificate holder, the fact of
20 the conviction, and the name and location of the court in
21 which the conviction occurred.
22 (b) Whenever the Professional Teacher Standards Board
23 State Board of Education receives notice of a conviction
24 under subsection (a) or otherwise learns that any person who
25 is a "teacher" as that term is defined in Section 16-106 of
26 the Illinois Pension Code has been convicted, either after a
27 bench trial, trial by jury, or plea of guilty, of any offense
28 for which a sentence to death or a term of imprisonment in a
29 penitentiary for one year or more is provided, the
30 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
31 shall promptly notify in writing the board of trustees of the
32 Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, and the
33 board of trustees of the Public School Teachers' Pension and
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1 Retirement Fund of the City of Chicago, and the State Board
2 of Education of the name of the certificate holder or
3 teacher, the fact of the conviction, the name and location of
4 the court in which the conviction occurred, and the number
5 assigned in that court to the case in which the conviction
6 occurred.
7 (Source: P.A. 87-1001.)
8 (105 ILCS 5/21-24) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-24)
9 Sec. 21-24. Administrative Review Law. The provisions of
10 the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and
11 modifications thereof and the rules adopted pursuant thereto,
12 shall apply to and govern all proceedings instituted for the
13 judicial review of final administrative decisions of the
14 Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of
15 Education, the State Teacher Certification Board, and the
16 regional superintendent of schools under this Article. The
17 term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101
18 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The commencement of any
19 action for review shall operate as a stay of enforcement and
20 no action based on any decision of the Professional Teacher
21 Standards Board State Board of Education, State Teacher
22 Certification Board or the regional superintendent of schools
23 shall be taken pending final disposition of such review.
24 (Source: P.A. 84-551.)
25 (105 ILCS 5/21-25) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-25)
26 Sec. 21-25. School service personnel certificate.
27 Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, a school service
28 personnel certificate shall be issued to those applicants of
29 good character, good health, a citizen of the United States
30 and at least 19 years of age who have a Bachelor's degree
31 with not fewer than 120 semester hours from a regionally
32 accredited institution of higher learning and who meets the
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1 requirements established by the Professional Teacher
2 Standards Board State Superintendent of Education in
3 consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. A
4 school service personnel certificate with a school nurse
5 endorsement may be issued to a person who holds a bachelor of
6 science degree from an institution of higher learning
7 accredited by the North Central Association or other
8 comparable regional accrediting association. Persons seeking
9 any other endorsement on the school service personnel
10 certificate shall be recommended for the endorsement by a
11 recognized teacher education institution as having completed
12 a program of preparation approved by the Professional Teacher
13 Standards State Superintendent of Education in consultation
14 with the State Teacher Certification Board.
15 Such certificate shall be endorsed with the area of
16 Service as determined by the Professional Teacher Standards
17 Board State Superintendent of Education in consultation with
18 the State Teacher Certification Board.
19 The holder of such certificate shall be entitled to all
20 of the rights and privileges granted holders of a valid
21 teaching certificate, including teacher benefits,
22 compensation and working conditions.
23 When the holder of such certificate has earned a master's
24 degree, including 8 semester hours of graduate professional
25 education from a recognized institution of higher learning,
26 and has at least 2 years of successful school experience
27 while holding such certificate, the certificate may be
28 endorsed for supervision.
29 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
30 (105 ILCS 5/34-18.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5)
31 Sec. 34-18.5. Criminal background investigations.
32 (a) After August 1, 1985, certified and noncertified
33 applicants for employment with the school district are
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1 required as a condition of employment to authorize an
2 investigation to determine if such applicants have been
3 convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses
4 in subsection (c) of this Section or have been convicted,
5 within 7 years of the application for employment with the
6 school district, of any other felony under the laws of this
7 State or of any offense committed or attempted in any other
8 state or against the laws of the United States that, if
9 committed or attempted in this State, would have been
10 punishable as a felony under the laws of this State.
11 Authorization for the investigation shall be furnished by the
12 applicant to the school district, except that if the
13 applicant is a substitute teacher seeking employment in more
14 than one school district, or a teacher seeking concurrent
15 part-time employment positions with more than one school
16 district (as a reading specialist, special education teacher
17 or otherwise), or an educational support personnel employee
18 seeking employment positions with more than one district, any
19 such district may require the applicant to furnish
20 authorization for the investigation to the regional
21 superintendent of the educational service region in which are
22 located the school districts in which the applicant is
23 seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
24 teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee.
25 Upon receipt of this authorization, the school district or
26 the appropriate regional superintendent, as the case may be,
27 shall submit the applicant's name, sex, race, date of birth
28 and social security number to the Department of State Police
29 on forms prescribed by the Department. The regional
30 superintendent submitting the requisite information to the
31 Department of State Police shall promptly notify the school
32 districts in which the applicant is seeking employment as a
33 substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent
34 educational support personnel employee that the investigation
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1 of the applicant has been requested. The Department of State
2 Police shall conduct an investigation to ascertain if the
3 applicant being considered for employment has been convicted
4 of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in
5 subsection (c) or has been convicted, within 7 years of the
6 application for employment with the school district, of any
7 other felony under the laws of this State or of any offense
8 committed or attempted in any other state or against the laws
9 of the United States that, if committed or attempted in this
10 State, would have been punishable as a felony under the laws
11 of this State. The Department shall charge the school
12 district or the appropriate regional superintendent a fee for
13 conducting such investigation, which fee shall be deposited
14 in the State Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the
15 cost of the inquiry; and the applicant shall not be charged a
16 fee for such investigation by the school district or by the
17 regional superintendent. The regional superintendent may
18 seek reimbursement from the State Board of Education or the
19 appropriate school district or districts for fees paid by the
20 regional superintendent to the Department for the criminal
21 background investigations required by this Section.
22 (b) The Department shall furnish, pursuant to positive
23 identification, records of convictions, until expunged, to
24 the president of the board of education for the school
25 district which requested the investigation, or to the
26 regional superintendent who requested the investigation. Any
27 information concerning the record of convictions obtained by
28 the president of the board of education or the regional
29 superintendent shall be confidential and may only be
30 transmitted to the general superintendent of the school
31 district or his designee, the appropriate regional
32 superintendent if the investigation was requested by the
33 board of education for the school district, the presidents of
34 the appropriate board of education or 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 convictions
7 obtained from the Department of State Police shall be
8 provided to the applicant for employment. If an investigation
9 of an applicant for employment as a substitute or concurrent
10 part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel
11 employee in more than one school district was requested by
12 the regional superintendent, and the Department of State
13 Police upon investigation ascertains that the applicant has
14 not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
15 offenses in subsection (c) or has not been convicted, within
16 7 years of the application for employment with the school
17 district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or
18 of any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
19 against the laws of the United States that, if committed or
20 attempted in this State, would have been punishable as a
21 felony under the laws of this State and so notifies the
22 regional superintendent, then the regional superintendent
23 shall issue to the applicant a certificate evidencing that as
24 of the date specified by the Department of State Police the
25 applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated
26 criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) or has not been
27 convicted, within 7 years of the application for employment
28 with the school district, of any other felony under the laws
29 of this State or of any offense committed or attempted in any
30 other state or against the laws of the United States that, if
31 committed or attempted in this State, would have been
32 punishable as a felony under the laws of this State. The
33 school board of any school district located in the
34 educational service region served by the regional
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1 superintendent who issues such a certificate to an applicant
2 for employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
3 teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee
4 in more than one such district may rely on the certificate
5 issued by the regional superintendent to that applicant, or
6 may initiate its own investigation of the applicant through
7 the Department of State Police as provided in subsection (a).
8 Any person who releases any confidential information
9 concerning any criminal convictions of an applicant for
10 employment shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, unless
11 the release of such information is authorized by this
12 Section.
13 (c) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a
14 person who has been convicted for committing attempted first
15 degree murder or for committing or attempting to commit first
16 degree murder or a Class X felony or any one or more of the
17 following offenses: (i) those defined in Sections 11-6,
18 11-9, 11-14, 11-15, 11-15.1, 11-16, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19,
19 11-19.1, 11-19.2, 11-20, 11-20.1, 11-21, 12-13, 12-14,
20 12-14.1, 12-15 and 12-16 of the Criminal Code of 1961; (ii)
21 those defined in the Cannabis Control Act, except those
22 defined in Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 5(a) of that Act; (iii)
23 those defined in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act; and
24 (iv) any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
25 against the laws of the United States, which if committed or
26 attempted in this State, would have been punishable as one or
27 more of the foregoing offenses. Further, the board of
28 education shall not knowingly employ a person who has been
29 found to be the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of
30 any minor under 18 years of age pursuant to proceedings under
31 Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
32 (d) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a
33 person for whom a criminal background investigation has not
34 been initiated.
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1 (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a
2 finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate issued
3 pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
4 School Code, the board of education or the State
5 Superintendent of Education shall initiate the certificate
6 suspension and revocation proceedings authorized by law.
7 (f) After March 19, 1990, the provisions of this Section
8 shall apply to all employees of persons or firms holding
9 contracts with any school district including, but not limited
10 to, food service workers, school bus drivers and other
11 transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
12 the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of
13 criminal background investigations on employees of persons or
14 firms holding contracts with more than one school district
15 and assigned to more than one school district, the regional
16 superintendent of the educational service region in which the
17 contracting school districts are located may, at the request
18 of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the
19 authorization for investigation prepared by each such
20 employee and submitting the same to the Department of State
21 Police. Any information concerning the record of conviction
22 of any such employee obtained by the regional superintendent
23 shall be promptly reported to the president of the
24 appropriate school board or school boards.
25 (Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98; 91-885, eff. 7-6-00.)
26 (105 ILCS 5/34-83) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-83)
27 Sec. 34-83. Board of examiners Certificates
28 Examinations. A board of 3 examiners shall examine all
29 applicants required to hold certificates to teach and the
30 board of education shall issue gratuitously to those who pass
31 a required test of character, scholarship and general
32 fitness, such certificates to teach as they are found
33 entitled to receive. No person may be granted or continue to
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1 hold a teaching certificate who has knowingly altered or
2 misrepresented his or her teaching qualifications in order to
3 acquire the certificate. Any other certificate held by such
4 person may be suspended or revoked by the board of examiners,
5 depending upon the severity of the alteration or
6 misrepresentation. The board of examiners shall consist of
7 the general superintendent of schools and 2 persons approved
8 and appointed by the board of education upon the nomination
9 of the general superintendent of schools. The board of
10 examiners shall hold such examinations as the board of
11 education may prescribe, upon the recommendation of the
12 general superintendent of schools and shall prepare all
13 necessary eligible lists, which shall be kept in the office
14 of the general superintendent of schools and be open to
15 public inspection. Members of the board of examiners shall
16 hold office for a term of 2 years.
17 The board of examiners created herein is abolished
18 effective July 1, 1988. Commencing July 1, 1988, all new
19 teachers employed by the board shall hold teaching
20 certificates issued by the State Teacher Certification Board
21 under Article 21. The State Board of Education in
22 consultation with the board of examiners and the State
23 Teacher Certification Board shall develop procedures whereby
24 teachers currently holding valid certificates issued by the
25 board of examiners prior to its abolition, and all teachers
26 employed by the board after August 1, 1985 and prior to July
27 1, 1988, shall no later than July 1, 1988 exchange
28 certificates issued by the board of examiners for comparable
29 certificates issued under Article 21 by the State Teacher
30 Certification Board. On the exchange of a certificate on or
31 before July 1, 1988, the State Teacher Certification Board
32 shall not require any additional qualifications for the
33 issuance of the comparable certificate are not required. If
34 prior to July 1, 1988 the board of examiners has issued types
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1 of teaching certificates which are not comparable to the
2 types of certificates issued under Article 21 by the State
3 Teacher Certification Board, such certificates shall continue
4 to be valid for and shall be renewable by the holders
5 thereof, and no additional qualifications shall be required
6 by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
7 Certification Board for any such renewal; however, no
8 individual who received a letter of continuing eligibility
9 shall be issued an Initial or Standard Teaching Certificate,
10 as provided in Section 21-2 of this Code, unless that
11 individual also holds such a valid and renewable certificate.
12 The State Board of Education shall report by July 1,
13 1986, to the Illinois General Assembly on the procedures for
14 exchange it has developed in consultation with the board of
15 examiners and the State Teacher Certification Board as
16 required in this Section.
17 (Source: P.A. 91-102, eff. 7-12-99.)
18 Section 10. The Higher Education Student Assistance Act
19 is amended by changing Section 65.20 as follows:
20 (110 ILCS 947/65.20)
21 Sec. 65.20. Science-mathematics teacher scholarships.
22 (a) The Commission may annually award a number of
23 scholarships, not to exceed 200, to persons holding valid
24 teaching certificates issued under Article 21 of the School
25 Code. Such scholarships shall be issued to teachers who make
26 application to the Commission and who agree to take courses
27 at qualified institutions of higher learning that will
28 prepare them to teach science or mathematics at the secondary
29 school level.
30 (b) Scholarships awarded under this Section shall be
31 issued pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Commission;
32 provided that no rule or regulation promulgated by the State
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1 Board of Education prior to the effective date of this
2 amendatory Act of 1993 pursuant to the exercise of any right,
3 power, duty, responsibility or matter of pending business
4 transferred from the State Board of Education to the
5 Commission under this Section shall be affected thereby, and
6 all such rules and regulations shall become the rules and
7 regulations of the Commission until modified or changed by
8 the Commission in accordance with law. In awarding
9 scholarships, the Commission shall give priority to those
10 teachers with the greatest amount of seniority within school
11 districts.
12 (c) Each scholarship shall be utilized by its holder for
13 the payment of tuition at any qualified institution of higher
14 learning. Such tuition shall be available only for courses
15 that will enable the teacher to be certified to teach science
16 or mathematics at the secondary school level. The Commission,
17 in consultation with the Professional Teacher Standards Board
18 State Teacher Certification Board, shall determine which
19 courses are eligible for tuition payments under this Section.
20 (d) The Commission shall make tuition payments directly
21 to the qualified institution of higher learning which the
22 teacher attends for the courses prescribed or may make
23 payments to the teacher. Any teacher who receives payments
24 and who fails to enroll in the courses prescribed shall
25 refund the payments to the Commission.
26 (e) Following the completion of the program of study,
27 the teacher must accept employment within 2 years in a
28 secondary school in Illinois within 60 miles of the teacher's
29 residence to teach science or mathematics; provided, however,
30 that the teacher instead may elect to accept employment
31 within such 2 year period to teach science or mathematics in
32 a secondary school in Illinois which is more than 60 miles
33 from the teacher's residence. Teachers who fail to comply
34 with this provision shall refund all of the scholarship
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1 awarded to the Commission, whether payments were made
2 directly to the institutions of higher learning or to the
3 teachers, and this condition shall be agreed to in writing by
4 all scholarship recipients at the time the scholarship is
5 awarded. No teacher shall be required to refund tuition
6 payments if his or her failure to obtain employment as a
7 mathematics or science teacher in a secondary school is the
8 result of financial conditions within school districts. The
9 rules and regulations promulgated as provided in this Section
10 shall include provisions regarding the waiving and deferral
11 of such payments.
12 (f) The Commission, with the cooperation of the State
13 Board of Education, shall assist teachers who have
14 participated in the scholarship program established by this
15 Section in finding employment to teach science or
16 mathematics at the secondary level.
17 (g) This Section is substantially the same as Section
18 30-4b of the School Code, which Section is repealed by this
19 amendatory Act of 1993, and shall be construed as a
20 continuation of the science-mathematics teacher scholarship
21 program established by that prior law, and not as a new or
22 different science-mathematics teacher scholarship program.
23 The State Board of Education shall transfer to the
24 Commission, as the successor to the State Board of Education
25 for all purposes of administering and implementing the
26 provisions of this Section, all books, accounts, records,
27 papers, documents, contracts, agreements, and pending
28 business in any way relating to the science-mathematics
29 teacher scholarship program continued under this Section; and
30 all scholarships at any time awarded under that program by,
31 and all applications for any such scholarships at any time
32 made to, the State Board of Education shall be unaffected by
33 the transfer to the Commission of all responsibility for the
34 administration and implementation of the science-mathematics
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1 teacher scholarship program continued under this Section.
2 The State Board of Education shall furnish to the Commission
3 such other information as the Commission may request to
4 assist it in administering this Section.
5 (h) Appropriations for the scholarships outlined in this
6 Section shall be made to the Commission from funds
7 appropriated by the General Assembly.
8 (i) For the purposes of this Section:
9 "Qualified institution of higher learning" means the
10 University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago
11 State University, Eastern Illinois University, Governors
12 State University, Illinois State University, Northeastern
13 Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, Western
14 Illinois University, and the public community colleges
15 subject to the Public Community College Act.
16 "Secondary school level" means grades 9 through 12 or a
17 portion of such grades.
18 (Source: P.A. 88-228; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-4, eff.
19 1-1-96.)
20 Section 15. The Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act is
21 amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
22 (225 ILCS 15/4) (from Ch. 111, par. 5354)
23 Sec. 4. Application of Act.
24 (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the
25 activities of and services of a student, intern or resident
26 in psychology seeking to fulfill educational requirements or
27 the experience requirements in order to qualify for a license
28 under this Act, or an individual seeking to fulfill the
29 postdoctoral experience requirements in order to qualify for
30 licensure under this Act provided that such activities and
31 services are under the direct supervision, order, control and
32 full professional responsibility of a licensed clinical
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1 psychologist and provided that such student, intern, or
2 resident be designated by a title "intern" or "resident" or
3 other designation of trainee status. Supervised experience
4 in which the supervisor receives monetary payment or other
5 considerations from the supervisee or in which the supervisor
6 is hired by or otherwise employed by the supervisee shall not
7 be accepted by the Department as fulfilling the practicum,
8 internship or 2 years of satisfactory supervised experience
9 requirements for licensure. Nothing contained in this Section
10 shall be construed as permitting such students, interns, or
11 residents to offer their services as clinical psychologists
12 to any other person or persons and to accept remuneration for
13 such clinical psychological services other than as
14 specifically excepted herein, unless they have been licensed
15 under the provisions of this Act.
16 (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting
17 persons licensed as clinical psychologists to engage in any
18 manner in the practice of medicine as defined in the laws of
19 this State. Persons licensed as clinical psychologists who
20 render services to persons in need of mental treatment or who
21 are mentally ill shall as appropriate initiate genuine
22 collaboration with a physician licensed in Illinois to
23 practice medicine in all its branches.
24 (c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as
25 restricting an individual certified as a school psychologist
26 by the State Board of Education, who is at least 21 years of
27 age and has had at least 3 years of full-time experience as a
28 certified school psychologist, from using the title school
29 psychologist and offering school psychological services
30 limited to those services set forth in the rules and
31 regulations that govern the administration and operation of
32 special education pertaining to children and youth ages 0-21
33 prepared by the State Board of Education. Anyone offering
34 such services under the provisions of this paragraph shall
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1 use the term school psychologist and describe such services
2 as "School Psychological Services". This exemption shall be
3 limited to the practice of school psychology only as
4 manifested through psychoeducational problems, and shall not
5 be construed to allow a school psychologist to function as a
6 general practitioner of clinical psychology, unless otherwise
7 licensed under this Act. However, nothing in this paragraph
8 prohibits a school psychologist from making evaluations,
9 recommendations or interventions regarding the placement of
10 children in educational programs or special education
11 classes, nor shall it prohibit school psychologists from
12 providing clinical psychological services under the
13 supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist. This
14 paragraph shall not be construed to mandate insurance
15 companies to reimburse school psychologists directly for the
16 services of school psychologists. Nothing in this paragraph
17 shall be construed to exclude anyone duly licensed under this
18 Act from offering psychological services in the school
19 setting. School psychologists providing services under the
20 provisions of this paragraph shall not provide such services
21 outside their employment to any child who is a student in the
22 district or districts which employ such school psychologist.
23 School psychologists, as described in this paragraph, shall
24 be under the regulatory authority of the State Board of
25 Education and the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
26 Teacher Certification Board.
27 (d) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the
28 activities and use of the official title of "psychologist" on
29 the part of a person not licensed under this Act who
30 possesses a doctoral degree earned in a program concentrated
31 primarily on the study of psychology and is an academic
32 employee of a duly chartered institution of higher education
33 insofar as such person engages in public speaking with or
34 without remuneration, provided that such person is not in any
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1 manner held out to the public as practicing clinical
2 psychology as defined in paragraph 5 of Section 2 of this
3 Act, unless he or she has been licensed under the provisions
4 of this Act.
5 (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to regulate,
6 control, or restrict the clinical practice of any person
7 licensed, registered, or certified in this State under any
8 other Act, provided that such person is not in any manner
9 held out to the public as rendering clinical psychological
10 services as defined in paragraph 7 of Section 2 of this Act.
11 (f) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the
12 activities and use of the title "psychologist" on the part of
13 a person who practices psychology and (i) who possesses a
14 doctoral degree earned in a program concentrated primarily on
15 the study of psychology; and (ii) whose services involve the
16 development and application of psychological theory and
17 methodology to problems of organizations and problems of
18 individuals and groups in organizational settings; and
19 provided further that such person is not in any manner held
20 out to the public as practicing clinical psychology and is
21 not held out to the public by any title, description or
22 designation stating or implying that he or she is a clinical
23 psychologist unless he or she has been licensed under the
24 provisions of this Act.
25 (Source: P.A. 89-702, eff. 7-1-97.)
26 Section 20. The Professional Counselor and Clinical
27 Professional Counselor Licensing Act is amended by changing
28 Section 15 as follows:
29 (225 ILCS 107/15)
30 Sec. 15. Exemptions.
31 (a) This Act does not prohibit any persons legally
32 regulated in this State by any other Act from engaging in the
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1 practice for which they are authorized as long as they do not
2 represent themselves by the title of "professional
3 counselor", "licensed professional counselor", "clinical
4 professional counselor", or "licensed clinical professional
5 counselor". This Act does not prohibit the practice of
6 nonregulated professions whose practitioners are engaged in
7 the delivery of human services as long as these practitioners
8 do not represent themselves as or use the title of
9 "professional counselor", "licensed professional counselor",
10 "clinical professional counselor", or "licensed clinical
11 professional counselor".
12 (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the
13 activities and services of a student, intern, or resident in
14 professional counseling or clinical professional counseling
15 seeking to fulfill educational requirements in order to
16 qualify for a license under this Act, or an individual
17 seeking to fulfill the post-degree experience requirements in
18 order to qualify for licensing under this Act, if the
19 activities and services are supervised as specified in this
20 Act, and that the student, intern, or resident is designated
21 by a title "intern" or "resident" or other designation of
22 trainee status. Nothing contained in this Section shall be
23 construed to permit students, interns, or residents to offer
24 their services as professional counselors or clinical
25 professional counselors to any other person and to accept
26 remuneration for such professional counseling or clinical
27 professional counseling services other than as specifically
28 excepted in this Section, unless they have been licensed
29 under this Act.
30 (c) Corporations, partnerships, and associations may
31 employ practicum students, interns, or post-degree candidates
32 seeking to fulfill educational requirements or the
33 professional experience requirements needed to qualify for a
34 license under this Act if their activities and services
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1 constitute a part of the student's supervised course of study
2 or post-degree professional experience requirements. Nothing
3 in this paragraph shall prohibit a corporation, partnership,
4 or association from contracting with a licensed health care
5 professional to provide services.
6 (d) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the employment, by
7 a professional counselor or clinical professional counselor,
8 person, association, partnership, or a corporation furnishing
9 professional counseling or clinical professional counseling
10 services for remuneration, of persons not licensed as
11 professional counselors or clinical professional counselors
12 under this Act to perform services in various capacities as
13 needed if these persons are not in any manner held out to the
14 public or do not hold themselves out to the public by any
15 title or designation stating or implying that they are
16 professional counselors or clinical professional counselors.
17 (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the
18 services of a person, not licensed under the provisions of
19 this Act, in the employ of a federal, State, county, or
20 municipal agency or other political subdivision or
21 not-for-profit corporation providing human services if (1)
22 the services are a part of the duties in his or her salaried
23 position, (2) the services are performed solely on behalf of
24 his or her employer, and (3) that person does not in any
25 manner represent himself or herself as or use the title of
26 "professional counselor", "licensed professional counselor",
27 "clinical professional counselor", or "licensed clinical
28 professional counselor".
29 (f) Duly recognized members of any religious
30 organization shall not be restricted from functioning in
31 their ministerial capacity provided they do not represent
32 themselves as being professional counselors or clinical
33 professional counselors, or as providing "professional
34 counseling" or "clinical professional counseling". This Act
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1 shall not apply or be construed so as to apply to the
2 employees or agents of a church or religious organization or
3 an organization owned, controlled, or affiliated with a
4 church or religious organization, unless the church,
5 religious organization, or owned, controlled, or affiliated
6 organization designates or holds these employees or agents
7 out to the public as professional counselors or clinical
8 professional counselors or holds out their services as being
9 "professional counseling" or "clinical professional
10 counseling".
11 (g) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit individuals not
12 licensed under the provisions of this Act who work in
13 self-help groups or programs or not-for-profit organizations
14 from providing services in those groups, programs, or
15 organizations, as long as those persons are not in any manner
16 held out to the public as practicing professional counseling
17 or clinical professional counseling, or do not hold
18 themselves out to the public by any title or designation
19 stating or implying that they are professional counselors or
20 clinical professional counselors.
21 (h) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the
22 activities and use of the official title of "professional
23 counselor" or "clinical professional counselor" on the part
24 of a person not licensed under this Act who is an academic
25 employee of a duly chartered institution of higher education
26 and who holds educational and professional qualifications
27 equivalent to those required for licensing under this Act,
28 insofar as such activities are performed in the person's role
29 as an academic employee, or insofar as such person engages in
30 public speaking with or without remuneration.
31 (i) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require
32 licensure under this Act or limit the services of a school
33 counselor certified by the Professional Teacher Standards
34 Board State Teacher Certification Board and employed as
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1 authorized by Section 10-22-24a or any other provision of
2 the School Code as long as that person is not in any manner
3 held out to the public as a "professional counselor" or
4 "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his or
5 her services as being "professional counseling" or "clinical
6 professional counseling".
7 (j) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require
8 any hospital, clinic, home health agency, hospice, or other
9 entity that provides health care to employ or to contract
10 with a person licensed under this Act to provide professional
11 counseling or clinical professional counseling services.
12 These persons may not hold themselves out or represent
13 themselves to the public as being licensed under this Act.
14 (k) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require
15 licensure under this Act or limit the services of a person
16 employed by a private elementary or secondary school who
17 provides counseling within the scope of his or her employment
18 as long as that person is not in any manner held out to the
19 public as a "professional counselor" or "clinical
20 professional counselor" or does not hold out his or her
21 services as being "professional counseling" or "clinical
22 professional counseling".
23 (l) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require
24 licensure under this Act or limit the services of a rape
25 crisis counselor who is an employee or volunteer of a rape
26 crisis organization as defined in Section 8-802.1 of the Code
27 of Civil Procedure as long as that person is not in any
28 manner held out to the public as a "professional counselor"
29 or "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his
30 or her services as being "professional counseling" or
31 "clinical professional counseling".
32 (m) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent
33 any licensed social worker, licensed clinical social worker,
34 or licensed clinical psychologist from practicing
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1 professional counseling as long as that person is not in any
2 manner held out to the public as a "professional counselor"
3 or "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his
4 or her services as being "professional counseling" or
5 "clinical professional counseling".
6 (n) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the
7 activities and use of the official title of "professional
8 counselor" or "clinical professional counselor" on the part
9 of a person not licensed under this Act who is a physician
10 licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches under
11 the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
12 (o) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require
13 licensure under this Act or limit the services of a domestic
14 violence counselor who is an employee or volunteer of a
15 domestic violence program as defined in Section 227 of the
16 Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
17 (Source: P.A. 87-1011; 87-1212; 87-1269; 88-45; 88-424;
18 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
19 (105 ILCS 5/21-0.01 rep.)
20 (105 ILCS 5/21-13 rep.)
21 (105 ILCS 5/21-26 rep.)
22 Section 25. The School Code is amended by repealing
23 Sections 21-0.01, 21-13, and 21-26.
24 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
25 1, 2002.
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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3 SEE INDEX
4 105 ILCS 5/2-3.11 from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11
5 105 ILCS 5/10-21.9 from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9
6 105 ILCS 5/10-22.20a from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20a
7 105 ILCS 5/10-22.24a from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.24a
8 105 ILCS 5/10-22.34 from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34
9 105 ILCS 5/14-1.09.1
10 105 ILCS 5/14-8.05 from Ch. 122, par. 14-8.05
11 105 ILCS 5/14C-2 from Ch. 122, par. 14C-2
12 105 ILCS 5/21-0.05 new
13 105 ILCS 5/21-1 from Ch. 122, par. 21-1
14 105 ILCS 5/21-1a from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a
15 105 ILCS 5/21-1b from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b
16 105 ILCS 5/21-1b from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b
17 105 ILCS 5/21-1c from Ch. 122, par. 21-1c
18 105 ILCS 5/21-2 from Ch. 122, par. 21-2
19 105 ILCS 5/21-2.1 from Ch. 122, par. 21-2.1
20 105 ILCS 5/21-2b from Ch. 122, par. 21-2b
21 105 ILCS 5/21-3 from Ch. 122, par. 21-3
22 105 ILCS 5/21-4 from Ch. 122, par. 21-4
23 105 ILCS 5/21-5 from Ch. 122, par. 21-5
24 105 ILCS 5/21-5a from Ch. 122, par. 21-5a
25 105 ILCS 5/21-5b
26 105 ILCS 5/21-5c
27 105 ILCS 5/21-5d
28 105 ILCS 5/21-7.1 from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1
29 105 ILCS 5/21-9 from Ch. 122, par. 21-9
30 105 ILCS 5/21-10 from Ch. 122, par. 21-10
31 105 ILCS 5/21-11.1 from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.1
32 105 ILCS 5/21-11.2 from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.2
33 105 ILCS 5/21-11.3 from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.3
34 105 ILCS 5/21-11.4
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1 105 ILCS 5/21-12 from Ch. 122, par. 21-12
2 105 ILCS 5/21-14 from Ch. 122, par. 21-14
3 105 ILCS 5/21-16 from Ch. 122, par. 21-16
4 105 ILCS 5/21-17 from Ch. 122, par. 21-17
5 105 ILCS 5/21-19 from Ch. 122, par. 21-19
6 105 ILCS 5/21-21 from Ch. 122, par. 21-21
7 105 ILCS 5/21-21.1 from Ch. 122, par. 21-21.1
8 105 ILCS 5/21-23 from Ch. 122, par. 21-23
9 105 ILCS 5/21-23b from Ch. 122, par. 21-23b
10 105 ILCS 5/21-24 from Ch. 122, par. 21-24
11 105 ILCS 5/21-25 from Ch. 122, par. 21-25
12 105 ILCS 5/34-18.5 from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5
13 105 ILCS 5/34-83 from Ch. 122, par. 34-83
14 110 ILCS 947/65.20
15 225 ILCS 15/4 from Ch. 111, par. 5354
16 225 ILCS 107/15
17 105 ILCS 5/21-0.01 rep.
18 105 ILCS 5/21-13 rep.
19 105 ILCS 5/21-26 rep.