|
Public Act 097-0525
|
| SB1578 Enrolled | LRB097 09745 NHT 49882 b |
|
|
AN ACT concerning education.
|
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
|
represented in the General Assembly:
|
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
3-11 and 24-3 as follows:
|
(105 ILCS 5/3-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-11)
|
Sec. 3-11. Institutes or inservice training workshops. In |
counties
of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the regional |
superintendent may
arrange for or conduct district, regional, |
or county institutes, or
equivalent professional educational |
experiences, not more than 4 days
annually. Of those 4 days, 2 |
days may be used as a teacher's and educational support |
personnel workshop,
when approved by the regional |
superintendent, up to 2 days may be used
for conducting |
parent-teacher conferences, or up to 2 days may be utilized
as |
parental institute days as provided in Section 10-22.18d. |
Educational support personnel may be exempt from a workshop if |
the workshop is not relevant to the work they do. A school
|
district may use one of its 4 institute days on the last day of |
the school
term. "Institute" or "Professional educational |
experiences" means any
educational gathering, demonstration of |
methods of instruction,
visitation of schools or other |
institutions or facilities, sexual
abuse and sexual assault |
|
awareness seminar, or training in First Aid (which may include |
cardiopulmonary resuscitation or defibrillator training) held |
or approved
by the regional superintendent and declared by him |
to be an institute day,
or parent-teacher conferences. With the |
concurrence of the State
Superintendent of Education, he or she |
may employ such assistance as is
necessary
to conduct the |
institute. Two or more adjoining counties may jointly hold
an |
institute. Institute instruction shall be free to holders of
|
certificates good in the county or counties holding the |
institute, and to
those who have paid an examination fee and |
failed to receive a certificate.
|
In counties of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the regional
|
superintendent may arrange for or conduct district, regional, |
or county
inservice training workshops, or equivalent |
professional educational
experiences, not more than 4 days |
annually. Of those 4 days, 2
days may be used as a teacher's |
and educational support
personnel workshop, when approved by |
the regional
superintendent, up to 2 days may
be used for |
conducting parent-teacher conferences, or and up to 2 days may |
be
utilized as parental institute days as provided in Section |
10-22.18d. Educational support personnel may be exempt from a |
workshop if
the workshop is not relevant to the work they do. A
|
school district may use one of those 4 days on the last day of |
the school
term. "Inservice Training Workshops" or |
"Professional educational
experiences" means any educational |
gathering, demonstration of methods of
instruction, visitation |
|
of schools or other institutions or
facilities, sexual abuse |
and sexual assault awareness seminar, or training in First Aid |
(which may include cardiopulmonary resuscitation or |
defibrillator training) held
or approved by the regional |
superintendent and declared by him to be
an inservice training |
workshop, or parent-teacher conferences. With the
concurrence |
of the State Superintendent of Education, he may employ such
|
assistance as is necessary to conduct the inservice training |
workshop.
With the approval of the regional superintendent, 2 |
or more adjoining
districts may jointly hold an inservice |
training workshop. In addition,
with the approval of the |
regional superintendent, one district may conduct
its own |
inservice training workshop with subject matter consultants
|
requested from the county, State or any State institution of |
higher learning.
|
Such teachers institutes as referred to in this Section may |
be held
on consecutive or separate days at the option of the |
regional
superintendent having jurisdiction thereof.
|
Whenever reference is made in this Act to "teachers |
institute", it
shall be construed to include the inservice |
training workshops or
equivalent professional educational |
experiences provided for in this Section.
|
Any institute advisory committee existing on April 1, 1995, |
is dissolved
and the duties and responsibilities of the |
institute advisory committee are
assumed by the regional office |
of education advisory board.
|
|
Districts providing inservice training programs shall |
constitute inservice
committees, 1/2 of which shall be |
teachers, 1/4 school service personnel
and 1/4 administrators |
to establish program content and schedules.
|
The teachers institutes shall include teacher training |
committed to (i)
peer counseling programs and other |
anti-violence and conflict
resolution programs, including |
without limitation programs for preventing at
risk students |
from committing violent acts, and (ii) educator ethics and |
teacher-student conduct. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school |
year, the teachers institutes shall include instruction on |
prevalent student chronic health conditions.
|
(Source: P.A. 95-969, eff. 1-1-09; 96-431, eff. 8-13-09.)
|
(105 ILCS 5/24-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-3)
|
Sec. 24-3. Attendance at teachers' institute. The days in |
any school year spent by a teacher or educational support |
personnel during the term time
spent in attendance upon a |
teachers' institute or equivalent professional
educational |
experiences held under the direction of the county
|
superintendent of schools shall be considered time expended in |
the service
of the district and no deduction of wages shall be |
made for such
attendance. The board may make a pro-rata |
deduction from the salary of
any teacher or educational support |
personnel who fail fails or refuse refuses to attend such |
institute, unless, in the case of educational support |