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such time as he has earned a
master's degree. |
All certificates not renewed as provided in this Section or |
registered in accordance with this Code shall lapse after a |
period of 6 months from the expiration of the last year of |
registration. Such certificates may be immediately reinstated |
upon payment by the applicant to the State Board of Education |
of (1) any and all back fees, including without limitation |
registration fees, owed from the time of expiration of the |
certificate until the date of reinstatement; and (2) a $500 |
penalty or the demonstration of proficiency by completing 9 |
semester hours of coursework from a regionally accredited |
institution of higher education in the content area that most |
aligns with the educator's endorsement area or areas; provided |
that, until September 1, 2012, certificates that have lapsed |
solely for the failure to pay a registration fee may be |
immediately reinstated upon payment only of any and all back |
fees, including without limitation registration fees, owed |
from the time of expiration of the certificate until the date |
of reinstatement. Any and all back fees and penalty amounts |
shall be deposited by the State Board of Education into the |
Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund. Any certificate may be |
voluntarily surrendered by the certificate holder. A |
voluntarily surrendered certificate shall be treated as a |
revoked certificate. |
(b) When those teaching certificates issued before |
February 15, 2000 are
renewed for the first time after February |
|
15, 2000, all
such
teaching
certificates
shall be exchanged for |
Standard Teaching Certificates as provided in subsection
(c) of |
Section 21-2. All Initial and Standard Teaching Certificates, |
including
those issued to persons who previously held teaching |
certificates issued before
February 15, 2000, shall be |
renewable under the conditions
set forth
in this
subsection |
(b). |
Initial Teaching Certificates are valid for 4 years of |
teaching, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 21-2 of this |
Code, and are renewable every 4 years until the person |
completes 4 years of teaching. If the holder of an Initial |
Certificate has completed 4 years of teaching but has not |
completed the requirements set forth in paragraph (2) of |
subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code, then the Initial |
Certificate may be reinstated for one year, during which the |
requirements must be met. A holder of an Initial Certificate |
who has not completed 4 years of teaching may continuously |
register the certificate for additional 4-year periods without |
penalty. Initial Certificates that are not registered shall |
lapse consistent with subsection (a) of this Section and may be |
reinstated only in accordance with subsection (a).
Standard |
Teaching Certificates are renewable every 5 years as provided
|
in
subsection (c) of Section 21-2
and subsection (c) of this |
Section.
For purposes of this Section, "teaching" is defined as |
employment and
performance of
services in an Illinois public or |
State-operated elementary school, secondary
school, or
|
|
cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or board |
of control, in a
certificated teaching position, or a charter |
school operating in compliance
with the
Charter Schools Law. |
(c) In compliance with subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of |
this Code, which
provides that a
Standard
Teaching Certificate |
may be renewed by the State Teacher Certification Board
based
|
upon proof of continuing professional development, the State |
Board of Education
and
the State Teacher Certification Board |
shall jointly: |
(1) establish a procedure for renewing Standard |
Teaching Certificates,
which shall include but not be |
limited to annual timelines for the renewal
process and the |
components set forth in subsections (d) through (k) of this
|
Section; |
(2) establish the standards for certificate renewal; |
(3) approve or disapprove the providers of continuing |
professional development
activities; |
(4) determine the maximum credit for each category of |
continuing
professional development activities, based upon |
recommendations submitted by
a continuing professional
|
development
activity task force, which shall consist of 6 |
staff members from the State
Board of
Education, appointed |
by the State Superintendent of Education, and 6 teacher
|
representatives, 3 of whom are selected by the Illinois |
Education Association
and 3 of
whom are selected by the |
Illinois Federation of Teachers; |
|
(5) designate the type and amount of documentation |
required to show that
continuing professional development |
activities have been completed; and |
(6) provide, on a timely basis to all Illinois |
teachers, certificate
holders, regional superintendents of |
schools,
school districts, and others with an interest in |
continuing professional
development, information about the |
standards and requirements established
pursuant to this |
subsection (c). |
(d) Any Standard Teaching Certificate held by an individual |
employed and
performing services in an
Illinois public or |
State-operated elementary school, secondary school, or
|
cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or board |
of control in a
certificated teaching
position or a
charter |
school in compliance with the Charter Schools Law must be |
maintained
Valid
and
Active through certificate renewal |
activities specified in the certificate
renewal procedure
|
established pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, |
provided that
a holder of a Valid
and Active
certificate who is |
only employed on either a part-time basis or day-to-day
basis |
as a
substitute
teacher shall pay only the required |
registration fee to renew his or her
certificate
and maintain |
it as Valid and Active. All other Standard Teaching |
Certificates
held may be
maintained as
Valid and Exempt through |
the registration process provided for in the
certificate |
renewal
procedure established pursuant to subsection (c) of |
|
this Section. A Valid and
Exempt
certificate must
be |
immediately activated, through procedures developed jointly by |
the State
Board of
Education and the State Teacher |
Certification Board, upon the certificate
holder
becoming |
employed and performing services in an Illinois public or
|
State-operated elementary school,
secondary school, or |
cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
board |
of control in a
certificated
teaching position or a charter |
school operating in compliance with the Charter
Schools
Law. A |
holder of a Valid and Exempt certificate may activate his or |
her
certificate
through procedures provided for in the |
certificate renewal procedure
established pursuant to
|
subsection (c) of this Section. |
(e)(1) A Standard Teaching Certificate that has been |
maintained as Valid
and
Active for the 5 years of the |
certificate's validity shall be renewed as Valid
and Active
|
upon the certificate holder: (i)
completing an advanced degree |
from an approved institution in an
education-related field; |
(ii)
completing at least
8 semester hours of
coursework as |
described in
subdivision (B) of paragraph (3) of this |
subsection (e);
(iii)
(blank); (iv) completing the National |
Board for
Professional
Teaching Standards process as described |
in subdivision (D) of
paragraph (3) of
this subsection (e); or |
(v) earning 120 continuing professional
development
units |
("CPDU") as described in subdivision (E) of paragraph (3) of
|
this
subsection (e). The maximum continuing professional |
|
development units for each
continuing professional development |
activity identified in subdivisions
(F)
through (J) of |
paragraph (3) of this subsection (e) shall be
jointly |
determined
by the State Board of Education and the State |
Teacher Certification Board.
If, however, the certificate |
holder has maintained the certificate
as Valid and
Exempt for a |
portion of the 5-year period of validity, the number of
|
continuing
professional development units needed to renew the |
certificate as Valid and
Active shall
be proportionately |
reduced by the amount of time the certificate was Valid and
|
Exempt.
Furthermore, if a certificate holder is employed and |
performs teaching services
on a
part-time basis for all or a |
portion of the certificate's 5-year period of
validity, the |
number
of continuing professional development units needed to |
renew the certificate as
Valid
and Active shall be reduced by |
50% for the amount of time the certificate
holder has
been |
employed and performed teaching services on a part-time basis. |
Part-time
shall
be defined as less than 50% of the school day |
or school term. |
Notwithstanding any other requirements to the contrary, if |
a Standard
Teaching
Certificate has been maintained as Valid |
and Active for the 5 years of the
certificate's validity and |
the certificate holder has completed his or her
certificate |
renewal plan before July 1, 2002, the certificate shall
be |
renewed as Valid and Active. |
(2) Beginning July 1, 2004, in order to satisfy the |
|
requirements for continuing professional development provided |
for in subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code, each
Valid |
and Active Standard Teaching Certificate holder shall
complete |
professional development activities that address the |
certificate or those certificates that are required of his or |
her
certificated
teaching position, if the certificate holder |
is employed and performing
services in an Illinois public
or |
State-operated elementary school,
secondary school, or |
cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
board |
of control, or that certificate or those certificates most |
closely
related to his or
her teaching position, if the |
certificate holder is employed in a charter
school. Except as |
otherwise provided in this subsection (e), the certificate |
holder's activities must address purposes (A), (B),
(C), or (D) |
and must reflect purpose (E) of the following continuing |
professional
development purposes: |
(A) Advance both the certificate holder's knowledge |
and skills as a
teacher consistent with the Illinois |
Professional Teaching Standards and the
Illinois Content |
Area Standards in the certificate holder's areas of
|
certification,
endorsement, or teaching assignment in |
order to keep the certificate holder
current
in those |
areas. |
(B) Develop the certificate holder's knowledge and |
skills in areas
determined
to be critical for all Illinois |
teachers, as defined by the State Board of
Education, known |
|
as "State priorities". |
(C) Address the knowledge, skills, and goals of the |
certificate holder's
local
school improvement plan, if the |
teacher is employed in an Illinois public
or State-operated |
elementary school, secondary school, or cooperative or |
joint
agreement with a governing body or board of control. |
(D) Expand the certificate holder's knowledge and |
skills in an
additional teaching field or toward
the
|
acquisition of another teaching certificate, endorsement, |
or relevant
education degree. |
(E) Address the needs of serving students with |
disabilities, including adapting and modifying the general |
curriculum related to the Illinois Learning Standards to |
meet the needs of students with disabilities and serving |
such students in the least restrictive environment. |
Teachers who hold certificates endorsed for special |
education must devote at least 50% of their continuing |
professional development activities to this purpose. |
Teachers holding other certificates must devote at least |
20% of their activities to this purpose.
|
A speech-language pathologist or audiologist who is
|
licensed under the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
|
Audiology Practice Act and who has met the continuing
education |
requirements of that Act and the rules promulgated
under that |
Act shall be deemed to have satisfied the continuing
|
professional development requirements established by the State
|
|
Board of Education and the Teacher Certification Board to renew
|
a Standard Certificate. |
(3) Continuing professional development activities may |
include, but are not limited to, the following activities: |
(A) completion of an advanced degree from an approved |
institution
in an education-related field; |
(B) at
least 8 semester hours of coursework
in an |
approved education-related program, of which at least 2 |
semester
hours relate
to the continuing professional |
development purpose set forth in purpose (A) of
paragraph |
(2) of this subsection (e), completion of which means no
|
other continuing professional development activities are |
required; |
(C) (blank); |
(D) completion of the National Board for
Professional |
Teaching
Standards
("NBPTS") process for certification or |
recertification, completion of which means no other |
continuing professional development activities are |
required; |
(E) completion of 120 continuing professional |
development
units that
satisfy the continuing professional |
development purposes set forth in
paragraph (2) of this |
subsection (e) and may include without limitation
the |
activities identified in subdivisions (F) through
(J) of |
this paragraph
(3); |
(F) collaboration and partnership activities related |
|
to
improving the
teacher's knowledge and skills as a |
teacher, including the following: |
(i) participating on collaborative planning and |
professional
improvement
teams and committees; |
(ii) peer review and coaching; |
(iii) mentoring in a formal mentoring program, |
including service as a
consulting teacher |
participating in a remediation
process formulated |
under Section 24A-5 of this Code; |
(iv) participating in site-based management or |
decision making teams,
relevant committees, boards, or |
task forces directly related to school
improvement |
plans; |
(v) coordinating community resources in schools, |
if the project is a
specific goal of the school |
improvement plan; |
(vi) facilitating parent education programs for a |
school, school
district, or
regional office of |
education directly related to student achievement or
|
school improvement plans; |
(vii) participating in business, school, or |
community partnerships
directly
related to student |
achievement or school improvement plans; or |
(viii) supervising a student teacher or teacher |
education candidate in
clinical supervision, provided |
that the supervision may only be counted
once during |
|
the course of 5 years; |
(G) college or university coursework related to |
improving the
teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher |
as follows: |
(i) completing undergraduate or graduate credit |
earned from a
regionally
accredited institution in |
coursework relevant to the certificate area being
|
renewed,
including coursework that incorporates |
induction activities and
development of a portfolio of |
both student and teacher work that
provides experience |
in reflective practices,
provided the coursework meets |
Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
or Illinois |
Content Area Standards and
supports the essential |
characteristics of quality professional development; |
or |
(ii) teaching college or university courses in |
areas relevant to the
certificate area being renewed, |
provided that the teaching may only be
counted once |
during the course of 5 years; |
(H) conferences, workshops, institutes, seminars, and
|
symposiums related
to improving the teacher's knowledge |
and skills as a teacher, subject to disapproval of the |
activity or event by the State Teacher Certification Board |
acting jointly with the State Board of Education,
including
|
the following: |
(i) completing non-university credit directly |
|
related to student
achievement, school improvement |
plans, or State priorities; |
(ii) participating in or presenting at workshops, |
seminars,
conferences,
institutes, and symposiums; |
(iii) training as external reviewers for Quality |
Assurance; |
(iv) training as reviewers of university teacher |
preparation programs; or |
(v) participating in or presenting at in-service |
training programs on suicide prevention or on sexual |
abuse and assault awareness and prevention. |
A teacher, however, may not receive credit for conferences, |
workshops, institutes, seminars, or symposiums that are |
designed for entertainment, promotional, or commercial |
purposes or that are solely inspirational or motivational. |
The State Superintendent of Education and regional |
superintendents of schools are authorized to review the |
activities and events provided or to be provided under this |
subdivision (H) and to investigate complaints regarding |
those activities and events, and either the State |
Superintendent of Education or a regional superintendent |
of schools may recommend that the State Teacher |
Certification Board and the State Board of Education |
jointly disapprove those activities and events considered |
to be inconsistent with this subdivision (H);
|
(I) other educational experiences related to improving |
|
the
teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, including |
the following: |
(i) participating in action research and inquiry |
projects; |
(ii) observing programs or teaching in schools, |
related businesses, or
industry that is systematic, |
purposeful, and relevant to certificate renewal; |
(iii) traveling related to one's teaching |
assignment, directly related to
student achievement or |
school improvement plans and approved by the regional |
superintendent of schools or his or her designee at |
least
30 days prior to the travel experience,
provided |
that the traveling shall not include time spent |
commuting to
destinations where the learning |
experience will occur; |
(iv) participating in study groups related to |
student achievement or
school
improvement plans; |
(v) serving on a statewide education-related |
committee, including but
not
limited to the State |
Teacher Certification Board, State Board of Education
|
strategic agenda teams, or the State Advisory Council |
on Education of
Children with Disabilities; |
(vi) participating in work/learn programs or |
internships; or |
(vii) developing a portfolio of student and |
teacher work; |
|
(J) professional leadership experiences related to |
improving
the teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, |
including the following: |
(i) participating in curriculum development or |
assessment activities
at the
school, school district, |
regional office of education, State, or national
|
level; |
(ii) participating in team or department |
leadership in a school or
school
district; |
(iii) participating on external or internal school |
or school district
review
teams; |
(iv) publishing educational articles, columns, or |
books relevant to
the
certificate area being renewed; |
or |
(v) participating in non-strike related |
professional association or
labor organization
service |
or
activities related to professional development; |
(K) receipt of a subsequent Illinois certificate or |
endorsement pursuant to this Article;
|
(L) completion of requirements for meeting the |
Illinois criteria for becoming "highly qualified" (for |
purposes of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public |
Law 107-110) in an additional teaching area;
|
(M) successful completion of 4 semester hours of |
graduate-level coursework on the assessment of one's own |
performance in relation to the Illinois Teaching |
|
Standards, as described in clause (B) of paragraph (2) of |
subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code; or |
(N) successful completion of a minimum of 4 semester |
hours of graduate-level coursework addressing preparation |
to meet the requirements for certification by the National |
Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as described in |
clause (C) of paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Section |
21-2 of this Code.
|
(4) A person must complete the requirements of this |
subsection (e) before the expiration of his or her Standard |
Teaching Certificate and must submit assurance to the regional |
superintendent of schools or, if applicable, a local |
professional development committee authorized by the regional |
superintendent to submit recommendations to him or her for this |
purpose. The statement of assurance shall contain a list of the |
activities completed, the provider offering each activity, the |
number of credits earned for each activity, and the purposes to |
which each activity is attributed. The certificate holder shall |
maintain the evidence of completion of each activity for at |
least one certificate renewal cycle. The certificate holder |
shall affirm under penalty of perjury that he or she has |
completed the activities listed and will maintain the required |
evidence of completion. The State Board of Education or the |
regional superintendent of schools for each region shall |
conduct random audits of assurance statements and supporting |
documentation. |
|
(5) (Blank). |
(6) (Blank). |
(f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, a |
school district is authorized to enter into an agreement with |
the exclusive bargaining representative, if any, to form a |
local professional development committee (LPDC). The |
membership and terms of members of the LPDC may be determined |
by the agreement. Provisions regarding LPDCs contained in a |
collective bargaining agreement in existence on the effective |
date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly |
between a school district and the exclusive bargaining |
representative shall remain in full force and effect for the |
term of the agreement, unless terminated by mutual agreement. |
The LPDC shall make recommendations to the regional |
superintendent of schools on renewal of teaching certificates. |
The regional superintendent of schools for each region shall
|
perform
the following functions: |
(1)
review recommendations for certificate renewal, if |
any, received from LPDCs; |
(2) (blank); |
(3) (blank); |
(4) (blank); |
(5) determine whether certificate holders have met the
|
requirements for certificate renewal and notify |
certificate holders
if the decision is not to renew the |
certificate; |
|
(6) provide a certificate holder with the opportunity |
to appeal a recommendation made by a LPDC, if any, not to |
renew the certificate to the regional professional |
development review committee; |
(7) issue and forward recommendations for renewal or |
nonrenewal
of certificate holders' Standard Teaching |
Certificates to the State Teacher Certification Board; and |
(8) (blank). |
(g)(1) Each regional superintendent of schools shall |
review and concur or
nonconcur
with each recommendation for |
renewal or nonrenewal of a Standard Teaching
Certificate he or |
she receives from a local professional development committee, |
if any,
or, if
a certificate
holder appeals the recommendation |
to the regional professional development
review committee, the
|
recommendation for renewal or nonrenewal he or she receives |
from a regional
professional
development review committee and, |
within 14 days of receipt of the
recommendation,
shall
provide |
the State Teacher Certification Board with verification of the
|
following, if applicable: |
(A) the certificate holder has satisfactorily |
completed professional development and continuing |
education activities set forth in paragraph (3) of |
subsection (e) of this Section; |
(B) the certificate holder has submitted the statement |
of assurance required under paragraph (4) of subsection (e) |
of this Section, and this statement has been attached to |
|
the application for renewal; |
(C) the local professional development committee, if |
any, has recommended the
renewal of the certificate |
holder's Standard Teaching Certificate and
forwarded the |
recommendation to the regional superintendent of schools; |
(D) the certificate holder has appealed his or her |
local professional
development committee's recommendation |
of nonrenewal, if any, to the regional
professional |
development review committee and the result of that appeal; |
(E) the regional superintendent of schools has |
concurred or nonconcurred
with
the
local professional |
development committee's or regional professional
|
development review committee's recommendation, if any, to |
renew or nonrenew the
certificate holder's Standard |
Teaching Certificate and made a
recommendation to that |
effect; and |
(F) the established registration fee for the Standard |
Teaching
Certificate has
been paid. |
If
the notice required by this subsection
(g) includes a |
recommendation of certificate nonrenewal, then, at the same |
time the regional superintendent of schools provides the State |
Teacher Certification Board with the notice, he or she
shall
|
also notify the
certificate holder in writing, by certified |
mail, return receipt requested, that
this notice has been |
provided to the
State
Teacher
Certification Board. |
(2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to appeal
|
|
his or her
local
professional development committee's |
recommendation of nonrenewal, if any, to the
regional
|
professional development review committee, within 14 days of |
receipt of notice
that the
recommendation has
been sent to the |
regional superintendent of schools. Each regional
|
superintendent of schools shall
establish a regional |
professional development review committee or committees
for |
the
purpose of
advising the regional superintendent of schools, |
upon request, and handling
certificate
holder appeals. This |
committee shall
consist of at least 4 classroom teachers, one |
non-administrative
certificated
educational
employee, 2 |
administrators, and one at-large member who shall be either (i) |
a
parent, (ii)
a member of the business community, (iii) a |
community member, or (iv) an
administrator, with preference |
given to an individual chosen from among those
persons
listed |
in items (i), (ii), and (iii) in order to secure representation |
of an
interest not already
represented on the committee. The |
teacher and non-administrative certificated
educational |
employee members of the review committee shall be selected by |
their
exclusive representative, if any, and the administrators |
and at-large member
shall be
selected by the regional |
superintendent of schools. A regional superintendent
of |
schools
may add additional members to the committee, provided |
that the same proportion
of
teachers to administrators and |
at-large members on the committee is maintained. Any
additional |
teacher and non-administrative certificated educational |
|
employee members
shall be selected by their exclusive |
representative, if any. Vacancies in positions on a
regional |
professional development review committee shall be filled in |
the same manner
as the original selections. Committee members |
shall serve staggered 3-year terms. All
individuals selected to |
serve on regional professional development review committees
|
must be known to demonstrate the best practices in teaching or |
their respective
field of
practice. |
(h)(1) The State Teacher Certification Board shall review |
the regional
superintendent of schools' recommendations to |
renew or nonrenew Standard
Teaching Certificates
and notify |
certificate holders in writing whether their certificates have
|
been renewed or
nonrenewed within 90 days of receipt of the |
recommendations,
unless a certificate holder has appealed a |
regional
superintendent of schools'
recommendation of |
nonrenewal, as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection
|
(h). The State Teacher Certification Board shall verify that |
the
certificate holder
has met the renewal criteria set forth |
in paragraph (1) of subsection (g) of
this Section. |
(2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to appeal |
a regional
superintendent of school's recommendation to |
nonrenew his or her Standard
Teaching Certificate
to
the State |
Teacher Certification Board, within 14 days of receipt of |
notice that
the
decision has been sent to the State Teacher |
Certification Board, which shall
hold an
appeal hearing within |
60 days of receipt of the appeal. When such an appeal is
taken,
|
|
the certificate holder's Standard Teaching Certificate shall |
continue to be
valid until the
appeal is finally determined. |
The State Teacher Certification Board shall
review the
regional |
superintendent of school's recommendation, the regional |
professional
development review committee's recommendation, if |
any, and the local
professional
development committee's |
recommendation, if any, and all relevant documentation to |
verify
whether the certificate holder has met the renewal |
criteria set forth in
paragraph (1) of
subsection (g) of this |
Section. The State Teacher Certification Board may
request that
|
the certificate holder appear before it. All actions taken by |
the State
Teacher
Certification Board shall require a quorum |
and be by a simple majority of those
present and voting.
A |
record of
all votes
shall be maintained. The State Teacher |
Certification Board shall notify the
certificate
holder in |
writing, within 7 days of completing the review, whether his or |
her
Standard
Teaching Certificate has been renewed or |
nonrenewed, provided that if the State
Teacher
Certification |
Board determines to nonrenew a certificate, the written notice
|
provided to
the certificate holder shall be by certified mail, |
return receipt requested.
All certificate
renewal or |
nonrenewal decisions of the State Teacher Certification Board |
are
final and
subject to administrative review. |
(i) Holders of Master Teaching Certificates shall meet the |
same
requirements
and follow the same procedures as holders of |
Standard Teaching Certificates,
except
that their renewal |
|
cycle shall be as set forth in subsection (d) of Section
21-2 |
of this
Code and their renewal requirements shall be subject to |
paragraph (8) of subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code. |
A holder of a
teaching certificate endorsed as a |
speech-language pathologist who
has been granted the |
Certificate of Clinical Competence by the
American |
Speech-Language Hearing Association may renew his or her
|
Standard Teaching Certificate pursuant to the 10-year renewal |
cycle set
forth in subsection (d) of Section 21-2 of this Code. |
(j) Holders of Valid and Exempt Standard and Master |
Teaching Certificates
who are not employed and performing |
services in an Illinois public or
State-operated
elementary |
school, secondary school, or cooperative or joint agreement |
with a
governing body or board of control, in a certificated |
teaching position,
may
voluntarily activate their certificates |
through the regional superintendent of schools of the regional |
office of
education for the geographic area where their |
teaching is done. These certificate holders shall follow the |
same renewal
criteria
and procedures as all other Standard and |
Master Teaching Certificate holders,
except
that their |
continuing professional development activities need not
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reflect or
address the knowledge, skills, and goals of a local |
school improvement plan. |
(k) (Blank). |
(l) (Blank). |
(m) The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act |
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of the 93rd General Assembly that affect renewal of Standard |
and Master Certificates shall apply to those persons who hold |
Standard or Master Certificates on or after the effective date |
of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly and shall |
be given effect upon renewal of those certificates.
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(Source: P.A. 96-951, eff. 6-28-10; 97-607, eff. 8-26-11; |
97-682, eff. 5-8-12.)
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Section 10. The Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive |
Health
Education Act is amended by changing Section 3 as |
follows:
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(105 ILCS 110/3)
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Sec. 3. Comprehensive Health Education Program. The |
program established
under this Act shall include, but not be |
limited to, the following major
educational areas as a basis |
for curricula in all elementary and secondary
schools in this |
State: human ecology and health, human growth and
development, |
the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and
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social responsibilities of family life, including sexual |
abstinence until
marriage, prevention and control of disease, |
including instruction in
grades 6 through 12 on the prevention, |
transmission and spread of AIDS, age-appropriate sexual abuse |
and assault awareness and prevention education in grades |
pre-kindergarten through 12
sexual assault awareness in |
secondary schools, public and environmental health, consumer |
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health, safety education and
disaster survival, mental health |
and illness, personal health habits,
alcohol, drug use, and |
abuse including the medical and legal ramifications
of alcohol, |
drug, and tobacco use, abuse during pregnancy, sexual
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abstinence until marriage, tobacco, nutrition, and dental |
health. The program shall also provide course material and |
instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant |
Protection Act.
The program shall include information about |
cancer, including without limitation types of cancer, signs and |
symptoms, risk factors, the importance of early prevention and |
detection, and information on where to go for help. |
Notwithstanding the above educational areas, the following |
areas may also
be included as a basis for curricula in all |
elementary and secondary
schools in this State: basic first aid |
(including, but not limited to,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
and the Heimlich maneuver), heart disease, diabetes, stroke, |
the
prevention of child abuse, neglect, and suicide, and teen |
dating violence in grades 8 through 12. |
The school board of each
public elementary and secondary |
school in the State
shall encourage all teachers and other |
school personnel to acquire,
develop, and maintain the |
knowledge and skills necessary to properly
administer |
life-saving techniques, including without limitation the
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Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing.
The training shall be |
in
accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the |
American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized |
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certifying organization.
A school board may use the
services of |
non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in
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life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other school |
personnel in
these techniques. Each school board
is encouraged |
to have in
its employ, or on its volunteer staff, at least one |
person who is certified, by
the American Red Cross or by |
another qualified certifying agency,
as qualified to |
administer first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In |
addition, each school board is authorized to
allocate |
appropriate portions of its institute or inservice days to |
conduct
training programs for teachers and other school |
personnel who have expressed an
interest in becoming qualified |
to administer emergency first aid or
cardiopulmonary |
resuscitation. School boards are urged to
encourage their |
teachers and other school personnel who coach school athletic
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programs and other extracurricular school activities to |
acquire, develop, and
maintain the knowledge and skills |
necessary to properly administer first aid
and cardiopulmonary |
resuscitation in accordance with standards and requirements
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established by the American Red Cross or another qualified |
certifying agency. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of |
Education shall establish and administer a matching grant |
program to pay for half of the cost that a school district |
incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel |
who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer |
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (which training must be in
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accordance with standards of the
American Red Cross, the |
American Heart Association, or another nationally
recognized |
certifying organization) or in learning how to use an automated |
external defibrillator. A school district that applies for a |
grant must demonstrate that it has funds to pay half of the |
cost of the training for which matching grant money is sought. |
The State Board of Education shall award the grants on a |
first-come, first-serve basis.
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No pupil shall be
required to take or participate in any |
class or course on AIDS or family
life instruction if his |
parent or guardian submits written objection
thereto, and |
refusal to take or participate in the course or program shall
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not be reason for suspension or expulsion of the pupil.
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Curricula developed under programs established in |
accordance with this
Act in the major educational area of |
alcohol and drug use and abuse shall
include classroom |
instruction in grades 5 through 12. The instruction,
which |
shall include matters relating to both the physical and legal |
effects
and ramifications of drug and substance abuse, shall be |
integrated into
existing curricula; and the State Board of |
Education shall develop and make
available to all elementary |
and secondary schools in this State
instructional materials and |
guidelines which will assist the schools in
incorporating the |
instruction into their existing curricula. In
addition, school |
districts may offer, as part of existing curricula during
the |
school day or as part of an after school program, support |