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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 1C-1 and 1D-1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/1C-1)
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7 | Sec. 1C-1. Purpose ; applicability . The purpose of this | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Article is to permit greater
flexibility and efficiency in the | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | distribution and use of certain State funds
available to
local | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | education agencies for the improvement of the quality of | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | educational
services pursuant to locally established | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | priorities.
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13 | This Article does not apply to school districts having a | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | population in excess
of 500,000 inhabitants.
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15 | (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94; 89-15, eff. 5-30-95; | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 89-397, eff.
8-20-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
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17 | (105 ILCS 5/1D-1)
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18 | Sec. 1D-1. Block grant funding.
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19 | (a) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | the State Board
of Education shall award to a school district | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | having a population exceeding
500,000 inhabitants a general | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | education block grant and an educational services
block grant, | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | determined as provided in this Section, in lieu of distributing | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | to
the district separate State funding for the programs | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | described in subsections
(b) and (c) of this Section . The | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | provisions of this Section, however, do not apply to any
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27 | federal funds that the district is entitled to receive. In | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | accordance with
Section 2-3.32, all block grants are subject to | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | an audit. Therefore, block
grant receipts and block grant | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | expenditures shall be recorded to the
appropriate fund code for | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | the designated block grant.
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1 | (b) The general education block grant shall include the | ||||||
2 | following
programs: REI Initiative, Summer Bridges, Preschool | ||||||
3 | At Risk, K-6
Comprehensive Arts, School Improvement Support, | ||||||
4 | Urban Education, Scientific
Literacy, Substance Abuse | ||||||
5 | Prevention, Second Language Planning, Staff
Development, | ||||||
6 | Outcomes and Assessment, K-6 Reading Improvement, 7-12 | ||||||
7 | Continued
Reading Improvement, Truants'
Optional Education, | ||||||
8 | Hispanic Programs, Agriculture Education,
Parental Education, | ||||||
9 | Prevention Initiative, Report Cards, and Criminal
Background | ||||||
10 | Investigations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, | ||||||
11 | all
amounts paid under the general education block grant from | ||||||
12 | State appropriations
to a school district in a city having a | ||||||
13 | population exceeding 500,000
inhabitants shall be appropriated | ||||||
14 | and expended by the board of that district
for any of the | ||||||
15 | programs included in the block grant or any of the board's
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16 | lawful purposes.
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17 | (c) The educational services block grant shall include the | ||||||
18 | following
programs: Bilingual, Regular and Vocational | ||||||
19 | Transportation, State Lunch and
Free Breakfast Program, | ||||||
20 | Special Education (Personnel,
Extraordinary, Transportation, | ||||||
21 | Orphanage, Private Tuition), Summer School,
Educational | ||||||
22 | Service Centers, and Administrator's Academy. This subsection | ||||||
23 | (c)
does not relieve the district of its obligation to provide | ||||||
24 | the services
required under a program that is included within | ||||||
25 | the educational services block
grant. It is the intention of | ||||||
26 | the General Assembly in enacting the provisions
of this | ||||||
27 | subsection (c) to relieve the district of the administrative | ||||||
28 | burdens
that impede efficiency and accompany single-program | ||||||
29 | funding. The General
Assembly encourages the board to pursue | ||||||
30 | mandate waivers pursuant to Section
2-3.25g.
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31 | (d) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, | ||||||
32 | the amount
of the district's block grants shall be determined | ||||||
33 | as follows:
(i) with respect to each program that is included | ||||||
34 | within each block grant, the
district shall receive an amount | ||||||
35 | equal to the same percentage of the current
fiscal year | ||||||
36 | appropriation made for that program as the percentage of the
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1 | appropriation received by the district from the 1995 fiscal | ||||||
2 | year appropriation
made for that program, and
(ii) the total | ||||||
3 | amount that is due the district under the block grant shall be
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4 | the aggregate of the amounts that the district is entitled to | ||||||
5 | receive for the
fiscal year with respect to each program that | ||||||
6 | is included within the block
grant that the State Board of | ||||||
7 | Education shall award the district under this
Section for that | ||||||
8 | fiscal year. In the case of the Summer Bridges program,
the | ||||||
9 | amount of the district's block grant shall be equal to 44% of | ||||||
10 | the amount
of the current fiscal year appropriation made for | ||||||
11 | that program.
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12 | (e) The district is not required to file any application or | ||||||
13 | other claim in
order to receive the block grants to which it is | ||||||
14 | entitled under this Section.
The State Board of Education shall | ||||||
15 | make payments to the district of amounts due
under the | ||||||
16 | district's block grants on a schedule determined by the State | ||||||
17 | Board
of Education.
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18 | (f) A school district to which this Section applies shall | ||||||
19 | report to the
State Board of Education on its use of the block | ||||||
20 | grants in such form and detail
as the State Board of Education | ||||||
21 | may specify.
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22 | (g) This paragraph provides for the treatment of block | ||||||
23 | grants under Article
1C for purposes of calculating the amount | ||||||
24 | of block grants for a district under
this Section. Those block | ||||||
25 | grants under Article 1C are, for this
purpose, treated as | ||||||
26 | included in the amount of appropriation for the various
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27 | programs set forth in paragraph (b) above. The appropriation in | ||||||
28 | each current
fiscal year for each block grant under Article 1C | ||||||
29 | shall be treated for these
purposes as appropriations for the | ||||||
30 | individual program included in that block
grant. The proportion | ||||||
31 | of each block grant so allocated to each such program
included | ||||||
32 | in it shall be the proportion which the appropriation for that | ||||||
33 | program
was of all appropriations for such purposes now in that | ||||||
34 | block grant, in fiscal
1995.
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35 | Payments to the school district under this Section with | ||||||
36 | respect to each
program for which payments to school districts |
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1 | generally, as of the date of
this
amendatory Act of the 92nd | ||||||
2 | General Assembly, are on a reimbursement basis
shall continue | ||||||
3 | to be made to the district on a reimbursement basis, pursuant
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4 | to the provisions of this Code governing those programs.
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5 | (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school | ||||||
6 | district
receiving a block grant under this Section may | ||||||
7 | classify all or a portion of
the funds that it receives in a | ||||||
8 | particular fiscal year from any block grant
authorized under | ||||||
9 | this Code or from general State aid pursuant to Section
18-8.05 | ||||||
10 | of this Code (other than supplemental general State aid) as
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11 | funds received in connection with any funding program for which | ||||||
12 | it is
entitled to receive funds from the State in that fiscal | ||||||
13 | year (including,
without limitation, any funding program | ||||||
14 | referred to in subsection (c) of
this Section), regardless of | ||||||
15 | the source or timing of the receipt. The
district may not | ||||||
16 | classify more funds as funds received in connection
with the | ||||||
17 | funding program than the district is entitled to receive in | ||||||
18 | that
fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a | ||||||
19 | district must be made by
a resolution
of its board of | ||||||
20 | education. The resolution must identify the amount of any
block | ||||||
21 | grant or general State aid to be classified under this | ||||||
22 | subsection (h)
and must specify the funding program to which | ||||||
23 | the funds are to be
treated as received in connection | ||||||
24 | therewith. This resolution is
controlling as to the | ||||||
25 | classification of funds referenced therein. A certified
copy of | ||||||
26 | the resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of
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27 | Education.
The resolution shall still take effect even though a | ||||||
28 | copy of the resolution
has not been sent to the State
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29 | Superintendent of Education in a timely manner.
No | ||||||
30 | classification under this subsection (h) by a district shall
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31 | affect the total amount or timing of money the district is | ||||||
32 | entitled to receive
under this Code.
No classification under | ||||||
33 | this subsection (h) by a district
shall in any way relieve the | ||||||
34 | district from or affect any
requirements that otherwise would | ||||||
35 | apply with respect to the
block grant as provided in this | ||||||
36 | Section, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting |
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1 | expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting | ||||||
2 | requirements, or requirements of provision of
services.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 92-568, eff. 6-26-02; 92-651, eff.
7-11-02; | ||||||
4 | 93-21, eff. 7-1-03; 93-53, eff. 7-1-03; revised 9-11-03.)
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