Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Mar 12, 2008
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5077
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5077 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 10-17a as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
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7 | Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability.
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8 | (1) Policy and
Purpose. It shall be the policy of the State | ||||||
9 | of Illinois that each school
district in this State, including | ||||||
10 | special charter districts and districts
subject to the | ||||||
11 | provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents, taxpayers
of | ||||||
12 | such district, the Governor, the General Assembly, and the | ||||||
13 | State
Board of Education a school report card assessing the | ||||||
14 | performance of its
schools and students. The report card shall | ||||||
15 | be an index of school
performance measured against statewide | ||||||
16 | and local standards and will provide
information to make prior |
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1 | year comparisons and to set future year targets
through the | ||||||
2 | school improvement plan.
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3 | (2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall | ||||||
4 | prepare a report
card in accordance with the guidelines set | ||||||
5 | forth in this Section which
describes the performance of its | ||||||
6 | students by school attendance centers and
by district , its | ||||||
7 | teachers, and the district's financial resources and use of | ||||||
8 | financial
resources. Such report
card shall be presented at a | ||||||
9 | regular school board meeting subject to
applicable notice | ||||||
10 | requirements,
posted on the
school district's Internet web | ||||||
11 | site, if the district maintains an Internet web
site,
made | ||||||
12 | available
to a newspaper of general circulation serving the | ||||||
13 | district, and, upon
request, sent
home to a parent (unless the | ||||||
14 | district does not maintain an Internet web site,
in which case
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15 | the report card shall be sent home to parents without request). | ||||||
16 | If the
district posts the report card on its Internet web
site, | ||||||
17 | the district
shall send a
written notice home to parents | ||||||
18 | stating (i) that the report card is available on
the web site,
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19 | (ii) the address of the web site, (iii) that a printed copy of | ||||||
20 | the report card
will be sent to
parents upon request, and (iv) | ||||||
21 | the telephone number that parents may
call to
request a printed | ||||||
22 | copy of the report card.
In addition, each school district | ||||||
23 | shall submit the
completed report card to the office of the | ||||||
24 | district's Regional
Superintendent which shall make copies | ||||||
25 | available to any individuals
requesting them.
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26 | The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior |
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1 | to October 31
in each school year. The report card shall | ||||||
2 | contain, but
not be limited to, actual local school attendance | ||||||
3 | center, school district
and statewide data indicating the | ||||||
4 | present performance of the school, the
State norms and the | ||||||
5 | areas for planned improvement for the school and school
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6 | district.
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7 | (3) (a) The report card shall include the following | ||||||
8 | applicable
indicators of attendance center, district, and | ||||||
9 | statewide student
performance: percent of students who exceed, | ||||||
10 | meet, or do not meet
standards established by the
State Board | ||||||
11 | of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a; composite and subtest
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12 | means on
nationally normed achievement tests for
college bound | ||||||
13 | students; student attendance rates; chronic
truancy rate; | ||||||
14 | dropout rate;
graduation rate;
and student
mobility, turnover
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15 | shown as a percent of transfers out and a percent of transfers | ||||||
16 | in.
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17 | (b) The report card shall include the following | ||||||
18 | descriptions for the
school,
district, and State: average
class | ||||||
19 | size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics, science,
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20 | English and social science at primary,
middle and junior high | ||||||
21 | school grade levels;
number of students taking the Prairie | ||||||
22 | State Achievement Examination under
subsection (c) of
Section | ||||||
23 | 2-3.64, the number of those students who received a score of | ||||||
24 | excellent,
and
the average score by school of students taking | ||||||
25 | the examination;
pupil-teacher ratio; pupil-administrator | ||||||
26 | ratio;
operating expenditure per
pupil; district expenditure |
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1 | by fund; average administrator salary; and average
teacher | ||||||
2 | salary ; and the number of teachers who hold a Master | ||||||
3 | Certificate .
The report card shall also specify the amount of | ||||||
4 | money that the district
receives from all sources, including | ||||||
5 | without limitation subcategories
specifying the amount from | ||||||
6 | local property taxes, the amount from
general State aid, the | ||||||
7 | amount from other State funding, and the amount
from other | ||||||
8 | income.
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9 | (c) The report card shall include applicable indicators of | ||||||
10 | parental
involvement in each attendance center. The parental | ||||||
11 | involvement component
of the report card shall include the | ||||||
12 | percentage of students whose parents
or guardians have had one | ||||||
13 | or more personal contacts with the students'
teachers during | ||||||
14 | the school year concerning the students' education, and such
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15 | other information, commentary, and suggestions as the school | ||||||
16 | district
desires. For the purposes of this paragraph, "personal | ||||||
17 | contact" includes,
but is not limited to, parent-teacher | ||||||
18 | conferences, parental visits to
school, school visits to home, | ||||||
19 | telephone conversations, and written
correspondence. The | ||||||
20 | parental involvement component shall not single out or
identify | ||||||
21 | individual students, parents, or guardians by name.
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22 | (d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State | ||||||
23 | Board of
Education and provided to school districts by the most | ||||||
24 | efficient, economic,
and appropriate means.
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25 | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.".
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