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Rep. William Davis
Filed: 3/15/2013
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2660
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2660 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 | | 27A-9 as follows:
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6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27A-9)
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7 | | Sec. 27A-9. Term of charter; renewal.
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8 | | (a) A charter may be granted for a period not less than 5 |
9 | | and not
more than
10
school years. A charter may be renewed in |
10 | | incremental periods not to exceed
5
school years.
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11 | | (b) A charter school renewal proposal submitted to the
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12 | | local school board or the Commission, as the chartering entity,
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13 | | shall contain:
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14 | | (1) A report on the progress of the charter school in |
15 | | achieving the goals,
objectives, pupil performance |
16 | | standards, content standards, and other terms of
the |
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1 | | initial approved charter proposal; and
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2 | | (2) A financial statement that discloses the costs of |
3 | | administration,
instruction, and other spending categories |
4 | | for the charter school that is
understandable to the |
5 | | general public and that will allow comparison of those
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6 | | costs to other schools or other comparable organizations, |
7 | | in a format required
by the State Board.
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8 | | (c) A charter may be revoked
or not renewed if the local |
9 | | school board or the Commission, as the chartering
entity,
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10 | | clearly demonstrates that the
charter school did any of the
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11 | | following, or otherwise failed to comply with the requirements |
12 | | of this law:
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13 | | (1) Committed a material violation of any of the |
14 | | conditions, standards, or
procedures set forth in the |
15 | | charter.
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16 | | (2) Failed to meet or make reasonable progress toward |
17 | | achievement of the
content standards or pupil performance |
18 | | standards identified in the charter.
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19 | | (3) Failed to meet generally accepted standards of |
20 | | fiscal management.
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21 | | (4) Violated any provision of law from which the |
22 | | charter school was not
exempted.
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23 | | In the case of revocation, the local school board or the |
24 | | Commission, as the chartering entity, shall notify the charter |
25 | | school in writing of the reason why the charter is subject to |
26 | | revocation. The charter school shall submit a written plan to |
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1 | | the local school board or the Commission, whichever is |
2 | | applicable, to rectify the problem. The plan shall include a |
3 | | timeline for implementation, which shall not exceed 2 years or |
4 | | the date of the charter's expiration, whichever is earlier. If |
5 | | the local school board or the Commission, as the chartering |
6 | | entity, finds that the charter school has failed to implement |
7 | | the plan of remediation and adhere to the timeline, then the |
8 | | chartering entity shall revoke the charter. Except in |
9 | | situations of an emergency where the health, safety, or |
10 | | education of the charter school's students is at risk, the |
11 | | revocation shall take place at the end of a school year. |
12 | | Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly |
13 | | shall be construed to prohibit an implementation timetable that |
14 | | is less than 2 years in duration. |
15 | | (d) (Blank).
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16 | | (e) Notice of a local school board's decision to
deny, |
17 | | revoke or not to
renew a charter shall be provided to the |
18 | | Commission and the State Board.
The Commission may reverse a |
19 | | local board's
decision
if the Commission finds
that the charter |
20 | | school or charter school proposal (i) is in compliance with
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21 | | this Article, and (ii) is in the best interests of the students |
22 | | it is designed
to serve.
The Commission State Board may |
23 | | condition the granting of an appeal on the acceptance by
the |
24 | | charter school of funding in an amount less than that requested |
25 | | in the
proposal submitted to the local school board.
Final |
26 | | decisions of the Commission shall be subject
to judicial review |
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1 | | under the Administrative Review Law.
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2 | | (f) Notwithstanding other provisions of this Article, if |
3 | | the Commission
on appeal reverses a local board's decision
or |
4 | | if a charter school is
approved by referendum,
the Commission
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5 | | shall act as the
authorized chartering entity for the charter |
6 | | school.
The Commission shall
approve the charter and shall |
7 | | perform all functions
under this
Article otherwise performed by |
8 | | the local school
board. The State Board shall determine whether |
9 | | the charter proposal approved by the Commission is consistent |
10 | | with the provisions of this Article and, if the approved |
11 | | proposal complies, certify the proposal pursuant to this |
12 | | Article. The State Board shall
report the aggregate number of |
13 | | charter school pupils resident in a school
district to that |
14 | | district
and shall notify the district
of the amount of
funding |
15 | | to be paid by the Commission to the charter school enrolling |
16 | | such
students.
The Commission shall require the
charter school |
17 | | to maintain accurate records of daily attendance that shall be
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18 | | deemed sufficient to file claims under Section 18-8.05 |
19 | | notwithstanding any
other requirements of that Section |
20 | | regarding hours of instruction and teacher
certification.
The |
21 | | State Board shall withhold from funds otherwise due the |
22 | | district
the funds authorized by this Article to be paid to the |
23 | | charter school and shall
pay such amounts to the charter |
24 | | school.
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25 | | (g) For charter schools authorized by the Commission, the |
26 | | Commission shall quarterly certify to the State Board the |
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1 | | student enrollment and student residency information for each |
2 | | of its charter schools. Enrollment and residency verification |
3 | | must be reported in a format prescribed by the State Board. |
4 | | Upon receipt of the certified quarterly enrollment report, the |
5 | | State Board shall pay directly to the charter school the per |
6 | | pupil funds authorized under subsection (e) of this Section and |
7 | | subsection (b) of Section 27A-11 of this Code. |
8 | | (h) For charter schools authorized by the Commission, the |
9 | | State Board shall pay directly to a charter school any federal |
10 | | or State aid attributable to a student with a disability |
11 | | attending the school. |
12 | | (Source: P.A. 96-105, eff. 7-30-09; 97-152, eff. 7-20-11.)
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13 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
14 | | becoming law.".
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