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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 adding Section | ||||||
| 5 | 2-3.160 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.160 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 2-3.160. Student discipline report; school discipline | ||||||
| 8 | improvement plan. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) On or before October 31, 2015 and on or before October | ||||||
| 10 | 31 of each subsequent year, the State Board of Education, | ||||||
| 11 | through the State Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a | ||||||
| 12 | report on student discipline in all school districts in this | ||||||
| 13 | State. This report must be posted on the Internet website of | ||||||
| 14 | the State Board of Education. The report shall include both of | ||||||
| 15 | the following: | ||||||
| 16 | (1) Data on the issuance of out-of-school suspensions, | ||||||
| 17 | expulsions, and removals to alternative settings, | ||||||
| 18 | disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, age, grade | ||||||
| 19 | level, limited English proficiency, incident type, and | ||||||
| 20 | discipline duration. | ||||||
| 21 | (2) Data on the use of arrests or criminal citations, | ||||||
| 22 | disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, and age. | ||||||
| 23 | (b) The State Board of Education shall analyze the data | ||||||
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| 1 | under subsection (a) of this Section on an annual basis and | ||||||
| 2 | determine the top quartile of school districts for the | ||||||
| 3 | following metric: total number of instructional days on which | ||||||
| 4 | students were excluded, divided by the total student | ||||||
| 5 | population. The State Board of Education shall determine the | ||||||
| 6 | top quartile of school districts for racial disproportionality | ||||||
| 7 | in this metric. The State Board of Education shall require each | ||||||
| 8 | of the school districts identified in this quartile to submit a | ||||||
| 9 | school discipline improvement plan identifying the strategies | ||||||
| 10 | the school district will implement to reduce the use of harsh | ||||||
| 11 | disciplinary practices. This plan must be approved at a public | ||||||
| 12 | school board meeting and posted on the school district's | ||||||
| 13 | Internet website. Within one year after being identified, the | ||||||
| 14 | school district shall post a progress report describing the | ||||||
| 15 | implementation of the school discipline improvement plan and | ||||||
| 16 | the results achieved on the school district's Internet website.
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| 17 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
| 18 | 2014.
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