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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 Section |
| 5 | | 1C-2 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/1C-2)
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| 7 | | Sec. 1C-2. Block grants.
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| 8 | | (a) For fiscal year 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter, |
| 9 | | the State Board
of Education shall award to school districts |
| 10 | | block grants as described in subsection
(c). The State Board of |
| 11 | | Education may adopt
rules and regulations necessary to |
| 12 | | implement this Section. In accordance with
Section 2-3.32, all |
| 13 | | state block grants are subject to an audit. Therefore,
block |
| 14 | | grant receipts and block grant expenditures shall be recorded |
| 15 | | to the
appropriate fund code.
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| 16 | | (b) (Blank).
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| 17 | | (c) An Early Childhood Education Block Grant shall be |
| 18 | | created by combining
the following programs: Preschool |
| 19 | | Education, Parental Training and Prevention
Initiative. These |
| 20 | | funds shall be distributed to school districts and other
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| 21 | | entities on a competitive basis. Not less than 14% of the Early |
| 22 | | Childhood Education Block Grant allocation of funds this grant
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| 23 | | shall be used to
fund programs for children ages 0-3, which |
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| 1 | | percentage shall increase to at least 20% by Fiscal Year 2016. |
| 2 | | Beginning in Fiscal Year 2016, at least 25% of any additional |
| 3 | | Early Childhood Education Block Grant funding over and above |
| 4 | | the previous fiscal year's allocation shall be used to fund |
| 5 | | programs for children ages 0-3. Once the percentage of Early |
| 6 | | Childhood Education Block Grant funding allocated to programs |
| 7 | | for children ages 0-3 reaches 20% of the overall Early |
| 8 | | Childhood Education Block Grant allocation for a full fiscal |
| 9 | | year, thereafter in subsequent fiscal years the percentage of |
| 10 | | Early Childhood Education Block Grant funding allocated to |
| 11 | | programs for children ages 0-3 each fiscal year shall remain at |
| 12 | | least 20% of the overall Early Childhood Education Block Grant |
| 13 | | allocation. However, if, in a given fiscal year, the amount |
| 14 | | appropriated for the Early Childhood Education Block Grant is |
| 15 | | insufficient to increase the percentage of the grant to fund |
| 16 | | programs for children ages 0-3 without reducing the amount of |
| 17 | | the grant for existing providers of preschool education |
| 18 | | programs, then the percentage of the grant to fund programs for |
| 19 | | children ages 0-3 may be held steady instead of increased.
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| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 98-645, eff. 7-1-14.)
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| 21 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 22 | | becoming law. |