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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, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 24A-7 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/24A-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 24A-7) |
| 7 | | Sec. 24A-7. Rules. The State Board of Education is |
| 8 | | authorized to adopt such rules as
are deemed necessary to |
| 9 | | implement and accomplish the purposes and
provisions of this |
| 10 | | Article, including, but not limited to, rules (i) relating to |
| 11 | | the methods for measuring student growth (including, but not |
| 12 | | limited to, limitations on the age of useable data; the amount |
| 13 | | of data needed to reliably and validly measure growth for the |
| 14 | | purpose of teacher and principal evaluations; and whether and |
| 15 | | at what time annual State assessments may be used as one of |
| 16 | | multiple measures of student growth), (ii) defining the term |
| 17 | | "significant factor" for purposes of including consideration |
| 18 | | of student growth in performance ratings, (iii) controlling for |
| 19 | | such factors as student characteristics (including, but not |
| 20 | | limited to, students receiving special education and English |
| 21 | | Language Learner services), student attendance, and student |
| 22 | | mobility so as to best measure the impact that a teacher, |
| 23 | | principal, school and school district has on students' academic |
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| 1 | | achievement, (iv) establishing minimum requirements for |
| 2 | | district teacher and principal evaluation instruments and |
| 3 | | procedures, and (v) establishing a model evaluation plan for |
| 4 | | use by school districts in which student growth shall comprise |
| 5 | | 50% of the performance rating. Notwithstanding any provision in |
| 6 | | this Section, such rules shall not preclude a school district |
| 7 | | having 500,000 or more inhabitants from using an annual State |
| 8 | | assessment as the sole measure of student growth for purposes |
| 9 | | of teacher or principal evaluations. |
| 10 | | The rules shall be developed through a process involving |
| 11 | | collaboration with a Performance Evaluation Advisory Council, |
| 12 | | which shall be convened and staffed by the State Board of |
| 13 | | Education. Members of the Council shall be selected by the |
| 14 | | State Superintendent and include, without limitation, |
| 15 | | representatives of teacher unions and school district |
| 16 | | management, persons with expertise in performance evaluation |
| 17 | | processes and systems, as well as other stakeholders. The |
| 18 | | Performance Evaluation Advisory Council shall meet at least |
| 19 | | quarterly following the effective date of this amendatory Act |
| 20 | | of the 96th General Assembly until June 30, 2021 2017. |
| 21 | | Prior to the applicable implementation date, these rules |
| 22 | | shall not apply to teachers assigned to schools identified in |
| 23 | | an agreement entered into between the board of a school |
| 24 | | district operating under Article 34 of this Code and the |
| 25 | | exclusive representative of the district's teachers in |
| 26 | | accordance with Section 34-85c of this Code. |