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1     AN ACT concerning education.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
5 10-21.12, 10-22.22, and 10-22.22b as follows:
 
6     (105 ILCS 5/10-21.12)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.12)
7     Sec. 10-21.12. Transfer of teachers. The employment of a
8 teacher transferred from one board or administrative agent to
9 the control of a new or different board or administrative agent
10 shall be considered continuous employment if such transfer of
11 employment occurred by reason of any of the following events:
12     (1) a boundary change or the creation or reorganization of
13 any school district pursuant to Article 7, 7A, 11A or 11B; or
14     (2) the deactivation or reactivation of any high school or
15 elementary school pursuant to Section 10-22.22b; or
16     (3) the creation, expansion, reduction or dissolution of a
17 special education program pursuant to Section 10-22.31, or the
18 creation, expansion, reduction or dissolution of a joint
19 educational program established under Section 10-22.31a; or
20     (4) the creation, expansion, reduction, termination or
21 dissolution of any joint agreement program operated by a
22 regional superintendent, governing board, or other
23 administrative agent or any program operated pursuant to an
24 Intergovernmental Joint Agreement. The changes made by this
25 amendatory Act of 1990 are declaratory of existing law.
26 (Source: P.A. 86-1441.)
 
27     (105 ILCS 5/10-22.22)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.22)
28     Sec. 10-22.22. Transportation for pupils-Tuition.
29     To provide free transportation for pupils, and where in its
30 judgment the interests of the district and of the pupils
31 therein will be best subserved by so doing the school board may

 

 

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1 permit the pupils in the district or in any particular grade to
2 attend the schools of other districts and may permit any pupil
3 to attend an area secondary vocational school operated by a
4 public school district or a public or non-public vocational
5 school within the State of Illinois or adjacent states approved
6 by the Board of Vocational Education, and may provide free
7 transportation for such pupils and shall pay the tuition of
8 such pupils in the schools attended; such tuition shall be
9 based upon per capita cost computed in the following manner:
10 The cost of conducting and maintaining any area secondary
11 vocational school facility shall be first determined and shall
12 include the following expenses applicable only to such
13 educational facility under rules and regulations established
14 by the Board of Vocational Education and Rehabilitation as
15 follows:
16     a. Salaries of teachers, vocational counselors, and
17 supporting professional workers, necessary non-certified
18 workers, clerks, custodial employees, and any district taxes
19 specifically for their pension and retirement benefits.
20     b. Equipment and supplies necessary for program operation.
21     c. Administrative costs.
22     d. Operation of physical plant, including heat, light,
23 water, repairs, and maintenance.
24     e. Auxiliary service, not including any transportation
25 cost.
26     From such total cost thus determined there shall be
27 deducted the State reimbursement due on account of such
28 educational facility for the same year, not including any State
29 reimbursement for area secondary vocational school
30 transportation. Such net cost shall be divided by the average
31 number of pupils in average daily attendance in such area
32 secondary vocational school facility for the school year in
33 order to arrive at the net per capita tuition cost. Such costs
34 shall be computed on pupils regularly enrolled in an area
35 secondary vocational school on the basis of one-sixth day for
36 every class hour attended pursuant to such enrollment.

 

 

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1 Provided, that the board subject to the approval of the county
2 superintendent of schools may determine what schools outside of
3 their district such pupils shall attend. This section does not
4 require the board of directors or board of education of any
5 district to admit pupils from another district.
6 Notwithstanding any provisions in this section every school
7 board shall maintain an elementary school within the district.
8 (Source: P.A. 76-1522.)
 
9     (105 ILCS 5/10-22.22b)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.22b)
10     Sec. 10-22.22b. (a) The provisions of this subsection shall
11 not apply to the deactivation of a high school facility under
12 subsection (c). Where in its judgment the interests of the
13 district and of the students therein will be best served, to
14 deactivate any high school facility or elementary school
15 facility in the district and send the students of such high
16 school in grades 9 through 12 or such elementary school in
17 grades kindergarten through 8, as applicable, to schools in
18 other districts. Such action may be taken only with the
19 approval of the voters in the district and the approval, by
20 proper resolution, of the school board of the receiving
21 district. The board of the district contemplating deactivation
22 shall, by proper resolution, cause the proposition to
23 deactivate the high school facility to be submitted to the
24 voters of the district at a regularly scheduled election.
25 Notice shall be published at least 10 days prior to the date of
26 the election at least once in one or more newspapers published
27 in the district or, if no newspaper is published in the
28 district, in one or more newspapers with a general circulation
29 within the district. The notice shall be substantially in the
30 following form:
31
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO
32 DEACTIVATE THE ... HIGH
SCHOOL FACILITY
33
IN SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. ........
34     Notice is hereby given that on (insert date), a referendum
35 will be held in ........ County (Counties) for the purpose of

 

 

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1 voting for or against the proposition to deactivate the ......
2 High School facility in School District No. ...... and to send
3 pupils in ...... High School to School District(s) No. .......
4     The polls will be open at .... o'clock ... m., and close at
5 .... o'clock ... m. of the same day.
6           A............ B...............
7 Dated (insert date).
8 Regional Superintendent of Schools
 
9 The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
10 -------------------------------------------------------------
11     Shall the Board
12 of Education of School
13 District No. ....,                       YES
14 ..... County, Illinois, be
15 authorized to deactivate            -------------------------
16 the .... High School facility
17 and to send pupils in .......             NO
18 High School to School
19 District(s) No. .....?
20 -------------------------------------------------------------
21 If the majority of those voting upon the proposition in the
22 district contemplating deactivation vote in favor of the
23 proposition, the board of that district, upon approval of the
24 board of the receiving district, shall execute a contract with
25 the receiving district providing for the reassignment of
26 students to the receiving district. If the deactivating
27 district seeks to send its students to more than one district,
28 it shall execute a contract with each receiving district. The
29 length of the contract shall be for 2 school years, but the
30 districts may renew the contract for additional one year or 2
31 year periods. Contract renewals shall be executed by January 1
32 of the year in which the existing contract expires. If the
33 majority of those voting upon the proposition do not vote in
34 favor of the proposition, the school facility may not be
35 deactivated.

 

 

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1     The sending district shall pay to the receiving district an
2 amount agreed upon by the 2 districts.
3     When the deactivation of high school facilities becomes
4 effective pursuant to this Section, the provisions of Section
5 24-12 relative to the contractual continued service status of
6 teachers having contractual continued service whose positions
7 are transferred from one board to the control of a different
8 board shall apply, and the positions at the high school
9 facilities being deactivated held by teachers, as that term is
10 defined in Section 24-11, having contractual continued service
11 with the school district at the time of the deactivation shall
12 be transferred to the control of the board or boards who shall
13 be receiving the district's high school students on the
14 following basis:
15         (1) positions of such teachers in contractual
16     continued service that were full time positions shall be
17     transferred to the control of whichever of such boards such
18     teachers shall request with the teachers making such
19     requests proceeding in the order of those with the greatest
20     length of continuing service with the board to those with
21     the shortest length of continuing service with the board,
22     provided that the number selecting one board over another
23     board or other boards shall not exceed that proportion of
24     the high school students going to such board or boards; and
25         (2) positions of such teachers in contractual
26     continued service that were full time positions and as to
27     which there is no selection left under subparagraph 1
28     hereof shall be transferred to the appropriate board.
29     The contractual continued service status of any teacher
30 thereby transferred to another district is not lost and the
31 receiving board is subject to the School Code with respect to
32 such transferred teacher in the same manner as if such teacher
33 was the district's employee during the time such teacher was
34 actually employed by the board of the deactivating district
35 from which the position was transferred.
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1 the reactivation of a high school facility which is deactivated
2 under subsection (c). The sending district may, with the
3 approval of the voters in the district, reactivate the high
4 school facility which was deactivated. The board of the
5 district seeking to reactivate the school facility shall, by
6 proper resolution, cause the proposition to reactivate to be
7 submitted to the voters of the district at a regularly
8 scheduled election. Notice shall be published at least 10 days
9 prior to the date of the election at least once in one or more
10 newspapers published in the district or, if no newspaper is
11 published in the district, in one or more newspapers with a
12 general circulation within the district. The notice shall be
13 substantially in the following form:
14
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO
15 REACTIVATE THE ...... HIGH
SCHOOL FACILITY
16
IN SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. ......
17     Notice is hereby given that on (insert date), a referendum
18 will be held in ...... County (Counties) for the purpose of
19 voting for or against the proposition to reactivate the .....
20 High School facility in School District No. ..... and to
21 discontinue sending pupils of School District No. ...... to
22 School District(s) No. .....
23     The polls will be opened at ... o'clock .. m., and closed
24 at ... o'clock .. m. of the same day.
25           A............. B............
26 Dated (insert date).
27 Regional Superintendent of Schools
 
28 The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
29 -------------------------------------------------------------
30     Shall the Board
31 of Education of School                       YES
32 District No. ......,
33 ...... County, Illinois,
34 be  authorized  to                        -------------------
35 reactivate the .... High School

 

 

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1 facility and to discontinue sending
2 pupils of School District No. ....            NO
3 to School District(s) No. ......?
4 -------------------------------------------------------------
5     (c) The school board of any unit school district which
6 experienced a strike by a majority of its certified employees
7 that endured for over 6 months during the regular school term
8 of the 1986-1987 school year, and which during the ensuing
9 1987-1988 school year had an enrollment in grades 9 through 12
10 of less than 125 students may, when in its judgment the
11 interests of the district and of the students therein will be
12 best served thereby, deactivate the high school facilities
13 within the district for the regular term of the 1988-1989
14 school year and, for that school year only, send the students
15 of such high school in grades 9 through 12 to schools in
16 adjoining or adjacent districts. Such action may only be taken:
17 (a) by proper resolution of the school board deactivating its
18 high school facilities and the approval, by proper resolution,
19 of the school board of the receiving district or districts, and
20 (b) pursuant to a contract between the sending and each
21 receiving district, which contract or contracts: (i) shall
22 provide for the reassignment of all students of the deactivated
23 high school in grades 9 through 12 to the receiving district or
24 districts; (ii) shall apply only to the regular school term of
25 the 1988-1989 school year; (iii) shall not be subject to
26 renewal or extension; and (iv) shall require the sending
27 district to pay to the receiving district the cost of educating
28 each student who is reassigned to the receiving district, such
29 costs to be an amount agreed upon by the sending and receiving
30 district but not less than the per capita cost of maintaining
31 the high school in the receiving district during the 1987-1988
32 school year. Any high school facility deactivated pursuant to
33 this subsection for the regular school term of the 1988-1989
34 school year shall be reactivated by operation of law as of the
35 end of the regular term of the 1988-1989 school year. The
36 status as a unit school district of a district which

 

 

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1 deactivates its high school facilities pursuant to this
2 subsection shall not be affected by reason of such deactivation
3 of its high school facilities and such district shall continue
4 to be deemed in law a school district maintaining grades
5 kindergarten through 12 for all purposes relating to the levy,
6 extension, collection and payment of the taxes of the district
7 under Article 17 for the 1988-1989 school year.
8     (d) Whenever a high school facility is reactivated pursuant
9 to the provisions of this Section, then all teachers in
10 contractual continued service who were honorably dismissed or
11 transferred as part of the deactivation process, in addition to
12 other rights they may have under the School Code, shall be
13 recalled or transferred back to the original district.
14 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
15     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16 becoming law.