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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, When young people start skipping school, they are |
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| telling their parents, school officials, and the community at |
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| large that they are in trouble and need our help if they are to |
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| keep moving forward in life; and
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| WHEREAS, Preventing or combating truancy is one of the |
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| first ways that a community can reach out quickly to a |
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| disaffected young person and his or her family; therefore, be |
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| it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| there is established the Truants' Alternative and Optional |
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| Education Task Force for the purpose of recommending a best |
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| model for the distribution of Truants' Alternative and Optional |
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| Education Program grant funds to ensure that limited resources |
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| reach the students most in need; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That the Task Force shall consist of the |
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| following members: (i) one member of the House of |
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| Representatives or his or her designee, appointed by the |
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| Speaker of the House to serve as co-chairperson of the Task |
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| Force; (ii) one member of the House of Representatives or his |
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| or her designee, appointed by the Minority Leader of the House |
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| to serve as co-chairperson of the Task Force; (iii) 2 members |
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| of the public, one of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of |
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| the House and one of whom shall be appointed by the Minority |
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| Leader of the House; (iv) one member representing an optional |
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| education program, appointed by the State Board of Education; |
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| (v) one member representing a truancy intervention program, |
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| appointed by the State Board of Education; (vi) one member |
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| representing a regional office of education, appointed by an |
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| association that represents regional superintendents of |
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| schools; (vii) one member representing a school district, |