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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 HB3501 Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Dave Winters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administration Code of Illinois. Provides that certain amounts shall be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Common School Fund. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Increases the residential real property tax credit from 5% to 10%. Increases the limitation on the education expense credit from $500 to $1,000. Increases the percentage of the earned income tax credit from 5% of the federal tax credit to 15% in 2011 and thereafter. Makes changes concerning distributions to the Local Government Distributive Fund. Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that certain services are taxable under the Act. Amends the School Code. Creates the Education Financial Award System Fund, the Digital Learning Technology Grant Fund, and the STEM Education Center Grant Fund. Makes changes concerning the Early Childhood Education Block Grant; financial awards for school improvement and other awards; academic early warning and watch status; an educational improvement plan; the creation of the Digital Learning Technology Grant Program, a best practices clearinghouse, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Center Grant Program, and a resource management service; audits; school board member leadership training; a school district's school report card; financial policies and plans; a capital improvement plan; protection from suit; financial accountability; non-referendum bonds; the foundation level of support under the State aid formula; the New Teacher Induction and Mentoring Program; school board associations; and transportation reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative |
5 | | Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 50-20 as |
6 | | follows:
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7 | | (15 ILCS 20/50-20) (was 15 ILCS 20/38.3)
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8 | | Sec. 50-20. Responsible Education Funding Law.
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9 | | (a) The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly a |
10 | | proposed budget for
elementary and secondary education in which |
11 | | total General Revenue Fund
appropriations are no less than the |
12 | | total General Revenue Fund appropriations
of the previous |
13 | | fiscal year. In addition, the Governor shall specify the total
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14 | | amount of funds to be transferred from the General Revenue Fund |
15 | | to the Common
School Fund during the budget year, which shall |
16 | | be no less than the total
amount transferred during the |
17 | | previous fiscal year. The Governor may submit a
proposed budget |
18 | | in which the total appropriated and transferred amounts are
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19 | | less than the previous fiscal year if the Governor declares in |
20 | | writing to the
General Assembly the reason for the lesser |
21 | | amounts.
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22 | | (b) The General Assembly shall appropriate amounts for |
23 | | elementary and
secondary education from the General Revenue |
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1 | | Fund for each fiscal year so that
the total General Revenue |
2 | | Fund appropriation is no less than the total General
Revenue |
3 | | Fund appropriation for elementary and secondary education for |
4 | | the
previous fiscal year. In addition, the General Assembly |
5 | | shall legislatively
transfer from the General Revenue Fund to |
6 | | the Common School Fund for the
fiscal year a total amount that |
7 | | is no less than the total amount transferred
for the previous |
8 | | fiscal year. The General Assembly may appropriate or transfer
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9 | | lesser amounts if it declares by Joint Resolution the reason |
10 | | for the lesser
amounts.
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11 | | (b-5) In fiscal year 2012, no appropriation made from |
12 | | General funds to the State Board of Education, the Board of |
13 | | Higher Education, the Illinois Community College Board, the |
14 | | Illinois Student Assistance Commission, the Illinois |
15 | | Mathematics and Science Academy, or any public university may |
16 | | be decreased from its fiscal year 2011 general appropriation |
17 | | level. An exception may be made only if a program's |
18 | | appropriation is based on actual cost and that cost has been |
19 | | determined by the Board, Academy, or university to require a |
20 | | lesser appropriation; however, the aggregate appropriation to |
21 | | those Boards, Academies, or universities for fiscal year 2012 |
22 | | shall not under any circumstances represent a decrease from the |
23 | | fiscal year 2011 aggregate general fund appropriation level for |
24 | | that Board, Academy, or university. |
25 | | (b-10) Beginning in fiscal year 2013 and in each fiscal |
26 | | year thereafter, in addition to the amounts required to be |
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1 | | transferred under subsection (b), an amount equal to 33 1/3% of |
2 | | (i) the amount by which the taxes imposed by subsections (a) |
3 | | and (b) of Section 201 of the Illinois Income Tax exceeds the |
4 | | amount that would have been collected if the taxes imposed |
5 | | under that Section had been imposed at the rates that were in |
6 | | effect immediately prior to the effective date of Public Act |
7 | | 96-1496 and (ii) the amount collected as a result of the |
8 | | additional taxes imposed under the Retailers' Occupation Tax |
9 | | Act by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. In |
10 | | addition, beginning in fiscal year 2014 and in each fiscal year |
11 | | thereafter, an additional amount equal to 16 2/3% of the amount |
12 | | of those additional revenues shall be transferred from the |
13 | | General Revenue Fund to the Higher Education Fund. |
14 | | (b-15) The Higher Education Fund is created as a special |
15 | | fund in the State treasury. Moneys in this Fund may be used |
16 | | only for purposes related to higher education. The Higher |
17 | | Education Fund is not subject to administrative charges that |
18 | | would in any way transfer any funds from the Higher Education |
19 | | Fund into any other fund of the State. |
20 | | (c) This Section may be cited as the Responsible Education |
21 | | Funding Law.
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22 | | (Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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23 | | Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding |
24 | | Sections 5.786, 5.787, 5.788, and 5.789 as follows: |
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1 | | (30 ILCS 105/5.786 new) |
2 | | Sec. 5.786. The Education Financial Award System Fund. |
3 | | (30 ILCS 105/5.787 new) |
4 | | Sec. 5.787. The Digital Learning Technology Grant Fund. |
5 | | (30 ILCS 105/5.788 new) |
6 | | Sec. 5.788. The STEM Education Center Grant Fund. |
7 | | (30 ILCS 105/5.789 new) |
8 | | Sec. 5.789. The Higher Education Fund. |
9 | | Section 15. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by |
10 | | changing Sections 204, 208, 212, 804, and 901 and by adding |
11 | | Section 218 as follows:
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12 | | (35 ILCS 5/204) (from Ch. 120, par. 2-204)
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13 | | Sec. 204. Standard Exemption.
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14 | | (a) Allowance of exemption. In computing net income under |
15 | | this Act, there
shall be allowed as an exemption the sum of the |
16 | | amounts determined under
subsections (b), (c) and (d), |
17 | | multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which
is the amount |
18 | | of the taxpayer's base income allocable to this State for the
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19 | | taxable year and the denominator of which is the taxpayer's |
20 | | total base income
for the taxable year.
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21 | | (b) Basic amount. For the purpose of subsection (a) of this |
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1 | | Section,
except as provided by subsection (a) of Section 205 |
2 | | and in this
subsection, each taxpayer shall be allowed a basic |
3 | | amount of $1000, except
that for corporations the basic amount |
4 | | shall be zero for tax years ending on
or
after December 31, |
5 | | 2003, and for individuals the basic amount shall be:
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6 | | (1) for taxable years ending on or after December 31, |
7 | | 1998 and prior to
December 31, 1999, $1,300;
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8 | | (2) for taxable years ending on or after December 31, |
9 | | 1999 and prior to
December 31, 2000, $1,650;
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10 | | (3) for taxable years ending on or after December 31, |
11 | | 2000 and prior to December 31, 2011 , $2,000 ; |
12 | | (4) for taxable years ending on or after December 31, |
13 | | 2011, $3,000 .
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14 | | For taxable years ending on or after December 31, 1992, a |
15 | | taxpayer whose
Illinois base income exceeds the basic amount |
16 | | and who is claimed as a dependent
on another person's tax |
17 | | return under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall
not be |
18 | | allowed any basic amount under this subsection.
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19 | | (c) Additional amount for individuals. In the case of an |
20 | | individual
taxpayer, there shall be allowed for the purpose of |
21 | | subsection (a), in
addition to the basic amount provided by |
22 | | subsection (b), an additional
exemption equal to the basic |
23 | | amount for each
exemption in excess of one
allowable to such |
24 | | individual taxpayer for the taxable year under Section
151 of |
25 | | the Internal Revenue Code.
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26 | | (d) Additional exemptions for an individual taxpayer and |
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1 | | his or her
spouse. In the case of an individual taxpayer and |
2 | | his or her spouse, he or
she shall each be allowed additional |
3 | | exemptions as follows:
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4 | | (1) Additional exemption for taxpayer or spouse 65 |
5 | | years of age or older.
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6 | | (A) For taxpayer. An additional exemption of |
7 | | $1,000 for the taxpayer if
he or she has attained the |
8 | | age of 65 before the end of the taxable year.
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9 | | (B) For spouse when a joint return is not filed. An |
10 | | additional
exemption of $1,000 for the spouse of the |
11 | | taxpayer if a joint return is not
made by the taxpayer |
12 | | and his spouse, and if the spouse has attained the age
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13 | | of 65 before the end of such taxable year, and, for the |
14 | | calendar year in
which the taxable year of the taxpayer |
15 | | begins, has no gross income and is
not the dependent of |
16 | | another taxpayer.
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17 | | (2) Additional exemption for blindness of taxpayer or |
18 | | spouse.
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19 | | (A) For taxpayer. An additional exemption of |
20 | | $1,000 for the taxpayer if
he or she is blind at the |
21 | | end of the taxable year.
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22 | | (B) For spouse when a joint return is not filed. An |
23 | | additional
exemption of $1,000 for the spouse of the |
24 | | taxpayer if a separate return is made
by the taxpayer, |
25 | | and if the spouse is blind and, for the calendar year |
26 | | in which
the taxable year of the taxpayer begins, has |
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1 | | no gross income and is not the
dependent of another |
2 | | taxpayer. For purposes of this paragraph, the
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3 | | determination of whether the spouse is blind shall be |
4 | | made as of the end of the
taxable year of the taxpayer; |
5 | | except that if the spouse dies during such
taxable year |
6 | | such determination shall be made as of the time of such |
7 | | death.
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8 | | (C) Blindness defined. For purposes of this |
9 | | subsection, an individual
is blind only if his or her |
10 | | central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in
the |
11 | | better eye with correcting lenses, or if his or her |
12 | | visual acuity is
greater than 20/200 but is accompanied |
13 | | by a limitation in the fields of
vision such that the |
14 | | widest diameter of the visual fields subtends an angle
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15 | | no greater than 20 degrees.
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16 | | (e) Cross reference. See Article 3 for the manner of |
17 | | determining
base income allocable to this State.
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18 | | (f) Application of Section 250. Section 250 does not apply |
19 | | to the
amendments to this Section made by Public Act 90-613 .
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20 | | (Source: P.A. 93-29, eff. 6-20-03.)
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21 | | (35 ILCS 5/208) (from Ch. 120, par. 2-208)
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22 | | Sec. 208. Tax credit for residential real property taxes. |
23 | | Beginning with tax years ending on or after December 31, 1991 |
24 | | and ending prior to December 31, 2011 ,
every individual |
25 | | taxpayer shall be entitled to a tax credit equal
to 5% of real |
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1 | | property taxes paid by such taxpayer during the
taxable year on |
2 | | the principal residence of the taxpayer. In the
case of |
3 | | multi-unit or multi-use structures and farm dwellings,
the |
4 | | taxes on the taxpayer's principal residence shall be that
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5 | | portion of the total taxes which is attributable to such |
6 | | principal
residence.
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7 | | For tax years ending on or after December 31, 2011, every |
8 | | individual taxpayer shall be entitled to a tax credit equal to |
9 | | 10% of real property taxes paid by the taxpayer during the |
10 | | taxable year on the principal residence of the taxpayer. In the |
11 | | case of multi-unit or multi-use structures, the taxes on the |
12 | | taxpayer's principal residence shall be that portion of the |
13 | | total taxes that is attributable to the principal residence. |
14 | | For tax years ending on December 31, 2011, the credit under |
15 | | this Section shall not exceed $1,500. For tax years thereafter, |
16 | | the $1,500 cap shall be increased by a percentage increase |
17 | | equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price |
18 | | Index for all Urban Consumers for the then most recently |
19 | | compiled calendar year. |
20 | | For each taxable year ending on or after December 31, 2011, |
21 | | if the amount of the credit exceeds the income tax liability
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22 | | for the applicable tax year, then the excess credit shall be |
23 | | refunded to the
taxpayer. The amount of a refund shall not be |
24 | | included in the taxpayer's
income or resources for the purposes |
25 | | of determining eligibility or benefit
level in any means-tested |
26 | | benefit program administered by a governmental entity
unless |
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1 | | required by federal law. |
2 | | (Source: P.A. 87-17.)
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3 | | (35 ILCS 5/212)
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4 | | Sec. 212. Earned income tax credit.
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5 | | (a) With respect to the federal earned income tax credit |
6 | | allowed for the
taxable year under Section 32 of the federal |
7 | | Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.
32, each individual taxpayer |
8 | | is entitled to a credit against the tax imposed by
subsections |
9 | | (a) and (b) of Section 201 in an amount equal to the following: |
10 | | (1) for each taxable year beginning on or after January |
11 | | 1, 2000 and ending before December 31, 2011, the amount of |
12 | | the credit is 5% of the federal tax credit; and |
13 | | (2) for each taxable year ending on or after December |
14 | | 31, 2011, the amount of the credit is 15% of the federal |
15 | | tax credit.
5% of the federal tax credit for each taxable |
16 | | year beginning on or after
January 1,
2000.
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17 | | For a non-resident or part-year resident, the amount of the |
18 | | credit under this
Section shall be in proportion to the amount |
19 | | of income attributable to this
State.
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20 | | (b) For taxable years beginning before January 1, 2003, in |
21 | | no event
shall a credit under this Section reduce the |
22 | | taxpayer's
liability to less than zero. For each taxable year |
23 | | beginning on or after
January 1, 2003, if the amount of the |
24 | | credit exceeds the income tax liability
for the applicable tax |
25 | | year, then the excess credit shall be refunded to the
taxpayer. |
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1 | | The amount of a refund shall not be included in the taxpayer's
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2 | | income or resources for the purposes of determining eligibility |
3 | | or benefit
level in any means-tested benefit program |
4 | | administered by a governmental entity
unless required by |
5 | | federal law.
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6 | | (c) This Section is exempt from the provisions of Section |
7 | | 250.
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8 | | (Source: P.A. 95-333, eff. 8-21-07.)
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9 | | (35 ILCS 5/901) (from Ch. 120, par. 9-901) |
10 | | Sec. 901. Collection Authority. |
11 | | (a) In general. |
12 | | The Department shall collect the taxes imposed by this Act. |
13 | | The Department
shall collect certified past due child support |
14 | | amounts under Section 2505-650
of the Department of Revenue Law |
15 | | (20 ILCS 2505/2505-650). Except as
provided in subsections (c), |
16 | | (e), (f), and (g) of this Section, money collected
pursuant to |
17 | | subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act shall be
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18 | | paid into the General Revenue Fund in the State treasury; money
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19 | | collected pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of Section 201 of |
20 | | this Act
shall be paid into the Personal Property Tax |
21 | | Replacement Fund, a special
fund in the State Treasury; and |
22 | | money collected under Section 2505-650 of the
Department of |
23 | | Revenue Law (20 ILCS 2505/2505-650) shall be paid
into the
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24 | | Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund, a special fund outside |
25 | | the State
Treasury, or
to the State
Disbursement Unit |
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1 | | established under Section 10-26 of the Illinois Public Aid
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2 | | Code, as directed by the Department of Healthcare and Family |
3 | | Services. |
4 | | (b) Local Government Distributive Fund. |
5 | | Beginning August 1, 1969, and continuing through June 30, |
6 | | 1994, the Treasurer
shall transfer each month from the General |
7 | | Revenue Fund to a special fund in
the State treasury, to be |
8 | | known as the "Local Government Distributive Fund", an
amount |
9 | | equal to 1/12 of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed |
10 | | by
subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act during |
11 | | the preceding month.
Beginning July 1, 1994, and continuing |
12 | | through June 30, 1995, the Treasurer
shall transfer each month |
13 | | from the General Revenue Fund to the Local Government
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14 | | Distributive Fund an amount equal to 1/11 of the net revenue |
15 | | realized from the
tax imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of |
16 | | Section 201 of this Act during the
preceding month. Beginning |
17 | | July 1, 1995 and continuing through January 31, 2011, the |
18 | | Treasurer shall transfer each
month from the General Revenue |
19 | | Fund to the Local Government Distributive Fund
an amount equal |
20 | | to the net of (i) 1/10 of the net revenue realized from the
tax |
21 | | imposed by
subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of the |
22 | | Illinois Income Tax Act during
the preceding month
(ii) minus, |
23 | | beginning July 1, 2003 and ending June 30, 2004, $6,666,666, |
24 | | and
beginning July 1,
2004,
zero. Beginning February 1, 2011, |
25 | | and continuing through January 31, 2015, the Treasurer shall |
26 | | transfer each month from the General Revenue Fund to the Local |
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1 | | Government Distributive Fund an amount equal to the sum of (i) |
2 | | 6% (10% of the ratio of the 3% individual income tax rate prior |
3 | | to 2011 to the 5% individual income tax rate after 2010) of the |
4 | | net revenue realized from the tax imposed by subsections (a) |
5 | | and (b) of Section 201 of this Act upon individuals, trusts, |
6 | | and estates during the preceding month and (ii) 6.86% (10% of |
7 | | the ratio of the 4.8% corporate income tax rate prior to 2011 |
8 | | to the 7% corporate income tax rate after 2010) of the net |
9 | | revenue realized from the tax imposed by subsections (a) and |
10 | | (b) of Section 201 of this Act upon corporations during the |
11 | | preceding month. Beginning August 1, 2011 and through July 1, |
12 | | 2012, the amounts required to be transferred under this |
13 | | subsection (b) shall be reduced by $20,800,000 per month, which |
14 | | shall be transferred to the Common School Fund. Beginning |
15 | | February 1, 2015 and continuing through January 31, 2025, the |
16 | | Treasurer shall transfer each month from the General Revenue |
17 | | Fund to the Local Government Distributive Fund an amount equal |
18 | | to the sum of (i) 8% (10% of the ratio of the 3% individual |
19 | | income tax rate prior to 2011 to the 3.75% individual income |
20 | | tax rate after 2014) of the net revenue realized from the tax |
21 | | imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act |
22 | | upon individuals, trusts, and estates during the preceding |
23 | | month and (ii) 9.14% (10% of the ratio of the 4.8% corporate |
24 | | income tax rate prior to 2011 to the 5.25% corporate income tax |
25 | | rate after 2014) of the net revenue realized from the tax |
26 | | imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act |
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1 | | upon corporations during the preceding month. Beginning |
2 | | February 1, 2025, the Treasurer shall transfer each month from |
3 | | the General Revenue Fund to the Local Government Distributive |
4 | | Fund an amount equal to the sum of (i) 9.23% (10% of the ratio |
5 | | of the 3% individual income tax rate prior to 2011 to the 3.25% |
6 | | individual income tax rate after 2024) of the net revenue |
7 | | realized from the tax imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of |
8 | | Section 201 of this Act upon individuals, trusts, and estates |
9 | | during the preceding month and (ii) 10% of the net revenue |
10 | | realized from the tax imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of |
11 | | Section 201 of this Act upon corporations during the preceding |
12 | | month. Net revenue realized for a month shall be defined as the
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13 | | revenue from the tax imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of |
14 | | Section 201 of this
Act which is deposited in the General |
15 | | Revenue Fund, the Education Assistance
Fund, the Income Tax |
16 | | Surcharge Local Government Distributive Fund, the Fund for the |
17 | | Advancement of Education, and the Commitment to Human Services |
18 | | Fund during the
month minus the amount paid out of the General |
19 | | Revenue Fund in State warrants
during that same month as |
20 | | refunds to taxpayers for overpayment of liability
under the tax |
21 | | imposed by subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act. |
22 | | (c) Deposits Into Income Tax Refund Fund. |
23 | | (1) Beginning on January 1, 1989 and thereafter, the |
24 | | Department shall
deposit a percentage of the amounts |
25 | | collected pursuant to subsections (a)
and (b)(1), (2), and |
26 | | (3), of Section 201 of this Act into a fund in the State
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1 | | treasury known as the Income Tax Refund Fund. The |
2 | | Department shall deposit 6%
of such amounts during the |
3 | | period beginning January 1, 1989 and ending on June
30, |
4 | | 1989. Beginning with State fiscal year 1990 and for each |
5 | | fiscal year
thereafter, the percentage deposited into the |
6 | | Income Tax Refund Fund during a
fiscal year shall be the |
7 | | Annual Percentage. For fiscal years 1999 through
2001, the |
8 | | Annual Percentage shall be 7.1%.
For fiscal year 2003, the |
9 | | Annual Percentage shall be 8%.
For fiscal year 2004, the |
10 | | Annual Percentage shall be 11.7%. Upon the effective date |
11 | | of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the |
12 | | Annual Percentage shall be 10% for fiscal year 2005. For |
13 | | fiscal year 2006, the Annual Percentage shall be 9.75%. For |
14 | | fiscal
year 2007, the Annual Percentage shall be 9.75%. For |
15 | | fiscal year 2008, the Annual Percentage shall be 7.75%. For |
16 | | fiscal year 2009, the Annual Percentage shall be 9.75%. For |
17 | | fiscal year 2010, the Annual Percentage shall be 9.75%. For |
18 | | fiscal year 2011, the Annual Percentage shall be 8.75%. For |
19 | | all other
fiscal years, the
Annual Percentage shall be |
20 | | calculated as a fraction, the numerator of which
shall be |
21 | | the amount of refunds approved for payment by the |
22 | | Department during
the preceding fiscal year as a result of |
23 | | overpayment of tax liability under
subsections (a) and |
24 | | (b)(1), (2), and (3) of Section 201 of this Act plus the
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25 | | amount of such refunds remaining approved but unpaid at the |
26 | | end of the
preceding fiscal year, minus the amounts |
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1 | | transferred into the Income Tax
Refund Fund from the |
2 | | Tobacco Settlement Recovery Fund, and
the denominator of |
3 | | which shall be the amounts which will be collected pursuant
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4 | | to subsections (a) and (b)(1), (2), and (3) of Section 201 |
5 | | of this Act during
the preceding fiscal year; except that |
6 | | in State fiscal year 2002, the Annual
Percentage shall in |
7 | | no event exceed 7.6%. The Director of Revenue shall
certify |
8 | | the Annual Percentage to the Comptroller on the last |
9 | | business day of
the fiscal year immediately preceding the |
10 | | fiscal year for which it is to be
effective. |
11 | | (2) Beginning on January 1, 1989 and thereafter, the |
12 | | Department shall
deposit a percentage of the amounts |
13 | | collected pursuant to subsections (a)
and (b)(6), (7), and |
14 | | (8), (c) and (d) of Section 201
of this Act into a fund in |
15 | | the State treasury known as the Income Tax
Refund Fund. The |
16 | | Department shall deposit 18% of such amounts during the
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17 | | period beginning January 1, 1989 and ending on June 30, |
18 | | 1989. Beginning
with State fiscal year 1990 and for each |
19 | | fiscal year thereafter, the
percentage deposited into the |
20 | | Income Tax Refund Fund during a fiscal year
shall be the |
21 | | Annual Percentage. For fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001, |
22 | | the
Annual Percentage shall be 19%.
For fiscal year 2003, |
23 | | the Annual Percentage shall be 27%. For fiscal year
2004, |
24 | | the Annual Percentage shall be 32%.
Upon the effective date |
25 | | of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the |
26 | | Annual Percentage shall be 24% for fiscal year 2005.
For |
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1 | | fiscal year 2006, the Annual Percentage shall be 20%. For |
2 | | fiscal
year 2007, the Annual Percentage shall be 17.5%. For |
3 | | fiscal year 2008, the Annual Percentage shall be 15.5%. For |
4 | | fiscal year 2009, the Annual Percentage shall be 17.5%. For |
5 | | fiscal year 2010, the Annual Percentage shall be 17.5%. For |
6 | | fiscal year 2011, the Annual Percentage shall be 17.5%. For |
7 | | all other fiscal years, the Annual
Percentage shall be |
8 | | calculated
as a fraction, the numerator of which shall be |
9 | | the amount of refunds
approved for payment by the |
10 | | Department during the preceding fiscal year as
a result of |
11 | | overpayment of tax liability under subsections (a) and |
12 | | (b)(6),
(7), and (8), (c) and (d) of Section 201 of this |
13 | | Act plus the
amount of such refunds remaining approved but |
14 | | unpaid at the end of the
preceding fiscal year, and the |
15 | | denominator of
which shall be the amounts which will be |
16 | | collected pursuant to subsections (a)
and (b)(6), (7), and |
17 | | (8), (c) and (d) of Section 201 of this Act during the
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18 | | preceding fiscal year; except that in State fiscal year |
19 | | 2002, the Annual
Percentage shall in no event exceed 23%. |
20 | | The Director of Revenue shall
certify the Annual Percentage |
21 | | to the Comptroller on the last business day of
the fiscal |
22 | | year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which it is |
23 | | to be
effective. |
24 | | (3) The Comptroller shall order transferred and the |
25 | | Treasurer shall
transfer from the Tobacco Settlement |
26 | | Recovery Fund to the Income Tax Refund
Fund (i) $35,000,000 |
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1 | | in January, 2001, (ii) $35,000,000 in January, 2002, and
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2 | | (iii) $35,000,000 in January, 2003. |
3 | | (d) Expenditures from Income Tax Refund Fund. |
4 | | (1) Beginning January 1, 1989, money in the Income Tax |
5 | | Refund Fund
shall be expended exclusively for the purpose |
6 | | of paying refunds resulting
from overpayment of tax |
7 | | liability under Section 201 of this Act, for paying
rebates |
8 | | under Section 208.1 in the event that the amounts in the |
9 | | Homeowners'
Tax Relief Fund are insufficient for that |
10 | | purpose,
and for
making transfers pursuant to this |
11 | | subsection (d). |
12 | | (2) The Director shall order payment of refunds |
13 | | resulting from
overpayment of tax liability under Section |
14 | | 201 of this Act from the
Income Tax Refund Fund only to the |
15 | | extent that amounts collected pursuant
to Section 201 of |
16 | | this Act and transfers pursuant to this subsection (d)
and |
17 | | item (3) of subsection (c) have been deposited and retained |
18 | | in the
Fund. |
19 | | (3) As soon as possible after the end of each fiscal |
20 | | year, the Director
shall
order transferred and the State |
21 | | Treasurer and State Comptroller shall
transfer from the |
22 | | Income Tax Refund Fund to the Personal Property Tax
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23 | | Replacement Fund an amount, certified by the Director to |
24 | | the Comptroller,
equal to the excess of the amount |
25 | | collected pursuant to subsections (c) and
(d) of Section |
26 | | 201 of this Act deposited into the Income Tax Refund Fund
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1 | | during the fiscal year over the amount of refunds resulting |
2 | | from
overpayment of tax liability under subsections (c) and |
3 | | (d) of Section 201
of this Act paid from the Income Tax |
4 | | Refund Fund during the fiscal year. |
5 | | (4) As soon as possible after the end of each fiscal |
6 | | year, the Director shall
order transferred and the State |
7 | | Treasurer and State Comptroller shall
transfer from the |
8 | | Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund to the Income Tax
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9 | | Refund Fund an amount, certified by the Director to the |
10 | | Comptroller, equal
to the excess of the amount of refunds |
11 | | resulting from overpayment of tax
liability under |
12 | | subsections (c) and (d) of Section 201 of this Act paid
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13 | | from the Income Tax Refund Fund during the fiscal year over |
14 | | the amount
collected pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of |
15 | | Section 201 of this Act
deposited into the Income Tax |
16 | | Refund Fund during the fiscal year. |
17 | | (4.5) As soon as possible after the end of fiscal year |
18 | | 1999 and of each
fiscal year
thereafter, the Director shall |
19 | | order transferred and the State Treasurer and
State |
20 | | Comptroller shall transfer from the Income Tax Refund Fund |
21 | | to the General
Revenue Fund any surplus remaining in the |
22 | | Income Tax Refund Fund as of the end
of such fiscal year; |
23 | | excluding for fiscal years 2000, 2001, and 2002
amounts |
24 | | attributable to transfers under item (3) of subsection (c) |
25 | | less refunds
resulting from the earned income tax credit. |
26 | | (5) This Act shall constitute an irrevocable and |
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1 | | continuing
appropriation from the Income Tax Refund Fund |
2 | | for the purpose of paying
refunds upon the order of the |
3 | | Director in accordance with the provisions of
this Section. |
4 | | (e) Deposits into the Education Assistance Fund and the |
5 | | Income Tax
Surcharge Local Government Distributive Fund. |
6 | | On July 1, 1991, and thereafter, of the amounts collected |
7 | | pursuant to
subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act, |
8 | | minus deposits into the
Income Tax Refund Fund, the Department |
9 | | shall deposit 7.3% into the
Education Assistance Fund in the |
10 | | State Treasury. Beginning July 1, 1991,
and continuing through |
11 | | January 31, 1993, of the amounts collected pursuant to
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12 | | subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of the Illinois Income |
13 | | Tax Act, minus
deposits into the Income Tax Refund Fund, the |
14 | | Department shall deposit 3.0%
into the Income Tax Surcharge |
15 | | Local Government Distributive Fund in the State
Treasury. |
16 | | Beginning February 1, 1993 and continuing through June 30, |
17 | | 1993, of
the amounts collected pursuant to subsections (a) and |
18 | | (b) of Section 201 of the
Illinois Income Tax Act, minus |
19 | | deposits into the Income Tax Refund Fund, the
Department shall |
20 | | deposit 4.4% into the Income Tax Surcharge Local Government
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21 | | Distributive Fund in the State Treasury. Beginning July 1, |
22 | | 1993, and
continuing through June 30, 1994, of the amounts |
23 | | collected under subsections
(a) and (b) of Section 201 of this |
24 | | Act, minus deposits into the Income Tax
Refund Fund, the |
25 | | Department shall deposit 1.475% into the Income Tax Surcharge
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26 | | Local Government Distributive Fund in the State Treasury. |
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1 | | (f) Deposits into the Fund for the Advancement of |
2 | | Education. Beginning February 1, 2015, the Department shall |
3 | | deposit the following portions of the revenue realized from the |
4 | | tax imposed upon individuals, trusts, and estates by |
5 | | subsections (a) and (b) of Section 201 of this Act during the |
6 | | preceding month, minus deposits into the Income Tax Refund |
7 | | Fund, into the Fund for the Advancement of Education: |
8 | | (1) beginning February 1, 2015, and prior to February |
9 | | 1, 2025, 1/30; and |
10 | | (2) beginning February 1, 2025, 1/26. |
11 | | If the rate of tax imposed by subsection (a) and (b) of |
12 | | Section 201 is reduced pursuant to Section 201.5 of this Act, |
13 | | the Department shall not make the deposits required by this |
14 | | subsection (f) on or after the effective date of the reduction. |
15 | | (g) Deposits into the Commitment to Human Services Fund. |
16 | | Beginning February 1, 2015, the Department shall deposit the |
17 | | following portions of the revenue realized from the tax imposed |
18 | | upon individuals, trusts, and estates by subsections (a) and |
19 | | (b) of Section 201 of this Act during the preceding month, |
20 | | minus deposits into the Income Tax Refund Fund, into the |
21 | | Commitment to Human Services Fund: |
22 | | (1) beginning February 1, 2015, and prior to February |
23 | | 1, 2025, 1/30; and |
24 | | (2) beginning February 1, 2025, 1/26. |
25 | | If the rate of tax imposed by subsection (a) and (b) of |
26 | | Section 201 is reduced pursuant to Section 201.5 of this Act, |
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1 | | the Department shall not make the deposits required by this |
2 | | subsection (g) on or after the effective date of the reduction. |
3 | | (Source: P.A. 95-707, eff. 1-11-08; 95-744, eff. 7-18-08; |
4 | | 96-45, eff. 7-15-09; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-959, eff. 7-1-10; |
5 | | 96-1496, eff. 1-13-11.) |
6 | | Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by |
7 | | changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
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8 | | (35 ILCS 120/1) (from Ch. 120, par. 440)
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9 | | Sec. 1. Definitions. "Sale at retail" means any transfer of |
10 | | the
ownership of or title to
tangible personal property to a |
11 | | purchaser, for the purpose of use or
consumption, and not for |
12 | | the purpose of resale in any form as tangible
personal property |
13 | | to the extent not first subjected to a use for which it
was |
14 | | purchased, for a valuable consideration: Provided that the |
15 | | property
purchased is deemed to be purchased for the purpose of |
16 | | resale, despite
first being used, to the extent to which it is |
17 | | resold as an ingredient of
an intentionally produced product or |
18 | | byproduct of manufacturing. For this
purpose, slag produced as |
19 | | an incident to manufacturing pig iron or steel
and sold is |
20 | | considered to be an intentionally produced byproduct of
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21 | | manufacturing. Transactions whereby the possession of the |
22 | | property is
transferred but the seller retains the title as |
23 | | security for payment of the
selling price shall be deemed to be |
24 | | sales.
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1 | | "Sale at retail" shall be construed to include any transfer |
2 | | of the
ownership of or title to tangible personal property to a |
3 | | purchaser, for use
or consumption by any other person to whom |
4 | | such purchaser may transfer the
tangible personal property |
5 | | without a valuable consideration, and to include
any transfer, |
6 | | whether made for or without a valuable consideration, for
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7 | | resale in any form as tangible personal property unless made in |
8 | | compliance
with Section 2c of this Act.
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9 | | Sales of tangible personal property, which property, to the |
10 | | extent not
first subjected to a use for which it was purchased, |
11 | | as an ingredient or
constituent, goes into and forms a part of |
12 | | tangible personal property
subsequently the subject of a "Sale |
13 | | at retail", are not sales at retail as
defined in this Act: |
14 | | Provided that the property purchased is deemed to be
purchased |
15 | | for the purpose of resale, despite first being used, to the
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16 | | extent to which it is resold as an ingredient of an |
17 | | intentionally produced
product or byproduct of manufacturing.
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18 | | "Sale at retail" includes all of the following services, as |
19 | | enumerated in the North American Industry Classification |
20 | | System Manual (NAICS), 1997, prepared by the United States |
21 | | Office of Management and Budget: |
22 | | (1) Other warehousing and storage (household and |
23 | | specialty goods) (49319). |
24 | | (2) Travel agent services (56151). |
25 | | (3) Carpet and upholstery cleaning services (56174). |
26 | | (4) Dating services (8129902). |
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1 | | (5) Dry cleaning and laundry, except coin-operated |
2 | | (81232). |
3 | | (6) Consumer goods rental (5322). |
4 | | (7) Health clubs, tanning parlors, reducing salons |
5 | | (81219). |
6 | | (8) Linen supply (812331). |
7 | | (9) Interior design services (54141). |
8 | | (10) Other business services, including copy shops |
9 | | (561439). |
10 | | (11) Bowling Centers (71395). |
11 | | (12) Coin operated video games and pinball machines |
12 | | (71312). |
13 | | (13) Membership fees in private clubs (71391). |
14 | | (14) Admission to spectator sports (excluding horse |
15 | | tracks) (7112). |
16 | | (15) Admission to cultural events (711). |
17 | | (16) Billiard Parlors (71399). |
18 | | (17) Scenic and sightseeing transportation (487). |
19 | | (18) Taxi and Limousine services (4853). |
20 | | (19) Unscheduled chartered passenger air |
21 | | transportation (481211). |
22 | | (20) Motion picture theaters, except drive-in theaters |
23 | | (512131). |
24 | | (21) Pet grooming (81291). |
25 | | (22) Landscaping services (including lawn care) |
26 | | (56173). |
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1 | | (23) Income from intrastate transportation of persons |
2 | | (485). |
3 | | (24) Mini-storage (53113). |
4 | | (25) Household goods storage (49311). |
5 | | (26) Cold storage (49312). |
6 | | (27) Marina Service (docking, storage, cleaning, |
7 | | repair) (71393). |
8 | | (28) Marine towing service (including tugboats) |
9 | | (48833). |
10 | | (29) Gift and package wrapping service (5619). |
11 | | (30) Laundry and dry cleaning services, coin-operated |
12 | | (81231). |
13 | | (31) Other services to buildings and dwellings |
14 | | (56179). |
15 | | (32) Water softening and conditioning (5619902). |
16 | | (33) Internet Service Providers (518111). |
17 | | (34) Short term auto rental (532111). |
18 | | (35) Information Services (519190). |
19 | | (36) Amusement park admission and rides (71311). |
20 | | (37) Circuses and fairs -- admission and games (7113). |
21 | | (38) Cable and other program distribution (5175). |
22 | | (39) Rental of video tapes for home viewing (53223). |
23 | | "Sale at retail" shall be construed to include any Illinois |
24 | | florist's
sales transaction in which the purchase order is |
25 | | received in Illinois by a
florist and the sale is for use or |
26 | | consumption, but the Illinois florist
has a florist in another |
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1 | | state deliver the property to the purchaser or the
purchaser's |
2 | | donee in such other state.
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3 | | Nonreusable tangible personal property that is used by |
4 | | persons engaged in
the business of operating a restaurant, |
5 | | cafeteria, or drive-in is a sale for
resale when it is |
6 | | transferred to customers in the ordinary course of business
as |
7 | | part of the sale of food or beverages and is used to deliver, |
8 | | package, or
consume food or beverages, regardless of where |
9 | | consumption of the food or
beverages occurs. Examples of those |
10 | | items include, but are not limited to
nonreusable, paper and |
11 | | plastic cups, plates, baskets, boxes, sleeves, buckets
or other |
12 | | containers, utensils, straws, placemats, napkins, doggie bags, |
13 | | and
wrapping or packaging
materials that are transferred to |
14 | | customers as part of the sale of food or
beverages in the |
15 | | ordinary course of business.
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16 | | The purchase, employment and transfer of such tangible |
17 | | personal property
as newsprint and ink for the primary purpose |
18 | | of conveying news (with or
without other information) is not a |
19 | | purchase, use or sale of tangible
personal property.
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20 | | A person whose activities are organized and conducted |
21 | | primarily as a
not-for-profit service enterprise, and who |
22 | | engages in selling tangible
personal property at retail |
23 | | (whether to the public or merely to members and
their guests) |
24 | | is engaged in the business of selling tangible personal
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25 | | property at retail with respect to such transactions, excepting |
26 | | only a
person organized and operated exclusively for |
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1 | | charitable, religious or
educational purposes either (1), to |
2 | | the extent of sales by such person to
its members, students, |
3 | | patients or inmates of tangible personal property to
be used |
4 | | primarily for the purposes of such person, or (2), to the |
5 | | extent of
sales by such person of tangible personal property |
6 | | which is not sold or
offered for sale by persons organized for |
7 | | profit. The selling of school
books and school supplies by |
8 | | schools at retail to students is not
"primarily for the |
9 | | purposes of" the school which does such selling. The
provisions |
10 | | of this paragraph shall not apply to nor subject to taxation
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11 | | occasional dinners, socials or similar activities of a person |
12 | | organized and
operated exclusively for charitable, religious |
13 | | or educational purposes,
whether or not such activities are |
14 | | open to the public.
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15 | | A person who is the recipient of a grant or contract under |
16 | | Title VII of
the Older Americans Act of 1965 (P.L. 92-258) and |
17 | | serves meals to
participants in the federal Nutrition Program |
18 | | for the Elderly in return for
contributions established in |
19 | | amount by the individual participant pursuant
to a schedule of |
20 | | suggested fees as provided for in the federal Act is not
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21 | | engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property |
22 | | at retail
with respect to such transactions.
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23 | | "Purchaser" means anyone who, through a sale at retail, |
24 | | acquires the
ownership of or title to tangible personal |
25 | | property for a valuable
consideration.
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26 | | "Reseller of motor fuel" means any person engaged in the |
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1 | | business of selling
or delivering or transferring title of |
2 | | motor fuel to another person
other than for use or consumption.
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3 | | No person shall act as a reseller of motor fuel within this |
4 | | State without
first being registered as a reseller pursuant to |
5 | | Section 2c or a retailer
pursuant to Section 2a.
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6 | | "Selling price" or the "amount of sale" means the |
7 | | consideration for a
sale valued in money whether received in |
8 | | money or otherwise, including
cash, credits, property, other |
9 | | than as hereinafter provided, and services,
but not including |
10 | | the value of or credit given for traded-in tangible
personal |
11 | | property where the item that is traded-in is of like kind and
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12 | | character as that which is being sold, and shall be determined |
13 | | without any
deduction on account of the cost of the property |
14 | | sold, the cost of
materials used, labor or service cost or any |
15 | | other expense whatsoever, but
does not include charges that are |
16 | | added to prices by sellers on account of
the seller's tax |
17 | | liability under this Act, or on account of the seller's
duty to |
18 | | collect, from the purchaser, the tax that is imposed by the Use |
19 | | Tax
Act, or, except as otherwise provided with respect to any |
20 | | cigarette tax imposed by a home rule unit, on account of the |
21 | | seller's tax liability under any local occupation tax |
22 | | administered by the Department, or, except as otherwise |
23 | | provided with respect to any cigarette tax imposed by a home |
24 | | rule unit on account of the seller's duty to collect, from the |
25 | | purchasers, the tax that is imposed under any local use tax |
26 | | administered by the Department.
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1 | | "selling price" shall include charges that
are added to prices |
2 | | by sellers on account of the seller's
tax liability under the |
3 | | Cigarette Tax Act, on account of the sellers'
duty to collect, |
4 | | from the purchaser, the tax imposed under the Cigarette
Use Tax |
5 | | Act, and on account of the seller's duty to collect, from the
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6 | | purchaser, any cigarette tax imposed by a home rule unit.
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7 | | The phrase "like kind and character" shall be liberally |
8 | | construed
(including but not limited to any form of motor |
9 | | vehicle for any form of
motor vehicle, or any kind of farm or |
10 | | agricultural implement for any other
kind of farm or |
11 | | agricultural implement), while not including a kind of item
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12 | | which, if sold at retail by that retailer, would be exempt from |
13 | | retailers'
occupation tax and use tax as an isolated or |
14 | | occasional sale.
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15 | | "Gross receipts" from the sales of tangible personal |
16 | | property at retail
means the total selling price or the amount |
17 | | of such sales, as hereinbefore
defined. In the case of charge |
18 | | and time sales, the amount thereof shall be
included only as |
19 | | and when payments are received by the seller.
Receipts or other |
20 | | consideration derived by a seller from
the sale, transfer or |
21 | | assignment of accounts receivable to a wholly owned
subsidiary |
22 | | will not be deemed payments prior to the time the purchaser
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23 | | makes payment on such accounts.
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24 | | "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
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25 | | "Person" means any natural individual, firm, partnership, |
26 | | association,
joint stock company, joint adventure, public or |
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1 | | private corporation, limited
liability company, or a receiver, |
2 | | executor, trustee, guardian or other
representative appointed |
3 | | by order of any court.
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4 | | The isolated or occasional sale of tangible personal |
5 | | property at retail
by a person who does not hold himself out as |
6 | | being engaged (or who does not
habitually engage) in selling |
7 | | such tangible personal property at retail, or
a sale through a |
8 | | bulk vending machine, does not constitute engaging in a
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9 | | business of selling such tangible personal property at retail |
10 | | within the
meaning of this Act; provided that any person who is |
11 | | engaged in a business
which is not subject to the tax imposed |
12 | | by this Act because of involving
the sale of or a contract to |
13 | | sell real estate or a construction contract to
improve real |
14 | | estate or a construction contract to engineer, install, and
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15 | | maintain an integrated system of products, but who, in the |
16 | | course of
conducting such business,
transfers tangible |
17 | | personal property to users or consumers in the finished
form in |
18 | | which it was purchased, and which does not become real estate |
19 | | or was
not engineered and installed, under any provision of a |
20 | | construction contract or
real estate sale or real estate sales |
21 | | agreement entered into with some other
person arising out of or |
22 | | because of such nontaxable business, is engaged in the
business |
23 | | of selling tangible personal property at retail to the extent |
24 | | of the
value of the tangible personal property so transferred. |
25 | | If, in such a
transaction, a separate charge is made for the |
26 | | tangible personal property so
transferred, the value of such |
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1 | | property, for the purpose of this Act, shall be
the amount so |
2 | | separately charged, but not less than the cost of such property
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3 | | to the transferor; if no separate charge is made, the value of |
4 | | such property,
for the purposes of this Act, is the cost to the |
5 | | transferor of such tangible
personal property. Construction |
6 | | contracts for the improvement of real estate
consisting of |
7 | | engineering, installation, and maintenance of voice, data, |
8 | | video,
security, and all telecommunication systems do not |
9 | | constitute engaging in a
business of selling tangible personal |
10 | | property at retail within the meaning of
this Act if they are |
11 | | sold at one specified contract price.
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12 | | A person who holds himself or herself out as being engaged |
13 | | (or who habitually
engages) in selling tangible personal |
14 | | property at retail is a person
engaged in the business of |
15 | | selling tangible personal property at retail
hereunder with |
16 | | respect to such sales (and not primarily in a service
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17 | | occupation) notwithstanding the fact that such person designs |
18 | | and produces
such tangible personal property on special order |
19 | | for the purchaser and in
such a way as to render the property |
20 | | of value only to such purchaser, if
such tangible personal |
21 | | property so produced on special order serves
substantially the |
22 | | same function as stock or standard items of tangible
personal |
23 | | property that are sold at retail.
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24 | | Persons who engage in the business of transferring tangible |
25 | | personal
property upon the redemption of trading stamps are |
26 | | engaged in the business
of selling such property at retail and |
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1 | | shall be liable for and shall pay
the tax imposed by this Act |
2 | | on the basis of the retail value of the
property transferred |
3 | | upon redemption of such stamps.
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4 | | "Bulk vending machine" means a vending machine,
containing |
5 | | unsorted confections, nuts, toys, or other items designed
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6 | | primarily to be used or played with by children
which, when a |
7 | | coin or coins of a denomination not larger than $0.50 are
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8 | | inserted, are dispensed in equal portions, at random and
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9 | | without selection by the customer.
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10 | | (Source: P.A. 95-723, eff. 6-23-08.)
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11 | | (35 ILCS 120/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 441)
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12 | | Sec. 2. Tax imposed. A tax is imposed upon persons engaged |
13 | | in the
business of selling at retail tangible personal |
14 | | property, including
computer software, and including |
15 | | photographs, negatives, and positives that
are the product of |
16 | | photoprocessing, but not including products of
photoprocessing |
17 | | produced for use in motion pictures for public commercial
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18 | | exhibition , or engaged in the business of providing services as |
19 | | set forth in in Section 1 of this Act .
Beginning January 1, |
20 | | 2001, prepaid telephone calling arrangements shall be
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21 | | considered tangible personal property subject to the tax |
22 | | imposed under this Act
regardless of the form in which those |
23 | | arrangements may be embodied,
transmitted, or fixed by any |
24 | | method now known or hereafter developed.
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25 | | (Source: P.A. 91-51, eff. 6-30-99; 91-870, eff. 6-22-00.)
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1 | | Section 25. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
2 | | 1C-2, 2-3.25c, 2-3.25d, 3-7, 10-17a, 10-22.45, 18-8.05, 19-3, |
3 | | 21A-5, 21A-10, 21A-15, 21A-20, 21A-25, 21A-30, 23-3, 23-6, and |
4 | | 29-5 and by adding Sections 2-3.25d-5, 2-3.153, 2-3.154, |
5 | | 2-3.155, 2-3.156, 2-3.157, 10-16.10, 10-17b, 10-17c, 10-17d, |
6 | | 10-20.53, 17-2.11d, 21A-3, and 23-5.5 as follows:
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7 | | (105 ILCS 5/1C-2)
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8 | | Sec. 1C-2. Block grants.
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9 | | (a) For fiscal year 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter, |
10 | | the State Board
of Education shall award to school districts |
11 | | block grants as described in subsection
(c). The State Board of |
12 | | Education may adopt
rules and regulations necessary to |
13 | | implement this Section. In accordance with
Section 2-3.32, all |
14 | | state block grants are subject to an audit. Therefore,
block |
15 | | grant receipts and block grant expenditures shall be recorded |
16 | | to the
appropriate fund code.
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17 | | (b) (Blank).
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18 | | (c) An Early Childhood Education Block Grant shall be |
19 | | created by combining
the following programs: Preschool |
20 | | Education, Parental Training and Prevention
Initiative. These |
21 | | funds shall be distributed to school districts and other
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22 | | entities on a competitive basis. Not less than 11% of this |
23 | | grant
shall be used to
fund programs for children ages 0-3, |
24 | | which percentage shall increase to at least 20% by Fiscal Year |
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1 | | 2015. However, if, in a given fiscal year, the amount |
2 | | appropriated for the Early Childhood Education Block Grant is |
3 | | insufficient to increase the percentage of the grant to fund |
4 | | programs for children ages 0-3 without reducing the amount of |
5 | | the grant for existing providers of preschool education |
6 | | programs, then the percentage of the grant to fund programs for |
7 | | children ages 0-3 may be held steady instead of increased.
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8 | | (d) For fiscal year 2012, the General Assembly shall |
9 | | appropriate no less than $380,261,400 to the Early Childhood |
10 | | Education Block Grant for the programs specified in subsection |
11 | | (c) of this Section. |
12 | | (Source: P.A. 95-793, eff. 1-1-09; 96-423, eff. 8-13-09.)
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13 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25c) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25c)
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14 | | Sec. 2-3.25c. Financial and other awards Rewards and |
15 | | acknowledgements . |
16 | | (a) The State Board of
Education shall implement a
system |
17 | | of rewards for
school
districts, and the schools themselves,
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18 | | whose students
and schools consistently meet adequate yearly |
19 | | progress criteria for 2 or more
consecutive years and a system |
20 | | to acknowledge schools and districts that meet
adequate yearly |
21 | | progress criteria in a given year as specified in Section
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22 | | 2-3.25d
of this Code.
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23 | | (b) Financial awards shall be provided to the schools that |
24 | | the State
Superintendent of Education determines have |
25 | | demonstrated the greatest improvement in achieving the |
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1 | | education goals of improved student achievement and improved |
2 | | school completion, subject to appropriation by the General |
3 | | Assembly and any limitation set by the State Superintendent on |
4 | | the total amount that may be awarded to a school or school |
5 | | district; provided that such financial awards must not be used |
6 | | to enhance the compensation of staff in school districts having |
7 | | a population not exceeding 500,000. |
8 | | (c) The State Superintendent of Education may present |
9 | | proclamations or certificates to schools and school systems |
10 | | determined to have met or exceeded the State's education goals |
11 | | under Section 2-3.64 of this Code. |
12 | | (d) The Education Financial Award System Fund is created as |
13 | | a special fund in the State treasury. All money in the Fund |
14 | | shall be used, subject to appropriation, by the State Board of |
15 | | Education for the purpose of funding financial awards under |
16 | | this Section. The Fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated |
17 | | to the fund by the General Assembly and any gifts, grants, |
18 | | donations, and other moneys received by the State Board of |
19 | | Education for implementation of the awards system. |
20 | | Any unexpended or unencumbered moneys remaining in the |
21 | | Education Financial Award System Fund at the end of a fiscal |
22 | | year shall remain in the Fund and shall not revert or be |
23 | | credited or transferred to the General Revenue Fund nor be |
24 | | transferred to any other fund. Any interest derived from the |
25 | | deposit and investment of moneys in the Education Financial |
26 | | Award System Fund shall remain in the Fund and shall not be |
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1 | | credited to the General Revenue Fund. The Education Financial |
2 | | Award System Fund must be appropriated and expended only for |
3 | | the awards system. The awards are subject to audit requirements |
4 | | established by the State Board of Education. |
5 | | (e) If a school or school district meets adequate yearly |
6 | | progress criteria for
2
consecutive school years, that school |
7 | | or district shall be exempt from review
and
approval of its |
8 | | improvement plan for the next 2 succeeding school years.
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9 | | (Source: P.A. 93-470, eff. 8-8-03.)
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10 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25d)
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11 | | Sec. 2-3.25d. Academic early warning and watch status.
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12 | | (a) Beginning with the 2005-2006 school year, unless the |
13 | | federal government formally disapproves of such policy through |
14 | | the submission and review process for the Illinois |
15 | | Accountability Workbook, those
schools that do not meet |
16 | | adequate yearly progress criteria for 2 consecutive annual
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17 | | calculations in the same subject or in their participation |
18 | | rate, attendance rate, or graduation rate
shall be placed on |
19 | | academic early warning status for the next school year.
Schools |
20 | | on academic early warning status that do not meet adequate |
21 | | yearly
progress criteria for a third annual calculation in the |
22 | | same subject or in their participation rate, attendance rate, |
23 | | or graduation rate
shall remain on academic early
warning |
24 | | status. Schools on academic early warning status that do not |
25 | | meet
adequate yearly progress criteria for a fourth annual |
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1 | | calculation in the same subject or in their participation rate, |
2 | | attendance rate, or graduation rate shall be
placed
on initial |
3 | | academic watch status. Schools on academic watch status that do |
4 | | not
meet adequate yearly progress criteria for a fifth or |
5 | | subsequent annual
calculation in the same subject or in their |
6 | | participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation rate shall |
7 | | remain on academic watch status. Schools on academic early
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8 | | warning or academic watch status that meet adequate yearly |
9 | | progress criteria
for 2 consecutive calculations
shall be |
10 | | considered as having
met
expectations and shall be removed from |
11 | | any status designation.
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12 | | The school district of a school placed on either academic |
13 | | early warning
status or academic watch status may appeal the |
14 | | status to the State Board of
Education in accordance with |
15 | | Section 2-3.25m of this Code.
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16 | | A school district that has one or more schools on academic |
17 | | early warning
or academic watch status shall prepare a revised |
18 | | School Improvement Plan or
amendments thereto setting forth the |
19 | | district's expectations for removing each
school from academic |
20 | | early warning or academic watch status and for improving
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21 | | student performance in the affected school or schools. |
22 | | Districts operating
under
Article 34 of this Code may prepare |
23 | | the School Improvement Plan required under
Section 34-2.4 of |
24 | | this Code.
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25 | | The revised School Improvement Plan for a school
that is |
26 | | initially placed on academic early warning status
or that |
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1 | | remains on
academic early warning status after a third annual |
2 | | calculation
must be approved by
the
school board (and by the |
3 | | school's local school council in a district operating
under |
4 | | Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation |
5 | | pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code).
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6 | | The revised School Improvement Plan for a school that is |
7 | | initially placed on
academic watch status after a fourth annual |
8 | | calculation must be approved by the
school board (and by the |
9 | | school's local school council in a district operating
under |
10 | | Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation |
11 | | pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code).
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12 | | The revised School Improvement Plan for a school that |
13 | | remains on
academic watch status after a fifth annual |
14 | | calculation must be approved by the
school board (and by the |
15 | | school's local school council in a district operating
under |
16 | | Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation |
17 | | pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code).
In |
18 | | addition, the district must develop a school restructuring plan |
19 | | for the
school that
must
be approved by the school board (and |
20 | | by the school's local school council in a
district operating |
21 | | under Article 34 of this Code).
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22 | | A school on academic watch status that does not meet |
23 | | adequate yearly
progress criteria for a sixth annual |
24 | | calculation shall implement its approved
school restructuring |
25 | | plan beginning with the next school year, subject to the
State
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26 | | interventions specified in Section 2-3.25f of this Code.
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1 | | (b) Beginning with the 2005-2006 school year, unless the |
2 | | federal government formally disapproves of such policy through |
3 | | the submission and review process for the Illinois |
4 | | Accountability Workbook, those
school districts that do not |
5 | | meet adequate yearly progress
criteria for 2 consecutive
annual
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6 | | calculations in the same subject or in their participation |
7 | | rate, attendance rate, or graduation rate shall be placed on |
8 | | academic early warning status for the next
school year. |
9 | | Districts on academic early warning status that do not meet
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10 | | adequate yearly progress criteria for a third annual |
11 | | calculation in the same subject or in their participation rate, |
12 | | attendance rate, or graduation rate
shall remain
on
academic |
13 | | early warning status. Districts on academic early warning |
14 | | status that
do not meet adequate yearly progress criteria for a |
15 | | fourth annual calculation
in the same subject or in their |
16 | | participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation rate shall
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17 | | be placed on initial academic watch status. Districts on |
18 | | academic watch status
that do not meet adequate yearly progress |
19 | | criteria for a fifth or subsequent
annual calculation in the |
20 | | same subject or in their participation rate, attendance rate, |
21 | | or graduation rate shall remain on academic watch status. |
22 | | Districts on academic
early warning or academic watch status |
23 | | that meet adequate yearly progress
criteria for one annual |
24 | | calculation shall be
considered
as having met expectations and |
25 | | shall be removed from any status designation.
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26 | | A district placed on either academic early warning status |
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1 | | or academic
watch status may appeal the status to the State |
2 | | Board of Education in
accordance with Section 2-3.25m of this |
3 | | Code.
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4 | | Districts on academic early warning or academic watch |
5 | | status shall
prepare a District Improvement Plan or amendments |
6 | | thereto setting forth the
district's expectations for removing |
7 | | the district from academic early warning
or
academic watch |
8 | | status and for improving student performance in the district.
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9 | | All
District Improvement Plans must be approved by the |
10 | | school board.
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11 | | (c) All new and revised School and District Improvement |
12 | | Plans shall be developed
in collaboration with parents, staff |
13 | | in the affected school or school district, and outside experts. |
14 | | All
revised
School and District Improvement Plans shall be |
15 | | developed, submitted, and
monitored pursuant to rules adopted |
16 | | by the State Board of Education. The
revised Improvement Plan |
17 | | shall address measurable outcomes for improving
student |
18 | | performance so that such performance meets adequate yearly |
19 | | progress
criteria as specified by the State Board of Education |
20 | | and shall include a staff professional development plan |
21 | | developed in cooperation with staff . All school districts |
22 | | required to revise a School Improvement Plan in accordance with |
23 | | this Section shall establish a peer review process for the |
24 | | evaluation of School Improvement Plans.
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25 | | (d) All federal requirements apply to schools and school |
26 | | districts utilizing
federal funds under Title I, Part A of the |
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1 | | federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965. |
2 | | (e) The State Board of Education, from any moneys it may |
3 | | have available for this purpose, must implement
and administer |
4 | | a grant
program that provides 2-year grants to school districts |
5 | | on the academic watch
list and other school districts that have |
6 | | the lowest achieving students, as
determined by the State Board |
7 | | of Education, to be
used to improve student achievement.
In |
8 | | order
to receive a
grant under this program, a school district |
9 | | must establish an accountability
program. The
accountability |
10 | | program must involve the use of statewide testing standards and
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11 | | local
evaluation measures. A grant shall be automatically |
12 | | renewed when achievement
goals are met. The Board may adopt any |
13 | | rules necessary to implement and
administer this grant program.
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14 | | (f) In addition to any moneys available under subsection |
15 | | (e) of this Section, a school district required to maintain |
16 | | School and District Improvement Plans under this Section, |
17 | | including a school district organized under Article 34 of this |
18 | | Code, shall annually receive from the State, subject to |
19 | | appropriation, an amount equal to $150 times the number of |
20 | | full-time certified teachers and administrators it employs for |
21 | | developing and implementing its mandatory School and District |
22 | | Improvement Plans, including its staff professional |
23 | | development plan. |
24 | | (Source: P.A. 96-734, eff. 8-25-09.)
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25 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d-5 new) |
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1 | | Sec. 2-3.25d-5. Educational improvement plan. |
2 | | (a) Except for school districts required to develop School |
3 | | and District Improvement Plans under Section 2-3.25d of this |
4 | | Code, each school district shall develop, in compliance with |
5 | | rules promulgated by the State Board of Education, an |
6 | | educational improvement plan that must include (i) measures for |
7 | | improving school district, school building, and individual |
8 | | student performance and (ii) a staff professional development |
9 | | plan developed at least in cooperation with staff or, if |
10 | | applicable, the exclusive bargaining representatives of the |
11 | | staff. The district shall develop the educational improvement |
12 | | plan in collaboration with parents, staff, and the staff's |
13 | | exclusive bargaining representatives, if any. |
14 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.153 new) |
15 | | Sec. 2-3.153. The Digital Learning Technology Grant |
16 | | Program. |
17 | | (a) As used in this Section, unless the context otherwise |
18 | | requires, "information technology education" means education |
19 | | in the
development, design, use, maintenance, repair, and |
20 | | application of
information technology systems or equipment, |
21 | | including, but not limited
to, computers, the Internet, |
22 | | telecommunications devices and networks,
and multi-media |
23 | | techniques. |
24 | | (b) There is created the Digital Learning Technology Grant |
25 | | Program to provide money to school districts and charter |
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1 | | schools to use in integrating information technology and |
2 | | scientific equipment as tools to measurably improve teaching |
3 | | and learning in grades 9 through 12 in this State's public |
4 | | schools. The State Board of Education shall administer the |
5 | | grant program through the acceptance, review, and |
6 | | recommendation of applications submitted pursuant to this |
7 | | Section. |
8 | | (c) Grants awarded through the grant program created under |
9 | | this Section shall continue for 4 fiscal years and may be |
10 | | renewed as provided by rule of the State Board of Education. |
11 | | Grants awarded through the program shall be paid out of any |
12 | | money appropriated or credited to the Digital Learning |
13 | | Technology Grant Fund. A school district or charter school |
14 | | shall use any moneys obtained through the grant program to |
15 | | integrate information technology education into the 9th grade |
16 | | through 12th grade curriculum. In the case of a school |
17 | | district, such integration shall be accomplished in one or more |
18 | | public
schools in the district. The school district or charter |
19 | | school may contract with one or more private entities for |
20 | | assistance in integrating information technology education |
21 | | into the curriculum. In addition, school districts and charter |
22 | | schools are encouraged to partner with businesses for |
23 | | assistance in integrating information technology education |
24 | | into the curriculum. |
25 | | (d) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules for the
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26 | | administration and implementation of the grant program created |
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1 | | under this Section. Subject to appropriation, the grants shall |
2 | | be awarded through the program for the 2010-2011 school year |
3 | | and annually thereafter. |
4 | | (e) Any school district or charter school that seeks to |
5 | | participate in the grant program created under this Section |
6 | | shall submit an application to the
State Board of Education in |
7 | | the form and according to the deadlines
established by rule of |
8 | | the State Board of Education. The application
shall include the |
9 | | following information: |
10 | | (1) if the applicant is a school district, the names of |
11 | | the schools that will receive the benefits of the grant; |
12 | | (2) the current level of information technology |
13 | | education
integration at the recipient schools; |
14 | | (3) the school district's or charter school's plan for |
15 | | integrating information technology education into the 9th |
16 | | grade through 12th grade curriculum, including any |
17 | | specific method or program to be used, and any entities |
18 | | with whom the school district or charter school plans to |
19 | | contract or cooperate in achieving the integration; |
20 | | (4) the specific, measurable goals to be achieved and |
21 | | the
actual deliverables to be produced through the |
22 | | integration of
information technology education into the |
23 | | curriculum, a deadline
for achieving those goals, and a |
24 | | proposed method of measuring
whether the goals were |
25 | | achieved; |
26 | | (5) any businesses with which the school district or |
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1 | | charter school has partnered to improve the availability |
2 | | and integration of information technology education within |
3 | | the curriculum; and |
4 | | (6) any other information that may be specified by rule |
5 | | of
the State Board of Education. |
6 | | (f) In recommending and awarding grants through the |
7 | | program, the State Board of Education shall consider the |
8 | | following criteria: |
9 | | (1) the degree to which information technology |
10 | | education is
already integrated into the curriculum of the |
11 | | applying school
district or charter school to ensure that |
12 | | those school districts and charter schools with the least |
13 | | degree of integration receive the grants first; |
14 | | (2) the degree to which the applicant's proposed plan |
15 | | for using the grant moneys will
result in integration of |
16 | | information technology tools and
scientific equipment in a |
17 | | manner that measurably improves
teaching and learning; |
18 | | (3) the validity, clarity, and measurability of the |
19 | | goals
established by the applicant and
the validity of the |
20 | | proposed methods for measuring achievement of
the goals; |
21 | | (4) the accountability system of specific measures and
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22 | | deliverables to determine a baseline and annually assess
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23 | | improvements in teaching and learning; |
24 | | (5) any other financial resources available to the |
25 | | applicant for integrating information technology education |
26 | | into the curriculum; |
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1 | | (6) the degree to which the applicant
is cooperating or |
2 | | partnering with businesses to
improve the availability and |
3 | | integration of information
technology education in the |
4 | | curriculum; the State Board of
Education shall apply this |
5 | | criteria with the goal of encouraging
such partnerships; |
6 | | (7) the strength and capacity of the applicant to |
7 | | collaborate with the science, technology, engineering
and |
8 | | mathematics education center network under Section 4.5 of |
9 | | the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Law and to
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10 | | provide open source networking with other public
schools in |
11 | | this State; and |
12 | | (8) any other criteria established by rule of the State
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13 | | Board of Education to ensure that grants are awarded to |
14 | | school
districts and charter schools that demonstrate the |
15 | | greatest need
and the most valid, effective plan for |
16 | | integrating information
technology education into the |
17 | | curriculum. |
18 | | (g) In awarding grants through the grant program, the State |
19 | | Board
of Education shall ensure, to the extent possible, that |
20 | | the grants are
awarded to school districts and charter schools |
21 | | in all areas of this State. |
22 | | (h) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to limit or
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23 | | otherwise affect any school district's ability to enter into an
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24 | | agreement with or receive funds from any private entity. |
25 | | (i) Each school district and charter school that receives a |
26 | | grant
through the grant program created under this Section |
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1 | | shall, by August 1 of the school year for which the grant was |
2 | | awarded, submit to the State Board of Education a report |
3 | | specifying the following information: |
4 | | (1) the manner in which the grant moneys were used; |
5 | | (2) the progress made toward achieving the goals |
6 | | specified
in the grant recipient's application; |
7 | | (3) any additional entities and businesses with whom |
8 | | the
grant recipient has contracted or partnered with the |
9 | | goal of
achieving greater integration of information |
10 | | technology education
in the 9th grade through 12th grade |
11 | | curriculum; |
12 | | (4) the recipient school district's and charter |
13 | | school's plan
for continuing the integration of |
14 | | information technology
education into the curriculum, |
15 | | regardless of whether the grant is
renewed; and |
16 | | (5) any other information specified by rule of the |
17 | | State
Board of Education. |
18 | | (j) Notwithstanding subsection (i) of this Section, a |
19 | | recipient school need not submit a report for any academic year |
20 | | in which no grants are made through the grant program. |
21 | | (k) The Digital Learning Technology Grant Fund is created |
22 | | as a special fund in the State treasury. All money in the Fund |
23 | | shall be used, subject to appropriation, by the State Board of |
24 | | Education for the purpose of funding grants under this Section. |
25 | | (l) The State Board of Education may solicit and accept |
26 | | money in
the form of gifts, contributions, and grants to be |
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1 | | deposited into the Digital Learning Technology Grant Fund. The |
2 | | acceptance of federal grants for purposes of this Section does |
3 | | not commit State funds nor place an obligation upon the General |
4 | | Assembly to continue the purposes for which the federal funds |
5 | | are made available. |
6 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.154 new) |
7 | | Sec. 2-3.154. Best practices clearinghouse. |
8 | | (a) Beginning July 1, 2011 and subject to appropriation, |
9 | | the State Board of Education shall establish an online
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10 | | clearinghouse of information relating to best practices of |
11 | | campuses and
school districts regarding instruction, public |
12 | | school finance, resource
allocation, and business practices. |
13 | | To the extent practicable, the
State Board of Education shall |
14 | | ensure that information provided through
the online |
15 | | clearinghouse is specific, actionable information relating
to |
16 | | the best practices of high-performing and highly efficient |
17 | | school
districts rather than general guidelines relating to |
18 | | school district
operation. The information must be accessible |
19 | | by school districts and
interested members of the public. |
20 | | (b) The State Board of Education shall solicit and collect |
21 | | from
exemplary or recognized school districts, charter |
22 | | schools,
and other institutions determined by the State Board |
23 | | of Education
examples of best practices relating to |
24 | | instruction, public school
finance, resource allocation, and |
25 | | business practices, including best
practices relating to |
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1 | | curriculum, scope and sequence, compensation and
incentive |
2 | | systems, bilingual education and special language programs,
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3 | | compensatory education programs, and the effective use of |
4 | | instructional
technology, including online courses. |
5 | | (c) The State Board of Education may contract for the |
6 | | services of one or more third-party contractors to develop, |
7 | | implement, and maintain a system of collecting and evaluating |
8 | | the best practices of campuses and
school districts as provided |
9 | | by this Section. In addition to any other
considerations |
10 | | required by law, the State Board of Education must
consider an |
11 | | applicant's demonstrated competence and qualifications in
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12 | | analyzing school district practices in awarding a contract |
13 | | under this
subsection (c). |
14 | | (d) The State Board of Education may purchase from |
15 | | available funds curriculum and other instructional tools |
16 | | identified under this Section to provide for use by school |
17 | | districts. |
18 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.155 new) |
19 | | Sec. 2-3.155. The Science, Technology, Engineering, and |
20 | | Mathematics Education Center Grant Program. |
21 | | (a) As used in this Section, unless the context otherwise |
22 | | requires: |
23 | | "Grant program" means the science, technology, |
24 | | engineering,
and mathematics education center grant program |
25 | | created in this Section. |
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1 | | "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
2 | | education" or "STEM" means learning experiences that integrate |
3 | | innovative curricular,
instructional, and assessment |
4 | | strategies and materials, laboratory and
mentorship |
5 | | experiences, and authentic inquiry-based and problem
centered |
6 | | instruction to stimulate learning in the areas of science,
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7 | | technology, engineering, and mathematics. |
8 | | "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
9 | | education
innovation center" means a center operated by a |
10 | | school district,
a charter school, the Illinois Mathematics and |
11 | | Science Academy, or a joint collaborative partnership that |
12 | | provides STEM
teaching and learning experiences, materials, |
13 | | laboratory and mentorship
experiences, and educational |
14 | | seminars, institutes or workshops for
students and teachers. |
15 | | (b) Subject to appropriation, the Illinois Mathematics and |
16 | | Science Academy, in consultation
and partnership with the State |
17 | | Board of Education, the
Board of Higher Education, the business |
18 | | community, the
entrepreneurial technology community, and |
19 | | professionals, including
teachers, in the field of science, |
20 | | technology, engineering, and
mathematics shall create a |
21 | | strategic plan for developing a whole
systems approach to |
22 | | redesigning prekindergarten through grade 12 STEM education in |
23 | | this State, including, but not limited to, designing and |
24 | | creating integrative teaching and learning networks among |
25 | | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics innovation |
26 | | education centers, university and corporate research |
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1 | | facilities, and established STEM laboratories, businesses, and |
2 | | the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. |
3 | | (c) At a minimum, the plan shall provide direction for |
4 | | program
design and development, including the following: |
5 | | (1) continuous generation and sharing of curricular,
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6 | | instructional, assessment, and program development |
7 | | materials and
information about STEM teaching and learning |
8 | | throughout the
network; |
9 | | (2) identification of curricular, instructional, and
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10 | | assessment goals that reflect the research in cognition and |
11 | | the
development of creativity in STEM fields and the |
12 | | systemic changes
in STEM education, so as to be consistent |
13 | | with inquiry-based and
problem-centered instruction in |
14 | | science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics. Such |
15 | | goals shall also reflect current
frameworks, standards, |
16 | | and guidelines, such as those defined by
the National |
17 | | Research Council (National Academy of Science), the
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18 | | American Association for the Advancement of Science, the |
19 | | National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National |
20 | | Science Teachers
Association, and professional |
21 | | associations in STEM fields; |
22 | | (3) identification of essential teacher competencies |
23 | | and
a comprehensive plan for recruiting, mentoring, and |
24 | | retaining STEM
teachers, especially those in |
25 | | under-resourced schools and school
districts; creation of |
26 | | a community of practice among STEM center
educators and |
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1 | | other teachers of science, technology, engineering,
and |
2 | | mathematics as part of a network of promising practices in
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3 | | teaching; and the establishment of recruitment, mentoring, |
4 | | and retention plans
for Golden Apple teachers in STEM |
5 | | fields and Illinois
STEM teachers who have received |
6 | | national board certification and
are also part of the STEM |
7 | | innovation network; |
8 | | (4) a statement of desired competencies for STEM |
9 | | learning
by students; |
10 | | (5) a description of recommended courses of action to
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11 | | improve educational experiences, programs, practices, and
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12 | | service; |
13 | | (6) the improvement of access and availability of STEM
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14 | | courses, especially for rural school districts and |
15 | | particularly
to those groups which are traditionally |
16 | | underrepresented through
the Illinois Virtual High School; |
17 | | the plan shall include goals
for using telecommunications |
18 | | facilities as recommended by a
telecommunications advisory |
19 | | commission; |
20 | | (7) expectations and guidelines for designing and
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21 | | developing a dynamic, creative, and engaged teaching |
22 | | network; |
23 | | (8) a description of the laboratory and incubator model |
24 | | for
the STEM centers; |
25 | | (9) support for innovation and entrepreneurship in
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26 | | curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional |
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1 | | development;
and |
2 | | (10) cost estimates. |
3 | | (d) The plan shall provide a framework that enables the
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4 | | teachers, school districts, and institutions of higher |
5 | | education to
operate as an integrated system. The plan shall |
6 | | provide innovative
mechanisms and incentives to the following: |
7 | | (1) educational providers, as well as professional
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8 | | associations, business and university partners, and |
9 | | educational
receivers (students and teachers) at the |
10 | | prekindergarten through grade 12 and postsecondary levels |
11 | | to design and implement innovative curricula, including |
12 | | experiences, mentorships, institutes, and seminars and to |
13 | | develop new materials and activities for these; |
14 | | (2) course providers and receivers for leveraging |
15 | | distance
learning technologies through the Illinois |
16 | | Virtual High School
and applying distance learning |
17 | | instructional design techniques,
taking into consideration |
18 | | the work of a telecommunications
advisory commission; |
19 | | (3) prekindergarten through grade 12 teachers to |
20 | | encourage them to take graduate STEM courses and degree |
21 | | programs; such incentives may include a tuition matching |
22 | | program; |
23 | | (4) appropriate State agencies, federal agencies,
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24 | | professional organizations, public television stations, |
25 | | and
businesses and industries to involve them in the |
26 | | development of the strategic plan; and |
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1 | | (5) businesses, industries, and individuals for |
2 | | volunteering
their time and community resources. |
3 | | (e) The plan shall provide a mechanism for incorporating |
4 | | the cost
for accomplishing these goals into the ongoing |
5 | | operating budget
beginning in 2012. |
6 | | (f) There is created the Science and Technology Education
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7 | | Center Grant Program to provide development and operating |
8 | | moneys in the form of matching funds for existing or proposed |
9 | | nonprofit STEM
education centers. At a minimum, each STEM |
10 | | center that receives a
grant shall not only provide STEM |
11 | | education activities to students
enrolled in the school |
12 | | district or charter school and materials and educational |
13 | | workshops to teachers employed by the school district or |
14 | | charter school,
but also, as part of generative and innovative |
15 | | teaching and learning
network, shall share information with all |
16 | | STEM centers, the Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy, and |
17 | | partner associations or businesses. |
18 | | (g) School districts, charter schools, the Illinois |
19 | | Mathematics and Science Academy, and joint collaborative |
20 | | partnerships may establish science and
technology education |
21 | | centers or may contract with regional offices of
education, |
22 | | intermediate service centers, public community colleges, |
23 | | 4-year institutions of higher education,
non-profit or |
24 | | for-profit education providers, youth service agencies,
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25 | | community-based organizations, or other appropriate entities |
26 | | to
establish science and technology education centers within |
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1 | | the public
school system. Districts and charter schools may |
2 | | individually operate
alternative learning opportunities |
3 | | programs or may collaborate with 2
or more districts or charter |
4 | | schools or do both to create and operate
science and technology |
5 | | education centers. |
6 | | (h) Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, the State |
7 | | Board
of Education shall, subject to available appropriations, |
8 | | annually award
one or more science, technology, engineering, |
9 | | and mathematics education center grants for the development and |
10 | | operation of STEM centers. |
11 | | A school district, a charter school, the Illinois |
12 | | Mathematics and Science Academy, or a joint collaborative |
13 | | partnership may apply for a STEM center grant pursuant to |
14 | | procedures and time lines specified by rule of the State Board |
15 | | of Education. |
16 | | (i) The State Board of Education, in selecting one or more |
17 | | school
districts, charter schools, or joint collaborative |
18 | | partnerships or the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy |
19 | | for receipt of a grant, shall give priority to applicants that |
20 | | are geographically located farthest from other STEM centers or |
21 | | applicants that have less opportunity for science,
technology, |
22 | | engineering, and mathematics resource support. The State
Board |
23 | | shall also consider the following factors: |
24 | | (1) the facility, equipment, and technology that are or
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25 | | will be provided and the activities and range of programs |
26 | | that
are or will be offered by the STEM education center; |
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1 | | (2) the strength and capacity of the school district or |
2 | | charter school to work as a network cooperatively with the |
3 | | Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, other STEM |
4 | | centers, universities and STEM laboratories, businesses, |
5 | | and industries; and |
6 | | (3) recommendations of the Illinois P-20 Council and |
7 | | the Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy. |
8 | | (j) A STEM center grant shall be payable from moneys
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9 | | appropriated to the STEM Education Center Grant Fund. |
10 | | The State Board of Education shall specify the amount
to be |
11 | | awarded to each school district, charter school, or joint |
12 | | collaborative partnership that is selected to receive a grant |
13 | | and to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, if |
14 | | selected to receive a grant. The amount awarded to a new STEM |
15 | | center for start-up costs shall not exceed $1,000,000 for the |
16 | | first fiscal year and may not be renewed. The amount awarded to |
17 | | an operating STEM center for operating costs shall not exceed |
18 | | $500,000 for one fiscal year and shall be renewed annually for |
19 | | 5 consecutive years if the STEM center is meeting its |
20 | | accountability goals and its role as an active partner in a |
21 | | generative teaching and learning network. |
22 | | (k) Each school district, charter school, or joint |
23 | | collaborative partnership that receives a grant pursuant to the |
24 | | grant program and the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, |
25 | | if selected to receive a grant, shall demonstrate, prior to |
26 | | receiving any actual moneys, that the center has received or |
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1 | | has a written commitment for matching funds from other public |
2 | | or private sources in the amount of a dollar-for-dollar match |
3 | | with the amount of the grant. This requirement may be waived |
4 | | upon application to and approval by the State Board of |
5 | | Education based
on a showing of continued need or financial |
6 | | hardship. |
7 | | (l) The State Board of Education shall promulgate such |
8 | | rules as are required in this Section and such additional rules |
9 | | as may be required
for implementation of the grant program. |
10 | | (m) Each school district or charter school that receives a |
11 | | grant through the grant program shall, by the close of each |
12 | | school year for
which the grant was awarded, submit to the |
13 | | Illinois Mathematics and
Science Academy and the State Board of |
14 | | Education a report specifying
the following information: |
15 | | (1) the manner in which the grant money was used; |
16 | | (2) the progress made toward achieving the goals and
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17 | | producing the deliverables specified in the grant |
18 | | recipient's
application; |
19 | | (3) any additional entities and businesses with whom |
20 | | the
grant recipient has contracted or partnered with the |
21 | | goal of
achieving greater integration of information |
22 | | technology education
in prekindergarten through grade 12 |
23 | | curriculum; |
24 | | (4) the recipient school district's or charter |
25 | | school's plan
for continuing the integration of |
26 | | information technology
education into the curriculum, |
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1 | | regardless of whether the grant is
renewed; |
2 | | (5) the documentation demonstrating effective digital
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3 | | collaboration and networking, technological cooperation |
4 | | and
sharing, and personal networking via innovative, |
5 | | entrepreneurial
networks; |
6 | | (6) a description of innovative instructional methods; |
7 | | (7) evidence of staff training and outreach to teachers
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8 | | beyond those working in the STEM education center; and |
9 | | (8) any other information specified by rule of the |
10 | | State
Board of Education. |
11 | | (n) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, a |
12 | | recipient school need not submit a report for any academic year |
13 | | in
which no grants are made through the grant program. |
14 | | (o) The STEM Education Center Grant Fund is created as a |
15 | | special fund in the State treasury. All money in the Fund shall |
16 | | be used, subject to appropriation, by the State Board of |
17 | | Education for the purpose of funding science, technology, |
18 | | engineering, and mathematics education center grants awarded |
19 | | under this Section. |
20 | | (p) The State Board of Education may solicit and accept |
21 | | money in
the form of gifts, contributions, and grants to be |
22 | | deposited in the
STEM Education Center Grant Fund. The |
23 | | acceptance of federal grants for purposes of this Section does |
24 | | not commit State funds nor place an obligation upon the General |
25 | | Assembly to continue the purposes for which the federal funds |
26 | | are made available. |
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1 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.156 new) |
2 | | Sec. 2-3.156. School Improvement Partnership Pool Fund |
3 | | (a) The School Improvement Partnership Pool Fund is created |
4 | | as a special fund in the State treasury. All interest earned on |
5 | | moneys in the Fund shall be deposited into the Fund. The School |
6 | | Improvement Partnership Pool Fund shall not be subject to |
7 | | sweeps, administrative charges, or charge-backs, such as, but |
8 | | not limited to, those authorized under Section 8h of the State |
9 | | Finance Act, nor any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver that |
10 | | would in any way transfer any funds from the School Improvement |
11 | | Partnership Pool Fund into any other fund of the State. |
12 | | (b) Beginning in Fiscal Year 2013, moneys in the School |
13 | | Improvement Partnership Pool Fund shall be used, subject to |
14 | | appropriation, by the State Board of Education for a |
15 | | competitive grant program to provide school districts with |
16 | | demonstrated academic and financial need quality, integrated |
17 | | support systems, such as training for staff, tutoring programs |
18 | | for students, small school initiatives, literacy coaching, |
19 | | proven programs such as reduced class size, extended learning |
20 | | time, and after school and summer school programs, programs to |
21 | | engage parents, and other systems as determined by the State |
22 | | Board of Education. |
23 | | (c) School districts eligible to apply to the State Board |
24 | | of Education for a grant under subsection (b) of this Section |
25 | | shall be limited to those (i) with any school that has not met |
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1 | | adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind |
2 | | Act of 2001 for at least 2 consecutive years or (ii) that have |
3 | | been designated through the State Board of Education's School |
4 | | District Financial Profile System as on financial warning or |
5 | | financial watch status. The State Board may, by rule, establish |
6 | | any additional procedures with respect to this grant program. |
7 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.157 new) |
8 | | Sec. 2-3.157. Resource management service. |
9 | | (a) Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education |
10 | | shall establish and
maintain an Internet web-based resource |
11 | | management service for all school districts on or before July |
12 | | 1, 2015. If no State funds are provided to school districts |
13 | | specifically for implementation of this Section, school |
14 | | districts are relieved from implementing all requirements |
15 | | under this Section. |
16 | | (b) The resource management service shall identify |
17 | | resource
configurations that contribute to improving internal |
18 | | resources for
instructional programs, provide action-oriented |
19 | | analysis and solutions,
and give school districts the ability |
20 | | to explore different scenarios of
resource allocation. |
21 | | (c) Annually, by the first day of October, an Internet |
22 | | web-based preliminary resource allocation report must be |
23 | | generated for each school district and delivered via the |
24 | | Internet to each district superintendent for use by the |
25 | | management team and the exclusive bargaining agents of the |
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1 | | school district's employees. This report shall identify |
2 | | potential cost savings or resource reallocation opportunities |
3 | | for the district in 5 core
areas of school district spending. |
4 | | These core areas are instruction, operation and maintenance, |
5 | | transportation, food service, and
central services. This |
6 | | analysis shall show district spending in detailed
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7 | | subcategories compared to demographically or operationally |
8 | | similar peer
school districts. The web-based resource |
9 | | allocation reports generated under this Section constitute |
10 | | preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations, memoranda, and |
11 | | other records in which opinions are expressed or policies or |
12 | | actions are formulated and therefore exempt from disclosure |
13 | | under subdivision (f) of subsection (1) of Section 7 of the |
14 | | Freedom of Information Act. |
15 | | (d) Each school district shall have the ability through the |
16 | | on-line resource allocation report to test various resource |
17 | | allocation scenarios
relative to pre-defined peers as well as |
18 | | geographic peers and the most
efficient peers statewide. Each |
19 | | district shall have the ability
to choose specific combinations |
20 | | of districts for comparison. |
21 | | (e) The resource management service shall contain, based on |
22 | | the
spending and demographic profile of the school district, |
23 | | action-oriented information, such as effective best practices |
24 | | in schools
districts, diagnostic questions, and other |
25 | | management or community
considerations that may be implemented |
26 | | to capture savings identified in
the resource allocation |
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1 | | report. |
2 | | (f) The resource management service may be initiated and |
3 | | maintained through a contract between the State Board of |
4 | | Education and an independent third party specializing in school |
5 | | market research within this State and the United States. Any |
6 | | contract with a third party must be awarded through the State |
7 | | Board of Education's standard request for proposal procedure. |
8 | | Up to 25% of the annual appropriation may be allocated by the |
9 | | State Board of Education to hire personnel and facilitate data |
10 | | collection. No less than 25% of the annual appropriation shall |
11 | | be
utilized by the State Board of Education to deliver training |
12 | | to school
district personnel in the use of the management |
13 | | service. Such training
shall be delivered by certificated |
14 | | school business officials or
State Board of Education trained |
15 | | personnel and may be provided through administrator academies |
16 | | and mentoring programs. The State Board of Education may |
17 | | establish contracts with other organizations to provide such |
18 | | training and mentoring. |
19 | | In the event that a district does not employ a certificated |
20 | | school business official, if State funds are provided |
21 | | specifically for this purpose, at least one employee must be |
22 | | trained
and certified in the use of the resource management |
23 | | service. In
addition, a representative of the exclusive |
24 | | bargaining agents of the
school district's employees shall be |
25 | | invited to be trained and
certified. |
26 | | (g) The State Board of Education shall identify the data |
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1 | | required to
implement the resource management service and |
2 | | develop annual data
reporting instruments designed to collect |
3 | | the information from each
school district. |
4 | | The State Board of Education may provide grants to school |
5 | | districts to permit those school districts to develop and |
6 | | implement a plan for a shared services agreement in the |
7 | | following areas: operation and maintenance and central |
8 | | services. |
9 | | (h) Annually, the certificated school business official or |
10 | | resource management service trained employee in each school |
11 | | district shall review and certify that the resource allocation |
12 | | report has been received and reviewed by the management team |
13 | | and the exclusive bargaining agent of the district. |
14 | | Subsequently, a report must be filed with the State Board of |
15 | | Education identifying the considerations that will be studied |
16 | | as a result of such analysis. In addition, any implementation |
17 | | of strategies or reallocation of resources associated with the |
18 | | resource management service must be annually reported to the |
19 | | Board of Education, the exclusive bargaining agents of the |
20 | | school district's employees, and, subsequently, the State |
21 | | Board of Education. The State Board shall annually prepare a |
22 | | cumulative report to be posted electronically containing those |
23 | | initiatives studied and implemented on a statewide basis.
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24 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 3-7)
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25 | | Sec. 3-7. Failure to prepare and forward information.
If |
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1 | | the trustees of schools of any township in Class II county |
2 | | school
units, or any school district which forms a part of a |
3 | | Class II county
school unit but which is not subject to the |
4 | | jurisdiction of the trustees of
schools of any township in |
5 | | which such district is located, or any
school district in any |
6 | | Class I county school units fail to
prepare and forward or |
7 | | cause to be prepared and forwarded to the regional
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8 | | superintendent of schools, reports required by this Act, the |
9 | | regional
superintendent of schools shall furnish such |
10 | | information or he shall
employ a person or persons to furnish |
11 | | such information, as far as
practicable. Such person shall have |
12 | | access to the books, records and
papers of the school district |
13 | | to enable him or them to prepare such
reports, and the school |
14 | | district shall permit such person or persons to
examine such |
15 | | books, records and papers at such time and such place as
such |
16 | | person or persons may desire for the purpose aforesaid. For |
17 | | such
services the regional superintendent of schools shall bill |
18 | | the district an
amount to cover the cost of preparation of such |
19 | | reports if he employs a
person to prepare such reports.
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20 | | Each school district shall, as of June 30 of each year, |
21 | | cause an audit
of its accounts to be made by a person lawfully |
22 | | qualified to practice
public accounting as regulated by the |
23 | | Illinois Public Accounting Act. Such
audit shall include (i) |
24 | | development of a risk assessment of district internal controls, |
25 | | (ii) an annual review and update of the risk assessment, and |
26 | | (iii) an annual management letter that analyzes significant |
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1 | | risk assessment findings, recommends changes for strengthening |
2 | | controls and reducing identified risks, and specifies |
3 | | timeframes for implementation of these recommendations, as |
4 | | well as financial statements of the district applicable to the
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5 | | type of records required by other sections of this Act and in |
6 | | addition
shall set forth the scope of audit and shall include |
7 | | the professional
opinion signed by the auditor, or if such an |
8 | | opinion is denied by the
auditor, shall set forth the reasons |
9 | | for such denial. Each school district
shall on or before |
10 | | October 15 of each year, submit an original and one copy
of the |
11 | | such audit to the regional superintendent of schools in the |
12 | | educational
service region having jurisdiction in which case |
13 | | the regional
superintendent of schools shall be relieved of |
14 | | responsibility in regard to
the accounts of the school |
15 | | district. If any school district fails to supply
the regional |
16 | | superintendent of schools with a copy of such audit report on
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17 | | or before October 15, or within such time extended by the |
18 | | regional
superintendent of schools from that date, not to |
19 | | exceed 60 days, then it
shall be the responsibility of the |
20 | | regional superintendent of schools
having jurisdiction to |
21 | | cause such audit to be made by employing an
accountant licensed |
22 | | to practice in the State of Illinois to conduct such
audit and |
23 | | shall bill the district for such services, or shall with the
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24 | | personnel of his office make such audit to his satisfaction and |
25 | | bill the
district for such service. In the latter case, if the |
26 | | audit is made by
personnel employed in the office of the |
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1 | | regional superintendent of schools
having jurisdiction, then |
2 | | the regional superintendent of schools shall not
be relieved of |
3 | | the responsibility as to the accountability of the school
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4 | | district. The copy of the audit shall be forwarded by the |
5 | | regional
superintendent to the State Board of Education on or |
6 | | before November 15 of
each year and shall be filed by the State |
7 | | Board of Education. Beginning on July 1, 2012, all school |
8 | | districts shall utilize a competitive request for proposals |
9 | | process at least once every 5 years when contracting for such |
10 | | an annual audit, provided that school districts with existing |
11 | | contracts of less than 5 years in length that are in effect on |
12 | | July 1, 2012 shall utilize a competitive request for proposals |
13 | | process when contracting for an annual audit after the |
14 | | expiration date of the existing contract.
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15 | | Each school district that is the administrative district |
16 | | for several
school districts operating under a joint agreement |
17 | | as authorized by this
Act shall, as of June 30 each year, cause |
18 | | an audit of the accounts of the
joint agreement to be made by a |
19 | | person lawfully qualified to practice
public accounting as |
20 | | regulated by the Illinois Public Accounting Act. Such
audit |
21 | | shall include (i) development of a risk assessment of district |
22 | | internal controls, (ii) an annual review and update of the risk |
23 | | assessment, and (iii) an annual management letter that analyzes |
24 | | significant risk assessment findings, recommends changes for |
25 | | strengthening controls and reducing identified risks, and |
26 | | specifies timeframes for implementation of these |
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1 | | recommendations, as well as financial statements of the |
2 | | operation of the joint
agreement applicable to the type of |
3 | | records required by this Act and, in
addition, shall set forth |
4 | | the scope of the audit and shall include the
professional |
5 | | opinion signed by the auditor, or if such an opinion is
denied, |
6 | | the auditor shall set forth the reason for such denial. Each
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7 | | administrative district of a joint agreement shall on or before |
8 | | October 15
each year, submit an original and one copy of such |
9 | | audit to the regional
superintendent of schools in the |
10 | | educational service region having
jurisdiction in which case |
11 | | the regional superintendent of schools shall be
relieved of |
12 | | responsibility in regard to the accounts of the joint
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13 | | agreement. The copy of the audit shall be forwarded by the |
14 | | regional
superintendent to the State Board of Education on or |
15 | | before November 15 of
each year and shall be filed by the State |
16 | | Board of Education. The cost of
such an audit shall be |
17 | | apportioned among and paid by the several districts
who are |
18 | | parties to the joint agreement, in the same manner as
other |
19 | | costs and expenses accruing to the districts jointly. Beginning |
20 | | on July 1, 2012, all school districts operating under a joint |
21 | | agreement shall utilize a competitive request for proposals |
22 | | process at least once every 5 years when contracting for such |
23 | | an annual audit, provided that all school districts operating |
24 | | under a joint agreement with existing contracts of less than 5 |
25 | | years in length that are in effect on July 1, 2012 shall |
26 | | utilize a competitive request for proposals process when |
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1 | | contracting for an annual audit after the expiration date of |
2 | | the existing contract.
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3 | | The State Board of Education shall determine the adequacy
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4 | | of the audits. All audits shall be kept on file in the office |
5 | | of the
State Board of Education.
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6 | | (Source: P.A. 86-1441; 87-473 .)
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7 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-16.10 new) |
8 | | Sec. 10-16.10. Board member leadership training. |
9 | | (a) This Section shall apply to all school board
members |
10 | | serving pursuant to Section 10-10 of this Code who have been |
11 | | elected on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act |
12 | | of the 97th General Assembly or appointed to fill a vacancy of
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13 | | at least one year's duration on or after the effective date of |
14 | | this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. |
15 | | (b) It is the policy of this State to encourage every |
16 | | voting member of a board of education of a school district |
17 | | elected or appointed for a term beginning on or after
the |
18 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General |
19 | | Assembly, within a year after the effective date of this |
20 | | amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly or the first year |
21 | | of his or her term, to complete a minimum of 4 hours of |
22 | | professional development leadership training covering topics |
23 | | in education and labor law, financial oversight and |
24 | | accountability, and fiduciary responsibilities of a school |
25 | | board member. |
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1 | | (c) The training on financial oversight, accountability, |
2 | | and fiduciary responsibilities may be provided by an |
3 | | association established under this Code for the purpose of |
4 | | training school board members or by other qualified providers |
5 | | approved by the State Board of Education, in conjunction with |
6 | | an association so established.
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7 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
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8 | | Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability.
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9 | | (1) Policy and
Purpose. It shall be the policy of the State |
10 | | of Illinois that each school
district in this State, including |
11 | | special charter districts and districts
subject to the |
12 | | provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents, taxpayers
of |
13 | | such district, the Governor, the General Assembly, and the |
14 | | State
Board of Education a school report card assessing the |
15 | | performance of its
schools and students. The report card shall |
16 | | be an index of school
performance measured against statewide |
17 | | and local standards and will provide
information to make prior |
18 | | year comparisons and to set future year targets
through the |
19 | | school improvement plan.
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20 | | (2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall |
21 | | prepare a report
card in accordance with the guidelines set |
22 | | forth in this Section which
describes the performance of its |
23 | | students by school attendance centers and
by district and the |
24 | | district's financial resources and use of financial
resources. |
25 | | Such report
card shall be presented at a regular school board |
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1 | | meeting subject to
applicable notice requirements,
posted on |
2 | | the
school district's Internet web site, if the district |
3 | | maintains an Internet web
site,
made available
to a newspaper |
4 | | of general circulation serving the district, and, upon
request, |
5 | | sent
home to a parent (unless the district does not maintain an |
6 | | Internet web site,
in which case
the report card shall be sent |
7 | | home to parents without request). If the
district posts the |
8 | | report card on its Internet web
site, the district
shall send a
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9 | | written notice home to parents stating (i) that the report card |
10 | | is available on
the web site,
(ii) the address of the web site, |
11 | | (iii) that a printed copy of the report card
will be sent to
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12 | | parents upon request, and (iv) the telephone number that |
13 | | parents may
call to
request a printed copy of the report card.
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14 | | In addition, each school district shall submit the
completed |
15 | | report card to the office of the district's Regional
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16 | | Superintendent which shall make copies available to any |
17 | | individuals
requesting them.
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18 | | The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior |
19 | | to October 31
in each school year. The report card shall |
20 | | contain, but
not be limited to, actual local school attendance |
21 | | center, school district
and statewide data indicating the |
22 | | present performance of the school, the
State norms and the |
23 | | areas for planned improvement for the school and school
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24 | | district.
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25 | | (3) (a) The report card shall include the following |
26 | | applicable
indicators of attendance center, district, and |
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1 | | statewide student
performance: percent of students who exceed, |
2 | | meet, or do not meet
standards established by the
State Board |
3 | | of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a; longitudinal data |
4 | | system assessment estimates for each district, subject to a |
5 | | statewide longitudinal data system being established and data |
6 | | being available; composite and subtest
means on
nationally |
7 | | normed achievement tests for
college bound students; student |
8 | | attendance rates; chronic
truancy rate; dropout rate;
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9 | | graduation rate;
and student
mobility, turnover
shown as a |
10 | | percent of transfers out and a percent of transfers in.
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11 | | (b) The report card shall include the following |
12 | | descriptions for the
school,
district, and State: average
class |
13 | | size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics, science,
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14 | | English and social science at primary,
middle and junior high |
15 | | school grade levels;
number of students taking the Prairie |
16 | | State Achievement Examination under
subsection (c) of
Section |
17 | | 2-3.64, the number of those students who received a score of |
18 | | excellent,
and
the average score by school of students taking |
19 | | the examination;
pupil-teacher ratio; pupil-administrator |
20 | | ratio;
operating expenditure per
pupil; district expenditure |
21 | | by fund; average administrator salary; and average
teacher |
22 | | salary.
The report card shall also specify the amount of money |
23 | | that the district
receives from all sources, including without |
24 | | limitation subcategories
specifying the amount from local |
25 | | property taxes, the amount from
general State aid, the amount |
26 | | from other State funding, and the amount
from other income.
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1 | | (c) The report card shall include applicable indicators of |
2 | | parental
involvement in each attendance center. The parental |
3 | | involvement component
of the report card shall include the |
4 | | percentage of students whose parents
or guardians have had one |
5 | | or more personal contacts with the students'
teachers during |
6 | | the school year concerning the students' education, and such
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7 | | other information, commentary, and suggestions as the school |
8 | | district
desires. For the purposes of this paragraph, "personal |
9 | | contact" includes,
but is not limited to, parent-teacher |
10 | | conferences, parental visits to
school, school visits to home, |
11 | | telephone conversations, and written
correspondence. The |
12 | | parental involvement component shall not single out or
identify |
13 | | individual students, parents, or guardians by name.
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14 | | (d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State |
15 | | Board of
Education and provided to school districts by the most |
16 | | efficient, economic,
and appropriate means.
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17 | | (e) The report card shall include an indicator describing |
18 | | whether the school district has improved, declined, or remained |
19 | | stable in the aggregate percentage of students making at least |
20 | | one-year's academic growth each year, subject to a statewide |
21 | | longitudinal data system being established and data being |
22 | | available. |
23 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
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24 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-17b new) |
25 | | Sec. 10-17b. Financial policies. Beginning with the second |
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1 | | fiscal year after the effective date of this amendatory Act of |
2 | | the 97th General Assembly, each school board shall adopt a |
3 | | formal, written financial policy. The policy may include |
4 | | information in the following areas: |
5 | | (1) Debt capacity, issuance, and management. |
6 | | (2) Capital asset management. |
7 | | (3) Reserve or stabilization fund goals. |
8 | | (4) Periodic budget to actual comparison reports. |
9 | | (5) Fees and charges. |
10 | | (6) The use of one-time revenue. |
11 | | (7) Risk management related to internal controls. |
12 | | (8) Purchasing. |
13 | | (9) Vehicle acquisition and maintenance. |
14 | | The school board shall make the policy publicly available. |
15 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-17c new) |
16 | | Sec. 10-17c. Long-term financial plan. Beginning with the |
17 | | second fiscal year after the effective date of this amendatory |
18 | | Act of the 97th General Assembly, each school board shall |
19 | | develop a long-term financial plan that extends over at least a |
20 | | 3-year period and that is updated and approved annually. The |
21 | | plan must include multi-year forecasts of revenues, |
22 | | expenditures, and debt. The school board may make the plan |
23 | | available to the public by publishing it as a separate document |
24 | | and submitting it with the annual budget or by posting the plan |
25 | | as a document on the school district's Internet website, if |
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1 | | any. The forecasts that are the foundation of the plan must be |
2 | | available to participants in the budget process before |
3 | | budgetary decisions are made. The public must be provided |
4 | | opportunities for providing dialog with respect to the |
5 | | long-term financial planning process. Public access and review |
6 | | shall take place as part of the official budget hearing process |
7 | | in accordance with Section 17-1 of this Code, which requires |
8 | | the posting of notice and making documents available to the |
9 | | general public at least 30 days in advance of the budget |
10 | | hearing. |
11 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-17d new) |
12 | | Sec. 10-17d. Capital improvement plan. Beginning with the |
13 | | second fiscal year after the effective date of this amendatory |
14 | | Act of the 97th General Assembly, each school board shall |
15 | | develop a 5-year capital improvement plan that is updated and |
16 | | approved annually. The plan must include a summary list of the |
17 | | description of the capital projects to be completed over the |
18 | | next 5 years, along with projected expenditures, and revenue |
19 | | sources. The school board shall make the plan available to the |
20 | | public. The school board shall hold a public hearing on the |
21 | | capital improvement plan, which hearing may be held at a |
22 | | regularly scheduled meeting of the board. This hearing shall be |
23 | | held in the same manner and subject to the same notice and |
24 | | other requirements as the public hearing required prior to |
25 | | adoption of the budget in conformity with Section 17-1 of this |
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1 | | Code, which requires the posting of notice and making documents |
2 | | available to the general public at least 30 days in advance of |
3 | | the budget hearing. |
4 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-20.53 new) |
5 | | Sec. 10-20.53. School district financial accountability. |
6 | | (a) A school board shall annually include a user-friendly |
7 | | executive summary as part of the district's budget. The |
8 | | executive summary shall include all of the following: |
9 | | (1) The district's major goals and objectives. |
10 | | (2) A discussion of the major financial factors and |
11 | | trends affecting the budget, such as changes in revenues, |
12 | | enrollment, and debt. |
13 | | (3) A description of the budget process. |
14 | | (4) An overview of revenues and expenditures for all |
15 | | funds, including at least 3 to 5 years of prior and future |
16 | | trends, based on data from the annual financial report. |
17 | | (5) An explanation of significant financial and |
18 | | demographic trends. |
19 | | (6) An explanation of the reasons for a budget deficit |
20 | | and an explanation of how the deficit is being addressed in |
21 | | accordance with Section 17-1 of this Code. |
22 | | (7) A budget forecast for at least 3 to 5 years in the |
23 | | future. |
24 | | (8) Student enrollment trends, including a future |
25 | | forecast. |
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1 | | (9) The number of personnel by type. |
2 | | (10) Changes in both the long term and short term debt |
3 | | burden. |
4 | | (b) Beginning with the second fiscal year after the |
5 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General |
6 | | Assembly, a school board shall annually include in the full |
7 | | budget document the following items; any or all of the |
8 | | following items may be published as separate documents provided |
9 | | that they are explicitly referenced in the annual budget and |
10 | | attached thereto and provided that they are made publicly |
11 | | available at the same time as the tentative budget document: |
12 | | (1) An organizational chart. |
13 | | (2) Formal financial policies pursuant to Section |
14 | | 10-17b of this Code. |
15 | | (3) The district's long-term financial plan pursuant |
16 | | to Section 10-17c of this Code or a summary of the |
17 | | long-term financial plan. |
18 | | (4) The district's capital improvement plan pursuant |
19 | | to Section 10-17d of this Code or a summary of the capital |
20 | | improvement plan.
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21 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-22.45) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.45)
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22 | | Sec. 10-22.45. A school board shall To establish an audit |
23 | | committee, which may include and to appoint members
of the |
24 | | board , or other appropriate officers , or persons who do not |
25 | | serve on the board to the committee , to review audit
reports |
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1 | | and any other financial reports and documents, including |
2 | | management
letters prepared by or on behalf of the board. |
3 | | Nothing in this Section prohibits a school district from |
4 | | maintaining its own internal audit function.
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5 | | (Source: P.A. 82-644.)
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6 | | (105 ILCS 5/17-2.11d new) |
7 | | Sec. 17-2.11d. Non-referendum bonds. Upon the |
8 | | certification of an architect and subsequent approval by the |
9 | | regional superintendent of schools and the State Board of |
10 | | Education, a board of education governing a school district |
11 | | having not more than 500,000 inhabitants may issue |
12 | | non-referendum bonds for the purposes described in Section 19-3 |
13 | | of this Code. Such bonds may be issued in excess of any |
14 | | statutory limitation as to debt prescribed in Article 19 of |
15 | | this Code.
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16 | | (105 ILCS 5/18-8.05)
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17 | | Sec. 18-8.05. Basis for apportionment of general State |
18 | | financial aid and
supplemental general State aid to the common |
19 | | schools for the 1998-1999 and
subsequent school years.
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20 | | (A) General Provisions. |
21 | | (1) The provisions of this Section apply to the 1998-1999 |
22 | | and subsequent
school years. The system of general State |
23 | | financial aid provided for in this
Section
is designed to |
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1 | | assure that, through a combination of State financial aid and
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2 | | required local resources, the financial support provided each |
3 | | pupil in Average
Daily Attendance equals or exceeds a
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4 | | prescribed per pupil Foundation Level. This formula approach |
5 | | imputes a level
of per pupil Available Local Resources and |
6 | | provides for the basis to calculate
a per pupil level of |
7 | | general State financial aid that, when added to Available
Local |
8 | | Resources, equals or exceeds the Foundation Level. The
amount |
9 | | of per pupil general State financial aid for school districts, |
10 | | in
general, varies in inverse
relation to Available Local |
11 | | Resources. Per pupil amounts are based upon
each school |
12 | | district's Average Daily Attendance as that term is defined in |
13 | | this
Section. |
14 | | (2) In addition to general State financial aid, school |
15 | | districts with
specified levels or concentrations of pupils |
16 | | from low income households are
eligible to receive supplemental |
17 | | general State financial aid grants as provided
pursuant to |
18 | | subsection (H).
The supplemental State aid grants provided for |
19 | | school districts under
subsection (H) shall be appropriated for |
20 | | distribution to school districts as
part of the same line item |
21 | | in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is |
22 | | appropriated under this Section. |
23 | | (3) To receive financial assistance under this Section, |
24 | | school districts
are required to file claims with the State |
25 | | Board of Education, subject to the
following requirements: |
26 | | (a) Any school district which fails for any given |
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1 | | school year to maintain
school as required by law, or to |
2 | | maintain a recognized school is not
eligible to file for |
3 | | such school year any claim upon the Common School
Fund. In |
4 | | case of nonrecognition of one or more attendance centers in |
5 | | a
school district otherwise operating recognized schools, |
6 | | the claim of the
district shall be reduced in the |
7 | | proportion which the Average Daily
Attendance in the |
8 | | attendance center or centers bear to the Average Daily
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9 | | Attendance in the school district. A "recognized school" |
10 | | means any
public school which meets the standards as |
11 | | established for recognition
by the State Board of |
12 | | Education. A school district or attendance center
not |
13 | | having recognition status at the end of a school term is |
14 | | entitled to
receive State aid payments due upon a legal |
15 | | claim which was filed while
it was recognized. |
16 | | (b) School district claims filed under this Section are |
17 | | subject to
Sections 18-9 and 18-12, except as otherwise |
18 | | provided in this
Section. |
19 | | (c) If a school district operates a full year school |
20 | | under Section
10-19.1, the general State aid to the school |
21 | | district shall be determined
by the State Board of |
22 | | Education in accordance with this Section as near as
may be |
23 | | applicable. |
24 | | (d) (Blank). |
25 | | (4) Except as provided in subsections (H) and (L), the |
26 | | board of any district
receiving any of the grants provided for |
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1 | | in this Section may apply those funds
to any fund so received |
2 | | for which that board is authorized to make expenditures
by law. |
3 | | School districts are not required to exert a minimum |
4 | | Operating Tax Rate in
order to qualify for assistance under |
5 | | this Section. |
6 | | (5) As used in this Section the following terms, when |
7 | | capitalized, shall
have the meaning ascribed herein: |
8 | | (a) "Average Daily Attendance": A count of pupil |
9 | | attendance in school,
averaged as provided for in |
10 | | subsection (C) and utilized in deriving per pupil
financial |
11 | | support levels. |
12 | | (b) "Available Local Resources": A computation of |
13 | | local financial
support, calculated on the basis of Average |
14 | | Daily Attendance and derived as
provided pursuant to |
15 | | subsection (D). |
16 | | (c) "Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes": |
17 | | Funds paid to local
school districts pursuant to "An Act in |
18 | | relation to the abolition of ad valorem
personal property |
19 | | tax and the replacement of revenues lost thereby, and
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20 | | amending and repealing certain Acts and parts of Acts in |
21 | | connection therewith",
certified August 14, 1979, as |
22 | | amended (Public Act 81-1st S.S.-1). |
23 | | (d) "Foundation Level": A prescribed level of per pupil |
24 | | financial support
as provided for in subsection (B). |
25 | | (e) "Operating Tax Rate": All school district property |
26 | | taxes extended for
all purposes, except Bond and
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1 | | Summer School, Rent, Capital Improvement, and Vocational |
2 | | Education
Building purposes.
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3 | | (B) Foundation Level. |
4 | | (1) The Foundation Level is a figure established by the |
5 | | State representing
the minimum level of per pupil financial |
6 | | support that should be available to
provide for the basic |
7 | | education of each pupil in
Average Daily Attendance. As set |
8 | | forth in this Section, each school district
is assumed to exert
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9 | | a sufficient local taxing effort such that, in combination with |
10 | | the aggregate
of general State
financial aid provided the |
11 | | district, an aggregate of State and local resources
are |
12 | | available to meet
the basic education needs of pupils in the |
13 | | district. |
14 | | (2) For the 1998-1999 school year, the Foundation Level of |
15 | | support is
$4,225. For the 1999-2000 school year, the |
16 | | Foundation Level of support is
$4,325. For the 2000-2001 school |
17 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is
$4,425. For the |
18 | | 2001-2002 school year and 2002-2003 school year, the
Foundation |
19 | | Level of support is $4,560. For the 2003-2004 school year, the |
20 | | Foundation Level of support is $4,810. For the 2004-2005 school |
21 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is $4,964.
For the |
22 | | 2005-2006 school year,
the Foundation Level of support is |
23 | | $5,164. For the 2006-2007 school year, the Foundation Level of |
24 | | support is $5,334. For the 2007-2008 school year, the |
25 | | Foundation Level of support is $5,734. For the 2008-2009 school |
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1 | | year, the Foundation Level of support is $5,959. |
2 | | (3) For the 2009-2010 and the 2010-2011 school year and |
3 | | each school year thereafter ,
the Foundation Level of support is |
4 | | $6,119 or such greater amount as
may be established by law by |
5 | | the General Assembly . |
6 | | (4) It is the intention of the 97th General Assembly that |
7 | | the Foundation Level of support be increased to the Education |
8 | | Funding Advisory Board's recommendation for the 2006-2007 |
9 | | school year and be inflation adjusted to the 2013-2014 school |
10 | | year, which would create a Foundation Level of $8,410, and that |
11 | | this Foundation Level of support be reached as soon as |
12 | | practicable using the additional revenue generated by the tax |
13 | | increases provided by Public Act 96-1496. |
14 | | For the 2011-2012 school year, the Foundation Level of |
15 | | support is $6,190. For each school year thereafter, the |
16 | | Foundation Level of support shall be no less than $6,190.
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17 | | (C) Average Daily Attendance. |
18 | | (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant |
19 | | to subsection
(E), an Average Daily Attendance figure shall be |
20 | | utilized. The Average Daily
Attendance figure for formula
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21 | | calculation purposes shall be the monthly average of the actual |
22 | | number of
pupils in attendance of
each school district, as |
23 | | further averaged for the best 3 months of pupil
attendance for |
24 | | each
school district. In compiling the figures for the number |
25 | | of pupils in
attendance, school districts
and the State Board |
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1 | | of Education shall, for purposes of general State aid
funding, |
2 | | conform
attendance figures to the requirements of subsection |
3 | | (F). |
4 | | (2) The Average Daily Attendance figures utilized in |
5 | | subsection (E) shall be
the requisite attendance data for the |
6 | | school year immediately preceding
the
school year for which |
7 | | general State aid is being calculated
or the average of the |
8 | | attendance data for the 3 preceding school
years, whichever is |
9 | | greater. The Average Daily Attendance figures
utilized in |
10 | | subsection (H) shall be the requisite attendance data for the
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11 | | school year immediately preceding the school year for which |
12 | | general
State aid is being calculated.
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13 | | (D) Available Local Resources. |
14 | | (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid pursuant |
15 | | to subsection
(E), a representation of Available Local |
16 | | Resources per pupil, as that term is
defined and determined in |
17 | | this subsection, shall be utilized. Available Local
Resources |
18 | | per pupil shall include a calculated
dollar amount representing |
19 | | local school district revenues from local property
taxes and |
20 | | from
Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes, expressed |
21 | | on the basis of pupils
in Average
Daily Attendance. Calculation |
22 | | of Available Local Resources shall exclude any tax amnesty |
23 | | funds received as a result of Public Act 93-26. |
24 | | (2) In determining a school district's revenue from local |
25 | | property taxes,
the State Board of Education shall utilize the |
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1 | | equalized assessed valuation of
all taxable property of each |
2 | | school
district as of September 30 of the previous year. The |
3 | | equalized assessed
valuation utilized shall
be obtained and |
4 | | determined as provided in subsection (G). |
5 | | (3) For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten |
6 | | through 12, local
property tax
revenues per pupil shall be |
7 | | calculated as the product of the applicable
equalized assessed
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8 | | valuation for the district multiplied by 3.00%, and divided by |
9 | | the district's
Average Daily
Attendance figure. For school |
10 | | districts maintaining grades kindergarten
through 8, local
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11 | | property tax revenues per pupil shall be calculated as the |
12 | | product of the
applicable equalized
assessed valuation for the |
13 | | district multiplied by 2.30%, and divided by the
district's |
14 | | Average
Daily Attendance figure. For school districts |
15 | | maintaining grades 9 through 12,
local property
tax revenues |
16 | | per pupil shall be the applicable equalized assessed valuation |
17 | | of
the district
multiplied by 1.05%, and divided by the |
18 | | district's Average Daily
Attendance
figure. |
19 | | For partial elementary unit districts created pursuant to |
20 | | Article 11E of this Code, local property tax revenues per pupil |
21 | | shall be calculated as the product of the equalized assessed |
22 | | valuation for property within the partial elementary unit |
23 | | district for elementary purposes, as defined in Article 11E of |
24 | | this Code, multiplied by 2.06% and divided by the district's |
25 | | Average Daily Attendance figure, plus the product of the |
26 | | equalized assessed valuation for property within the partial |
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1 | | elementary unit district for high school purposes, as defined |
2 | | in Article 11E of this Code, multiplied by 0.94% and divided by |
3 | | the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
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4 | | (4) The Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes paid |
5 | | to each school
district during the calendar year one year |
6 | | before the calendar year in which a
school year begins, divided |
7 | | by the Average Daily Attendance figure for that
district, shall |
8 | | be added to the local property tax revenues per pupil as
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9 | | derived by the application of the immediately preceding |
10 | | paragraph (3). The sum
of these per pupil figures for each |
11 | | school district shall constitute Available
Local Resources as |
12 | | that term is utilized in subsection (E) in the calculation
of |
13 | | general State aid.
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14 | | (E) Computation of General State Aid. |
15 | | (1) For each school year, the amount of general State aid |
16 | | allotted to a
school district shall be computed by the State |
17 | | Board of Education as provided
in this subsection. |
18 | | (2) For any school district for which Available Local |
19 | | Resources per pupil
is less than the product of 0.93 times the |
20 | | Foundation Level, general State aid
for that district shall be |
21 | | calculated as an amount equal to the Foundation
Level minus |
22 | | Available Local Resources, multiplied by the Average Daily
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23 | | Attendance of the school district. |
24 | | (3) For any school district for which Available Local |
25 | | Resources per pupil
is equal to or greater than the product of |
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1 | | 0.93 times the Foundation Level and
less than the product of |
2 | | 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid
per |
3 | | pupil shall be a decimal proportion of the Foundation Level |
4 | | derived using a
linear algorithm. Under this linear algorithm, |
5 | | the calculated general State
aid per pupil shall decline in |
6 | | direct linear fashion from 0.07 times the
Foundation Level for |
7 | | a school district with Available Local Resources equal to
the |
8 | | product of 0.93 times the Foundation Level, to 0.05 times the |
9 | | Foundation
Level for a school district with Available Local |
10 | | Resources equal to the product
of 1.75 times the Foundation |
11 | | Level. The allocation of general
State aid for school districts |
12 | | subject to this paragraph 3 shall be the
calculated general |
13 | | State aid
per pupil figure multiplied by the Average Daily |
14 | | Attendance of the school
district. |
15 | | (4) For any school district for which Available Local |
16 | | Resources per pupil
equals or exceeds the product of 1.75 times |
17 | | the Foundation Level, the general
State aid for the school |
18 | | district shall be calculated as the product of $218
multiplied |
19 | | by the Average Daily Attendance of the school
district. |
20 | | (5) The amount of general State aid allocated to a school |
21 | | district for
the 1999-2000 school year meeting the requirements |
22 | | set forth in paragraph (4)
of subsection
(G) shall be increased |
23 | | by an amount equal to the general State aid that
would have |
24 | | been received by the district for the 1998-1999 school year by
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25 | | utilizing the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed |
26 | | Valuation as calculated
in paragraph (4) of subsection (G) less |
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1 | | the general State aid allotted for the
1998-1999
school year. |
2 | | This amount shall be deemed a one time increase, and shall not
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3 | | affect any future general State aid allocations.
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4 | | (F) Compilation of Average Daily Attendance. |
5 | | (1) Each school district shall, by July 1 of each year, |
6 | | submit to the State
Board of Education, on forms prescribed by |
7 | | the State Board of Education,
attendance figures for the school |
8 | | year that began in the preceding calendar
year. The attendance |
9 | | information so transmitted shall identify the average
daily |
10 | | attendance figures for each month of the school year. Beginning |
11 | | with
the general State aid claim form for the 2002-2003 school
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12 | | year, districts shall calculate Average Daily Attendance as |
13 | | provided in
subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of this paragraph |
14 | | (1). |
15 | | (a) In districts that do not hold year-round classes,
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16 | | days of attendance in August shall be added to the month of |
17 | | September and any
days of attendance in June shall be added |
18 | | to the month of May. |
19 | | (b) In districts in which all buildings hold year-round |
20 | | classes,
days of attendance in July and August shall be |
21 | | added to the month
of September and any days of attendance |
22 | | in June shall be added to
the month of May. |
23 | | (c) In districts in which some buildings, but not all, |
24 | | hold
year-round classes, for the non-year-round buildings, |
25 | | days of
attendance in August shall be added to the month of |
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and any days of attendance in June shall be added |
2 | | to the month of
May. The average daily attendance for the |
3 | | year-round buildings
shall be computed as provided in |
4 | | subdivision (b) of this paragraph
(1). To calculate the |
5 | | Average Daily Attendance for the district, the
average |
6 | | daily attendance for the year-round buildings shall be
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7 | | multiplied by the days in session for the non-year-round |
8 | | buildings
for each month and added to the monthly |
9 | | attendance of the
non-year-round buildings. |
10 | | Except as otherwise provided in this Section, days of
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11 | | attendance by pupils shall be counted only for sessions of not |
12 | | less than
5 clock hours of school work per day under direct |
13 | | supervision of: (i)
teachers, or (ii) non-teaching personnel or |
14 | | volunteer personnel when engaging
in non-teaching duties and |
15 | | supervising in those instances specified in
subsection (a) of |
16 | | Section 10-22.34 and paragraph 10 of Section 34-18, with
pupils |
17 | | of legal school age and in kindergarten and grades 1 through |
18 | | 12. |
19 | | Days of attendance by tuition pupils shall be accredited |
20 | | only to the
districts that pay the tuition to a recognized |
21 | | school. |
22 | | (2) Days of attendance by pupils of less than 5 clock hours |
23 | | of school
shall be subject to the following provisions in the |
24 | | compilation of Average
Daily Attendance. |
25 | | (a) Pupils regularly enrolled in a public school for |
26 | | only a part of
the school day may be counted on the basis |
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1 | | of 1/6 day for every class hour
of instruction of 40 |
2 | | minutes or more attended pursuant to such enrollment,
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3 | | unless a pupil is
enrolled in a block-schedule format of 80 |
4 | | minutes or more of instruction,
in which case the pupil may |
5 | | be counted on the basis of the proportion of
minutes of |
6 | | school work completed each day to the minimum number of
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7 | | minutes that school work is required to be held that day. |
8 | | (b) Days of attendance may be less than 5 clock hours |
9 | | on the opening
and closing of the school term, and upon the |
10 | | first day of pupil
attendance, if preceded by a day or days |
11 | | utilized as an institute or
teachers' workshop. |
12 | | (c) A session of 4 or more clock hours may be counted |
13 | | as a day of
attendance upon certification by the regional |
14 | | superintendent, and
approved by the State Superintendent |
15 | | of Education to the extent that the
district has been |
16 | | forced to use daily multiple sessions. |
17 | | (d) A session of 3 or more clock hours may be counted |
18 | | as a day of
attendance (1) when the remainder of the school |
19 | | day or at least
2 hours in the evening of that day is |
20 | | utilized for an
in-service training program for teachers, |
21 | | up to a maximum of 5 days per
school year, provided a |
22 | | district conducts an in-service
training program for |
23 | | teachers in accordance with Section 10-22.39 of this Code; |
24 | | or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may
be used, in |
25 | | which event each such day
may be counted as a day required |
26 | | for a legal school calendar pursuant to Section 10-19 of |
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1 | | this Code; (1.5) when, of the 5 days allowed under item |
2 | | (1), a maximum of 4 days are used for parent-teacher |
3 | | conferences, or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days are |
4 | | used, in which case each such day may be counted as a |
5 | | calendar day required under Section 10-19 of this Code, |
6 | | provided that the full-day, parent-teacher conference |
7 | | consists of (i) a minimum of 5 clock hours of |
8 | | parent-teacher conferences, (ii) both a minimum of 2 clock |
9 | | hours of parent-teacher conferences held in the evening |
10 | | following a full day of student attendance, as specified in |
11 | | subsection (F)(1)(c), and a minimum of 3 clock hours of |
12 | | parent-teacher conferences held on the day immediately |
13 | | following evening parent-teacher conferences, or (iii) |
14 | | multiple parent-teacher conferences held in the evenings |
15 | | following full days of student attendance, as specified in |
16 | | subsection (F)(1)(c), in which the time used for the |
17 | | parent-teacher conferences is equivalent to a minimum of 5 |
18 | | clock hours; and (2) when days in
addition to
those |
19 | | provided in items (1) and (1.5) are scheduled by a school |
20 | | pursuant to its school
improvement plan adopted under |
21 | | Article 34 or its revised or amended school
improvement |
22 | | plan adopted under Article 2, provided that (i) such |
23 | | sessions of
3 or more clock hours are scheduled to occur at |
24 | | regular intervals, (ii) the
remainder of the school days in |
25 | | which such sessions occur are utilized
for in-service |
26 | | training programs or other staff development activities |
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1 | | for
teachers, and (iii) a sufficient number of minutes of |
2 | | school work under the
direct supervision of teachers are |
3 | | added to the school days between such
regularly scheduled |
4 | | sessions to accumulate not less than the number of minutes
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5 | | by which such sessions of 3 or more clock hours fall short |
6 | | of 5 clock hours.
Any full days used for the purposes of |
7 | | this paragraph shall not be considered
for
computing |
8 | | average daily attendance. Days scheduled for in-service |
9 | | training
programs, staff development activities, or |
10 | | parent-teacher conferences may be
scheduled separately for |
11 | | different
grade levels and different attendance centers of |
12 | | the district. |
13 | | (e) A session of not less than one clock hour of |
14 | | teaching
hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or by |
15 | | telephone to the classroom may
be counted as 1/2 day of |
16 | | attendance, however these pupils must receive 4 or
more |
17 | | clock hours of instruction to be counted for a full day of |
18 | | attendance. |
19 | | (f) A session of at least 4 clock hours may be counted |
20 | | as a day of
attendance for first grade pupils, and pupils |
21 | | in full day kindergartens,
and a session of 2 or more hours |
22 | | may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance by
pupils in |
23 | | kindergartens which provide only 1/2 day of attendance. |
24 | | (g) For children with disabilities who are below the |
25 | | age of 6 years and
who
cannot attend 2 or more clock hours |
26 | | because of their disability or
immaturity, a session of not |
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1 | | less than one clock hour may be counted as 1/2 day
of |
2 | | attendance; however for such children whose educational |
3 | | needs so require
a session of 4 or more clock hours may be |
4 | | counted as a full day of attendance. |
5 | | (h) A recognized kindergarten which provides for only |
6 | | 1/2 day of
attendance by each pupil shall not have more |
7 | | than 1/2 day of attendance
counted in any one day. However, |
8 | | kindergartens may count 2 1/2 days
of
attendance in any 5 |
9 | | consecutive school days. When a pupil attends such a
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10 | | kindergarten for 2 half days on any one school day, the |
11 | | pupil shall have
the following day as a day absent from |
12 | | school, unless the school district
obtains permission in |
13 | | writing from the State Superintendent of Education.
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14 | | Attendance at kindergartens which provide for a full day of |
15 | | attendance by
each pupil shall be counted the same as |
16 | | attendance by first grade pupils.
Only the first year of |
17 | | attendance in one kindergarten shall be counted,
except in |
18 | | case of children who entered the kindergarten in their |
19 | | fifth year
whose educational development requires a second |
20 | | year of kindergarten as
determined under the rules and |
21 | | regulations of the State Board of Education. |
22 | | (i) On the days when the Prairie State Achievement |
23 | | Examination is
administered under subsection (c) of |
24 | | Section 2-3.64 of this Code, the day
of attendance for a |
25 | | pupil whose school
day must be shortened to accommodate |
26 | | required testing procedures may
be less than 5 clock hours |
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1 | | and shall be counted towards the 176 days of actual pupil |
2 | | attendance required under Section 10-19 of this Code, |
3 | | provided that a sufficient number of minutes
of school work |
4 | | in excess of 5 clock hours are first completed on other |
5 | | school
days to compensate for the loss of school work on |
6 | | the examination days.
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7 | | (G) Equalized Assessed Valuation Data. |
8 | | (1) For purposes of the calculation of Available Local |
9 | | Resources required
pursuant to subsection (D), the
State Board |
10 | | of Education shall secure from the Department of
Revenue the |
11 | | value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue of
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12 | | all taxable property of every school district, together with |
13 | | (i) the applicable
tax rate used in extending taxes for the |
14 | | funds of the district as of
September 30 of the previous year
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15 | | and (ii) the limiting rate for all school
districts subject to |
16 | | property tax extension limitations as imposed under the
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17 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
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18 | | The Department of Revenue shall add to the equalized |
19 | | assessed value of all
taxable
property of each school district |
20 | | situated entirely or partially within a county
that is or was |
21 | | subject to the
provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the |
22 | | Property Tax Code (a)
an amount equal to the total amount by |
23 | | which the
homestead exemption allowed under Section 15-176 or |
24 | | 15-177 of the Property Tax Code for
real
property situated in |
25 | | that school district exceeds the total amount that would
have |
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allowed in that school district if the maximum reduction |
2 | | under Section 15-176
was
(i) $4,500 in Cook County or $3,500 in |
3 | | all other counties in tax year 2003 or (ii) $5,000 in all |
4 | | counties in tax year 2004 and thereafter and (b) an amount |
5 | | equal to the aggregate amount for the taxable year of all |
6 | | additional exemptions under Section 15-175 of the Property Tax |
7 | | Code for owners with a household income of $30,000 or less. The |
8 | | county clerk of any county that is or was subject to the |
9 | | provisions of Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code |
10 | | shall
annually calculate and certify to the Department of |
11 | | Revenue for each school
district all
homestead exemption |
12 | | amounts under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code |
13 | | and all amounts of additional exemptions under Section 15-175 |
14 | | of the Property Tax Code for owners with a household income of |
15 | | $30,000 or less. It is the intent of this paragraph that if the |
16 | | general homestead exemption for a parcel of property is |
17 | | determined under Section 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax |
18 | | Code rather than Section 15-175, then the calculation of |
19 | | Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the |
20 | | difference, if any, between the amount of the general homestead |
21 | | exemption allowed for that parcel of property under Section |
22 | | 15-176 or 15-177 of the Property Tax Code and the amount that |
23 | | would have been allowed had the general homestead exemption for |
24 | | that parcel of property been determined under Section 15-175 of |
25 | | the Property Tax Code. It is further the intent of this |
26 | | paragraph that if additional exemptions are allowed under |
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1 | | Section 15-175 of the Property Tax Code for owners with a |
2 | | household income of less than $30,000, then the calculation of |
3 | | Available Local Resources shall not be affected by the |
4 | | difference, if any, because of those additional exemptions. |
5 | | This equalized assessed valuation, as adjusted further by |
6 | | the requirements of
this subsection, shall be utilized in the |
7 | | calculation of Available Local
Resources. |
8 | | (2) The equalized assessed valuation in paragraph (1) shall |
9 | | be adjusted, as
applicable, in the following manner: |
10 | | (a) For the purposes of calculating State aid under |
11 | | this Section,
with respect to any part of a school district |
12 | | within a redevelopment
project area in respect to which a |
13 | | municipality has adopted tax
increment allocation |
14 | | financing pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation
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15 | | Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1 through 11-74.4-11 |
16 | | of the Illinois
Municipal Code or the Industrial Jobs |
17 | | Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1 through
11-74.6-50 of the |
18 | | Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the current equalized
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19 | | assessed valuation of real property located in any such |
20 | | project area which is
attributable to an increase above the |
21 | | total initial equalized assessed
valuation of such |
22 | | property shall be used as part of the equalized assessed
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23 | | valuation of the district, until such time as all
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24 | | redevelopment project costs have been paid, as provided in |
25 | | Section 11-74.4-8
of the Tax Increment Allocation |
26 | | Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of
the |
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1 | | Industrial Jobs Recovery Law. For the purpose of
the |
2 | | equalized assessed valuation of the
district, the total |
3 | | initial equalized assessed valuation or the current
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4 | | equalized assessed valuation, whichever is lower, shall be |
5 | | used until
such time as all redevelopment project costs |
6 | | have been paid. |
7 | | (b) The real property equalized assessed valuation for |
8 | | a school district
shall be adjusted by subtracting from the |
9 | | real property
value as equalized or assessed by the |
10 | | Department of Revenue for the
district an amount computed |
11 | | by dividing the amount of any abatement of
taxes under |
12 | | Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code by 3.00% for a |
13 | | district
maintaining grades kindergarten through 12, by |
14 | | 2.30% for a district
maintaining grades kindergarten |
15 | | through 8, or by 1.05% for a
district
maintaining grades 9 |
16 | | through 12 and adjusted by an amount computed by dividing
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17 | | the amount of any abatement of taxes under subsection (a) |
18 | | of Section 18-165 of
the Property Tax Code by the same |
19 | | percentage rates for district type as
specified in this |
20 | | subparagraph (b). |
21 | | (3) For the 1999-2000 school year and each school year |
22 | | thereafter, if a
school district meets all of the criteria of |
23 | | this subsection (G)(3), the school
district's Available Local |
24 | | Resources shall be calculated under subsection (D)
using the |
25 | | district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation |
26 | | as
calculated under this
subsection (G)(3). |
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1 | | For purposes of this subsection (G)(3) the following terms |
2 | | shall have
the following meanings: |
3 | | "Budget Year": The school year for which general State |
4 | | aid is calculated
and
awarded under subsection (E). |
5 | | "Base Tax Year": The property tax levy year used to |
6 | | calculate the Budget
Year
allocation of general State aid. |
7 | | "Preceding Tax Year": The property tax levy year |
8 | | immediately preceding the
Base Tax Year. |
9 | | "Base Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of the |
10 | | equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County Clerk |
11 | | in the Base Tax Year multiplied by the
limiting rate as |
12 | | calculated by the County Clerk and defined in the Property |
13 | | Tax
Extension Limitation Law. |
14 | | "Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of |
15 | | the equalized assessed
valuation utilized by the County |
16 | | Clerk in the Preceding Tax Year multiplied by
the Operating |
17 | | Tax Rate as defined in subsection (A). |
18 | | "Extension Limitation Ratio": A numerical ratio, |
19 | | certified by the
County Clerk, in which the numerator is |
20 | | the Base Tax Year's Tax
Extension and the denominator is |
21 | | the Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension. |
22 | | "Operating Tax Rate": The operating tax rate as defined |
23 | | in subsection (A). |
24 | | If a school district is subject to property tax extension |
25 | | limitations as
imposed under
the Property Tax Extension |
26 | | Limitation Law, the State Board of Education shall
calculate |
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Limitation
Equalized Assessed Valuation of that |
2 | | district. For the 1999-2000 school
year, the
Extension |
3 | | Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school district as
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4 | | calculated by the State Board of Education shall be equal to |
5 | | the product of the
district's 1996 Equalized Assessed Valuation |
6 | | and the district's Extension
Limitation Ratio. Except as |
7 | | otherwise provided in this paragraph for a school district that |
8 | | has approved or does approve an increase in its limiting rate, |
9 | | for the 2000-2001 school year and each school year
thereafter,
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10 | | the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a |
11 | | school district as
calculated by the State Board of Education |
12 | | shall be equal to the product of
the Equalized Assessed |
13 | | Valuation last used in the calculation of general State
aid and |
14 | | the
district's Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension |
15 | | Limitation
Equalized
Assessed Valuation of a school district as |
16 | | calculated under
this subsection (G)(3) is less than the |
17 | | district's equalized assessed valuation
as calculated pursuant |
18 | | to subsections (G)(1) and (G)(2), then for purposes of
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19 | | calculating the district's general State aid for the Budget |
20 | | Year pursuant to
subsection (E), that Extension
Limitation |
21 | | Equalized Assessed Valuation shall be utilized to calculate the
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22 | | district's Available Local Resources
under subsection (D). For |
23 | | the 2009-2010 school year and each school year thereafter, if a |
24 | | school district has approved or does approve an increase in its |
25 | | limiting rate, pursuant to Section 18-190 of the Property Tax |
26 | | Code, affecting the Base Tax Year, the Extension Limitation |
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1 | | Equalized Assessed Valuation of the school district, as |
2 | | calculated by the State Board of Education, shall be equal to |
3 | | the product of the Equalized Assessed Valuation last used in |
4 | | the calculation of general State aid times an amount equal to |
5 | | one plus the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price |
6 | | Index for all Urban Consumers for all items published by the |
7 | | United States Department of Labor for the 12-month calendar |
8 | | year preceding the Base Tax Year, plus the Equalized Assessed |
9 | | Valuation of new property, annexed property, and recovered tax |
10 | | increment value and minus the Equalized Assessed Valuation of |
11 | | disconnected property. New property and recovered tax |
12 | | increment value shall have the meanings set forth in the |
13 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. |
14 | | Partial elementary unit districts created in accordance |
15 | | with Article 11E of this Code shall not be eligible for the |
16 | | adjustment in this subsection (G)(3) until the fifth year |
17 | | following the effective date of the reorganization.
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18 | | (3.5) For the 2010-2011 school year and each school year |
19 | | thereafter, if a school district's boundaries span multiple |
20 | | counties, then the Department of Revenue shall send to the |
21 | | State Board of Education, for the purpose of calculating |
22 | | general State aid, the limiting rate and individual rates by |
23 | | purpose for the county that contains the majority of the school |
24 | | district's Equalized Assessed Valuation. |
25 | | (4) For the purposes of calculating general State aid for |
26 | | the 1999-2000
school year only, if a school district |
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1 | | experienced a triennial reassessment on
the equalized assessed |
2 | | valuation used in calculating its general State
financial aid |
3 | | apportionment for the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board of
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4 | | Education shall calculate the Extension Limitation Equalized |
5 | | Assessed Valuation
that would have been used to calculate the |
6 | | district's 1998-1999 general State
aid. This amount shall equal |
7 | | the product of the equalized assessed valuation
used to
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8 | | calculate general State aid for the 1997-1998 school year and |
9 | | the district's
Extension Limitation Ratio. If the Extension |
10 | | Limitation Equalized Assessed
Valuation of the school district |
11 | | as calculated under this paragraph (4) is
less than the |
12 | | district's equalized assessed valuation utilized in |
13 | | calculating
the
district's 1998-1999 general State aid |
14 | | allocation, then for purposes of
calculating the district's |
15 | | general State aid pursuant to paragraph (5) of
subsection (E),
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16 | | that Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation shall |
17 | | be utilized to
calculate the district's Available Local |
18 | | Resources. |
19 | | (5) For school districts having a majority of their |
20 | | equalized assessed
valuation in any county except Cook, DuPage, |
21 | | Kane, Lake, McHenry, or Will, if
the amount of general State |
22 | | aid allocated to the school district for the
1999-2000 school |
23 | | year under the provisions of subsection (E), (H), and (J) of
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24 | | this Section is less than the amount of general State aid |
25 | | allocated to the
district for the 1998-1999 school year under |
26 | | these subsections, then the
general
State aid of the district |
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1 | | for the 1999-2000 school year only shall be increased
by the |
2 | | difference between these amounts. The total payments made under |
3 | | this
paragraph (5) shall not exceed $14,000,000. Claims shall |
4 | | be prorated if they
exceed $14,000,000.
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5 | | (H) Supplemental General State Aid. |
6 | | (1) In addition to the general State aid a school district |
7 | | is allotted
pursuant to subsection (E), qualifying school |
8 | | districts shall receive a grant,
paid in conjunction with a |
9 | | district's payments of general State aid, for
supplemental |
10 | | general State aid based upon the concentration level of |
11 | | children
from low-income households within the school |
12 | | district.
Supplemental State aid grants provided for school |
13 | | districts under this
subsection shall be appropriated for |
14 | | distribution to school districts as part
of the same line item |
15 | | in which the general State financial aid of school
districts is |
16 | | appropriated under this Section.
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17 | | (1.5) This paragraph (1.5) applies only to those school |
18 | | years
preceding the 2003-2004 school year.
For purposes of this
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19 | | subsection (H), the term "Low-Income Concentration Level" |
20 | | shall be the
low-income
eligible pupil count from the most |
21 | | recently available federal census divided by
the Average Daily |
22 | | Attendance of the school district.
If, however, (i) the |
23 | | percentage decrease from the 2 most recent federal
censuses
in |
24 | | the low-income eligible pupil count of a high school district |
25 | | with fewer
than 400 students exceeds by 75% or more the |
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1 | | percentage change in the total
low-income eligible pupil count |
2 | | of contiguous elementary school districts,
whose boundaries |
3 | | are coterminous with the high school district,
or (ii) a high |
4 | | school district within 2 counties and serving 5 elementary
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5 | | school
districts, whose boundaries are coterminous with the |
6 | | high school
district, has a percentage decrease from the 2 most |
7 | | recent federal
censuses in the low-income eligible pupil count |
8 | | and there is a percentage
increase in the total low-income |
9 | | eligible pupil count of a majority of the
elementary school |
10 | | districts in excess of 50% from the 2 most recent
federal |
11 | | censuses, then
the
high school district's low-income eligible |
12 | | pupil count from the earlier federal
census
shall be the number |
13 | | used as the low-income eligible pupil count for the high
school |
14 | | district, for purposes of this subsection (H).
The changes made |
15 | | to this paragraph (1) by Public Act 92-28 shall apply to
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16 | | supplemental general State aid
grants for school years |
17 | | preceding the 2003-2004 school year that are paid
in fiscal |
18 | | year 1999 or thereafter
and to
any State aid payments made in |
19 | | fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year
1998 pursuant to |
20 | | subsection 1(n) of Section 18-8 of this Code (which was
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21 | | repealed on July 1, 1998), and any high school district that is |
22 | | affected by
Public Act 92-28 is
entitled to a
recomputation of |
23 | | its supplemental general State aid grant or State aid
paid in |
24 | | any of those fiscal years. This recomputation shall not be
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25 | | affected by any other funding. |
26 | | (1.10) This paragraph (1.10) applies to the 2003-2004 |
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1 | | school year
and each school year thereafter. For purposes of |
2 | | this subsection (H), the
term "Low-Income Concentration Level" |
3 | | shall, for each fiscal year, be the
low-income eligible
pupil |
4 | | count
as of July 1 of the immediately preceding fiscal year
(as |
5 | | determined by the Department of Human Services based
on the |
6 | | number of pupils
who are eligible for at least one of the |
7 | | following
low income programs: Medicaid, the Children's Health |
8 | | Insurance Program, TANF, or Food Stamps,
excluding pupils who |
9 | | are eligible for services provided by the Department
of |
10 | | Children and Family Services,
averaged over
the 2 immediately |
11 | | preceding fiscal years for fiscal year 2004 and over the 3
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12 | | immediately preceding fiscal years for each fiscal year |
13 | | thereafter)
divided by the Average Daily Attendance of the |
14 | | school district. |
15 | | (2) Supplemental general State aid pursuant to this |
16 | | subsection (H) shall
be
provided as follows for the 1998-1999, |
17 | | 1999-2000, and 2000-2001 school years
only: |
18 | | (a) For any school district with a Low Income |
19 | | Concentration Level of at
least 20% and less than 35%, the |
20 | | grant for any school year
shall be $800
multiplied by the |
21 | | low income eligible pupil count. |
22 | | (b) For any school district with a Low Income |
23 | | Concentration Level of at
least 35% and less than 50%, the |
24 | | grant for the 1998-1999 school year shall be
$1,100 |
25 | | multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count. |
26 | | (c) For any school district with a Low Income |
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1 | | Concentration Level of at
least 50% and less than 60%, the |
2 | | grant for the 1998-99 school year shall be
$1,500 |
3 | | multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count. |
4 | | (d) For any school district with a Low Income |
5 | | Concentration Level of 60%
or more, the grant for the |
6 | | 1998-99 school year shall be $1,900 multiplied by
the low |
7 | | income eligible pupil count. |
8 | | (e) For the 1999-2000 school year, the per pupil amount |
9 | | specified in
subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) immediately |
10 | | above shall be increased to $1,243,
$1,600, and $2,000, |
11 | | respectively. |
12 | | (f) For the 2000-2001 school year, the per pupil |
13 | | amounts specified in
subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) |
14 | | immediately above shall be
$1,273, $1,640, and $2,050, |
15 | | respectively. |
16 | | (2.5) Supplemental general State aid pursuant to this |
17 | | subsection (H)
shall be provided as follows for the 2002-2003 |
18 | | school year: |
19 | | (a) For any school district with a Low Income |
20 | | Concentration Level of less
than 10%, the grant for each |
21 | | school year shall be $355 multiplied by the low
income |
22 | | eligible pupil count. |
23 | | (b) For any school district with a Low Income |
24 | | Concentration
Level of at least 10% and less than 20%, the |
25 | | grant for each school year shall
be $675
multiplied by the |
26 | | low income eligible pupil
count. |
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1 | | (c) For any school district with a Low Income |
2 | | Concentration
Level of at least 20% and less than 35%, the |
3 | | grant for each school year shall
be $1,330
multiplied by |
4 | | the low income eligible pupil
count. |
5 | | (d) For any school district with a Low Income |
6 | | Concentration
Level of at least 35% and less than 50%, the |
7 | | grant for each school year shall
be $1,362
multiplied by |
8 | | the low income eligible pupil
count. |
9 | | (e) For any school district with a Low Income |
10 | | Concentration
Level of at least 50% and less than 60%, the |
11 | | grant for each school year shall
be $1,680
multiplied by |
12 | | the low income eligible pupil
count. |
13 | | (f) For any school district with a Low Income |
14 | | Concentration
Level of 60% or more, the grant for each |
15 | | school year shall be $2,080
multiplied by the low income |
16 | | eligible pupil count. |
17 | | (2.10) Except as otherwise provided, supplemental general |
18 | | State aid
pursuant to this subsection
(H) shall be provided as |
19 | | follows for the 2003-2004 school year and each
school year |
20 | | thereafter: |
21 | | (a) For any school district with a Low Income |
22 | | Concentration
Level of 15% or less, the grant for each |
23 | | school year
shall be $355 multiplied by the low income |
24 | | eligible pupil count. |
25 | | (b) For any school district with a Low Income |
26 | | Concentration
Level greater than 15%, the grant for each |
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1 | | school year shall be
$294.25 added to the product of $2,700 |
2 | | and the square of the Low
Income Concentration Level, all |
3 | | multiplied by the low income
eligible pupil count. |
4 | | For the 2003-2004 school year and each school year |
5 | | thereafter through the 2008-2009 school year only, the grant |
6 | | shall be no less than the
grant
for
the 2002-2003 school year. |
7 | | For the 2009-2010 school year only, the grant shall
be no
less |
8 | | than the grant for the 2002-2003 school year multiplied by |
9 | | 0.66. For the 2010-2011
school year only, the grant shall be no |
10 | | less than the grant for the 2002-2003
school year
multiplied by |
11 | | 0.33. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph to the |
12 | | contrary, if for any school year supplemental general State aid |
13 | | grants are prorated as provided in paragraph (1) of this |
14 | | subsection (H), then the grants under this paragraph shall be |
15 | | prorated.
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16 | | For the 2003-2004 school year only, the grant shall be no |
17 | | greater
than the grant received during the 2002-2003 school |
18 | | year added to the
product of 0.25 multiplied by the difference |
19 | | between the grant amount
calculated under subsection (a) or (b) |
20 | | of this paragraph (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the |
21 | | grant received during the 2002-2003 school year.
For the |
22 | | 2004-2005 school year only, the grant shall be no greater than
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23 | | the grant received during the 2002-2003 school year added to |
24 | | the
product of 0.50 multiplied by the difference between the |
25 | | grant amount
calculated under subsection (a) or (b) of this |
26 | | paragraph (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the grant |
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1 | | received during the 2002-2003 school year.
For the 2005-2006 |
2 | | school year only, the grant shall be no greater than
the grant |
3 | | received during the 2002-2003 school year added to the
product |
4 | | of 0.75 multiplied by the difference between the grant amount
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5 | | calculated under subsection (a) or (b) of this paragraph |
6 | | (2.10), whichever
is applicable, and the grant received during |
7 | | the 2002-2003
school year. |
8 | | (3) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of |
9 | | more than 1,000
and less than 50,000 that qualify for |
10 | | supplemental general State aid pursuant
to this subsection |
11 | | shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education prior to
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12 | | October 30 of each year for the use of the funds resulting from |
13 | | this grant of
supplemental general State aid for the |
14 | | improvement of
instruction in which priority is given to |
15 | | meeting the education needs of
disadvantaged children. Such |
16 | | plan shall be submitted in accordance with
rules and |
17 | | regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education. |
18 | | (4) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of |
19 | | 50,000 or more
that qualify for supplemental general State aid |
20 | | pursuant to this subsection
shall be required to distribute |
21 | | from funds available pursuant to this Section,
no less than |
22 | | $261,000,000 in accordance with the following requirements: |
23 | | (a) The required amounts shall be distributed to the |
24 | | attendance centers
within the district in proportion to the |
25 | | number of pupils enrolled at each
attendance center who are |
26 | | eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches or
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1 | | breakfasts under the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 |
2 | | and under the National
School Lunch Act during the |
3 | | immediately preceding school year. |
4 | | (b) The distribution of these portions of supplemental |
5 | | and general State
aid among attendance centers according to |
6 | | these requirements shall not be
compensated for or |
7 | | contravened by adjustments of the total of other funds
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8 | | appropriated to any attendance centers, and the Board of |
9 | | Education shall
utilize funding from one or several sources |
10 | | in order to fully implement this
provision annually prior |
11 | | to the opening of school. |
12 | | (c) Each attendance center shall be provided by the
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13 | | school district a distribution of noncategorical funds and |
14 | | other
categorical funds to which an attendance center is |
15 | | entitled under law in
order that the general State aid and |
16 | | supplemental general State aid provided
by application of |
17 | | this subsection supplements rather than supplants the
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18 | | noncategorical funds and other categorical funds provided |
19 | | by the school
district to the attendance centers. |
20 | | (d) Any funds made available under this subsection that |
21 | | by reason of the
provisions of this subsection are not
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22 | | required to be allocated and provided to attendance centers |
23 | | may be used and
appropriated by the board of the district |
24 | | for any lawful school purpose. |
25 | | (e) Funds received by an attendance center
pursuant to |
26 | | this
subsection shall be used
by the attendance center at |
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1 | | the discretion
of the principal and local school council |
2 | | for programs to improve educational
opportunities at |
3 | | qualifying schools through the following programs and
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4 | | services: early childhood education, reduced class size or |
5 | | improved adult to
student classroom ratio, enrichment |
6 | | programs, remedial assistance, attendance
improvement, and |
7 | | other educationally beneficial expenditures which
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8 | | supplement
the regular and basic programs as determined by |
9 | | the State Board of Education.
Funds provided shall not be |
10 | | expended for any political or lobbying purposes
as defined |
11 | | by board rule. |
12 | | (f) Each district subject to the provisions of this |
13 | | subdivision (H)(4)
shall submit an
acceptable plan to meet |
14 | | the educational needs of disadvantaged children, in
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15 | | compliance with the requirements of this paragraph, to the |
16 | | State Board of
Education prior to July 15 of each year. |
17 | | This plan shall be consistent with the
decisions of local |
18 | | school councils concerning the school expenditure plans
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19 | | developed in accordance with part 4 of Section 34-2.3. The |
20 | | State Board shall
approve or reject the plan within 60 days |
21 | | after its submission. If the plan is
rejected, the district |
22 | | shall give written notice of intent to modify the plan
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23 | | within 15 days of the notification of rejection and then |
24 | | submit a modified plan
within 30 days after the date of the |
25 | | written notice of intent to modify.
Districts may amend |
26 | | approved plans pursuant to rules promulgated by the State
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1 | | Board of Education. |
2 | | Upon notification by the State Board of Education that |
3 | | the district has
not submitted a plan prior to July 15 or a |
4 | | modified plan within the time
period specified herein, the
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5 | | State aid funds affected by that plan or modified plan |
6 | | shall be withheld by the
State Board of Education until a |
7 | | plan or modified plan is submitted. |
8 | | If the district fails to distribute State aid to |
9 | | attendance centers in
accordance with an approved plan, the |
10 | | plan for the following year shall
allocate funds, in |
11 | | addition to the funds otherwise required by this
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12 | | subsection, to those attendance centers which were |
13 | | underfunded during the
previous year in amounts equal to |
14 | | such underfunding. |
15 | | For purposes of determining compliance with this |
16 | | subsection in relation
to the requirements of attendance |
17 | | center funding, each district subject to the
provisions of |
18 | | this
subsection shall submit as a separate document by |
19 | | December 1 of each year a
report of expenditure data for |
20 | | the prior year in addition to any
modification of its |
21 | | current plan. If it is determined that there has been
a |
22 | | failure to comply with the expenditure provisions of this |
23 | | subsection
regarding contravention or supplanting, the |
24 | | State Superintendent of
Education shall, within 60 days of |
25 | | receipt of the report, notify the
district and any affected |
26 | | local school council. The district shall within
45 days of |
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1 | | receipt of that notification inform the State |
2 | | Superintendent of
Education of the remedial or corrective |
3 | | action to be taken, whether by
amendment of the current |
4 | | plan, if feasible, or by adjustment in the plan
for the |
5 | | following year. Failure to provide the expenditure report |
6 | | or the
notification of remedial or corrective action in a |
7 | | timely manner shall
result in a withholding of the affected |
8 | | funds. |
9 | | The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and |
10 | | regulations
to implement the provisions of this |
11 | | subsection. No funds shall be released
under this |
12 | | subdivision (H)(4) to any district that has not submitted a |
13 | | plan
that has been approved by the State Board of |
14 | | Education.
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15 | | (I) (Blank).
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16 | | (J) Supplementary Grants in Aid. |
17 | | (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, |
18 | | the amount of the
aggregate general State aid in combination |
19 | | with supplemental general State aid
under this Section for |
20 | | which
each school district is eligible shall be no
less than |
21 | | the amount of the aggregate general State aid entitlement that |
22 | | was
received by the district under Section
18-8 (exclusive of |
23 | | amounts received
under subsections 5(p) and 5(p-5) of that |
24 | | Section)
for the 1997-98 school year,
pursuant to the |
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1 | | provisions of that Section as it was then in effect.
If a |
2 | | school district qualifies to receive a supplementary payment |
3 | | made under
this subsection (J), the amount
of the aggregate |
4 | | general State aid in combination with supplemental general
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5 | | State aid under this Section
which that district is eligible to |
6 | | receive for each school year shall be no less than the amount |
7 | | of the aggregate
general State aid entitlement that was |
8 | | received by the district under
Section 18-8 (exclusive of |
9 | | amounts received
under subsections 5(p) and 5(p-5) of that |
10 | | Section)
for the 1997-1998 school year, pursuant to the |
11 | | provisions of that
Section as it was then in effect. |
12 | | (2) If, as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection |
13 | | (J), a school
district is to receive aggregate general State |
14 | | aid in
combination with supplemental general State aid under |
15 | | this Section for the 1998-99 school year and any subsequent |
16 | | school
year that in any such school year is less than the |
17 | | amount of the aggregate
general
State
aid entitlement that the |
18 | | district received for the 1997-98 school year, the
school |
19 | | district shall also receive, from a separate appropriation made |
20 | | for
purposes of this subsection (J), a supplementary payment |
21 | | that is equal to the
amount of the difference in the aggregate |
22 | | State aid figures as described in
paragraph (1). |
23 | | (3) (Blank).
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24 | | (K) Grants to Laboratory and Alternative Schools. |
25 | | In calculating the amount to be paid to the governing board |
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1 | | of a public
university that operates a laboratory school under |
2 | | this Section or to any
alternative school that is operated by a |
3 | | regional superintendent of schools,
the State
Board of |
4 | | Education shall require by rule such reporting requirements as |
5 | | it
deems necessary. |
6 | | As used in this Section, "laboratory school" means a public |
7 | | school which is
created and operated by a public university and |
8 | | approved by the State Board of
Education. The governing board |
9 | | of a public university which receives funds
from the State |
10 | | Board under this subsection (K) may not increase the number of
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11 | | students enrolled in its laboratory
school from a single |
12 | | district, if that district is already sending 50 or more
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13 | | students, except under a mutual agreement between the school |
14 | | board of a
student's district of residence and the university |
15 | | which operates the
laboratory school. A laboratory school may |
16 | | not have more than 1,000 students,
excluding students with |
17 | | disabilities in a special education program. |
18 | | As used in this Section, "alternative school" means a |
19 | | public school which is
created and operated by a Regional |
20 | | Superintendent of Schools and approved by
the State Board of |
21 | | Education. Such alternative schools may offer courses of
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22 | | instruction for which credit is given in regular school |
23 | | programs, courses to
prepare students for the high school |
24 | | equivalency testing program or vocational
and occupational |
25 | | training. A regional superintendent of schools may contract
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26 | | with a school district or a public community college district |
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1 | | to operate an
alternative school. An alternative school serving |
2 | | more than one educational
service region may be established by |
3 | | the regional superintendents of schools
of the affected |
4 | | educational service regions. An alternative school
serving |
5 | | more than one educational service region may be operated under |
6 | | such
terms as the regional superintendents of schools of those |
7 | | educational service
regions may agree. |
8 | | Each laboratory and alternative school shall file, on forms |
9 | | provided by the
State Superintendent of Education, an annual |
10 | | State aid claim which states the
Average Daily Attendance of |
11 | | the school's students by month. The best 3 months'
Average |
12 | | Daily Attendance shall be computed for each school.
The general |
13 | | State aid entitlement shall be computed by multiplying the
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14 | | applicable Average Daily Attendance by the Foundation Level as |
15 | | determined under
this Section.
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16 | | (L) Payments, Additional Grants in Aid and Other Requirements. |
17 | | (1) For a school district operating under the financial |
18 | | supervision
of an Authority created under Article 34A, the |
19 | | general State aid otherwise
payable to that district under this |
20 | | Section, but not the supplemental general
State aid, shall be |
21 | | reduced by an amount equal to the budget for
the operations of |
22 | | the Authority as certified by the Authority to the State
Board |
23 | | of Education, and an amount equal to such reduction shall be |
24 | | paid
to the Authority created for such district for its |
25 | | operating expenses in
the manner provided in Section 18-11. The |
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1 | | remainder
of general State school aid for any such district |
2 | | shall be paid in accordance
with Article 34A when that Article |
3 | | provides for a disposition other than that
provided by this |
4 | | Article. |
5 | | (2) (Blank). |
6 | | (3) Summer school. Summer school payments shall be made as |
7 | | provided in
Section 18-4.3.
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8 | | (M) Education Funding Advisory Board. |
9 | | The Education Funding Advisory
Board, hereinafter in this |
10 | | subsection (M) referred to as the "Board", is hereby
created. |
11 | | The Board
shall consist of 5 members who are appointed by the |
12 | | Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate. The |
13 | | members appointed shall include
representatives of education, |
14 | | business, and the general public. One of the
members so |
15 | | appointed shall be
designated by the Governor at the time the |
16 | | appointment is made as the
chairperson of the
Board.
The |
17 | | initial members of the Board may
be appointed any time after |
18 | | the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1997. The regular |
19 | | term of each member of the
Board shall be for 4 years from the |
20 | | third Monday of January of the
year in which the term of the |
21 | | member's appointment is to commence, except that
of the 5 |
22 | | initial members appointed to serve on the
Board, the member who |
23 | | is appointed as the chairperson shall serve for
a term that |
24 | | commences on the date of his or her appointment and expires on |
25 | | the
third Monday of January, 2002, and the remaining 4 members, |
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1 | | by lots drawn at
the first meeting of the Board that is
held
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2 | | after all 5 members are appointed, shall determine 2 of their |
3 | | number to serve
for terms that commence on the date of their
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4 | | respective appointments and expire on the third
Monday of |
5 | | January, 2001,
and 2 of their number to serve for terms that |
6 | | commence
on the date of their respective appointments and |
7 | | expire on the third Monday
of January, 2000. All members |
8 | | appointed to serve on the
Board shall serve until their |
9 | | respective successors are
appointed and confirmed. Vacancies |
10 | | shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments. If |
11 | | a vacancy in membership occurs at a time when the
Senate is not |
12 | | in session, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment |
13 | | until
the next meeting of the Senate, when he or she shall |
14 | | appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, a |
15 | | person to fill that membership for the
unexpired term. If the |
16 | | Senate is not in session when the initial appointments
are |
17 | | made, those appointments shall
be made as in the case of |
18 | | vacancies. |
19 | | The Education Funding Advisory Board shall be deemed |
20 | | established,
and the initial
members appointed by the Governor |
21 | | to serve as members of the
Board shall take office,
on the date |
22 | | that the
Governor makes his or her appointment of the fifth |
23 | | initial member of the
Board, whether those initial members are |
24 | | then serving
pursuant to appointment and confirmation or |
25 | | pursuant to temporary appointments
that are made by the |
26 | | Governor as in the case of vacancies. |
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1 | | The State Board of Education shall provide such staff |
2 | | assistance to the
Education Funding Advisory Board as is |
3 | | reasonably required for the proper
performance by the Board of |
4 | | its responsibilities. |
5 | | For school years after the 2000-2001 school year, the |
6 | | Education
Funding Advisory Board, in consultation with the |
7 | | State Board of Education,
shall make recommendations as |
8 | | provided in this subsection (M) to the General
Assembly for the |
9 | | foundation level under subsection (B) subdivision (B)(3) of |
10 | | this Section and
for the
supplemental general State aid grant |
11 | | level under subsection (H) of this Section
for districts with |
12 | | high concentrations of children from poverty. The
recommended |
13 | | foundation level shall be determined based on a methodology |
14 | | which
incorporates the basic education expenditures of |
15 | | low-spending schools
exhibiting high academic performance. The |
16 | | Education Funding Advisory Board
shall make such |
17 | | recommendations to the General Assembly on January 1 of odd
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18 | | numbered years, beginning January 1, 2001.
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19 | | (N) (Blank).
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20 | | (O) References. |
21 | | (1) References in other laws to the various subdivisions of
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22 | | Section 18-8 as that Section existed before its repeal and |
23 | | replacement by this
Section 18-8.05 shall be deemed to refer to |
24 | | the corresponding provisions of
this Section 18-8.05, to the |
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1 | | extent that those references remain applicable. |
2 | | (2) References in other laws to State Chapter 1 funds shall |
3 | | be deemed to
refer to the supplemental general State aid |
4 | | provided under subsection (H) of
this Section. |
5 | | (P) Public Act 93-838 and Public Act 93-808 make inconsistent |
6 | | changes to this Section. Under Section 6 of the Statute on |
7 | | Statutes there is an irreconcilable conflict between Public Act |
8 | | 93-808 and Public Act 93-838. Public Act 93-838, being the last |
9 | | acted upon, is controlling. The text of Public Act 93-838 is |
10 | | the law regardless of the text of Public Act 93-808. |
11 | | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 95-644, eff. 10-12-07; |
12 | | 95-707, eff. 1-11-08; 95-744, eff. 7-18-08; 95-903, eff. |
13 | | 8-25-08; 96-45, eff. 7-15-09; 96-152, eff. 8-7-09; 96-300, eff. |
14 | | 8-11-09; 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 96-640, eff. 8-24-09; 96-959, |
15 | | eff. 7-1-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 96-1480, eff. 11-18-10; |
16 | | revised 11-24-10.)
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17 | | (105 ILCS 5/19-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 19-3)
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18 | | Sec. 19-3. Boards of education. Any school district |
19 | | governed by a board of
education and having a population of not |
20 | | more than 500,000 inhabitants, and
not governed by a special |
21 | | Act may borrow money for the purpose of building,
equipping, |
22 | | altering or repairing school buildings or purchasing or |
23 | | improving
school sites, or acquiring and equipping |
24 | | playgrounds, recreation grounds,
athletic fields, and other |
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1 | | buildings or land used or useful for school purposes
or for the |
2 | | purpose of purchasing a site, with or without a building or
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3 | | buildings thereon, or for the building of a house or houses on |
4 | | such site,
or for the building of a house or houses on the |
5 | | school site of the school
district, for residential purposes of |
6 | | the superintendent, principal, or
teachers of the school |
7 | | district, and issue its negotiable coupon bonds therefor
signed |
8 | | by the president and secretary of the board, in denominations |
9 | | of not
less than $100 nor more than $5,000, payable at such |
10 | | place and at such time or
times, not exceeding 20 years, with |
11 | | the exception of Lockport High School not exceeding 25 years, |
12 | | from date of issuance, as the board of education
may prescribe, |
13 | | and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate
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14 | | authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the |
15 | | time of the making
of the contract, payable annually, |
16 | | semiannually or quarterly, but , with the exception of those |
17 | | bonds described in Section 17-2.11d of this Code, no such bonds
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18 | | shall be issued unless the proposition to issue them is |
19 | | submitted to the voters
of the district at a referendum held at |
20 | | a regularly scheduled election after
the board has certified |
21 | | the proposition to the proper election authorities in
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22 | | accordance with the general election law, a majority of all the |
23 | | votes cast on
the proposition is in favor of the proposition, |
24 | | and notice of such bond
referendum has been
given either (i) in |
25 | | accordance with the second paragraph of Section 12-1 of the
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26 | | Election Code irrespective of whether such notice included any |
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1 | | reference to the
public question as it appeared on the ballot, |
2 | | or (ii) for an election held on
or after November 1, 1998, in |
3 | | accordance with Section 12-5 of the Election
Code, or (iii) by |
4 | | publication of a true and legible copy of the specimen ballot
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5 | | label containing the proposition in the form in which it |
6 | | appeared or will
appear on the official ballot label on the day |
7 | | of the election at least 5 days
before the day of the election |
8 | | in at least one newspaper published in and
having a general |
9 | | circulation in the district,
irrespective of any other |
10 | | requirements of Article 12 or Section 24A-18 of
the Election |
11 | | Code, nor shall any residential site be acquired unless such
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12 | | proposition to acquire a site is submitted to the voters of the |
13 | | district at a
referendum held at a regularly scheduled election |
14 | | after the board has certified
the proposition to the proper |
15 | | election authorities in accordance with the
general election |
16 | | law and a majority of all the votes cast on the proposition is
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17 | | in favor of the proposition. Nothing in this Act or in any |
18 | | other law shall be
construed to require the notice of the bond |
19 | | referendum to be published over the
name or title of the |
20 | | election authority or the listing of maturity dates of
any |
21 | | bonds either in the notice of bond election or ballot used in |
22 | | the bond
election.
The provisions of this Section concerning |
23 | | notice of the bond referendum
apply only to (i) consolidated |
24 | | primary elections held prior to January 1,
2002 and the |
25 | | consolidated election held on April 17, 2007 at which not less |
26 | | than 60%
of the voters voting on the bond proposition voted in |
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1 | | favor of the bond
proposition, and (ii) other elections held |
2 | | before July 1, 1999; otherwise, notices required
in connection |
3 | | with the submission of public questions shall be as set forth |
4 | | in
Section 12-5 of the Election Code.
Such proposition may be |
5 | | initiated by resolution of the school board.
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6 | | With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued |
7 | | under this
Section either before, on, or after the effective |
8 | | date of this amendatory
Act of 1989, it is and always has been |
9 | | the intention of the General
Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond |
10 | | Acts are and always have been
supplementary grants of power to |
11 | | issue instruments in accordance with the
Omnibus Bond Acts, |
12 | | regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear
to be |
13 | | or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the
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14 | | provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the |
15 | | supplementary
authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and |
16 | | (iii) that instruments
issued under this Section within the |
17 | | supplementary authority granted
by the Omnibus Bond Acts are |
18 | | not invalid because of any provision of
this Act that may |
19 | | appear to be or to have been more restrictive than
those Acts.
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20 | | The proceeds of any bonds issued under authority of this |
21 | | Section shall
be deposited and accounted for separately within |
22 | | the Site and
Construction/Capital Improvements Fund.
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23 | | (Source: P.A. 95-30, eff. 8-7-07; 96-787, eff. 8-28-09.)
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24 | | (105 ILCS 5/21A-3 new) |
25 | | Sec. 21A-3. Goals. The New Teacher Induction and Mentoring |
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1 | | Program under this Article shall accomplish the following |
2 | | goals: |
3 | | (1) provide an effective transition into the teaching |
4 | | career for first year and second-year teachers in Illinois; |
5 | | (2) improve the educational performance of pupils |
6 | | through improved training, information, and assistance for |
7 | | new teachers; |
8 | | (3) ensure professional success and retention of new |
9 | | teachers; |
10 | | (4) ensure that mentors provide intensive |
11 | | individualized support and assistance to each |
12 | | participating beginning teacher; |
13 | | (5) ensure that an individual induction plan is in |
14 | | place for each beginning teacher and is based on an ongoing |
15 | | assessment of the development of the beginning teacher; and |
16 | | (6) ensure continuous program improvement through |
17 | | ongoing research, development and evaluation.
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18 | | (105 ILCS 5/21A-5)
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19 | | Sec. 21A-5. Definitions. In this Article:
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20 | | "New teacher" or "beginning teacher" means the holder of an |
21 | | Initial Teaching Certificate, as set
forth in Section 21-2 of |
22 | | this Code , an Alternative Teaching Certificate, or a |
23 | | Transitional Bilingual Teaching Certificate , who is employed |
24 | | by a public school and who
has not previously participated in a |
25 | | new teacher induction and mentoring
program required by this |
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1 | | Article, except as provided in Section 21A-25 of this
Code.
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2 | | "Public school" means any school operating pursuant to the |
3 | | authority of
this Code, including without limitation a school |
4 | | district, a charter school, a
cooperative or joint agreement |
5 | | with a governing body or board of control, and a
school |
6 | | operated by a regional office of education or State agency.
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7 | | (Source: P.A. 93-355, eff. 1-1-04.)
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8 | | (105 ILCS 5/21A-10)
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9 | | Sec. 21A-10. Development of program required. Prior to the |
10 | | 2013-2014 During the 2003-2004
school year, each public school |
11 | | or 2 or more public schools acting jointly
shall develop, in |
12 | | conjunction with its exclusive representative or their
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13 | | exclusive representatives, if any, a new teacher induction and |
14 | | mentoring
program that meets the requirements set forth in |
15 | | Section 21A-20 of this Code to
assist new teachers in |
16 | | developing the skills and strategies necessary for
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17 | | instructional excellence, provided that funding is made |
18 | | available by the State
Board of Education from an appropriation |
19 | | made for this purpose. A public school
that has an existing |
20 | | induction and mentoring program that does not meet the
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21 | | requirements set forth in Section 21A-20 of this Code may have |
22 | | school years
2003-2004 and 2004-2005 to develop a program that |
23 | | does meet those requirements
and may receive funding as |
24 | | described in Section 21A-25 of this Code, provided
that the |
25 | | funding is made available by the State Board of Education from |
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1 | | an
appropriation made for this purpose. A public school with |
2 | | such an existing
induction and mentoring program may receive |
3 | | funding for the 2005-2006 school
year for each new teacher in |
4 | | the second year of a 2-year program that does not
meet the |
5 | | requirements set forth in Section 21A-20, as long as the public |
6 | | school
has established the required new program by the |
7 | | beginning of that school year
as described in Section 21A-15 |
8 | | and provided that funding is made available by
the State Board |
9 | | of Education from an appropriation made for this purpose as
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10 | | described in Section 21A-25.
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11 | | (Source: P.A. 93-355, eff. 1-1-04.)
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12 | | (105 ILCS 5/21A-15)
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13 | | Sec. 21A-15. When program is to be established and |
14 | | implemented. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this |
15 | | Code, by
the beginning of the
2013-2013 2004-2005 school year |
16 | | (or by the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year for a
public |
17 | | school that has been given an extension of time to develop a |
18 | | program
under Section 21A-10 of this Code) , each
public school |
19 | | or 2 or more public schools acting
jointly shall establish and |
20 | | implement, in conjunction with its exclusive
representative or |
21 | | their exclusive representatives, if any, the new teacher
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22 | | induction and mentoring program required to be developed under |
23 | | Section 21A-10
of this Code, provided that
funding is made |
24 | | available by the State Board of Education, from an
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25 | | appropriation made for this purpose, as described in Section |
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1 | | 21A-25 of this
Code. A public school may contract with an |
2 | | institution of higher education or
other independent party to |
3 | | assist in implementing the program.
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4 | | (Source: P.A. 93-355, eff. 1-1-04.)
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5 | | (105 ILCS 5/21A-20)
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6 | | Sec. 21A-20. Program requirements. Each new teacher |
7 | | induction and
mentoring program must be based on a plan that at |
8 | | least does all of the
following:
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9 | | (1) Assigns a mentor teacher to each new teacher to |
10 | | provide structured and intensive mentoring, as defined by |
11 | | the State Board of Education, for a period of
at
least 2 |
12 | | school years.
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13 | | (1.5) Ensures mentors are: |
14 | | (A) carefully selected from experienced, exemplary |
15 | | teachers using a clearly articulated, well-defined, |
16 | | explicit criteria and open processes that may involve |
17 | | key school partners; |
18 | | (B) rigorously trained using best practices in the |
19 | | field to ensure they are well prepared to assume their |
20 | | responsibilities and are consistently supported in |
21 | | their efforts to assist beginning teachers; |
22 | | (C) provided with sufficient release time from |
23 | | teaching to allow them to meet their responsibilities |
24 | | as mentors, including regular contacts with their |
25 | | beginning teachers and frequent observations of their |
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1 | | teaching practice; and |
2 | | (D) equipped and selected to provide |
3 | | classroom-focused and content-focused support whenever |
4 | | possible.
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5 | | (2) Aligns with the Illinois Professional Teaching |
6 | | Standards,
content area standards, and applicable local |
7 | | school improvement and
professional development plans, if |
8 | | any.
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9 | | (3) (Blank). Addresses all of the following elements |
10 | | and how they will be
provided:
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11 | | (A) Mentoring and support of the new teacher.
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12 | | (B) Professional development specifically designed |
13 | | to ensure
the growth of the new teacher's knowledge and |
14 | | skills.
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15 | | (C) Formative assessment designed to ensure |
16 | | feedback and
reflection, which must not be used in any |
17 | | evaluation of the new
teacher.
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18 | | (4) Describes the role of mentor teachers, the criteria |
19 | | and process
for their selection, and how they will be |
20 | | trained, provided that each
mentor teacher shall |
21 | | demonstrate the best practices in teaching his or
her |
22 | | respective field of practice.
A mentor teacher may not |
23 | | directly or indirectly participate in the
evaluation of a |
24 | | new teacher pursuant to Article 24A of this Code or the
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25 | | evaluation procedure of the public school , unless the |
26 | | school district and exclusive bargaining
representative of |
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1 | | its teachers negotiate and agree to it as part of an
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2 | | alternative evaluation plan under Section 24A-5 or 24A-8
of |
3 | | this Code .
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4 | | (5) Provides ongoing professional development for both |
5 | | beginning teachers and mentors. |
6 | | (A) Beginning teachers shall participate in an |
7 | | ongoing, formal network of novice colleagues for the |
8 | | purpose of professional learning, problem-solving, and |
9 | | mutual support. These regular learning opportunities |
10 | | shall begin with an orientation to the induction and |
11 | | mentoring program prior to the start of the school year |
12 | | and continue throughout the academic year. The group |
13 | | shall address issues of pedagogy, classroom management |
14 | | and content knowledge, beginning teachers' assessed |
15 | | needs, and local instructional needs or priorities. |
16 | | (B) Mentors shall participate in an ongoing |
17 | | professional learning community that supports their |
18 | | practice and their use of mentoring tools, protocols, |
19 | | and formative assessment in order to tailor and deepen
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20 | | mentoring skills and advance induction practices, |
21 | | support program implementation, provide for mentor |
22 | | accountability in a supportive environment, and |
23 | | provide support to each mentor's emerging leadership. |
24 | | (6) Provides for ongoing assessment of beginning |
25 | | teacher practice. Beginning teachers shall be subject to a |
26 | | system of formative assessment in which the novice and |
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1 | | mentor collaboratively collect and analyze multiple |
2 | | sources of data and reflect upon classroom practice in an |
3 | | ongoing process. This assessment system shall be based on |
4 | | the Illinois Professional Teaching Standards (IPTS), the |
5 | | IPTS Continuum of Teacher
Development, or a nationally |
6 | | recognized teaching framework, as well as evidence of |
7 | | teacher practice, including student work. The assessment |
8 | | information shall be used to determine the scope, focus, |
9 | | and content of professional development activities that |
10 | | are the basis of the beginning teacher's individual |
11 | | learning plan. The program shall provide time to ensure |
12 | | that the quality of the process (such as observations, data
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13 | | collection, and reflective conversations) is not |
14 | | compromised. |
15 | | (7) Identifies clear roles and responsibilities for |
16 | | both administrators and site mentor leaders who are to work |
17 | | collectively to ensure induction practices are integrated |
18 | | into existing professional development initiatives and to |
19 | | secure assignments and establish working conditions for |
20 | | beginning teachers that maximize their chances for |
21 | | success. Administrators and site mentor leaders must have |
22 | | sufficient knowledge and experience to understand the |
23 | | needs of beginning teachers and the role of principals in |
24 | | supporting each component of the
program. Site |
25 | | administrators must take time to meet and communicate |
26 | | concerns with beginning teachers and their mentors. |
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1 | | (8) Provides for ongoing evaluation of the New Teacher |
2 | | Induction and Mentoring Program pursuant to Section 21A-30 |
3 | | of this Code. |
4 | | (Source: P.A. 93-355, eff. 1-1-04.)
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5 | | (105 ILCS 5/21A-25)
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6 | | Sec. 21A-25. Funding. From a separate appropriation made |
7 | | for
the purposes of this Article, for each new teacher |
8 | | participating in a new
teacher
induction and mentoring program
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9 | | that meets the requirements set forth in Section 21A-20 of this |
10 | | Code or
in an existing program that is in the process of |
11 | | transition to a program
that meets those requirements , the |
12 | | State Board of Education shall pay the
public school $6,000 |
13 | | $1,200 annually for each of 2 school years for the purpose of
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14 | | providing one or more of the following:
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15 | | (1) Mentor teacher compensation.
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16 | | (2) Mentor teacher training and other resources, or new |
17 | | teacher training and other resources, or both.
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18 | | (3) Release time , including costs associated with |
19 | | replacing a mentor teacher or new teacher in his or her |
20 | | regular classroom .
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21 | | (4) Site-based program administration, not to exceed
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22 | | 10% of the total program cost. |
23 | | However, if a new teacher, after participating in the new |
24 | | teacher induction and
mentoring program for one school year, |
25 | | becomes employed by another public
school, the State Board of |
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1 | | Education shall pay the teacher's new school $6,000 $1,200
for |
2 | | the second school year and the teacher shall continue to be a |
3 | | new teacher
as defined in this Article. Each public school |
4 | | shall determine, in conjunction
with its exclusive |
5 | | representative, if any, how the $6,000 $1,200 per school year |
6 | | for
each new teacher shall be used, provided that if a mentor |
7 | | teacher receives
additional release time to support a new |
8 | | teacher, the total workload of other
teachers regularly |
9 | | employed by the public school shall not increase in any
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10 | | substantial manner. If the appropriation is insufficient to |
11 | | cover the $6,000 $1,200
per school year for each new teacher, |
12 | | public schools are not required to
develop or implement the |
13 | | program established by this Article. In the event of
an |
14 | | insufficient appropriation, a public school or 2 or more |
15 | | schools acting
jointly may submit an application for a grant |
16 | | administered by the State Board
of Education and awarded on a |
17 | | competitive basis to establish a new teacher
induction and |
18 | | mentoring program that meets the criteria set forth in Section
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19 | | 21A-20 of this Code. The State Board of Education may retain up |
20 | | to $1,000,000
of the appropriation for new teacher induction |
21 | | and mentoring programs to train
mentor teachers, |
22 | | administrators, and other personnel, to provide best practices
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23 | | information, and to conduct an evaluation of these programs' |
24 | | impact and
effectiveness.
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25 | | (Source: P.A. 93-355, eff. 1-1-04.)
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1 | | (105 ILCS 5/21A-30)
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2 | | Sec. 21A-30. Evaluation of programs. The State Board of |
3 | | Education
and the State Teacher Certification Board shall |
4 | | jointly contract with an
independent party to conduct a |
5 | | comprehensive evaluation of new teacher
induction and |
6 | | mentoring programs established pursuant to this Article. The
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7 | | first report of this evaluation shall be presented to the |
8 | | General Assembly on
or
before January 1, 2015 2009 . Subsequent |
9 | | evaluations shall be conducted and
reports presented to the |
10 | | General Assembly on or before January 1 of every
third year |
11 | | thereafter. Additionally, the State Board of Education shall |
12 | | prepare an annual
program report for the General Assembly on or |
13 | | before December 31 each year. It shall summarize local program |
14 | | design, indicate the number of teachers served, and document |
15 | | rates of new teacher attrition and retention.
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16 | | (Source: P.A. 93-355, eff. 1-1-04.)
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17 | | (105 ILCS 5/23-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 23-3)
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18 | | Sec. 23-3. Filing
copy of constitution, by-laws and |
19 | | amendments. Within 30 days after the adoption by any such |
20 | | association of its
constitution or by-laws or any amendment |
21 | | thereto, it shall file a copy
thereof, certified by its |
22 | | president and executive director, with the
Governor, the State |
23 | | Superintendent of Education, Public Instruction and the |
24 | | regional county
superintendent of schools of each region county |
25 | | in which it has any membership.
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1 | | (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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2 | | (105 ILCS 5/23-5.5 new)
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3 | | Sec. 23-5.5. Professional development and training. Any |
4 | | such association shall offer professional development and |
5 | | training to school board members on topics that include, but |
6 | | are not limited to, basics of school finance, financial |
7 | | oversight and accountability, labor law and collective |
8 | | bargaining, ethics, duties and responsibilities of a school |
9 | | board member, and board governance principles. Every school |
10 | | board member is expected to receive at least 4 hours of |
11 | | professional development and training per year.
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12 | | (105 ILCS 5/23-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 23-6)
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13 | | Sec. 23-6. Annual report. Each association shall make an |
14 | | annual report within 60 days after the
close of its fiscal year |
15 | | to the Governor, the State Board of Education
and the regional
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16 | | superintendent of schools of each region in
which it has |
17 | | members, setting forth the activities of the association
for |
18 | | the preceding fiscal year, the institutes held, the subjects
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19 | | discussed, and the attendance, and shall furnish the Governor, |
20 | | the
State Board of Education and
such regional superintendents
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21 | | with copies of all publications sent to its members. The |
22 | | association shall include the board training topics offered and |
23 | | the number of school board members that availed themselves of |
24 | | professional development and training.
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1 | | (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)
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2 | | (105 ILCS 5/29-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 29-5) |
3 | | Sec. 29-5. Reimbursement by State for transportation. Any |
4 | | school
district, maintaining a school, transporting resident |
5 | | pupils to another
school district's vocational program, |
6 | | offered through a joint agreement
approved by the State Board |
7 | | of Education, as provided in Section
10-22.22 or transporting |
8 | | its resident pupils to a school which meets the
standards for |
9 | | recognition as established by the State Board of Education
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10 | | which provides transportation meeting the standards of safety, |
11 | | comfort,
convenience, efficiency and operation prescribed by |
12 | | the State Board of
Education for resident pupils in |
13 | | pre-kindergarten, kindergarten , or any of grades 1 through
12 |
14 | | who: (a) reside at least 1 1/2 miles as measured by the |
15 | | customary route of
travel, from the school attended; or (b) |
16 | | reside in areas where conditions are
such that walking |
17 | | constitutes a hazard to the safety of the child when
determined |
18 | | under Section 29-3; and (c) are transported to the school |
19 | | attended
from pick-up points at the beginning of the school day |
20 | | and back again at the
close of the school day or transported to |
21 | | and from their assigned attendance
centers during the school |
22 | | day, shall be reimbursed by the State as hereinafter
provided |
23 | | in this Section.
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24 | | The State will pay the cost of transporting eligible pupils |
25 | | less the
assessed valuation in a dual school district |
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1 | | maintaining secondary
grades 9 to 12 inclusive times a |
2 | | qualifying rate of .05%; in elementary
school districts |
3 | | maintaining any of grades pre-K K to 8 times a qualifying rate |
4 | | of
.06%; and in unit districts maintaining any of grades pre-K |
5 | | K to 12, including optional elementary unit districts and |
6 | | combined high school - unit districts, times a qualifying
rate |
7 | | of .07%; provided that for optional elementary unit districts |
8 | | and combined high school - unit districts, assessed valuation |
9 | | for high school purposes, as defined in Article 11E of this |
10 | | Code, must be used. To be eligible to receive reimbursement in |
11 | | excess of 4/5
of the cost to transport eligible pupils, a |
12 | | school district shall have a
Transportation Fund tax rate of at |
13 | | least .12%. If a school district
does not have a .12% |
14 | | Transportation Fund tax rate, the amount of its
claim in excess |
15 | | of 4/5 of the cost of transporting pupils shall be
reduced by |
16 | | the sum arrived at by subtracting the Transportation Fund tax
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17 | | rate from .12% and multiplying that amount by the districts |
18 | | equalized or
assessed valuation, provided, that in no case |
19 | | shall said reduction
result in reimbursement of less than 4/5 |
20 | | of the cost to transport
eligible pupils.
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21 | | The minimum amount to be received by a district is $16 |
22 | | times the
number of eligible pupils transported.
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23 | | When calculating the reimbursement for transportation |
24 | | costs, the State Board of Education may not deduct the number |
25 | | of pupils enrolled in early education programs from the number |
26 | | of pupils eligible for reimbursement if the pupils enrolled in |
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1 | | the early education programs are transported at the same time |
2 | | as other eligible pupils.
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3 | | Any such district transporting resident pupils during the |
4 | | school day
to an area vocational school or another school |
5 | | district's vocational
program more than 1 1/2 miles from the |
6 | | school attended, as provided in
Sections 10-22.20a and |
7 | | 10-22.22, shall be reimbursed by the State for 4/5
of the cost |
8 | | of transporting eligible pupils.
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9 | | School day means that period of time which the pupil is |
10 | | required to be
in attendance for instructional purposes.
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11 | | If a pupil is at a location within the school district |
12 | | other than his
residence for child care purposes at the time |
13 | | for transportation to school,
that location may be considered |
14 | | for purposes of determining the 1 1/2 miles
from the school |
15 | | attended.
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16 | | Claims for reimbursement that include children who attend |
17 | | any school
other than a public school shall show the number of |
18 | | such children
transported.
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19 | | Claims for reimbursement under this Section shall not be |
20 | | paid for the
transportation of pupils for whom transportation |
21 | | costs are claimed for
payment under other Sections of this Act.
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22 | | The allowable direct cost of transporting pupils for |
23 | | regular, vocational,
and special education pupil |
24 | | transportation shall be limited to the sum of
the cost of |
25 | | physical examinations required for employment as a school bus
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26 | | driver; the salaries of full or part-time drivers and school |
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1 | | bus maintenance
personnel; employee benefits excluding |
2 | | Illinois municipal retirement
payments, social security |
3 | | payments, unemployment insurance payments and
workers' |
4 | | compensation insurance premiums; expenditures to independent
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5 | | carriers who operate school buses; payments to other school |
6 | | districts for
pupil transportation services; pre-approved |
7 | | contractual expenditures for
computerized bus scheduling; the |
8 | | cost of gasoline, oil, tires, and other
supplies necessary for |
9 | | the operation of school buses; the cost of
converting buses' |
10 | | gasoline engines to more fuel efficient engines or to
engines |
11 | | which use alternative energy sources; the cost of travel to
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12 | | meetings and workshops conducted by the regional |
13 | | superintendent or the
State Superintendent of Education |
14 | | pursuant to the standards established by
the Secretary of State |
15 | | under Section 6-106 of the Illinois Vehicle Code to improve the |
16 | | driving skills of
school bus drivers; the cost of maintenance |
17 | | of school buses including parts
and materials used; |
18 | | expenditures for leasing transportation vehicles,
except |
19 | | interest and service charges; the cost of insurance and |
20 | | licenses for
transportation vehicles; expenditures for the |
21 | | rental of transportation
equipment; plus a depreciation |
22 | | allowance of 20% for 5 years for school
buses and vehicles |
23 | | approved for transporting pupils to and from school and
a |
24 | | depreciation allowance of 10% for 10 years for other |
25 | | transportation
equipment so used.
Each school year, if a school |
26 | | district has made expenditures to the
Regional Transportation |
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1 | | Authority or any of its service boards, a mass
transit |
2 | | district, or an urban transportation district under an
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3 | | intergovernmental agreement with the district to provide for |
4 | | the
transportation of pupils and if the public transit carrier |
5 | | received direct
payment for services or passes from a school |
6 | | district within its service
area during the 2000-2001 school |
7 | | year, then the allowable direct cost of
transporting pupils for |
8 | | regular, vocational, and special education pupil
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9 | | transportation shall also include the expenditures that the |
10 | | district has
made to the public transit carrier.
In addition to |
11 | | the above allowable costs school
districts shall also claim all |
12 | | transportation supervisory salary costs,
including Illinois |
13 | | municipal retirement payments, and all transportation
related |
14 | | building and building maintenance costs without limitation.
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15 | | Special education allowable costs shall also include |
16 | | expenditures for the
salaries of attendants or aides for that |
17 | | portion of the time they assist
special education pupils while |
18 | | in transit and expenditures for parents and
public carriers for |
19 | | transporting special education pupils when pre-approved
by the |
20 | | State Superintendent of Education.
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21 | | Indirect costs shall be included in the reimbursement claim |
22 | | for districts
which own and operate their own school buses. |
23 | | Such indirect costs shall
include administrative costs, or any |
24 | | costs attributable to transporting
pupils from their |
25 | | attendance centers to another school building for
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26 | | instructional purposes. No school district which owns and |
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1 | | operates its own
school buses may claim reimbursement for |
2 | | indirect costs which exceed 5% of
the total allowable direct |
3 | | costs for pupil transportation.
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4 | | The State Board of Education shall prescribe uniform |
5 | | regulations for
determining the above standards and shall |
6 | | prescribe forms of cost
accounting and standards of determining |
7 | | reasonable depreciation. Such
depreciation shall include the |
8 | | cost of equipping school buses with the
safety features |
9 | | required by law or by the rules, regulations and standards
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10 | | promulgated by the State Board of Education, and the Department |
11 | | of
Transportation for the safety and construction of school |
12 | | buses provided,
however, any equipment cost reimbursed by the |
13 | | Department of Transportation
for equipping school buses with |
14 | | such safety equipment shall be deducted
from the allowable cost |
15 | | in the computation of reimbursement under this
Section in the |
16 | | same percentage as the cost of the equipment is depreciated.
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17 | | On or before August 15, annually, the chief school |
18 | | administrator for
the district shall certify to the State |
19 | | Superintendent of Education the
district's claim for |
20 | | reimbursement for the school year ending on June 30
next |
21 | | preceding. The State Superintendent of Education shall check |
22 | | and
approve the claims and prepare the vouchers showing the |
23 | | amounts due for
district reimbursement claims. Each fiscal |
24 | | year, the State
Superintendent of Education shall prepare and |
25 | | transmit the first 3
vouchers to the Comptroller on the 30th |
26 | | day of September, December and
March, respectively, and the |
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1 | | final voucher, no later than June 20.
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2 | | If the amount appropriated for transportation |
3 | | reimbursement is insufficient
to fund total claims for any |
4 | | fiscal year, the State Board of Education shall
reduce each |
5 | | school district's allowable costs and flat grant amount
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6 | | proportionately to make total adjusted claims equal the total |
7 | | amount
appropriated.
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8 | | For purposes of calculating claims for reimbursement under |
9 | | this Section
for any school year beginning July 1, 1998, or |
10 | | thereafter, the
equalized
assessed valuation for a school |
11 | | district used to compute reimbursement
shall be computed in the |
12 | | same manner as it is computed under paragraph (2) of
subsection |
13 | | (G) of Section 18-8.05.
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14 | | All reimbursements received from the State shall be |
15 | | deposited into the
district's transportation fund or into the |
16 | | fund from which the allowable
expenditures were made.
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17 | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school |
18 | | district receiving
a payment under this Section or under |
19 | | Section 14-7.02, 14-7.02b, or
14-13.01 of this Code may |
20 | | classify all or a portion of the funds that it
receives in a |
21 | | particular fiscal year or from general State aid pursuant to
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22 | | Section 18-8.05 of this Code
as funds received in connection |
23 | | with any funding program for which it is
entitled to receive |
24 | | funds from the State in that fiscal year (including,
without |
25 | | limitation, any funding program referenced in this Section),
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26 | | regardless of the source or timing of the receipt. The district |
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1 | | may not
classify more funds as funds received in connection |
2 | | with the funding
program than the district is entitled to |
3 | | receive in that fiscal year for that
program. Any
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4 | | classification by a district must be made by a resolution of |
5 | | its board of
education. The resolution must identify the amount |
6 | | of any payments or
general State aid to be classified under |
7 | | this paragraph and must specify
the funding program to which |
8 | | the funds are to be treated as received in
connection |
9 | | therewith. This resolution is controlling as to the
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10 | | classification of funds referenced therein. A certified copy of |
11 | | the
resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of |
12 | | Education.
The resolution shall still take effect even though a |
13 | | copy of the resolution has
not been sent to the State
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14 | | Superintendent of Education in a timely manner.
No
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15 | | classification under this paragraph by a district shall affect |
16 | | the total amount
or timing of money the district is entitled to |
17 | | receive under this Code.
No classification under this paragraph |
18 | | by a district shall
in any way relieve the district from or |
19 | | affect any
requirements that otherwise would apply with respect |
20 | | to
that funding program, including any
accounting of funds by |
21 | | source, reporting expenditures by
original source and purpose,
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22 | | reporting requirements,
or requirements of providing services.
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23 | | Any school district with a population of not more than |
24 | | 500,000
must deposit all funds received under this Article into |
25 | | the transportation
fund and use those funds for the provision |
26 | | of transportation services.
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1 | | (Source: P.A. 95-903, eff. 8-25-08; 96-1264, eff. 1-1-11.)
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2 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-6 rep.)
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3 | | (105 ILCS 5/3-6.1 rep.)
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4 | | Section 90. The School Code is amended by repealing |
5 | | Sections 3-6 and 3-6.1.
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6 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
7 | | becoming law. |
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INDEX
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Statutes amended in order of appearance
| | 3 | | 15 ILCS 20/50-20 | was 15 ILCS 20/38.3 | | 4 | | 30 ILCS 105/5.786 new | | | 5 | | 30 ILCS 105/5.787 new | | | 6 | | 30 ILCS 105/5.788 new | | | 7 | | 30 ILCS 105/5.789 new | | | 8 | | 35 ILCS 5/204 | from Ch. 120, par. 2-204 | | 9 | | 35 ILCS 5/208 | from Ch. 120, par. 2-208 | | 10 | | 35 ILCS 5/212 | | | 11 | | 35 ILCS 5/901 | from Ch. 120, par. 9-901 | | 12 | | 35 ILCS 120/1 | from Ch. 120, par. 440 | | 13 | | 35 ILCS 120/2 | from Ch. 120, par. 441 | | 14 | | 105 ILCS 5/1C-2 | | | 15 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.25c | from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25c | | 16 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d | from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25d | | 17 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d-5 new | | | 18 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.153 new | | | 19 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.154 new | | | 20 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.155 new | | | 21 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.156 new | | | 22 | | 105 ILCS 5/2-3.157 new | | | 23 | | 105 ILCS 5/3-7 | from Ch. 122, par. 3-7 | | 24 | | 105 ILCS 5/10-16.10 new | | | 25 | | 105 ILCS 5/10-17a | from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a | |
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| 1 | | 105 ILCS 5/10-17b new | | | 2 | | 105 ILCS 5/10-17c new | | | 3 | | 105 ILCS 5/10-17d new | | | 4 | | 105 ILCS 5/10-20.53 new | | | 5 | | 105 ILCS 5/10-22.45 | from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.45 | | 6 | | 105 ILCS 5/17-2.11d new | | | 7 | | 105 ILCS 5/18-8.05 | | | 8 | | 105 ILCS 5/19-3 | from Ch. 122, par. 19-3 | | 9 | | 105 ILCS 5/21A-3 new | | | 10 | | 105 ILCS 5/21A-5 | | | 11 | | 105 ILCS 5/21A-10 | | | 12 | | 105 ILCS 5/21A-15 | | | 13 | | 105 ILCS 5/21A-20 | | | 14 | | 105 ILCS 5/21A-25 | | | 15 | | 105 ILCS 5/21A-30 | | | 16 | | 105 ILCS 5/23-3 | from Ch. 122, par. 23-3 | | 17 | | 105 ILCS 5/23-5.5 new | | | 18 | | 105 ILCS 5/23-6 | from Ch. 122, par. 23-6 | | 19 | | 105 ILCS 5/29-5 | from Ch. 122, par. 29-5 | | 20 | | 105 ILCS 5/3-6 rep. | | | 21 | | 105 ILCS 5/3-6.1 rep. | |
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