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Sen. William Delgado
Filed: 5/16/2014
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5397
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5397 by replacing |
3 | | line 5 on page 2 through line 4 on page 5 as follows: |
4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
5 | | 27-6.5 as follows: |
6 | | (105 ILCS 5/27-6.5 new) |
7 | | Sec. 27-6.5. Physical fitness assessments in schools. |
8 | | (a) As used in this Section, "physical fitness assessment" |
9 | | means a series of assessments to measure aerobic capacity, body |
10 | | composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and |
11 | | flexibility. |
12 | | (b) To measure the effectiveness of State Goal 20 of the |
13 | | Illinois Learning Standards for Physical Development and |
14 | | Health, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year and every |
15 | | school year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall |
16 | | require all public schools to use a scientifically-based, |
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1 | | health-related physical fitness assessment for grades 3 |
2 | | through 12 and periodically report fitness information to the |
3 | | State Board of Education, as set forth in subsections (c) and |
4 | | (e) of this Section, to assess student fitness indicators. |
5 | | Public schools shall integrate health-related fitness |
6 | | testing into the curriculum as an instructional tool, except in |
7 | | grades before the 3rd grade. Fitness tests must be appropriate |
8 | | to students' developmental levels and physical abilities. The |
9 | | testing must be used to teach students how to assess their |
10 | | fitness levels, set goals for improvement, and monitor progress |
11 | | in reaching their goals. Fitness scores shall not be used for |
12 | | grading students or evaluating teachers. |
13 | | (c) On or before October 1, 2014, the State Superintendent |
14 | | of Education shall appoint a 15-member stakeholder and expert |
15 | | task force, including members representing organizations that |
16 | | represent physical education teachers, school officials, |
17 | | principals, health promotion and disease prevention advocates |
18 | | and experts, school health advocates and experts, and other |
19 | | experts with operational and academic expertise in the |
20 | | measurement of fitness. The task force shall make |
21 | | recommendations to the State Board of Education on the |
22 | | following: |
23 | | (1) methods for ensuring the validity and uniformity of |
24 | | reported physical fitness assessment scores, including |
25 | | assessment administration protocols and professional |
26 | | development approaches for physical education teachers; |
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1 | | (2) how often physical fitness assessment scores |
2 | | should be reported to the State Board of Education; |
3 | | (3) the grade levels within elementary, middle, and |
4 | | high school categories for which physical fitness |
5 | | assessment scores should be reported to the State Board of |
6 | | Education; |
7 | | (4) the minimum fitness indicators that should be |
8 | | reported to the State Board of Education, including, but |
9 | | not limited to, a score for aerobic capacity (for grades 4 |
10 | | through 12); muscular strength; endurance; and |
11 | | flexibility; |
12 | | (5) the demographic information that should accompany |
13 | | the scores, including, but not limited to, grade and |
14 | | gender; |
15 | | (6) the development of protocols regarding the |
16 | | protection of students' confidentiality and individual |
17 | | information and identifiers; and |
18 | | (7) how physical fitness assessment data should be
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19 | | reported by the State Board of Education to the public, |
20 | | including potential correlations
with student academic |
21 | | achievement, attendance, and
discipline data and other |
22 | | recommended uses of the reported data. |
23 | | The State Board of Education shall provide administrative |
24 | | and other support to the task force. |
25 | | The task force shall submit its recommendations on physical |
26 | | fitness assessments on or before April 1, 2015. The task force |
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1 | | may also recommend methods for assessing student progress on |
2 | | State Goals 19 and 21 through 24 of the Illinois Learning |
3 | | Standards for Physical Development and Health. The task force |
4 | | is dissolved on April 30, 2015. |
5 | | The provisions of this subsection (c), other than this |
6 | | sentence, are inoperative after March 31, 2016. |
7 | | (d) On or before December 31, 2015, the State Board of |
8 | | Education shall use the recommendations of the task force under |
9 | | subsection (c) of this Section to adopt rules for the |
10 | | implementation of physical fitness assessments by each public |
11 | | school for the 2016-2017 school year and every school year |
12 | | thereafter. |
13 | | (e) On or before September 1, 2016, the State Board of |
14 | | Education shall adopt rules for data submission by school |
15 | | districts and develop a system for collecting and reporting the |
16 | | aggregated fitness information from the physical fitness |
17 | | assessments. This system shall also support the collection of |
18 | | data from school districts that use a fitness testing software |
19 | | program. |
20 | | (f) School districts may report the aggregate findings of |
21 | | physical fitness assessments by grade level and school to |
22 | | parents and members of the community through typical |
23 | | communication channels, such as Internet websites, school |
24 | | newsletters, school board reports, and presentations. |
25 | | Districts may also provide individual fitness assessment |
26 | | reports to students' parents. |