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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
510-20.58 and 34-18.50 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/10-20.58 new)
7    Sec. 10-20.58. Accelerate College pilot program. School
8districts may enter into Accelerate College educational
9partnership agreements as authorized under Section 3-42.4 of
10the Public Community College Act.
 
11    (105 ILCS 5/34-18.50 new)
12    Sec. 34-18.50. Accelerate College pilot program. The
13district may enter into an Accelerate College educational
14partnership agreement as authorized under Section 3-42.4 of the
15Public Community College Act.
 
16    Section 10. The Public Community College Act is amended by
17adding Section 3-42.4 as follows:
 
18    (110 ILCS 805/3-42.4 new)
19    Sec. 3-42.4. Accelerate College pilot program.
20    (a) As used in this Section, "district board" means a

 

 

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1community college district board of trustees.
2    (b) A district board may elect to enter into an Accelerate
3College educational partnership agreement with any school
4district wholly contained within the community college
5district's jurisdiction. If the district board and a school
6district enter into an Accelerate College educational
7partnership agreement, the district board must offer a group of
8high school students the right to take community college
9courses without paying tuition for those courses.
10    (c) In the first full academic year after the effective
11date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no
12school district may enroll more than 45 students in college
13courses under an Accelerate College educational partnership
14agreement, and the students enrolled shall be limited to one
15year of community college credits.
16    In the second full academic year after the effective date
17of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no school
18district may enroll more than 90 students in college courses
19under an Accelerate College educational partnership agreement.
20No more than 45 of those students may be in the final year
21before school graduation and no more than 45 of those students
22may be in the second to last year before high school graduation
23in this academic year.
24    In the third full academic year and more after the
25effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General
26Assembly, no school district may enroll more than 90 students

 

 

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1in college courses under an Accelerate College educational
2partnership agreement.
3    (d) Subject to the terms of its Accelerate College
4educational partnership agreement, the community college may
5limit the courses offered to high school students and may
6charge non-tuition fees to the students. Allowable non-tuition
7fees include actual operating costs of the courses taken by
8high school students and any student activities in which the
9high school student may participate at the community college.
10    (e) Any coursework completed by high school students in a
11community college under this Section shall be transferrable to
12all public universities in this State on the same basis as
13coursework completed by community college students who have
14previously earned high school diplomas.
15    (f) The State Board must study agreements established under
16this Section and, by January 1 each year after the effective
17date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly,
18deliver a report based on the State Board's findings to both
19the General Assembly and the Governor.
20    The annual report must include, but is not limited to, the
21ongoing success or lack thereof in growing the program from the
22point of view of Illinois educational institutions, ongoing
23success or lack thereof of the students who participate in the
24program, and the advantage or lack thereof of authorizing the
25expansion of the program from one year to 2 years of
26college-level coursework for select groups of students.

 

 

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1    (g) This Section is repealed 36 months after the effective
2date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.