Full Text of HB2012 94th General Assembly
HB2012ham001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Cynthia Soto
Filed: 2/21/2006
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2012
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2012 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | 5 |
| 2-3.142 as follows: | 6 |
| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.142 new) | 7 |
| Sec. 2-3.142. Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan. | 8 |
| (a) The State Board of Education shall assist school boards | 9 |
| in planning and constructing new facilities, additions, and | 10 |
| major renovations that will enable this State's public school | 11 |
| system to provide equal educational opportunities for all | 12 |
| children. The school board of each school district in this | 13 |
| State shall prepare and submit a 5-year and a 10-year | 14 |
| Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan (CEFP) to the State | 15 |
| Board on or before January 1, 2008. The State Board shall | 16 |
| develop detailed guidelines and a handbook to assist school | 17 |
| districts in carrying out the comprehensive planning required | 18 |
| by this Section. The State Board may adopt any rules necessary | 19 |
| to implement and administer this Section. | 20 |
| (b) In developing a 5-year and 10-year CEFP, a school board | 21 |
| must do all of the following: | 22 |
| (1) Establish a CEFP planning team and committees | 23 |
| representative of citizens and staff from the school | 24 |
| district. |
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| (2) Develop district-wide goals and objectives and | 2 |
| evaluate any previous 5-year plan. | 3 |
| (3) Research and compile data described in this | 4 |
| Section. | 5 |
| (4) Translate educational needs into facility needs. | 6 |
| (5) Develop a finance plan to implement the facility | 7 |
| improvements. | 8 |
| (6) Conduct public hearings and develop a synopsis of | 9 |
| public comments. | 10 |
| (7) Develop an objective methodology for evaluating | 11 |
| the effectiveness of the plan. This evaluation is to occur | 12 |
| during the third year of the 5-year planning period. | 13 |
| (8) Approve the proposed CEFP. | 14 |
| (9) Submit the CEFP to the State Board for approval. If | 15 |
| the plan is altered prior to the 10-year anniversary date, | 16 |
| the amended document must be submitted to the State Board | 17 |
| for approval. | 18 |
| (c) The CEFP must include the following components: | 19 |
| (1) Goals and objectives. | 20 |
| (2) Community analysis. | 21 |
| (3) Population and enrollment study. | 22 |
| (4) Educational plan. | 23 |
| (5) Evaluation and inventory of existing facilities | 24 |
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compliance with State requirements. | 25 |
| (6) Major improvement plan for existing facilities. | 26 |
| (7) Inter-agency, shared-use of facilities feasibility | 27 |
| study. | 28 |
| (8) Translating educational needs into facility needs. | 29 |
| (9) Financing plan, including a prioritized list of all | 30 |
| projects within the school district and their estimated | 31 |
| costs. | 32 |
| (10) Synopsis of comments from the public hearing. | 33 |
| (11) Evaluation and objective of implementation. | 34 |
| (d) The school board must develop and adopt the goals and |
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| objectives of the CEFP. These goals and objectives must | 2 |
| consider all aspects of the educational and facility needs of | 3 |
| the school district. Minimally, curriculum delivery models, | 4 |
| grade configurations, maximum and minimum school sizes, | 5 |
| community expectations, optimal student populations, and the | 6 |
| number of facilities that can be effectively maintained, given | 7 |
| limited resources available to the district, must be addressed. | 8 |
| (e) With respect to the community analysis component of the | 9 |
| CEFP, the school board must study the following aspects of the | 10 |
| school district's development: | 11 |
| (1) Population characteristics and density patterns. | 12 |
| (2) Population changes due to migration patterns and to | 13 |
| fluctuations in the birth rate. | 14 |
| (3) Changes in land usage (residential, commercial, | 15 |
| and industrial). | 16 |
| (4) Major highways and street networks and their | 17 |
| probable future development. | 18 |
| (5) Changes in socio-economic patterns resulting in | 19 |
| population shifts within the community. | 20 |
| (6) Condition and value of property assessments. | 21 |
| (7) Availability of community services, such as | 22 |
| libraries, recreational areas, health services, and public | 23 |
| assembly space. | 24 |
| (8) Employment opportunities. | 25 |
| (9) Parental expectations of the school system. | 26 |
| (10) Citizen attitudes and aspirations in general. | 27 |
| (11) Possible shifts in housing patterns. | 28 |
| (12) Study of school attendance zones as they relate to | 29 |
| the dispersion of the district's school population. | 30 |
| (f) With respect to the population and enrollment study | 31 |
| component of the CEFP, in making enrollment projections, the | 32 |
| school board must consider the following statistics: | 33 |
| (1) Population trends for the school district and each | 34 |
| school in the district. |
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| (2) Birth rates and the number of births. | 2 |
| (3) School enrollment figures and trends for the past | 3 |
| 10 years. | 4 |
| (4) Historic non-public school enrollment figures, if | 5 |
| available. | 6 |
| (5) Trends of dropout and attrition rates for the past | 7 |
| 10 years. | 8 |
| (6) Ten-year enrollment projections per school | 9 |
| calculated by an approved method that considers items (1) | 10 |
| through (5) of this subsection (f). | 11 |
| (g) With respect to the educational plan component of the | 12 |
| CEFP, the school board shall include an analysis of the current | 13 |
| educational program and projections of the planned educational | 14 |
| program. The educational plan shall include the following: | 15 |
| (1) A description of the educational system proposed | 16 |
| for the 5-year and 10-year CEFP and how it will improve | 17 |
| instructional delivery as follows: | 18 |
| (A) How does the existing plan not meet the | 19 |
| district's goals and objectives and how does the new | 20 |
| plan meet these goals and objectives? | 21 |
| (B) Will the school system be predominately | 22 |
| organized on a grade K through 4, 5 through 8, and 9 | 23 |
| through 12 pattern or some other pattern? | 24 |
| (C) Will the typical pattern of one teacher per | 25 |
| class be followed or are teaching teams to be involved | 26 |
| all or part of the time? | 27 |
| (D) Generally, will there be self-contained or | 28 |
| departmentalized classroom instruction? | 29 |
| (E) Generally, will there be typical grade | 30 |
| patterns or will there be an ungraded or flexible | 31 |
| grouping of students? | 32 |
| (F) What will be the maximum or minimum enrollment | 33 |
| and total number of instructional areas in each school | 34 |
| building? |
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| (G) What method of scheduling will be utilized in | 2 |
| each school building (traditional, block, flexible, | 3 |
| year-round, or other)? Indicate the number of periods | 4 |
| in each instructional day. | 5 |
| (H) What is the plan for providing vocational and | 6 |
| technical education? | 7 |
| (2) A curriculum plan as follows: | 8 |
| (A) What knowledge, understanding, attitudes, | 9 |
| skills, and habits of life should be developed through | 10 |
| the experiences provided for children? | 11 |
| (B) What are the general characteristics of a high | 12 |
| quality school program? | 13 |
| (h) The evaluation and inventory of existing facilities | 14 |
| component of the CEFP shall include a survey of each school | 15 |
| facility, including modular and detached structures in the | 16 |
| school district (including diagrammatic floor plans and | 17 |
| exterior photographs), using a school facility evaluation | 18 |
| instrument. This evaluation shall provide objective data on the | 19 |
| condition and components of the existing building, its | 20 |
| appropriateness for delivery of the instructional program, and | 21 |
| its ability to support the present and projected enrollments in | 22 |
| an effective and efficient manner. Based on the district's | 23 |
| goals and objectives, individual facility deficiencies must be | 24 |
| identified. The school board must use the services of a | 25 |
| certified recognized educational facility professional, | 26 |
| architect, or professional engineer for the evaluation. | 27 |
| (i) The disposition of abandoned or surplus school | 28 |
| buildings must be identified in the CEFP and must include | 29 |
| accommodation for security, sanitation, health, and safety to | 30 |
| minimize the facility as an attractive nuisance to the | 31 |
| community and an analysis of feasible, alternative, adaptive | 32 |
| uses by the surrounding community. Crime Prevention Through | 33 |
| Environmental Design principles must be included during the | 34 |
| evaluation. |
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| Facility improvements and new facilities must accommodate | 2 |
| the educational programs by design. The building design must be | 3 |
| dictated by the curriculum, as defined in an approved | 4 |
| educational specification. Existing and new facilities must | 5 |
| meet all regulations of this State. | 6 |
| The CEFP shall provide specific criteria the school | 7 |
| district shall use to determine whether a school facility is to | 8 |
| be closed, including a detailed analysis of the impact of the | 9 |
| school closing on students to be transferred, the impact on | 10 |
| receiving schools, the limit on the number of forced student | 11 |
| transfers at the primary, middle school, and secondary school | 12 |
| levels, and a study of potential alternatives to school | 13 |
| closure. There must be substantive community input into the | 14 |
| school closings and the alternatives analysis. | 15 |
| The CEFP must describe each school facility and site, | 16 |
| enrollments, general conditions, recommendations for future
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| use of the building, and cost estimates to implement the | 18 |
| recommendations. The CEFP shall provide a list of projects at | 19 |
| each facility needed to address the inadequacies in health and | 20 |
| safety, building integrity, or educational capability of the | 21 |
| facility. The CEFP shall have a one-year, 5-year, and 10-year | 22 |
| timeline to indicate the anticipated
completion of each of | 23 |
| these projects. | 24 |
| (j) Prior to submitting the CEFP to the State Board of | 25 |
| Education for approval, a minimum of one public hearing must be | 26 |
| advertised and conducted in the school district, except that in | 27 |
| a school district organized under Article 34 of this Code, a | 28 |
| minimum of 3 public hearings must be advertised and conducted | 29 |
| in the school district, to provide broad-based community input | 30 |
| into the plan. As an addendum to the CEFP, sufficient | 31 |
| documentation, including verification of public notices from | 32 |
| the local newspaper, a synopsis of all comments received during | 33 |
| the hearing, and a formal comment from the school board must be | 34 |
| included. |
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| (k) As part of the total CEFP, the school district shall | 2 |
| include the objective means to be utilized in evaluating | 3 |
| implementation and effectiveness of the overall plan and each | 4 |
| project included in the plan.
The evaluation shall measure all | 5 |
| of the following: | 6 |
| (1) How each project furthers each of the quality | 7 |
| educational goals of the school district and the State | 8 |
| Board of Education, including student health and safety, | 9 |
| economies of scale, travel time and other demographics, | 10 |
| achievements of an effective and efficient instructional | 11 |
| delivery system, curricular improvements, innovations in | 12 |
| education, and adequate space for projected student | 13 |
| enrollment and community use of educational facilities. | 14 |
| (2) Prioritization of projects within the district, to | 15 |
| serve as a basis for determining expenditure of available | 16 |
| funds. | 17 |
| (3) The overall success of a project and how it relates | 18 |
| to the facilities plan of the district and the overall | 19 |
| educational goals of the district and this State. | 20 |
| (l) The CEFP must be based on an assessment and statement | 21 |
| of educational specifications for each of the facilities in the | 22 |
| school district. The educational specifications must describe | 23 |
| the educational activities that a proposed facility must | 24 |
| support and the types of spaces that will best accommodate | 25 |
| program requirements. | 26 |
| The development of educational specifications for each new | 27 |
| school
facility and for each substantially rehabilitated or | 28 |
| renovated facility must be accomplished by school | 29 |
| administrative unit personnel, with or without the assistance | 30 |
| of an outside consultant. The school board shall appoint | 31 |
| members to a working committee for the development of the | 32 |
| educational specifications. The district superintendent shall | 33 |
| recommend persons for appointment or, in the case of a school | 34 |
| district organized under Article 34 of this Code, the local |
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| school council shall recommend persons for appointment. In a | 2 |
| school district organized under Article 34 of this Code, at | 3 |
| least 2 members of the local school council shall serve on the | 4 |
| committee. The committee chairperson shall be the principal of | 5 |
| the proposed, rehabilitated, or renovated facility. If that | 6 |
| person has not been identified, then the principal of another | 7 |
| school facility in the district may serve. The working | 8 |
| committee must be small, selective, and balanced in | 9 |
| composition, with diversified interests, knowledge, and skills | 10 |
| represented. The school board shall take into consideration the | 11 |
| following factors in appointing members to the committee: | 12 |
| (1) Time available to spend on the project. | 13 |
| (2) Knowledge about the project. | 14 |
| (3) Imagination and creativity. | 15 |
| (4) Ability to work with people. | 16 |
| (5) Interest in the improvement of the school. ".
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