Full Text of SB1856 94th General Assembly
SB1856sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
Filed: 4/11/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1856
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1856 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 2-3.25d as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/2-3.25d) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.25d)
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| Sec. 2-3.25d. Academic early warning and watch status.
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| (a) Beginning with the 2005-2006 school year, those
Those
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| schools that do not meet adequate yearly progress criteria , as
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| specified by the State Board of Education, for 2 consecutive | 11 |
| annual
calculations in the same subgroup and in the same | 12 |
| subject or in their participation rate, attendance rate, or | 13 |
| graduation rate ,
shall be placed on academic early warning | 14 |
| status for the next school year.
Schools on academic early | 15 |
| warning status that do not meet adequate yearly
progress | 16 |
| criteria for a third annual calculation in the same subgroup | 17 |
| and in the same subject or in their participation rate, | 18 |
| attendance rate, or graduation rate shall remain on academic | 19 |
| early
warning status. Schools on academic early warning status | 20 |
| that do not meet
adequate yearly progress criteria for a fourth | 21 |
| annual calculation in the same subgroup and in the same subject | 22 |
| or in their participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation | 23 |
| rate shall be
placed
on initial academic watch status. Schools | 24 |
| on academic watch status that do not
meet adequate yearly |
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| progress criteria for a fifth or subsequent annual
calculation | 2 |
| in the same subgroup and in the same subject or in their | 3 |
| participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation rate shall | 4 |
| remain on academic watch status. Schools on academic early
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| warning or academic watch status that meet adequate yearly | 6 |
| progress criteria
for
one annual calculation shall be | 7 |
| acknowledged for making improvement and shall
maintain their | 8 |
| current statuses for the next school year. Schools on academic
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| early warning or academic watch status that meet adequate | 10 |
| yearly progress
criteria for 2 consecutive annual calculations
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| shall be considered as having
met
expectations and shall be | 12 |
| removed from any status designation.
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| The school district of a school placed on either academic | 14 |
| early warning
status or academic watch status may appeal the | 15 |
| status to the State Board of
Education in accordance with | 16 |
| Section 2-3.25m of this Code.
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| A school district that has one or more schools on academic | 18 |
| early warning
or academic watch status shall prepare a revised | 19 |
| School Improvement Plan or
amendments thereto setting forth the | 20 |
| district's expectations for removing each
school from academic | 21 |
| early warning or academic watch status and for improving
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| student performance in the affected school or schools. | 23 |
| Districts operating
under
Article 34 of this Code may prepare | 24 |
| the School Improvement Plan required under
Section 34-2.4 of | 25 |
| this Code.
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school
that is | 27 |
| initially placed on academic early warning status
or that | 28 |
| remains on
academic early warning status after a third annual | 29 |
| calculation
must be approved by
the
school board (and by the | 30 |
| school's local school council in a district operating
under | 31 |
| Article 34 of this Code, unless the school is on probation | 32 |
| pursuant to
subsection (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code).
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school placed on | 34 |
| initial
academic watch status after a fourth annual calculation |
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| must be approved by the
school board (and by the school's local | 2 |
| school council in a district operating
under Article 34 of this | 3 |
| Code, unless the school is on probation pursuant to
subsection | 4 |
| (c) of Section
34-8.3 of this Code) and the State | 5 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| The revised School Improvement Plan for a school that | 7 |
| remains on
academic watch status after a fifth 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) and | 12 |
| the State Superintendent of Education.
In addition, the | 13 |
| district must develop a school restructuring plan for the
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| school that
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) and subsequently approved by
the State | 17 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| A school on academic watch status that does not meet | 19 |
| adequate yearly
progress criteria for a sixth annual | 20 |
| calculation shall implement its approved
school restructuring | 21 |
| plan beginning with the next school year, subject to the
State
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| interventions specified in Section 2-3.25f of this Code.
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| (b) Beginning with the 2005-2006 school year, those
Those
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| school districts that do not meet adequate yearly progress
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| criteria , as specified by the State Board of Education, for 2 | 26 |
| consecutive
annual
calculations in the same subgroup and in the | 27 |
| same subject or in their participation rate, attendance rate, | 28 |
| or graduation rate , shall be placed on academic early warning | 29 |
| status for the next
school year. Districts on academic early | 30 |
| warning status that do not meet
adequate yearly progress | 31 |
| criteria for a third annual calculation in the same subgroup | 32 |
| and in the same subject or in their participation rate, | 33 |
| attendance rate, or graduation rate shall remain
on
academic | 34 |
| early warning status. Districts on academic early warning |
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| status that
do not meet adequate yearly progress criteria for a | 2 |
| fourth annual calculation
in the same subgroup and in the same | 3 |
| subject or in their participation rate, attendance rate, or | 4 |
| graduation rate shall
be placed on initial academic watch | 5 |
| status. Districts on academic watch status
that do not meet | 6 |
| adequate yearly progress criteria for a fifth or subsequent
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| annual calculation in the same subgroup and in the same subject | 8 |
| or in their participation rate, attendance rate, or graduation | 9 |
| rate shall remain on academic watch status. Districts on | 10 |
| academic
early warning or academic watch status that meet | 11 |
| adequate yearly progress
criteria for one annual calculation | 12 |
| shall be acknowledged for making
improvement and shall maintain | 13 |
| their current statuses for the next school year.
Districts on | 14 |
| academic early warning or academic watch status that meet | 15 |
| adequate
yearly progress criteria for 2 consecutive annual | 16 |
| calculations shall be
considered
as having met expectations and | 17 |
| shall be removed from any status designation.
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| A district placed on either academic early warning status | 19 |
| or academic
watch status may appeal the status to the State | 20 |
| Board of Education in
accordance with Section 2-3.25m of this | 21 |
| Code.
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| Districts on academic early warning or academic watch | 23 |
| status shall
prepare a District Improvement Plan or amendments | 24 |
| thereto setting forth the
district's expectations for removing | 25 |
| the district from academic early warning
or
academic watch | 26 |
| status and for improving student performance in the district.
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| The
District Improvement Plan for a district that is | 28 |
| initially placed on academic
early
warning status must be | 29 |
| approved by the school board.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district that | 31 |
| remains on
academic early warning status after a third annual | 32 |
| calculation must be approved
by the school board.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district on | 34 |
| initial academic
watch
status after a fourth annual calculation |
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| must be approved by the school board
and the State | 2 |
| Superintendent of Education.
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| The revised District Improvement Plan for a district that | 4 |
| remains on
academic watch status after a fifth annual | 5 |
| calculation must be approved by the
school board and the State | 6 |
| Superintendent of Education. In addition, the
district must
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| develop a district restructuring plan that must be approved by | 8 |
| the school
board and the State Superintendent of Education.
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| A district on academic watch status that does not meet | 10 |
| adequate yearly
progress criteria for a sixth annual | 11 |
| calculation shall implement its approved
district | 12 |
| restructuring plan beginning with the next school year, subject | 13 |
| to
the State
interventions specified in Section 2-3.25f of this | 14 |
| Code.
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| (c) All revised School and District Improvement Plans shall | 16 |
| be developed
in collaboration with staff in the affected school | 17 |
| or school district. All
revised
School and District Improvement | 18 |
| Plans shall be developed, submitted, and
approved pursuant to | 19 |
| rules adopted by the State Board of Education. The
revised | 20 |
| Improvement Plan shall address measurable outcomes for | 21 |
| improving
student performance so that such performance meets | 22 |
| adequate yearly progress
criteria as specified by the State | 23 |
| Board of Education.
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| (d) All federal requirements apply to schools and school | 25 |
| districts utilizing
federal funds under Title I, Part A of the | 26 |
| federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965. | 27 |
| (e) The State Board of Education, from any moneys it may | 28 |
| have available for this purpose, must implement
and administer | 29 |
| a grant
program that provides 2-year grants to school districts | 30 |
| on the academic watch
list and other school districts that have | 31 |
| the lowest achieving students, as
determined by the State Board | 32 |
| of Education, to be
used to improve student achievement.
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| order
to receive a
grant under this program, a school district | 34 |
| must establish an accountability
program. The
accountability |
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| program must involve the use of statewide testing standards and
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| local
evaluation measures. A grant shall be automatically | 3 |
| renewed when achievement
goals are met. The Board may adopt any | 4 |
| rules necessary to implement and
administer this grant program.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-470, eff. 8-8-03; 93-890, eff. 8-9-04.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 |
| becoming law.".
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