Full Text of SB0182 96th General Assembly
SB0182 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 SB0182
Introduced 1/30/2009, by Sen. Dan Cronin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. Removes the limit on the total number of charter schools that may operate at any one time; makes related changes. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 27A-4 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/27A-4)
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| Sec. 27A-4. General Provisions.
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| (a) The General Assembly does not intend to alter or amend | 9 |
| the provisions
of any court-ordered desegregation plan in | 10 |
| effect for any school district. A
charter school shall be | 11 |
| subject to all federal and State laws and
constitutional | 12 |
| provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
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| disability, race, creed, color, gender, national origin, | 14 |
| religion, ancestry,
marital status, or need for special | 15 |
| education services.
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| (b) The total number of charter schools operating under | 17 |
| this Article at any
one time shall not exceed 60. Not more than | 18 |
| 30 charter
schools
shall operate at any one time in any city | 19 |
| having a population exceeding
500,000; not more than 15
charter | 20 |
| schools shall operate at any one time in the counties of | 21 |
| DuPage, Kane,
Lake, McHenry, Will, and that portion of Cook | 22 |
| County that is located outside a
city having a population | 23 |
| exceeding 500,000, with not more than one
charter school that |
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| has been initiated by a board of education, or
by an | 2 |
| intergovernmental agreement between or among boards of | 3 |
| education,
operating at any one time in the school district | 4 |
| where the charter school is
located; and not more than 15 | 5 |
| charter
schools shall operate at any one time in the remainder | 6 |
| of the State, with not
more than one charter school that
has | 7 |
| been initiated by a board of education, or
by an | 8 |
| intergovernmental agreement between or among boards of | 9 |
| education,
operating at any one
time in the school district | 10 |
| where the charter school is located. For purposes of | 11 |
| implementing this Section, the State Board shall assign a
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| number to each charter submission it receives under Section | 13 |
| 27A-6 for its
review and certification, based on the | 14 |
| chronological order in which the
submission is received by it. | 15 |
| The State Board shall promptly notify local
school boards when | 16 |
| the maximum numbers of certified charter schools authorized
to | 17 |
| operate have been reached.
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| (c) No charter shall be granted under this Article that | 19 |
| would convert any
existing private, parochial, or non-public | 20 |
| school to a charter school.
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| (d) Enrollment in a charter school shall be open to any | 22 |
| pupil who resides
within the geographic boundaries of the area | 23 |
| served by the local school board, provided that the board of | 24 |
| education in a city having a population exceeding 500,000 may | 25 |
| designate attendance boundaries for no more than one-third of | 26 |
| the charter schools permitted in the city if the board of |
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| education determines that attendance boundaries are needed to | 2 |
| relieve overcrowding or to better serve low-income and at-risk | 3 |
| students. Students residing within an attendance boundary may | 4 |
| be given priority for enrollment, but must not be required to | 5 |
| attend the charter school.
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| (e) Nothing in this Article shall prevent 2 or more local | 7 |
| school boards from
jointly
issuing a charter to a single shared | 8 |
| charter school, provided that all of the
provisions of this | 9 |
| Article are met as to those local school boards.
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| (f) No local school board shall require any employee of the | 11 |
| school district
to be employed in a charter school.
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| (g) No local school board shall require any pupil residing | 13 |
| within the
geographic boundary of its district to enroll in a | 14 |
| charter school.
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| (h) If there are more eligible applicants for enrollment in | 16 |
| a charter school
than there are spaces available, successful | 17 |
| applicants shall be selected by
lottery. However, priority | 18 |
| shall be given to siblings of pupils enrolled in
the charter | 19 |
| school and to pupils who were enrolled in the charter school | 20 |
| the
previous school year, unless expelled for cause, and | 21 |
| priority may be given to pupils residing within the charter | 22 |
| school's attendance boundary, if a boundary has been designated | 23 |
| by the board of education in a city having a population | 24 |
| exceeding 500,000. Dual enrollment at both a
charter school and | 25 |
| a public school or non-public school shall not be allowed.
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| pupil who is suspended or expelled from a charter school shall |
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| be deemed to
be suspended or expelled from the public schools | 2 |
| of the school district in
which the pupil resides.
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| (i) (Blank).
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| (j) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the | 5 |
| contrary, a
school district in a city having a population | 6 |
| exceeding 500,000 shall not
have a duty to collectively bargain | 7 |
| with an exclusive representative of its
employees over | 8 |
| decisions to grant or deny a charter school proposal
under | 9 |
| Section 27A-8 of this Code, decisions to renew or revoke a | 10 |
| charter
under Section 27A-9 of this Code, and the impact of | 11 |
| these decisions,
provided that nothing in this Section shall | 12 |
| have the effect of negating,
abrogating, replacing, reducing, | 13 |
| diminishing, or limiting in any way
employee rights, | 14 |
| guarantees, or privileges granted in Sections 2, 3, 7, 8,
10, | 15 |
| 14, and 15 of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 93-3, eff. 4-16-03; 93-861, | 17 |
| eff. 1-1-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 |
| becoming law.
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