Full Text of HB0601 97th General Assembly
HB0601ham002 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Monique D. Davis Filed: 5/30/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 601
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 601 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 21-1a as follows:
| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/21-1a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a)
| 7 | | Sec. 21-1a. Tests required for certification and teacher | 8 | | preparation.
| 9 | | (a) After July 1, 1988, in addition to all other | 10 | | requirements, early
childhood, elementary, special, high | 11 | | school, school service personnel, or,
except as provided in | 12 | | Section 34-6, administrative certificates shall be
issued to | 13 | | persons who have satisfactorily passed a test of basic skills, | 14 | | an assessment of professional teaching, and a test of subject | 15 | | matter knowledge, provided that a person who passed another | 16 | | state's test of basic skills as a condition of certification or |
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| 1 | | of admission to a teacher preparation program shall not be | 2 | | required to pass this State's test of basic skills.
The tests | 3 | | of basic skills and subject matter
knowledge shall be the tests | 4 | | which from time to time are designated by the
State Board of | 5 | | Education in consultation with the State Teacher
Certification | 6 | | Board and may be tests prepared by an educational testing
| 7 | | organization or tests designed by the State Board of Education | 8 | | in
consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. The | 9 | | areas to be
covered by the test of basic skills shall include | 10 | | the basic skills of
reading, writing, grammar and mathematics. | 11 | | The test of subject matter
knowledge shall assess content | 12 | | knowledge in the specific subject field. The
tests shall be | 13 | | designed to be racially neutral to assure that no
person in | 14 | | taking the tests is thereby discriminated against on the basis | 15 | | of
race, color, national origin or other factors unrelated to | 16 | | the person's
ability to perform as a certificated employee. The | 17 | | score required to pass
the tests of basic skills and subject | 18 | | matter knowledge shall be fixed by
the State Board of Education | 19 | | in consultation with the State Teacher
Certification Board. The | 20 | | tests shall be held not fewer than 3 times a year
at such time | 21 | | and place as may be designated by the State Board of Education
| 22 | | in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
| 23 | | (b) Except as provided in Section 34-6, the provisions of | 24 | | subsection
(a) of this Section shall apply equally in any | 25 | | school district subject to
Article 34, provided that the State | 26 | | Board of Education shall determine
which certificates issued |
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| 1 | | under Sections 34-8.1 and 34-83 prior to July 1,
1988 are | 2 | | comparable to any early childhood certificate, elementary | 3 | | school
certificate, special certificate, high school | 4 | | certificate, school service
personnel certificate or | 5 | | administrative certificate issued under this
Article as of July | 6 | | 1, 1988.
| 7 | | (c) A person who holds an early childhood, elementary, | 8 | | special, high
school or school service personnel certificate | 9 | | issued under this Article on
or at any time before July 1, | 10 | | 1988, including a person who has been
issued any such | 11 | | certificate pursuant to Section 21-11.1 or in exchange for
a | 12 | | comparable certificate theretofore issued under Section 34-8.1 | 13 | | or Section
34-83, shall not be required to take or pass the | 14 | | tests in order to
thereafter have such certificate renewed.
| 15 | | (d) The State Board of Education in consultation with the | 16 | | State Teacher
Certification Board shall conduct a pilot | 17 | | administration of the tests by
administering the test to | 18 | | students completing teacher education programs in
the 1986-87 | 19 | | school year for the purpose of determining the effect and
| 20 | | impact of testing candidates for certification.
| 21 | | Any student who intends to enroll
in a teacher preparation | 22 | | program at a recognized teacher training
institution shall, at | 23 | | any time within that student's first 2 years of enrollment at | 24 | | an institution of higher learning, take the basic skills test. | 25 | | Beginning with the 2002-2003 academic year, a student may not | 26 | | enroll
in a teacher preparation program at a recognized teacher |
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| 1 | | training
institution until he or she has passed the basic | 2 | | skills test.
| 3 | | Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 4 | | the 94th General Assembly, prior to completing an approved | 5 | | teacher preparation program, a preservice education candidate | 6 | | must satisfactorily pass the test of subject matter knowledge | 7 | | in the discipline in which he or she will be certified to | 8 | | teach. The teacher preparation program may require passage of | 9 | | the test of subject matter knowledge at any time during the | 10 | | program, including prior to student teaching.
| 11 | | (e) The rules and regulations developed to implement the | 12 | | required test
of basic skills and subject matter knowledge | 13 | | shall include the requirements
of subsections (a), (b), and (c) | 14 | | and shall include specific regulations to
govern test | 15 | | selection; test validation and determination of a passing
| 16 | | score; administration of the tests; frequency of | 17 | | administration; applicant
fees; frequency of applicants' | 18 | | taking the tests; the years for which a
score is valid; and, | 19 | | waiving certain additional tests for additional
certificates | 20 | | to individuals who have satisfactorily passed the test of
basic | 21 | | skills and subject matter knowledge as required in subsection | 22 | | (a).
The State Board of Education shall provide, by rule, | 23 | | specific policies that
assure uniformity in the difficulty | 24 | | level of each form of the basic skills
test and each subject | 25 | | matter knowledge test from test-to-test and
year-to-year. The | 26 | | State Board of Education shall also set a passing
score for the |
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| 1 | | tests.
| 2 | | (f) The State Teacher Certification Board may issue a | 3 | | nonrenewable
temporary certificate between July 1, 1988 and | 4 | | August 31, 1988 to
individuals who have taken the tests of | 5 | | basic skills and subject matter
knowledge prescribed by this | 6 | | Section but have not received such test scores
by August 31, | 7 | | 1988. Such temporary certificates shall expire on
December 31, | 8 | | 1988.
| 9 | | (g) Beginning February 15, 2000, the State Board of
| 10 | | Education, in
consultation with the State Teacher | 11 | | Certification Board,
shall implement and administer a new | 12 | | system of certification for teachers in
the State of Illinois. | 13 | | The State Board of Education, in consultation with the
State | 14 | | Teacher Certification Board, shall design
and implement a | 15 | | system of examinations and various other criteria which
shall | 16 | | be required prior to the issuance of Initial Teaching | 17 | | Certificates and
Standard Teaching Certificates. These | 18 | | examinations and indicators shall be
based on national and | 19 | | State professional teaching standards,
as determined by
the | 20 | | State Board of Education, in consultation with the State | 21 | | Teacher
Certification Board. The State
Board of Education may | 22 | | adopt any and all regulations necessary to implement and
| 23 | | administer
this Section.
| 24 | | (h) The State Board of Education shall report to the | 25 | | Illinois
General Assembly and the Governor with | 26 | | recommendations for further changes and
improvements to the |
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| 1 | | teacher certification system no later than July 1,
1999
and on | 2 | | an annual basis until July 1, 2001.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 96-689, eff. 8-25-09.)".
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