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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 Grow
Your Own Teacher Education Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 5, 10, 20 and 25 as follows: | 6 |
| (110 ILCS 48/5)
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| Sec. 5. Purpose. The Grow Your Own Teacher preparation
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| programs established under this Act shall comprise a major new
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| statewide initiative, known as the Grow Your Own Teacher
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| Education Initiative, to prepare highly skilled, committed
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| teachers who will teach in hard-to-staff schools and
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| hard-to-staff teaching positions and who will remain in these
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| schools for substantial periods of time. | 14 |
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The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall
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| effectively recruit and prepare parent and community leaders
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| and paraeducators to become effective teachers statewide in | 17 |
| hard-to-staff schools serving a substantial percentage of | 18 |
| low-income students and
hard-to-staff teaching positions in | 19 |
| schools
serving a substantial percentage of low-income | 20 |
| students.
Further, the Initiative shall increase the diversity | 21 |
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teachers, including diversity based on race, ethnicity, and
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| disability.
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| The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall ensure
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| educational rigor by effectively preparing candidates in
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| accredited bachelor's degree programs in teaching, through
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| which graduates shall meet the requirements to secure an
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| Illinois initial teaching certificate.
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| The goal of the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative | 6 |
| is to add 1,000 teachers to low-income ,
and other hard-to-staff | 7 |
| Illinois schools by 2016 with an average retention period of 7 | 8 |
| years, as opposed to the current rate of 2.5 years for new | 9 |
| teachers in such areas.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-802, eff. 1-1-05; 94-979, eff. 6-30-06.) | 11 |
| (110 ILCS 48/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act: | 13 |
| "Accredited teacher preparation program" means a State or
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| regionally accredited higher education program authorized to
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| prepare individuals to fulfill all of the requirements to
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| receive an Illinois initial teaching certificate. | 17 |
| "Developmental classes" means classes in basic skill | 18 |
| areas, such as mathematics and language arts that are | 19 |
| prerequisite to, but not counted towards, degree requirements | 20 |
| of a teacher preparation program.
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| "Eligible school" means a public elementary or secondary | 22 |
| school in this State that serves a substantial percentage of | 23 |
| low-income students and that is either hard to staff or has | 24 |
| hard-to-staff teaching positions.
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| "Hard-to-staff school" means a public school in this State
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| an elementary or secondary
school that , based on data compiled | 2 |
| by the State Board of Education,
ranks in the upper third among | 3 |
| public schools of its type (elementary, middle, or secondary) | 4 |
| in terms of rate of attrition of its teachers
of schools in | 5 |
| this State on
a combined index measuring the percentage of the | 6 |
| school's
teachers who are not fully certified and the | 7 |
| percentage of the
school's teachers who leave their positions | 8 |
| annually . | 9 |
| "Hard-to-staff teaching position" means a teaching
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| category (such as special education, mathematics, or science)
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| in which statewide data compiled by the State Board of | 12 |
| Education
indicates a multi-year pattern of substantial
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| teacher shortage or that has been identified as a critical need | 14 |
| by the local school board.
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| "Initiative" means the Grow Your Own Teacher Education
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| Initiative created under this Act.
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| "Paraeducators" means individuals with a history of
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| demonstrated accomplishments in school staff positions (such
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| as teacher assistants, school-community liaisons, school
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| clerks, and security aides) in schools serving a substantial
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| percentage of low-income students.
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| "Parent and community leaders" means individuals with a | 23 |
| history of working to improve schools serving a
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| percentage of low-income students, including membership in a | 25 |
| community organization. | 26 |
| "Community organization" means a nonprofit organization |
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| that has a demonstrated capacity to train, develop, and | 2 |
| organize parents and community leaders into a constituency that | 3 |
| will hold the school and the school district accountable for | 4 |
| achieving high academic standards; in addition to | 5 |
| organizations with a geographic focus, "community | 6 |
| organization" includes general parent organizations, | 7 |
| organizations of special education or bilingual education | 8 |
| parents, and school employee unions.
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| "Program" means a Grow Your Own Teacher preparation program
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| established by a consortium under this Act.
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| "Schools serving a substantial percentage of low-income
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| students" means schools that maintain any of grades | 13 |
| pre-kindergarten through 8, in which at least 35% of the | 14 |
| students are eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches | 15 |
| and schools that maintain any of grades 9 through 12, in which | 16 |
| at least 25% of the students are eligible to receive free or | 17 |
| reduced price lunches. | 18 |
| "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-802, eff. 1-1-05; 94-979, eff. 6-30-06.) | 20 |
| (110 ILCS 48/20)
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| Sec. 20. Selection of grantees. The State Board shall award | 22 |
| grants to qualified consortia that reflect the distribution and | 23 |
| diversity of hard-to-staff schools and hard-to-staff positions | 24 |
| across this State. In awarding grants, the State Board shall | 25 |
| select programs that successfully address Initiative criteria |
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| and that reflect a diversity of strategies in terms of serving | 2 |
| urban areas, serving rural areas, the nature of the | 3 |
| participating institutions of higher education, and the nature | 4 |
| of hard-to-staff schools and
hard-to-staff teaching positions | 5 |
| on which a program is focused.
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| The State Board shall select consortia that meet the | 7 |
| following requirements:
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| (1) A consortium shall be composed of at least one | 9 |
| 4-year institution of higher education with an accredited | 10 |
| teacher preparation program, at least one school district | 11 |
| or group of schools, and one or more community | 12 |
| organizations. The consortium may also include a 2-year | 13 |
| institution of higher education or a school employee union | 14 |
| or both.
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| (2) The 4-year institution of higher education | 16 |
| participating in the consortium shall have past, | 17 |
| demonstrated success in preparing teachers for elementary | 18 |
| or secondary schools serving a substantial percentage of | 19 |
| low-income students. | 20 |
| (3) The consortium shall focus on a clearly defined set | 21 |
| of eligible
target schools serving a substantial | 22 |
| percentage of low-income students that will participate in
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| be the primary focus of the program. The consortium shall | 24 |
| articulate the steps that it will carry out in preparing | 25 |
| teachers for its participating
target hard-to-staff
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| schools and in preparing teachers for one or more |
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| hard-to-staff teaching positions in those
its target
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| schools. | 3 |
| (4) A candidate
Candidate in a program under the | 4 |
| Initiative must hold a high school diploma or its | 5 |
| equivalent and must meet either the definition of "parent | 6 |
| and community leaders" or the definition of | 7 |
| "paraeducators" contained in Section 10 of this Act. | 8 |
| (5) The consortium shall employ effective procedures | 9 |
| for teaching the skills and knowledge needed to prepare | 10 |
| highly competent teachers. Professional preparation shall | 11 |
| include on-going direct experience in target schools and | 12 |
| evaluation of this experience. | 13 |
| (6) The consortium shall offer the program to cohorts | 14 |
| of candidates who begin by moving through the program | 15 |
| together. The program shall be offered on a schedule that | 16 |
| enables candidates to work full time while participating in | 17 |
| the program and allows paraeducators to continue in their | 18 |
| current positions. In any fiscal year in which an | 19 |
| appropriation for the Initiative is made, the
The
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| consortium shall guarantee that support will be available | 21 |
| to an admitted cohort for the cohort's training for that | 22 |
| fiscal year
through the cohort's full period of training . | 23 |
| At the beginning of the Initiative, programs that are | 24 |
| already operating and existing cohorts of candidates under | 25 |
| this model shall be eligible for funding. | 26 |
| (7) The institutions of higher education participating |
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| in the consortium shall document and agree to expend the | 2 |
| same amount of funds in implementing the program that these | 3 |
| institutions spend per student on similar educational | 4 |
| programs. Grants received by the consortium shall | 5 |
| supplement and not supplant these amounts. | 6 |
| (8) The State Board shall establish additional | 7 |
| criteria for review of proposals, including criteria that | 8 |
| address the following issues: | 9 |
| (A) Previous experience of the institutions of | 10 |
| higher education in preparing candidates for | 11 |
| hard-to-staff schools and positions and in working | 12 |
| with students with non-traditional backgrounds. | 13 |
| (B) The quality of the implementation plan, | 14 |
| including strategies for overcoming institutional | 15 |
| barriers to the progress of non-traditional | 16 |
| candidates. | 17 |
| (C) If a community college is a participant, the | 18 |
| nature and extent of existing articulation agreements | 19 |
| and guarantees between the community college and the | 20 |
| 4-year institution of higher education. | 21 |
| (D) The number of candidates to be trained in the | 22 |
| planned cohort or cohorts and the capacity of the | 23 |
| consortium for adding cohorts in future cycles. | 24 |
| (E) Experience of the community organization or | 25 |
| organizations in organizing parents and community | 26 |
| leaders to achieve school improvement and a strong |
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| relational school culture. | 2 |
| (F) The qualifications of the person or persons | 3 |
| designated by the 4-year institution of higher | 4 |
| education to be responsible for cohort support and the | 5 |
| development of a shared learning and social | 6 |
| environment among candidates. | 7 |
| (G) The consortium's plan for collective | 8 |
| consortium decision-making, including mechanisms for | 9 |
| community and candidate input. | 10 |
| (H) The consortium's plan for direct impact of the | 11 |
| program on the quality of education in the eligible
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| target schools. | 13 |
| (I) The relevance of the curriculum to the needs of | 14 |
| the eligible
targeted schools and positions, and the | 15 |
| use in curriculum and instructional planning of | 16 |
| principles for effective education for adults. | 17 |
| (J) The availability of classes under the program | 18 |
| in places and times accessible to the candidates. | 19 |
| (K) Provision of a level of performance to be | 20 |
| maintained by candidates as a condition of continuing | 21 |
| in the program. | 22 |
| (L) The plan of the 4-year institution of higher | 23 |
| education to ensure that candidates take advantage of | 24 |
| existing financial aid resources before using the loan | 25 |
| funds described in Section 25 of this Act. | 26 |
| (M) The availability of supportive services, |
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| including counseling, tutoring, and child care. | 2 |
| (N) A plan for continued participation of | 3 |
| graduates of the program in a program of support for at | 4 |
| least 2 years, including mentoring and group meetings. | 5 |
| (O) A plan for testing and qualitative evaluation | 6 |
| of candidates' teaching skills that ensures that | 7 |
| graduates of the program are as prepared for teaching | 8 |
| as other individuals completing the institution of | 9 |
| higher education's preparation program for the | 10 |
| certificate sought. | 11 |
| (P) A plan for internal evaluation that provides | 12 |
| reports at least yearly on the progress of candidates | 13 |
| towards graduation and the impact of the program on the | 14 |
| target schools and their communities. | 15 |
| (Q) Contributions from schools, school districts, | 16 |
| and other consortia members to the program, including | 17 |
| stipends for candidates during their student teaching. | 18 |
| (R) Consortium commitment for sustaining the | 19 |
| program over time, as evidenced by plans for reduced | 20 |
| requirements for external funding in subsequent | 21 |
| cycles.
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| (S) The inclusion in the planned program of | 23 |
| strategies derived from community organizing that will | 24 |
| help candidates develop tools for working with parents | 25 |
| and other community members.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-802, eff. 1-1-05; 94-979, eff. 6-30-06.) |
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| (110 ILCS 48/25)
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| Sec. 25. Expenditures under the Initiative. | 3 |
| (a) Every program under the Initiative shall implement a | 4 |
| program of forgivable loans to cover any portion of tuition and | 5 |
| direct expenses of candidates under the program in excess of | 6 |
| grants-in-aid and other forgivable loans received. All | 7 |
| students admitted to a cohort shall be eligible for such loans. | 8 |
| Loans shall be fully forgiven if a graduate completes 5 years | 9 |
| of service in hard-to-staff schools
or hard-to-staff teaching | 10 |
| positions, with partial forgiveness for shorter periods of | 11 |
| service. The State Board shall establish standards for the | 12 |
| approval of requests for waivers or deferrals of
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| to waive this obligation for individual candidates and for | 14 |
| deferral of repayment for work interruptions after | 15 |
| certification . The State Board shall also define standards for | 16 |
| the fiscal management of these loan funds. | 17 |
| (b) Grants under the Initiative shall be awarded in such a | 18 |
| way as to provide the required support for a cohort of | 19 |
| candidates for any fiscal year in which an appropriation for | 20 |
| the Initiative is made
the cohort's entire training period . | 21 |
| Program budgets must show expenditures and needed funds for the | 22 |
| entire period that candidates are expected to be enrolled. | 23 |
| (c) No funds under the Initiative may be used to supplant | 24 |
| the average per-capita expenditures by the institution of | 25 |
| higher education for candidates. |
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| (d) Where necessary, program budgets shall include the | 2 |
| costs of child care and other indirect expenses, such as | 3 |
| transportation, tutoring, technology, and technology support, | 4 |
| that are necessary to permit candidates to maintain their
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| full class schedules
schedule . Grant funds may be used by any | 6 |
| member of a consortium to offset such costs, whether the needed | 7 |
| services are
Child care may be provided by the community | 8 |
| organization or organizations , are provided by another member | 9 |
| of the consortium, or are
be independently contracted for. | 10 |
| (e) The institution of higher education may expend grant | 11 |
| funds to cover the additional costs of offering classes in | 12 |
| community settings and for tutoring services. | 13 |
| (f) The community organization or organizations may | 14 |
| receive a portion of the grant money for the expenses of | 15 |
| recruitment, community orientation, and counseling of | 16 |
| potential candidates, for providing space in the community, and | 17 |
| for working with school personnel to facilitate individual work | 18 |
| experiences and support of candidates. | 19 |
| (g) The school district or school employee union or both | 20 |
| may receive a portion of the grant money for expenses of | 21 |
| supporting the work experiences of candidates and providing | 22 |
| mentors for graduates.
Notwithstanding the provisions of | 23 |
| Section 10-20.15 of the School Code, school districts may also | 24 |
| use these or other applicable public funds to pay participants | 25 |
| in programs under the Initiative for student teaching required | 26 |
| by an accredited teacher preparation program. |
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| (h) One member of the consortium may expend funds to cover | 2 |
| the salary of a site-based cohort coordinator. | 3 |
| (i) Grant funds may also be expended to pay directly for | 4 |
| required developmental classes for candidates beginning a | 5 |
| program.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-802, eff. 1-1-05; 94-979, eff. 6-30-06.)
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