Full Text of SB3554 103rd General Assembly
SB3554 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY | | | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 SB3554 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: | | | Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning alternative procedures for teacher evaluation, remediation, and removal for cause after remediation, provides that if after the alternative evaluation procedures are determined by the State Board of Education, in a specified report of the State Board of Education, to have clear racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or geographic disparities for the educators evaluated under the alternative evaluation procedures, then the Chicago Board of Education and the exclusive representative of the district's teachers shall enter into negotiations to create a new evaluation system, to be implemented no later than August 15, 2025, that maintains the requirements for the alternative evaluation procedures and remedies the determined racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or geographic disparities. Effective immediately. |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education. | 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly: | 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 34-85c as follows: | 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/34-85c) | 7 | | Sec. 34-85c. Alternative procedures for teacher | 8 | | evaluation, remediation, and removal for cause after | 9 | | remediation. | 10 | | (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the board and | 11 | | the exclusive representative of the district's teachers are | 12 | | hereby authorized to enter into an agreement to establish | 13 | | alternative procedures for teacher evaluation, remediation, | 14 | | and removal for cause after remediation, including an | 15 | | alternative system for peer evaluation and recommendations; | 16 | | provided, however, that no later than September 1, 2012: (i) | 17 | | any alternative procedures must include provisions whereby | 18 | | student performance data is a significant factor in teacher | 19 | | evaluation and (ii) teachers are rated as "excellent", | 20 | | "proficient", "needs improvement" or "unsatisfactory". | 21 | | Pursuant exclusively to that agreement, teachers assigned to | 22 | | schools identified in that agreement shall be subject to an | 23 | | alternative performance evaluation plan and remediation |
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| 1 | | procedures in lieu of the plan and procedures set forth in | 2 | | Article 24A of this Code and alternative removal for cause | 3 | | standards and procedures in lieu of the removal standards and | 4 | | procedures set forth in Section 34-85 of this Code. To the | 5 | | extent that the agreement provides a teacher with an | 6 | | opportunity for a hearing on removal for cause before an | 7 | | independent hearing officer in accordance with Section 34-85 | 8 | | or otherwise, the hearing officer shall be governed by the | 9 | | alternative performance evaluation plan, remediation | 10 | | procedures, and removal standards and procedures set forth in | 11 | | the agreement in making findings of fact and a recommendation. | 12 | | (a-5) If the Governor has declared a disaster due to a | 13 | | public health emergency pursuant to Section 7 of the Illinois | 14 | | Emergency Management Agency Act that suspends in-person | 15 | | instruction, the timelines connected to the commencement and | 16 | | completion of any remediation plan are paused. Except where | 17 | | the parties mutually agree otherwise and such agreement is in | 18 | | writing, any remediation plan that had been in place for 45 or | 19 | | more days prior to the suspension of in-person instruction | 20 | | shall resume when in-person instruction resumes; any | 21 | | remediation plan that had been in place for fewer than 45 days | 22 | | prior to the suspension of in-person instruction shall | 23 | | discontinue and a new remediation period will begin when | 24 | | in-person instruction resumes. | 25 | | (a-10) No later than September 1, 2022, the school | 26 | | district must establish a teacher evaluation plan that ensures |
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| 1 | | that each teacher in contractual continued service whose | 2 | | performance is rated as either "excellent" or "proficient" is | 3 | | evaluated at least once in the course of the 3 school years | 4 | | after receipt of the rating and establish an informal teacher | 5 | | observation plan that ensures that each teacher in contractual | 6 | | continued service whose performance is rated as either | 7 | | "excellent" or "proficient" is informally observed at least | 8 | | once in the course of the 2 school years after receipt of the | 9 | | rating. | 10 | | (a-15) For the 2022-2023 school year only, if the Governor | 11 | | has declared a disaster due to a public health emergency | 12 | | pursuant to Section 7 of the Illinois Emergency Management | 13 | | Agency Act, the school district may waive the evaluation | 14 | | requirement of any teacher in contractual continued service | 15 | | whose performance was rated as either "excellent" or | 16 | | "proficient" during the last school year in which the teacher | 17 | | was evaluated under this Section. | 18 | | (a-20) If after the evaluation procedures established in | 19 | | subsection (a) of this Section are determined by the State | 20 | | Board of Education, in the State Board of Education's report | 21 | | under subsection (e) of Section 24A-20 of this Code, to have | 22 | | clear racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or geographic | 23 | | disparities for the educators evaluated under those evaluation | 24 | | procedures, then the board and the exclusive representative of | 25 | | the district's teachers shall enter into negotiations to | 26 | | create a new evaluation system, to be implemented no later |
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| 1 | | than August 15, 2025, that maintains the requirements | 2 | | established in subsection (a) of this Section and remedies the | 3 | | determined racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or geographic | 4 | | disparities. | 5 | | (b) The board and the exclusive representative of the | 6 | | district's teachers shall submit a certified copy of an | 7 | | agreement as provided under subsection (a) of this Section to | 8 | | the State Board of Education. | 9 | | (Source: P.A. 101-643, eff. 6-18-20; 102-252, eff. 1-1-22; | 10 | | 102-729, eff. 5-6-22.) | 11 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 | | becoming law. |
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