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90_HB1402
105 ILCS 5/34-8.7
Amends the School Code. Makes changes of style in
provisions relating to the Chicago Learning Zone.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 34-8.7.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 34-8.7 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/34-8.7)
8 Sec. 34-8.7. Findings. The General Assembly observes
9 that the Chicago Learning Zone Advisory Committee has issued
10 its report and recommendations. The General Assembly finds,
11 after due consideration of the Committee's report and
12 recommendations, that the establishment of a Chicago Learning
13 Zone designation, as the educational version of enterprise
14 zones, will create an opportunity to accelerate the process
15 of Chicago school reform. The General Assembly further finds
16 that the Chicago Learning Zone will offer a fundamental
17 change in operations from a mode of following regulations to
18 an outcome mode, that this change will be one that which
19 concentrates on improving academic achievement in ways that
20 can be utilized to reform the system, and that this change
21 will be predicated on the overriding philosophy that
22 attendance centers should be empowered to develop models most
23 appropriate to their situations.
24 The General Assembly further observes that the value of a
25 learning experience is determined by the outcomes achieved,
26 not by the time or place of attendance; and, it finds that
27 Learning Zone schools should have the ability to operate
28 without State laws and regulations, board rules, and
29 policies, and the ability to operate with contractual
30 waivable conditions by a vote of the school staff governed by
31 the contracts. Accordingly, the General Assembly finds that
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1 the educational needs of the schoolchildren of Chicago will
2 be served by establishing a Chicago Learning Zone.
3 (Source: P.A. 89-3, eff. 2-27-95; 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)