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90_HB2089
105 ILCS 5/14-9.01 from Ch. 122, par. 14-9.01
Amends the School Code. Makes a change in punctuation
and adds a gender neutral reference to provisions relating to
qualifications of personnel who teach classes or programs
authorized by the Article of the School Code relating to
children with disabilities.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 14-9.01.
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 14-9.01 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/14-9.01) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-9.01)
8 Sec. 14-9.01. Qualifications of teachers, other
9 professional personnel, and necessary workers. No person
10 shall be employed to teach any class or program authorized by
11 this Article who does not hold a valid teacher's certificate
12 as provided by law and unless he or she has had such special
13 training as the State Board of Education may require. No
14 special certificate or endorsement to a special certificate
15 issued under Section 21.4 on or after July 1, 1994, shall be
16 valid for teaching students with visual disabilities unless
17 the person to whom the certificate or endorsement is issued
18 has attained satisfactory performance on an examination that
19 is designed to assess competency in Braille reading and
20 writing skills according to standards that the State Board of
21 Education may adopt. Evidence of successfully completing the
22 examination of Braille reading and writing skills must be
23 submitted to the State Board of Education prior to an
24 applicant's examination of the subject matter knowledge test
25 required under Section 21-1a. Beginning July 1, 1995, in
26 addition to other requirements, a candidate for a teaching
27 certification in the area of the deaf and hard of hearing
28 granted by the Illinois State Board of Education for teaching
29 deaf and hard of hearing students in grades pre-school
30 through grade 12 must demonstrate a minimum proficiency in
31 sign language as determined by the Illinois State Board of
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1 Education. All other professional personnel employed in any
2 class, service, or program authorized by this Article shall
3 hold such certificates and shall have had such special
4 training as the State Board of Education may require;
5 provided that in a school district organized under Article
6 34, the school district may employ speech and language
7 pathologists who are licensed under the Illinois
8 Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act but who
9 do not hold a certificate issued under the School Code if the
10 district certifies that a chronic shortage of certified
11 personnel exists. Nothing contained in this Act prohibits
12 the school board from employing necessary workers to assist
13 the teacher with the special educational facilities, except
14 that all such necessary workers must have had such training
15 as the State Board of Education may require.
16 No later than January 1, 1993, the State Board of
17 Education shall develop, in consultation with the Advisory
18 Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities and
19 the Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, rules governing
20 the qualifications for certification of teachers and school
21 service personnel providing services to limited English
22 proficient students receiving special education and related
23 services.
24 The employment of any teacher in a special education
25 program provided for in Sections 14-1.01 to 14-14.01,
26 inclusive, shall be subject to the provisions of Sections
27 24-11 to 24-16, inclusive. Any teacher employed in a special
28 education program, prior to the effective date of this
29 amendatory Act of 1987, in which 2 or more districts
30 participate shall enter upon contractual continued service in
31 each of the participating districts subject to the provisions
32 of Sections 24-11 to 24-16, inclusive.
33 (Source: P.A. 88-45; 88-49; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-397,
34 eff. 8-20-95; 89-636, eff. 8-9-96; 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)