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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 709
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 709  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  to  amend  the  School Code by changing Section
 5    2-3.112."; and
 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:
 8        "Section  5.   The  School  Code  is  amended by changing
 9    Section 2-3.112 as follows:
10        (105 ILCS 5/2-3.112)
11        Sec. 2-3.112.  Service evaluation reports.
12        (a)  The Service Evaluation Committee is  hereby  created
13    to staff of the State Board of Education, under the direction
14    of  the  State  Superintendent of Education, and the regional
15    offices of education, under the direction of  the  respective
16    regional  superintendent of schools, shall jointly design and
17    develop, under the direction of the Office of the  Lieutenant
18    Governor,  a  form to be used by school districts as provided
19    in this Section to annually evaluate the nature  and  quality
20    of  the  services  furnished to those school districts by the
21    State  Board  of  Education  and  the  regional  offices   of
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 1    education. The Service Evaluation Committee shall be composed
 2    of  7  members,  consisting  of  one  member from each of the
 3    following entities, designated in each case by the  governing
 4    board of the entity from which the member is designated:
 5             (1)  the Regional Superintendents Association;
 6             (2)  the  staff  employed  by  the  State  Board  of
 7        Education;
 8             (3)  the Illinois Parent Teacher Association;
 9             (4)  the Illinois Education Association;
10             (5)  the Illinois Federation of Teachers;
11             (6)  the Illinois Association of School Boards; and
12             (7)  the     Illinois    Association    of    School
13        Administrators.
14    Members of the Service Evaluation Committee  shall  serve  at
15    the  pleasure  of  the governing board of the entity by which
16    they are designated to serve as  members  of  the  Committee.
17    Committee  members shall serve without compensation but shall
18    be  reimbursed  for  the  reasonable  expenses   which   they
19    necessarily    incur    in    the    performance   of   their
20    responsibilities as members of the Committee.
21        (b)  Under the direction of the Office of the  Lieutenant
22    Governor,  the Committee, at periodic intervals not to exceed
23    3 years, The staff of the State Board of  Education  and  the
24    regional  offices of education shall annually review the form
25    to be used for the evaluation and make any  modifications  in
26    the  form  that  it  determines  they  jointly  determine are
27    necessary.  The design, development,  and  any  modifications
28    that  are  to  be  made  to  the form shall be determined and
29    agreed upon not later than August 1 of each  year,  beginning
30    in 1998 1996.
31        (c)  The Office of the Lieutenant Governor State Board of
32    Education   shall  cause  the  form  of  evaluation  as  last
33    designed, developed, or modified under  this  Section  to  be
34    printed  and  distributed  to  the board of education of each
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 1    school district in the State not later than  September  1  of
 2    each year, beginning in 1998 1996.
 3        (d)  The   president   of   the  board  of  education  is
 4    authorized to cause the evaluation form to be  completed  and
 5    may  sign the form as president of the board of education and
 6    forward the completed form to the Office  of  the  Lieutenant
 7    Governor not later than November 1 of each year, beginning in
 8    1998  1996.   Before  completing  and  signing the evaluation
 9    form, the president, acting through the board  of  education,
10    shall request and receive comments, opinions, and other input
11    from  the  district's  administrators,  teachers, and teacher
12    organizations to assist the board of education in evaluating,
13    rating, and reporting, on the form to be transmitted  to  the
14    Office  of the Lieutenant Governor, the nature and quality of
15    the services furnished to the district by the State Board  of
16    Education  and  the  regional  office  of  education  for the
17    educational service region in which the  school  district  is
18    located.
19        (e)  The  Office  of the Lieutenant Governor shall review
20    and tally the results of all evaluation forms  received  from
21    the  several  school  districts  of  the  State  and submit a
22    written report of the evaluation results to the Governor, the
23    General  Assembly,  the  members  of  the  State   Board   of
24    Education,  and  each of the several regional superintendents
25    of schools not later than December 15 of each year, beginning
26    in 1998 1996.  The Office  of  the  Lieutenant  Governor,  in
27    making the annual written report required by this subsection,
28    shall   not   report,   publish,  or  otherwise  release  the
29    evaluation results separately for  any  regional  offices  of
30    education  but instead the evaluation results with respect to
31    the regional  offices  of  education  shall  be  tallied  and
32    reported  on  an aggregate or composite basis, in such manner
33    as to avoid reporting evaluation results on a regional office
34    of education by regional office of education basis.
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 1    (Source: P.A. 89-212, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
 2        Section 99.   Effective  date.   This  Act  takes  effect
 3    January 1, 1998.".

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