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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1475
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1475 on page 1,
3 lines 2 and 6, by replacing "2-3.25g" each time it appears
4 with "2-3.25g and adding Section 2-3.126"; and
5 on page 5, by inserting below line 6 the following:
6 "(105 ILCS 5/2-3.126 new)
7 Sec. 2-3.126. Class size reduction program. The State
8 Board of Education shall develop and evaluate a statewide
9 class size reduction schedule for grades kindergarten through
10 3, under which the pupil-teacher ratio in each of those
11 grades in each school district in which any or all of those
12 grades are maintained does not exceed or will be reduced to a
13 maximum of 20 pupils to one teacher per class.
14 The State Board of Education shall submit its K-3 class
15 size reduction schedule, together with its evaluation thereof
16 and recommendations for any legislation that may be required
17 to implement and administer a class size reduction grant
18 program for those grades, to the Governor and the General
19 Assembly not later than October 1, 1998.
20 The State Board of Education also shall submit to the
21 Governor and the General Assembly, not later than the 2nd
22 Wednesday of January of each calendar year, an annual budget
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1 request for all amounts necessary to implement and
2 administer, during the school year that commences in that
3 calendar year, a statewide class size reduction grant program
4 for grades kindergarten through 3.
5 The grant program to be implemented under this Section
6 shall lapse when the maximum 20-to-one pupil-teacher ratio
7 for grades kindergarten through 3 is achieved on a statewide
8 basis as provided in this Section.".