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90_SB1899
105 ILCS 5/13A-4
Amends the School Code to allow a student determined to
be in need of authoritative intervention under the Juvenile
Court Act of 1987 or determined to be truant under State law
or local ordinance to be immediately transferred to an
alternative program. Effective immediately.
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LRB9008006NTsb
1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 13A-4.
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 13A-4 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/13A-4)
8 Sec. 13A-4. Administrative transfers. A student who is
9 determined to be subject to suspension or expulsion in the
10 manner provided by Section 10-22.6 (or, in the case of a
11 student enrolled in the public schools of a school district
12 organized under Article 34, in accordance with the uniform
13 system of discipline established under Section 34-19),
14 determined to be in need of authoritative intervention under
15 Article III of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, or determined
16 to be truant under State law or local ordinance may be
17 immediately transferred to the alternative program. At the
18 earliest time following that transfer appropriate personnel
19 from the sending school district and appropriate personnel of
20 the alternative program shall meet to develop an alternative
21 education plan for the student. The student's parent or
22 guardian shall be invited to this meeting. The student may
23 be invited. The alternative educational plan shall include,
24 but not be limited to all of the following:
25 (1) The duration of the plan, including a date
26 after which the student may be returned to the regular
27 educational program in the public schools of the
28 transferring district. If the parent or guardian of a
29 student who is scheduled to be returned to the regular
30 education program in the public schools of the district
31 files a written objection to the return with the
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1 principal of the alternative school, the matter shall be
2 referred by the principal to the regional superintendent
3 of the educational service region in which the
4 alternative school program is located for a hearing.
5 Notice of the hearing shall be given by the regional
6 superintendent to the student's parent or guardian.
7 After the hearing, the regional superintendent may take
8 such action as he or she finds appropriate and in the
9 best interests of the student. The determination of the
10 regional superintendent shall be final.
11 (2) The specific academic and behavioral components
12 of the plan.
13 (3) A method and time frame for reviewing the
14 student's progress.
15 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, if a
16 student for whom an individualized educational program has
17 been developed under Article 14 is transferred to an
18 alternative school program under this Article 13A, that
19 individualized educational program shall continue to apply to
20 that student following the transfer unless modified in
21 accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
22 (Source: P.A. 89-383, eff. 8-18-95; 89-629, eff. 8-9-96.)
23 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24 becoming law.