Sen. Edward D. Maloney

Filed: 2/25/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3705

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3705 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Public Community College Act is amended by
5 changing Section 2-25 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 805/2-25)
7     Sec. 2-25. College and Career Readiness Pilot Program.
8     (a) The General Assembly finds that there is a direct and
9 significant link between academic preparation of students
10 being academically prepared for college and success in
11 postsecondary education and careers. Many students enter
12 college unprepared for the academic rigors of college and
13 require noncredit remedial courses to attain skills and
14 knowledge needed for regular, credit coursework. Remediation
15 lengthens time to degree, imposes additional costs on students
16 and colleges, and uses student financial aid for courses that

 

 

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1 will not count toward a degree. All students entering college
2 take a college entrance exam or a placement test. These tests
3 All high school juniors take the Prairie State Achievement
4 Examination, which contains the ACT college assessment exam.
5 ACT test elements and scores can be correlated to specific
6 course placements in community colleges. Customized ACT test
7 results can be used in collaboration with high schools to
8 assist high school students to identify areas for improvement
9 and help to them close skill gaps during students' their senior
10 year. College Greater college and career readiness reduces will
11 reduce the need for remediation, lowers lower educational
12 costs, shortens shorten time to degree, and increases increase
13 the overall success rate of Illinois college students.
14     (b) Subject to appropriation, the State Board shall create
15 a 3-year pilot project, to be known as the College and Career
16 Readiness Pilot Program. Subject to appropriation, on July 1,
17 2010, the State Board shall extend the current program for an
18 additional 3 years and include an additional 7 sites (or as
19 many as are allowed by available funding), as evidenced by the
20 effectiveness of the current program. If in any of these 3
21 additional years, money is not appropriated for the program,
22 then the State Board shall extend the program for an additional
23 year. The goals of the program are as follows:
24         (1) To diagnose college readiness by developing a
25     system that aligns to align ACT scores or college placement
26     examinations to specific community college courses in

 

 

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1     developmental and freshman curriculums.
2         (2) To reduce remediation by decreasing the need for
3     remedial coursework in mathematics, reading, and writing
4     at the college level through (i) increasing the number of
5     students enrolled in a college-prep core curriculum, (ii)
6     assisting students in improving college readiness skills,
7     and (iii) increasing successful student transitions into
8     postsecondary education.
9         (3) To align high school and college curriculums.
10         (4) To provide resources and academic support to
11     students to enrich the junior and senior year of high
12     school through remedial or advanced coursework and other
13     interventions.
14         (5) To develop an appropriate evaluation process to
15     measure the effectiveness of readiness intervention
16     strategies.
17     (c) The first year of the program extended created under
18 this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General
19 Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2011 and the
20 high school class of 2012 (or such later classes if money is
21 not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2008.
22         (1) In addition to the community colleges
23     participating in the program before July 1, 2010, the The
24     State Board shall select 7 additional 4 community colleges
25     (or as many as are allowable by available funding) to
26     participate in the program based on all of the following:

 

 

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1             (A) The percentage of students in developmental
2         coursework.
3             (B) Demographics of student enrollment, including
4         socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and
5         enrollments of first-generation college students.
6             (C) Geographic diversity.
7             (D) The willingness of the community college to
8         submit developmental and introductory courses to ACT
9         for analysis of college placement.
10             (D) (E) The ability of the community college to
11         partner with local high schools to develop college and
12         career readiness strategies and college readiness
13         teams.
14         (2) The State Board shall work with ACT to analyze up
15     to 10 courses at each participating community college for
16     purposes of determining student placement and college
17     readiness.
18         (2) (3) Each participating community college shall
19     establish an agreement with a high school or schools to do
20     all of the following:
21             (A) Create a data-sharing agreement.
22             (B) Create a Readiness Plan Prescription for each
23         student, showing all of the following:
24                 (i) The readiness status for college-level
25             work.
26                 (ii) Course recommendations for remediation or

 

 

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1             for advanced coursework in Advanced Placement
2             classes or dual credit and dual enrollment
3             programs.
4                 (iii) Additional academic support services,
5             including tutoring, mentoring, and college
6             application assistance.
7             (C) Create college and career readiness teams,
8         which shall include the chief academic officer, the
9         chief student services officer, an institutional
10         researcher, faculty, and counselors or advisers
11         comprised of faculty and counselors or advisers from
12         the community college and high school, the college and
13         career readiness coordinator from the community
14         college, and other members as determined by the high
15         school and community college. The teams may include
16         local business or civic leaders. The teams shall
17         develop intervention strategies as follows:
18                 (i) Use the Readiness Plan Prescription to
19             develop a contract with each student for remedial
20             or advanced coursework to be taken during the
21             senior year.
22                 (ii) Monitor student progress.
23                 (iii) Provide readiness support services.
24             (D) Retest students upon the completion of the
25         appropriate intervention in the spring of 2008 to
26         assess progress and college readiness.

 

 

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1         (3) (4) The State Board shall work with participating
2     community colleges and high schools to develop an
3     appropriate evaluation process to measure effectiveness of
4     intervention strategies, including all of the following:
5             (A) Baseline data for each participating school.
6             (B) Baseline data for the Illinois system.
7             (C) Comparison of college entrance exams or
8         college placement scores, or both, within each group of
9         students ACT scores from March 2007 to March 2008.
10             (D) Student enrollment in each applicable
11         intervention college in the fall of 2008.
12             (E) Placement of college and career readiness
13         students in developmental and regular courses upon the
14         completion of the intervention and subsequent
15         enrollment in additional courses in the fall of 2008.
16             (F) Retention of college and career readiness
17         students in the spring semester after enrollment of
18         2009.
19             (G) Other measures as selected by the State Board.
20         (5) The State Board shall work with participating
21     community colleges and high schools to establish
22     operational processes and a budget for college and career
23     readiness pilot programs, including all of the following:
24             (A) Employment of a college and career readiness
25         coordinator at each community college site.
26             (B) Establishment of a budget.

 

 

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1             (C) Creation of college and career readiness
2         teams, resources, and partnership agreements.
3     (d) The second year of the program extended created under
4 this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General
5 Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2012 and the
6 high school class of 2013 (or such later classes if money is
7 not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2009.
8 In the second year of the extended program, the State Board
9 shall have all of the following duties:
10         (1) Analyze courses at 3 new community college sites.
11         (1) (2) Undertake intervention strategies through
12     college and career readiness teams with students of in the
13     classes class of 2012 and 2013 2009.
14         (2) (3) Monitor and assist college and career readiness
15     graduates from the class of 2011 2008 in college.
16     (e) The third year of the program extended created under
17 this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General
18 Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2013 and the
19 high school class of 2014 (or such later classes if money is
20 not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2010.
21 In the third year of the extended program, the State Board
22 shall have all of the following duties:
23         (1) Analyze courses at 5 new community college sites.
24         (2) Add college and career readiness teams at 3 new
25     sites (from year 2 of the program).
26         (1) (3) Undertake intervention strategies through

 

 

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1     college and career readiness teams with students of the
2     classes class of 2013 and 2014 2010 at 7 sites.
3         (2) (4) Monitor and assist students from the classes of
4     2011 2008 and 2012 2009 in college.
5     (f) At the end of the 3-year extension of the program, the
6 State Board shall prepare and submit a report outlining its
7 findings and recommendations to the Senate and the House of
8 Representatives by filing a copy of its report with the
9 Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of
10 Representatives no later than December 31, 2013.
11 (Source: P.A. 95-694, eff. 11-5-07; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)
 
12     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
13 2010.".