SB3018 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB3018

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Kimberly A. Lightford

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 5/34-2.4b

from Ch. 122, par. 34-2.4b

Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Adds a school designated by the school board as a military academy to the list of schools to which certain provisions concerning local school councils, school improvement plans, the remediation and probation of attendance centers, and the allocation and application of lump sum amounts and other funds to attendance centers do not apply. Also makes changes concerning an alternative school designation.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning schools.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section 34-2.4b as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/34-2.4b) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-2.4b)

Sec. 34-2.4b. Limitation upon applicability. The provisions of Sections 34-2.1, 34-2.2, 34-2.3, 34-2.3a, 34-2.4 and 34-8.3, and those provisions of paragraph 1 of Section 34-18 and paragraph (c) of Section 34A-201a relating to the allocation or application, by formula or otherwise, of lump sum amounts and other funds to attendance centers, shall not apply to attendance centers that have applied for and been designated as a "Small School" by the Board, a school designated by the Board as a military academy, the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center and Cook County Jail schools, nor to the district's alternative schools for pregnant girls, nor to alternative schools established under Article 13A, nor to the Michael R. Durso School, the Jackson Adult Center, the Hillard Adult Center, the Alternative Transitional School, or any other attendance center designated by the Board as an alternative school, provided that the designation of alternative school is not applied to a school building that has in place a legally constituted local school council; and the board of education shall have and exercise with respect to those schools and with respect to the conduct, operation, affairs and budgets of those schools, and with respect to the principals, teachers and other school staff there employed, the same powers which are exercisable by local school councils with respect to the other attendance centers, principals, teachers and school staff within the district, together with all powers and duties generally exercisable by the board of education with respect to all attendance centers within the district. The board of education shall develop appropriate alternative methods for involving parents, community members and school staff to the maximum extent possible in all of the activities of those schools, and may delegate to the parents, community members and school staff so involved the same powers which are exercisable by local school councils with respect to other attendance centers.

(Source: P.A. 90-566, eff. 1-2-98; 91-622, eff. 8-19-99.)