HB0762sam002 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. David Luechtefeld

Filed: 5/27/2004

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 762

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 762, AS AMENDED, with reference to page and line numbers of Senate Amendment No. 1, on page 1, line 4, after "by", by inserting "changing Section 2-3.52A and"; and

on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the following:

"(105 ILCS 5/2-3.52A) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.52A)

Sec. 2-3.52A. Pilot programs.

(a) To improve the quality of teaching as a profession the State Board of Education may, pursuant to appropriations for such purposes, establish pilot programs for teachers relating to clinical schools, restructuring the teaching workplace, and providing special assistance and support to beginning teachers. Such programs shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted by the State Board of Education. Such rules shall provide for, but not be limited to, advisory councils and annual reports on the progress of the pilot programs.

(b) Beginning July 1, 2004 and continuing for 3 years, the State Board of Education and the State Teacher Certification Board are authorized to administer a pilot project designed to improve math and science achievement of fifth grade students. With annual joint approval by the State Board of Education and the State Teacher Certification Board, teachers who hold a 6-12 certificate endorsed in mathematics or science and who hold a middle grades endorsement or qualify for teaching in the middle grades may teach fifth grade students in the area of their endorsement, provided that no teacher otherwise assigned to teach those students is, as a direct result of the use of such teachers, subject to reduction in force.

(Source: P.A. 85-322.)".