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WELCH.

   105 ILCS 5/2-3.51         from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.51                         
   105 ILCS 5/17-1.5                                                           
   105 ILCS 5/18-8.05                                                          
   105 ILCS 230/5-25                                                           
   105 ILCS 235/15-5                                                           
   105 ILCS 235/15-10                                                          
   105 ILCS 235/15-15                                                          
   105 ILCS 235/15-20                                                          

        Amends the School Code. In the State aid  formula  applicable  to      
   the  1998-99  and  subsequent  school  years, revises provisions under      
   which general State aid grants are to  be  paid  to  school  districts      
   based  on  their  low-income  concentration  level.  Provides that the      
   low-income concentration level is to  be  based  upon  the  number  of      
   pupils eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches or breakfasts      
   under  federal  law  (rather  than  upon the low-income eligible pupil      
   count from the most recently available  federal  census),  divided  by      
   average  daily  attendance.  Deletes  language  requiring  that if the      
   aggregate amount of any hold-harmless payments that  school  districts      
   are  to  receive  in any school year, as computed under the applicable      
   formula for that school year, is greater  than  the  aggregate  amount      
   appropriated  for that purpose, the hold-harmless payments that school      
   districts receive for that school year are to be prorated accordingly.      
   Permits school districts  participating  in  the  Reading  Improvement      
   Block  Grant  Program to use assessment methods other than the reading      
   portion of the IGAP tests to measure student reading skills.   In  the      
   provisions   relating   to   administrative   expenditure  limitations      
   applicable to school districts other than the Chicago school district,      
   revises the definition  of  administrative  expenditures.  Amends  the      
   School  Construction  Law.   Eliminates  the requirement that a school      
   district meet certain minimum enrollment  standards  in  order  to  be      
   eligible  to  receive a school construction project grant. Also amends      
   the General State Aid Continuing Appropriation Law.  Changes the Law's      
   short title and includes hold-harmless payments required to be made to      
   school districts under the State aid formula within the ambit of  that      
   Law's  application.   Effective  immediately, except the amendments of      
   the School Code take effect July 1, 1998.                                   
   98-02-17  S  FIRST READING                                                  
   98-02-17  S  REFERRED TO SENATE RULES COMMITTEE       RULES                 
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