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91_HB2975
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 27A-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 27A-4 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/27A-4)
8 Sec. 27A-4. General Provisions.
9 (a) The General Assembly does not intend to alter or
10 amend the provisions of any court-ordered desegregation plan
11 in effect for any school district. A charter school shall be
12 subject to all federal and State laws and constitutional
13 provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
14 disability, race, creed, color, gender, national origin,
15 religion, ancestry, marital status, or need for special
16 education services.
17 (b) The total number of charter schools operating under
18 this Article at any one time shall not exceed 45. Not more
19 than 20 15 charter schools shall operate at any one time in
20 any city having a population exceeding 500,000; not more than
21 15 charter schools shall operate at any one time in the
22 counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will, and that
23 portion of Cook County that is located outside a city having
24 a population exceeding 500,000, with not more than one
25 charter school that has been initiated by a board of
26 education, or by an intergovernmental agreement between or
27 among boards of education, operating at any one time in the
28 school district where the charter school is located; and not
29 more than 10 15 charter schools shall operate at any one time
30 in the remainder of the State, with not more than one charter
31 school that has been initiated by a board of education, or by
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1 an intergovernmental agreement between or among boards of
2 education, operating at any one time in the school district
3 where the charter school is located.
4 For purposes of implementing this Section, the State
5 Board shall assign a number to each charter submission it
6 receives under Section 27A-6 for its review and
7 certification, based on the chronological order in which the
8 submission is received by it. The State Board shall promptly
9 notify local school boards when the maximum numbers of
10 certified charter schools authorized to operate have been
11 reached.
12 (c) No charter shall be granted under this Article that
13 would convert any existing private, parochial, or non-public
14 school to a charter school.
15 (d) Enrollment in a charter school shall be open to any
16 pupil who resides within the geographic boundaries of the
17 area served by the local school board.
18 (e) Nothing in this Article shall prevent 2 or more
19 local school boards from jointly issuing a charter to a
20 single shared charter school, provided that all of the
21 provisions of this Article are met as to those local school
22 boards.
23 (f) No local school board shall require any employee of
24 the school district to be employed in a charter school.
25 (g) No local school board shall require any pupil
26 residing within the geographic boundary of its district to
27 enroll in a charter school.
28 (h) If there are more eligible applicants for enrollment
29 in a charter school than there are spaces available,
30 successful applicants shall be selected by lottery. However,
31 priority shall be given to siblings of pupils enrolled in the
32 charter school and to pupils who were enrolled in the charter
33 school the previous school year, unless expelled for cause.
34 Dual enrollment at both a charter school and a public school
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1 or non-public school shall not be allowed. A pupil who is
2 suspended or expelled from a charter school shall be deemed
3 to be suspended or expelled from the public schools of the
4 school district in which the pupil resides.
5 (i) (Blank).
6 (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 91-405, eff. 8-3-99;
7 91-407, eff. 8-3-99; revised 8-27-99.)
8 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9 becoming law.