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91_SB1134
LRB9106134NTsbA
1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 18-8.05.
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 18-8.05 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/18-8.05)
8 Sec. 18-8.05. Basis for apportionment of general State
9 financial aid and supplemental general State aid to the
10 common schools for the 1998-1999 and subsequent school years.
11 (A) General Provisions.
12 (1) The provisions of this Section apply to the
13 1998-1999 and subsequent school years. The system of general
14 State financial aid provided for in this Section is designed
15 to assure that, through a combination of State financial aid
16 and required local resources, the financial support provided
17 each pupil in Average Daily Attendance equals or exceeds a
18 prescribed per pupil Foundation Level. This formula approach
19 imputes a level of per pupil Available Local Resources and
20 provides for the basis to calculate a per pupil level of
21 general State financial aid that, when added to Available
22 Local Resources, equals or exceeds the Foundation Level. The
23 amount of per pupil general State financial aid for school
24 districts, in general, varies in inverse relation to
25 Available Local Resources. Per pupil amounts are based upon
26 each school district's Average Daily Attendance as that term
27 is defined in this Section.
28 (2) In addition to general State financial aid, school
29 districts with specified levels or concentrations of pupils
30 from low income households are eligible to receive
31 supplemental general State financial aid grants as provided
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1 pursuant to subsection (H). The supplemental State aid grants
2 provided for school districts under subsection (H) shall be
3 appropriated for distribution to school districts as part of
4 the same line item in which the general State financial aid
5 of school districts is appropriated under this Section.
6 (3) To receive financial assistance under this Section,
7 school districts are required to file claims with the State
8 Board of Education, subject to the following requirements:
9 (a) Any school district which fails for any given
10 school year to maintain school as required by law, or to
11 maintain a recognized school is not eligible to file for
12 such school year any claim upon the Common School Fund.
13 In case of nonrecognition of one or more attendance
14 centers in a school district otherwise operating
15 recognized schools, the claim of the district shall be
16 reduced in the proportion which the Average Daily
17 Attendance in the attendance center or centers bear to
18 the Average Daily Attendance in the school district. A
19 "recognized school" means any public school which meets
20 the standards as established for recognition by the State
21 Board of Education. A school district or attendance
22 center not having recognition status at the end of a
23 school term is entitled to receive State aid payments due
24 upon a legal claim which was filed while it was
25 recognized.
26 (b) School district claims filed under this Section
27 are subject to Sections 18-9, 18-10, and 18-12, except as
28 otherwise provided in this Section.
29 (c) If a school district operates a full year
30 school under Section 10-19.1, the general State aid to
31 the school district shall be determined by the State
32 Board of Education in accordance with this Section as
33 near as may be applicable.
34 (d) (Blank).
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1 (4) Except as provided in subsections (H) and (L), the
2 board of any district receiving any of the grants provided
3 for in this Section may apply those funds to any fund so
4 received for which that board is authorized to make
5 expenditures by law.
6 School districts are not required to exert a minimum
7 Operating Tax Rate in order to qualify for assistance under
8 this Section.
9 (5) As used in this Section the following terms, when
10 capitalized, shall have the meaning ascribed herein:
11 (a) "Average Daily Attendance": A count of pupil
12 attendance in school, averaged as provided for in
13 subsection (C) and utilized in deriving per pupil
14 financial support levels.
15 (b) "Available Local Resources": A computation of
16 local financial support, calculated on the basis of
17 Average Daily Attendance and derived as provided pursuant
18 to subsection (D).
19 (c) "Corporate Personal Property Replacement
20 Taxes": Funds paid to local school districts pursuant to
21 "An Act in relation to the abolition of ad valorem
22 personal property tax and the replacement of revenues
23 lost thereby, and amending and repealing certain Acts and
24 parts of Acts in connection therewith", certified August
25 14, 1979, as amended (Public Act 81-1st S.S.-1).
26 (d) "Foundation Level": A prescribed level of per
27 pupil financial support as provided for in subsection
28 (B).
29 (e) "Operating Tax Rate": All school district
30 property taxes extended for all purposes, except Bond and
31 Interest, Summer School, Rent, Capital Improvement, and
32 Vocational Education Building purposes.
33 (B) Foundation Level.
34 (1) The Foundation Level is a figure established by the
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1 State representing the minimum level of per pupil financial
2 support that should be available to provide for the basic
3 education of each pupil in Average Daily Attendance. As set
4 forth in this Section, each school district is assumed to
5 exert a sufficient local taxing effort such that, in
6 combination with the aggregate of general State financial aid
7 provided the district, an aggregate of State and local
8 resources are available to meet the basic education needs of
9 pupils in the district.
10 (2) For the 1998-1999 school year, the Foundation Level
11 of support is $4,225. For the 1999-2000 school year, the
12 Foundation Level of support is $4,325. For the 2000-2001
13 school year, the Foundation Level of support is $4,425.
14 (3) For the 2001-2002 school year and each school year
15 thereafter, the Foundation Level of support is $4,425 or such
16 greater amount as may be established by law by the General
17 Assembly.
18 (C) Average Daily Attendance.
19 (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid
20 pursuant to subsection (E), an Average Daily Attendance
21 figure shall be utilized. The Average Daily Attendance
22 figure for formula calculation purposes shall be the monthly
23 average of the actual number of pupils in attendance of each
24 school district, as further averaged for the best 3 months of
25 pupil attendance for each school district. In compiling the
26 figures for the number of pupils in attendance, school
27 districts and the State Board of Education shall, for
28 purposes of general State aid funding, conform attendance
29 figures to the requirements of subsection (F).
30 (2) The Average Daily Attendance figures utilized in
31 subsection (E) shall be the requisite attendance data for the
32 school year immediately preceding the school year for which
33 general State aid is being calculated.
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1 (D) Available Local Resources.
2 (1) For purposes of calculating general State aid
3 pursuant to subsection (E), a representation of Available
4 Local Resources per pupil, as that term is defined and
5 determined in this subsection, shall be utilized. Available
6 Local Resources per pupil shall include a calculated dollar
7 amount representing local school district revenues from local
8 property taxes and from Corporate Personal Property
9 Replacement Taxes, expressed on the basis of pupils in
10 Average Daily Attendance.
11 (2) In determining a school district's revenue from
12 local property taxes, the State Board of Education shall
13 utilize the equalized assessed valuation of all taxable
14 property of each school district as of September 30 of the
15 previous year. The equalized assessed valuation utilized
16 shall be obtained and determined as provided in subsection
17 (G).
18 (3) For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten
19 through 12, local property tax revenues per pupil shall be
20 calculated as the product of the applicable equalized
21 assessed valuation for the district multiplied by 3.00%, and
22 divided by the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
23 For school districts maintaining grades kindergarten through
24 8, local property tax revenues per pupil shall be calculated
25 as the product of the applicable equalized assessed valuation
26 for the district multiplied by 2.30%, and divided by the
27 district's Average Daily Attendance figure. For school
28 districts maintaining grades 9 through 12, local property tax
29 revenues per pupil shall be the applicable equalized assessed
30 valuation of the district multiplied by 1.20%, and divided by
31 the district's Average Daily Attendance figure.
32 (4) The Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes
33 paid to each school district during the calendar year 2 years
34 before the calendar year in which a school year begins,
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1 divided by the Average Daily Attendance figure for that
2 district, shall be added to the local property tax revenues
3 per pupil as derived by the application of the immediately
4 preceding paragraph (3). The sum of these per pupil figures
5 for each school district shall constitute Available Local
6 Resources as that term is utilized in subsection (E) in the
7 calculation of general State aid.
8 (E) Computation of General State Aid.
9 (1) For each school year, the amount of general State
10 aid allotted to a school district shall be computed by the
11 State Board of Education as provided in this subsection.
12 (2) For any school district for which Available Local
13 Resources per pupil is less than the product of 0.93 times
14 the Foundation Level, general State aid for that district
15 shall be calculated as an amount equal to the Foundation
16 Level minus Available Local Resources, multiplied by the
17 Average Daily Attendance of the school district.
18 (3) For any school district for which Available Local
19 Resources per pupil is equal to or greater than the product
20 of 0.93 times the Foundation Level and less than the product
21 of 1.75 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid per
22 pupil shall be a decimal proportion of the Foundation Level
23 derived using a linear algorithm. Under this linear
24 algorithm, the calculated general State aid per pupil shall
25 decline in direct linear fashion from 0.07 times the
26 Foundation Level for a school district with Available Local
27 Resources equal to the product of 0.93 times the Foundation
28 Level, to 0.05 times the Foundation Level for a school
29 district with Available Local Resources equal to the product
30 of 1.75 times the Foundation Level. The allocation of
31 general State aid for school districts subject to this
32 paragraph 3 shall be the calculated general State aid per
33 pupil figure multiplied by the Average Daily Attendance of
34 the school district.
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1 (4) For any school district for which Available Local
2 Resources per pupil equals or exceeds the product of 1.75
3 times the Foundation Level, the general State aid for the
4 school district shall be calculated as the product of $218
5 multiplied by the Average Daily Attendance of the school
6 district.
7 (F) Compilation of Average Daily Attendance.
8 (1) Each school district shall, by July 1 of each year,
9 submit to the State Board of Education, on forms prescribed
10 by the State Board of Education, attendance figures for the
11 school year that began in the preceding calendar year. The
12 attendance information so transmitted shall identify the
13 average daily attendance figures for each month of the school
14 year, except that any days of attendance in August shall be
15 added to the month of September and any days of attendance in
16 June shall be added to the month of May.
17 Except as otherwise provided in this Section, days of
18 attendance by pupils shall be counted only for sessions of
19 not less than 5 clock hours of school work per day under
20 direct supervision of: (i) teachers, or (ii) non-teaching
21 personnel or volunteer personnel when engaging in
22 non-teaching duties and supervising in those instances
23 specified in subsection (a) of Section 10-22.34 and paragraph
24 10 of Section 34-18, with pupils of legal school age and in
25 kindergarten and grades 1 through 12.
26 Days of attendance by tuition pupils shall be accredited
27 only to the districts that pay the tuition to a recognized
28 school.
29 (2) Days of attendance by pupils of less than 5 clock
30 hours of school shall be subject to the following provisions
31 in the compilation of Average Daily Attendance.
32 (a) Pupils regularly enrolled in a public school
33 for only a part of the school day may be counted on the
34 basis of 1/6 day for every class hour of instruction of
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1 40 minutes or more attended pursuant to such enrollment.
2 (b) Days of attendance may be less than 5 clock
3 hours on the opening and closing of the school term, and
4 upon the first day of pupil attendance, if preceded by a
5 day or days utilized as an institute or teachers'
6 workshop.
7 (c) A session of 4 or more clock hours may be
8 counted as a day of attendance upon certification by the
9 regional superintendent, and approved by the State
10 Superintendent of Education to the extent that the
11 district has been forced to use daily multiple sessions.
12 (d) A session of 3 or more clock hours may be
13 counted as a day of attendance (1) when the remainder of
14 the school day or at least 2 hours in the evening of that
15 day is utilized for an in-service training program for
16 teachers, up to a maximum of 5 days per school year of
17 which a maximum of 4 days of such 5 days may be used for
18 parent-teacher conferences, provided a district conducts
19 an in-service training program for teachers which has
20 been approved by the State Superintendent of Education;
21 or, in lieu of 4 such days, 2 full days may be used, in
22 which event each such day may be counted as a day of
23 attendance; and (2) when days in addition to those
24 provided in item (1) are scheduled by a school pursuant
25 to its school improvement plan adopted under Article 34
26 or its revised or amended school improvement plan adopted
27 under Article 2, provided that (i) such sessions of 3 or
28 more clock hours are scheduled to occur at regular
29 intervals, (ii) the remainder of the school days in which
30 such sessions occur are utilized for in-service training
31 programs or other staff development activities for
32 teachers, and (iii) a sufficient number of minutes of
33 school work under the direct supervision of teachers are
34 added to the school days between such regularly scheduled
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1 sessions to accumulate not less than the number of
2 minutes by which such sessions of 3 or more clock hours
3 fall short of 5 clock hours. Any full days used for the
4 purposes of this paragraph shall not be considered for
5 computing average daily attendance. Days scheduled for
6 in-service training programs, staff development
7 activities, or parent-teacher conferences may be
8 scheduled separately for different grade levels and
9 different attendance centers of the district.
10 (e) A session of not less than one clock hour of
11 teaching hospitalized or homebound pupils on-site or by
12 telephone to the classroom may be counted as 1/2 day of
13 attendance, however these pupils must receive 4 or more
14 clock hours of instruction to be counted for a full day
15 of attendance.
16 (f) A session of at least 4 clock hours may be
17 counted as a day of attendance for first grade pupils,
18 and pupils in full day kindergartens, and a session of 2
19 or more hours may be counted as 1/2 day of attendance by
20 pupils in kindergartens which provide only 1/2 day of
21 attendance.
22 (g) For children with disabilities who are below
23 the age of 6 years and who cannot attend 2 or more clock
24 hours because of their disability or immaturity, a
25 session of not less than one clock hour may be counted as
26 1/2 day of attendance; however for such children whose
27 educational needs so require a session of 4 or more clock
28 hours may be counted as a full day of attendance.
29 (h) A recognized kindergarten which provides for
30 only 1/2 day of attendance by each pupil shall not have
31 more than 1/2 day of attendance counted in any one day.
32 However, kindergartens may count 2 1/2 days of attendance
33 in any 5 consecutive school days. When a pupil attends
34 such a kindergarten for 2 half days on any one school
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1 day, the pupil shall have the following day as a day
2 absent from school, unless the school district obtains
3 permission in writing from the State Superintendent of
4 Education. Attendance at kindergartens which provide for
5 a full day of attendance by each pupil shall be counted
6 the same as attendance by first grade pupils. Only the
7 first year of attendance in one kindergarten shall be
8 counted, except in case of children who entered the
9 kindergarten in their fifth year whose educational
10 development requires a second year of kindergarten as
11 determined under the rules and regulations of the State
12 Board of Education.
13 (G) Equalized Assessed Valuation Data.
14 (1) For purposes of the calculation of Available Local
15 Resources required pursuant to subsection (D), the State
16 Board of Education shall secure from the Department of
17 Revenue the value as equalized or assessed by the Department
18 of Revenue of all taxable property of every school district,
19 together with (i) the applicable tax rate used in extending
20 taxes for the funds of the district as of September 30 of the
21 previous year and (ii) the limiting rate for all school
22 districts subject to property tax extension limitations as
23 imposed under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
24 This equalized assessed valuation, as adjusted further by
25 the requirements of this subsection, shall be utilized in the
26 calculation of Available Local Resources.
27 (2) The equalized assessed valuation in paragraph (1)
28 shall be adjusted, as applicable, in the following manner:
29 (a) For the purposes of calculating State aid under
30 this Section, with respect to any part of a school
31 district within a redevelopment project area in respect
32 to which a municipality has adopted tax increment
33 allocation financing pursuant to the Tax Increment
34 Allocation Redevelopment Act, Sections 11-74.4-1 through
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1 11-74.4-11 of the Illinois Municipal Code or the
2 Industrial Jobs Recovery Law, Sections 11-74.6-1 through
3 11-74.6-50 of the Illinois Municipal Code, no part of the
4 current equalized assessed valuation of real property
5 located in any such project area which is attributable to
6 an increase above the total initial equalized assessed
7 valuation of such property shall be used as part of the
8 equalized assessed valuation of the district, until such
9 time as all redevelopment project costs have been paid,
10 as provided in Section 11-74.4-8 of the Tax Increment
11 Allocation Redevelopment Act or in Section 11-74.6-35 of
12 the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law. For the purpose of the
13 equalized assessed valuation of the district, the total
14 initial equalized assessed valuation or the current
15 equalized assessed valuation, whichever is lower, shall
16 be used until such time as all redevelopment project
17 costs have been paid.
18 (b) The real property equalized assessed valuation
19 for a school district shall be adjusted by subtracting
20 from the real property value as equalized or assessed by
21 the Department of Revenue for the district an amount
22 computed by dividing the amount of any abatement of taxes
23 under Section 18-170 of the Property Tax Code by 3.00%
24 for a district maintaining grades kindergarten through
25 12, by 2.30% for a district maintaining grades
26 kindergarten through 8, or by 1.20% for a district
27 maintaining grades 9 through 12 and adjusted by an amount
28 computed by dividing the amount of any abatement of taxes
29 under subsection (a) of Section 18-165 of the Property
30 Tax Code by the same percentage rates for district type
31 as specified in this subparagraph (b).
32 (3) For the 1999-2000 school year and each school year
33 thereafter, if a school district meets all of the criteria of
34 this subsection (G)(3), the school district's Available Local
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1 Resources shall be calculated under subsection (D) using the
2 district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation
3 as calculated under this subsection (G)(3).
4 For purposes of this subsection (G)(3) the following
5 terms shall have the following meanings:
6 "Budget Year": The school year for which general
7 State aid is calculated and awarded under subsection (E).
8 "Base Tax Year": The property tax levy year used to
9 calculate the Budget Year allocation of general State
10 aid.
11 "Preceding Tax Year": The property tax levy year
12 immediately preceding the Base Tax Year.
13 "Base Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of the
14 equalized assessed valuation utilized by the County Clerk
15 in the Base Tax Year multiplied by the limiting rate as
16 calculated by the County Clerk and defined in the
17 Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
18 "Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension": The product of
19 the equalized assessed valuation utilized by the County
20 Clerk in the Preceding Tax Year multiplied by the
21 limiting rate as calculated by the County Clerk and
22 defined in the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
23 "Extension Limitation Ratio": A numerical ratio,
24 certified by the County Clerk, in which the numerator is
25 the Base Tax Year's Tax Extension and the denominator is
26 the Preceding Tax Year's Tax Extension.
27 "Operating Tax Rate": The operating tax rate as
28 defined in subsection (A).
29 If a school district is subject to property tax extension
30 limitations as imposed under the Property Tax Extension
31 Limitation Law, and if the Available Local Resources of that
32 school district as calculated pursuant to subsection (D)
33 using the Base Tax Year are less than the product of 1.75
34 times the Foundation Level for the Budget Year, the State
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1 Board of Education shall calculate the Extension Limitation
2 Equalized Assessed Valuation of that district. For the
3 1999-2000 school year, the Extension Limitation Equalized
4 Assessed Valuation of a school district as calculated by the
5 State Board of Education shall be equal to the product of the
6 district's 1996 Equalized Assessed Valuation and the
7 district's Extension Limitation Ratio. For the 2000-2001
8 school year and each school year thereafter, the Extension
9 Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation of a school district
10 as calculated by the State Board of Education shall be equal
11 to the product of the last calculated Extension Limitation
12 Equalized Assessed Valuation and the district's Extension
13 Limitation Ratio. If the Extension Limitation Equalized
14 Assessed Valuation of a school district as calculated under
15 this subsection (G)(3) is less than the district's equalized
16 assessed valuation as calculated pursuant to subsections
17 (G)(1) and (G)(2), then for purposes of calculating the
18 district's general State aid for the Budget Year pursuant to
19 subsection (E), that Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed
20 Valuation shall be utilized to calculate the district's
21 Available Local Resources under subsection (D).
22 (H) Supplemental General State Aid.
23 (1) In addition to the general State aid a school
24 district is allotted pursuant to subsection (E), qualifying
25 school districts shall receive a grant, paid in conjunction
26 with a district's payments of general State aid, for
27 supplemental general State aid based upon the concentration
28 level of children from low-income households within the
29 school district. Supplemental State aid grants provided for
30 school districts under this subsection shall be appropriated
31 for distribution to school districts as part of the same line
32 item in which the general State financial aid of school
33 districts is appropriated under this Section. For purposes of
34 this subsection, the term "Low-Income Concentration Level"
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1 shall be the low-income eligible pupil count from the most
2 recently available federal census divided by the Average
3 Daily Attendance of the school district. If, however, the
4 percentage decrease from the 2 most recent federal censuses
5 in the low-income eligible pupil count of a high school
6 district with fewer than 400 students exceeds by 75% or more
7 the percentage change in the total low-income eligible pupil
8 count of contiguous elementary school districts, whose
9 boundaries are coterminous with the high school district, the
10 high school district's low-income eligible pupil count from
11 the earlier federal census shall be the number used as the
12 low-income eligible pupil count for the high school district,
13 for purposes of this subsection (H).
14 (2) Supplemental general State aid pursuant to this
15 subsection shall be provided as follows:
16 (a) For any school district with a Low Income
17 Concentration Level of at least 20% and less than 35%,
18 the grant for any school year shall be $800 multiplied by
19 the low income eligible pupil count.
20 (b) For any school district with a Low Income
21 Concentration Level of at least 35% and less than 50%,
22 the grant for the 1998-1999 school year shall be $1,100
23 multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count.
24 (c) For any school district with a Low Income
25 Concentration Level of at least 50% and less than 60%,
26 the grant for the 1998-99 school year shall be $1,500
27 multiplied by the low income eligible pupil count.
28 (d) For any school district with a Low Income
29 Concentration Level of 60% or more, the grant for the
30 1998-99 school year shall be $1,900 multiplied by the low
31 income eligible pupil count.
32 (e) For the 1999-2000 school year, the per pupil
33 amount specified in subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d),
34 immediately above shall be increased by $100 to $1,200,
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1 $1,600, and $2,000, respectively.
2 (f) For the 2000-2001 school year, the per pupil
3 amounts specified in subparagraphs (b), (c) and (d)
4 immediately above shall be increased to $1,230, $1,640,
5 and $2,050, respectively.
6 (3) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of
7 more than 1,000 and less than 50,000 that qualify for
8 supplemental general State aid pursuant to this subsection
9 shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education prior to
10 October 30 of each year for the use of the funds resulting
11 from this grant of supplemental general State aid for the
12 improvement of instruction in which priority is given to
13 meeting the education needs of disadvantaged children. Such
14 plan shall be submitted in accordance with rules and
15 regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education.
16 (4) School districts with an Average Daily Attendance of
17 50,000 or more that qualify for supplemental general State
18 aid pursuant to this subsection shall be required to
19 distribute from funds available pursuant to this Section, no
20 less than $261,000,000 in accordance with the following
21 requirements:
22 (a) The required amounts shall be distributed to
23 the attendance centers within the district in proportion
24 to the number of pupils enrolled at each attendance
25 center who are eligible to receive free or reduced-price
26 lunches or breakfasts under the federal Child Nutrition
27 Act of 1966 and under the National School Lunch Act
28 during the immediately preceding school year.
29 (b) The distribution of these portions of
30 supplemental and general State aid among attendance
31 centers according to these requirements shall not be
32 compensated for or contravened by adjustments of the
33 total of other funds appropriated to any attendance
34 centers, and the Board of Education shall utilize funding
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1 from one or several sources in order to fully implement
2 this provision annually prior to the opening of school.
3 (c) Each attendance center shall be provided by the
4 school district a distribution of noncategorical funds
5 and other categorical funds to which an attendance center
6 is entitled under law in order that the general State aid
7 and supplemental general State aid provided by
8 application of this subsection supplements rather than
9 supplants the noncategorical funds and other categorical
10 funds provided by the school district to the attendance
11 centers.
12 (d) Any funds made available under this subsection
13 that by reason of the provisions of this subsection are
14 not required to be allocated and provided to attendance
15 centers may be used and appropriated by the board of the
16 district for any lawful school purpose.
17 (e) Funds received by an attendance center pursuant
18 to this subsection shall be used by the attendance center
19 at the discretion of the principal and local school
20 council for programs to improve educational opportunities
21 at qualifying schools through the following programs and
22 services: early childhood education, reduced class size
23 or improved adult to student classroom ratio, enrichment
24 programs, remedial assistance, attendance improvement,
25 and other educationally beneficial expenditures which
26 supplement the regular and basic programs as determined
27 by the State Board of Education. Funds provided shall
28 not be expended for any political or lobbying purposes as
29 defined by board rule.
30 (f) Each district subject to the provisions of this
31 subdivision (H)(4) shall submit an acceptable plan to
32 meet the educational needs of disadvantaged children, in
33 compliance with the requirements of this paragraph, to
34 the State Board of Education prior to July 15 of each
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1 year. This plan shall be consistent with the decisions of
2 local school councils concerning the school expenditure
3 plans developed in accordance with part 4 of Section
4 34-2.3. The State Board shall approve or reject the plan
5 within 60 days after its submission. If the plan is
6 rejected, the district shall give written notice of
7 intent to modify the plan within 15 days of the
8 notification of rejection and then submit a modified plan
9 within 30 days after the date of the written notice of
10 intent to modify. Districts may amend approved plans
11 pursuant to rules promulgated by the State Board of
12 Education.
13 Upon notification by the State Board of Education
14 that the district has not submitted a plan prior to July
15 15 or a modified plan within the time period specified
16 herein, the State aid funds affected by that plan or
17 modified plan shall be withheld by the State Board of
18 Education until a plan or modified plan is submitted.
19 If the district fails to distribute State aid to
20 attendance centers in accordance with an approved plan,
21 the plan for the following year shall allocate funds, in
22 addition to the funds otherwise required by this
23 subsection, to those attendance centers which were
24 underfunded during the previous year in amounts equal to
25 such underfunding.
26 For purposes of determining compliance with this
27 subsection in relation to the requirements of attendance
28 center funding, each district subject to the provisions
29 of this subsection shall submit as a separate document by
30 December 1 of each year a report of expenditure data for
31 the prior year in addition to any modification of its
32 current plan. If it is determined that there has been a
33 failure to comply with the expenditure provisions of this
34 subsection regarding contravention or supplanting, the
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1 State Superintendent of Education shall, within 60 days
2 of receipt of the report, notify the district and any
3 affected local school council. The district shall within
4 45 days of receipt of that notification inform the State
5 Superintendent of Education of the remedial or corrective
6 action to be taken, whether by amendment of the current
7 plan, if feasible, or by adjustment in the plan for the
8 following year. Failure to provide the expenditure
9 report or the notification of remedial or corrective
10 action in a timely manner shall result in a withholding
11 of the affected funds.
12 The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules
13 and regulations to implement the provisions of this
14 subsection. No funds shall be released under this
15 subdivision (H)(4) to any district that has not submitted
16 a plan that has been approved by the State Board of
17 Education.
18 (I) General State Aid for Newly Configured School Districts.
19 (1) For a new school district formed by combining
20 property included totally within 2 or more previously
21 existing school districts, for its first year of existence
22 the general State aid and supplemental general State aid
23 calculated under this Section shall be computed for the new
24 district and for the previously existing districts for which
25 property is totally included within the new district. If the
26 computation on the basis of the previously existing districts
27 is greater, a supplementary payment equal to the difference
28 shall be made for the first 4 years of existence of the new
29 district.
30 (2) For a school district which annexes all of the
31 territory of one or more entire other school districts, for
32 the first year during which the change of boundaries
33 attributable to such annexation becomes effective for all
34 purposes as determined under Section 7-9 or 7A-8, the general
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1 State aid and supplemental general State aid calculated under
2 this Section shall be computed for the annexing district as
3 constituted after the annexation and for the annexing and
4 each annexed district as constituted prior to the annexation;
5 and if the computation on the basis of the annexing and
6 annexed districts as constituted prior to the annexation is
7 greater, a supplementary payment equal to the difference
8 shall be made for the first 4 years of existence of the
9 annexing school district as constituted upon such annexation.
10 (3) For 2 or more school districts which annex all of
11 the territory of one or more entire other school districts,
12 and for 2 or more community unit districts which result upon
13 the division (pursuant to petition under Section 11A-2) of
14 one or more other unit school districts into 2 or more parts
15 and which together include all of the parts into which such
16 other unit school district or districts are so divided, for
17 the first year during which the change of boundaries
18 attributable to such annexation or division becomes effective
19 for all purposes as determined under Section 7-9 or 11A-10,
20 as the case may be, the general State aid and supplemental
21 general State aid calculated under this Section shall be
22 computed for each annexing or resulting district as
23 constituted after the annexation or division and for each
24 annexing and annexed district, or for each resulting and
25 divided district, as constituted prior to the annexation or
26 division; and if the aggregate of the general State aid and
27 supplemental general State aid as so computed for the
28 annexing or resulting districts as constituted after the
29 annexation or division is less than the aggregate of the
30 general State aid and supplemental general State aid as so
31 computed for the annexing and annexed districts, or for the
32 resulting and divided districts, as constituted prior to the
33 annexation or division, then a supplementary payment equal to
34 the difference shall be made and allocated between or among
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1 the annexing or resulting districts, as constituted upon such
2 annexation or division, for the first 4 years of their
3 existence. The total difference payment shall be allocated
4 between or among the annexing or resulting districts in the
5 same ratio as the pupil enrollment from that portion of the
6 annexed or divided district or districts which is annexed to
7 or included in each such annexing or resulting district bears
8 to the total pupil enrollment from the entire annexed or
9 divided district or districts, as such pupil enrollment is
10 determined for the school year last ending prior to the date
11 when the change of boundaries attributable to the annexation
12 or division becomes effective for all purposes. The amount
13 of the total difference payment and the amount thereof to be
14 allocated to the annexing or resulting districts shall be
15 computed by the State Board of Education on the basis of
16 pupil enrollment and other data which shall be certified to
17 the State Board of Education, on forms which it shall provide
18 for that purpose, by the regional superintendent of schools
19 for each educational service region in which the annexing and
20 annexed districts, or resulting and divided districts are
21 located.
22 (3.5) Claims for financial assistance under this
23 subsection (I) shall not be recomputed except as expressly
24 provided under this Section.
25 (4) Any supplementary payment made under this subsection
26 (I) shall be treated as separate from all other payments made
27 pursuant to this Section.
28 (J) Supplementary Grants in Aid.
29 (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
30 Section, the amount of the aggregate general State aid in
31 combination with supplemental general State aid under this
32 Section for which each school district is eligible shall be
33 no less than the amount of the aggregate general State aid
34 entitlement that was received by the district under Section
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1 18-8 (exclusive of amounts received under subsections 5(p)
2 and 5(p-5) of that Section) for the 1997-98 school year,
3 pursuant to the provisions of that Section as it was then in
4 effect. If a school district qualifies to receive a
5 supplementary payment made under this subsection (J), the
6 amount of the aggregate general State aid in combination with
7 supplemental general State aid under this Section which that
8 district is eligible to receive for each school year shall be
9 no less than the amount of the aggregate general State aid
10 entitlement that was received by the district under Section
11 18-8 (exclusive of amounts received under subsections 5(p)
12 and 5(p-5) of that Section) for the 1997-1998 school year,
13 pursuant to the provisions of that Section as it was then in
14 effect.
15 (2) If, as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection
16 (J), a school district is to receive aggregate general State
17 aid in combination with supplemental general State aid under
18 this Section for the 1998-99 school year and any subsequent
19 school year that in any such school year is less than the
20 amount of the aggregate general State aid entitlement that
21 the district received for the 1997-98 school year, the school
22 district shall also receive, from a separate appropriation
23 made for purposes of this subsection (J), a supplementary
24 payment that is equal to the amount of the difference in the
25 aggregate State aid figures as described in paragraph (1).
26 (3) (Blank).
27 (K) Grants to Laboratory and Alternative Schools.
28 In calculating the amount to be paid to the governing
29 board of a public university that operates a laboratory
30 school under this Section or to any alternative school that
31 is operated by a regional superintendent of schools, the
32 State Board of Education shall require by rule such reporting
33 requirements as it deems necessary.
34 As used in this Section, "laboratory school" means a
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1 public school which is created and operated by a public
2 university and approved by the State Board of Education. The
3 governing board of a public university which receives funds
4 from the State Board under this subsection (K) may not
5 increase the number of students enrolled in its laboratory
6 school from a single district, if that district is already
7 sending 50 or more students, except under a mutual agreement
8 between the school board of a student's district of residence
9 and the university which operates the laboratory school. A
10 laboratory school may not have more than 1,000 students,
11 excluding students with disabilities in a special education
12 program.
13 As used in this Section, "alternative school" means a
14 public school which is created and operated by a Regional
15 Superintendent of Schools and approved by the State Board of
16 Education. Such alternative schools may offer courses of
17 instruction for which credit is given in regular school
18 programs, courses to prepare students for the high school
19 equivalency testing program or vocational and occupational
20 training. A regional superintendent of schools may contract
21 with a school district or a public community college district
22 to operate an alternative school. An alternative school
23 serving more than one educational service region may be
24 established by the regional superintendents of schools of
25 those the affected educational service regions. An
26 alternative school serving more than one educational service
27 region may be operated under such terms as the regional
28 superintendents of schools of those educational service
29 regions may agree.
30 Each laboratory and alternative school shall file, on
31 forms provided by the State Superintendent of Education, an
32 annual State aid claim which states the Average Daily
33 Attendance of the school's students by month. The best 3
34 months' Average Daily Attendance shall be computed for each
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1 school. The general State aid entitlement shall be computed
2 by multiplying the applicable Average Daily Attendance by the
3 Foundation Level as determined under this Section.
4 (L) Payments, Additional Grants in Aid and Other
5 Requirements.
6 (1) For a school district operating under the financial
7 supervision of an Authority created under Article 34A, the
8 general State aid otherwise payable to that district under
9 this Section, but not the supplemental general State aid,
10 shall be reduced by an amount equal to the budget for the
11 operations of the Authority as certified by the Authority to
12 the State Board of Education, and an amount equal to such
13 reduction shall be paid to the Authority created for such
14 district for its operating expenses in the manner provided in
15 Section 18-11. The remainder of general State school aid for
16 any such district shall be paid in accordance with Article
17 34A when that Article provides for a disposition other than
18 that provided by this Article.
19 (2) Impaction. Impaction payments shall be made as
20 provided for in Section 18-4.2.
21 (3) Summer school. Summer school payments shall be made
22 as provided in Section 18-4.3.
23 (M) Education Funding Advisory Board.
24 The Education Funding Advisory Board, hereinafter in this
25 subsection (M) referred to as the "Board", is hereby created.
26 The Board shall consist of 5 members who are appointed by the
27 Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
28 The members appointed shall include representatives of
29 education, business, and the general public. One of the
30 members so appointed shall be designated by the Governor at
31 the time the appointment is made as the chairperson of the
32 Board. The initial members of the Board may be appointed any
33 time after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997.
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1 The regular term of each member of the Board shall be for 4
2 years from the third Monday of January of the year in which
3 the term of the member's appointment is to commence, except
4 that of the 5 initial members appointed to serve on the
5 Board, the member who is appointed as the chairperson shall
6 serve for a term that commences on the date of his or her
7 appointment and expires on the third Monday of January, 2002,
8 and the remaining 4 members, by lots drawn at the first
9 meeting of the Board that is held after all 5 members are
10 appointed, shall determine 2 of their number to serve for
11 terms that commence on the date of their respective
12 appointments and expire on the third Monday of January, 2001,
13 and 2 of their number to serve for terms that commence on the
14 date of their respective appointments and expire on the third
15 Monday of January, 2000. All members appointed to serve on
16 the Board shall serve until their respective successors are
17 appointed and confirmed. Vacancies shall be filled in the
18 same manner as original appointments. If a vacancy in
19 membership occurs at a time when the Senate is not in
20 session, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment
21 until the next meeting of the Senate, when he or she shall
22 appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a
23 person to fill that membership for the unexpired term. If
24 the Senate is not in session when the initial appointments
25 are made, those appointments shall be made as in the case of
26 vacancies.
27 The Education Funding Advisory Board shall be deemed
28 established, and the initial members appointed by the
29 Governor to serve as members of the Board shall take office,
30 on the date that the Governor makes his or her appointment of
31 the fifth initial member of the Board, whether those initial
32 members are then serving pursuant to appointment and
33 confirmation or pursuant to temporary appointments that are
34 made by the Governor as in the case of vacancies.
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1 The State Board of Education shall provide such staff
2 assistance to the Education Funding Advisory Board as is
3 reasonably required for the proper performance by the Board
4 of its responsibilities.
5 For school years after the 2000-2001 school year, the
6 Education Funding Advisory Board, in consultation with the
7 State Board of Education, shall make recommendations as
8 provided in this subsection (M) to the General Assembly for
9 the foundation level under subdivision (B)(3) of this Section
10 and for the supplemental general State aid grant level under
11 subsection (H) of this Section for districts with high
12 concentrations of children from poverty. The recommended
13 foundation level shall be determined based on a methodology
14 which incorporates the basic education expenditures of
15 low-spending schools exhibiting high academic performance.
16 The Education Funding Advisory Board shall make such
17 recommendations to the General Assembly on January 1 of odd
18 numbered years, beginning January 1, 2001.
19 (N) (Blank). General State Aid Adjustment Grant.
20 (1) Any school district subject to property tax
21 extension limitations as imposed under the provisions of the
22 Property Tax Extension Limitation Law shall be entitled to
23 receive, subject to the qualifications and requirements of
24 this subsection, a general State aid adjustment grant.
25 Eligibility for this grant shall be determined on an annual
26 basis and claims for grant payments shall be paid subject to
27 appropriations made specific to this subsection. For
28 purposes of this subsection the following terms shall have
29 the following meanings:
30 "Budget Year": The school year for which general State
31 aid is calculated and awarded under subsection (E).
32 "Current Year": The school year immediately preceding
33 the Budget Year.
34 "Base Tax Year": The property tax levy year used to
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1 calculate the Budget Year allocation of general State aid.
2 "Preceding Tax Year": The property tax levy year
3 immediately preceding the Base Tax Year.
4 "Extension Limitation Ratio": A numerical ratio,
5 certified by a school district's County Clerk, in which the
6 numerator is the Base Tax Year's tax extension amount
7 resulting from the Limiting Rate and the denominator is the
8 Preceding Tax Year's tax extension amount resulting from the
9 Limiting Rate.
10 "Limiting Rate": The limiting rate as defined in the
11 Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
12 "Preliminary Tax Rate": The tax rate for all purposes
13 except bond and interest that would have been used to extend
14 those taxes absent the provisions of the Property Tax
15 Extension Limitation Law.
16 (2) To qualify for a general State aid adjustment grant,
17 a school district must meet all of the following eligibility
18 criteria for each Budget Year for which a grant is claimed:
19 (a) (Blank).
20 (b) The Preliminary Tax Rate of the school district
21 for the Base Tax Year was reduced by the Clerk of the
22 County as a result of the requirements of the Property
23 Tax Extension Limitation Law.
24 (c) The Available Local Resources per pupil of the
25 school district as calculated pursuant to subsection (D)
26 using the Base Tax Year are less than the product of 1.75
27 times the Foundation Level for the Budget Year.
28 (d) The school district has filed a proper and
29 timely claim for a general State aid adjustment grant as
30 required under this subsection.
31 (3) A claim for grant assistance under this subsection
32 shall be filed with the State Board of Education on or before
33 April 1 of the Current Year for a grant for the Budget Year.
34 The claim shall be made on forms prescribed by the State
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1 Board of Education and must be accompanied by a written
2 statement from the Clerk of the County, certifying:
3 (a) That the school district had its Preliminary
4 Tax Rate for the Base Tax Year reduced as a result of the
5 Property Tax Extension Limitation Law.
6 (b) (Blank).
7 (c) The Extension Limitation Ratio as that term is
8 defined in this subsection.
9 (4) On or before August 1 of the Budget Year the State
10 Board of Education shall calculate, for all school districts
11 meeting the other requirements of this subsection, the amount
12 of the general State aid adjustment grant, if any, that the
13 school districts are eligible to receive in the Budget Year.
14 The amount of the general State aid adjustment grant shall be
15 calculated as follows:
16 (a) Determine the school district's general State
17 aid grant for the Budget Year as provided in accordance
18 with the provisions of subsection (E).
19 (b) Determine the school district's adjusted level
20 of general State aid by utilizing in the calculation of
21 Available Local Resources the equalized assessed
22 valuation that was used to calculate the general State
23 aid for the preceding fiscal year multiplied by the
24 Extension Limitation Ratio.
25 (c) Subtract the sum derived in subparagraph (a)
26 from the sum derived in subparagraph (b). If the result
27 is a positive number, that amount shall be the general
28 State aid adjustment grant that the district is eligible
29 to receive.
30 (5) The State Board of Education shall in the Current
31 Year, based upon claims filed in the Current Year, recommend
32 to the General Assembly an appropriation amount for the
33 general State aid adjustment grants to be made in the Budget
34 Year.
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1 (6) Claims for general State aid adjustment grants shall
2 be paid in a lump sum on or before January 1 of the Budget
3 Year only from appropriations made by the General Assembly
4 expressly for claims under this subsection. No such claims
5 may be paid from amounts appropriated for any other purpose
6 provided for under this Section. In the event that the
7 appropriation for claims under this subsection is
8 insufficient to meet all Budget Year claims for a general
9 State aid adjustment grant, the appropriation available shall
10 be proportionately prorated by the State Board of Education
11 amongst all districts filing for and entitled to payments.
12 (7) The State Board of Education shall promulgate the
13 required claim forms and rules necessary to implement the
14 provisions of this subsection.
15 (O) References.
16 (1) References in other laws to the various subdivisions
17 of Section 18-8 as that Section existed before its repeal and
18 replacement by this Section 18-8.05 shall be deemed to refer
19 to the corresponding provisions of this Section 18-8.05, to
20 the extent that those references remain applicable.
21 (2) References in other laws to State Chapter 1 funds
22 shall be deemed to refer to the supplemental general State
23 aid provided under subsection (H) of this Section.
24 (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 7-1-98; incorporates 90-566;
25 90-653, eff. 7-29-98; 90-654, eff. 7-29-98; 90-655, eff.
26 7-30-98; 90-802, eff. 12-15-98; 90-815, eff. 2-11-99; revised
27 2-17-99.)
28 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
29 1, 1999.