102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3368

 

Introduced 2/22/2021, by Rep. Daniel Didech

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
105 ILCS 5/2-3.64a-5

    Amends the School Code. In provisions prohibiting students who do not take the State's final accountability assessment or its approved alternate assessment from receiving a regular high school diploma, exempts a high school student from taking the assessment if: (1) the assessment is administered during the pendency of a disaster proclamation issued by the Governor as a result of a public health emergency or epidemic;(2) the student resides in a county that is subject to the gubernatorial disaster proclamation; (3) the student's high school has implemented remote learning or blended remote learning procedures as a result of the public health emergency or epidemic; and (4) the parent or guardian of the student certifies to the high school that the student is immunocompromised, resides with an individual who is immunocompromised, or is a caretaker for an individual who is immunocompromised. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning education.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
52-3.64a-5 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.64a-5)
7    Sec. 2-3.64a-5. State goals and assessment.
8    (a) For the assessment and accountability purposes of this
9Section, "students" includes those students enrolled in a
10public or State-operated elementary school, secondary school,
11or cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
12board of control, a charter school operating in compliance
13with the Charter Schools Law, a school operated by a regional
14office of education under Section 13A-3 of this Code, or a
15public school administered by a local public agency or the
16Department of Human Services.
17    (b) The State Board of Education shall establish the
18academic standards that are to be applicable to students who
19are subject to State assessments under this Section. The State
20Board of Education shall not establish any such standards in
21final form without first providing opportunities for public
22participation and local input in the development of the final
23academic standards. Those opportunities shall include a

 

 

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1well-publicized period of public comment and opportunities to
2file written comments.
3    (c) Beginning no later than the 2014-2015 school year, the
4State Board of Education shall annually assess all students
5enrolled in grades 3 through 8 in English language arts and
6mathematics.
7    Beginning no later than the 2017-2018 school year, the
8State Board of Education shall annually assess all students in
9science at one grade in grades 3 through 5, at one grade in
10grades 6 through 8, and at one grade in grades 9 through 12.
11    The State Board of Education shall annually assess schools
12that operate a secondary education program, as defined in
13Section 22-22 of this Code, in English language arts and
14mathematics. The State Board of Education shall administer no
15more than 3 assessments, per student, of English language arts
16and mathematics for students in a secondary education program.
17One of these assessments shall be recognized by this State's
18public institutions of higher education, as defined in the
19Board of Higher Education Act, for the purpose of student
20application or admissions consideration. The assessment
21administered by the State Board of Education for the purpose
22of student application to or admissions consideration by
23institutions of higher education must be administered on a
24school day during regular student attendance hours.
25    Students who do not take the State's final accountability
26assessment or its approved alternate assessment may not

 

 

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1receive a regular high school diploma unless:
2        (1) the student is exempt from taking the assessment
3    under subsection (c-5) of this Section;
4        (2) the student is exempted from taking the State
5    assessments under subsection (d) of this Section because
6    the student is enrolled in a program of adult and
7    continuing education, as defined in the Adult Education
8    Act; , or
9        (3) the student is identified by the State Board of
10    Education, through rules, as being exempt from the
11    assessment.
12    The State Board of Education shall not assess students
13under this Section in subjects not required by this Section.
14    Districts shall inform their students of the timelines and
15procedures applicable to their participation in every yearly
16administration of the State assessments. The State Board of
17Education shall establish periods of time in each school year
18during which State assessments shall occur to meet the
19objectives of this Section.
20    The requirements of this subsection do not apply if the
21State Board of Education has received a waiver from the
22administration of assessments from the U.S. Department of
23Education.
24    (c-5) A high school student is exempt from taking the
25State's final accountability assessment or its approved
26alternative assessment under subsection (c) of this Section

 

 

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1if:
2        (1) the State's final accountability assessment or its
3    approved alternative assessment is administered during the
4    pendency of a disaster proclamation issued by the Governor
5    pursuant to Section 7 of the Illinois Emergency Management
6    Agency Act as a result of a public health emergency or
7    epidemic;
8        (2) the student resides in a county that is subject to
9    the gubernatorial disaster proclamation;
10        (3) the student's high school has implemented remote
11    learning or blended remote learning procedures under
12    Section 10-30 or 34-18.66 of this Code as a result of the
13    public health emergency or epidemic; and
14        (4) the parent or guardian of the student certifies to
15    the high school that the student is immunocompromised,
16    resides with an individual who is immunocompromised, or is
17    a caretaker for an individual who is immunocompromised.
18    (d) Every individualized educational program as described
19in Article 14 shall identify if the State assessment or
20components thereof require accommodation for the student. The
21State Board of Education shall develop rules governing the
22administration of an alternate assessment that may be
23available to students for whom participation in this State's
24regular assessments is not appropriate, even with
25accommodations as allowed under this Section.
26    Students receiving special education services whose

 

 

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1individualized educational programs identify them as eligible
2for the alternative State assessments nevertheless shall have
3the option of also taking this State's regular final
4accountability assessment, which shall be administered in
5accordance with the eligible accommodations appropriate for
6meeting these students' respective needs.
7    All students determined to be English learners shall
8participate in the State assessments. The scores of those
9students who have been enrolled in schools in the United
10States for less than 12 months may not be used for the purposes
11of accountability. Any student determined to be an English
12learner shall receive appropriate assessment accommodations,
13including language supports, which shall be established by
14rule. Approved assessment accommodations must be provided
15until the student's English language skills develop to the
16extent that the student is no longer considered to be an
17English learner, as demonstrated through a State-identified
18English language proficiency assessment.
19    (e) The results or scores of each assessment taken under
20this Section shall be made available to the parents of each
21student.
22    In each school year, the scores attained by a student on
23the final accountability assessment must be placed in the
24student's permanent record pursuant to rules that the State
25Board of Education shall adopt for that purpose in accordance
26with Section 3 of the Illinois School Student Records Act. In

 

 

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1each school year, the scores attained by a student on the State
2assessments administered in grades 3 through 8 must be placed
3in the student's temporary record.
4    (f) All schools shall administer the State's academic
5assessment of English language proficiency to all children
6determined to be English learners.
7    (g) All schools in this State that are part of the sample
8drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics, in
9collaboration with their school districts and the State Board
10of Education, shall administer the academic assessments under
11the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out
12under Section 411(b)(2) of the federal National Education
13Statistics Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 9010) if the U.S. Secretary
14of Education pays the costs of administering the assessments.
15    (h) (Blank).
16    (i) For the purposes of this subsection (i), "academically
17based assessments" means assessments consisting of questions
18and answers that are measurable and quantifiable to measure
19the knowledge, skills, and ability of students in the subject
20matters covered by the assessments. All assessments
21administered pursuant to this Section must be academically
22based assessments. The scoring of academically based
23assessments shall be reliable, valid, and fair and shall meet
24the guidelines for assessment development and use prescribed
25by the American Psychological Association, the National
26Council on Measurement in Education, and the American

 

 

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1Educational Research Association.
2    The State Board of Education shall review the use of all
3assessment item types in order to ensure that they are valid
4and reliable indicators of student performance aligned to the
5learning standards being assessed and that the development,
6administration, and scoring of these item types are
7justifiable in terms of cost.
8    (j) The State Superintendent of Education shall appoint a
9committee of no more than 21 members, consisting of parents,
10teachers, school administrators, school board members,
11assessment experts, regional superintendents of schools, and
12citizens, to review the State assessments administered by the
13State Board of Education. The Committee shall select one of
14its members as its chairperson. The Committee shall meet on an
15ongoing basis to review the content and design of the
16assessments (including whether the requirements of subsection
17(i) of this Section have been met), the time and money expended
18at the local and State levels to prepare for and administer the
19assessments, the collective results of the assessments as
20measured against the stated purpose of assessing student
21performance, and other issues involving the assessments
22identified by the Committee. The Committee shall make periodic
23recommendations to the State Superintendent of Education and
24the General Assembly concerning the assessments.
25    (k) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to
26implement this Section.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 100-7, eff. 7-1-17; 100-222, eff. 8-18-17;
2100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1046, eff. 8-23-18; 101-643, eff.
36-18-20.)
 
4    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.