96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4117


 
Introduced 2/27/2009, by Rep. Rosemary Mulligan
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













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    Amends the Grow
  Your Own Teacher Education Act. With respect to the purpose of the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative, provides that preparing highly skilled, committed teachers to teach in hard-to-staff schools includes preparing teachers to teach within the Department of Juvenile Justice School District.
















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    AN ACT concerning education.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Grow
  Your Own Teacher Education Act is 
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amended  by changing Section 5 as follows:
 
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    (110 ILCS 48/5)

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    Sec. 5. Purpose.  The Grow Your Own Teacher preparation
  
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programs established under this Act shall comprise a major new
  
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statewide initiative, known as the Grow Your Own Teacher
  
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Education Initiative, to prepare highly skilled, committed
  
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teachers who will teach in hard-to-staff schools, including 
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within the Department of Juvenile Justice School District, and
  
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hard-to-staff teaching positions and who will remain in these
  
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schools for substantial periods of time.
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      The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall
  
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effectively recruit and prepare parent and community leaders
  
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and paraeducators to become effective teachers statewide in 
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hard-to-staff schools serving a substantial percentage of 
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low-income students and
  hard-to-staff teaching positions in 
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schools
  serving a substantial percentage of low-income 
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students.
  Further, the Initiative shall increase the diversity 
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of
  teachers, including diversity based on race, ethnicity, and
  
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disability.
      
 


 






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    The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall ensure
  
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educational rigor by effectively preparing candidates in
  
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accredited bachelor's degree programs in teaching, through
  
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which graduates shall meet the requirements to secure an
  
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Illinois initial teaching certificate.
  
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    The goal of the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative 
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is to add 1,000 teachers to low-income, hard-to-staff Illinois 
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schools by 2016 with an average retention period of 7 years, as 
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opposed to the current rate of 2.5 years for new teachers in 
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such areas.


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(Source: P.A. 94-979, eff. 6-30-06; 95-476, eff. 1-1-08.)