Rep. Emily McAsey

Filed: 3/21/2014

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5393

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5393 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
521B-70 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/21B-70)
7    Sec. 21B-70. Illinois Teaching Excellence Program.
8    (a) As used in this Section:
9    "Poverty or low-performing school" means a school in
10academic early warning status or academic watch status or a
11school in which 50% or more of its students are eligible for
12free or reduced-price school lunches.
13    "Qualified educator" means a teacher or school counselor
14currently employed in a school district who is in the process
15of obtaining certification through the National Board for
16Professional Teaching Standards or who has completed

 

 

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1certification and holds a current Professional Educator
2License with a National Board for Professional Teaching
3Standards designation or a retired teacher or school counselor
4who holds a Professional Educator License with a National Board
5for Professional Teaching Standards designation.
6    (b) Beginning on July 1, 2011, any funds appropriated for
7the Illinois Teaching Excellence Program must be used to
8provide monetary assistance and incentives for qualified
9educators who are employed by school districts and who have or
10are in the process of obtaining licensure through the National
11Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The goal of the
12program is to improve instruction and student performance.
13    The State Board of Education shall allocate an amount as
14annually appropriated by the General Assembly for the Illinois
15Teaching Excellence Program for (i) application fees for each
16qualified educator seeking to complete certification through
17the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, to be
18paid directly to the National Board for Professional Teaching
19Standards, and (ii) incentives for each qualified educator to
20be distributed to the respective school district. The school
21district shall distribute this payment to each eligible teacher
22or school counselor as a single payment.
23    The State Board of Education's annual budget must set out
24by separate line item the appropriation for the program. Unless
25otherwise provided by appropriation, qualified educators are
26eligible for monetary assistance and incentives based on the

 

 

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1priorities outlined in subsection (c) of this Section.
2    (c) When there are adequate funds available, priorities
3(1), (2), (3), (4), and (5), as outlined in this subsection
4(c), must be funded. If full funding to meet all priorities as
5outlined in this subsection (c) is not available, funding must
6be distributed in the order of the priorities listed in this
7subsection (c). If funding is insufficient to fund a priority
8in full, then funding for that priority must be prorated and no
9further priorities shall be funded. Priorities for monetary
10assistance and incentives shall include the following be as
11follows:
12        (1) Priority 1: A maximum of $2,000 towards the
13    application fee for up to 750 teachers or school counselors
14    in a poverty or low-performing school who apply on a
15    first-come, first-serve basis for National Board
16    certification.
17        (2) Priority 2: A maximum of $2,000 towards the
18    application fee for up to 250 teachers or school counselors
19    in a school other than a poverty or low-performing school
20    who apply on a first-come, first-serve basis for National
21    Board certification. However, if there were fewer than 750
22    individuals supported in item priority (1) of this
23    subsection (c), then the number supported in this item
24    priority (2) may be increased as such that the combination
25    of item priority (1) of this subsection (c) and this item
26    priority (2) shall equal 1,000 applicants.

 

 

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1        (3) A maximum of $1,000 towards the National Board for
2    Professional Teaching Standards' renewal application fee.
3    Priority 3: The fee for the National Board for Professional
4    Teaching Standards' Take One! (the test for National Board
5    certification) for up to 500 qualified educators who apply
6    on a first-come, first-serve basis.
7        (4) (Blank). Priority 4: An annual incentive equal to
8    $1,500, which shall be paid to each qualified educator who
9    holds both a National Board for Professional Teaching
10    Standards designation and a current corresponding
11    certificate issued by the National Board for Professional
12    Teaching Standards, who is employed in a school district,
13    and who agrees, in writing, to provide 30 hours of
14    mentoring or National Board for Professional Teaching
15    Standards professional development or both during the
16    school year to teachers or school counselors in a poverty
17    or low-performing school, as applicable.
18        (5) Priority 5: An annual incentive equal to $1,500,
19    which shall be paid to each qualified educator currently
20    employed in a school district who holds both a National
21    Board for Professional Teaching Standards designation and
22    a current corresponding certificate issued by the National
23    Board for Professional Teaching Standards and who agrees,
24    in writing, to provide at least 30 hours of mentoring or
25    National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
26    professional development or both during the school year to

 

 

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1    classroom teachers or school counselors, as applicable.
2    Funds must be dispersed on a first-come, first-serve basis,
3    with priority given to poverty or low-performing schools.
4    Mentoring for all priorities shall include, either singly
5    or in combination, mentoring of the following:
6            (A) National Board for Professional Teaching
7        Standards certification candidates.
8            (B) National Board for Professional Teaching
9        Standards re-take candidates.
10            (C) National Board for Professional Teaching
11        Standards renewal candidates.
12            (D) (Blank). National Board for Professional
13        Teaching Standards Take One! participants.
14    Funds may also be used for instructional leadership
15training for qualified educators interested in supporting
16implementation of the Illinois Learning Standards or teaching
17and learning priorities of the State Board of Education or
18both.
19(Source: P.A. 97-607, eff. 8-26-11.)
 
20    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
212014.".