Full Text of SB0621 97th General Assembly
SB0621eng 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | 5 | | 10-22.22e as follows: | 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/10-22.22e new) | 7 | | Sec. 10-22.22e. Science and mathematics partnership | 8 | | school. | 9 | | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the | 10 | | contrary and subject to the provisions of this Section, 4 or | 11 | | more contiguous school districts with all or portion of their | 12 | | territory located within the geographic boundaries of the same | 13 | | municipality may, when in their judgment the interest of the | 14 | | districts and of the students therein will be best served, | 15 | | jointly operate, through an institution of higher education | 16 | | located in the municipality, a science and mathematics | 17 | | partnership school for serving some or all of grades | 18 | | kindergarten through 8. The partnership school may (i) restrict | 19 | | attendance to pupils who reside within the geographic | 20 | | boundaries of the areas served by the school districts and (ii) | 21 | | select students for enrollment based on admission criteria that | 22 | | focuses on academic proficiency in science and mathematics | 23 | | established by the partnership school and approved by the |
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| 1 | | districts' school boards; however, in no case may the | 2 | | partnership school discriminate on the basis of disability, | 3 | | race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, | 4 | | ancestry, marital status, or need for special education | 5 | | services in the establishment of its attendance boundaries or | 6 | | in the selection of students for enrollment. The number of | 7 | | students enrolled from each school district shall be | 8 | | approximately equal in number. If there are more students | 9 | | eligible for enrollment in the partnership school from a school | 10 | | district than there are spaces available, eligible students | 11 | | must be selected by lottery. | 12 | | (b) The school board of each school district shall, by | 13 | | proper resolution, enter into the joint operation of the | 14 | | partnership school. The school boards of the participating | 15 | | districts shall execute a partnership school contract with the | 16 | | institution of higher education for the joint operation, | 17 | | subject to the provisions of this Section. The agreement for | 18 | | joint operation of the partnership school shall include, but | 19 | | not be limited to, provisions for administration, staff, | 20 | | programs, financing, facilities, and transportation. | 21 | | (c) Each participating school district shall pay its per | 22 | | capita cost of educating the students residing in the district | 23 | | and attending the partnership school for the maintenance and | 24 | | operation of the partnership school. The manner of determining | 25 | | per capita cost must be set forth in the agreement. Each | 26 | | district shall pay the amount owed under the terms of the |
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| 1 | | agreement from the fund that the district would have used if | 2 | | the district had incurred the costs directly and may levy taxes | 3 | | and issue bonds as otherwise authorized for these purposes in | 4 | | order to make payments. | 5 | | (d) The teachers and other non-administrative, certified | 6 | | employees who work in the partnership school must be selected | 7 | | according to criteria established by the partnership school and | 8 | | agreed to by the school districts' school boards. The number of | 9 | | such employees selected from each school district must be | 10 | | approximately equal in number. Their selection must be for a | 11 | | 2-year or 4-year period, upon the completion of which they must | 12 | | be assigned to a comparable position in the school from which | 13 | | they were selected. While working in the partnership school, | 14 | | these employees shall remain employees of and be paid by the | 15 | | school district from which they were selected, and their wages | 16 | | and benefits must be the same as if they were teaching or | 17 | | otherwise working in that district, provided that additional | 18 | | wages and benefits may be provided to these teachers and other | 19 | | staff if the participating school districts and the exclusive | 20 | | bargaining representatives of their teachers and other staff | 21 | | agree. The contractual continued service status of a teacher | 22 | | and the retirement benefits of those employees who accept work | 23 | | with the partnership school must not be affected. A school term | 24 | | worked in the partnership school must be considered a school | 25 | | term worked in the school district from which the employees | 26 | | were selected for contractual continued service attainment |
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| 1 | | purposes. The time spent in employment with a participating | 2 | | district by any teacher who has not yet entered upon | 3 | | contractual continued service and accepts selection to work in | 4 | | the partnership school is not lost when computing the time | 5 | | necessary for the teacher to enter upon contractual continued | 6 | | service. |
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