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Full Text of HB1152  98th General Assembly

HB1152eng 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  
  

 


 
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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 adding Section
534-1.05 as follows:
 
6    (105 ILCS 5/34-1.05 new)
7    (Section scheduled to be repealed on May 31, 2015)
8    Sec. 34-1.05. The Chicago Educational Governance Task
9Force.
10    (a) The General Assembly makes the following findings:
11        (1) City of Chicago School District 299 is one of the
12    only school districts in this State with an appointed, not
13    an elected, school board.
14        (2) For 15 years, City of Chicago School District 299
15    has implemented a staggering number of reforms, including
16    probation, student retention, school closings, charters,
17    turnarounds, and the wholesale firing of 1,300 educators in
18    the summer of 2011.
19        (3) Many of these reforms are controversial and require
20    a robust democratic discussion and decision-making
21    process.
22        (4) For the past 15 years, citizens have had little to
23    no voice in school policy.

 

 

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1        (5) All children must be able to walk across the street
2    to receive a world class education.
3    (b) The Chicago Educational Governance Task Force is
4created for the purpose of recommending the best structure and
5procedure for the governance of City of Chicago School District
6299 in order to protect the welfare of the students of the City
7of Chicago.
8    (c) The Task Force shall be composed of the following
9members:
10        (1) Three members appointed by the Speaker of the House
11    of Representatives and 3 members appointed by the Minority
12    Leader of the House of Representatives.
13        (2) Three members appointed by the President of the
14    Senate and 3 members appointed by the Minority Leader of
15    the Senate.
16        (3) The Chief Executive Officer of City of Chicago
17    School District 299 or her or his designee.
18        (4) The President of the Chicago Board of Education or
19    her or his designee.
20        (5) The president of a Chicago professional teachers'
21    organization or his or her designee.
22        (6) The president of the association representing
23    principals in the schools of the district or his or her
24    designee.
25        (7) The student representative from the Chicago Board
26    of Education or her or his designee.

 

 

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1    (d) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall
2appoint one of his or her appointees under subdivision (1) of
3subsection (c) of this Section as a co-chairperson of the
4Chicago Educational Governance Task Force. The President of the
5Senate shall appoint one of his or her appointees under
6subdivision (2) of subsection (c) of this Section as a
7co-chairperson of the Chicago Educational Governance Task
8Force. Members appointed by the legislative leaders shall be
9appointed for the duration of the Chicago Educational
10Governance Task Force. In the event of a vacancy, the
11appointment to fill the vacancy shall be made by the
12legislative leader of the same chamber and party as the leader
13who made the original appointment.
14    (e) The Chicago Board of Education shall provide
15administrative and other support to the Task Force.
16    (f) The members of the Task Force shall serve on a pro bono
17basis. These members shall aid in the gathering of pertinent
18information on the impact of various school governance
19structures, including without limitation an elected
20representative school board and mayoral control, as well as
21gathering and analyzing data about the district's current
22governance structure.
23    (g) The Task Force shall report its recommendation as to
24which governance structure is best designed to serve the
25students of the City of Chicago to the General Assembly on or
26before May 30, 2015.

 

 

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1    (h) The Task Force is abolished and this Section is
2repealed on May 31, 2015.