Full Text of SB2970 99th General Assembly
SB2970sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford Filed: 3/16/2016
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2970
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2970 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 5 | | Untapped Potential Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | 7 | | "Board" means the State Board of Education. | 8 | | "Universal screening" means the use of an assessment | 9 | | instrument that complies with Section 14A-30 of the School Code | 10 | | for all students within a grade level of a school district to | 11 | | identify gifted and talented children, especially students | 12 | | from traditionally underrepresented populations. | 13 | | "Gifted and talented children" means gifted and talented | 14 | | children as defined in Section 14A-20 of the School Code.
| 15 | | Section 10. Gifted and talented data. |
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| 1 | | (a) Beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, the Board | 2 | | shall collect from school districts data about programs for | 3 | | gifted and talented children, including the total number and | 4 | | percentage of programs offered for gifted and talented | 5 | | children, organized by grade level, areas of learning, and | 6 | | program type; the total number and percentage of students | 7 | | enrolled in those programs organized by grade level, areas of | 8 | | learning, and program type; the demographic information of | 9 | | students enrolled in those programs, including gender, race, | 10 | | ethnicity, and income status, organized by grade level, areas | 11 | | of learning, and program type; and whether the school district | 12 | | or a school uses universal screening as part of its gifted and | 13 | | talented identification process. | 14 | | (b) Data compiled under this Act must be published on the | 15 | | Board's Illinois Report Card website. | 16 | | Section 15. Universal screening to identify | 17 | | under-enrollment of low-income and minority students in | 18 | | programs for gifted and talented children. | 19 | | (a) The 5% of school districts with the greatest combined | 20 | | percentage point difference between their enrolled student | 21 | | population demographics and their gifted and talented student | 22 | | population demographics, calculated by totaling percentage | 23 | | points across gender, race, ethnicity, and income status | 24 | | demographic data for the 2016-2017 school year, shall, subject | 25 | | to appropriation, conduct a universal screening for enrolled |
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| 1 | | second and fifth graders the following school year. | 2 | | (b) The Board shall submit a written report about results | 3 | | of the universal screening to the Governor, the State | 4 | | Superintendent of Education, the Chairperson of the Board, the | 5 | | President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of | 6 | | Representatives, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the | 7 | | Minority Leader of House of Representatives, the Chairperson | 8 | | and all members of the Senate Education Committee, and the | 9 | | Chairperson and all members of the House Elementary and | 10 | | Secondary Education: School Curriculum and Policies Committee. | 11 | | The report shall compare those districts' 2016-2017 gifted and | 12 | | talented data with their 2017-2018 gifted and talented data | 13 | | after the results of universal screening are known.
| 14 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 15 | | becoming law.".
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