(105 ILCS 5/13-44.4) (from Ch. 122, par. 13-44.4)
Sec. 13-44.4.
Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education
Fund; budget. All moneys received from the Common School Fund, federal aid and
grants, vocational and educational funds and grants, and gifts and grants by
individuals, foundations and corporations for educational purposes shall be
deposited into the Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education
Fund in the State Treasury.
Moneys in the Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education
Fund may be used, subject to appropriation, to pay the expense of
the schools and school district of the Department of Corrections together with
and supplemental to regular appropriations to the Department for educational
purposes, including, but not limited to, the cost of teacher salaries, supplies
and materials, building upkeep and costs, transportation, scholarships,
non-academic salaries, equipment and other school costs.
Beginning in 1972, the Board of Education shall, by November 15,
adopt an annual budget for the use of education moneys for the
next school year which it deems necessary to defray all necessary
expenses and liabilities of the district, and in such annual
budget shall specify the objects and purposes of each item and the amount
needed for each object or purpose. The budget shall contain a statement of
cash on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year, an estimate of the cash
expected to be received during such fiscal year from all sources, an estimate
of the expenditure contemplated for such fiscal year, and a statement of the
estimated cash expected to be on hand at the end of such year. Prior to the
adoption of the annual educational budget, this budget shall be submitted to
the Department of Corrections and the State Board of Education for
incorporation.
(Source: P.A. 90-9, eff. 7-1-97; 90-587, eff. 7-1-98.)
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(105 ILCS 5/13-45) (from Ch. 122, par. 13-45)
Sec. 13-45.
Other provisions of this Code shall not apply to the Department of Juvenile Justice School District being all of the following Articles and
Sections: Articles 3, 3A, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, those Sections of Article 10 in conflict with
any provisions of Sections 13-40 through 13-45, and Articles 11, 12, 15,
17, 18, 19, 19A, 20, 22, 24, 24A, 26, 31, 32, 33, and 34. Also Article 28 shall
not apply except that this School District may use any funds available from
State, Federal and other funds for the purchase of textbooks, apparatus and
equipment.
(Source: P.A. 98-689, eff. 1-1-15 .)
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(105 ILCS 5/13A-1)
Sec. 13A-1.
Legislative declaration.
The General Assembly finds and
declares as follows:
(a) The children of this State constitute its most |
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(b) The State cannot provide its children with the
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| education they deserve and require unless the environment of the public schools is conducive to learning.
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(c) That environment cannot be achieved unless an
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| atmosphere of safety prevails, assuring that the person of each student, teacher, and staff member is respected, and that none of those people are subjected to violence, threats, harassment, intimidation, or otherwise confrontational or inappropriate behaviors that disrupt the educational atmosphere.
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(d) In most schools, although the disruptive students
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| who are the primary cause of inappropriate educational environments comprise a small percentage of the total student body, they nevertheless consume a substantial amount of the time and resources of teachers and school administrators who are required to address and contain that disruptive behavior.
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(e) Disruptive students typically derive little
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| benefit from traditional school programs and may benefit substantially by being transferred from their current school into an alternative public school program, where their particular needs may be more appropriately and individually addressed and where they may benefit from the opportunity for a fresh start in a new educational environment. At those alternative school programs, innovative academic and school-to-work programs, including but not limited to the techniques of work based learning and technology delivered learning, can be utilized to best help the students enrolled in those schools to become productive citizens.
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(f) Students need an appropriate, constructive
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| classroom atmosphere in order to benefit from the teacher's presentations. Students cannot afford the classroom disruptions and often become frustrated and angry at the inability of their teachers and schools to control disruptive students. As a result, they drop out of school too often. Furthermore, even if these students stay in school and graduate, they have been deprived by their disruptive classmates of the attention to their educational needs that their teachers would otherwise have provided, thereby diminishing their receiving the education and skills necessary to secure good jobs and become productive members of an increasingly competitive economic environment.
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(g) Parents of school children statewide have
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| expressed their rising anger and concern at the failure of their local public schools to provide a safe and appropriate educational environment for their children and to deal appropriately with disruptive students, and the General Assembly deems their concerns to be understandable and justified.
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(h) Every school district in the State shall do all
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| it can to ensure a safe and appropriate educational environment for all of its students, and the first, but not the only, step school districts must take to achieve that goal is to administratively transfer disruptive students from the schools they currently attend to the alternative school programs created by this Article. Those administrative transfers will also provide optional educational programs to best fit the needs of the transferred students.
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(i) Administrative transfers may prove more
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| productive for dealing with disruptive students than out-of-school suspensions or expulsions, which have been the subject of much criticism.
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(j) Because of the urgency of the problems described
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| in this Section, as well as their statewide impact, the State of Illinois bears the responsibility to establish and fully fund alternative schools as soon as possible, thereby providing school districts with an option for dealing with disruptive students that they do not now possess.
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(k) While school districts shall comply with all
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| applicable federal laws and regulations, they should do so consistent with the goals and policies stated in this Article. Further, this Article is intended to be consistent with all applicable federal laws and regulations.
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(l) An alternative school program established under
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| this Article is subject to the other provisions of this Code that apply generally in the public schools of this State and to the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, except as otherwise provided in this Article.
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(m) The provisions of the Illinois Educational Labor
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| Relations Act apply to those alternative school programs that are created on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995.
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(Source: P.A. 89-383, eff. 8-18-95; 89-629, eff. 8-9-96 .)
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