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90_HB1325
105 ILCS 5/2-3.64 from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.64
Amends the School Code. Replaces provisions that require
3rd and 5th grade pupils who fall 2 or more grades below
current grade placement on State assessment tests to
participate in a remediation program developed by the school
district with provisions that require 3rd and 5th grade
students whose composite score on the State assessment tests
in reading, writing, and math is below statewide standards to
enroll in and attend 90 hours of summer school. Requires a
third grade pupil who has not yet repeated third grade, who
must attend summer school, and who fails to attain the
required composite score by the end of the summer school
session to repeat third grade.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 2-3.64.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 2-3.64 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.64) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.64)
8 Sec. 2-3.64. State goals and assessment.
9 (a) Beginning in the 1992-93 school year, the State
10 Board of Education shall establish standards and annually,
11 through the 1997-1998 school year, assess the performance
12 of: (i) all pupils enrolled in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 10th
13 grades in language arts (reading and writing) and
14 mathematics; and (ii) all pupils enrolled in the 4th, 7th,
15 and 11th grades in the biological, physical, and social
16 sciences. Beginning in the 1995-96 school year, the State
17 Board of Education shall establish standards and periodically
18 conduct, through the 1997-1998 school year, studies of
19 student performance in the learning areas of fine arts and
20 physical development/health. Beginning with the 1998-1999
21 school year, the State Board of Education shall annually
22 assess the performance of all pupils enrolled in the 3rd and
23 5th grades in the basic subjects of reading, writing, and
24 mathematics. The State Board of Education shall establish, in
25 final form and within one year after the effective date of
26 this amendatory Act of 1996, the academic standards that are
27 to be applicable to pupils who are subject to State
28 assessment under this Section beginning with the 1998-1999
29 school year. However, the State Board of Education shall not
30 establish any such standards in final form without first
31 providing opportunities for public participation and local
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1 input in the development of the final academic standards.
2 Those opportunities shall include a well-publicized period of
3 public comment, public hearings throughout the State, and
4 opportunities to file written comments. Beginning with the
5 1998-99 school year and thereafter, a pupil in grade 3 or
6 grade 5 whose composite score on the State assessment tests
7 in reading, writing, and mathematics is below a standard that
8 the State Board of Education shall by rule establish for
9 purposes of this subsection shall be enrolled in and shall
10 attend not less than 90 hours of summer school during the
11 summer school session that begins at the close of the regular
12 term of the school year in which the pupil fails to attain
13 the required composite score. If a pupil from grade 3 or
14 grade 5 who is required by the provisions of this subsection
15 to attend summer school fails to attend summer school as
16 required, the school district shall require that pupil to
17 repeat grade 3 or grade 5, as the case may be. Each school
18 district with a pupil whose grade 3 or grade 5 composite
19 score on the State assessment tests in reading, writing, and
20 mathematics is below the standard established by the State
21 Board of Education is required, unless the district is
22 operating under a full year school plan approved by the State
23 Board of Education, to provide a summer school session that
24 will enable the pupil to meet the summer school attendance
25 requirements of this subsection. Further if a pupil from
26 grade 3 who is required to attend the summer school session
27 under the provisions of this subsection attends summer school
28 but fails to attain, by the end of that summer school
29 session, a composite score on the State assessment tests in
30 reading, writing, and mathematics that is at least equal to
31 the standards established by the State Board of Education,
32 and if the pupil has not previously been required to repeat a
33 grade level, the school district shall require that pupil to
34 repeat grade 3. pupils in the 3rd grade or 5th grade who, by
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1 performance on the State assessment tests or by teacher
2 judgement, demonstrate a proficiency level comparable to the
3 average pupil performance 2 or more grades below current
4 placement shall be provided a remediation program developed
5 by the district in consultation with a parent or guardian.
6 Such remediation programs may include, but shall not be
7 limited to, increased or concentrated instructional time, a
8 remedial summer school program of not less than 90 hours,
9 improved instructional approaches, tutorial sessions,
10 retention in grade, and modifications to instructional
11 materials. Each pupil for whom a remediation program is
12 developed under this subsection shall be required to enroll
13 in and attend whatever program the district determines is
14 appropriate for the pupil. Districts may combine students in
15 providing a summer school session as required in this
16 subsection remediation programs where appropriate and may
17 cooperate with other districts in the design and delivery of
18 a required summer school session those programs. The parent
19 or guardian of a student required to attend a summer school
20 session remediation program under this Section shall be given
21 written notice of that requirement by the school district a
22 reasonable time prior to commencement of the remediation
23 program that session the student is to attend. The State
24 shall be responsible for providing school districts with the
25 new and additional funding, under Section 2-3.51.5 or by
26 other or additional means, that is required to enable the
27 districts to operate summer school sessions remediation
28 programs for the pupils who are required to enroll in and
29 attend those sessions programs under this Section. Every
30 individualized educational program as described in Article 14
31 shall identify if the State test or components thereof are
32 appropriate for that student. For those pupils for whom the
33 State test or components thereof are not appropriate, the
34 State Board of Education shall develop rules and regulations
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1 governing the administration of alternative assessments
2 prescribed within each student's individualized educational
3 program which are appropriate to the disability of each
4 student. All pupils who are in a State approved transitional
5 bilingual education program or transitional program of
6 instruction shall participate in the State assessment. Any
7 student who has been enrolled in a State approved bilingual
8 education program less than 3 academic years shall be
9 exempted if the student's lack of English as determined by an
10 English language proficiency test would keep the student from
11 understanding the test, and that student's district shall
12 have an alternative assessment program in place for that
13 student. The State Board of Education shall appoint a task
14 force of concerned parents, teachers, school administrators
15 and other professionals to assist in identifying such
16 alternative assessment programs. Reasonable accommodations as
17 prescribed by the State Board of Education shall be provided
18 for individual students in the assessment procedure. All
19 assessment procedures prescribed by the State Board of
20 Education shall require: (i) that each test used for State
21 and local student assessment testing under this Section
22 identify by name the pupil taking the test; (ii) that the
23 name of the pupil taking the test be placed on the test at
24 the time the test is taken; (iii) that the results or scores
25 of each test taken under this Section by a pupil of the
26 school district be reported to that district and identify by
27 name the pupil who received the reported results of scores;
28 and (iv) that the results or scores of each test taken under
29 this Section be made available to the parents of the pupil.
30 In addition, beginning with the 1998-1999 school year and in
31 each school year thereafter, all scores received by a student
32 on the Illinois Goals and Assessment Program tests
33 administered by the State Board of Education under this
34 Section and, beginning with the 1999-2000 school year and in
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1 each school year thereafter, on the Prairie State Achievement
2 Examination administered under subsection (c) of this Section
3 shall become part of the student's permanent record and shall
4 be entered therein pursuant to regulations that the State
5 Board of Education shall promulgate for that purpose in
6 accordance with Section 3 and subsection (e) of Section 2 of
7 the Illinois School Student Records Act. The State Board of
8 Education shall establish a common month in each school year
9 for which State testing shall occur to meet the objectives of
10 this Section. However, if the schools of a district are
11 closed and classes are not scheduled during any week that is
12 established by the State Board of Education as the week of
13 the month when State testing under this Section shall occur,
14 the school district may administer the required State testing
15 at any time up to 2 weeks following the week established by
16 the State Board of Education for the testing, so long as the
17 school district gives the State Board of Education written
18 notice of its intention to deviate from the established
19 schedule by January 2 of the year in which falls the week
20 established by the State Board of Education for the testing.
21 The maximum time allowed for all actual testing required
22 under this subsection during the school year shall not exceed
23 25 hours as allocated among the required tests by the State
24 Board of Education.
25 (a-5) The State Board of Education shall review the
26 current assessment testing schedule applicable under
27 subsection (a) on the effective date of this amendatory Act
28 of 1996 and submit a plan to the General Assembly, on or
29 before December 31, 1996, to increase the effectiveness of
30 the State assessment tests administered under that subsection
31 with respect to student diagnosis and to reduce the amount of
32 classroom time spent administering those tests. The General
33 Assembly may enact the recommendations made by the State
34 Board of Education to maximize effectiveness and minimize the
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1 hours and grade levels of testing.
2 (b) It shall be the policy of the State to encourage
3 school districts to continuously assess pupil proficiency.
4 Each district's school improvement plan must address specific
5 activities the district intends to implement to assist pupils
6 who by teacher judgement and assessment results as prescribed
7 in subsection (a) of this Section demonstrate that they are
8 not meeting State goals or local objectives. Such activities
9 may include, but shall not be limited to, summer school,
10 extended school day, special homework, tutorial sessions,
11 modified instructional materials, other modifications in the
12 instructional program, reduced class size or retention in
13 grade. To assist school districts in assessing pupil
14 proficiency in reading in the primary grades, the State Board
15 shall make optional reading inventories for diagnostic
16 purposes available to each school district that requests such
17 assistance. Districts that administer the reading
18 inventories may develop remediation programs for students who
19 perform in the bottom half of the student population. Those
20 remediation programs may be funded by moneys provided under
21 the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant
22 Program established under Section 2-3.51.5. Nothing in this
23 Section shall prevent school districts from implementing
24 testing and remediation policies for grades not required
25 under this Section.
26 (c) Beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, each
27 school district that operates a high school program for
28 students in grades 9 through 12 shall administer a Prairie
29 State Achievement Examination each year to its 12th grade
30 students. The Prairie State Achievement Examination shall
31 measure student performance in the 5 fundamental academic
32 areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social
33 studies. The State Board of Education shall establish the
34 academic standards that are to apply in measuring student
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1 performance on the Prairie State Achievement Examination in
2 those 5 fundamental academic areas, including the minimum
3 examination score that will qualify for purposes of this
4 Section as a score that is excellent. A student whose score
5 on the Prairie State Achievement Examination is determined to
6 be excellent by the State Board of Education shall receive
7 the Prairie State Achievement Award from the State in
8 recognition of the student's excellent performance. Each 12th
9 grade student, exclusive of a student whose individualized
10 educational program developed under Article 14 does not
11 identify the Prairie State Achievement Examination as
12 appropriate for the student, shall be required to take the
13 examination, which each school district shall administer to
14 its 12th grade students in January of each school year. The
15 Prairie State Achievement Examination shall be administered
16 by each school district a second time, in March of each
17 school year, for those 12th grade students who fail to
18 receive a score on the January examination that would qualify
19 them to receive the Prairie State Achievement Award and who
20 elect to take the March examination for the purpose of
21 attempting to earn a score that will qualify them to receive
22 that award. Students who will graduate from high school
23 before entering grade 12 shall take the Prairie State
24 Achievement Examination during the school year in which they
25 will graduate from high school. Students receiving special
26 education services whose individualized educational programs
27 do not identify the Prairie State Achievement Examination as
28 appropriate for them nevertheless shall have the option of
29 taking the examination, which shall be administered to those
30 students in accordance with standards adopted by the State
31 Board of Education to accommodate the respective disabilities
32 of those students. A student who successfully completes all
33 other applicable high school graduation requirements but
34 fails to receive a score on the Prairie State Achievement
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1 Examination that qualifies the student for receipt of the
2 Prairie State Achievement Award shall nevertheless qualify
3 for the receipt of a regular high school diploma.
4 (Source: P.A. 88-192; 88-227; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 88-686,
5 eff. 1-24-95; 89-610, eff. 8-6-96.)