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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2774
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2774, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT concerning the Consortium for Student Advocacy.";
5 and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
9 Consortium for Student Advocacy Act.
10 Section 5. Definition. In this Act, "CSA" means the
11 Consortium for Student Advocacy.
12 Section 10. Creation of CSA. With funds appropriated
13 expressly for this purpose, there is created the Consortium
14 for Student Advocacy consisting of the State Superintendent
15 of Education or his or her designee and those superintendents
16 of school districts designated by the State Superintendent of
17 Education as school districts that would benefit from the
18 plans, proposals, and programs under Section 15 of this Act,
19 all of whom shall serve without compensation but shall be
20 reimbursed for their reasonable and necessary expenses.
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1 CSA shall meet initially at the call of the State
2 Superintendent of Education, shall select one member as
3 chairperson at its initial meeting, and shall thereafter meet
4 at the call of the chairperson.
5 Section 15. CSA's responsibilities. CSA shall have all
6 of the following responsibilities:
7 (1) To develop a plan for upgrading the skills of
8 teachers in those school districts whose superintendents are
9 members of CSA in the subject areas of Math and Science. This
10 plan shall at a minimum include proposals for ongoing
11 professional development and in-service training pursuant to
12 the professional development block grant provisions of
13 subsection (b) of Section 1C-2 of the School Code.
14 (2) To develop a plan for providing corrective
15 incentives to improve the quality of education in those
16 school districts whose superintendents are members of CSA.
17 (3) To create proposals concerning:
18 (A) pre-kindergarten programs pursuant to and
19 consistent with the early childhood block grant
20 provisions of subsection (c) of Section 1C-2 of the
21 School Code;
22 (B) reading improvement programs for grades
23 kindergarten through 12 pursuant to and consistent with
24 the Reading Improvement Block Grant Program provisions of
25 Section 2-3.51 of the School Code; and
26 (C) math and science improvement programs for
27 grades kindergarten through 12 pursuant to and consistent
28 with the Illinois State Board of Education Math and
29 Science Initiative and the scientific literacy provisions
30 of Section 2-3.94 of the School Code.
31 (4) To develop a proposal for enhancing learning
32 technology in grades kindergarten through 12 for those school
33 districts whose superintendents are members of CSA pursuant
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1 to and consistent with the School Technology Program
2 provisions of Section 2-3.117 of the School Code.
3 (5) To work with private industry, community leadership,
4 parents, students, and departments of State government to put
5 into place programs whose purpose is to remove the inhibitors
6 to learning and align programming with the Illinois Academic
7 Learning Standards.
8 Section 20. Report to the State Board and General
9 Assembly. CSA shall report on its responsibilities under
10 this Act to the State Board of Education, the House, and the
11 Senate by filing copies of its report with the Secretary of
12 the State Board of Education, the Clerk of the House, and the
13 Secretary of the Senate by January 1, 2000, and each year
14 thereafter.".