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90_SB1610eng
105 ILCS 5/10-20.14b from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.14b
Amends the School Code to delete obsolete language in a
section dealing with the adoption of medications policies by
school boards. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Sections
2 2-3.64, 2-3.64a, and 10-20.14b.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 1. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Sections 2-3.64, 2-3.64a, and 10-20.14b 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 1998-1999 school year, the State
17 Board of Education shall establish standards and
18 periodically, in collaboration with local school districts,
19 conduct studies of student performance in the learning areas
20 of fine arts and physical development/health. Beginning with
21 the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board of Education shall
22 annually test assess the performance of: (i) all pupils
23 enrolled in the 3rd, 5th, 8th, and 10th grades in English
24 language arts (reading, and writing, and English grammar)
25 and mathematics; and (ii) all pupils enrolled in the 4th,
26 7th, and 11th grades in the biological and physical sciences
27 and the social sciences (history, geography, civics,
28 economics, and government). The State Board of Education
29 shall establish, in final form and within one year after the
30 effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996, the academic
31 standards that are to be applicable to pupils who are subject
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1 to State tests assessment under this Section beginning with
2 the 1998-1999 school year. However, the State Board of
3 Education shall not establish any such standards in final
4 form without first providing opportunities for public
5 participation and local input in the development of the final
6 academic standards. Those opportunities shall include a
7 well-publicized period of public comment, public hearings
8 throughout the State, and opportunities to file written
9 comments. Beginning with the 1998-99 school year and
10 thereafter, the State tests assessment will identify pupils
11 in the 3rd grade or 5th grade who do not meet the State
12 standards. If, by performance on the State tests assessment
13 or local assessments or by teacher judgment, a student's
14 performance is determined to be 2 or more grades below
15 current placement, the student shall be provided a
16 remediation program developed by the district in consultation
17 with a parent or guardian. Such remediation programs may
18 include, but shall not be limited to, increased or
19 concentrated instructional time, a remedial summer school
20 program of not less than 90 hours, improved instructional
21 approaches, tutorial sessions, retention in grade, and
22 modifications to instructional materials. Each pupil for whom
23 a remediation program is developed under this subsection
24 shall be required to enroll in and attend whatever program
25 the district determines is appropriate for the pupil.
26 Districts may combine students in remediation programs where
27 appropriate and may cooperate with other districts in the
28 design and delivery of those programs. The parent or
29 guardian of a student required to attend a remediation
30 program under this Section shall be given written notice of
31 that requirement by the school district a reasonable time
32 prior to commencement of the remediation program that the
33 student is to attend. The State shall be responsible for
34 providing school districts with the new and additional
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1 funding, under Section 2-3.51.5 or by other or additional
2 means, that is required to enable the districts to operate
3 remediation programs for the pupils who are required to
4 enroll in and attend those programs under this Section. Every
5 individualized educational program as described in Article 14
6 shall identify if the State test or components thereof are
7 appropriate for that student. For those pupils for whom the
8 State test or components thereof are not appropriate, the
9 State Board of Education shall develop rules and regulations
10 governing the administration of alternative tests assessments
11 prescribed within each student's individualized educational
12 program which are appropriate to the disability of each
13 student. All pupils who are in a State approved transitional
14 bilingual education program or transitional program of
15 instruction shall participate in the State tests assessment.
16 Any student who has been enrolled in a State approved
17 bilingual education program less than 3 academic years shall
18 be exempted if the student's lack of English as determined by
19 an English language proficiency test would keep the student
20 from understanding the test, and that student's district
21 shall have an alternative test assessment program in place
22 for that student. The State Board of Education shall appoint
23 a task force of concerned parents, teachers, school
24 administrators and other professionals to assist in
25 identifying such alternative tests assessment programs.
26 Reasonable accommodations as prescribed by the State Board of
27 Education shall be provided for individual students in the
28 testing assessment procedure. All test assessment procedures
29 prescribed by the State Board of Education shall require: (i)
30 that each test used for State and local student assessment
31 testing under this Section identify by name the pupil taking
32 the test; (ii) that the name of the pupil taking the test be
33 placed on the test at the time the test is taken; (iii) that
34 the results or scores of each test taken under this Section
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1 by a pupil of the school district be reported to that
2 district and identify by name the pupil who received the
3 reported results or scores; and (iv) that the results or
4 scores of each test taken under this Section be made
5 available to the parents of the pupil. In addition,
6 beginning with the 1998-1999 school year and in each school
7 year thereafter, all scores received by a student on the
8 Illinois Goals and Assessment Program tests administered in
9 grades 10 and 11 by the State Board of Education under this
10 Section and, beginning with the 1999-2000 school year and in
11 each school year thereafter, the scores received by a student
12 on the Prairie State Achievement Examination administered
13 under subsection (c) of this Section shall become part of the
14 student's permanent record and shall be entered therein
15 pursuant to regulations that the State Board of Education
16 shall promulgate for that purpose in accordance with Section
17 3 and subsection (e) of Section 2 of the Illinois School
18 Student Records Act. Scores received by students on the
19 Illinois Goals and Assessment Program tests administered in
20 other grades shall be placed into students' temporary
21 records. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this
22 Section, the State Board of Education shall establish a
23 common month in each school year for which State testing
24 shall occur to meet the objectives of this Section. However,
25 if the schools of a district are closed and classes are not
26 scheduled during any week that is established by the State
27 Board of Education as the week of the month when State
28 testing under this Section shall occur, the school district
29 may administer the required State testing at any time up to 2
30 weeks following the week established by the State Board of
31 Education for the testing, so long as the school district
32 gives the State Board of Education written notice of its
33 intention to deviate from the established schedule by January
34 2 of the year in which falls the week established by the
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1 State Board of Education for the testing. The maximum time
2 allowed for all actual testing required under this subsection
3 during the school year shall not exceed 25 hours as allocated
4 among the required tests by the State Board of Education.
5 (a-5) All tests Any IGAP tests administered pursuant to
6 this Section shall be academically based. For the purposes
7 of this Section "academically based tests" shall mean tests
8 consisting of questions and answers that are measurable and
9 quantifiable to measure the knowledge, skill, and ability of
10 students in the subject matters covered by tests. The scoring
11 of academically based tests shall be reliable and valid and
12 shall meet the guidelines for test development and use
13 prescribed by the American Psychological Association, the
14 National Council of Measurement and Evaluation, and the
15 American Educational Research Association. Academically based
16 tests shall not include assessments or evaluations of
17 attitudes, values, or beliefs, or testing of personality,
18 self-esteem, or self-concept. Nothing in this amendatory Act
19 is intended, nor shall it be construed, to nullify,
20 supersede, or contradict the legislative intent on academic
21 testing expressed during the passage of HB 1005/P.A. 90-296.
22 (b) It shall be the policy of the State to encourage
23 school districts to continuously test assess pupil
24 proficiency in the fundamental learning areas in order to:
25 (i) provide timely information on individual students'
26 performance relative to State standards that is adequate to
27 guide instructional strategies; (ii) improve future
28 instruction; and (iii) complement the information provided by
29 the State testing assessment system described in this
30 Section. Each district's school improvement plan must
31 address specific activities the district intends to implement
32 to assist pupils who by teacher judgment and test assessment
33 results as prescribed in subsection (a) of this Section
34 demonstrate that they are not meeting State goals or local
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1 objectives. Such activities may include, but shall not be
2 limited to, summer school, extended school day, special
3 homework, tutorial sessions, modified instructional
4 materials, other modifications in the instructional program,
5 reduced class size or retention in grade. To assist school
6 districts in testing assessing pupil proficiency in reading
7 in the primary grades, the State Board shall make optional
8 reading inventories for diagnostic purposes available to each
9 school district that requests such assistance. Districts
10 that administer the reading inventories may develop
11 remediation programs for students who perform in the bottom
12 half of the student population. Those remediation programs
13 may be funded by moneys provided under the School Safety and
14 Educational Improvement Block Grant Program established under
15 Section 2-3.51.5. Nothing in this Section shall prevent
16 school districts from implementing testing and remediation
17 policies for grades not required under this Section.
18 (c) Beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, each
19 school district that operates a high school program for
20 students in grades 9 through 12 shall annually administer the
21 Prairie State Achievement Examination established under this
22 subsection to its 12th grade students as set forth below.
23 The Prairie State Achievement Examination shall be developed
24 by the State Board of Education to measure student
25 performance in the 5 fundamental academic areas of reading,
26 writing, mathematics, science, and social sciences. The
27 State Board of Education shall establish the academic
28 standards that are to apply in measuring student performance
29 on the Prairie State Achievement Examination in those 5
30 fundamental academic areas, including the minimum composite
31 examination score and the minimum score in each area that,
32 taken together, will qualify a student to receive the
33 Prairie State Achievement Award from the State in recognition
34 of the student's excellent performance. Each school district
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1 that is subject to the requirements of this subsection (c)
2 shall afford a graduating student 2 opportunities to take the
3 Prairie State Achievement Examination during the semester in
4 which the student will graduate. The State Board of
5 Education shall annually notify districts of the weeks during
6 which these test administrations shall be required to occur.
7 Each student, exclusive of a student whose individualized
8 educational program developed under Article 14 identifies the
9 Prairie State Achievement Examination as inappropriate for
10 the student, shall be required to take the examination in the
11 final semester before his or her graduation. Score reports
12 for each fundamental academic area shall indicate the score
13 that qualifies as an excellent score on that portion of the
14 examination. Any student who attains a satisfactory
15 composite score but who fails to earn a qualifying score in
16 any one or more of the fundamental academic areas on the
17 initial test administration for the semester during which the
18 student will graduate from high school shall be permitted to
19 retake such portion or portions of the examination during the
20 second test of that semester. Districts shall inform their
21 students of the timelines and procedures applicable to their
22 optional participation in such additional administrations of
23 the Prairie State Achievement Examination. Students receiving
24 special education services whose individualized educational
25 programs identify the Prairie State Achievement Examination
26 as inappropriate for them nevertheless shall have the option
27 of taking the examination, which shall be administered to
28 those students in accordance with standards adopted by the
29 State Board of Education to accommodate the respective
30 disabilities of those students. A student who successfully
31 completes all other applicable high school graduation
32 requirements but fails to receive a score on the Prairie
33 State Achievement Examination that qualifies the student for
34 receipt of the Prairie State Achievement Award shall
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1 nevertheless qualify for the receipt of a regular high school
2 diploma.
3 (Source: P.A.89-610, eff. 8-6-96; 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)
4 (105 ILCS 5/2-3.64a)
5 Sec. 2-3.64a. IGAP Review Committee. The State
6 Superintendent shall appoint a committee of no more than 20
7 balanced membership consisting of parents, school
8 administrators, teachers, parents, school administrators, and
9 concerned citizens to review the Illinois Goals and
10 Assessment Program (IGAP) tests administered by the State
11 Board of Education. The Committee shall select one of the
12 parent representatives as its chairman. The Committee shall
13 meet on an ongoing basis to review the content and design of
14 the tests (including whether the requirements of subsection
15 a-5 of Section 2-3.64 have been met), the time and money
16 expended at the local and state levels to prepare for and
17 administer the tests, the collective results of the tests as
18 measured against the stated purpose of testing assessing
19 student performance, and other issues involving the tests
20 identified by the Committee. The Committee shall make
21 periodic such recommendations to the State Superintendent and
22 the General Assembly concerning the tests as it deems
23 appropriate.
24 (Source: P.A. 89-184, eff. 7-19-95.)
25 (105 ILCS 5/10-20.14b) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.14b)
26 Sec. 10-20.14b. Advisory committee; Medications policy.
27 To establish and maintain a parent-teacher advisory committee
28 for the 1990-91 school year To develop with the school board,
29 a policy guidelines for administration of medications in
30 schools, to furnish a copy of the policy to the parents or
31 guardians of each pupil within 15 days after the beginning of
32 the 1991-92 school year and each school year thereafter, or
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1 within 15 days after starting classes for a pupil who
2 transfers into the district during the 1991-92 school year
3 and each school year thereafter, and to require that each
4 school informs its pupils of the contents of its policy.
5 (Source: P.A. 86-1441.)
6 Section 99. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.