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90_SB1610sam001
SRS90SB1610KScham03
1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1610
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1610, in lines 1,
3 2, 5, and 6, by changing "Section 10-20.14b" to "Sections
4 2-3.64 and 10-20.14b"; and
5 by adding the following after line 6:
6 "(105 ILCS 5/2-3.64) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.64)
7 Sec. 2-3.64. State goals and assessment.
8 (a) Beginning in the 1992-93 school year, the State
9 Board of Education shall establish standards and annually,
10 through the 1997-1998 school year, assess the performance
11 of: (i) all pupils enrolled in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 10th
12 grades in language arts (reading and writing) and
13 mathematics; and (ii) all pupils enrolled in the 4th, 7th,
14 and 11th grades in the biological, physical, and social
15 sciences. Beginning in the 1998-1999 school year, the State
16 Board of Education shall establish standards and
17 periodically, in collaboration with local school districts,
18 conduct studies of student performance in the learning areas
19 of fine arts and physical development/health. Beginning with
20 the 1998-1999 school year, the State Board of Education shall
21 annually test assess the performance of: (i) all pupils
22 enrolled in the 3rd, 5th, 8th, and 10th grades in English
23 language arts (reading and writing) and mathematics; and (ii)
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1 all pupils enrolled in the 4th, 7th, and 11th grades in the
2 biological and physical sciences and the social sciences. The
3 State Board of Education shall establish, in final form and
4 within one year after the effective date of this amendatory
5 Act of 1996, the academic standards that are to be applicable
6 to pupils who are subject to State tests assessment under
7 this Section beginning with the 1998-1999 school year.
8 However, the State Board of Education shall not establish any
9 such standards in final form without first providing
10 opportunities for public participation and local input in the
11 development of the final academic standards. Those
12 opportunities shall include a well-publicized period of
13 public comment, public hearings throughout the State, and
14 opportunities to file written comments. Beginning with the
15 1998-99 school year and thereafter, the State tests
16 assessment will identify pupils in the 3rd grade or 5th grade
17 who do not meet the State standards. If, by performance on
18 the State tests assessment or local assessments or by teacher
19 judgment, a student's performance is determined to be 2 or
20 more grades below current placement, the student shall be
21 provided a remediation program developed by the district in
22 consultation with a parent or guardian. Such remediation
23 programs may include, but shall not be limited to, increased
24 or concentrated instructional time, a remedial summer school
25 program of not less than 90 hours, improved instructional
26 approaches, tutorial sessions, retention in grade, and
27 modifications to instructional materials. Each pupil for whom
28 a remediation program is developed under this subsection
29 shall be required to enroll in and attend whatever program
30 the district determines is appropriate for the pupil.
31 Districts may combine students in remediation programs where
32 appropriate and may cooperate with other districts in the
33 design and delivery of those programs. The parent or
34 guardian of a student required to attend a remediation
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1 program under this Section shall be given written notice of
2 that requirement by the school district a reasonable time
3 prior to commencement of the remediation program that the
4 student is to attend. The State shall be responsible for
5 providing school districts with the new and additional
6 funding, under Section 2-3.51.5 or by other or additional
7 means, that is required to enable the districts to operate
8 remediation programs for the pupils who are required to
9 enroll in and attend those programs under this Section. Every
10 individualized educational program as described in Article 14
11 shall identify if the State test or components thereof are
12 appropriate for that student. For those pupils for whom the
13 State test or components thereof are not appropriate, the
14 State Board of Education shall develop rules and regulations
15 governing the administration of alternative tests assessments
16 prescribed within each student's individualized educational
17 program which are appropriate to the disability of each
18 student. All pupils who are in a State approved transitional
19 bilingual education program or transitional program of
20 instruction shall participate in the State tests assessment.
21 Any student who has been enrolled in a State approved
22 bilingual education program less than 3 academic years shall
23 be exempted if the student's lack of English as determined by
24 an English language proficiency test would keep the student
25 from understanding the test, and that student's district
26 shall have an alternative test assessment program in place
27 for that student. The State Board of Education shall appoint
28 a task force of concerned parents, teachers, school
29 administrators and other professionals to assist in
30 identifying such alternative tests assessment programs.
31 Reasonable accommodations as prescribed by the State Board of
32 Education shall be provided for individual students in the
33 testing assessment procedure. All test assessment procedures
34 prescribed by the State Board of Education shall require: (i)
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1 that each test used for State and local student assessment
2 testing under this Section identify by name the pupil taking
3 the test; (ii) that the name of the pupil taking the test be
4 placed on the test at the time the test is taken; (iii) that
5 the results or scores of each test taken under this Section
6 by a pupil of the school district be reported to that
7 district and identify by name the pupil who received the
8 reported results or scores; and (iv) that the results or
9 scores of each test taken under this Section be made
10 available to the parents of the pupil. In addition,
11 beginning with the 1998-1999 school year and in each school
12 year thereafter, all scores received by a student on the
13 Illinois Goals and Assessment Program tests administered in
14 grades 10 and 11 by the State Board of Education under this
15 Section and, beginning with the 1999-2000 school year and in
16 each school year thereafter, the scores received by a student
17 on the Prairie State Achievement Examination administered
18 under subsection (c) of this Section shall become part of the
19 student's permanent record and shall be entered therein
20 pursuant to regulations that the State Board of Education
21 shall promulgate for that purpose in accordance with Section
22 3 and subsection (e) of Section 2 of the Illinois School
23 Student Records Act. Scores received by students on the
24 Illinois Goals and Assessment Program tests administered in
25 other grades shall be placed into students' temporary
26 records. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this
27 Section, the State Board of Education shall establish a
28 common month in each school year for which State testing
29 shall occur to meet the objectives of this Section. However,
30 if the schools of a district are closed and classes are not
31 scheduled during any week that is established by the State
32 Board of Education as the week of the month when State
33 testing under this Section shall occur, the school district
34 may administer the required State testing at any time up to 2
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1 weeks following the week established by the State Board of
2 Education for the testing, so long as the school district
3 gives the State Board of Education written notice of its
4 intention to deviate from the established schedule by January
5 2 of the year in which falls the week established by the
6 State Board of Education for the testing. The maximum time
7 allowed for all actual testing required under this subsection
8 during the school year shall not exceed 25 hours as allocated
9 among the required tests by the State Board of Education.
10 (a-5) All tests Any IGAP test administered pursuant to
11 this Section shall be academically based. For the purposes
12 of this Section, "academically based" tests shall mean tests
13 consisting of questions and answers that are objective,
14 measurable, and, where possible, quantifiable to measure the
15 knowledge, skill, and ability of students in the subject
16 matters covered by the tests: language arts (reading,
17 writing, English grammar, and literature), mathematics,
18 biological sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences
19 (history, geography, civics, and government). Tests
20 administered pursuant to this Section shall not be
21 performance, demonstration, or authentic tests, nor shall the
22 tests include subjective assessments, assessments or
23 evaluations of attitudes, values, and beliefs, or testing of
24 personality, self esteem, or self concept.
25 (b) It shall be the policy of the State to encourage
26 school districts to continuously test assess pupil
27 proficiency in the fundamental learning areas in order to:
28 (i) provide timely information on individual students'
29 performance relative to State standards that is adequate to
30 guide instructional strategies; (ii) improve future
31 instruction; and (iii) complement the information provided by
32 the State testing assessment system described in this
33 Section. Each district's school improvement plan must
34 address specific activities the district intends to implement
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1 to assist pupils who by teacher judgment and test assessment
2 results as prescribed in subsection (a) of this Section
3 demonstrate that they are not meeting State goals or local
4 objectives. Such activities may include, but shall not be
5 limited to, summer school, extended school day, special
6 homework, tutorial sessions, modified instructional
7 materials, other modifications in the instructional program,
8 reduced class size or retention in grade. To assist school
9 districts in testing assessing pupil proficiency in reading
10 in the primary grades, the State Board shall make optional
11 reading inventories for diagnostic purposes available to each
12 school district that requests such assistance. Districts
13 that administer the reading inventories may develop
14 remediation programs for students who perform in the bottom
15 half of the student population. Those remediation programs
16 may be funded by moneys provided under the School Safety and
17 Educational Improvement Block Grant Program established under
18 Section 2-3.51.5. Nothing in this Section shall prevent
19 school districts from implementing testing and remediation
20 policies for grades not required under this Section.
21 (c) Beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, each
22 school district that operates a high school program for
23 students in grades 9 through 12 shall annually administer the
24 Prairie State Achievement Examination established under this
25 subsection to its 12th grade students as set forth below.
26 The Prairie State Achievement Examination shall be developed
27 by the State Board of Education to measure student
28 performance in the 5 fundamental academic areas of reading,
29 writing, mathematics, science, and social sciences. The
30 State Board of Education shall establish the academic
31 standards that are to apply in measuring student performance
32 on the Prairie State Achievement Examination in those 5
33 fundamental academic areas, including the minimum composite
34 examination score and the minimum score in each area that,
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1 taken together, will qualify a student to receive the
2 Prairie State Achievement Award from the State in recognition
3 of the student's excellent performance. Each school district
4 that is subject to the requirements of this subsection (c)
5 shall afford a graduating student 2 opportunities to take the
6 Prairie State Achievement Examination during the semester in
7 which the student will graduate. The State Board of
8 Education shall annually notify districts of the weeks during
9 which these test administrations shall be required to occur.
10 Each student, exclusive of a student whose individualized
11 educational program developed under Article 14 identifies the
12 Prairie State Achievement Examination as inappropriate for
13 the student, shall be required to take the examination in the
14 final semester before his or her graduation. Score reports
15 for each fundamental academic area shall indicate the score
16 that qualifies as an excellent score on that portion of the
17 examination. Any student who attains a satisfactory
18 composite score but who fails to earn a qualifying score in
19 any one or more of the fundamental academic areas on the
20 initial test administration for the semester during which the
21 student will graduate from high school shall be permitted to
22 retake such portion or portions of the examination during the
23 second test of that semester. Districts shall inform their
24 students of the timelines and procedures applicable to their
25 optional participation in such additional administrations of
26 the Prairie State Achievement Examination. Students receiving
27 special education services whose individualized educational
28 programs identify the Prairie State Achievement Examination
29 as inappropriate for them nevertheless shall have the option
30 of taking the examination, which shall be administered to
31 those students in accordance with standards adopted by the
32 State Board of Education to accommodate the respective
33 disabilities of those students. A student who successfully
34 completes all other applicable high school graduation
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1 requirements but fails to receive a score on the Prairie
2 State Achievement Examination that qualifies the student for
3 receipt of the Prairie State Achievement Award shall
4 nevertheless qualify for the receipt of a regular high school
5 diploma.
6 (Source: P.A.89-610, eff. 8-6-96; 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)".