Bill Text: IL HB0489 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning charter schools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB0489 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB0489-Amended.html

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Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

Filed: 3/14/2013

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 489
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 489 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
34-18.48 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/34-18.48 new)
Sec. 34-18.48. Basic skills class.
(a) The board shall establish a basic skills class for
students in each of grades 4, 5, and 6. If a 3rd grade student
is at least 2 grade levels behind in reading or mathematics,
based on an assessment of the student's reading and mathematics
skills, the student must be placed in a basic skills class when
he or she is in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades until he or she
completes 6th grade or attains reading or mathematics skills
that are at or above the 6th grade level, whichever occurs
first.

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(b) The basic skills class shall serve those students who
at the end of 3rd grade are not performing at grade level in
reading or mathematics by furnishing those students with a
separate classroom environment in which they can be given
additional assistance and instruction in reading or
mathematics with the goal of attaining reading or mathematics
skills at or above the 6th grade level upon the completion of
6th grade. The basic skills class must not be classified as a
special education class.
(c) The State Board of Education shall create the
appropriate curriculum for the basic skills class, establish
learning objectives for students in a basic skills class, and
provide lesson plans for the basic skills class.".