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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 1D-1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/1D-1)
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| 7 | | Sec. 1D-1. Block grant funding.
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| 8 | | (a) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, |
| 9 | | the State Board
of Education shall award to a school district |
| 10 | | having a population exceeding
500,000 inhabitants a general |
| 11 | | education block grant and an educational services
block grant, |
| 12 | | determined as provided in this Section, in lieu of distributing |
| 13 | | to
the district separate State funding for the programs |
| 14 | | described in subsections
(b) and (c). The provisions of this |
| 15 | | Section, however, do not apply to any
federal funds that the |
| 16 | | district is entitled to receive. In accordance with
Section |
| 17 | | 2-3.32, all block grants are subject to an audit. Therefore, |
| 18 | | block
grant receipts and block grant expenditures shall be |
| 19 | | recorded to the
appropriate fund code for the designated block |
| 20 | | grant.
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| 21 | | (b) The general education block grant shall include the |
| 22 | | following
programs: REI Initiative, Summer Bridges, Preschool |
| 23 | | Education At Risk, K-6
Comprehensive Arts, School Improvement |
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| 1 | | Support, Urban Education, Scientific
Literacy, Substance Abuse |
| 2 | | Prevention, Second Language Planning, Staff
Development, |
| 3 | | Outcomes and Assessment, K-6 Reading Improvement, 7-12 |
| 4 | | Continued
Reading Improvement, Truants'
Optional Education, |
| 5 | | Hispanic Programs, Agriculture Education,
Parental Training |
| 6 | | Education, Prevention Initiative, Report Cards, and Criminal
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| 7 | | Background Investigations. Notwithstanding any other provision |
| 8 | | of law, all
amounts paid under the general education block |
| 9 | | grant from State appropriations
to a school district in a city |
| 10 | | having a population exceeding 500,000
inhabitants shall be |
| 11 | | appropriated and expended by the board of that district
for any |
| 12 | | of the programs included in the block grant or any of the |
| 13 | | board's
lawful purposes. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2018, at |
| 14 | | least 25% of any additional Preschool Education, Parental |
| 15 | | Training, and Prevention Initiative program funding over and |
| 16 | | above the previous fiscal year's allocation shall be used to |
| 17 | | fund programs for children ages 0-3. Beginning in Fiscal Year |
| 18 | | 2018, funding for Preschool Education, Parental Training, and |
| 19 | | Prevention Initiative programs above the allocation for these |
| 20 | | programs in Fiscal Year 2017 must be used solely as a |
| 21 | | supplement for these programs and may not supplant funds |
| 22 | | received from other sources.
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| 23 | | (c) The educational services block grant shall include the |
| 24 | | following
programs: Regular and Vocational Transportation, |
| 25 | | State Lunch and
Free Breakfast Program, Special Education |
| 26 | | (Personnel,
Transportation, Orphanage, Private Tuition), |
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| 1 | | funding
for children requiring special education services, |
| 2 | | Summer School,
Educational Service Centers, and |
| 3 | | Administrator's Academy. This subsection (c)
does not relieve |
| 4 | | the district of its obligation to provide the services
required |
| 5 | | under a program that is included within the educational |
| 6 | | services block
grant. It is the intention of the General |
| 7 | | Assembly in enacting the provisions
of this subsection (c) to |
| 8 | | relieve the district of the administrative burdens
that impede |
| 9 | | efficiency and accompany single-program funding. The General
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| 10 | | Assembly encourages the board to pursue mandate waivers |
| 11 | | pursuant to Section
2-3.25g. |
| 12 | | The funding program included in the educational services |
| 13 | | block grant
for funding for children requiring special |
| 14 | | education services in each fiscal
year shall be treated in that |
| 15 | | fiscal year as a payment to the school district
in respect of |
| 16 | | services provided or costs incurred in the prior fiscal year,
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| 17 | | calculated in each case as provided in this Section. Nothing in |
| 18 | | this Section
shall change the nature of payments for any |
| 19 | | program that, apart from this
Section, would be or, prior to |
| 20 | | adoption or amendment of this Section, was on
the basis of a |
| 21 | | payment in a fiscal year in respect of services provided or
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| 22 | | costs incurred in the prior fiscal year, calculated in each |
| 23 | | case as provided
in this Section.
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| 24 | | (d) For fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, |
| 25 | | the amount
of the district's block grants shall be determined |
| 26 | | as follows:
(i) with respect to each program that is included |
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| 1 | | within each block grant, the
district shall receive an amount |
| 2 | | equal to the same percentage of the current
fiscal year |
| 3 | | appropriation made for that program as the percentage of the
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| 4 | | appropriation received by the district from the 1995 fiscal |
| 5 | | year appropriation
made for that program, and
(ii) the total |
| 6 | | amount that is due the district under the block grant shall be
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| 7 | | the aggregate of the amounts that the district is entitled to |
| 8 | | receive for the
fiscal year with respect to each program that |
| 9 | | is included within the block
grant that the State Board of |
| 10 | | Education shall award the district under this
Section for that |
| 11 | | fiscal year. In the case of the Summer Bridges program,
the |
| 12 | | amount of the district's block grant shall be equal to 44% of |
| 13 | | the amount
of the current fiscal year appropriation made for |
| 14 | | that program.
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| 15 | | (e) The district is not required to file any application or |
| 16 | | other claim in
order to receive the block grants to which it is |
| 17 | | entitled under this Section.
The State Board of Education shall |
| 18 | | make payments to the district of amounts due
under the |
| 19 | | district's block grants on a schedule determined by the State |
| 20 | | Board
of Education.
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| 21 | | (f) A school district to which this Section applies shall |
| 22 | | report to the
State Board of Education on its use of the block |
| 23 | | grants in such form and detail
as the State Board of Education |
| 24 | | may specify. In addition, the report must include the following |
| 25 | | description for the district, which must also be reported to |
| 26 | | the General Assembly: block grant allocation and expenditures |
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| 1 | | by program; population and service levels by program; and |
| 2 | | administrative expenditures by program. The State Board of |
| 3 | | Education shall ensure that the reporting requirements for the |
| 4 | | district are the same as for all other school districts in this |
| 5 | | State.
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| 6 | | (g) This paragraph provides for the treatment of block |
| 7 | | grants under Article
1C for purposes of calculating the amount |
| 8 | | of block grants for a district under
this Section. Those block |
| 9 | | grants under Article 1C are, for this
purpose, treated as |
| 10 | | included in the amount of appropriation for the various
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| 11 | | programs set forth in paragraph (b) above. The appropriation in |
| 12 | | each current
fiscal year for each block grant under Article 1C |
| 13 | | shall be treated for these
purposes as appropriations for the |
| 14 | | individual program included in that block
grant. The proportion |
| 15 | | of each block grant so allocated to each such program
included |
| 16 | | in it shall be the proportion which the appropriation for that |
| 17 | | program
was of all appropriations for such purposes now in that |
| 18 | | block grant, in fiscal
1995.
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| 19 | | Payments to the school district under this Section with |
| 20 | | respect to each
program for which payments to school districts |
| 21 | | generally, as of the date of
this
amendatory Act of the 92nd |
| 22 | | General Assembly, are on a reimbursement basis
shall continue |
| 23 | | to be made to the district on a reimbursement basis, pursuant
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| 24 | | to the provisions of this Code governing those programs.
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| 25 | | (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school |
| 26 | | district
receiving a block grant under this Section may |
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| 1 | | classify all or a portion of
the funds that it receives in a |
| 2 | | particular fiscal year from any block grant
authorized under |
| 3 | | this Code or from general State aid pursuant to Section
18-8.05 |
| 4 | | of this Code (other than supplemental general State aid) as
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| 5 | | funds received in connection with any funding program for which |
| 6 | | it is
entitled to receive funds from the State in that fiscal |
| 7 | | year (including,
without limitation, any funding program |
| 8 | | referred to in subsection (c) of
this Section), regardless of |
| 9 | | the source or timing of the receipt. The
district may not |
| 10 | | classify more funds as funds received in connection
with the |
| 11 | | funding program than the district is entitled to receive in |
| 12 | | that
fiscal year for that program. Any classification by a |
| 13 | | district must be made by
a resolution
of its board of |
| 14 | | education. The resolution must identify the amount of any
block |
| 15 | | grant or general State aid to be classified under this |
| 16 | | subsection (h)
and must specify the funding program to which |
| 17 | | the funds are to be
treated as received in connection |
| 18 | | therewith. This resolution is
controlling as to the |
| 19 | | classification of funds referenced therein. A certified
copy of |
| 20 | | the resolution must be sent to the State Superintendent of
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| 21 | | Education.
The resolution shall still take effect even though a |
| 22 | | copy of the resolution
has not been sent to the State
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| 23 | | Superintendent of Education in a timely manner.
No |
| 24 | | classification under this subsection (h) by a district shall
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| 25 | | affect the total amount or timing of money the district is |
| 26 | | entitled to receive
under this Code.
No classification under |
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| 1 | | this subsection (h) by a district
shall in any way relieve the |
| 2 | | district from or affect any
requirements that otherwise would |
| 3 | | apply with respect to the
block grant as provided in this |
| 4 | | Section, including any
accounting of funds by source, reporting |
| 5 | | expenditures by
original source and purpose,
reporting |
| 6 | | requirements, or requirements of provision of
services.
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| 7 | | (Source: P.A. 97-238, eff. 8-2-11; 97-324, eff. 8-12-11; |
| 8 | | 97-813, eff. 7-13-12.)
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