Bill Text: IL HB3699 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Permits school boards to approve Advanced Placement (AP) computer science courses as equivalent to high school mathematics or science. If approved, requires a school district to denote on a student's transcript that AP computer science qualifies as a math-based, quantitative course for students who take the course in their senior year. Provides that, in order for a school board to approve AP computer science as equivalent to high school mathematics, the student must be concurrently enrolled in or have successfully completed Algebra II.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB3699 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB3699-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB3699 Introduced , by Rep. Norine Hammond SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-22.05
Amends the School Code. Permits school boards to approve Advanced Placement (AP) computer science courses as equivalent to high school mathematics or science. If approved, requires a school district to denote on a student's transcript that AP computer science qualifies as a math-based, quantitative course for students who take the course in their senior year. Provides that, in order for a school board to approve AP computer science as equivalent to high school mathematics, the student must be concurrently enrolled in or have successfully completed Algebra II.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
27-22.05 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-22.05)
Sec. 27-22.05. Required course substitute.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article or
this Code, a school board that maintains any of grades 9
through 12 is authorized to adopt a policy under which a
student who is enrolled in any of those grades may satisfy one
or more high school course or graduation requirements,
including but not limited to any requirements under Sections
27-6 and 27-22, by substituting for and successfully completing
in place of the high school course or graduation requirement a
related vocational or technical education course. A vocational
or technical education course shall not qualify as a related
vocational or technical education course within the meaning of
this Section unless it contains at least 50% of the content of
the required course or graduation requirement for which it is
substituted, as determined by the State Board of Education in
accordance with standards that it shall adopt and uniformly
apply for purposes of this Section. No vocational or technical

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education course may be substituted for a required course or
graduation requirement under any policy adopted by a school
board as authorized in this Section unless the pupil's parent
or guardian first requests the substitution and approves it in
writing on forms that the school district makes available for
purposes of this Section.
(b) School boards may approve Advanced Placement (AP)
computer science courses as equivalent to high school
mathematics or science. If approved, a school district must
denote on a student's transcript that AP computer science
qualifies as a math-based, quantitative course for students who
take the course in their senior year. In order for a school
board to approve AP computer science as equivalent to high
school mathematics, the student must be concurrently enrolled
in or have successfully completed Algebra II.
(Source: P.A. 88-269.)