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| Public Act 103-0204
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| HB3759 Enrolled | LRB103 30252 RJT 56680 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
2-3.64a-5 and 10-20.5a as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/2-3.64a-5) |
Sec. 2-3.64a-5. State goals and assessment. |
(a) For the assessment and accountability purposes of this |
Section, "students" includes those students enrolled in a |
public or State-operated elementary school, secondary school, |
or cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or |
board of control, a charter school operating in compliance |
with the Charter Schools Law, a school operated by a regional |
office of education under Section 13A-3 of this Code, or a |
public school administered by a local public agency or the |
Department of Human Services. |
(b) The State Board of Education shall establish the |
academic standards that are to be applicable to students who |
are subject to State assessments under this Section. The State |
Board of Education shall not establish any such standards in |
final form without first providing opportunities for public |
participation and local input in the development of the final |
academic standards. Those opportunities shall include a |
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well-publicized period of public comment and opportunities to |
file written comments. |
(c) Beginning no later than the 2014-2015 school year, the |
State Board of Education shall annually assess all students |
enrolled in grades 3 through 8 in English language arts and |
mathematics. |
Beginning no later than the 2017-2018 school year, the |
State Board of Education shall annually assess all students in |
science at one grade in grades 3 through 5, at one grade in |
grades 6 through 8, and at one grade in grades 9 through 12. |
The State Board of Education shall annually assess schools |
that operate a secondary education program, as defined in |
Section 22-22 of this Code, in English language arts and |
mathematics. The State Board of Education shall administer no |
more than 3 assessments, per student, of English language arts |
and mathematics for students in a secondary education program. |
One of these assessments shall be recognized by this State's |
public institutions of higher education, as defined in the |
Board of Higher Education Act, for the purpose of student |
application or admissions consideration. The assessment |
administered by the State Board of Education for the purpose |
of student application to or admissions consideration by |
institutions of higher education must be administered on a |
school day during regular student attendance hours, and |
student profile information collected by the assessment shall |
be made available to the State's public institutions of higher |
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education in a timely manner. |
Students who do not take the State's final accountability |
assessment or its approved alternate assessment may not |
receive a regular high school diploma unless the student is |
exempted from taking the State assessments under subsection |
(d) of this Section because the student is enrolled in a |
program of adult and continuing education, as defined in the |
Adult Education Act, or the student is identified by the State |
Board of Education, through rules, as being exempt from the |
assessment. |
The State Board of Education shall not assess students |
under this Section in subjects not required by this Section. |
Districts shall inform their students of the timelines and |
procedures applicable to their participation in every yearly |
administration of the State assessments.
The State Board of |
Education shall establish periods of time in each school year |
during which State assessments shall occur to meet the |
objectives of this Section. |
The requirements of this subsection do not apply if the |
State Board of Education has received a waiver from the |
administration of assessments from the U.S. Department of |
Education. |
(d) Every individualized educational program as described |
in Article 14 shall identify if the State assessment or |
components thereof require accommodation for the student. The |
State Board of Education shall develop rules governing the |
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administration of an alternate assessment that may be |
available to students for whom participation in this State's |
regular assessments is not appropriate, even with |
accommodations as allowed under this Section. |
Students receiving special education services whose |
individualized educational programs identify them as eligible |
for the alternative State assessments nevertheless shall have |
the option of also taking this State's regular final |
accountability assessment, which shall be administered in |
accordance with the eligible accommodations appropriate for |
meeting these students' respective needs. |
All students determined to be English learners shall |
participate in the State assessments. The scores of those |
students who have been enrolled in schools in the United |
States for less than 12 months may not be used for the purposes |
of accountability. Any student determined to be an English |
learner shall receive appropriate assessment accommodations, |
including language supports, which shall be established by |
rule. Approved assessment accommodations must be provided |
until the student's English language skills develop to the |
extent that the student is no longer considered to be an |
English learner, as demonstrated through a State-identified |
English language proficiency assessment. |
(e) The results or scores of each assessment taken under |
this Section shall be made available to the parents of each |
student. |
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In each school year, the scores attained by a student on |
the final accountability assessment must be placed in the |
student's permanent record pursuant to rules that the State |
Board of Education shall adopt for that purpose in accordance |
with Section 3 of the Illinois School Student Records Act. In |
each school year, the scores attained by a student on the State |
assessments administered in grades 3 through 8 must be placed |
in the student's temporary record. |
(f) All schools shall administer the State's academic |
assessment of English language proficiency to all children |
determined to be English learners. |
(g) All schools in this State that are part of the sample |
drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics, in |
collaboration with their school districts and the State Board |
of Education, shall administer the academic assessments under |
the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out |
under Section 411(b)(2) of the federal National Education |
Statistics Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 9010) if the U.S. Secretary |
of Education pays the costs of administering the assessments. |
(h) (Blank). |
(i) For the purposes of this subsection (i), "academically |
based assessments" means assessments consisting of questions |
and answers that are measurable and quantifiable to measure |
the knowledge, skills, and ability of students in the subject |
matters covered by the assessments. All assessments |
administered pursuant to this Section must be academically |
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based assessments. The scoring of academically based |
assessments shall be reliable, valid, and fair and shall meet |
the guidelines for assessment development and use prescribed |
by the American Psychological Association, the National |
Council on Measurement in Education, and the American |
Educational Research Association. |
The State Board of Education shall review the use of all |
assessment item types in order to ensure that they are valid |
and reliable indicators of student performance aligned to the |
learning standards being assessed and that the development, |
administration, and scoring of these item types are |
justifiable in terms of cost. |
(j) The State Superintendent of Education shall appoint a |
committee of no more than 21 members, consisting of parents, |
teachers, school administrators, school board members, |
assessment experts, regional superintendents of schools, and |
citizens, to review the State assessments administered by the |
State Board of Education. The Committee shall select one of |
its members as its chairperson. The Committee shall meet on an |
ongoing basis to review the content and design of the |
assessments (including whether the requirements of subsection |
(i) of this Section have been met), the time and money expended |
at the local and State levels to prepare for and administer the |
assessments, the collective results of the assessments as |
measured against the stated purpose of assessing student |
performance, and other issues involving the assessments |
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identified by the Committee. The Committee shall make periodic |
recommendations to the State Superintendent of Education and |
the General Assembly concerning the assessments. |
(k) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to |
implement this Section.
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(Source: P.A. 100-7, eff. 7-1-17; 100-222, eff. 8-18-17; |
100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1046, eff. 8-23-18; 101-643, eff. |
6-18-20.)
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(105 ILCS 5/10-20.5a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.5a)
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Sec. 10-20.5a. Access to high school campus.
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(a) For school districts maintaining grades 10 through 12,
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to provide, on an equal
basis, and consistent with the federal |
Educational Rights and Privacy Act,
access to a high school |
campus and student directory
information
to the official |
recruiting representatives of
the armed forces of Illinois and |
the United States, and State public institutions of higher |
education for the purpose of informing
students of the |
educational and career opportunities available in the military
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if the board has provided such access to persons or groups |
whose purpose
is to acquaint students with educational or |
occupational opportunities
available
to them. The board is not |
required to give greater notice regarding the
right of access |
to recruiting representatives than is given to other persons
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and groups.
In this Section, "directory information" means a |
high school student's
name, address, and telephone number.
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(b) If a student or his or her parent or guardian submits a |
signed,
written request to the high school before the end of |
the student's sophomore
year (or if the student is a transfer |
student, by another time set
by the
high school) that |
indicates that the student or his or her parent or
guardian |
does
not want the student's directory information to be |
provided to official
recruiting representatives under |
subsection (a) of this Section, the high
school may not |
provide access to the student's directory information to
these |
recruiting representatives. The high school shall notify its
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students and their parents or guardians of the provisions of |
this
subsection (b).
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(c) A high school may require official recruiting |
representatives of
the armed forces of Illinois and the United |
States to pay a fee for copying
and mailing a student's |
directory information in an amount that is not
more than the |
actual costs incurred by the high school.
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(d) Information received by an official recruiting |
representative
under this Section may be used only to provide |
information to students
concerning educational and career |
opportunities available in the military
and may not be |
released to a person who is not involved in recruiting
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students for the armed forces of Illinois or the United |
States, or State institutions of higher education. |
(e) By January 1, 2024, student directory information |
shall be made electronically accessible through a secure |
