Bill Text: IL HB5062 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, the State Board of Education shall develop and maintain a program aimed at facilitating education in advanced manufacturing technical skills. Provides that the program shall be implemented in no less than 12 public high schools, over the span of 3 years, where the youth unemployment rate is at least twice the national average. Specifies program requirements. Provides that the State Board shall ensure that each high school participating in the program has adequate funding for at least one industry coordinator, tutoring, pre-employment and on-the-job mentoring, professional and leadership development, and life and financial management instruction. Provides that the State Board shall use a program provider to help design, build, and accredit the training program. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-2)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5062 Detail]

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5062 Introduced , by Rep. Mary E. Flowers SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/2-3.173 new
Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, the State Board of Education shall develop and maintain a program aimed at facilitating education in advanced manufacturing technical skills. Provides that the program shall be implemented in no less than 12 public high schools, over the span of 3 years, where the youth unemployment rate is at least twice the national average. Specifies program requirements. Provides that the State Board shall ensure that each high school participating in the program has adequate funding for at least one industry coordinator, tutoring, pre-employment and on-the-job mentoring, professional and leadership development, and life and financial management instruction. Provides that the State Board shall use a program provider to help design, build, and accredit the training program. Effective immediately.
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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 adding Section
2-3.173 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.173 new)
Sec. 2-3.173. Advanced manufacturing technical skills
training program.
(a) Beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, the State
Board of Education shall develop and maintain a program aimed
at facilitating education in advanced manufacturing technical
skills. The program shall be implemented in no less than 12
public high schools, over the span of 3 years, where the youth
unemployment rate is at least twice the national average, which
shall include no less than 2 high schools on the west side of
the City of Chicago, no less than 2 high schools on the south
side of the City of Chicago, and no less than 2 high schools in
the southern suburbs of the City of Chicago.
(b) A high school participating in the program shall offer
an advanced manufacturing technical skills course that
provides education and training for available jobs or job
openings that are anticipated in the field of manufacturing,
including, but not limited to, classroom and on-site

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experiential learning. The high school shall be equipped with
up-to-date computers, digital design units, computer numerical
control machines, and any other machines that are consistent
with the needs of modern manufacturers and that provide
hands-on experience for students.
(c) An instructor of an advanced manufacturing technical
skills course under the program must have a minimum of 3 years
of recognized industry certifications, be effective at
instructing urban or financially challenged youth, and have an
adequate amount of shop experience gained in a manufacturing
setting.
(d) The State Board of Education shall ensure that each
high school participating in the program has adequate funding
for at least one industry coordinator, tutoring,
pre-employment and on-the-job mentoring, professional and
leadership development, and life and financial management
instruction.
(e) The State Board of Education shall use a program
provider to help design, build, and accredit the training
program under this Section. The program provider shall have no
less than 10 years of successful experience working in the
manufacturing industry and serving communities where the high
schools participating in the program are located.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.