Bill Text: IL SB0010 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code to allow a paraprofessional educator endorsement on an Educator License with Stipulations to be issued to an applicant who, among other qualifications, has passed a paraprofessional competency test (instead of allowing the endorsement to be issued only if the applicant holds an associate's degree or a minimum number of higher education credits). Requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules to implement the test. Amends the Charter Schools Law of the Code to require charter school employees in instructional positions to have passed a content area knowledge test. Makes changes concerning obsolete language. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-5)
Status: (Passed) 2020-02-19 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link [SB0010 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB0010-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code to allow a paraprofessional educator endorsement on an Educator License with Stipulations to be issued to an applicant who, among other qualifications, has passed a paraprofessional competency test (instead of allowing the endorsement to be issued only if the applicant holds an associate's degree or a minimum number of higher education credits). Requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules to implement the test. Amends the Charter Schools Law of the Code to require charter school employees in instructional positions to have passed a content area knowledge test. Makes changes concerning obsolete language. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-5)
Status: (Passed) 2020-02-19 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link [SB0010 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB0010-Engrossed.html
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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 | 24-8 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/24-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 24-8)
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7 | Sec. 24-8. Minimum salary. In fixing the salaries of | ||||||
8 | teachers, school boards shall pay those who
serve on a | ||||||
9 | full-time basis not less than a rate for the school year that
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10 | is based upon training completed in a recognized institution of | ||||||
11 | higher
learning, as follows: for the school year beginning July | ||||||
12 | 1, 1980 and
until the 2020-2021 school year thereafter , less | ||||||
13 | than a bachelor's degree, $9,000; 120 semester hours or
more | ||||||
14 | and a bachelor's degree, $10,000; 150 semester hours or more | ||||||
15 | and a
master's degree, $11,000. In fixing the salaries of | ||||||
16 | teachers, a school board shall pay those who serve on a | ||||||
17 | full-time basis a rate not less than (i) $32,076 for the | ||||||
18 | 2020-2021 school year, (ii) $34,576 for the 2021-2022 school | ||||||
19 | year, (iii) $37,076 for the 2022-2023 school year, and (iv) | ||||||
20 | $40,000 for the 2023-2024 school year. The minimum salary rate | ||||||
21 | for each school year thereafter, subject to review by the | ||||||
22 | General Assembly, shall equal the minimum salary rate for the | ||||||
23 | previous school year increased by a percentage equal to the |
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1 | percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index For | ||||||
2 | All Urban Consumers for all items published by the United | ||||||
3 | States Department of Labor for the previous school year.
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4 | On or before January 31, 2020, the Professional Review | ||||||
5 | Panel created under Section 18-8.15 must submit a report to the | ||||||
6 | General Assembly on how State funds and funds distributed under | ||||||
7 | the evidence-based funding formula under Section 18-8.15 may | ||||||
8 | aid the financial effects of the changes made by this | ||||||
9 | amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly. | ||||||
10 | Based upon previous public school
experience in this State | ||||||
11 | or any other state, territory, dependency or
possession of the | ||||||
12 | United States, or in schools operated by or under the
auspices | ||||||
13 | of the United States, teachers who serve on a full-time basis
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14 | shall have their salaries increased to at least the following | ||||||
15 | amounts
above the starting salary for a teacher in such | ||||||
16 | district in the same
classification: with less than a | ||||||
17 | bachelor's degree, $750 after 5 years;
with 120 semester hours | ||||||
18 | or more and a bachelor's degree, $1,000 after 5
years and | ||||||
19 | $1,600 after 8 years; with 150 semester hours or more and a | ||||||
20 | master's
degree, $1,250 after 5 years, $2,000 after 8 years and | ||||||
21 | $2,750 after 13 years.
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22 | For the purpose of this Section a teacher's salary shall | ||||||
23 | include any amount
paid by the school district on behalf of the | ||||||
24 | teacher, as teacher contributions,
to the Teachers' Retirement | ||||||
25 | System of the State of Illinois.
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26 | If a school board establishes a schedule for teachers' |
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1 | salaries based
on education and experience, not inconsistent | ||||||
2 | with this Section, all certificated
nurses employed by that | ||||||
3 | board shall be paid in accordance with the provisions
of such | ||||||
4 | schedule.
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5 | For purposes of this Section, a teacher who submits a | ||||||
6 | certificate of
completion to the school office prior to the | ||||||
7 | first day of the school
term shall be considered to have the | ||||||
8 | degree stated in such certificate.
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9 | (Source: P.A. 83-913 .)
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