Bill Text: IL SB1571 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that there shall be a moratorium on school closings, consolidations, and phase-outs in the school district in the 2013-2014 school year. Provides that any of these actions that are subsequently appropriate must be carried out no sooner than the end of the 2014-2015 school year, subject to any new set of requirements adopted by the General Assembly. During this moratorium period, requires the district to establish polices that address and remedy the academic performance of schools in which Illinois Standards Achievement Test scores reflect students performing at or below 75%. Requires these policies to establish clear criteria or processes for establishing criteria for making school facility decisions and include clear criteria for setting priorities with respect to school openings, school closings, school consolidations, school turnarounds, school phase-outs, school construction, school repairs, school modernizations, school boundary changes, and other related school facility decisions, including the encouragement of multiple community uses for school space. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1571 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1571-Amended.html

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Sen. William Delgado

Filed: 3/15/2013

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1571
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1571 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
34-1 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/34-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-1)
Sec. 34-1. Application of article; Definitions. This
Article applies only to cities having a population exceeding
500,000.
"Trustees", when used in this Article, means the the
Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees created by this
amendatory Act of 1995 and serving as the governing board of
the school district organized under this Article beginning with
its appointment on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1995 and continuing until June 30, 1999 or
the appointment of a new Chicago Board of Education as provided

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in Section 34-3, whichever is later.
"Board", or "board of education" when used in this Article,
means: (i) the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees for the
period that begins with the appointment of the Trustees and
that ends on the later of June 30, 1999 or the appointment of a
new Chicago Board of Education as provided in Section 34-3; and
(ii) the new Chicago Board of Education from and after June 30,
1999 or from and after its appointment as provided in Section
34-3, whichever is later.
Except during the period that begins with the appointment
of the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995 and that ends on
the later of June 30, 1999 or the appointment of a new Chicago
Board of Education as provided in Section 34-3: (i) the school
district organized under this Article may be subject to further
limitations imposed under Article 34A; and (ii) the provisions
of Article 34A prevail over the other provisions of this Act,
including the provisions of this Article, to the extent of any
conflict.
(Source: P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)".