Bill Text: IL SB2094 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the length of a school term.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB2094 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB2094-Amended.html

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Sen. Carole Pankau

Filed: 3/8/2011

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2094
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2094 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
10-17a and by adding Section 10-20.53 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a)
Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability.
(1) Policy and Purpose. It shall be the policy of the State
of Illinois that each school district in this State, including
special charter districts and districts subject to the
provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents, taxpayers of
such district, the Governor, the General Assembly, and the
State Board of Education a school report card assessing the
performance of its schools and students. The report card shall
be an index of school performance measured against statewide
and local standards and will provide information to make prior

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year comparisons and to set future year targets through the
school improvement plan.
(2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall
prepare a report card in accordance with the guidelines set
forth in this Section which describes the performance of its
students by school attendance centers and by district and the
district's financial resources and use of financial resources.
Such report card shall be presented at a regular school board
meeting subject to applicable notice requirements, posted on
the school district's Internet web site, if the district
maintains an Internet web site, made available to a newspaper
of general circulation serving the district, and, upon request,
sent home to a parent (unless the district does not maintain an
Internet web site, in which case the report card shall be sent
home to parents without request). If the district posts the
report card on its Internet web site, the district shall send a
written notice home to parents stating (i) that the report card
is available on the web site, (ii) the address of the web site,
(iii) that a printed copy of the report card will be sent to
parents upon request, and (iv) the telephone number that
parents may call to request a printed copy of the report card.
In addition, each school district shall submit the completed
report card to the office of the district's Regional
Superintendent which shall make copies available to any
individuals requesting them.
The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior

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to October 31 in each school year. The report card shall
contain, but not be limited to, actual local school attendance
center, school district and statewide data indicating the
present performance of the school, the State norms and the
areas for planned improvement for the school and school
district.
(3) (a) The report card shall include the following
applicable indicators of attendance center, district, and
statewide student performance: percent of students who exceed,
meet, or do not meet standards established by the State Board
of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a; composite and subtest
means on nationally normed achievement tests for college bound
students; student attendance rates; chronic truancy rate;
dropout rate; graduation rate; and student mobility, turnover
shown as a percent of transfers out and a percent of transfers
in.
(b) The report card shall include the following
descriptions for the school, district, and State: average class
size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics, science,
English and social science at primary, middle and junior high
school grade levels; designation of a secondary school as an
Illinois Democracy School; number of students taking the
Prairie State Achievement Examination under subsection (c) of
Section 2-3.64, the number of those students who received a
score of excellent, and the average score by school of students
taking the examination; pupil-teacher ratio;

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pupil-administrator ratio; operating expenditure per pupil;
district expenditure by fund; average administrator salary;
and average teacher salary. The report card shall also specify
the amount of money that the district receives from all
sources, including without limitation subcategories specifying
the amount from local property taxes, the amount from general
State aid, the amount from other State funding, and the amount
from other income.
(c) The report card shall include applicable indicators of
parental involvement in each attendance center. The parental
involvement component of the report card shall include the
percentage of students whose parents or guardians have had one
or more personal contacts with the students' teachers during
the school year concerning the students' education, and such
other information, commentary, and suggestions as the school
district desires. For the purposes of this paragraph, "personal
contact" includes, but is not limited to, parent-teacher
conferences, parental visits to school, school visits to home,
telephone conversations, and written correspondence. The
parental involvement component shall not single out or identify
individual students, parents, or guardians by name.
(d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State
Board of Education and provided to school districts by the most
efficient, economic, and appropriate means.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

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(105 ILCS 5/10-20.53 new)
Sec. 10-20.53. Illinois Democracy School. A school board
may designate any of its secondary schools as Illinois
Democracy Schools if the school receives accreditation as such
by a not-for-profit accreditation board consisting of
educators, administrators, students, universities, funders,
elected officials, policymakers, and representatives from the
public, private, and non-profit sectors. An Illinois Democracy
School shall provide students with experiences in the rights,
responsibilities, and tensions inherent in living in a
constitutional democracy; consciously promote civic engagement
by all students; focus on fostering participatory citizenship;
place an emphasis on helping students understand how the
fundamental ideals and principles of our democratic society
relate to the problems, opportunities, and controversies that
matter in the present; collaborate with parents, students, and
their communities in developing a civic mission and in
providing curricular and extra-curricular civic learning
experiences for all students; and engage students in a
continual process of improving and increasing civic learning.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect June 30,
2011.".