Bill Text: IL SB2793 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. As part of the annual school report card, requires every school to provide (i) data on the issuance of out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and removals to alternative settings, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, age, grade level, limited English proficiency status, length of exclusion, reason for exclusion, and whether alternative educational options were provided; (ii) data on the use of arrests or criminal citations, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, age, grade level, disability status, limited English proficiency status, and alleged criminal offense; and (iii) data on student retention during and between academic years, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, age, grade level, disability status, limited English proficiency status, and the reason for the student's departure. Sets forth requirements and exemptions concerning the data, including requiring the State Board of Education to analyze the data on an annual basis and determine the top quartile of school districts for specified metrics. Requires certain districts identified by the State Board to submit a school discipline improvement plan identifying the strategies it will implement to reduce the use of harsh disciplinary practices or reduce the disproportionality evident in its disciplinary practices; sets forth other requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-1102 [SB2793 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB2793-Engrossed.html

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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
2-3.160 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.160 new)
Sec. 2-3.160. Student discipline report; school discipline
improvement plan.
(a) On or before October 31, 2015 and on or before October
31 of each subsequent year, the State Board of Education,
through the State Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a
report on student discipline in all school districts in this
State. This report must be posted on the Internet website of
the State Board of Education. The report shall include both of
the following:
(1) Data on the issuance of out-of-school suspensions,
expulsions, and removals to alternative settings,
disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, age, grade
level, limited English proficiency, incident type, and
discipline duration.
(2) Data on the use of arrests or criminal citations,
disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, and age.
(b) The State Board of Education shall analyze the data

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under subsection (a) of this Section on an annual basis and
determine the top quartile of school districts for the
following metric: total number of instructional days on which
students were excluded, divided by the total student
population. The State Board of Education shall determine the
top quartile of school districts for racial disproportionality
in this metric. The State Board of Education shall require each
of the school districts identified in this quartile to submit a
school discipline improvement plan identifying the strategies
the school district will implement to reduce the use of harsh
disciplinary practices. This plan must be approved at a public
school board meeting and posted on the school district's
Internet website. Within one year after being identified, the
school district shall post a progress report describing the
implementation of the school discipline improvement plan and
the results achieved on the school district's Internet website.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2014.