Bill Text: IL SB3705 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Community College Act. In provisions concerning the College and Career Readiness Pilot Program, provides that beginning July 1, 2010, the Illinois Community College Board shall extend the current pilot project for 3 years to include an additional 7 sites as evidenced by the effectiveness of the current program. Changes the criteria for the State Board's selection of 4 community colleges to participate in the original pilot program and 7 additional sites as part of the extension. Provides that each participating community college shall establish an agreement with a high school or schools to include the creation of a Readiness Plan (rather than Readiness Prescription) for each student. Changes provisions concerning the State Board's work with participating community colleges and high schools to develop an appropriate evaluation process to measure effectiveness of intervention strategies. Changes provisions concerning the second and third year duties of the State Board. Provides that at the end of the 3 year extension, the State Board shall prepare and submit a report outlining its findings and recommendations to the Senate and the House of Representatives by filing a copy of its report with the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives no later than December 31, 2013. Effective July 1, 2010.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1300 [SB3705 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB3705-Enrolled.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 Public Community College Act is amended by
changing Section 2-25 as follows:
(110 ILCS 805/2-25)
Sec. 2-25. College and Career Readiness Pilot Program.
(a) The General Assembly finds that there is a direct and
significant link between academic preparation of students
being academically prepared for college and success in
postsecondary education and careers. Many students enter
college unprepared for the academic rigors of college and
require noncredit remedial courses to attain skills and
knowledge needed for regular, credit coursework. Remediation
lengthens time to degree, imposes additional costs on students
and colleges, and uses student financial aid for courses that
will not count toward a degree. All students entering college
take a college entrance exam or a placement test. These tests
All high school juniors take the Prairie State Achievement
Examination, which contains the ACT college assessment exam.
ACT test elements and scores can be correlated to specific
course placements in community colleges. Customized ACT test
results can be used in collaboration with high schools to

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assist high school students to identify areas for improvement
and help to them close skill gaps during students' their senior
year. College Greater college and career readiness reduces will
reduce the need for remediation, lowers lower educational
costs, shortens shorten time to degree, and increases increase
the overall success rate of Illinois college students.
(b) Subject to appropriation, the State Board shall create
a 3-year pilot project, to be known as the College and Career
Readiness Pilot Program. Subject to appropriation, on July 1,
2010, the State Board shall extend the current program for an
additional 3 years and include an additional 7 sites (or as
many as are allowed by available funding), as evidenced by the
effectiveness of the current program. If in any of these 3
additional years, money is not appropriated for the program,
then the State Board shall extend the program for an additional
year. The goals of the program are as follows:
(1) To diagnose college readiness by developing a
system that aligns to align ACT scores or college placement
examinations to specific community college courses in
developmental and freshman curriculums.
(2) To reduce remediation by decreasing the need for
remedial coursework in mathematics, reading, and writing
at the college level through (i) increasing the number of
students enrolled in a college-prep core curriculum, (ii)
assisting students in improving college readiness skills,
and (iii) increasing successful student transitions into

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postsecondary education.
(3) To align high school and college curriculums.
(4) To provide resources and academic support to
students to enrich the junior and senior year of high
school through remedial or advanced coursework and other
interventions.
(5) To develop an appropriate evaluation process to
measure the effectiveness of readiness intervention
strategies.
(c) The first year of the program extended created under
this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2011 and the
high school class of 2012 (or such later classes if money is
not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2008.
(1) In addition to the community colleges
participating in the program before July 1, 2010, the The
State Board shall select 7 additional 4 community colleges
(or as many as are allowable by available funding) to
participate in the program based on all of the following:
(A) The percentage of students in developmental
coursework.
(B) Demographics of student enrollment, including
socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and
enrollments of first-generation college students.
(C) Geographic diversity.
(D) The willingness of the community college to

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submit developmental and introductory courses to ACT
for analysis of college placement.
(D) (E) The ability of the community college to
partner with local high schools to develop college and
career readiness strategies and college readiness
teams.
(2) The State Board shall work with ACT to analyze up
to 10 courses at each participating community college for
purposes of determining student placement and college
readiness.
(2) (3) Each participating community college shall
establish an agreement with a high school or schools to do
all of the following:
(A) Create a data-sharing agreement.
(B) Create a Readiness Plan Prescription for each
student, showing all of the following:
(i) The readiness status for college-level
work.
(ii) Course recommendations for remediation or
for advanced coursework in Advanced Placement
classes or dual credit and dual enrollment
programs.
(iii) Additional academic support services,
including tutoring, mentoring, and college
application assistance.
(C) Create college and career readiness teams,

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which shall include the chief academic officer, the
chief student services officer, an institutional
researcher, faculty, and counselors or advisers
comprised of faculty and counselors or advisers from
the community college and high school, the college and
career readiness coordinator from the community
college, and other members as determined by the high
school and community college. The teams may include
local business or civic leaders. The teams shall
develop intervention strategies as follows:
(i) Use the Readiness Plan Prescription to
develop a contract with each student for remedial
or advanced coursework to be taken during the
senior year.
(ii) Monitor student progress.
(iii) Provide readiness support services.
(D) Retest students upon the completion of the
appropriate intervention in the spring of 2008 to
assess progress and college readiness.
(3) (4) The State Board shall work with participating
community colleges and high schools to develop an
appropriate evaluation process to measure effectiveness of
intervention strategies, including all of the following:
(A) Baseline data for each participating school.
(B) Baseline data for the Illinois system.
(C) Comparison of college entrance exams or

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college placement scores, or both, within each group of
students ACT scores from March 2007 to March 2008.
(D) Student enrollment in each applicable
intervention college in the fall of 2008.
(E) Placement of college and career readiness
students in developmental and regular courses upon the
completion of the intervention and subsequent
enrollment in additional courses in the fall of 2008.
(F) Retention of college and career readiness
students in the spring semester after enrollment of
2009.
(G) Other measures as selected by the State Board.
(5) The State Board shall work with participating
community colleges and high schools to establish
operational processes and a budget for college and career
readiness pilot programs, including all of the following:
(A) Employment of a college and career readiness
coordinator at each community college site.
(B) Establishment of a budget.
(C) Creation of college and career readiness
teams, resources, and partnership agreements.
(d) The second year of the program extended created under
this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2012 and the
high school class of 2013 (or such later classes if money is
not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2009.

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In the second year of the extended program, the State Board
shall have all of the following duties:
(1) Analyze courses at 3 new community college sites.
(1) (2) Undertake intervention strategies through
college and career readiness teams with students of in the
classes class of 2012 and 2013 2009.
(2) (3) Monitor and assist college and career readiness
graduates from the class of 2011 2008 in college.
(e) The third year of the program extended created under
this Section by this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly shall begin with the high school class of 2013 and the
high school class of 2014 (or such later classes if money is
not appropriated for the program in a given fiscal year) 2010.
In the third year of the extended program, the State Board
shall have all of the following duties:
(1) Analyze courses at 5 new community college sites.
(2) Add college and career readiness teams at 3 new
sites (from year 2 of the program).
(1) (3) Undertake intervention strategies through
college and career readiness teams with students of the
classes class of 2013 and 2014 2010 at 7 sites.
(2) (4) Monitor and assist students from the classes of
2011 2008 and 2012 2009 in college.
(f) At the end of the 3-year extension of the program, the
State Board shall prepare and submit a report outlining its
findings and recommendations to the Senate and the House of

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Representatives by filing a copy of its report with the
Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of
Representatives no later than December 31, 2013.
(Source: P.A. 95-694, eff. 11-5-07; 95-876, eff. 8-21-08.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2010.