Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
Filed: 2/28/2017
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1947
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1947 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 27A-5 and by adding Section 26-18 as follows:
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| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/26-18 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 26-18. Chronic absenteeism report and support. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) As used in this Section: | ||||||
| 9 | "Chronic absence" means absences that total 10% or more of | ||||||
| 10 | school days of the most recent academic school year, including | ||||||
| 11 | absences with and without valid cause, as defined in Section | ||||||
| 12 | 26-2a of this Code, and out-of-school suspensions for an | ||||||
| 13 | enrolled student. | ||||||
| 14 | "Student" means any enrolled student that is subject to | ||||||
| 15 | compulsory attendance under Section 26-1 of this Code but does | ||||||
| 16 | not mean a student for whom a documented homebound or hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | record is on file during the student's absence from school. | ||||||
| 2 | (b) The General Assembly finds that: | ||||||
| 3 | (1) The early years are a critical period in children's | ||||||
| 4 | learning and development. Every child should be counted | ||||||
| 5 | present every day. Every day of school matters. | ||||||
| 6 | (2) Being absent too many days from school can make it | ||||||
| 7 | difficult for students to stay on-track academically and | ||||||
| 8 | maintain the momentum to graduate from high school in order | ||||||
| 9 | to be college-or career-ready. | ||||||
| 10 | (3) Every day of school attendance matters for all | ||||||
| 11 | students and their families. It is crucial, therefore, that | ||||||
| 12 | the implications of chronic absence be understood and | ||||||
| 13 | reviewed regularly. | ||||||
| 14 | (c) Beginning July 1, 2018, every school district, charter | ||||||
| 15 | school, or alternative school or any school receiving public | ||||||
| 16 | funds shall collect and review its chronic absence data and | ||||||
| 17 | determine what systems of support and resources are needed to | ||||||
| 18 | engage chronically absent students and their families to | ||||||
| 19 | encourage the habit of daily attendance and promote success. | ||||||
| 20 | The review shall include an analysis of chronic absence data | ||||||
| 21 | from each attendance center or campus of the school district, | ||||||
| 22 | charter school, or alternative school or other school receiving | ||||||
| 23 | public funds. | ||||||
| 24 | (d) School districts, charter schools, or alternative | ||||||
| 25 | schools or any school receiving public funds are encouraged to | ||||||
| 26 | provide a system of support to students who are at risk of | ||||||
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| 1 | reaching or exceeding chronic absence levels with strategies | ||||||
| 2 | such as those available through the Illinois Multi-tiered | ||||||
| 3 | Systems of Support Network. Schools are encouraged to | ||||||
| 4 | additionally make resources available to families such as those | ||||||
| 5 | available through the State Board of Education's Family | ||||||
| 6 | Engagement Framework to support and engage students and their | ||||||
| 7 | families to encourage heightened school engagement and | ||||||
| 8 | improved daily school attendance.
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| 9 | (105 ILCS 5/27A-5)
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| 10 | (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 99-927)
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| 11 | Sec. 27A-5. Charter school; legal entity; requirements.
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| 12 | (a) A charter school shall be a public, nonsectarian, | ||||||
| 13 | nonreligious, non-home
based, and non-profit school. A charter | ||||||
| 14 | school shall be organized and operated
as a nonprofit | ||||||
| 15 | corporation or other discrete, legal, nonprofit entity
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| 16 | authorized under the laws of the State of Illinois.
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| 17 | (b) A charter school may be established under this Article | ||||||
| 18 | by creating a new
school or by converting an existing public | ||||||
| 19 | school or attendance center to
charter
school status.
Beginning | ||||||
| 20 | on April 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3), in | ||||||
| 21 | all new
applications to establish
a charter
school in a city | ||||||
| 22 | having a population exceeding 500,000, operation of the
charter
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| 23 | school shall be limited to one campus. The changes made to this | ||||||
| 24 | Section by Public Act 93-3 do not apply to charter schools | ||||||
| 25 | existing or approved on or before April 16, 2003 (the
effective | ||||||
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| 1 | date of Public Act 93-3). | ||||||
| 2 | (b-5) In this subsection (b-5), "virtual-schooling" means | ||||||
| 3 | a cyber school where students engage in online curriculum and | ||||||
| 4 | instruction via the Internet and electronic communication with | ||||||
| 5 | their teachers at remote locations and with students | ||||||
| 6 | participating at different times. | ||||||
| 7 | From April 1, 2013 through December 31, 2016, there is a | ||||||
| 8 | moratorium on the establishment of charter schools with | ||||||
| 9 | virtual-schooling components in school districts other than a | ||||||
| 10 | school district organized under Article 34 of this Code. This | ||||||
| 11 | moratorium does not apply to a charter school with | ||||||
| 12 | virtual-schooling components existing or approved prior to | ||||||
| 13 | April 1, 2013 or to the renewal of the charter of a charter | ||||||
| 14 | school with virtual-schooling components already approved | ||||||
| 15 | prior to April 1, 2013. | ||||||
| 16 | On or before March 1, 2014, the Commission shall submit to | ||||||
| 17 | the General Assembly a report on the effect of | ||||||
| 18 | virtual-schooling, including without limitation the effect on | ||||||
| 19 | student performance, the costs associated with | ||||||
| 20 | virtual-schooling, and issues with oversight. The report shall | ||||||
| 21 | include policy recommendations for virtual-schooling.
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| 22 | (c) A charter school shall be administered and governed by | ||||||
| 23 | its board of
directors or other governing body
in the manner | ||||||
| 24 | provided in its charter. The governing body of a charter school
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| 25 | shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Open | ||||||
| 26 | Meetings Act.
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| 1 | (d) For purposes of this subsection (d), "non-curricular | ||||||
| 2 | health and safety requirement" means any health and safety | ||||||
| 3 | requirement created by statute or rule to provide, maintain, | ||||||
| 4 | preserve, or safeguard safe or healthful conditions for | ||||||
| 5 | students and school personnel or to eliminate, reduce, or | ||||||
| 6 | prevent threats to the health and safety of students and school | ||||||
| 7 | personnel. "Non-curricular health and safety requirement" does | ||||||
| 8 | not include any course of study or specialized instructional | ||||||
| 9 | requirement for which the State Board has established goals and | ||||||
| 10 | learning standards or which is designed primarily to impart | ||||||
| 11 | knowledge and skills for students to master and apply as an | ||||||
| 12 | outcome of their education. | ||||||
| 13 | A charter school shall comply with all non-curricular | ||||||
| 14 | health and safety
requirements applicable to public schools | ||||||
| 15 | under the laws of the State of
Illinois. On or before September | ||||||
| 16 | 1, 2015, the State Board shall promulgate and post on its | ||||||
| 17 | Internet website a list of non-curricular health and safety | ||||||
| 18 | requirements that a charter school must meet. The list shall be | ||||||
| 19 | updated annually no later than September 1. Any charter | ||||||
| 20 | contract between a charter school and its authorizer must | ||||||
| 21 | contain a provision that requires the charter school to follow | ||||||
| 22 | the list of all non-curricular health and safety requirements | ||||||
| 23 | promulgated by the State Board and any non-curricular health | ||||||
| 24 | and safety requirements added by the State Board to such list | ||||||
| 25 | during the term of the charter. Nothing in this subsection (d) | ||||||
| 26 | precludes an authorizer from including non-curricular health | ||||||
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| 1 | and safety requirements in a charter school contract that are | ||||||
| 2 | not contained in the list promulgated by the State Board, | ||||||
| 3 | including non-curricular health and safety requirements of the | ||||||
| 4 | authorizing local school board.
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| 5 | (e) Except as otherwise provided in the School Code, a | ||||||
| 6 | charter school shall
not charge tuition; provided that a | ||||||
| 7 | charter school may charge reasonable fees
for textbooks, | ||||||
| 8 | instructional materials, and student activities.
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| 9 | (f) A charter school shall be responsible for the | ||||||
| 10 | management and operation
of its fiscal affairs including,
but | ||||||
| 11 | not limited to, the preparation of its budget. An audit of each | ||||||
| 12 | charter
school's finances shall be conducted annually by an | ||||||
| 13 | outside, independent
contractor retained by the charter | ||||||
| 14 | school. To ensure financial accountability for the use of | ||||||
| 15 | public funds, on or before December 1 of every year of | ||||||
| 16 | operation, each charter school shall submit to its authorizer | ||||||
| 17 | and the State Board a copy of its audit and a copy of the Form | ||||||
| 18 | 990 the charter school filed that year with the federal | ||||||
| 19 | Internal Revenue Service. In addition, if deemed necessary for | ||||||
| 20 | proper financial oversight of the charter school, an authorizer | ||||||
| 21 | may require quarterly financial statements from each charter | ||||||
| 22 | school.
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| 23 | (g) A charter school shall comply with all provisions of | ||||||
| 24 | this Article, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, all | ||||||
| 25 | federal and State laws and rules applicable to public schools | ||||||
| 26 | that pertain to special education and the instruction of | ||||||
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| 1 | English learners, and
its charter. A charter
school is exempt | ||||||
| 2 | from all other State laws and regulations in this Code
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| 3 | governing public
schools and local school board policies; | ||||||
| 4 | however, a charter school is not exempt from the following:
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| 5 | (1) Sections 10-21.9 and 34-18.5 of this Code regarding | ||||||
| 6 | criminal
history records checks and checks of the Statewide | ||||||
| 7 | Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent | ||||||
| 8 | Offender Against Youth Database of applicants for | ||||||
| 9 | employment;
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| 10 | (2) Sections 10-20.14, 10-22.6, 24-24, 34-19, and | ||||||
| 11 | 34-84a of this Code regarding discipline of
students;
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| 12 | (3) the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees | ||||||
| 13 | Tort Immunity Act;
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| 14 | (4) Section 108.75 of the General Not For Profit | ||||||
| 15 | Corporation Act of 1986
regarding indemnification of | ||||||
| 16 | officers, directors, employees, and agents;
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| 17 | (5) the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act;
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| 18 | (6) the Illinois School Student Records Act;
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| 19 | (7) Section 10-17a of this Code regarding school report | ||||||
| 20 | cards;
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| 21 | (8) the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act; | ||||||
| 22 | (9) Section 27-23.7 of this Code regarding bullying | ||||||
| 23 | prevention; | ||||||
| 24 | (10) Section 2-3.162 of this Code regarding student | ||||||
| 25 | discipline reporting; and | ||||||
| 26 | (11) Section 22-80 of this Code; and . | ||||||
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| 1 | (12) Section 26-18 of this Code. | ||||||
| 2 | The change made by Public Act 96-104 to this subsection (g) | ||||||
| 3 | is declaratory of existing law. | ||||||
| 4 | (h) A charter school may negotiate and contract with a | ||||||
| 5 | school district, the
governing body of a State college or | ||||||
| 6 | university or public community college, or
any other public or | ||||||
| 7 | for-profit or nonprofit private entity for: (i) the use
of a | ||||||
| 8 | school building and grounds or any other real property or | ||||||
| 9 | facilities that
the charter school desires to use or convert | ||||||
| 10 | for use as a charter school site,
(ii) the operation and | ||||||
| 11 | maintenance thereof, and
(iii) the provision of any service, | ||||||
| 12 | activity, or undertaking that the charter
school is required to | ||||||
| 13 | perform in order to carry out the terms of its charter.
| ||||||
| 14 | However, a charter school
that is established on
or
after April | ||||||
| 15 | 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3) and that | ||||||
| 16 | operates
in a city having a population exceeding
500,000 may | ||||||
| 17 | not contract with a for-profit entity to
manage or operate the | ||||||
| 18 | school during the period that commences on April 16, 2003 (the
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| 19 | effective date of Public Act 93-3) and
concludes at the end of | ||||||
| 20 | the 2004-2005 school year.
Except as provided in subsection (i) | ||||||
| 21 | of this Section, a school district may
charge a charter school | ||||||
| 22 | reasonable rent for the use of the district's
buildings, | ||||||
| 23 | grounds, and facilities. Any services for which a charter | ||||||
| 24 | school
contracts
with a school district shall be provided by | ||||||
| 25 | the district at cost. Any services
for which a charter school | ||||||
| 26 | contracts with a local school board or with the
governing body | ||||||
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| 1 | of a State college or university or public community college
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| 2 | shall be provided by the public entity at cost.
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| 3 | (i) In no event shall a charter school that is established | ||||||
| 4 | by converting an
existing school or attendance center to | ||||||
| 5 | charter school status be required to
pay rent for space
that is | ||||||
| 6 | deemed available, as negotiated and provided in the charter | ||||||
| 7 | agreement,
in school district
facilities. However, all other | ||||||
| 8 | costs for the operation and maintenance of
school district | ||||||
| 9 | facilities that are used by the charter school shall be subject
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| 10 | to negotiation between
the charter school and the local school | ||||||
| 11 | board and shall be set forth in the
charter.
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| 12 | (j) A charter school may limit student enrollment by age or | ||||||
| 13 | grade level.
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| 14 | (k) If the charter school is approved by the Commission, | ||||||
| 15 | then the Commission charter school is its own local education | ||||||
| 16 | agency. | ||||||
| 17 | (Source: P.A. 98-16, eff. 5-24-13; 98-639, eff. 6-9-14; 98-669, | ||||||
| 18 | eff. 6-26-14; 98-739, eff. 7-16-14; 98-783, eff. 1-1-15; | ||||||
| 19 | 98-1059, eff. 8-26-14; 98-1102, eff. 8-26-14; 99-30, eff. | ||||||
| 20 | 7-10-15; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-245, eff. 8-3-15; 99-325, eff. | ||||||
| 21 | 8-10-15; 99-456, eff. 9-15-16; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)
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| 22 | (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 99-927)
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| 23 | Sec. 27A-5. Charter school; legal entity; requirements.
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| 24 | (a) A charter school shall be a public, nonsectarian, | ||||||
| 25 | nonreligious, non-home
based, and non-profit school. A charter | ||||||
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| 1 | school shall be organized and operated
as a nonprofit | ||||||
| 2 | corporation or other discrete, legal, nonprofit entity
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| 3 | authorized under the laws of the State of Illinois.
| ||||||
| 4 | (b) A charter school may be established under this Article | ||||||
| 5 | by creating a new
school or by converting an existing public | ||||||
| 6 | school or attendance center to
charter
school status.
Beginning | ||||||
| 7 | on April 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3), in | ||||||
| 8 | all new
applications to establish
a charter
school in a city | ||||||
| 9 | having a population exceeding 500,000, operation of the
charter
| ||||||
| 10 | school shall be limited to one campus. The changes made to this | ||||||
| 11 | Section by Public Act 93-3 do not apply to charter schools | ||||||
| 12 | existing or approved on or before April 16, 2003 (the
effective | ||||||
| 13 | date of Public Act 93-3). | ||||||
| 14 | (b-5) In this subsection (b-5), "virtual-schooling" means | ||||||
| 15 | a cyber school where students engage in online curriculum and | ||||||
| 16 | instruction via the Internet and electronic communication with | ||||||
| 17 | their teachers at remote locations and with students | ||||||
| 18 | participating at different times. | ||||||
| 19 | From April 1, 2013 through December 31, 2016, there is a | ||||||
| 20 | moratorium on the establishment of charter schools with | ||||||
| 21 | virtual-schooling components in school districts other than a | ||||||
| 22 | school district organized under Article 34 of this Code. This | ||||||
| 23 | moratorium does not apply to a charter school with | ||||||
| 24 | virtual-schooling components existing or approved prior to | ||||||
| 25 | April 1, 2013 or to the renewal of the charter of a charter | ||||||
| 26 | school with virtual-schooling components already approved | ||||||
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| 1 | prior to April 1, 2013. | ||||||
| 2 | On or before March 1, 2014, the Commission shall submit to | ||||||
| 3 | the General Assembly a report on the effect of | ||||||
| 4 | virtual-schooling, including without limitation the effect on | ||||||
| 5 | student performance, the costs associated with | ||||||
| 6 | virtual-schooling, and issues with oversight. The report shall | ||||||
| 7 | include policy recommendations for virtual-schooling.
| ||||||
| 8 | (c) A charter school shall be administered and governed by | ||||||
| 9 | its board of
directors or other governing body
in the manner | ||||||
| 10 | provided in its charter. The governing body of a charter school
| ||||||
| 11 | shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Open | ||||||
| 12 | Meetings Act.
| ||||||
| 13 | (d) For purposes of this subsection (d), "non-curricular | ||||||
| 14 | health and safety requirement" means any health and safety | ||||||
| 15 | requirement created by statute or rule to provide, maintain, | ||||||
| 16 | preserve, or safeguard safe or healthful conditions for | ||||||
| 17 | students and school personnel or to eliminate, reduce, or | ||||||
| 18 | prevent threats to the health and safety of students and school | ||||||
| 19 | personnel. "Non-curricular health and safety requirement" does | ||||||
| 20 | not include any course of study or specialized instructional | ||||||
| 21 | requirement for which the State Board has established goals and | ||||||
| 22 | learning standards or which is designed primarily to impart | ||||||
| 23 | knowledge and skills for students to master and apply as an | ||||||
| 24 | outcome of their education. | ||||||
| 25 | A charter school shall comply with all non-curricular | ||||||
| 26 | health and safety
requirements applicable to public schools | ||||||
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| |||||||
| 1 | under the laws of the State of
Illinois. On or before September | ||||||
| 2 | 1, 2015, the State Board shall promulgate and post on its | ||||||
| 3 | Internet website a list of non-curricular health and safety | ||||||
| 4 | requirements that a charter school must meet. The list shall be | ||||||
| 5 | updated annually no later than September 1. Any charter | ||||||
| 6 | contract between a charter school and its authorizer must | ||||||
| 7 | contain a provision that requires the charter school to follow | ||||||
| 8 | the list of all non-curricular health and safety requirements | ||||||
| 9 | promulgated by the State Board and any non-curricular health | ||||||
| 10 | and safety requirements added by the State Board to such list | ||||||
| 11 | during the term of the charter. Nothing in this subsection (d) | ||||||
| 12 | precludes an authorizer from including non-curricular health | ||||||
| 13 | and safety requirements in a charter school contract that are | ||||||
| 14 | not contained in the list promulgated by the State Board, | ||||||
| 15 | including non-curricular health and safety requirements of the | ||||||
| 16 | authorizing local school board.
| ||||||
| 17 | (e) Except as otherwise provided in the School Code, a | ||||||
| 18 | charter school shall
not charge tuition; provided that a | ||||||
| 19 | charter school may charge reasonable fees
for textbooks, | ||||||
| 20 | instructional materials, and student activities.
| ||||||
| 21 | (f) A charter school shall be responsible for the | ||||||
| 22 | management and operation
of its fiscal affairs including,
but | ||||||
| 23 | not limited to, the preparation of its budget. An audit of each | ||||||
| 24 | charter
school's finances shall be conducted annually by an | ||||||
| 25 | outside, independent
contractor retained by the charter | ||||||
| 26 | school. To ensure financial accountability for the use of | ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | public funds, on or before December 1 of every year of | ||||||
| 2 | operation, each charter school shall submit to its authorizer | ||||||
| 3 | and the State Board a copy of its audit and a copy of the Form | ||||||
| 4 | 990 the charter school filed that year with the federal | ||||||
| 5 | Internal Revenue Service. In addition, if deemed necessary for | ||||||
| 6 | proper financial oversight of the charter school, an authorizer | ||||||
| 7 | may require quarterly financial statements from each charter | ||||||
| 8 | school.
| ||||||
| 9 | (g) A charter school shall comply with all provisions of | ||||||
| 10 | this Article, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, all | ||||||
| 11 | federal and State laws and rules applicable to public schools | ||||||
| 12 | that pertain to special education and the instruction of | ||||||
| 13 | English learners, and
its charter. A charter
school is exempt | ||||||
| 14 | from all other State laws and regulations in this Code
| ||||||
| 15 | governing public
schools and local school board policies; | ||||||
| 16 | however, a charter school is not exempt from the following:
| ||||||
| 17 | (1) Sections 10-21.9 and 34-18.5 of this Code regarding | ||||||
| 18 | criminal
history records checks and checks of the Statewide | ||||||
| 19 | Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent | ||||||
| 20 | Offender Against Youth Database of applicants for | ||||||
| 21 | employment;
| ||||||
| 22 | (2) Sections 10-20.14, 10-22.6, 24-24, 34-19, and | ||||||
| 23 | 34-84a of this Code regarding discipline of
students;
| ||||||
| 24 | (3) the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees | ||||||
| 25 | Tort Immunity Act;
| ||||||
| 26 | (4) Section 108.75 of the General Not For Profit | ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | Corporation Act of 1986
regarding indemnification of | ||||||
| 2 | officers, directors, employees, and agents;
| ||||||
| 3 | (5) the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act;
| ||||||
| 4 | (6) the Illinois School Student Records Act;
| ||||||
| 5 | (7) Section 10-17a of this Code regarding school report | ||||||
| 6 | cards;
| ||||||
| 7 | (8) the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act; | ||||||
| 8 | (9) Section 27-23.7 of this Code regarding bullying | ||||||
| 9 | prevention; | ||||||
| 10 | (10) Section 2-3.162 of this Code regarding student | ||||||
| 11 | discipline reporting; and | ||||||
| 12 | (11) Sections 22-80 and 27-8.1 of this Code; and . | ||||||
| 13 | (12) Section 26-18 of this Code. | ||||||
| 14 | The change made by Public Act 96-104 to this subsection (g) | ||||||
| 15 | is declaratory of existing law. | ||||||
| 16 | (h) A charter school may negotiate and contract with a | ||||||
| 17 | school district, the
governing body of a State college or | ||||||
| 18 | university or public community college, or
any other public or | ||||||
| 19 | for-profit or nonprofit private entity for: (i) the use
of a | ||||||
| 20 | school building and grounds or any other real property or | ||||||
| 21 | facilities that
the charter school desires to use or convert | ||||||
| 22 | for use as a charter school site,
(ii) the operation and | ||||||
| 23 | maintenance thereof, and
(iii) the provision of any service, | ||||||
| 24 | activity, or undertaking that the charter
school is required to | ||||||
| 25 | perform in order to carry out the terms of its charter.
| ||||||
| 26 | However, a charter school
that is established on
or
after April | ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | 16, 2003 (the effective date of Public Act 93-3) and that | ||||||
| 2 | operates
in a city having a population exceeding
500,000 may | ||||||
| 3 | not contract with a for-profit entity to
manage or operate the | ||||||
| 4 | school during the period that commences on April 16, 2003 (the
| ||||||
| 5 | effective date of Public Act 93-3) and
concludes at the end of | ||||||
| 6 | the 2004-2005 school year.
Except as provided in subsection (i) | ||||||
| 7 | of this Section, a school district may
charge a charter school | ||||||
| 8 | reasonable rent for the use of the district's
buildings, | ||||||
| 9 | grounds, and facilities. Any services for which a charter | ||||||
| 10 | school
contracts
with a school district shall be provided by | ||||||
| 11 | the district at cost. Any services
for which a charter school | ||||||
| 12 | contracts with a local school board or with the
governing body | ||||||
| 13 | of a State college or university or public community college
| ||||||
| 14 | shall be provided by the public entity at cost.
| ||||||
| 15 | (i) In no event shall a charter school that is established | ||||||
| 16 | by converting an
existing school or attendance center to | ||||||
| 17 | charter school status be required to
pay rent for space
that is | ||||||
| 18 | deemed available, as negotiated and provided in the charter | ||||||
| 19 | agreement,
in school district
facilities. However, all other | ||||||
| 20 | costs for the operation and maintenance of
school district | ||||||
| 21 | facilities that are used by the charter school shall be subject
| ||||||
| 22 | to negotiation between
the charter school and the local school | ||||||
| 23 | board and shall be set forth in the
charter.
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| 24 | (j) A charter school may limit student enrollment by age or | ||||||
| 25 | grade level.
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| 26 | (k) If the charter school is approved by the Commission, | ||||||
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| 1 | then the Commission charter school is its own local education | ||||||
| 2 | agency. | ||||||
| 3 | (Source: P.A. 98-16, eff. 5-24-13; 98-639, eff. 6-9-14; 98-669, | ||||||
| 4 | eff. 6-26-14; 98-739, eff. 7-16-14; 98-783, eff. 1-1-15; | ||||||
| 5 | 98-1059, eff. 8-26-14; 98-1102, eff. 8-26-14; 99-30, eff. | ||||||
| 6 | 7-10-15; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-245, eff. 8-3-15; 99-325, eff. | ||||||
| 7 | 8-10-15; 99-456, eff. 9-15-16; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16; 99-927, | ||||||
| 8 | eff. 6-1-17.)
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| 9 | Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes | ||||||
| 10 | changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text | ||||||
| 11 | that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section | ||||||
| 12 | represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does | ||||||
| 13 | not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes | ||||||
| 14 | made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other | ||||||
| 15 | Public Act.
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| 16 | Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | ||||||
| 17 | 2018.".
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