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School Board News Bulletin
September, 2004

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694 Title I schools on 'School Improvement' status

President plans to require exit exams

State's ACT, SAT results rise again - slightly

Charter schools come up short in separate studies

Gov. signs state board reform legislation (S.B. 3000)

NEWS HEADLINES

TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

New edition of IASB school finance book published

Board members can win recognition for their district

NEWS FROM IASB

Nominating committee slates IASB officers for 2005

More IASB division meetings listed

RESEARCH REPORTS

Exit exams fail to show college or work readiness

Public satisfaction withK-12 schools increasing

LEGISLATIVE ACTION

Defibrillator legislation and other bills now law

694 Title I schools on 'School Improvement' status

State issues 'early alert' under NCLB rules; Schools face additional requirements

The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) recently announced a preliminary list - subject to correction and immediately disputed by some school leaders - of 694 Title I schools identified as "in need of improvement." That designation is made under NCLB law for schools found to have not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two consecutive years.

The list - which only includes schools that accepted federal Title I funds - is based on preliminary 2004 results from the ISAT and PSAE standardized tests. This shows that 18 percent of Illinois schools did not make adequate progress in mathematics and reading this year, compared to 15 percent last year, according to Education Week Research Center.

Schools that remain on the final list may be required to offer one of four options: school choice; or both choice and supplemental educational services (SES); or school choice, SES, and corrective action; or choice, SES, corrective action, and restructuring.

Schools required to offer any of these items, except restructuring (the first year of restructuring is a planning year) should be prepared to do so early in the 2004-05 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).

ISBE notes these determinations are only preliminary and the list is subject to change.

"We made these determinations because under federal law we are required to notify schools before the beginning of the school year, and in order to meet this requirement we were only able to use preliminary state assessment data. The determinations do not include the final assessment information ... participation rate, attendance rate and graduation rate," said State Superintendent Robert Schiller.

Being listed is significant, however, because any listed Title I school is labeled "in need of improvement." That label essentially means the school must provide technical assistance and school choice for students. The choice and technical assistance offerings must commence near the beginning of the 2004-05 school year.

A Title I school that misses AYP for three consecutive years under NCLB must offer low-income students the opportunity to receive supplemental academic enrichment opportunities, such as tutoring. Parents may then choose from a list of providers and must be offered the choice to transfer the child to a so-called higher-performing school.

Eventually, Title I schools that miss AYP for four consecutive years or more must take one or more of the following corrective actions:

• replacing school staff
• implementing a new curriculum
• decreasing management authority at school level
• appointing an outside expert to advise the school
• extending the school day or year
• changing the school's internal organization plus offering choice and SES.

But the yearly AYP schools list is noteworthy even for districts with no schools on it, thanks to NCLB's rising AYP requirements. Experts believe nearly every school will be placed on the list in future years, and then will face major hurdles under NCLB law.

The consequences are so much a concern that some Illinois school districts recently have decided to opt out of the federal Title I program. Among those recently opting out of Title I funding are: Consolidated High School District 230, Orland Park; and Township High School District 211, Palatine. Dist. 230 rejected nearly $136,000; District 211 turned down nearly $238,000. Other districts are considering similar action.

Dist. 230 Supt. Patrick McMahon explained his district's decision: "We don't see any value in all of this (NCLB-mandated school) choice activity that goes on," adding that his is one of the top-scoring school districts in the state.

Likewise, Dist. 211 Superintendent Roger Thornton said his district will follow the spirit of the No Child Left Behind law, but not its mandates. "The only thing that would come out of us accepting these funds would be for us to spend more money on busing students around to other schools."

Some of the top-performing schools and districts in Illinois made the list, including a suburban Chicago school in Township High School District 113, where Supt. Ann Riebock said she intends to contest state data. Preliminary results showed the Highland Park district failed to meet testing goals, causing Riebock to say, "I am disappointed that this takes an excellent school and shifts the focus to make it look like it is doing poorly."

This year's final list of schools that did not make AYP - overall or in one or more subgroups - is due to be released soon.

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President plans to require exit exams

President Bush recently announced that the next step in his education plan (which essentially is the No Child Left Behind Act) could be to expand educational accountability to high schools and require an exit exam for graduation.

"We will place a new focus on math and science," the president told the Republican National Convention on Sept. 2. "As we make progress, we will require a rigorous exam before graduation," he added.

The announcement was nearly concurrent with a report by the Center on Education Policy that found exit exams fail to measure whether students are ready for entry into college or the workplace. (See "Exit exams fail to show college or work readiness," on p. 6).

Source: Education Week, September 8, 2004.

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State's ACT, SAT results rise again - slightly

Illinois high school students' composite ACT scores rose last year by one-tenth of a point for the second year in a row. Illinois students posted a composite score of 20.3, based on the scale of 1 to 36, with 36 being the highest possible score.

While Illinois' results remained below the national average of 20.9, the state's scores cannot be compared directly to the national results because Illinois is one of only two states requiring all students to take the ACT. Until the test was required of all Illinois students, Illinois outperformed the national averages.

Studies have shown that as more students take such college placement tests, more sub-par students get tested, lowering overall scores.

This was the third consecutive year in which Illinois ACT results included the scores of virtually all graduates in the state. Public high school graduates took the ACT as part of the state-mandated Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE) for 11th graders. More than 132,000 graduates in the class of 2004 - 99 percent of the graduating class - took the exam, mostly in the 11th grade.

Meanwhile, results continue to show that Illinois students who take a college-prep curriculum outscore their counterparts statewide and nationwide. Known as a "core" curriculum, Illinois students who took three or more years of math, science and English did better than the national average. The ACT-recommended college core courses include: four or more years of English, three or more years of math, three years or more of natural sciences and three or more years of social sciences.

Illinois has among the lowest math graduation requirements in the country, although many local districts have set their own requirements higher than the state's.

Illinois college-prep students this year earned a composite score of 22.4, compared to the national core curriculum average of 21.9. About 41 percent of the 132,525 Illinois students who took the test indicated they studied a core curriculum.

Illinois SAT scores also rise

Average SAT scores of high school students in Illinois also rose this year, exceeding national increases on both the math and verbal parts of the test. The state's average verbal score jumped two points, rising from 583 to 585, and the math score rose 1 point, rising from 596 to 597. Illinois students scored 77 points higher than the national average verbal score, and 79 points higher than the national average math score, in part because of low participation rates in the state.

Nationally, average SAT scores on the verbal section rose one point to 508, and math scores fell one point to 518.

For more information about the ACT results, visit www.act.org; for more about the SAT, visit www.collegeboard.com.

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Charter schools come up short in separate studies

Exploding into what Education Week editors labeled "charter wars," a national controversy arose last month over a report indicating that charter school achievement results fall short of those in regular public schools. The report was quickly denounced by critics, including 31 academics who took out a full-page ad in the The New York Times, but a second study confirmed its key findings days later.

The first study, conducted by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was based on federal data and reported in an Aug. 18 lead story in The New York Times. It examined months-old, unheralded data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal testing program.

The AFT study found that 4th graders who attend charter schools perform about one-half year behind students in other public schools in both reading and mathematics. The report implied the U.S. Department of Education had attempted to bury the results.

The AFT report's critics said charters begin at lower levels because they attract students who were not a good fit in their previous schools.

Yet a more highly developed study, released shortly after the AFT study, found that, regardless of their starting point, students made less academic progress in charter schools than in regular public schools. It found that the negative effects of attending a charter school are large.

This more sophisticated study had been in the process of peer review for publication in an economics journal. But in response to the national debate the authors, Helen F. Ladd of Duke University, and Robert F. Bifulco of the University of Connecticut in West Hartford, released it early.

The complete manuscript of the North Carolina study is available at http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/people/faculty/ladd/.

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Gov. signs state board reform legislation (S.B. 3000);
appoints seven new members to nine-member state board

Gov. Rod Blagojevich took control of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) on Sept. 14, appointing seven of its nine members, including a new chairman. The action came at a Springfield news conference where the governor signed S.B. 3000 (del Valle, D-Chicago), containing comprehensive reforms for the State Board of Education.

"Under the current system, new governors have not been able to appoint the members of the state board of education, meaning there's no relationship, no accountability, no opportunity to move a new administration's education agenda forward. Now there is," said Gov. Blagojevich.

The new chairman of the State Board is Jesse Ruiz (D-Chicago), a partner in the Chicago law firm Gardner, Carton & Douglas, where he specializes in corporate law. Ruiz has served as chief legal counsel to the state legislators who make up the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus.

S.B. 3000 gives the governor and legislature more control over the board's financial management by subjecting the state board to line-item budgeting.

Other provisions of the bill include:

• The creation of an optional prescription drug program that allows a school district to purchase prescription drug coverage through a program operated by the state (a school management provision was added to assure that costs shall not exceed the actual program cost to the state);
• An ISBE review of all agency rules in an effort to streamline procedures and reduce paperwork for districts;
• Requiring all agency rules and policies affecting the operations of schools to go through the General Assembly's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR). Rules may not go beyond state or federal law and the board is prohibited from adopting or enforcing policies that have the effect of rules;
• Requiring ISBE to develop a five-year strategic plan;
• Requiring Regional Offices of Education to assist schools in completing and submitting grant applications, to approve or deny any calendar changes for local schools, and to review all initial teaching certificate applications;
• The creation of a statewide purchasing program for schools, but this includes an Alliance amendment that makes participation by school districts optional;
• The establishment of service-oriented structural divisions within ISBE (Divisions of Teaching and Learning Services, School Support Services, Fiscal Support Services, Special Education Services, Offices of Internal Auditor and Human Resources);
• ISBE authority to provide shared services to school districts and regional offices of education through Regional Administrative Technology Centers (15 centers are already located throughout the state as technology hubs).

The other six newly appointed members of the state board are:

1. Andrea Brown (R-Goreville), who has more than 45 years of education experience and has served as a Regional Superintendent for the last 10 years.
2. David Fields (I-Danville), a retired career educator. He served as the superintendent of Danville public schools from 1991-2001.
3. Ed Geppert (D-Belleville), who worked with the IFT for nearly 30 years.
4. Vinni Hall (D-Chicago), a former professor at Chicago State University, and a consultant to Chicago Schools.
5. Brenda Holmes (I-Springfield), who has served as Gov. Blagojevich's deputy chief of staff for education. She is a former teacher, legislative staffer, ISBE legislative director, and Alliance lobbyist.
6. Chris Ward (D-Lockport), who recently retired as superintendent at Lockport THSD 205.

Together these seven new members join two remaining members Dean Clark (R-Glen Ellyn) and Joyce Karon (D-Barrington) on the board. Clark, a member of ISBE since January of 2003, is the president of Graphic Chemical and Ink Company. Karon has also served on the state board since January of 2003.

Five members of the new board now are Democrats, the maximum number of any one political party allowed by state law.

The new appointments require confirmation by the Illinois Senate, but the appointees are permitted by statute to begin work immediately. The new law also reduces the length of ISBE members' terms from six years to four years and allows governors to remove board members for incompetence, neglect or malfeasance.

State Superintendent of Education Robert Schiller was placed on leave of absence on September 20, and the new board chose Randy Dunn as interim state superintendent. Dunn is a faculty member at SIU, Carbondale, and a former district superintendent.

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NEWS HEADLINES

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Wauconda Dist. 118 officials met with local municipal leaders in mid-August to discuss a proposed "lag fee" on developers to ease the pain of district growth. School leaders asked local officials to consider negotiating such a fee - which would cover some of the cost of school property taxes that otherwise go unpaid until new homes are occupied (Chicago Daily Herald, Aug. 18) ... Madison County voters will be asked in November whether the legislature should enact a change in state PTELL statutes (the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law) "so that they apply equally to all property taxes levied in a county and thereby benefit all taxpayers equally" (Edwardsville Intelligencer, Aug.19) ... The full amount of funding from the state for at least 15 school districts for promised financial incentives for recent mergers remains in question. The state reportedly will pay about 40 percent of the original amount expected, but legislation to pay more will be advanced in the fall veto session (The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Aug. 30) ... Illinois will need to add nearly 40,000 regular teachers and more than 9,000 special education teachers through 2007, according to the "2003 Annual Report of Educator Supply and Demand." The full report is available at: http://www.isbe.net/research/pdfs/supply_demand_03.pdf (Press Release, ISBE, August 20).

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TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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New edition of IASB school finance book published

IASB has published an updated second edition of its top-selling book Essentials of Illinois School Finance.

From the role of the school board (addressed in the foreword by IASB Executive Director Michael Johnson) to the peculiarities of state funding to the formulas for projecting enrollments and staffing budgets, this book covers just about everything - and does it in plain English.

The author, James B. Fritts, is a retired school business official who now teaches school finance to administrators and aspiring administrators at Loyola University of Chicago.

Essentials of Illinois School Finance, is available from IASB Publications, 2921 Baker Drive, Springfield, IL 62703. Telephone 217/528-9688, extension 1108; fax 217/528-2831. Price is $23 ($18 for IASB members) plus $5 per order for shipping. The book also may be purchased through the Association's online bookstore, www.iasb.com.

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Board members can win recognition for their district

There's still time to spotlight your school district and win up to $5,000. The deadline for entering the 2005 Magna Awards is Oct. 1.

Presented by American School Board Journal, the annual Magna Awards recognize districts taking creative steps to boost student learning through school board programs.

Nomination forms are available online at www.asbj.com/magna/nomination.html.

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Nominating committee slates IASB officers for 2005

The IASB Delegate Assembly will elect officers at its annual meeting, to be held on Saturday, November 20, from 9 to 11 a.m., at the Joint Annual Conference. The slate of officers to be placed before the delegates by the IASB Nominating Committee: Ray Zimmerman, Flanagan C.U. District 4, for President; and Marie Slater, Wheaton-Warrenville District 200, for Vice President.

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More IASB division meetings listed

IASB board members are encouraged to attend one or more of the remaining fall division meetings. In addition to presentations on the topics listed below, IASB Leadership and Development (L&D) awards will be handed out. Please choose the meeting or meetings you would most like to attend from this list:

Illini Division
Sept. 28, 6 p.m.
Fisher Grade School - Fisher C.U. Dist. 1
Program: Legislative forum, presented by State Senators and Representatives, along with candidates. IASB's Deanna Sullivan will facilitate.

DuPage Division
Sept. 29, 6 p.m.
Fermilab, Wilson Hall/Ramsey Auditorium, Batavia
Program: "What do scientists wish school boards knew," presented by Christopher Quigg, Senior Scientist and Leon Lederman, Resident Scholar, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and 1988 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics.

Kishwaukee Division
Sept. 29, 6 p.m.
Genoa-Kingston C.U. Dist. 424
Program: "Improving School Funding & Quality," presented by Ralph Martire, Executive Director, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability.

Three Rivers Division
Sept. 29, 6 p.m.
St. George Social Center, Joliet
Program: "Illinois Senate and House Candidates' Forum," presented by legislative candidates in the Division. Participants will address educational issues.

Lake County Division
Sept. 30, 6:30 p.m.
Technology Campus, Grayslake
Program: 1) Technology Campus, presented by Linda Jedlicka, Executive Director, Technology Campus; 2) Working with Your IASB Lobbyists, by an IASB lobbyist; and 3) IASB: Association Governance, presented by Thomas M.P. Hannigan, IASB Lake Co. Director, and IASB Treasurer.

South Cook Division
Sept. 30, 6 p.m.
Radisson Hotel, Alsip
Program: Presentation by Senate President Emil Jones, Jr. A strong supporter of education, he will share his thoughts on educational issues, including funding.

West Cook Division
Oct. 4, 6 p.m.
J. Sterling Morton H.S. Dist. 201, Cicero
Program: Presentation by Ralph Martire, Executive Director, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability.

Corn Belt Division
Oct. 5, 6 p.m.
Cissna Park C.U. Dist. 6
Program: "National Educational Issues," presented by Donald Kussmaul, President, AASA; and "Legislative/School Funding Update," presented by Deanna Sullivan, Governmental Relations Director, IASB. Panels will focus on: "Current Legal Issues," "Superintendent Evaluation," and a "Legislative Q & A."

Egyptian Division
Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m.
Field CCSD 3
Program: Legislative Forum, presented by State Senators and Representatives with candidates. Forum will be facilitated by Ben Schwarm, Associate Executive Director for Governmental Relations, IASB.

Shawnee Division
Oct. 7, 5:30 p.m. Open House; 6:30 p.m. Dinner
Herrin High School-Herrin C.U. Dist. 4
Program: "Legislative Forum, presented by Senators and Representatives and candidates. IASB's Deanna Sullivan will facilitate.

Blackhawk Division
Oct. 19, 5 p.m. Open House; 6 p.m. Dinner
Rockridge High School, Edgington
Program: Legislative Forum, presented by educational policy leaders in the legislature, including Senators and Representatives and candidates. IASB's Ben Schwarm will facilitate.

Kaskaskia Division
Oct. 20, 6 p.m.
Secondary schools, Litchfield CUSD 12
Program: "Legislative Candidates Roundtable Discussion," presented by State Representatives and Senators and legislative candidates; IASB's Ben Schwarm will facilitate.

Central Illinois Valley
Oct. 20, 6 p.m.
Peoria Dist. 150
Program: 1) Legislative Q & A, presented by IASB's Deanna Sullivan; 2) Current Issues Roundtable, presented by Rich Berg, EIU Assistant Professor; 3) School Consolidation Issues, by WIU Professor Robert Hall; and 4) Current Issues Roundtable, presented by Scott Russell, Superintendent, Morton CUSD 709.

Two Rivers Division
Oct. 26, 6 p.m.
Quincy Dist. 172
Program: "Legislative Candidates Roundtable ," presented by State Senators; facilitated by IASB's Ben Schwarm.

Western Division
Oct. 26, 6 p.m.
C.U. Dist. 3 Fulton County, Cuba
Program: "Property Tax/School Funding Reform," presented by Ralph Martire, Executive Director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability.

North Cook Division
Oct. 28, 6 p.m.
Rosewood restaurant, Rosemont
Program: "Perspectives on School Funding," presented by Sen. Miguel delValle, Senate Education Committee Chairman.

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RESEARCH REPORTS

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Exit exams fail to show college or work readiness

High school exit exams required in other states, but not in Illinois, generally fail to measure whether students are ready for college or jobs, according to a new study from the Center on Education Policy.

Currently 18 states require students to pass an exit exam in order to graduate; but such legislation is not pending in Illinois. The state newly requires, however, that all students take the PSAE (including the ACT), under legislation signed this August (P.A. 93-857). But students can still graduate, and need not remediate, should they fail the exam.

Unofficially, insiders say the state's K-16 network has been engaging in preliminary exploration of the use of high school exit exams for college admission for several years. The state's Joint Education Committee P-16 Partnership was formed in March 1999 as a collaboration between the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), the Community College Board, and the State Board of Education. Charged with developing and implementing K-16 educational policies, one of the most substantive actions of the group was the establishment of the three-part Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE).

In fact, the original bill that created the PSAE - the so-called Quality First bill in 1995 - would have made the PSAE an exit exam. But IASB was among those successfully opposing such a move.

IASB lobbyist Ben Schwarm explains: "We opposed that concept because it put too much emphasis on one 'high stakes' test despite four years of courses, evaluations, grades, and receiving credits for graduation. The exit exam provision then was changed ... in fact, our law specifically states that a school cannot use the PSAE as a graduation requirement."

While the PSAE exam may not be used as a high-stakes graduation exit exam, state policy leaders have noted its potential role in college admissions.

Some nearby states have high school exit exams, namely Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio. But of the 25 states that now have or are planning to add exit exams, only one state says its test ensures that students are ready for higher education or work. States generally gear their tests, instead, toward examining 10th or 11th grade learning, and some examine pre-9th grade skills, according to the research group's study.

Source: The Associated Press, Aug. 18, 2004.

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Public satisfaction with K-12 schools increasing

The Gallup polling organization's annual education poll has found that public satisfaction with K-12 education is increasing. Satisfaction has reached the highest point Gallup has measured since the question was first asked in 1999.

What's more, the public is firmly settled on lack of financial support as the biggest problem facing schools.

Parents of school-aged children continue to show high levels of satisfaction. In fact, 61 percent of parents give the schools in their own community an A or a B; and 70 percent of parents give the school attended by their oldest child an A or a B; but only 22 percent of parents give public schools in the nation as a whole an A or B.

"The Gallup poll shows that most taxpayers know and trust their own local schools and believe that they are accountable with the funds they receive," said Orion C.U. Dist. 223 superintendent Don Achelpohl. "But they do not know what the problems are in schools elsewhere or what is being done to solve them, so they are less trusting of those distant schools," Achepohl added.

For more information or a complete copy of the poll results, contact Phi Delta Kappa International, P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-0789; or phone 800/766-1156. A copy also is available at http://www.pdkintl.org/.

Source: "36th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools," Aug. 2004.

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LEGISLATIVE ACTION

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Defibrillator legislation and other bills now law

Gov. Rod Blagojevich recently signed another batch of bills into law, including one that requires schools to have an automated external defibrillator (AED) in all indoor physical fitness facilities.

The bill requires school districts to have a policy on medical emergencies, to have an AED in each indoor physical fitness facility, and to have a trained AED user in each physical fitness facility during school-sponsored physical fitness activities.

A school district owning or operating four or fewer indoor physical fitness facilities must have at least one such facility in compliance with this Act on or before July 1, 2006

The bill establishes civil monetary penalties for violations of the Act ($1,500 to $2,000). It provides that a right of action does not exist in connection with the use or non-use of an AED at a facility provided specified conditions are met, except for willful or wanton misconduct.

There is no state funding included in the legislation to assist schools in purchasing an AED. This was the Alliance's main reason for opposing the legislation. In some communities, school districts have worked with local fire departments, emergency response squads, or police departments to find assistance with AED purchases and training.

Earlier this year, the Illinois Rural Health Association had accepted grant proposals for the purchase of an AED. Although the application deadline has passed, it still may be prudent to contact this organization to see if any assistance is available. Contact can be made to 1-800/ 500-1560 or info@ilruralhealth.org.

There is also an organization called LifeSignsAmerica that claims to provide AEDs, related supplies, and training for free if the school places an "Eyecatcher" sign in one of its buildings. For more details, phone 410/647-0660, or e-mail at tledww@acninc.net, or visit on the Web at www.LifeSignsAmerica.com.

State streamlines teaching qualifications

Other newly signed legislation includes a bill to streamline Illinois teaching-certification requirements, including provisions to relieve some of the burden on school boards and administrators.

The bill (SB 1553), signed into law on July 1, allows teachers moving to Illinois to skip a basic-skills test and removes a subject-area test requirement.

To ease the certification process for school boards and administrators, the bill contains a provision requiring the use of a Local Professional Development Committee (LPDC) was eliminated (a district and bargaining unit may agree to have such a committee); and the expiration date of a substitute teacher provision that allows substitute teachers to teach for up to 120 days a year was removed.

For administrators, the bill lifts the requirements to develop an administrative certificate renewal plan and submit it to a review panel.

The new law also automatically extends to a total of three years the validity period of Initial Teaching Certificates. A previous law on that topic expired on June 30; it had allowed for two years of validity.

Thus, a new teacher may now earn a "standard certificate" with only 12 semester hours of graduate study, rather than a master's degree.

Also, instead of participating in a two-year mentoring program to receive a standard certificate, a teacher can get one with a single year of mentoring.

Lawmakers made the changes after the Illinois State Board of Education determined last year that 76 percent of Illinois teachers were highly qualified.

Source: The Associated Press, Aug. 2, 2004.

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