Public Act 103-0204
 
HB3759 EnrolledLRB103 30252 RJT 56680 b


  
    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 changing Sections 
2-3.64a-5 and 10-20.5a as follows:
 
    (105 ILCS 5/2-3.64a-5)
    Sec. 2-3.64a-5. State goals and assessment.
    (a)  For the assessment and accountability purposes of this 
Section, "students" includes those students enrolled in a 
public or State-operated elementary school, secondary school, 
or cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or 
board of control, a charter school operating in compliance 
with the Charter Schools Law, a school operated by a regional 
office of education under Section 13A-3 of this Code, or a 
public school administered by a local public agency or the 
Department of Human Services.
    (b)  The State Board of Education shall establish the 
academic standards that are to be applicable to students who 
are subject to State assessments under this Section.  The State 
Board of Education shall not establish any such standards in 
final form without first providing opportunities for public 
participation and local input in the development of the final 
academic standards.  Those opportunities shall include a 
well-publicized period of public comment and opportunities to 
file written comments.
    (c)  Beginning no later than the 2014-2015 school year, the 
State Board of Education shall annually assess all students 
enrolled in grades 3 through 8 in English language arts and 
mathematics.
    Beginning no later than the 2017-2018 school year, the 
State Board of Education shall annually assess all students in 
science at one grade in grades 3 through 5, at one grade in 
grades 6 through 8, and at one grade in grades 9 through 12.
    The State Board of Education shall annually assess schools 
that operate a secondary education program, as defined in 
Section 22-22 of this Code, in English language arts and 
mathematics.  The State Board of Education shall administer no 
more than 3 assessments, per student, of English language arts 
and mathematics for students in a secondary education program.   
One of these assessments shall be recognized by this State's 
public institutions of higher education, as defined in the 
Board of Higher Education Act, for the purpose of student 
application or admissions consideration. The assessment 
administered by the State Board of Education for the purpose 
of student application to or admissions consideration by 
institutions of higher education must be administered on a 
school day during regular student attendance hours, and 
student profile information collected by the assessment shall 
be made available to the State's public institutions of higher 
education in a timely manner. 
    Students who do not take the State's final accountability 
assessment or its approved alternate assessment may not 
receive a regular high school diploma unless the student is 
exempted from taking the State assessments under subsection 
(d) of this Section because the student is enrolled in a 
program of adult and continuing education, as defined in the 
Adult Education Act, or the student is identified by the State 
Board of Education, through rules, as being exempt from the 
assessment.
    The State Board of Education shall not assess students 
under this Section in subjects not required by this Section.
    Districts shall inform their students of the timelines and 
procedures applicable to their participation in every yearly 
administration of the State assessments.
The State Board of 
Education shall establish periods of time in each school year 
during which State assessments shall occur to meet the 
objectives of this Section.
    The requirements of this subsection do not apply if the 
State Board of Education has received a waiver from the 
administration of assessments from the U.S. Department of 
Education. 
    (d)  Every individualized educational program as described 
in Article 14 shall identify if the State assessment or 
components thereof require accommodation for the student.  The 
State Board of Education shall develop rules governing the 
administration of an alternate assessment that may be 
available to students for whom participation in this State's 
regular assessments is not appropriate, even with 
accommodations as allowed under this Section.
    Students receiving special education services whose 
individualized educational programs identify them as eligible 
for the alternative State assessments nevertheless shall have 
the option of also taking this State's regular final 
accountability assessment, which shall be administered in 
accordance with the eligible accommodations appropriate for 
meeting these students' respective needs.
    All students determined to be English learners shall 
participate in the State assessments. The scores of those 
students who have been enrolled in schools in the United 
States for less than 12 months may not be used for the purposes 
of accountability.  Any student determined to be an English 
learner shall receive appropriate assessment accommodations, 
including language supports, which shall be established by 
rule.  Approved assessment accommodations must be provided 
until the student's English language skills develop to the 
extent that the student is no longer considered to be an 
English learner, as demonstrated through a State-identified 
English language proficiency assessment.
    (e)  The results or scores of each assessment taken under 
this Section shall be made available to the parents of each 
student.
    In each school year, the scores attained by a student on 
the final accountability assessment must be placed in the 
student's permanent record pursuant to rules that the State 
Board of Education shall adopt for that purpose in accordance 
with Section 3 of the Illinois School Student Records Act.  In 
each school year, the scores attained by a student on the State 
assessments administered in grades 3 through 8 must be placed 
in the student's temporary record.
    (f)  All schools shall administer the State's academic 
assessment of English language proficiency to all children 
determined to be English learners.
    (g)  All schools in this State that are part of the sample 
drawn by the National Center for Education Statistics, in 
collaboration with their school districts and the State Board 
of Education, shall administer the academic assessments under 
the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out 
under Section 411(b)(2) of the federal National Education 
Statistics Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 9010) if the U.S. Secretary 
of Education pays the costs of administering the assessments.
    (h) (Blank).
    (i)  For the purposes of this subsection (i), "academically 
based assessments" means assessments consisting of questions 
and answers that are measurable and quantifiable to measure 
the knowledge, skills, and ability of students in the subject 
matters covered by the assessments. All assessments 
administered pursuant to this Section must be academically 
based assessments. The scoring of academically based 
assessments shall be reliable, valid, and fair and shall meet 
the guidelines for assessment development and use prescribed 
by the American Psychological Association, the National 
Council on Measurement in Education, and the American 
Educational Research Association.
    The State Board of Education shall review the use of all 
assessment item types in order to ensure that they are valid 
and reliable indicators of student performance aligned to the 
learning standards being assessed and that the development, 
administration, and scoring of these item types are 
justifiable in terms of cost.
    (j)  The State Superintendent of Education shall appoint a 
committee of no more than 21 members, consisting of parents, 
teachers, school administrators, school board members, 
assessment experts, regional superintendents of schools, and 
citizens, to review the State assessments administered by the 
State Board of Education. The Committee shall select one of 
its members as its chairperson. The Committee shall meet on an 
ongoing basis to review the content and design of the 
assessments (including whether the requirements of subsection 
(i) of this Section have been met), the time and money expended 
at the local and State levels to prepare for and administer the 
assessments, the collective results of the assessments as 
measured against the stated purpose of assessing student 
performance, and other issues involving the assessments 
identified by the Committee. The Committee shall make periodic 
recommendations to the State Superintendent of Education and 
the General Assembly concerning the assessments. 
    (k)  The State Board of Education may adopt rules to 
implement this Section.

(Source: P.A. 100-7, eff. 7-1-17; 100-222, eff. 8-18-17; 
100-863, eff. 8-14-18; 100-1046, eff. 8-23-18; 101-643, eff. 
6-18-20.)
 



    (105 ILCS 5/10-20.5a)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.5a)



    Sec. 10-20.5a. Access to high school campus. 


    (a) For school districts maintaining grades 10 through 12,

to provide, on an equal
basis, and consistent with the federal 
Educational Rights and Privacy Act,
access to a high school 
campus and student directory
information
to the official 
recruiting representatives of
the armed forces of Illinois and 
the United States, and State public institutions of higher 
education for the purpose of informing
students of the 
educational and career opportunities available in the military

if the board has provided such access to persons or groups 
whose purpose
is to acquaint students with educational or 
occupational opportunities
available
to them.  The board is not 
required to give greater notice regarding the
right of access 
to recruiting representatives than is given to other persons

and groups.
 In this Section, "directory information" means a 
high school student's
name, address, and telephone number.


    (b) If a student or his or her parent or guardian submits a 
signed,
written request to the high school before the end of 
the student's sophomore
year (or if the student is a transfer 
student, by another time set
by the
high school) that 
indicates that the student or his or her parent or
guardian 
does
not want the student's directory information to be 
provided to official
recruiting representatives under 
subsection (a) of this Section, the high
school may not 
provide access to the student's directory information to
these 
recruiting representatives.  The high school shall notify its

students and their parents or guardians of the provisions of 
this
subsection (b).


    (c) A high school may require official recruiting 
representatives of
the armed forces of Illinois and the United 
States to pay a fee for copying
and mailing a student's 
directory information in an amount that is not
more than the 
actual costs incurred by the high school.


    (d) Information received by an official recruiting 
representative
under this Section may be used only to provide 
information to students
concerning educational and career 
opportunities available in the military
and may not be 
released to a person who is not involved in recruiting

students for the armed forces of Illinois or the United 
States, or State institutions of higher education.
    (e) By January 1, 2024, student directory information 
shall be made electronically accessible through a secure 
centralized data system for official recruiting 
representatives of the armed forces of Illinois and the United 
States, and State public institutions of higher education. 

(Source: P.A. 92-527, eff. 6-1-02.)