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| Public Act 099-0611 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections | ||||
10-20.58 and 34-18.50 as follows: | ||||
(105 ILCS 5/10-20.58 new) | ||||
Sec. 10-20.58. Accelerate College pilot program. School | ||||
districts may enter into Accelerate College educational | ||||
partnership agreements as authorized under Section 3-42.4 of | ||||
the Public Community College Act. | ||||
(105 ILCS 5/34-18.50 new) | ||||
Sec. 34-18.50. Accelerate College pilot program. The | ||||
district may enter into an Accelerate College educational | ||||
partnership agreement as authorized under Section 3-42.4 of the | ||||
Public Community College Act. | ||||
Section 10. The Public Community College Act is amended by | ||||
adding Section 3-42.4 as follows: | ||||
(110 ILCS 805/3-42.4 new) | ||||
Sec. 3-42.4. Accelerate College pilot program. | ||||
(a) As used in this Section, "district board" means a | ||||
community college district board of trustees. | ||
(b) A district board may elect to enter into an Accelerate | ||
College educational partnership agreement with any school | ||
district wholly contained within the community college | ||
district's jurisdiction. If the district board and a school | ||
district enter into an Accelerate College educational | ||
partnership agreement, the district board must offer a group of | ||
high school students the right to take community college | ||
courses without paying tuition for those courses. | ||
(c) In the first full academic year after the effective | ||
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no | ||
school district may enroll more than 45 students in college | ||
courses under an Accelerate College educational partnership | ||
agreement, and the students enrolled shall be limited to one | ||
year of community college credits. | ||
In the second full academic year after the effective date | ||
of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no school | ||
district may enroll more than 90 students in college courses | ||
under an Accelerate College educational partnership agreement. | ||
No more than 45 of those students may be in the final year | ||
before school graduation and no more than 45 of those students | ||
may be in the second to last year before high school graduation | ||
in this academic year. | ||
In the third full academic year and more after the | ||
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General | ||
Assembly, no school district may enroll more than 90 students | ||
in college courses under an Accelerate College educational | ||
partnership agreement. | ||
(d) Subject to the terms of its Accelerate College | ||
educational partnership agreement, the community college may | ||
limit the courses offered to high school students and may | ||
charge non-tuition fees to the students. Allowable non-tuition | ||
fees include actual operating costs of the courses taken by | ||
high school students and any student activities in which the | ||
high school student may participate at the community college. | ||
(e) Any coursework completed by high school students in a | ||
community college under this Section shall be transferrable to | ||
all public universities in this State on the same basis as | ||
coursework completed by community college students who have | ||
previously earned high school diplomas. | ||
(f) The State Board must study agreements established under | ||
this Section and, by January 1 each year after the effective | ||
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, | ||
deliver a report based on the State Board's findings to both | ||
the General Assembly and the Governor. | ||
The annual report must include, but is not limited to, the | ||
ongoing success or lack thereof in growing the program from the | ||
point of view of Illinois educational institutions, ongoing | ||
success or lack thereof of the students who participate in the | ||
program, and the advantage or lack thereof of authorizing the | ||
expansion of the program from one year to 2 years of | ||
college-level coursework for select groups of students. | ||
(g) This Section is repealed 36 months after the effective | ||
date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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