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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
| 5 | 22-82 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (105 ILCS 5/22-82 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 22-82. Assessment reporting. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) Before the 30th day of each school year, beginning with | ||||||
| 9 | the 2016-2017 school year, every school district shall report, | ||||||
| 10 | for each of its schools, all of the following to the State | ||||||
| 11 | Board of Education, using a form developed by the State Board | ||||||
| 12 | of Education: | ||||||
| 13 | (1) Every reliable assessment that measures a certain | ||||||
| 14 | group or subset of students in the same manner with the | ||||||
| 15 | same potential assessment items; is scored by a | ||||||
| 16 | non-district entity; is administered either statewide or | ||||||
| 17 | beyond Illinois, such as assessments available from the | ||||||
| 18 | Northwest Evaluation Association, Scantron Performance | ||||||
| 19 | Series assessments, Renaissance Learning's STAR Reading | ||||||
| 20 | Enterprise assessments, the College Board's SAT, Advanced | ||||||
| 21 | Placement or International Baccalaureate examinations, or | ||||||
| 22 | ACT's Educational Planning and Assessment System tests; | ||||||
| 23 | and will be administered by each school that school year. | ||||||
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| 1 | (2) The administration window for each of these | ||||||
| 2 | assessments. | ||||||
| 3 | (3) Which entity is requiring the assessment (State, | ||||||
| 4 | school district, network, or principal). | ||||||
| 5 | (4) Which grade levels will be taking the assessment. | ||||||
| 6 | (5) Which subsets of students, such as English Learners | ||||||
| 7 | and special education students, will be taking the | ||||||
| 8 | assessment. | ||||||
| 9 | (6) An estimate of the average time it will take a | ||||||
| 10 | student to complete the assessment. | ||||||
| 11 | (7) If the results of the assessment are to be used for | ||||||
| 12 | purposes other than for guiding instruction, what the | ||||||
| 13 | results of the assessment will be used for, such as for | ||||||
| 14 | promotion, course placement, graduation, teacher | ||||||
| 15 | evaluation, or school performance ratings. | ||||||
| 16 | (b) The State Board of Education shall compile the | ||||||
| 17 | information reported under subsection (a) of this Section for | ||||||
| 18 | each school year and make that information available to the | ||||||
| 19 | public. Each school shall also make that information publicly | ||||||
| 20 | available to the parents and guardians of its students through | ||||||
| 21 | the school district's Internet website or distribution in paper | ||||||
| 22 | form. | ||||||
| 23 | (c) The State Board of Education may adopt any rules | ||||||
| 24 | necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this Section.
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| 25 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||||||
| 26 | 1, 2016.
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