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 1        AN ACT relating to certification of school personnel.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Sections  2-3.11,  10-21.9,  10-22.20a,  10-22.24a, 10-22.34,
 6    14-1.09.1, 14-8.05, 14C-2, 21-1, 21-1a, 21-1b,  21-1c,  21-2,
 7    21-2.1,  21-2b, 21-3, 21-4, 21-5, 21-5a, 21-5b, 21-5c, 21-5d,
 8    21-7.1,  21-9,  21-10,  21-11,  21-11.1,  21-11.2,   21-11.3,
 9    21-11.4,  21-12,  21-14, 21-16, 21-17, 21-19, 21-21, 21-21.1,
10    21-23, 21-23b, 21-24, 21-25, 34-18.5, and  34-83  and  adding
11    Section 21-0.05 as follows:

12        (105 ILCS 5/2-3.11) (from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11)
13        Sec.  2-3.11.   Report  to Governor and General Assembly.
14    To report to the Governor and General Assembly annually on or
15    before January 14 the condition of the schools of  the  State
16    for the preceding year, ending on June 30.
17        Such  annual  report  shall  contain reports of the State
18    Teacher  Certification  Board;  the  schools  of  the   State
19    charitable institutions; reports on driver education, special
20    education,  and  transportation; and for such year the annual
21    statistical  reports  of  the  State  Board   of   Education,
22    including the number and kinds of school districts; number of
23    school  attendance centers; number of men and women teachers;
24    enrollment  by   grades;   total   enrollment;   total   days
25    attendance;  total  days  absence;  average daily attendance;
26    number of elementary and secondary school graduates; assessed
27    valuation; tax levies and tax  rates  for  various  purposes;
28    amount  of teachers' orders, anticipation warrants, and bonds
29    outstanding; and number of men and women teachers  and  total
30    enrollment  of private schools. The report shall give for all
31    school districts receipts from all sources  and  expenditures
 
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 1    for  all  purposes for each fund; the total operating expense
 2    and  the  per  capita  cost;   federal  and  state  aids  and
 3    reimbursements; new school buildings, and recognized schools;
 4    together with such other information and suggestions  as  the
 5    State  Board  of  Education may deem important in relation to
 6    the schools and  school  laws  and  the  means  of  promoting
 7    education throughout the state.
 8    (Source: P.A. 84-1308; 84-1424.)

 9        (105 ILCS 5/10-21.9) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9)
10        Sec. 10-21.9.  Criminal background investigations.
11        (a)  After  August  1,  1985,  certified and noncertified
12    applicants for employment  with  a  school  district,  except
13    school  bus driver applicants, are required as a condition of
14    employment to authorize an investigation to determine if such
15    applicants have been  convicted  of  any  of  the  enumerated
16    criminal  or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section.
17    Authorization for the investigation shall be furnished by the
18    applicant  to  the  school  district,  except  that  if   the
19    applicant  is a substitute teacher seeking employment in more
20    than  one  school  district,  a  teacher  seeking  concurrent
21    part-time employment positions  with  more  than  one  school
22    district  (as a reading specialist, special education teacher
23    or otherwise), or an educational support  personnel  employee
24    seeking employment positions with more than one district, any
25    such   district   may   require   the  applicant  to  furnish
26    authorization  for  the   investigation   to   the   regional
27    superintendent of the educational service region in which are
28    located  the  school  districts  in  which  the  applicant is
29    seeking employment as a substitute  or  concurrent  part-time
30    teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee.
31    Upon  receipt  of  this authorization, the school district or
32    the appropriate regional superintendent, as the case may  be,
33    shall  submit  the applicant's name, sex, race, date of birth
 
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 1    and social security number to the Department of State  Police
 2    on   forms   prescribed   by  the  Department.  The  regional
 3    superintendent submitting the requisite  information  to  the
 4    Department  of  State Police shall promptly notify the school
 5    districts in which the applicant is seeking employment  as  a
 6    substitute  or  concurrent  part-time  teacher  or concurrent
 7    educational support personnel employee that the investigation
 8    of the applicant has been requested. The Department of  State
 9    Police  shall  conduct  an  investigation to ascertain if the
10    applicant being considered for employment has been  convicted
11    of  any  of  the  enumerated  criminal  or  drug  offenses in
12    subsection (c).   The  Department  shall  charge  the  school
13    district or the appropriate regional superintendent a fee for
14    conducting  such  investigation, which fee shall be deposited
15    in the State Police Services Fund and shall  not  exceed  the
16    cost of the inquiry; and the applicant shall not be charged a
17    fee  for  such investigation by the school district or by the
18    regional superintendent.   The  regional  superintendent  may
19    seek  reimbursement  from the State Board of Education or the
20    appropriate school district or districts for fees paid by the
21    regional superintendent to the Department  for  the  criminal
22    background investigations required by this Section.
23        (b)  The  Department  shall furnish, pursuant to positive
24    identification, records of convictions,  until  expunged,  to
25    the  president  of  the  school board for the school district
26    which  requested  the  investigation,  or  to  the   regional
27    superintendent   who   requested   the   investigation.   Any
28    information concerning the record of convictions obtained  by
29    the   president   of   the   school  board  or  the  regional
30    superintendent  shall  be  confidential  and  may   only   be
31    transmitted  to  the superintendent of the school district or
32    his designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if  the
33    investigation  was  requested  by  the  school  district, the
34    presidents  of  the  appropriate   school   boards   if   the
 
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 1    investigation  was  requested  from  the  Department of State
 2    Police   by   the   regional   superintendent,   the    State
 3    Superintendent   of   Education,   the  Professional  Teacher
 4    Standards Board State  Teacher  Certification  Board  or  any
 5    other   person  necessary  to  the  decision  of  hiring  the
 6    applicant  for  employment.   A  copy  of   the   record   of
 7    convictions  obtained  from  the  Department  of State Police
 8    shall be provided to the  applicant  for  employment.  If  an
 9    investigation  of an applicant for employment as a substitute
10    or concurrent part-time  teacher  or  concurrent  educational
11    support  personnel  employee in more than one school district
12    was  requested  by  the  regional  superintendent,  and   the
13    Department of State Police upon investigation ascertains that
14    the applicant has not been convicted of any of the enumerated
15    criminal  or  drug offenses in subsection (c) and so notifies
16    the regional superintendent, then the regional superintendent
17    shall issue to the applicant a certificate evidencing that as
18    of the date specified by the Department of State  Police  the
19    applicant  has  not  been  convicted of any of the enumerated
20    criminal or drug offenses  in  subsection  (c).   The  school
21    board  of  any  school  district  located  in the educational
22    service region served  by  the  regional  superintendent  who
23    issues such a certificate to an applicant for employment as a
24    substitute teacher in more than one such district may rely on
25    the certificate issued by the regional superintendent to that
26    applicant,  or  may  initiate  its  own  investigation of the
27    applicant through the Department of State Police as  provided
28    in  subsection  (a). Any person who releases any confidential
29    information  concerning  any  criminal  convictions   of   an
30    applicant  for  employment  shall  be  guilty  of  a  Class A
31    misdemeanor,  unless  the  release  of  such  information  is
32    authorized by this Section.
33        (c)  No school board shall knowingly employ a person  who
34    has  been  convicted  for  committing  attempted first degree
 
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 1    murder or for committing or attempting to commit first degree
 2    murder or a Class  X  felony  or  any  one  or  more  of  the
 3    following offenses: (i) those defined in Sections 11-6, 11-9,
 4    11-14,  11-15,  11-15.1, 11-16, 11-17, 11-18, 11-19, 11-19.1,
 5    11-19.2, 11-20, 11-20.1, 11-21, 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1,  12-15
 6    and  12-16 of the "Criminal Code of 1961"; (ii) those defined
 7    in  the  "Cannabis  Control  Act"  except  those  defined  in
 8    Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 5(a) of that Act; (iii) those defined
 9    in the "Illinois Controlled Substances  Act";  and  (iv)  any
10    offense  committed or attempted in any other state or against
11    the  laws  of  the  United  States,  which  if  committed  or
12    attempted in this State, would have been punishable as one or
13    more of the foregoing  offenses.  Further,  no  school  board
14    shall  knowingly employ a person who has been found to be the
15    perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under 18
16    years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of  the
17    Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
18        (d)  No  school board shall knowingly employ a person for
19    whom  a  criminal  background  investigation  has  not   been
20    initiated.
21        (e)  Upon  receipt  of the record of a conviction of or a
22    finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate  issued
23    pursuant  to  Article  21  or  Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
24    School  Code,  the  appropriate  regional  superintendent  of
25    schools  or  the  State  Superintendent  of  Education  shall
26    initiate   the   certificate   suspension   and    revocation
27    proceedings authorized by law.
28        (f)  After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section
29    shall  apply  to  all  employees  of persons or firms holding
30    contracts with any school district including, but not limited
31    to, food  service  workers,  school  bus  drivers  and  other
32    transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
33    the  pupils  of  any school in such district. For purposes of
34    criminal background investigations on employees of persons or
 
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 1    firms holding contracts with more than  one  school  district
 2    and  assigned  to more than one school district, the regional
 3    superintendent of the educational service region in which the
 4    contracting school districts are located may, at the  request
 5    of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the
 6    authorization   for   investigation  prepared  by  each  such
 7    employee and submitting the same to the Department  of  State
 8    Police.   Any information concerning the record of conviction
 9    of any such employee obtained by the regional  superintendent
10    shall   be   promptly   reported  to  the  president  of  the
11    appropriate school board or school boards.
12    (Source: P.A. 89-428, eff. 12-13-95;  89-462,  eff.  5-29-96;
13    89-610, eff. 8-6-96; 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)

14        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.20a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20a)
15        Sec.  10-22.20a.   Advanced  vocational training program,
16    and career education. To enter  into  joint  agreements  with
17    community  college  districts  and other school districts for
18    the  purpose  of  providing  career  education  or   advanced
19    vocational training of students in the 11th and higher grades
20    who  desire  preparation  for  a  trade.   Transportation for
21    students to any facility covered  by  a  joint  agreement  as
22    described   in   this   Section  shall  be  provided  by  the
23    participating school district, or by the participating school
24    district in conjunction with other school districts.    Joint
25    agreements  entered  into  under  this  Section  may  include
26    provisions  for joint authority to acquire and improve sites,
27    construct and equip facilities thereon and  lease  and  equip
28    facilities  deemed  necessary  by  the  parties  to the joint
29    agreement, to maintain programs and to provide for  financing
30    of  the  foregoing  jointly by the respective parties, all in
31    accordance with the terms of the joint agreement.
32        Nothing herein contained shall be construed  to  restrict
33    or  prohibit  the  rights  of  community college districts or
 
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 1    school districts to enter into  joint  agreements  under  the
 2    provisions  of  the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, as now
 3    or hereinafter amended.
 4        The  duration  of  the  career  education   or   advanced
 5    vocational  training  program  shall  be  such  period as the
 6    school district may approve but it may not exceed 2 years for
 7    any school district pupil.  Participation in the  program  is
 8    accorded the same credit toward a high school diploma as time
 9    spent in other courses.
10        The  participating  community  college  shall  bill  each
11    participating  student's  school district for an amount equal
12    to the per capita cost of  operating  the  community  college
13    attended  or  a  charge  for  participation  may  be  made in
14    accordance with the joint  agreement  between  the  community
15    college  district  and  the  student's school district.  Such
16    agreement shall not provide for payments  in  excess  of  the
17    actual  cost  of operating the course or courses in which the
18    student is enrolled.   Participating  high  schools  may  use
19    State aid monies to pay the charges.
20        The   community  college  instructors  teaching  in  such
21    programs need not be certified by  the  Professional  Teacher
22    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
23    (Source: P.A. 79-76.)

24        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.24a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.24a)
25        Sec. 10-22.24a.  To employ school counselors certified as
26    such  by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
27    Teacher   Certification   Board,   and  to  supervise  school
28    counselor interns enrolled in  a  school  counseling  program
29    approved  by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
30    Teacher Certification Board.
31    (Source: P.A. 82-998.)

32        (105 ILCS 5/10-22.34) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34)
 
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 1        Sec. 10-22.34. Non-certificated personnel.
 2        (a)  School Boards may employ non-teaching  personnel  or
 3    utilize volunteer personnel for:  (1) non-teaching duties not
 4    requiring instructional judgment or evaluation of pupils; and
 5    (2) supervising study halls, long distance teaching reception
 6    areas  used incident to instructional programs transmitted by
 7    electronic media such as computers,  video,  and  audio,  and
 8    detention   and   discipline   areas,   and  school-sponsored
 9    extracurricular activities.
10        (b)  School  boards   may   further   utilize   volunteer
11    non-certificated   personnel   or   employ   non-certificated
12    personnel  to  assist  in the instruction of pupils under the
13    immediate  supervision  of  a  teacher,   holding   a   valid
14    certificate,  directly  engaged in teaching subject matter or
15    conducting activities.  The  teacher  shall  be  continuously
16    aware  of  the non-certificated persons' activities and shall
17    be able to  control  or  modify  them.  The  State  Board  of
18    Education,  in  consultation  with  the  Professional Teacher
19    Standards Board  State  Teacher  Certification  Board,  shall
20    determine   qualifications   of   such  personnel  and  shall
21    prescribe rules for determining the duties and activities  to
22    be  assigned  to  such  personnel.  In  the  determination of
23    qualifications  of  such  personnel,  the  State   Board   of
24    Education  shall  accept  coursework  earned  in a recognized
25    institution  or  from  an  institution  of  higher   learning
26    accredited   by   the  North  Central  Association  or  other
27    comparable regional accrediting association.
28        (c)  School boards may also  employ  students  holding  a
29    bachelor's  degree  from  a  recognized institution of higher
30    learning as part time teaching interns when such students are
31    enrolled in a college or university internship program, which
32    has prior approval  by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
33    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
34    Teacher Certification Board, leading to a masters degree.
 
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 1        (d)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  require  constant
 2    supervision  of  a  student  teacher  enrolled  in  a student
 3    teaching course at a college  or  university,  provided  such
 4    activity  has the prior approval of the representative of the
 5    higher  education  institution  and   teaching   plans   have
 6    previously   been   discussed   with   and  approved  by  the
 7    supervising teacher and further provided that  such  teaching
 8    is  within guidelines established by the Professional Teacher
 9    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
10    the State Teacher Certification Board.
11    (Source: P.A. 88-89; 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)

12        (105 ILCS 5/14-1.09.1)
13        Sec. 14-1.09.1.  School psychological services.   In  the
14    public  schools,  school  psychological  services provided by
15    qualified  specialists  who  hold  Type  73  School   Service
16    Personnel  Certificates endorsed for school psychology issued
17    by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher
18    Certification  Board may include, but are not limited to: (i)
19    administration  and  interpretation  of   psychological   and
20    educational   evaluations;   (ii)   developing   school-based
21    prevention  programs, including violence prevention programs;
22    (iii) counseling with  students,  parents,  and  teachers  on
23    educational and mental health issues; (iv) acting as liaisons
24    between public schools and community agencies; (v) evaluating
25    program  effectiveness;  (vi)  providing  crisis intervention
26    within the school setting; (vii) helping  teachers,  parents,
27    and  others  involved  in  the educational process to provide
28    optimum teaching and learning conditions  for  all  students;
29    (viii)  supervising  school  psychologist interns enrolled in
30    school  psychology   programs   that   meet   the   standards
31    established  by  the  State  Board  of  Education;  and  (ix)
32    screening  of  school  enrollments  to  identify children who
33    should be referred for individual  study.   Nothing  in  this
 
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 1    Section   prohibits   other   qualified   professionals  from
 2    providing  those  services  listed   for   which   they   are
 3    appropriately trained.
 4    (Source: P.A. 89-339, eff. 8-17-95.)

 5        (105 ILCS 5/14-8.05) (from Ch. 122, par. 14-8.05)
 6        Sec. 14-8.05.  Behavioral intervention.
 7        (a)  The   General   Assembly  finds  and  declares  that
 8    principals and teachers of students with disabilities require
 9    training  and  guidance  that  provide   ways   for   working
10    successfully  with  children who have difficulties conforming
11    to acceptable behavioral patterns  in  order  to  provide  an
12    environment in which learning can occur.  It is the intent of
13    the General Assembly:
14             (1)  That  when  behavioral  interventions are used,
15        they be used in consideration  of  the  pupil's  physical
16        freedom  and social interaction, and be administered in a
17        manner that respects human dignity and  personal  privacy
18        and  that  ensures  a  pupil's  right to placement in the
19        least restrictive educational environment.
20             (2)  That behavioral management plans  be  developed
21        and  used, to the extent possible, in a consistent manner
22        when a local educational agency has placed the pupil in a
23        day or residential setting for education purposes.
24             (3)  That a statewide study be conducted of the  use
25        of    behavioral   interventions   with   students   with
26        disabilities  receiving  special  education  and  related
27        services.
28             (4)  That  training  programs   be   developed   and
29        implemented  in  institutions  of  higher  education that
30        train teachers, and that in-service training programs  be
31        made  available  as  necessary  in  school  districts, in
32        educational   service   centers,    and    by    regional
33        superintendents  of  schools  to  assure  that adequately
 
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 1        trained staff are available to work effectively with  the
 2        behavioral    intervention   needs   of   students   with
 3        disabilities.
 4        (b)  On  or  before  September  30,   1993,   the   State
 5    Superintendent  of  Education shall conduct a statewide study
 6    of the use of behavioral  interventions  with  students  with
 7    disabilities   receiving   special   education   and  related
 8    services.  The study shall include, but  not  necessarily  be
 9    limited  to  identification  of  the  frequency in the use of
10    behavioral  interventions;  the  number  of  districts   with
11    policies  in  place  for  working  with  children  exhibiting
12    continuous  serious behavioral problems; how policies, rules,
13    or regulations within districts differ between emergency  and
14    routine  behavioral  interventions  commonly  practiced;  the
15    nature and extent of costs for training provided to personnel
16    for   implementing   a   program  of  nonaversive  behavioral
17    interventions;  and  the  nature  and  extent  of  costs  for
18    training provided to parents of  students  with  disabilities
19    who  would  be receiving behavioral interventions.  The scope
20    of the study  shall  be  developed  by  the  State  Board  of
21    Education,   in  consultation  with  individuals  and  groups
22    representing   parents,   teachers,    administrators,    and
23    advocates.   On  or  before June 30, 1994, the State Board of
24    Education  shall  issue  guidelines  based  on  the   study's
25    findings.   The  guidelines shall address, but not be limited
26    to, the following:  (i) appropriate behavioral interventions,
27    and (ii) how to properly document the need  for  and  use  of
28    behavioral   interventions   in  the  process  of  developing
29    individualized   education   plans    for    students    with
30    disabilities.  The guidelines shall be used as a reference to
31    assist   school  boards  in  developing  local  policies  and
32    procedures in accordance with this Section.  The State  Board
33    of  Education,  with  the  advice of parents of students with
34    disabilities and  other  parents,  teachers,  administrators,
 
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 1    advocates for persons with disabilities, and individuals with
 2    knowledge  or expertise in the development and implementation
 3    of behavioral interventions for  persons  with  disabilities,
 4    shall  review its behavioral intervention guidelines at least
 5    once  every   3   years   to   determine   their   continuing
 6    appropriateness   and   effectiveness  and  shall  make  such
 7    modifications in the guidelines as it deems necessary.
 8        (c)  Each school board  must  establish  and  maintain  a
 9    committee  to  develop  policies and procedures on the use of
10    behavioral interventions for students with  disabilities  who
11    require behavioral intervention.  The policies and procedures
12    shall  be adopted and implemented by school boards by January
13    1, 1996 and shall:  (i)  be  developed  with  the  advice  of
14    parents  with  students  with disabilities and other parents,
15    teachers,  administrators,   advocates   for   persons   with
16    disabilities,  and individuals with knowledge or expertise in
17    the   development   and    implementation    of    behavioral
18    interventions  for  persons with disabilities; (ii) emphasize
19    positive interventions  that  are  designed  to  develop  and
20    strengthen  desirable behaviors; (iii) incorporate procedures
21    and methods consistent with generally  accepted  practice  in
22    the  field  of behavioral intervention; (iv) include criteria
23    for determining when a student with disabilities may  require
24    a   behavioral   intervention  plan;  (v)  reflect  that  the
25    guidelines of the State Board of Education have been reviewed
26    and considered and provide the address of the State Board  of
27    Education  so  that  copies  of  the State Board of Education
28    behavioral guidelines may  be  requested;  and  (vi)  include
29    procedures  for  monitoring the use of restrictive behavioral
30    interventions.  Each school board shall (i) furnish a copy of
31    its local policies and procedures to parents and guardians of
32    all students with individualized education  plans  within  15
33    days  after  the policies and procedures have been adopted by
34    the school board, or within 15 days after  the  school  board
 
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 1    has  amended  its  policies and procedures, or at the time an
 2    individualized education plan is first  implemented  for  the
 3    student,  and  (ii)  require  that  each  school  inform  its
 4    students  of  the  existence  of  the policies and procedures
 5    annually.  Provided, at the annual  individualized  education
 6    plan  review,  the  school  board shall (1) explain the local
 7    policies and procedures, (2) furnish  a  copy  of  the  local
 8    policies  to  parents  and guardians, and (3) make available,
 9    upon request of any parents and guardians, a  copy  of  local
10    procedures.
11        (d)  The  State Superintendent of Education shall consult
12    with representatives of institutions of higher education  and
13    the   Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher
14    Certification  Board  in  regard  to  the  current   training
15    requirements  for teachers to ensure that sufficient training
16    is  available   in   appropriate   behavioral   interventions
17    consistent   with   professionally   accepted  practices  and
18    standards for people entering the field of education.
19    (Source: P.A. 89-191, eff. 7-21-95; 90-63, eff. 7-3-97.)

20        (105 ILCS 5/14C-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 14C-2)
21        Sec. 14C-2. Definitions.  Unless  the  context  indicates
22    otherwise,  the terms used in this Article have the following
23    meanings:
24        (a)  "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
25        (b)  "Certification Board" means the Professional Teacher
26    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
27        (c)  "School  District"   means   any   school   district
28    established under this Code.
29        (d)  "Children of limited English-speaking ability" means
30    (1)  children  who  were  not born in the United States whose
31    native tongue is a language other than English  and  who  are
32    incapable  of  performing  ordinary classwork in English; and
33    (2) children who were born in the United  States  of  parents
 
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 1    possessing no or limited English-speaking ability and who are
 2    incapable of performing ordinary classwork in English.
 3        (e)  "Teacher  of transitional bilingual education" means
 4    a teacher with a speaking and reading ability in  a  language
 5    other  than English in which transitional bilingual education
 6    is offered and with communicative skills in English.
 7        (f)  "Program in transitional bilingual education"  means
 8    a  full-time  program of instruction (1) in all those courses
 9    or subjects which a child is required by law to  receive  and
10    which are required by the child's school district which shall
11    be  given  in  the native language of the children of limited
12    English-speaking ability who are enrolled in the program  and
13    also in English, (2) in the reading and writing of the native
14    language  of the children of limited English-speaking ability
15    who  are  enrolled  in  the   program   and   in   the   oral
16    comprehension,  speaking, reading and writing of English, and
17    (3) in the history and culture of the country,  territory  or
18    geographic  area  which  is the native land of the parents of
19    children of limited English-speaking ability who are enrolled
20    in the program and in the history and culture of  the  United
21    States;  or  a  part-time program of instruction based on the
22    educational   needs   of   those    children    of    limited
23    English-speaking  ability who do not need a full-time program
24    of instruction.
25    (Source: P.A. 86-1028.)

26        (105 ILCS 5/21-0.05 new)
27        Sec. 21-0.05.  Professional Teacher Standards Board.
28        (a)  The Professional Teacher Standards Board  is  hereby
29    created.    The  Professional  Teacher  Standards Board shall
30    consist of 23 members appointed  by  the  Governor.   Of  the
31    members  so  appointed,  3 shall be administrative or faculty
32    members of public or private colleges or universities located
33    in the State, one  shall  be  a  regional  superintendent  of
 
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 1    schools  who  has been nominated by a regional superintendent
 2    organization, 3 shall be school  administrators  employed  in
 3    the  public schools of the State who have each been nominated
 4    by an  administrator  organization,  12  shall  be  classroom
 5    teachers employed in the public schools of the State who have
 6    each been nominated by a professional teachers' organization,
 7    2  shall  be  parents of students attending public schools of
 8    the State who have each been nominated by a statewide  parent
 9    organization,  and 2 shall be representatives of the business
10    community  of  the  State.   At  least  one  of  the   school
11    administrators  and  4 of the classroom teachers so appointed
12    shall be employees of a school district that  is  subject  to
13    the  provisions  of  Article  34.   Whenever  a  vacancy in a
14    classroom  teacher  position  on  the  Professional   Teacher
15    Standards  Board is to be filled as provided in this Section,
16    each  professional  teachers'  organization  is  entitled  to
17    nominate for each such vacancy one candidate for each 20,000,
18    or major portion thereof, members of  that  organization  who
19    hold  valid  teaching  certificates.   The nominations of the
20    professional teachers' organization shall be submitted by the
21    organization to the Governor not less than 60 days  prior  to
22    the  expiration  of  the term of a person holding a classroom
23    teacher position on the Professional Teacher Standards  Board
24    or  not  more than 60 days after a vacancy in such a position
25    occurs for any other reason.  The  nominations  shall  be  in
26    writing and shall be signed by the president and secretary of
27    the  organization submitting the nominations.  Of the members
28    initially appointed to  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
29    Board: 2 of the 3 administrative or faculty members of public
30    or  private  colleges  or  universities shall be appointed to
31    serve terms expiring on the third Monday of January, 2002 and
32    the other administrative or faculty member shall be appointed
33    to serve a term expiring on  the  third  Monday  of  January,
34    2004;   the  regional  superintendent  of  schools  shall  be
 
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 1    appointed to serve a term expiring on  the  third  Monday  of
 2    January,  2002;  2  of  the  3 school administrators shall be
 3    appointed to serve terms expiring  on  the  third  Monday  of
 4    January,  2002  and  the  other school administrator shall be
 5    appointed to serve a term expiring on  the  third  Monday  of
 6    January,  2004;  6  of  the  12  classroom  teachers shall be
 7    appointed to serve terms expiring  on  the  third  Monday  of
 8    January,  2002  with the remaining 6 classroom teachers being
 9    appointed to serve terms expiring  on  the  third  Monday  of
10    January, 2004; one of the parents shall be appointed to serve
11    a  term expiring on the third Monday of January, 2002 and the
12    other parent shall be appointed to serve a term  expiring  on
13    the   third   Monday   of  January,  2004;  and  one  of  the
14    representatives of the business community shall be  appointed
15    to serve a term expiring on the third Monday of January, 2002
16    and  the other representative of the business community shall
17    be appointed to serve a term expiring on the third Monday  of
18    January,  2004.  The  successors  in  office  of  the members
19    initially appointed under this subsection  shall  each  serve
20    terms  of  4 years, commencing on the third Monday of January
21    of the appropriate  odd-numbered  year.   All  members  shall
22    serve  until  a successor is appointed, and any vacancy shall
23    be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in  the  same
24    manner  as an appointment for a full term is made.  No member
25    shall be eligible to serve as a member  of  the  Professional
26    Teacher Standards Board for more than 2 terms.
27        (b)  The  State  Teacher Certification Board is abolished
28    and the terms of its members are terminated when  12  of  the
29    initial  members of the Professional Teacher Standards Board,
30    which shall constitute a quorum of that Board, are  appointed
31    as   provided   in   subsection  (a).   The  members  of  the
32    Professional Teacher Standards Board shall  take  office  and
33    assume,   exercise,  and  perform  the  powers,  duties,  and
34    responsibilities of that Board  under  this  Article  when  a
 
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 1    quorum  of  the  initial  members of that Board is appointed.
 2    Until the State Teacher Certification Board is abolished upon
 3    the appointment of 12 persons to serve as initial members  of
 4    the Professional Teacher Standards Board, but not thereafter,
 5    the  State  Teacher  Certification  Board  shall exercise the
 6    powers and duties that  it  was  authorized  or  required  to
 7    exercise   and  perform  under  this  Article  prior  to  its
 8    abolition.
 9        (c)  The  chairperson   of   the   Professional   Teacher
10    Standards  Board shall be elected by the members of the Board
11    from among their number to serve for a term of one  year.   A
12    person  elected  to  serve as chairperson of the Board may be
13    reelected by the members of the Board to succeed  himself  or
14    herself  in  that  office.   The  members of the Professional
15    Teacher  Standards  Board  shall  meet  promptly   upon   the
16    appointment   of   a   quorum  of  the  members  to  organize
17    themselves, elect from their number a  chairperson  and  such
18    other  officers  as  they  deem  necessary, and establish the
19    dates of the regular meetings of the Board. The Board   shall
20    hold  special  meetings upon the call of the chairperson or a
21    majority of its members.  Members of the Professional Teacher
22    Standards Board shall be  reimbursed  for  all  ordinary  and
23    necessary  expenses  incurred  in  performing their duties as
24    members of the Board.
25        (d)  The Professional Teacher Standards Board, as a State
26    agency that is eligible for appropriations, shall comply with
27    the provisions of the Bureau of the Budget Act applicable  to
28    State agencies.
29        (e)  The  Professional Teacher Standards Board, acting in
30    accordance with the provisions of this Article and exercising
31    the exclusive powers granted to it under Section 21-1c, shall
32    have the power and authority to do all of the following:
33             (1)  set standards  for  teaching,  supervising,  or
34        holding  other  certificated  employment  in  the  public
 
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 1        schools,  and  administer  the  certification  process as
 2        provided in this Article;
 3             (2)  approve and evaluate teacher and  administrator
 4        preparation programs;
 5             (3)  revoke  and  suspend  certificates  issued  for
 6        teaching,  supervising,  or  holding  other  certificated
 7        employment in the public schools;
 8             (4)  enter   into   agreements   with  other  states
 9        relative  to   reciprocal   approval   of   teacher   and
10        administrator preparation programs;
11             (5)  establish  standards  for  the  issuance of new
12        types of certificates;
13             (6)  employ and direct  an  Executive  Director  and
14        such other staff as the Board deems necessary to exercise
15        its  powers and duties under this Article, subject to the
16        following conditions: all employees of the State Board of
17        Education who shall lose their employment with the  State
18        Board  of Education as the result of the establishment of
19        the  Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   and   the
20        attendant   transfer   of   power   and   duties  to  the
21        Professional Teacher Standards Board  shall  be  afforded
22        the   right   to   transfer   their   employment  without
23        interruption from the State Board  of  Education  to  the
24        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board,  retaining their
25        seniority status and salary as it then  exists  with  the
26        State Board of Education;
27             (7)  establish  standards  for induction, mentoring,
28        and professional development programs;
29             (8)  take  such  other  action   relating   to   the
30        improvement  of instruction in the public schools through
31        teacher education and professional development  and  that
32        attracts   qualified  candidates  into  teacher  training
33        programs as is appropriate and consistent with applicable
34        laws; and
 
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 1             (9)  make and prescribe rules and  regulations  that
 2        are necessary for the administration of this Article.
 3        (f)  The  Board may create standing committees, comprised
 4    solely of Board members, when deemed necessary by  the  Board
 5    to  carry  out  its functions and responsibilities under this
 6    Article.   In  addition  the  Board  may  establish  advisory
 7    committees if the Board determines that such  action  may  be
 8    necessary or appropriate.

 9        (105 ILCS 5/21-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1)
10        Sec.  21-1.   Qualification  of  teachers.  No one may be
11    certified to teach or supervise in the public schools of this
12    State who is not of good character, good health, a citizen of
13    the United States  or  legally  present  and  authorized  for
14    employment, and at least 19 years of age.  If the holder of a
15    certificate under this Section is not a citizen of the United
16    States 6 years after the date of the issuance of the original
17    certificate, any certificate held by such person on that date
18    shall  be  cancelled  by  the board of education and no other
19    certificate to teach shall be issued  to  such  person  until
20    such person is a citizen of the United States.
21        Citizenship  is  not  required  for  the  issuance  of  a
22    temporary  part-time  certificate to participants in approved
23    training programs  for  exchange  students  as  described  in
24    Section  21-10.2.  A certificate issued under this plan shall
25    expire on June 30 following the date of issue.   One  renewal
26    for  one  year  is  authorized  if  the  holder remains as an
27    official participant in an approved exchange program.
28        In determining good character  under  this  Section,  any
29    felony   conviction  of  the  applicant  may  be  taken  into
30    consideration, but such a conviction shall not operate  as  a
31    bar to registration.
32        No  person  otherwise qualified shall be denied the right
33    to be certified, to  receive  training  for  the  purpose  of
 
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 1    becoming  a  teacher or to engage in practice teaching in any
 2    school because of a physical  disability  including  but  not
 3    limited  to  visual  and  hearing disabilities; nor shall any
 4    school district refuse to employ a teacher on  such  grounds,
 5    provided  that  the person is able to carry out the duties of
 6    the position for which he applies.
 7        No person may be granted or continue to hold  a  teaching
 8    certificate  who  has knowingly altered or misrepresented his
 9    or her  teaching  qualifications  in  order  to  acquire  the
10    certificate.   Any  other certificate held by such person may
11    be suspended or revoked by the Professional Teacher Standards
12    Board State Teacher Certification Board, depending  upon  the
13    severity of the alteration or misrepresentation.
14        No  one  may teach or supervise in the public schools nor
15    receive for teaching or supervising any part  of  any  public
16    school fund, who does not hold a certificate of qualification
17    granted,  on  or  after  January  1, 2000 by the Professional
18    Teacher Standards Board, or granted prior to that date by the
19    State  Board  of  Education   or   by   the   State   Teacher
20    Certification Board and a regional superintendent of schools
21    as  hereinafter  provided,  or by the board of education of a
22    city  having  a  population  exceeding  500,000  inhabitants,
23    except as provided in Section 34-6 and in Section 10-22.34 or
24    Section 10-22.34b. However, the provisions of this Article do
25    not apply to a member of the armed forces who is employed  as
26    a teacher of subjects in the Reserve Officer's Training Corps
27    of  any  school.  Sections 21-2 through 21-24 do not apply to
28    cities having a  population  exceeding  500,000  inhabitants,
29    beginning until July 1, 1988.
30        Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  this Act, the
31    board of education of any school  district  may  grant  to  a
32    teacher  of the district a leave of absence with full pay for
33    a period of not more than one year to permit such teacher  to
34    teach in a foreign state under the provisions of the Exchange
 
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 1    Teacher  Program  established  under  Public  Law  584,  79th
 2    Congress, and Public Law 402, 80th Congress, as amended.  The
 3    school  board  granting such leave of absence may employ with
 4    or without pay a national of the foreign  state  wherein  the
 5    teacher  on  leave  of absence will teach, if the national is
 6    qualified to  teach  in  that  foreign  state,  and  if  that
 7    national will teach in a grade level similar to the one which
 8    was  taught  in  such foreign state. The Professional Teacher
 9    Standards Board State Board of Education shall promulgate and
10    enforce such reasonable  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be
11    necessary to effectuate the provisions of this Article or may
12    adopt  for  such  purposes  any  of the rules and regulations
13    promulgated prior to January 1, 2000 by the  State  Board  of
14    Education  or  by the State Teacher Certification Board prior
15    to the abolition of that Board paragraph.
16    (Source: P.A.  88-189;  89-159,  eff.  1-1-96;  89-397,  eff.
17    8-20-95; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)

18        (105 ILCS 5/21-1a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a)
19        Sec. 21-1a. Tests required for certification.
20        (a)  After  July  1,  1988,  in  addition  to  all  other
21    requirements,  early  childhood,  elementary,  special,  high
22    school,  school  service personnel, or, except as provided in
23    Section 34-6, administrative certificates shall be issued  to
24    persons who have satisfactorily passed a test of basic skills
25    and  subject matter knowledge.  The tests of basic skills and
26    subject matter knowledge shall be the tests which  from  time
27    to  time are designated by the Professional Teacher Standards
28    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
29    Teacher Certification Board and may be tests prepared  by  an
30    educational  testing  organization  or  tests designed by the
31    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
32    in consultation with the State Teacher  Certification  Board.
33    The  areas  to  be  covered by the test of basic skills shall
 
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 1    include the basic skills of  reading,  writing,  grammar  and
 2    mathematics.   The  test  of  subject  matter knowledge shall
 3    assess content knowledge in the specific subject  field.  The
 4    tests shall be designed to be racially neutral to assure that
 5    no  person  in  taking  the  tests  is  thereby discriminated
 6    against on the basis of race, color, national origin or other
 7    factors unrelated to the person's ability  to  perform  as  a
 8    certificated  employee.  The score required to pass the tests
 9    of basic skills and subject matter knowledge shall  be  fixed
10    by  the  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
11    Education   in   consultation   with   the   State    Teacher
12    Certification  Board.  The tests shall be held not fewer than
13    3 times a year at such time and place as may be designated by
14    the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
15    Education    in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
16    Certification Board.
17        (b)  Except as provided in Section 34-6,  the  provisions
18    of  subsection (a) of this Section shall apply equally in any
19    school district subject to  Article  34,  provided  that  the
20    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
21    shall  determine  which  certificates  issued  under Sections
22    34-8.1 and 34-83 prior to July 1, 1988 are comparable to  any
23    early  childhood  certificate, elementary school certificate,
24    special certificate, high school certificate, school  service
25    personnel  certificate  or  administrative certificate issued
26    under this Article as of July 1, 1988.
27        (c)  A person who holds an early  childhood,  elementary,
28    special,  high school or school service personnel certificate
29    issued under this Article on or at any time  before  July  1,
30    1988,  including  a  person  who  has  been  issued  any such
31    certificate pursuant to Section 21-11.1 or in exchange for  a
32    comparable   certificate  theretofore  issued  under  Section
33    34-8.1 or Section 34-83, shall not be  required  to  take  or
34    pass  the  tests in order to thereafter have such certificate
 
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 1    renewed.
 2        (d)  (Blank).   The   State   Board   of   Education   in
 3    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board shall
 4    conduct a pilot administration of the tests by  administering
 5    the test to students completing teacher education programs in
 6    the  1986-87  school  year for the purpose of determining the
 7    effect and impact of testing candidates for certification.
 8        (e)  The rules and regulations developed to implement the
 9    required test of basic skills and  subject  matter  knowledge
10    shall  include  the requirements of subsections (a), (b), and
11    (c) and shall include specific  regulations  to  govern  test
12    selection;  test  validation  and  determination of a passing
13    score;   administration   of   the   tests;   frequency    of
14    administration;  applicant  fees;  frequency  of  applicants'
15    taking  the tests; the years for which a score is valid; and,
16    waiving certain additional tests for additional  certificates
17    to  individuals  who  have  satisfactorily passed the test of
18    basic skills and subject  matter  knowledge  as  required  in
19    subsection  (a).  The  Professional  Teacher  Standards Board
20    State Board of Education shall  provide,  by  rule,  specific
21    policies  that  assure  uniformity in the difficulty level of
22    each form of the basic skills test and  each  subject  matter
23    knowledge  test  from  test-to-test  and  year-to-year.   The
24    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
25     shall also set a passing score for the tests.
26        (f)  (Blank).  The  State Teacher Certification Board may
27    issue a nonrenewable temporary certificate  between  July  1,
28    1988  and  August  31, 1988 to individuals who have taken the
29    tests of basic skills and subject matter knowledge prescribed
30    by this Section but have not received  such  test  scores  by
31    August 31, 1988.  Such temporary certificates shall expire on
32    December 31, 1988.
33        (g)  Beginning   January   1,  2000  July  1,  1999,  the
34    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
 
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 1    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
 2    Certification Board, shall implement and administer the a new
 3      system  of  certification  for  teachers  in  the  State of
 4    Illinois.  The Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
 5    Board  of  Education,  in consultation with the State Teacher
 6    Certification Board, shall design and implement a  system  of
 7    examinations  and  various  other  criteria  which  shall  be
 8    required   prior   to   the   issuance  of  Initial  Teaching
 9    Certificates  and  Standard  Teaching  Certificates.    These
10    examinations  and  indicators  shall  be  based  on  national
11    professional   teaching   standards,  as  determined  by  the
12    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
13    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
14    Certification Board. The Professional Teacher Standards Board
15      State  Board of Education may adopt any and all regulations
16    necessary to implement and administer this Section.
17        (h)  The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
18    of Education shall report to the  Illinois  General  Assembly
19    and the Governor with recommendations for further changes and
20    improvements  to  the  teacher  certification system no later
21    than January July 1, 2001 1999 and on an annual  basis  until
22    January July 1, 2003 2001.
23    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)

24        (105 ILCS 5/21-1b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b)
25        Sec.  21-1b.   Subject  endorsement on certificates.  All
26    certificates initially issued under this Article  after  June
27    30,  1986,  shall be specifically endorsed by the State Board
28    of Education for each subject the holder of  the  certificate
29    is  legally  qualified to teach, such endorsements to be made
30    in accordance with standards promulgated by the  Professional
31    Teacher   Standards   Board   State  Board  of  Education  in
32    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.  All
33    certificates which are issued under  this  Article  prior  to
 
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 1    July  1, 1986 may, by application to the Professional Teacher
 2    Standards Board State Board  of  Education,  be  specifically
 3    endorsed  for each subject the holder is legally qualified to
 4    teach. All subject endorsements made on or after  January  1,
 5    2000  to  new  or  existing  certificates as provided in this
 6    Section shall be made by the Professional  Teacher  Standards
 7    Board.  Each  application  for  endorsement  of  an  existing
 8    teaching   certificate   shall   be   accompanied  by  a  $20
 9    nonrefundable fee.
10        Commencing January 1, 1994, an additional  $10  shall  be
11    charged  for  each  application  for  endorsement.   There is
12    hereby created a Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund as  a
13    special  fund within the State Treasury.  The proceeds of the
14    additional $10 fee shall be paid into the Teacher Certificate
15    Fee Revolving Fund; and the moneys  in  that  Fund  shall  be
16    appropriated  to the Professional Teacher Standards Board and
17    used by that  Board  to  provide  the  technology  and  other
18    resources  necessary  for the timely and efficient processing
19    of certification requests.
20    (Source: P.A. 88-224.)

21        (105 ILCS 5/21-1c) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-1c)
22        Sec. 21-1c.  Exclusive certificate authority.   Only  the
23    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
24    and  State  Teacher Certification Board, acting in accordance
25    with the applicable provisions of this  Act  and  the  rules,
26    regulations  and standards promulgated thereunder, shall have
27    the authority to issue or endorse  any  certificate  required
28    for  teaching, supervising or holding certificated employment
29    in the public schools; and no other State agency  shall  have
30    any  power  or  authority  (i)  to establish or prescribe any
31    qualifications or other requirements applicable to teacher or
32    administrator training and certification or to  the  issuance
33    or endorsement of any such certificate required for teaching,
 
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 1    supervising,  or  holding  certified employment in the public
 2    schools, or (ii) to establish or prescribe any  licensure  or
 3    equivalent  requirement  which  must be satisfied in order to
 4    teach, supervise  or  hold  certificated  employment  in  the
 5    public schools.
 6    (Source: P.A. 86-1441.)

 7        (105 ILCS 5/21-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2)
 8        Sec. 21-2.  Grades of certificates.
 9        (a)  Until  July  1,  1999, all certificates issued under
10    this Article shall be State  certificates  valid,  except  as
11    limited  in  Section  21-1,  in  every school district coming
12    under the provisions of this Act and shall be limited in time
13    and   designated   as   follows:    Provisional    vocational
14    certificate,  temporary  provisional  vocational certificate,
15    early childhood certificate, elementary  school  certificate,
16    special  certificate, high school certificate, school service
17    personnel    certificate,     administrative     certificate,
18    provisional  certificate,  and  substitute  certificate.  The
19    requirement of student teaching  under  close  and  competent
20    supervision  for  obtaining  a  teaching  certificate  may be
21    waived by the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
22    Teacher  Certification  Board  upon  presentation to that the
23    Board by the  teacher  of  evidence  of  5  years  successful
24    teaching  experience  on  a  valid certificate and graduation
25    from a recognized  institution  of  higher  learning  with  a
26    bachelor's degree with not less than 120 semester hours and a
27    minimum of 16 semester hours in professional education.
28        (b)  Initial  Teaching  Certificate.   Beginning  July 1,
29    1999, persons who (1)  have  completed  an  approved  teacher
30    preparation  program,  (2)  are  recommended  by  an approved
31    teacher preparation program, (3) have successfully  completed
32    the  Initial  Teaching Certification examinations required by
33    the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
 
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 1    Education, and (4) have met all other criteria established by
 2    the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board of
 3    Education   in   consultation   with   the   State    Teacher
 4    Certification  Board,  shall  be  issued  an Initial Teaching
 5    Certificate valid for 4 years of teaching.  Initial  Teaching
 6    Certificates  shall be issued for categories corresponding to
 7    Early Childhood, Elementary,  Secondary,  and  Special  K-12,
 8    with   special   certification   designations   for   Special
 9    Education,  Bilingual  Education,  fundamental learning areas
10    (including  Language  Arts,  Reading,  Mathematics,  Science,
11    Social Science, Physical Development and Health,  Fine  Arts,
12    and  Foreign  Language),  and  other  areas designated by the
13    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
14    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
15    Certification Board.
16        (c)  Standard   Certificate.   Beginning  July  1,  1999,
17    persons who (1) have completed 4 years of  teaching  with  an
18    Initial Certificate, have successfully completed the Standard
19    Teaching  Certificate  examinations,  and  have met all other
20    criteria established by the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
21    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
22    Teacher  Certification  Board,  or  (2)  were issued teaching
23    certificates prior to July 1, 1999  and  are  renewing  those
24    certificates  after  July 1, 1999, shall be issued a Standard
25    Certificate  valid  for  5  years,  which  may   be   renewed
26    thereafter  every  7  5  years  by  the  Professional Teacher
27    Standards Board State Teacher Certification  Board  based  on
28    proof  of  continuing  education or professional development.
29    Standard  Certificates  shall  be   issued   for   categories
30    corresponding  to Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary, and
31    Special K-12, with  special  certification  designations  for
32    Special  Education, Bilingual Education, fundamental learning
33    areas  (including  Language   Arts,   Reading,   Mathematics,
34    Science,  Social  Science,  Physical  Development and Health,
 
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 1    Fine Arts, and Foreign Language), and other areas  designated
 2    by  the  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
 3    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
 4    Certification Board.
 5        (d)  Master Certificate.  Beginning July 1, 1999, persons
 6    who have successfully achieved National  Board  certification
 7    through   the   National   Board  for  Professional  Teaching
 8    Standards shall be issued a Master Certificate, valid  for  7
 9    years   and   renewable  thereafter  every  7  years  through
10    compliance with requirements set forth  by  the  Professional
11    Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education.
12    (Source:  P.A.  90-548,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-653, eff. 7-29-98;
13    90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)

14        (105 ILCS 5/21-2.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2.1)
15        Sec. 21-2.1.  Early childhood certificate.
16        (a)  An early childhood certificate shall be valid for  4
17    years  for  teaching children up to 6 years of age, exclusive
18    of children enrolled in kindergarten, in facilities  approved
19    by   the   Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State
20    Superintendent  of  Education.   Beginning July 1, 1988, such
21    certificate shall be valid for 4 years for Teaching  children
22    through  grade  3  in facilities approved by the Professional
23    Teacher Standards Board State  Superintendent  of  Education.
24    Subject  to  the  provisions  of  Section  21-1a, it shall be
25    issued to  persons  who  have  graduated  from  a  recognized
26    institution  of  higher learning with a bachelor's degree and
27    with not fewer than 120 semester hours including professional
28    education or human development or, until  July  1,  1992,  to
29    persons  who  have  early childhood education instruction and
30    practical experience involving supervised work with  children
31    under  6  years of age or with children through grade 3. Such
32    persons  shall  be  recommended  for  the   early   childhood
33    certificate  by  a recognized institution as having completed
 
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 1    an  approved  program  of  preparation  which  includes   the
 2    requisite  hours  and  academic  and professional courses and
 3    practical experience approved  by  the  Professional  Teacher
 4    Standards   Board   State   Superintendent  of  Education  in
 5    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
 6        (b)  Beginning July 1, 1999, Initial and  Standard  Early
 7    Childhood  Education  Certificates shall be issued to persons
 8    who meet the criteria established by the Professional Teacher
 9    Standards Board State Board of Education.
10    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)

11        (105 ILCS 5/21-2b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-2b)
12        Sec. 21-2b.   Teacher  education  program  entrance.   In
13    consultation  with  the State Teacher Certification Board The
14    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
15     shall develop procedures  which  ensure  that  all  students
16    entering  approved  teacher education programs are proficient
17    in the areas of reading, mathematics and language arts.  Each
18    institution  of  higher  learning   shall   submit   to   the
19    Professional    Teacher   Standards   Board   State   Teacher
20    Certification Board a plan which sets  forth  procedures  for
21    implementation of this Section.
22    (Source: P.A. 84-126.)

23        (105 ILCS 5/21-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-3)
24        Sec. 21-3.  Elementary certificate.
25        (a)  An  elementary school certificate shall be valid for
26    4 years for teaching in the kindergarten and lower  9  grades
27    of  the common schools.  Subject to the provisions of Section
28    21-1a, it shall be issued to persons who have graduated  from
29    a recognized institution of higher learning with a bachelor's
30    degree  and with not fewer than 120 semester hours and with a
31    minimum of  16  semester  hours  in  professional  education,
32    including   5   semester  hours  in  student  teaching  under
 
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 1    competent  and  close  supervision.  Such  persons  shall  be
 2    recommended for the elementary certificate  by  a  recognized
 3    institution  as  having  completed  an  approved  program  of
 4    preparation  which  includes intensive preservice training in
 5    the  humanities,  natural  sciences,  mathematics,  and   the
 6    academic   and   professional   courses   approved   by   the
 7    Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of
 8    Education   in   consultation   with   the   State    Teacher
 9    Certification Board.
10        (b)  Beginning   July   1,  1999,  Initial  and  Standard
11    Elementary Certificates shall be issued to persons  who  meet
12    all  of  the criteria established by the Professional Teacher
13    Standards Board  State  Board  of  Education  for  elementary
14    education.
15    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)

16        (105 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-4)
17        Sec. 21-4.  Special certificate.
18        (a)  A special certificate shall be valid for 4 years for
19    teaching  the special subjects named therein in all grades of
20    the common schools. Subject  to  the  provisions  of  Section
21    21-1a,  it shall be issued to persons who have graduated from
22    a recognized institution of higher learning with a bachelor's
23    degree and with not fewer than 120 semester hours including a
24    minimum of 16 semester hours in professional education, 5  of
25    which  shall be in student teaching under competent and close
26    supervision. When the holder of such certificate has earned a
27    master's degree, including 8 eight semester hours of graduate
28    professional  education  from  a  recognized  institution  of
29    higher learning and with 2 two years' teaching experience, it
30    may be endorsed for supervision.
31        Such  persons  shall  be  recommended  for  the   special
32    certificate  by  a recognized institution as having completed
33    an approved program of preparation  which  includes  academic
 
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 1    and professional courses approved by the Professional Teacher
 2    Standards   Board   State   Superintendent  of  Education  in
 3    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
 4        (b)  Those persons holding special certificates  on  July
 5    1, 1999 shall be eligible for one of the following:
 6             (1)  The   issuance   of   Standard  Elementary  and
 7        Standard Secondary Certificates with appropriate  special
 8        certification   designations   as   determined   by   the
 9        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
10        Education,   in   consultation  with  the  State  Teacher
11        Certification Board, and consistent with rules adopted by
12        the Professional Teacher Standards Board State  Board  of
13        Education.    These  certificates  shall  be  renewed  as
14        provided in subsection (c) of Section 21-2.
15             (2)  The   issuance   of   Standard   Special   K-12
16        Certificates  with  appropriate   special   certification
17        designations,  which  shall  be  renewed  as  provided in
18        subsection (c) of Section 21-2.  These certificates shall
19        not be eligible for additional certification designations
20        except as approved by the Professional Teacher  Standards
21        Board  State Board of Education, in consultation with the
22        State Teacher Certification Board.
23        (c)  Those persons eligible to receive K-12 certification
24    after July 1, 1999 shall be  issued  Initial  Elementary  and
25    Initial   Secondary  Certificates  with  appropriate  special
26    certification  designations  pursuant  to  this  Section   or
27    Initial  Special  K-12  Certificates with appropriate special
28    certification designations pursuant to this  Section.   These
29    Initial  K-12  Special Certificates shall not be eligible for
30    additional certification designations except as  approved  by
31    the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board of
32    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
33    Certification Board.
34    (Source: P.A. 90-548,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-653,  eff.  7-29-98;
 
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 1    90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)

 2        (105 ILCS 5/21-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-5)
 3        Sec. 21-5.  High school certificate.
 4        (a)  A high school certificate shall be valid for 4 years
 5    for  teaching  in  grades  6  to  12  inclusive of the common
 6    schools. Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a, it shall
 7    be issued to persons who have  graduated  from  a  recognized
 8    institution  of  higher learning with a bachelor's degree and
 9    with not fewer than 120 semester hours including 16  semester
10    hours  in  professional  education,  5  of  which shall be in
11    student teaching under competent and  close  supervision  and
12    with  one  or  more  teaching  fields.  Such persons shall be
13    recommended for the high school certificate by  a  recognized
14    institution  as  having  completed  an  approved  program  of
15    preparation  which  includes  the  academic  and professional
16    courses approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
17    State Superintendent of Education in  consultation  with  the
18    State Teacher Certification Board.
19        (b)  Beginning   July   1,  1999,  Initial  and  Standard
20    Secondary Certificates shall be issued to  persons  who  meet
21    all  of  the criteria established by the Professional Teacher
22    Standards  Board  State  Board  of  Education  for  secondary
23    education.
24    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; 90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)

25        (105 ILCS 5/21-5a) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-5a)
26        Sec. 21-5a.  Alternative math-science certification.  The
27    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
28    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
29    Certification   Board,  shall  establish  and  implement  and
30    administer an alternative certification program  under  which
31    persons  who  qualify  for admission to, and who successfully
32    complete the program and  meet  the  additional  requirements
 
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 1    established  by  this  Section  shall  be  issued  an initial
 2    teaching certificate for  teaching  mathematics,  science  or
 3    mathematics  and science in grades 9 through 12 of the common
 4    schools.   In  establishing  an   alternative   certification
 5    program   under   this   Section,  the  Professional  Teacher
 6    Standards Board State Board of Education shall  designate  an
 7    appropriate  area within the State where the program shall be
 8    offered and made available to persons qualified for admission
 9    to  the  program.   In  addition,  the  Professional  Teacher
10    Standards Board State Board of Education, in cooperation with
11    one or more recognized institutions of higher learning, shall
12    develop, evaluate, and revise as  necessary  a  comprehensive
13    course  of  study  that  persons admitted to the program must
14    successfully complete in order to satisfy one  criterion  for
15    issuance  of  an  initial certificate under this Section. The
16    comprehensive course of study so developed shall include  one
17    semester of practice teaching.
18        An  initial  teaching  certificate, valid for 4 years for
19    teaching mathematics, science, or mathematics and science  in
20    grades  9  through  12 of the common schools and renewable as
21    provided in Section 21-14, shall be issued under this Section
22    21-5a to persons who qualify for admission to the alternative
23    certification program and who at the time of applying for  an
24    initial teaching certificate under this Section:
25             (1)  have   graduated  with  a  master's  degree  in
26        mathematics or any science discipline from an institution
27        of  higher  learning  whose  scholarship  standards   are
28        approved  by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards Board
29        State Board of Education for purposes of the  alternative
30        certification program;
31             (2)  have  been employed for at least 10 years in an
32        area requiring knowledge  and  practical  application  of
33        their  academic  background  in  mathematics or a science
34        discipline;
 
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 1             (3)  have  successfully  completed  the  alternative
 2        certification program and  the  course  of  comprehensive
 3        study,  including  one  semester  of  practice  teaching,
 4        developed  as  part  of  the  program as provided in this
 5        Section  and  approved  by   the   Professional   Teacher
 6        Standards Board State Board of Education; and
 7             (4)  have   passed   the  examinations  required  by
 8        Section 21-1a.
 9        The   alternative   certification   program   shall    be
10    implemented  at  the  commencement  of the 1992-1993 academic
11    year.
12        The Professional Teacher Standards Board State  Board  of
13    Education  shall  establish  criteria  for  admission  to the
14    alternative certification program and shall adopt  rules  and
15    regulations  that  are  consistent with this Section and that
16    the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
17    Education  deems  necessary  to  establish  and implement and
18    administer the program.
19    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)

20        (105 ILCS 5/21-5b)
21        Sec. 21-5b.  Alternative certification.  The Professional
22    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of   Education,   in
23    consultation  with  the  State  Teacher  Certification Board,
24    shall establish and implement  an  alternative  certification
25    program  under which persons who meet the requirements of and
26    successfully complete the program established by this Section
27    shall be  issued  an  alternative  teaching  certificate  for
28    teaching in the schools situated in a school district that is
29    located  in  a  city having a population in excess of 500,000
30    inhabitants. The program shall be limited to  not  more  than
31    260  new participants during each year that the program is in
32    effect. In establishing an alternative certification  program
33    under this Section, the Professional Teacher Standards Board
 
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 1    State  Board of Education shall designate the City of Chicago
 2    as the area in the State where  the  program  shall  be  made
 3    available.  In  addition,  the Professional Teacher Standards
 4    Board  State  Board  of  Education,  in  cooperation  with  a
 5    partnership formed  with  a  university  that  offers  4-year
 6    baccalaureate  and  masters  degree  programs  and  that is a
 7    recognized institution as defined in Section 21-21 and one or
 8    more not-for-profit organizations in the State which  support
 9    excellence in teaching, shall within 30 days after submission
10    by the partnership approve a course of study developed by the
11    partnership  that  persons  in  the program must successfully
12    complete in order to satisfy one criterion for issuance of an
13    alternative certificate under this Section.  The  Alternative
14    Teacher  Certification  program  course of study must include
15    the current content and skills contained in the  university's
16    current  courses  for  State  certification  which  have been
17    approved by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State
18    Board  of  Education,  in consultation with the State Teacher
19    Certification Board, as the  requirement  for  State  teacher
20    certification.
21        The  alternative  certification program established under
22    this Section  shall  be  known  as  the  Alternative  Teacher
23    Certification program.  The Alternative Teacher Certification
24    Program  shall  be  offered by the submitting partnership and
25    may be offered in conjunction with one or more not-for-profit
26    organizations  in  the  State  which  support  excellence  in
27    teaching.  The program shall be comprised of the following  3
28    phases: (a) the first phase is the course of study offered on
29    an   intensive   basis  in  education  theory,  instructional
30    methods, and practice teaching; (b) the second phase  is  the
31    person's  assignment to a full-time teaching position for one
32    school year; and (c)  the  third  phase  is  a  comprehensive
33    assessment  of  the  person's  teaching performance by school
34    officials   and   the   partnership   participants   and    a
 
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 1    recommendation by the partner institution of higher education
 2    to  the  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
 3    Education that the person be issued  a  standard  alternative
 4    teaching   certificate.    Successful   completion   of   the
 5    Alternative  Teacher Certification program shall be deemed to
 6    satisfy any other practice or student  teaching  and  subject
 7    matter requirements established by law.
 8        A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for
 9    one year of teaching in the common schools and not renewable,
10    shall  be  issued  under this Section 21-5b to persons who at
11    the time of applying for the provisional alternative teaching
12    certificate under this Section:
13             (1)  have graduated from an  accredited  college  or
14        university with a bachelor's degree;
15             (2)  have  successfully completed the first phase of
16        the Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided
17        in this Section; and
18             (3)  have passed  the  tests  of  basic  skills  and
19        subject matter knowledge required by Section 21-1a.
20        A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate
21    under  this Section shall be treated as a regularly certified
22    teacher for purposes of  compensation,  benefits,  and  other
23    terms  and  conditions of employment afforded teachers in the
24    school who are members of a bargaining unit represented by an
25    exclusive bargaining representative, if any.
26        A standard alternative teaching certificate, valid for  4
27    years  for  teaching  in  the  schools  situated  in a school
28    district that is located in a city  having  a  population  in
29    excess  of  500,000  inhabitants and renewable as provided in
30    Section 21-14, shall be issued under this  Section  21-5b  to
31    persons   who   first   complete  the  requirements  for  the
32    provisional alternative teaching certificate and who  at  the
33    time   of   applying  for  a  standard  alternative  teaching
34    certificate under this Section  have  successfully  completed
 
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 1    the  second  and  third  phases  of  the  Alternative Teacher
 2    Certification program as provided in this Section.
 3        This   alternative   certification   program   shall   be
 4    implemented  so  that  the  first   provisional   alternative
 5    teaching certificates issued under this Section are effective
 6    upon  the commencement of the 1997-1998 academic year and the
 7    first standard alternative teaching certificates issued under
 8    this Section are  effective  upon  the  commencement  of  the
 9    1998-1999 academic year.
10        The  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
11    Education, in cooperation with the  partnership  establishing
12    the  Alternative  Teacher  Certification program, shall adopt
13    rules and regulations that are consistent with  this  Section
14    and that the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
15    of  Education  deems necessary to establish and implement the
16    program.
17    (Source: P.A. 89-708, eff. 2-14-97.)

18        (105 ILCS 5/21-5c)
19        Sec. 21-5c.  Alternative route to teacher  certification.
20    The  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board of
21    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
22    Certification  Board,  shall  establish  and   implement   an
23    alternative  route  to  teacher  certification  program under
24    which persons who meet the requirements of  and  successfully
25    complete  the  program  established  by this Section shall be
26    issued  an  initial  teaching  certificate  for  teaching  in
27    schools in this State.  The  Professional  Teacher  Standards
28    Board  State  Board  of  Education  shall approve a course of
29    study that persons in the program must successfully  complete
30    in   order  to  satisfy  one  criterion  for  issuance  of  a
31    certificate under this Section.   The  Alternative  Route  to
32    Teacher  Certification  program  course of study must include
33    the current content and skills contained  in  a  university's
 
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 1    current  courses  for  State  certification  which  have been
 2    approved by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State
 3    Board  of  Education,  in consultation with the State Teacher
 4    Certification Board, as the  requirement  for  State  teacher
 5    certification.
 6        The program established under this Section shall be known
 7    as  the  Alternative  Route to Teacher Certification program.
 8    The program may be offered in conjunction with  one  or  more
 9    not-for-profit organizations in the State.  The program shall
10    be comprised of the following 3 phases: (a) a course of study
11    offered   on   an   intensive   basis  in  education  theory,
12    instructional  methods,  and  practice  teaching;   (b)   the
13    person's  assignment to a full-time teaching position for one
14    school year, including the designation of a mentor teacher to
15    advise and assist the person with that  teaching  assignment;
16    and  (c)  a comprehensive assessment of the person's teaching
17    performance by school officials and program participants  and
18    a  recommendation  by  the institution of higher education to
19    the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
20    Education  that  the  person  be  issued  an initial teaching
21    certificate.  Successful completion of the Alternative  Route
22    to  Teacher  Certification program shall be deemed to satisfy
23    any other practice or student  teaching  and  subject  matter
24    requirements established by law.
25        A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for
26    one year of teaching in the common schools and not renewable,
27    shall  be  issued  under this Section 21-5c to persons who at
28    the time of applying for the provisional alternative teaching
29    certificate under this Section:
30             (1)  have graduated from an  accredited  college  or
31        university with a bachelor's degree;
32             (2)  have  been  employed for a period of at least 5
33        years  in  an   area   requiring   application   of   the
34        individual's education;
 
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 1             (3)  have  successfully completed the first phase of
 2        the Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided
 3        in this Section; and
 4             (4)  have passed  the  tests  of  basic  skills  and
 5        subject matter knowledge required by Section 21-1a.
 6        An  initial  teaching  certificate, valid for teaching in
 7    the common schools, shall be issued  under  Section  21-3  or
 8    21-5  to  persons who first complete the requirements for the
 9    provisional alternative teaching certificate and who  at  the
10    time  of  applying  for  an initial teaching certificate have
11    successfully completed the second and  third  phases  of  the
12    Alternative   Route   to  Teacher  Certification  program  as
13    provided in this Section.
14        A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate
15    or an initial teaching certificate earned under this  Section
16    shall  be  treated  as  a  regularly  certified  teacher  for
17    purposes  of  compensation,  benefits,  and  other  terms and
18    conditions of employment afforded teachers in the school  who
19    are  members of a bargaining unit represented by an exclusive
20    bargaining representative, if any.
21        The Professional Teacher Standards Board State  Board  of
22    Education may adopt rules and regulations that are consistent
23    with this Section and that the Professional Teacher Standards
24    Board  State Board deems necessary to establish and implement
25    the program.
26    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)

27        (105 ILCS 5/21-5d)
28        Sec.  21-5d.    Alternative   route   to   administrative
29    certification.   The  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
30    State  Board  of  Education,  in  consultation with the State
31    Teacher Certification Board and an advisory panel  consisting
32    of  no  less  than  7  administrators  appointed by the State
33    Superintendent of Education, shall establish and implement an
 
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 1    alternative route  to  administrative  certification  program
 2    under   which  persons  who  meet  the  requirements  of  and
 3    successfully complete the program established by this Section
 4    shall be issued a  standard  administrative  certificate  for
 5    serving  as  an  administrator in schools in this State.  For
 6    the purposes of this Section only,  "administrator"  means  a
 7    person  holding  any  administrative  position  for  which  a
 8    standard    administrative   certificate   with   a   general
 9    administrative endorsement, chief  school  business  official
10    endorsement,   or  superintendent  endorsement  is  required,
11    except  a  principal  or   an   assistant   principal.    The
12    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
13      shall approve a course of study that persons in the program
14    must successfully complete in order to satisfy one  criterion
15    for  issuance  of  a  certificate  under  this  Section.  The
16    Alternative Route  to  Administrative  Certification  program
17    course  of  study must include the current content and skills
18    contained  in  a  university's  current  courses  for   State
19    certification  which  have  been approved by the Professional
20    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of   Education,   in
21    consultation  with  the State Teacher Certification Board, as
22    the requirement for administrative certification.
23        The program established under this Section shall be known
24    as the  Alternative  Route  to  Administrative  Certification
25    program.   The  program shall be comprised of the following 3
26    phases: (a) a course of study offered on an  intensive  basis
27    in   education   management,  governance,  organization,  and
28    planning; (b) the person's assignment to a full-time position
29    for  one  school  year  as  an  administrator;  and   (c)   a
30    comprehensive  assessment  of  the  person's  performance  by
31    school  officials  and  a  recommendation to the Professional
32    Teacher Standards Board State Board  of  Education  that  the
33    person  be  issued  a  standard  administrative  certificate.
34    Successful   completion   of   the   Alternative   Route   to
 
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 1    Administrative  Certification  program  shall  be  deemed  to
 2    satisfy  any other supervisory, administrative, or management
 3    experience requirements established by law.
 4        A  provisional  alternative  administrative  certificate,
 5    valid for one year of serving  as  an  administrator  in  the
 6    common  schools and not renewable, shall be issued under this
 7    Section 21-5d to persons who at the time of applying for  the
 8    provisional alternative administrative certificate under this
 9    Section:
10             (1)  have  graduated  from  an accredited college or
11        university with a master's degree in a  management  field
12        or  with  a  bachelor's  degree  and  the life experience
13        equivalent of a master's degree in a management field  as
14        determined  by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board
15        State Board of Education;
16             (2)  have been employed for a period of at  least  5
17        years in a management level position;
18             (3)  have  successfully completed the first phase of
19        the Alternative  Route  to  Administrative  Certification
20        program as provided in this Section; and
21             (4)  have  passed  any  examination  required by the
22        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
23        Education.
24        A standard  administrative  certificate  with  a  general
25    administrative  endorsement,  chief  school business official
26    endorsement,  or  superintendent  endorsement,  renewable  as
27    provided in Section 21-14,  shall  be  issued  under  Section
28    21-7.1 to persons who first complete the requirements for the
29    provisional alternative administrative certificate and who at
30    the   time   of   applying   for  a  standard  administrative
31    certificate have successfully completed the second and  third
32    phases   of   the   Alternative   Route   to   Administrative
33    Certification program as provided in this Section.
34        The  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
 
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 1    Education may adopt rules and regulations that are consistent
 2    with this Section and that the Professional Teacher Standards
 3    Board State Board deems necessary to establish and  implement
 4    the program.
 5    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)

 6        (105 ILCS 5/21-7.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1)
 7        Sec. 21-7.1.  Administrative certificate.
 8        (a)  After January 1, 1986, an administrative certificate
 9    valid  for  5  years  of supervising and administering in the
10    public common schools may  be  issued  to  persons  who  have
11    graduated  from  a  recognized institution of higher learning
12    with a master's degree and who have been certified  by  these
13    institutions of higher learning as having completed a program
14    of  preparation  for  one or more of these endorsements. Such
15    programs of academic and  professional  preparation  required
16    for  endorsement  shall be administered by the institution in
17    accordance with  standards  set  forth  by  the  Professional
18    Teacher  Standards Board State Superintendent of Education in
19    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
20        (b)  No administrative certificate shall  be  issued  for
21    the  first  time  after  June  30,  1987  and  no endorsement
22    provided for by this Section shall be made or affixed  to  an
23    administrative  certificate for the first time after June 30,
24    1987  unless  the  person   to   whom   such   administrative
25    certificate  is  to  be  issued  or  to  whose administrative
26    certificate such  endorsement  is  to  be  affixed  has  been
27    required to demonstrate as a part of a program of academic or
28    professional    preparation   for   such   certification   or
29    endorsement: (i) an understanding of the knowledge called for
30    in establishing productive parent-school relationships and of
31    the  procedures  fostering   the   involvement   which   such
32    relationships  demand;  and  (ii)  an  understanding  of  the
33    knowledge  required  for  establishing  a high quality school
 
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 1    climate  and  promoting  good  classroom   organization   and
 2    management,  including  rules  of  conduct  and instructional
 3    procedures  appropriate  to  accomplishing   the   tasks   of
 4    schooling;  and  (iii)  a  demonstration of the knowledge and
 5    skills called for in providing instructional leadership.  The
 6    standards  for  demonstrating  an   understanding   of   such
 7    knowledge  shall  be  set  forth  by the Professional Teacher
 8    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
 9    the  State  Teacher  Certification  Board,   and   shall   be
10    administered   by   the  recognized  institutions  of  higher
11    learning as part of the programs of academic and professional
12    preparation required for certification and endorsement  under
13    this  Section.   As  used  in  this subsection: "establishing
14    productive parent-school relationships" means the ability  to
15    maintain  effective  communication between parents and school
16    personnel, to encourage parental  involvement  in  schooling,
17    and  to  motivate  school  personnel  to  engage  parents  in
18    encouraging student achievement, including the development of
19    programs and policies which serve to accomplish this purpose;
20    and  "establishing  a  high quality school climate" means the
21    ability  to  promote  academic   achievement,   to   maintain
22    discipline,  to  recognize  substance  abuse  problems  among
23    students  and  utilize  appropriate law enforcement and other
24    community resources to address  these  problems,  to  support
25    teachers  and  students  in  their  education  endeavors,  to
26    establish  learning  objectives, and to provide instructional
27    leadership,  including  the  development  of   policies   and
28    programs   which   serve  to  accomplish  this  purpose;  and
29    "providing instructional leadership"  means  the  ability  to
30    effectively  evaluate  school  personnel,  to possess general
31    communication and interpersonal skills, and to establish  and
32    maintain  appropriate  classroom  learning environments.  The
33    provisions of this subsection shall not apply  to  or  affect
34    the  initial issuance or making on or before June 30, 1987 of
 
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 1    any administrative certificate or  endorsement  provided  for
 2    under  this  Section,  nor  shall such provisions apply to or
 3    affect  the  renewal  after  June  30,  1987  of   any   such
 4    certificate  or  endorsement  initially  issued or made on or
 5    before June 30, 1987.
 6        (c)  Administrative certificates shall be renewed every 5
 7     five years  with  the  first  renewal  being  5  five  years
 8    following   the   initial   receipt   of   an  administrative
 9    certificate. Renewal requirements  for  administrators  whose
10    positions  require certification shall be based upon evidence
11    of  continuing  professional  education  which  promotes  the
12    following goals:  (1) Improving administrators' knowledge  of
13    instructional  practices  and  administrative procedures; (2)
14    Maintaining  the  basic  level  of  competence  required  for
15    initial certification;  and  (3)  Improving  the  mastery  of
16    skills  and  knowledge  regarding the improvement of teaching
17    performance in clinical settings and assessment of the levels
18    of  student  performance  in  their  schools.    Evidence  of
19    continuing professional education must  include  verification
20    of biennial attendance in a program developed by the Illinois
21    Administrators'    Academy   and   verification   of   annual
22    participation in a school district  approved  activity  which
23    contributes   to   continuing  professional  education.   The
24    Professional  Teacher  Standards   Board   State   Board   of
25    Education,   in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
26    Certification  Board,  shall develop, evaluate, and revise as
27    necessary procedures for implementing this Section and  shall
28    administer   the   renewal  of  administrative  certificates.
29    Failure  to  submit  satisfactory  evidence   of   continuing
30    professional  education  which  contributes  to promoting the
31    goals  of  this  Section  shall   result   in   a   loss   of
32    administrative certification.
33        (d)  Any  limited  or life supervisory certificate issued
34    prior to July 1, 1968 shall continue  to  be  valid  for  all
 
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 1    administrative   and  supervisory  positions  in  the  public
 2    schools for which it is valid as of that date as long as  its
 3    holder  meets the requirements for registration or renewal as
 4    set forth in the statutes or until revoked according to law.
 5        (e)  The  administrative  or  supervisory  positions  for
 6    which the certificate shall be valid shall be  determined  by
 7    one  or  more of 3 endorsements: general supervisory, general
 8    administrative and superintendent.
 9        Subject to the provisions of Section 21-1a,  endorsements
10    shall  be  made  under  conditions set forth in this Section.
11    The Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
12    Education  shall,  in  consultation  with  the  State Teacher
13    Certification Board, adopt rules  pursuant  to  the  Illinois
14    Administrative  Procedure  Act, establishing requirements for
15    obtaining  administrative  certificates  where  the   minimum
16    administrative  or supervisory requirements surpass those set
17    forth in this Section.
18        If the Professional Teacher Standards  Board  establishes
19    State  Teacher  Certification Board shall file with the State
20    Board of Education a written recommendation when  considering
21    additional administrative or supervisory requirements, those.
22    All additional requirements shall be based upon the requisite
23    knowledge  necessary  to  perform the those tasks required by
24    the certificate.  The Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
25    State Board of Education shall in consultation with the State
26    Teacher  Certification  Board, establish standards within its
27    rules which  shall  include  the  academic  and  professional
28    requirements  necessary  for  certification.  These standards
29    shall at a minimum contain, but not be limited to, those used
30    by the Professional Teacher Standards Board  State  Board  of
31    Education in determining whether additional knowledge will be
32    required.   Additionally,  the Professional Teacher Standards
33    Board State Board of Education shall in consultation with the
34    State  Teacher  Certification  Board,  establish   provisions
 
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 1    within  its  rules  whereby  any  member  of  the educational
 2    community  or  the  public  may   file   a   formal   written
 3    recommendation or inquiry regarding requirements.
 4             (1)  The  general  supervisory  endorsement shall be
 5        affixed to the administrative certificate of  any  holder
 6        who  has at least 16 semester hours of graduate credit in
 7        professional education  including  8  semester  hours  of
 8        graduate credit in curriculum and research and who has at
 9        least  2 years of full-time teaching experience or school
10        service personnel experience in public  schools,  schools
11        under  the  supervision of the Department of Corrections,
12        schools under the administration  of  the  Department  of
13        Rehabilitation Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the
14        standards  established  by  the  State  Superintendent of
15        Education   or   comparable   out-of-state    recognition
16        standards   approved   by  the  State  Superintendent  of
17        Education.
18             Such endorsement shall be required for  supervisors,
19        curriculum  directors  and  for  such similar and related
20        positions  as  determined  by  the  Professional  Teacher
21        Standards Board  State  Superintendent  of  Education  in
22        consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
23             (2)  The general administrative endorsement shall be
24        affixed  to  the administrative certificate of any holder
25        who has at least 20 semester hours of graduate credit  in
26        educational administration and supervision and who has at
27        least  2 years of full-time teaching experience or school
28        service personnel experience in public  schools,  schools
29        under  the  supervision of the Department of Corrections,
30        schools under the administration  of  the  Department  of
31        Rehabilitation Services, or nonpublic schools meeting the
32        standards  established  by  the  State  Superintendent of
33        Education   or   comparable   out-of-state    recognition
34        standards   approved   by  the  State  Superintendent  of
 
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 1        Education.
 2             Such endorsement shall be  required  for  principal,
 3        assistant     principal,     assistant    or    associate
 4        superintendent, junior college dean and  for  related  or
 5        similar  positions  as  determined  by  the  Professional
 6        Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of Education
 7        in  consultation  with  the  State  Teacher Certification
 8        Board.
 9             Notwithstanding any other provisions  of  this  Act,
10        after  January  1,  1990  and  until January 1, 1991, any
11        teacher employed by a  district  subject  to  Article  34
12        shall   be   entitled   to   receive   an  administrative
13        certificate with  a  general  administrative  endorsement
14        affixed thereto if he or she: (i) had at least 3 years of
15        experience as a certified teacher for such district prior
16        to  August 1, 1985; (ii) obtained a Master's degree prior
17        to August 1, 1985; (iii) completed at least 20  hours  of
18        graduate  credit in education courses (including at least
19        12 hours in educational administration  and  supervision)
20        prior  to  September  1,  1987;  and  (iv) has received a
21        rating of superior for at least each of the last 5 years.
22        Any person who obtains an administrative certificate with
23        a  general  administrative  endorsement  affixed  thereto
24        under this paragraph shall not be qualified to  serve  in
25        any administrative position except assistant principal.
26             (3)  The  chief school business official endorsement
27        shall be affixed to the administrative certificate of any
28        holder who qualifies by having a Master's degree,  2  two
29        years  of  administrative  experience  in school business
30        management,  and  a  minimum  of  20  semester  hours  of
31        graduate  credit  in  a  program   established   by   the
32        Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent
33        of  Education  in  consultation  with  the  State Teacher
34        Certification  Board  for  the  preparation   of   school
 
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 1        business  administrators.  Such endorsement shall also be
 2        affixed to the administrative certificate of  any  holder
 3        who  qualifies  by  having  a Master's Degree in Business
 4        Administration, Finance or Accounting from  a  regionally
 5        accredited institution of higher education.
 6             After  June  30,  1977,  such  endorsement  shall be
 7        required for any individual first  employed  as  a  chief
 8        school business official.
 9        (4)  The  superintendent  endorsement shall be affixed to
10    the  administrative  certificate  of  any  holder   who   has
11    completed  30  semester  hours  of graduate credit beyond the
12    master's  degree  in  a  program  for  the   preparation   of
13    superintendents  of  schools  including  16 semester hours of
14    graduate credit in professional  education  and  who  has  at
15    least 2 years experience as an administrator or supervisor in
16    the  public  schools  or  the  State  Board  of Education  or
17    education service regions or in nonpublic schools meeting the
18    standards  established  by  the   State   Superintendent   of
19    Education  or  comparable  out-of-state recognition standards
20    approved by the State Superintendent of Education  and  holds
21    general supervisory or general administrative endorsement, or
22    who  has  had  2  years  of  experience  as  a  supervisor or
23    administrator  while   holding   an   all-grade   supervisory
24    certificate  or  a  certificate  comparable  in  validity and
25    educational and experience requirements.
26        After June 30, 1968, such endorsement shall  be  required
27    for  a  superintendent  of schools, except as provided in the
28    second paragraph of this Section and in Section 34-6.
29        Any person appointed to the  position  of  superintendent
30    between the effective date of this Act and June 30, 1993 in a
31    school  district  organized  pursuant  to  Article 32 with an
32    enrollment of at least 20,000 pupils shall be exempt from the
33    provisions of this subsection (4) until June 30, 1996.
34        (f)  All official interpretations or acts of  issuing  or
 
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 1    denying  administrative  certificates  or endorsements by the
 2    State Teacher's Certification Board, State Board of Education
 3    or the State Superintendent of Education, from the passage of
 4    P.A. 81-1208 on November 8, 1979 through September  24,  1981
 5    are  hereby declared valid and legal acts in all respects and
 6    further that the purported repeal of the provisions  of  this
 7    Section by P.A. 81-1208 and P.A. 81-1509 is declared null and
 8    void.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)

10        (105 ILCS 5/21-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-9)
11        Sec. 21-9.  Substitute certificates.
12        (a)  A  substitute teacher's certificate may be issued by
13    the Professional Teacher Standards Board for teaching in  all
14    grades of the common schools.  Such certificate may be issued
15    by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board upon request of
16    the  regional superintendent of schools  of  any   region  in
17    which  the  teacher  is  to  teach.   A  substitute teacher's
18    certificate is valid for teaching in the  public  schools  of
19    any   county.    Such   certificate  may  be  issued  by  the
20    Professional Teacher Standards Board to  persons  who  either
21    (i)  (a) hold a certificate  valid for teaching in the common
22    schools as shown on the face of  the  certificate,  (ii)  (b)
23    hold  a bachelor of arts degree from an institution of higher
24    learning accredited by the North Central Association or other
25    comparable regional  accrediting  association  or  have  been
26    graduated  from  a  recognized institution of higher learning
27    with a bachelor's degree, or (iii) (c) have had  2  years  of
28    teaching experience and meet such other rules and regulations
29    as may be adopted by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
30      State  Board  of  Education  in consultation with the State
31    Teacher Certification Board.  Such certificate  shall  expire
32    on June 30 in the fourth year from date of issue.
33        (b)  A teacher holding a substitute teacher's certificate
 
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 1    may  teach  only  in  the place of a certified teacher who is
 2    under contract with the employing board and  may  teach  only
 3    when  no  appropriate fully certified teacher is available to
 4    teach in a substitute capacity.  A teacher holding  an  early
 5    childhood  certificate,  an  elementary  certificate,  a high
 6    school  certificate,  or  a  special  certificate  may   also
 7    substitute  teach  in  grades K-12 but only in the place of a
 8    certified teacher who is under contract  with  the  employing
 9    board.   A substitute teacher may teach only for a period not
10    to exceed 90 paid school days or 450 paid school hours in any
11    one school district in  any  one  school  term.   Where  such
12    teaching  is partly on a daily and partly on an hourly basis,
13    a school day shall be considered as  5  hours.  The  teaching
14    limitations  imposed by this subsection upon teachers holding
15    substitute  certificates  shall  not  apply  in  any   school
16    district operating under Article 34.
17    (Source: P.A. 89-212, eff. 8-4-95.)

18        (105 ILCS 5/21-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-10)
19        Sec. 21-10. Provisional certificate.
20        (A)  (Blank).  Until  July  1,  1972,  the  State Teacher
21    Certification Board may issue a provisional certificate valid
22    for teaching in elementary, high school  or  special  subject
23    fields subject to the following conditions:
24        A  provisional  certificate may be issued to a person who
25    presents certified evidence of  having  earned  a  bachelor's
26    degree from a recognized institution of higher learning.  The
27    academic  and  professional courses offered as a basis of the
28    provisional certificate shall  be  courses  approved  by  the
29    State  Board  of  Education  in  consultation  with the State
30    Teacher Certification Board.
31        A certificate earned under this plan may  be  renewed  at
32    the  end of each two-year period upon evidence filed with the
33    State Teacher Certification Board that the holder has  earned
 
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 1    8  semester  hours  of credit within the period; provided the
 2    requirements for the certificate of the same type issued  for
 3    the teaching position for which the teacher is employed shall
 4    be  met  by  the  end of the second renewal period.  A second
 5    provisional certificate shall not be issued.  The credits  so
 6    earned  must  be  approved by the State Board of Education in
 7    consultation with the State Teacher Certification  Board  and
 8    must   meet  the  general  pattern  for  a  similar  type  of
 9    certificate issued on the basis of credit.  No  more  than  4
10    semester hours shall be chosen from elective subjects.
11        (B)  After  July  1,  1972 and until January 1, 2000, the
12    State Teacher Certification Board may issue, and on and after
13    January 1, 2000 the Professional Teacher Standards Board  may
14    issue,  a provisional certificate valid for teaching in early
15    childhood, elementary, high school or special subject fields,
16    or for providing service as school service personnel  or  for
17    administering  schools subject to the following conditions: A
18    provisional certificate may be issued to a person  who  meets
19    the  requirements  for  a  regular  teaching,  school service
20    personnel or administrative certificate in another State  and
21    who presents certified evidence of having earned a bachelor's
22    degree from a recognized institution of higher learning.  The
23    academic  and  professional courses offered as a basis of the
24    provisional certificate shall  be  courses  approved  by  the
25    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
26    in  consultation  with the State Teacher Certification Board.
27    A certificate earned under this plan is valid for a period of
28    2 years and shall not be renewed; however, the individual  to
29    whom  this  certificate  is issued shall have passed or shall
30    pass the examinations set forth by the  Professional  Teacher
31    Standards  Board  State Board of Education within 9 months of
32    the date of issuance of the provisional certificate.  Failure
33    to pass the tests, required in Section 21-1a, shall result in
34    the cancellation of the provisional certificate.
 
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 1        (C)  The   Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
 2    Teacher Certification Board  may  also  issue  a  provisional
 3    vocational certificate and a temporary provisional vocational
 4    certificate.
 5             (1)  The  requirements  for a provisional vocational
 6        certificate  shall  be  determined  by  the  Professional
 7        Teacher Standards Board,  State  Board  of  Education  in
 8        consultation with the State Teacher Board; provided that,
 9        as   a  minimum  requirement,  the  person  to  whom  the
10        certificate is to be issued  has  earned,  the  following
11        minimum  requirements are met: (a) after July 1, 1972, at
12        least 30 semester  hours  of  credit  from  a  recognized
13        institution  of  higher  learning;  and (b) after July 1,
14        1974, at  least  60  semester  hours  of  credit  from  a
15        recognized institution of higher learning.
16             (2)  The  requirements  for  a temporary provisional
17        vocational  certificate  shall  be  determined   by   the
18        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board,  State  Board of
19        Education  in  consultation  with   the   State   Teacher
20        Certification   Board;   provided   that,  as  a  minimum
21        requirement, the person to whom the certificate is to  be
22        issued  has,  the following minimum requirements are met:
23        (a) after July 1, 1973, at  least  4,000  hours  of  work
24        experience in the skill to be certified for teaching; and
25        (b)  after  July  1,  1975,  at least 8,000 hours of work
26        experience in the skill to  be  certified  for  teaching.
27        Any  certificate  issued  under  the  provisions  of this
28        paragraph shall expire on June 30 following the  date  of
29        issue.   Renewals  may  be granted on a yearly basis, but
30        shall not be granted to any person who does not file with
31        the Professional Teacher Standards  Board  State  Teacher
32        Certification  Board  a  transcript  showing  at  least 3
33        semester hours of credit earned during the previous  year
34        in   a  recognized  institution  of  learning.   No  such
 
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 1        certificate shall be issued except upon certification  by
 2        the  employing  board,  subject  to  the  approval of the
 3        regional superintendent of  schools,  that  no  qualified
 4        teacher  holding  a  regular certificate or a provisional
 5        vocational  certificate  is  available  and  that  actual
 6        circumstances and need require such issuance.
 7        The courses or work experience offered as a basis for the
 8    issuance of the provisional  vocational  certificate  or  the
 9    temporary   provisional   vocational   certificate  shall  be
10    approved by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State
11    Board  of  Education  in  consultation with the State Teacher
12    Certification Board.
13        (D)  Until July 1, 1972, the State Teacher  Certification
14    Board   may   also   issue  a  provisional  foreign  language
15    certificate valid  for  4  years  for  teaching  the  foreign
16    language  named  therein  in all grades of the common schools
17    and shall be issued to persons  who  have  graduated  from  a
18    recognized institution of higher learning with not fewer than
19    120   semester  hours  of  credit  and  who  have  met  other
20    requirements as determined by the State Board of Education in
21    consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.   If
22    the holder of a provisional foreign language certificate that
23    was issued under this subsection before July 1, 1972 has been
24    suspended  because the holder of that provisional certificate
25    did not become is not a citizen of the United States within 6
26    years of the date of issuance of  the  original  certificate,
27    such  certificate  shall  remain be suspended by the regional
28    superintendent of schools of the region in which  the  holder
29    is  engaged  to  teach  and  shall  not  be reinstated by the
30    Professional Teacher Standards Board until the  holder  is  a
31    citizen of the United States.
32        (E)  Notwithstanding   anything   in   this  Act  to  the
33    contrary, the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
34    Teacher Certification Board shall issue part-time provisional
 
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 1    certificates  to  eligible  individuals who are professionals
 2    and craftsmen.
 3        The requirements for  a  part-time  provisional  teachers
 4    certificate  shall  be determined by the Professional Teacher
 5    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
 6    the State Teacher Certification Board, provided the following
 7    minimum requirements are met:  60 semester  hours  of  credit
 8    from  a  recognized  institution  of  higher learning or 4000
 9    hours of work experience in the skill  to  be  certified  for
10    teaching.
11        A  part-time  provisional  certificate  may be issued for
12    teaching no more than 2 courses of study for grades 6 through
13    12.
14        A part-time provisional  teachers  certificate  shall  be
15    valid  for  2  years  and may be renewed at the end of each 2
16    year period.
17    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98; revised 10-31-98.)

18        (105 ILCS 5/21-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11)
19        Sec. 21-11. General Certificate. The Professional Teacher
20    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board may issue a
21    general certificate for part-time teachers of adult education
22    subjects. Such certificates shall  be  for  teaching  in  the
23    subject or subjects named on the certificate.
24        The requirement for this certificate is determined by the
25    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
26    in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board.
27        This  certificate  may  be  issued  by  the  Professional
28    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher Certification Board
29    upon the request of the board employing such teacher and  the
30    approval  of  the  regional  superintendent of schools of the
31    region in which the teaching is done.
32        Any teacher who holds any  other  valid  certificate  for
33    teaching   in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois  may  teach
 
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 1    noncredit courses assigned by the superintendent  of  schools
 2    upon the authority of the board of education.
 3    (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)

 4        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.1)
 5        Sec.     21-11.1.      Certificates     for    equivalent
 6    qualifications. An applicant who holds or is eligible to hold
 7    a teacher's certificate or license under the laws of  another
 8    state  or  territory  of  the  United States may be granted a
 9    corresponding  teacher's  certificate  in  Illinois  on   the
10    written  authorization  of the Professional Teacher Standards
11    Board  State  Board  of  Education  and  the  State   Teacher
12    Certification Board upon the following conditions:
13             (1)  That the applicant is at least 19 years of age,
14        is  of  good  character, good health and a citizen of the
15        United States; and
16             (2)  That the requirements for a  similar  teacher's
17        certificate in the particular state or territory were, at
18        the  date  of  issuance of the certificate, substantially
19        equal to the  requirements  in  force  at  the  time  the
20        application is made for the certificate in this State.
21        After  January  1,  1988,  in  addition to satisfying the
22    foregoing conditions and requirements,  an  applicant  for  a
23    corresponding  teaching certificate in Illinois also shall be
24    required  to  pass  the  examinations  required   under   the
25    provisions  of  Section 21-1a as directed by the Professional
26    Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education.
27        In determining good character  under  this  Section,  any
28    felony   conviction  of  the  applicant  may  be  taken  into
29    consideration, but the conviction shall not operate as a  bar
30    to registration.
31        The  Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Board of
32    Education   in   consultation   with   the   State    Teacher
33    Certification  Board  shall  prescribe  rules and regulations
 
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 1    establishing the similarity of certificates in  other  states
 2    and   the   standards  for  determining  the  equivalence  of
 3    requirements.
 4    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)

 5        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.2)
 6        Sec.  21-11.2.   Additional   certificates;   experienced
 7    employed  teachers.   Experienced certified teachers employed
 8    in  Illinois  public  or  private  elementary  and  secondary
 9    schools seeking additional teaching certificates as  provided
10    in  Sections  21-2.1,  21-3,  21-4,  and  21-5  may submit an
11    application for evaluation of credentials to the Professional
12    Teacher Standards Board State  Teacher  Certification  Board.
13    Individuals  obtaining a certificate by transcript evaluation
14    shall meet the minimum requirements for  the  certificate  as
15    approved  by  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
16    Superintendent of Education in consultation  with  the  State
17    Teacher Certification Board.
18    (Source: P.A. 82-911.)

19        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.3)
20        Sec.  21-11.3.  Resident teacher certificate.  A resident
21    teacher certificate shall be valid for 2 years for employment
22    as a resident teacher in a public school.  It shall be issued
23    only  to  persons  who  have  graduated  from  a   recognized
24    institution of higher education with a bachelor's degree, who
25    are  enrolled  in  a  program  of preparation approved by the
26    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent  of
27    Education    in   consultation   with   the   State   Teacher
28    Certification Board, and  who  have  passed  the  appropriate
29    tests  as  required in Section 21-1a and as determined by the
30    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
31    .  A resident teacher certificate may be issued for  teaching
32    children  through grade 3 or for grades K-9, 6-12, or K-12 in
 
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 1    a special subject area and may not  be  renewed.  A  resident
 2    teacher  may  teach  only  in  conjunction with and under the
 3    direction of a certified teacher and shall not teach in place
 4    of a certified teacher.
 5    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)

 6        (105 ILCS 5/21-11.4)
 7        Sec. 21-11.4.  Illinois Teacher Corps.
 8        (a)  The General Assembly finds and determines  that  (i)
 9    it   is   important  to  encourage  the  entry  of  qualified
10    professionals into elementary and  secondary  teaching  as  a
11    second career; and (ii) there are a number of individuals who
12    have bachelors' degrees, experience in the work force, and an
13    interest  in serving youth that creates a special talent pool
14    with great potential for  enriching  the  lives  of  Illinois
15    children  as  teachers.  To provide this talent pool with the
16    opportunity to serve children as teachers, school  districts,
17    colleges,  and  universities  are  encouraged, as part of the
18    public policy of this  State,  to  enter  into  collaborative
19    programs   to   educate   and  induct  these  non-traditional
20    candidates into the teaching profession.  To  facilitate  the
21    certification  of  such  candidates, the Professional Teacher
22    Standards Board State Board  of  Education,  in  consultation
23    with  the  State  Teacher  Certification  Board, shall assist
24    institutions of higher education and  school  districts  with
25    the implementation of the Illinois Teacher Corps.
26        (b)  Individuals  who  wish  to become candidates for the
27    Illinois Teacher Corps program must earn a  resident  teacher
28    certificate as defined in Section 21-11.3, including:
29             (1)  graduation  from  a  recognized  institution of
30        higher education with a bachelor's degree and at least  a
31        3.00 out of a 4.00 grade point average;
32             (2)  a minimum of 5 years of professional experience
33        in the area the candidate wishes to teach;
 
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 1             (3)  passing   the   examinations  required  by  the
 2        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Board  of
 3        Education;
 4             (4)  enrollment in a  Masters  of  Education  Degree
 5        program  approved  by  the Professional Teacher Standards
 6        Board State Superintendent of Education  in  consultation
 7        with the State Teacher Certification Board; and
 8             (5)  completion of a 6 week summer intensive teacher
 9        preparation  course  which  is the first component of the
10        Masters Degree program.
11        (c)  School districts may hire an Illinois Teacher  Corps
12    candidate  after  the  candidate  has  received  his  or  her
13    resident  teacher  certificate.   The school district has the
14    responsibility of ensuring that the  candidates  receive  the
15    supports   necessary   to  become  qualified,  competent  and
16    productive teachers.  To be eligible to  participate  in  the
17    Illinois Teacher Corps program, school districts must provide
18    a minimum of the following supports to the candidates:
19             (1)  a  salary  and  benefits  package as negotiated
20        through the teacher contracts;
21             (2)  a mentor certified  teacher  who  will  provide
22        guidance  to  one  or  more  candidates  under  a program
23        developed collaboratively  by  the  school  district  and
24        university;
25             (3)  at  least  quarterly  evaluations  performed of
26        each candidate jointly by  the  mentor  teacher  and  the
27        principal of the school or the principal's designee; and
28             (4)  a  written  and signed document from the school
29        district outlining the support the  district  intends  to
30        provide   to   the   candidates,   for  approval  by  the
31        Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board   State   Teacher
32        Certification Board.
33        (d)  Illinois institutions of higher education shall work
34    collaboratively  with  school  districts and the Professional
 
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 1    Teacher Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board  to
 2    academically   prepare   the   candidates  for  the  teaching
 3    profession.  To be eligible to participate,  the  College  or
 4    School  of  Education of a participating Illinois institution
 5    of higher education must develop a curriculum that  provides,
 6    upon  completion,  a  Masters  Degree  in  Education  for the
 7    candidates.  The Masters Degree program must:
 8             (1)  receive approval from the Professional  Teacher
 9        Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board; and
10             (2)  take  no  longer  than 3 summers and 2 academic
11        years  to  complete,  and  balance  the  needs  and  time
12        constraints of the candidates.
13        (e)  Upon successful completion  of  the  Masters  Degree
14    program,   the   candidate    receives  an  Initial  Teaching
15    Certificate in the State of Illinois.
16        (f)  If an individual wishes to become a candidate in the
17    Illinois Teacher Corps program, but does not possess 5  years
18    of  professional  experience,  the individual may qualify for
19    the  program  by  participating  in  a  one  year  internship
20    teacher preparation program with a school district.  The  one
21    year  internship  shall  be  developed collaboratively by the
22    school  district  and  the  Illinois  institution  of  higher
23    education, and shall be approved by the Professional  Teacher
24    Standards Board State Teacher Certification Board.
25        (g)  The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board
26    of   Education  is  authorized  to  award  grants  to  school
27    districts that seek to prepare candidates  for  the  teaching
28    profession  who have bachelors' degrees and professional work
29    experience in subjects relevant to teaching fields,  but  who
30    do  not  have formal preparation for teaching.  Grants may be
31    made to school districts for up to $3,000 per candidate  when
32    the  school district, in cooperation with a public or private
33    university and the school district's teacher bargaining unit,
34    develop a program designed to prepare  teachers  pursuant  to
 
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 1    the Illinois Teacher Corps program under this Section.
 2    (Source: P.A. 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)

 3        (105 ILCS 5/21-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-12)
 4        Sec.  21-12.  Printing;  of Seal; Signature; Credentials.
 5    All certificates shall be printed by and bear the seal of the
 6    Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State    Teacher
 7    Certification  Board  and  the  signatures of the chairperson
 8    chairman and of the secretary of that the Board. All  college
 9    credentials  offered  as  the basis of a certificate shall be
10    presented  to  the  secretary  of  the  Professional  Teacher
11    Standards  Board  State  Teacher  Certification   Board   for
12    inspection   and   approval.  After  January  1,  1964,  each
13    application for a certificate or  evaluation  of  credentials
14    shall be accompanied by an evaluation fee of $20 which is not
15    refundable.
16        Commencing  January  1,  1994, an additional $10 shall be
17    charged for each application for a certificate or  evaluation
18    of  credentials  which  is  not  refundable.  There is hereby
19    created a Teacher Certificate Fee Revolving Fund as a special
20    fund  within  the  State  Treasury.   The  proceeds  of   the
21    additional $10 fee shall be paid into the Teacher Certificate
22    Fee  Revolving  Fund;  and  the  moneys in that Fund shall be
23    appropriated to the Professional Teacher Standards Board  and
24    used  by  that  Board  to  provide  the  technology and other
25    resources necessary for the timely and  efficient  processing
26    of certification requests.
27        When  evaluation  verifies  the  requirements for a valid
28    certificate, the applicant shall  be  issued  an  entitlement
29    card  that  may  be presented to a regional superintendent of
30    schools together with a fee of one dollar for issuance  of  a
31    certificate.
32        The applicant shall be notified of any deficiencies.
33    (Source: P.A. 88-224; revised 10-31-98.)
 
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 1        (105 ILCS 5/21-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-14)
 2        Sec. 21-14. Registration and renewal of certificates.
 3        (a)  A  limited  four-year  certificate  or a certificate
 4    issued  after  July  1,  1955,  shall  be  renewable  at  its
 5    expiration  or  within  60  days  thereafter  by  the  county
 6    superintendent of schools having supervision and control over
 7    the school where  the  teacher  is  teaching  upon  certified
 8    evidence  of meeting the requirements for renewal as required
 9    by this  Act  and  prescribed  by  the  Professional  Teacher
10    Standards Board State Board of Education in consultation with
11    the   State   Teacher  Certification  Board.   An  elementary
12    supervisory certificate shall not be renewed at  the  end  of
13    the  first four-year period covered by the certificate unless
14    the holder thereof has  filed  certified  evidence  with  the
15    Professional    Teacher   Standards   Board   State   Teacher
16    Certification Board that he has a master's degree or that  he
17    has  earned  8  semester  hours  of  credit  in  the field of
18    educational administration and supervision  in  a  recognized
19    institution of higher learning.  The holder shall continue to
20    earn  8  semester hours of credit each four-year period until
21    such time as he has earned a master's degree.
22        All certificates not  renewed  or  registered  as  herein
23    provided  shall  lapse  after  a  period  of 4 years from the
24    expiration  of  the  last   year   of   registration.    Such
25    certificates  may  be  reinstated  for a one year period upon
26    payment  of  all   accumulated   registration   fees.    Such
27    reinstated certificates shall only be renewed: (1) by earning
28    5  semester  hours  of  credit in a recognized institution of
29    higher learning in the field of professional education or  in
30    courses  related to the holder's contractual teaching duties;
31    or (2) by presenting evidence  of  holding  a  valid  regular
32    certificate  of  some  other  type.   Any  certificate may be
33    voluntarily  surrendered  by  the  certificate   holder.    A
34    voluntarily  surrendered  certificate  shall  be treated as a
 
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 1    revoked certificate.
 2        (b)  When those teaching certificates issued before  July
 3    1,  1999  are  renewed for the first time after July 1, 1999,
 4    all  such  teaching  certificates  shall  be  exchanged   for
 5    Standard  Teaching Certificates as provided in subsection (c)
 6    of  Section  21-2.   All  Initial   and   Standard   Teaching
 7    Certificates,   including   those   issued   to  persons  who
 8    previously held teaching certificates issued before  July  1,
 9    1999,  shall  be  renewable under the conditions set forth in
10    this subsection (b).
11        Initial Teaching Certificates are  nonrenewable  and  are
12    valid   for   4   years   of  teaching.    Standard  Teaching
13    Certificates are renewable  every  5  years  as  provided  in
14    subsection (c) of Section 21-2.
15    (Source:  P.A.  90-548,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-653, eff. 7-29-98;
16    90-811, eff. 1-26-99.)

17        (105 ILCS 5/21-16) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-16)
18        Sec. 21-16. Fees;  Requirement  for  registration.  Every
19    applicant when issued a certificate shall pay to the regional
20    superintendent  of  schools  a fee of $1, which shall be paid
21    into the institute fund. Every certificate issued  under  the
22    provisions  of  this  Act shall be registered annually or, at
23    the option of the holder of the  certificate,  once  every  3
24    years.   The   regional   superintendent  of  schools  having
25    supervision and control over the school where the teaching is
26    done shall register the certificate before the holder  begins
27    to  teach,  otherwise it shall be registered in any county in
28    the State of Illinois;  and  one  fee  of  $4  per  year  for
29    registration  or  renewal  of  one or more certificates which
30    have been issued to the same holder shall be  paid  into  the
31    institute fund.
32        Requirements  for registration of any certificate limited
33    in time shall include evidence of professional growth defined
 
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 1    as successful teaching experience since last registration  of
 2    certificate,  attendance at professional meetings, membership
 3    in professional organizations, additional credits  earned  in
 4    recognized teacher-training institutions, travel specifically
 5    for educational experience, reading of professional books and
 6    periodicals,  filing  all reports as required by the regional
 7    superintendent of schools and  the  State  Superintendent  of
 8    Education   or   such   other   professional   experience  or
 9    combination of experiences as are presented  by  the  teacher
10    and  are approved by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
11    State Superintendent of Education in  consultation  with  the
12    State  Teacher  Certification  Board. A duplicate certificate
13    may be issued to the holder of a valid  life  certificate  or
14    valid certificate limited in time by the Professional Teacher
15    Standards  Board  State Superintendent of Education; however,
16    it  shall  only  be  issued  upon  request  of   a   regional
17    superintendent  of  schools  and upon payment to the regional
18    superintendent of schools who requests such duplicate  a  fee
19    of $4.
20    (Source: P.A. 87-745.)

21        (105 ILCS 5/21-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-17)
22        Sec.  21-17.  Fee for original and duplicate certificate.
23    A duplicate certificate shall be issued by  the  Professional
24    Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Superintendent of Education
25    when requested by the regional superintendent of  schools  as
26    provided  in  Section  21-16.  The  request  for  a duplicate
27    certificate shall be accompanied by a fee of $4.
28    (Source: P.A. 81-940.)

29        (105 ILCS 5/21-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-19)
30        Sec. 21-19. Annual  report  by  certificate  holder.  The
31    holder  of  any  certificate,  shall  annually within 30 days
32    after assuming the duties of any teaching position report  to
 
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 1    the  regional  superintendent  having supervision and control
 2    over the school where the  teacher  is  employed  information
 3    relative  to  training,  experience,  salary  and  other data
 4    required by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State
 5    Board  of  Education.  The  reports shall be collected in the
 6    office of the regional  superintendent  and  filed  with  the
 7    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
 8    .
 9    (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)

10        (105 ILCS 5/21-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-21)
11        Sec.   21-21.   Definitions;  Granting  of  recognition).
12    "Recognized", as used in this Article in connection with  the
13    word  "school"  or "institution", means such school, college,
14    university, private junior college, public community  college
15    or  special  or  technical  school as maintains an equipment,
16    course  of  study,  a  standard  of  scholarship  and   other
17    requirements  set by the Professional Teacher Standards Board
18    State Board of  Education  in  consultation  with  the  State
19    Teacher  Certification  Board. Application for recognition of
20    such school or institution as a teacher training  institution
21    shall  be  made  to  the Professional Teacher Standards Board
22    State Board of Education. The Professional Teacher  Standards
23    Board State Board of Education in consultation with the State
24    Teacher  Certification  Board shall set the criteria by which
25    the school or institution shall be  judged  and  through  the
26    secretary  of  that  the  Board shall arrange for an official
27    inspection and shall grant  recognition  of  such  school  or
28    institution  as  may  meet  the  required standards.  If such
29    standards include requirements with regard  to  education  in
30    acquiring  skills  in  working  with  culturally  distinctive
31    students,  as  defined  by the Professional Teacher Standards
32    Board State  Board  of  Education,  then  the  rules  of  the
33    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
 
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 1      shall include the criteria used to evaluate compliance with
 2    this  requirement.  No  school  or  institution  shall   make
 3    assignments  of  student  teachers  or  teachers for practice
 4    teaching so as to promote segregation on the basis  of  race,
 5    creed, color, religion, sex or national origin.
 6        All  courses  listed or credentials required as the basis
 7    of any certificate or for its renewal shall be the equivalent
 8    of  courses  offered  by  a   recognized   teacher   training
 9    institution.  The  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
10    Board of Education in consultation  with  the  State  Teacher
11    Certification Board shall have the power to define a major or
12    minor  when used as a basis for recognition and certification
13    purposes.
14    (Source: P.A. 84-793.)

15        (105 ILCS 5/21-21.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-21.1)
16        Sec.   21-21.1.     Denial    of    recommendation    for
17    certification.    Each  college  or  university  providing  a
18    teacher education program approved and recognized pursuant to
19    the provisions of this Article shall establish procedures and
20    standards to assure that no student is denied the opportunity
21    to receive the institutional recommendation for certification
22    for reasons which are not directly related to the candidate's
23    anticipated performance as  a  certificated  employee.   Such
24    standards  and procedures shall include the specific criteria
25    used  by  the  institution  for  admission,  retention,   and
26    recommendation for certification, periodic evaluations of the
27    candidate's  progress toward an institutional recommendation,
28    counseling and  other  supportive  services  to  correct  any
29    deficiencies which are considered remedial, and provisions to
30    assure  that  no person is discriminated against on the basis
31    of race, color, national origin or a disability unrelated  to
32    the  person's  ability to perform as a certificated employee.
33    Each institution shall also establish a  grievance  procedure
 
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 1    for   those  candidates  who  are  denied  the  institutional
 2    recommendation  for  certification.   Within   10   days   of
 3    notification  of such denial, the college or university shall
 4    notify the candidate, in writing,  of  the  reasons  for  the
 5    denial  of  recommendation for certification.  Within 30 days
 6    of notification of the denial, the candidate may request  the
 7    college  or  university  to  review the denial.  If, after an
 8    additional 30 days to complete such review, the candidate  is
 9    denied  recommendation  for  certification, the candidate may
10    appeal to the  Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board  State
11    Teacher  Certification  Board  within 10 days of notification
12    for a review of the institution's  decision.   The  candidate
13    shall  have  the  right  to be present at any such review, to
14    present evidence, and to be  represented  by  counsel.   Upon
15    such  review  the  Professional Teacher Standards Board State
16    Teacher Certification Board shall take recommend  appropriate
17    action  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Education.   Each
18    institution's   standards   and   procedures,  including  the
19    criteria for  admission,  retention,  and  the  institutional
20    recommendation   for  certification,  and  the  institution's
21    grievance procedures, shall be subject  to  approval  by  the
22    Professional  Teacher Standards Board State Superintendent of
23    Education   in   consultation   with   the   State    Teacher
24    Certification  Board.   Each  applicant  to the institution's
25    teacher education program shall be provided with  a  copy  of
26    the procedures established pursuant to this Section.
27    (Source: P.A. 89-397, eff. 8-20-95.)

28        (105 ILCS 5/21-23) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23)
29        Sec. 21-23.  Suspension or revocation of certificate.
30        (a)  Any  certificate  issued  pursuant  to this Article,
31    including but not limited to any  administrative  certificate
32    or  endorsement,  may be suspended for a period not to exceed
33    one calendar year by the regional  superintendent  or  for  a
 
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 1    period   not   to  exceed  5  calendar  years  by  the  State
 2    Superintendent of Education upon evidence  of  immorality,  a
 3    condition  of  health  detrimental  to the welfare of pupils,
 4    incompetency, unprofessional  conduct,  the  neglect  of  any
 5    professional  duty,  willful failure to report an instance of
 6    suspected child abuse or neglect as required  by  the  Abused
 7    and  Neglected  Child  Reporting  Act,  failure  to establish
 8    satisfactory repayment on an educational loan  guaranteed  by
 9    the  Illinois  Student  Assistance  Commission, or other just
10    cause.   Unprofessional  conduct  shall  include  refusal  to
11    attend or participate  in,  institutes,  teachers'  meetings,
12    professional   readings,   or   to   meet   other  reasonable
13    requirements  of  the  regional   superintendent   or   State
14    Superintendent  of  Education.   Unprofessional  conduct also
15    includes conduct that  violates  the  standards,  ethics,  or
16    rules applicable to the security, administration, monitoring,
17    or   scoring  of,  or  the  reporting  of  scores  from,  any
18    assessment test or the Prairie State Achievement  Examination
19    administered  under  Section  2-3.64  or  that  is  known  or
20    intended  to  produce  or  report  manipulated or artificial,
21    rather than actual,  assessment  or  achievement  results  or
22    gains from the administration of those tests or examinations.
23    It  shall also include neglect or unnecessary delay in making
24    of statistical and other reports required by school officers.
25    The  regional  superintendent  or  State  Superintendent   of
26    Education  shall  upon  receipt  of evidence of immorality, a
27    condition of health detrimental to  the  welfare  of  pupils,
28    incompetency,  unprofessional  conduct,  the  neglect  of any
29    professional duty or other just cause serve written notice to
30    the individual and afford the individual  opportunity  for  a
31    hearing  prior  to  suspension.   If  a  hearing is requested
32    within 10 days of notice of opportunity for hearing it  shall
33    act  as  a  stay  of  proceedings  not to exceed 30 days.  No
34    certificate shall be  suspended  until  the  teacher  has  an
 
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 1    opportunity  for a hearing at the educational service region.
 2    When a certificate is suspended, the right  of  appeal  shall
 3    lie to the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
 4    Certification  Board.  When an appeal is taken within 10 days
 5    after notice  of  suspension  it  shall  act  as  a  stay  of
 6    proceedings  not  to  exceed  60  days.   If a certificate is
 7    suspended for a period  greater  than  one  year,  the  State
 8    Superintendent of Education shall review the suspension prior
 9    to  the  expiration  of  that period to determine whether the
10    cause for the suspension has been remedied  or  continues  to
11    exist.   Upon  determining  that the cause for suspension has
12    not abated, the State Superintendent of Education  may  order
13    that  the  suspension be continued for an appropriate period.
14    Nothing in this Section prohibits the continuance of  such  a
15    suspension   for   an   indefinite   period   if   the  State
16    Superintendent determines that the cause for  the  suspension
17    remains  unabated.   Any  certificate  may be revoked for the
18    same reasons as for suspension by the State Superintendent of
19    Education. No certificate shall be revoked until the  teacher
20    has  an  opportunity  for  a  hearing before the Professional
21    Teacher Standards Board State  Teacher  Certification  Board,
22    which  hearing  must be held within 60 days from the date the
23    appeal is taken.
24        The Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board  may
25    refuse  to issue or may suspend the certificate of any person
26    who fails to file a return, or to pay  the  tax,  penalty  or
27    interest  shown  in  a  filed  return,  or  to  pay any final
28    assessment of tax, penalty or interest, as  required  by  any
29    tax  Act  administered by the Illinois Department of Revenue,
30    until such time as the requirements of any such tax  Act  are
31    satisfied.
32        (b)  Any  certificate issued pursuant to this Article may
33    be suspended for an appropriate length of time as  determined
34    by either the regional superintendent or State Superintendent
 
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 1    of Education upon evidence that the holder of the certificate
 2    has  been named as a perpetrator in an indicated report filed
 3    pursuant to the Abused and  Neglected  Child  Reporting  Act,
 4    approved  June  26, 1975, as amended, and upon proof by clear
 5    and convincing evidence that the licensee has caused a  child
 6    to  be  an abused child or neglected child as defined in that
 7    the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
 8        The regional superintendent or  State  Superintendent  of
 9    Education   shall,   upon   receipt   of  evidence  that  the
10    certificate holder  has  been  named  a  perpetrator  in  any
11    indicated  report, serve written notice to the individual and
12    afford the individual opportunity  for  a  hearing  prior  to
13    suspension.    If  a  hearing  is requested within 10 days of
14    notice of opportunity for hearing, it shall act as a stay  of
15    proceedings  not  to exceed 30 days.  No certificate shall be
16    suspended until the teacher has an opportunity for a  hearing
17    at  the  educational  service  region.  When a certificate is
18    suspended, the right of appeal shall lie to the  Professional
19    Teacher  Standards  Board  State Teacher Certification Board.
20    When an appeal is  taken  within  10  days  after  notice  of
21    suspension  it  shall  act  as  a  stay of proceedings not to
22    exceed 60 days.  The  State  Superintendent  may  revoke  any
23    certificate  upon  proof  at  hearing by clear and convincing
24    evidence that the certificate holder has caused a child to be
25    an abused child or neglected child as defined in  the  Abused
26    and  Neglected  Child Reporting Act.  No certificate shall be
27    revoked until the teacher has an opportunity  for  a  hearing
28    before the Professional Teacher Standards Board State Teacher
29    Certification  Board,  which  hearing  must be held within 60
30    days from the date the appeal is taken.
31        (c)  The State Superintendent of Education  or  a  person
32    designated by him shall have the power to administer oaths to
33    witnesses  at  any  hearing conducted before the Professional
34    Teacher Standards Board  State  Teacher  Certification  Board
 
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 1    pursuant  to  this  Section.   The  State  Superintendent  of
 2    Education  or  a  person  designated  by him is authorized to
 3    subpoena and bring before the Professional Teacher  Standards
 4    Board  State  Teacher  Certification Board any person in this
 5    State and to take testimony either orally or by deposition or
 6    by exhibit, with the same fees and mileage and  in  the  same
 7    manner  as  prescribed  by law in judicial proceedings in the
 8    civil cases in circuit courts of this State.
 9        Any circuit court, upon  the  application  of  the  State
10    Superintendent  of  Education,  may,  by  order duly entered,
11    require the attendance of witnesses  and  the  production  of
12    relevant   books   and   papers  at  any  hearing  the  State
13    Superintendent of Education is authorized to conduct pursuant
14    to this Section, and the court may compel  obedience  to  its
15    orders by proceedings for contempt.
16        (d)  As  used in this Section, "teacher" means any school
17    district employee regularly  required  to  be  certified,  as
18    provided  in  this Article, in order to teach or supervise in
19    the public schools.
20    (Source: P.A. 89-610, eff. 8-6-96.)

21        (105 ILCS 5/21-23b) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-23b)
22        Sec. 21-23b.  Conviction of felony.
23        (a)  Whenever the holder of any certificate issued  under
24    this  Article  is  employed by the school board of any school
25    district, including a  special  charter  district  or  school
26    district organized under Article 34, and is convicted, either
27    after a bench trial, trial by jury, or plea of guilty, of any
28    offense   for  which  a  sentence  to  death  or  a  term  of
29    imprisonment in a  penitentiary  for  one  year  or  more  is
30    provided,   the   school  board  shall  promptly  notify  the
31    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
32     in writing of the name of the certificate holder,  the  fact
33    of  the conviction, and the name and location of the court in
 
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 1    which the conviction occurred.
 2        (b)  Whenever the Professional  Teacher  Standards  Board
 3    State  Board  of  Education  receives  notice of a conviction
 4    under subsection (a) or otherwise learns that any person  who
 5    is  a  "teacher" as that term is defined in Section 16-106 of
 6    the Illinois Pension Code has been convicted, either after  a
 7    bench trial, trial by jury, or plea of guilty, of any offense
 8    for  which a sentence to death or a term of imprisonment in a
 9    penitentiary  for  one  year  or  more   is   provided,   the
10    Professional Teacher Standards Board State Board of Education
11      shall  promptly  notify in writing the board of trustees of
12    the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, and
13     the board of trustees of the Public School Teachers' Pension
14    and Retirement Fund of the City of  Chicago,  and  the  State
15    Board  of  Education of the name of the certificate holder or
16    teacher, the fact of the conviction, the name and location of
17    the court in which the conviction occurred,  and  the  number
18    assigned  in  that  court to the case in which the conviction
19    occurred.
20    (Source: P.A. 87-1001.)

21        (105 ILCS 5/21-24) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-24)
22        Sec. 21-24.  Administrative Review Law. The provisions of
23    the  Administrative  Review  Law,  and  all  amendments   and
24    modifications thereof and the rules adopted pursuant thereto,
25    shall  apply to and govern all proceedings instituted for the
26    judicial review of  final  administrative  decisions  of  the
27    Professional   Teacher   Standards   Board   State  Board  of
28    Education, the State Teacher  Certification  Board,  and  the
29    regional  superintendent  of  schools under this Article. The
30    term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101
31    of the Code of Civil  Procedure.   The  commencement  of  any
32    action  for review shall operate as a stay of enforcement and
33    no action based on any decision of the  Professional  Teacher
 
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 1    Standards  Board  State  Board  of  Education,  State Teacher
 2    Certification Board or the regional superintendent of schools
 3    shall be taken pending final disposition of such review.
 4    (Source: P.A. 84-551.)

 5        (105 ILCS 5/21-25) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-25)
 6        Sec.  21-25.   School  service   personnel   certificate.
 7    Subject  to the provisions of Section 21-1a, a school service
 8    personnel certificate shall be issued to those applicants  of
 9    good  character,  good health, a citizen of the United States
10    and at least 19 years of age who  have  a  bachelor's  degree
11    with  not  fewer  than  120  semester hours from a recognized
12    institution of higher learning and who meets the requirements
13    established by the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
14    Superintendent of Education in consultation  with  the  State
15    Teacher  Certification  Board.   A  school  service personnel
16    certificate with a school nurse endorsement may be issued  to
17    a  person  who  holds  a  bachelor  of science degree from an
18    institution  of  higher  learning  accredited  by  the  North
19    Central Association or other comparable regional  accrediting
20    association.
21        Such  certificate  shall  be  endorsed  with  the area of
22    service as determined by the Professional  Teacher  Standards
23    Board  State Superintendent of Education in consultation with
24    the State Teacher Certification Board.
25        The holder of such certificate shall be entitled  to  all
26    of  the  rights  and  privileges  granted  holders of a valid
27    teaching    certificate,    including    teacher    benefits,
28    compensation and working conditions.
29        When the holder of such certificate has earned a master's
30    degree, including 8 semester hours of  graduate  professional
31    education  from  a recognized institution of higher learning,
32    and has at least 2  years  of  successful  school  experience
33    while  holding  such  certificate,  the  certificate  may  be
 
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 1    endorsed for supervision.
 2    (Source: P.A. 88-386.)

 3        (105 ILCS 5/34-18.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5)
 4        Sec. 34-18.5.  Criminal background investigations.
 5        (a)  After  August  1,  1985,  certified and noncertified
 6    applicants  for  employment  with  the  school  district  are
 7    required  as  a  condition  of  employment  to  authorize  an
 8    investigation to  determine  if  such  applicants  have  been
 9    convicted  of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses
10    in subsection (c) of  this  Section.  Authorization  for  the
11    investigation  shall  be  furnished  by  the applicant to the
12    school district, except that if the applicant is a substitute
13    teacher seeking employment in more than one school  district,
14    or   a   teacher   seeking  concurrent  part-time  employment
15    positions with more than one school district  (as  a  reading
16    specialist,  special  education  teacher or otherwise), or an
17    educational support  personnel  employee  seeking  employment
18    positions  with more than one district, any such district may
19    require  the  applicant  to  furnish  authorization  for  the
20    investigation  to  the   regional   superintendent   of   the
21    educational  service  region  in which are located the school
22    districts in which the applicant is seeking employment  as  a
23    substitute  or  concurrent  part-time  teacher  or concurrent
24    educational support personnel employee. Upon receipt of  this
25    authorization,   the   school  district  or  the  appropriate
26    regional superintendent, as the case may be, shall submit the
27    applicant's  name,  sex,  race,  date  of  birth  and  social
28    security number to the Department of State  Police  on  forms
29    prescribed  by  the  Department.  The regional superintendent
30    submitting the requisite information  to  the  Department  of
31    State  Police  shall  promptly notify the school districts in
32    which the applicant is seeking employment as a substitute  or
33    concurrent   part-time   teacher  or  concurrent  educational
 
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 1    support personnel employee  that  the  investigation  of  the
 2    applicant  has been requested. The Department of State Police
 3    shall conduct an investigation to ascertain if the  applicant
 4    being  considered for employment has been convicted of any of
 5    the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in  subsection  (c).
 6    The  Department  shall  charge  the  school  district  or the
 7    appropriate regional superintendent a fee for conducting such
 8    investigation, which fee shall  be  deposited  in  the  State
 9    Police  Services  Fund  and  shall not exceed the cost of the
10    inquiry; and the applicant shall not be  charged  a  fee  for
11    such  investigation by the school district or by the regional
12    superintendent.   The  regional   superintendent   may   seek
13    reimbursement  from  the  State  Board  of  Education  or the
14    appropriate school district or districts for fees paid by the
15    regional superintendent to the Department  for  the  criminal
16    background investigations required by this Section.
17        (b)  The  Department  shall furnish, pursuant to positive
18    identification, records of convictions,  until  expunged,  to
19    the  president  of  the  board  of  education  for the school
20    district  which  requested  the  investigation,  or  to   the
21    regional superintendent who requested the investigation.  Any
22    information  concerning the record of convictions obtained by
23    the president of the  board  of  education  or  the  regional
24    superintendent   shall   be  confidential  and  may  only  be
25    transmitted to  the  general  superintendent  of  the  school
26    district   or   his   designee,   the   appropriate  regional
27    superintendent if the  investigation  was  requested  by  the
28    board of education for the school district, the presidents of
29    the  appropriate  board  of education or school boards if the
30    investigation was requested  from  the  Department  of  State
31    Police    by   the   regional   superintendent,   the   State
32    Superintendent  of  Education,   the   Professional   Teacher
33    Standards  Board  State  Teacher  Certification  Board or any
34    other  person  necessary  to  the  decision  of  hiring   the
 
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 1    applicant for employment. A copy of the record of convictions
 2    obtained  from  the  Department  of  State  Police  shall  be
 3    provided to the applicant for employment. If an investigation
 4    of  an applicant for employment as a substitute or concurrent
 5    part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel
 6    employee in more than one school district  was  requested  by
 7    the  regional  superintendent,  and  the  Department of State
 8    Police upon investigation ascertains that the  applicant  has
 9    not  been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug
10    offenses in subsection  (c)  and  so  notifies  the  regional
11    superintendent,  then the regional superintendent shall issue
12    to the applicant a certificate evidencing that as of the date
13    specified by the Department of State Police the applicant has
14    not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or  drug
15    offenses  in  subsection (c).  The school board of any school
16    district located in the educational service region served  by
17    the  regional superintendent who issues such a certificate to
18    an applicant for employment as  a  substitute  or  concurrent
19    part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel
20    employee  in  more  than  one  such  district may rely on the
21    certificate issued by the  regional  superintendent  to  that
22    applicant,  or  may  initiate  its  own  investigation of the
23    applicant through the Department of State Police as  provided
24    in  subsection  (a). Any person who releases any confidential
25    information  concerning  any  criminal  convictions   of   an
26    applicant  for  employment  shall  be  guilty  of  a  Class A
27    misdemeanor,  unless  the  release  of  such  information  is
28    authorized by this Section.
29        (c)  The board of education shall not knowingly employ  a
30    person  who has been convicted for committing attempted first
31    degree murder or for committing or attempting to commit first
32    degree murder or a Class X felony or any one or more  of  the
33    following  offenses:   (i)  those  defined  in Sections 11-6,
34    11-9, 11-14, 11-15,  11-15.1,  11-16,  11-17,  11-18,  11-19,
 
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 1    11-19.1,   11-19.2,  11-20,  11-20.1,  11-21,  12-13,  12-14,
 2    12-14.1, 12-15 and 12-16 of the Criminal Code of  1961;  (ii)
 3    those  defined  in  the  Cannabis  Control  Act, except those
 4    defined in Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 5(a) of  that  Act;  (iii)
 5    those  defined in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act; and
 6    (iv) any offense committed or attempted in any other state or
 7    against the laws of the United States, which if committed  or
 8    attempted in this State, would have been punishable as one or
 9    more  of  the  foregoing  offenses.  Further,  the  board  of
10    education  shall  not  knowingly employ a person who has been
11    found to be the perpetrator of sexual or  physical  abuse  of
12    any minor under 18 years of age pursuant to proceedings under
13    Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
14        (d)  The  board of education shall not knowingly employ a
15    person for whom a criminal background investigation  has  not
16    been initiated.
17        (e)  Upon  receipt  of the record of a conviction of or a
18    finding of child abuse by a holder of any certificate  issued
19    pursuant  to  Article  21  or  Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
20    School  Code,  the  board   of   education   or   the   State
21    Superintendent  of  Education  shall initiate the certificate
22    suspension and revocation proceedings authorized by law.
23        (f)  After March 19, 1990, the provisions of this Section
24    shall apply to all employees  of  persons  or  firms  holding
25    contracts with any school district including, but not limited
26    to,  food  service  workers,  school  bus  drivers  and other
27    transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with
28    the pupils of any school in such district.  For  purposes  of
29    criminal background investigations on employees of persons or
30    firms  holding  contracts  with more than one school district
31    and assigned to more than one school district,  the  regional
32    superintendent of the educational service region in which the
33    contracting  school districts are located may, at the request
34    of any such school district, be responsible for receiving the
 
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 1    authorization  for  investigation  prepared  by   each   such
 2    employee  and  submitting the same to the Department of State
 3    Police.  Any information concerning the record of  conviction
 4    of  any such employee obtained by the regional superintendent
 5    shall  be  promptly  reported  to  the   president   of   the
 6    appropriate school board or school boards.
 7    (Source: P.A.  89-428,  eff.  12-13-95; 89-462, eff. 5-29-96;
 8    89-610, eff. 8-6-96; 90-566, eff. 1-2-98.)

 9        (105 ILCS 5/34-83) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-83)
10        Sec.   34-83.    Board   of   examiners--    Certificates
11    -Examinations.  A  board  of  3  examiners  shall examine all
12    applicants required to hold certificates  to  teach  and  the
13    board of education shall issue gratuitously to those who pass
14    a   required  test  of  character,  scholarship  and  general
15    fitness,  such  certificates  to  teach  as  they  are  found
16    entitled to receive. No person may be granted or continue  to
17    hold  a  teaching  certificate  who  has knowingly altered or
18    misrepresented his or her teaching qualifications in order to
19    acquire the certificate.  Any other certificate held by  such
20    person may be suspended or revoked by the board of examiners,
21    depending   upon   the   severity   of   the   alteration  or
22    misrepresentation. The board of examiners  shall  consist  of
23    the  general superintendent of schools and 2 persons approved
24    and appointed by the board of education upon  the  nomination
25    of  the  general  superintendent  of  schools.  The  board of
26    examiners shall  hold  such  examinations  as  the  board  of
27    education  may  prescribe,  upon  the  recommendation  of the
28    general superintendent  of  schools  and  shall  prepare  all
29    necessary  eligible  lists, which shall be kept in the office
30    of the general superintendent  of  schools  and  be  open  to
31    public  inspection.  Members  of the board of examiners shall
32    hold office for a term of 2 years.
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 1    effective July 1, 1988.  Commencing July  1,  1988,  all  new
 2    teachers   employed   by   the   board  shall  hold  teaching
 3    certificates issued by the State Teacher Certification  Board
 4    under   Article   21.    The  State  Board  of  Education  in
 5    consultation with  the  board  of  examiners  and  the  State
 6    Teacher  Certification Board shall develop procedures whereby
 7    Teachers currently holding valid certificates issued  by  the
 8    board  of  examiners prior to its abolition, and all teachers
 9    employed by the board after August 1, 1985 and prior to  July
10    1,   1988,   shall  no  later  than  July  1,  1988  exchange
11    certificates issued by the board of examiners for  comparable
12    certificates  issued  under  Article  21 by the State Teacher
13    Certification Board.  On the exchange of a certificate on  or
14    before  July  1,  1988, the State Teacher Certification Board
15    shall not  require  any  additional  qualifications  for  the
16    issuance  of  the comparable certificate are not required. If
17    prior to July 1, 1988 the board of examiners has issued types
18    of teaching certificates which  are  not  comparable  to  the
19    types  of  certificates  issued under Article 21 by the State
20    Teacher Certification Board, such certificates shall continue
21    to be valid  for  and  shall  be  renewable  by  the  holders
22    thereof,  and  no additional qualifications shall be required
23    by the Professional Teacher  Standards  Board  State  Teacher
24    Certification Board for any such renewal.
25        The  State  Board  of  Education  shall report by July 1,
26    1986, to the Illinois General Assembly on the procedures  for
27    exchange  it  has developed in consultation with the board of
28    examiners  and  the  State  Teacher  Certification  Board  as
29    required in this Section.
30    (Source: P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)

31        Section 10.  The Higher Education Student Assistance  Act
32    is amended by changing Section 65.20 as follows:
 
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 1        (110 ILCS 947/65.20)
 2        Sec. 65.20.  Science-mathematics teacher scholarships.
 3        (a)  The  Commission  may  annually  award  a  number  of
 4    scholarships,  not  to  570eed  200, to persons holding valid
 5    teaching certificates issued under Article 21 of  the  School
 6    Code.  Such scholarships shall be issued to teachers who make
 7    application  to  the Commission and who agree to take courses
 8    at  qualified  institutions  of  higher  learning  that  will
 9    prepare them to teach science or mathematics at the secondary
10    school level.
11        (b)  Scholarships awarded under  this  Section  shall  be
12    issued pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Commission;
13    provided  that no rule or regulation promulgated by the State
14    Board of Education  prior  to  the  effective  date  of  this
15    amendatory Act of 1993 pursuant to the exercise of any right,
16    power,  duty,  responsibility  or  matter of pending business
17    transferred  from  the  State  Board  of  Education  to   the
18    Commission  under this Section shall be affected thereby, and
19    all such rules and regulations shall  become  the  rules  and
20    regulations  of  the  Commission until modified or changed by
21    the  Commission  in  accordance  with   law.    In   awarding
22    scholarships,  the  Commission  shall  give priority to those
23    teachers with the greatest amount of seniority within  school
24    districts.
25        (c)  Each scholarship shall be utilized by its holder for
26    the payment of tuition at any qualified institution of higher
27    learning.   Such  tuition shall be available only for courses
28    that will enable the teacher to be certified to teach science
29    or mathematics at the secondary school level. The Commission,
30    in consultation with the Professional Teacher Standards Board
31     State Teacher Certification  Board,  shall  determine  which
32    courses are eligible for tuition payments under this Section.
33        (d)  The  Commission shall make tuition payments directly
34    to the qualified institution of  higher  learning  which  the
 
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 1    teacher  attends  for  the  courses  prescribed  or  may make
 2    payments to the teacher.  Any teacher who  receives  payments
 3    and  who  fails  to  enroll  in  the courses prescribed shall
 4    refund the payments to the Commission.
 5        (e)  Following the completion of the  program  of  study,
 6    the  teacher  must  accept  employment  within  2  years in a
 7    secondary school in Illinois within 60 miles of the teacher's
 8    residence to teach science or mathematics; provided, however,
 9    that the teacher  instead  may  elect  to  accept  employment
10    within  such 2 year period to teach science or mathematics in
11    a secondary school in Illinois which is more  than  60  miles
12    from  the  teacher's  residence.  Teachers who fail to comply
13    with this provision  shall  refund  all  of  the  scholarship
14    awarded   to  the  Commission,  whether  payments  were  made
15    directly to the institutions of higher  learning  or  to  the
16    teachers, and this condition shall be agreed to in writing by
17    all  scholarship  recipients  at  the time the scholarship is
18    awarded.  No teacher shall  be  required  to  refund  tuition
19    payments  if  his  or  her  failure to obtain employment as a
20    mathematics or science teacher in a secondary school  is  the
21    result  of financial conditions within school districts.  The
22    rules and regulations promulgated as provided in this Section
23    shall include provisions regarding the waiving  and  deferral
24    of such payments.
25        (f)  The  Commission,  with  the cooperation of the State
26    Board  of  Education,  shall   assist   teachers   who   have
27    participated  in  the scholarship program established by this
28    Section  in  finding    employment  to   teach   science   or
29    mathematics at the secondary level.
30        (g)  This  Section  is  substantially the same as Section
31    30-4b of the School Code, which Section is repealed  by  this
32    amendatory   Act  of  1993,  and  shall  be  construed  as  a
33    continuation of the science-mathematics  teacher  scholarship
34    program  established  by  that prior law, and not as a new or
 
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 1    different science-mathematics  teacher  scholarship  program.
 2    The   State   Board   of  Education  shall  transfer  to  the
 3    Commission, as the successor to the State Board of  Education
 4    for  all  purposes  of  administering    and implementing the
 5    provisions of this Section,  all  books,  accounts,  records,
 6    papers,   documents,   contracts,   agreements,  and  pending
 7    business in  any  way  relating  to  the  science-mathematics
 8    teacher scholarship program continued under this Section; and
 9    all  scholarships  at any time awarded under that program by,
10    and all applications for any such scholarships  at  any  time
11    made  to, the State Board of Education shall be unaffected by
12    the transfer to the Commission of all responsibility for  the
13    administration  and implementation of the science-mathematics
14    teacher scholarship program  continued  under  this  Section.
15    The  State Board of Education shall furnish to the Commission
16    such other information  as  the  Commission  may  request  to
17    assist it in administering this Section.
18        (h)  Appropriations for the scholarships outlined in this
19    Section   shall   be   made  to  the  Commission  from  funds
20    appropriated by the General Assembly.
21        (i)  For the purposes of this Section:
22        "Qualified institution  of  higher  learning"  means  the
23    University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago
24    State  University,  Eastern  Illinois  University,  Governors
25    State  University,  Illinois  State  University, Northeastern
26    Illinois University, Northern  Illinois  University,  Western
27    Illinois   University,  and  the  public  community  colleges
28    subject to the Public Community College Act.
29        "Secondary school level" means grades 9 through 12  or  a
30    portion of such grades.
31    (Source:  P.A.  88-228;  88-670,  eff.  12-2-94;  89-4,  eff.
32    1-1-96.)

33        Section  15.   The Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act is
 
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 1    amended by changing Section 4 as follows:

 2        (225 ILCS 15/4) (from Ch. 111, par. 5354)
 3        Sec. 4.  Application of Act.
 4        (a)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
 5    activities  of  and services of a student, intern or resident
 6    in psychology seeking to fulfill educational requirements  or
 7    the experience requirements in order to qualify for a license
 8    under  this  Act,  or  an  individual  seeking to fulfill the
 9    postdoctoral experience requirements in order to qualify  for
10    licensure  under  this  Act provided that such activities and
11    services are under the direct supervision, order, control and
12    full  professional  responsibility  of  a  licensed  clinical
13    psychologist and  provided  that  such  student,  intern,  or
14    resident  be  designated by a title "intern" or "resident" or
15    other designation of trainee status.   Supervised  experience
16    in  which  the  supervisor receives monetary payment or other
17    considerations from the supervisee or in which the supervisor
18    is hired by or otherwise employed by the supervisee shall not
19    be accepted by the Department as  fulfilling  the  practicum,
20    internship  or  2 years of satisfactory supervised experience
21    requirements for licensure. Nothing contained in this Section
22    shall be construed as permitting such students,  interns,  or
23    residents  to  offer their services as clinical psychologists
24    to any other person or persons and to accept remuneration for
25    such  clinical   psychological   services   other   than   as
26    specifically  excepted herein, unless they have been licensed
27    under the provisions of this Act.
28        (b)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting
29    persons licensed as clinical psychologists to engage  in  any
30    manner  in the practice of medicine as defined in the laws of
31    this State.  Persons licensed as clinical  psychologists  who
32    render services to persons in need of mental treatment or who
33    are  mentally  ill  shall  as  appropriate  initiate  genuine
 
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 1    collaboration  with  a  physician  licensed  in  Illinois  to
 2    practice medicine in all its branches.
 3        (c)  Nothing   in   this   Act   shall  be  construed  as
 4    restricting an individual certified as a school  psychologist
 5    by  the State Board of Education, who is at least 21 years of
 6    age and has had at least 3 years of full-time experience as a
 7    certified school psychologist, from using  the  title  school
 8    psychologist   and  offering  school  psychological  services
 9    limited  to  those  services  set  forth  in  the  rules  and
10    regulations that govern the administration and  operation  of
11    special  education pertaining to children and youth ages 0-21
12    prepared by the State Board of  Education.   Anyone  offering
13    such  services  under  the provisions of this paragraph shall
14    use the term school psychologist and describe  such  services
15    as  "School Psychological Services".  This exemption shall be
16    limited  to  the  practice  of  school  psychology  only   as
17    manifested  through psychoeducational problems, and shall not
18    be construed to allow a school psychologist to function as  a
19    general practitioner of clinical psychology, unless otherwise
20    licensed  under this Act.  However, nothing in this paragraph
21    prohibits a  school  psychologist  from  making  evaluations,
22    recommendations  or  interventions regarding the placement of
23    children  in  educational  programs  or   special   education
24    classes,  nor  shall  it  prohibit  school psychologists from
25    providing   clinical   psychological   services   under   the
26    supervision  of  a  licensed  clinical  psychologist.    This
27    paragraph   shall  not  be  construed  to  mandate  insurance
28    companies to reimburse school psychologists directly for  the
29    services  of school psychologists.  Nothing in this paragraph
30    shall be construed to exclude anyone duly licensed under this
31    Act  from  offering  psychological  services  in  the  school
32    setting.  School psychologists providing services  under  the
33    provisions  of this paragraph shall not provide such services
34    outside their employment to any child who is a student in the
 
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 1    district or districts which employ such school  psychologist.
 2    School  psychologists,  as described in this paragraph, shall
 3    be under the regulatory  authority  of  the  State  Board  of
 4    Education  and the Professional Teacher Standards Board State
 5    Teacher Certification Board.
 6        (d)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
 7    activities and use of the official title of "psychologist" on
 8    the  part  of  a  person  not  licensed  under  this  Act who
 9    possesses a doctoral degree earned in a program  concentrated
10    primarily  on  the  study  of  psychology  and is an academic
11    employee of a duly chartered institution of higher  education
12    insofar  as  such  person  engages in public speaking with or
13    without remuneration, provided that such person is not in any
14    manner  held  out  to  the  public  as  practicing   clinical
15    psychology  as  defined  in  paragraph 5 of Section 2 of this
16    Act, unless he or she has been licensed under the  provisions
17    of this Act.
18        (e)  Nothing  in this Act shall be construed to regulate,
19    control, or restrict the  clinical  practice  of  any  person
20    licensed,  registered,  or  certified in this State under any
21    other Act, provided that such person is  not  in  any  manner
22    held  out  to  the public as rendering clinical psychological
23    services as defined in paragraph 7 of Section 2 of this Act.
24        (f)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
25    activities and use of the title "psychologist" on the part of
26    a  person  who  practices  psychology and (i) who possesses a
27    doctoral degree earned in a program concentrated primarily on
28    the study of psychology; and (ii) whose services involve  the
29    development  and  application  of  psychological  theory  and
30    methodology  to  problems  of  organizations  and problems of
31    individuals  and  groups  in  organizational  settings;   and
32    provided  further  that such person is not in any manner held
33    out to the public as practicing clinical  psychology  and  is
34    not  held  out  to  the  public  by any title, description or
 
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 1    designation stating or implying that he or she is a  clinical
 2    psychologist  unless  he  or  she has been licensed under the
 3    provisions of this Act.
 4    (Source: P.A. 89-702, eff. 7-1-97.)

 5        Section 20.   The  Professional  Counselor  and  Clinical
 6    Professional  Counselor  Licensing Act is amended by changing
 7    Section 15 as follows:

 8        (225 ILCS 107/15)
 9        Sec. 15.  Exemptions.
10        (a)  This Act  does  not  prohibit  any  persons  legally
11    regulated in this State by any other Act from engaging in the
12    practice for which they are authorized as long as they do not
13    represent   themselves   by   the   title   of  "professional
14    counselor",  "licensed  professional  counselor",   "clinical
15    professional  counselor",  or "licensed clinical professional
16    counselor". This  Act  does  not  prohibit  the  practice  of
17    nonregulated  professions  whose practitioners are engaged in
18    the delivery of human services as long as these practitioners
19    do  not  represent  themselves  as  or  use  the   title   of
20    "professional  counselor", "licensed professional counselor",
21    "clinical  professional  counselor",  or  "licensed  clinical
22    professional counselor".
23        (b)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
24    activities  and services of a student, intern, or resident in
25    professional counseling or clinical  professional  counseling
26    seeking  to  fulfill  educational  requirements  in  order to
27    qualify for a  license  under  this  Act,  or  an  individual
28    seeking to fulfill the post-degree experience requirements in
29    order  to  qualify  for  licensing  under  this  Act,  if the
30    activities and services are supervised as specified  in  this
31    Act,  and that the student, intern, or resident is designated
32    by a title "intern" or "resident"  or  other  designation  of
 
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 1    trainee  status.  Nothing  contained in this Section shall be
 2    construed to permit students, interns, or residents to  offer
 3    their   services   as  professional  counselors  or  clinical
 4    professional counselors to any other  person  and  to  accept
 5    remuneration  for  such  professional  counseling or clinical
 6    professional counseling services other than  as  specifically
 7    excepted  in  this  Section,  unless  they have been licensed
 8    under this Act.
 9        (c)  Corporations,  partnerships,  and  associations  may
10    employ practicum students, interns, or post-degree candidates
11    seeking  to   fulfill   educational   requirements   or   the
12    professional  experience requirements needed to qualify for a
13    license under this  Act  if  their  activities  and  services
14    constitute a part of the student's supervised course of study
15    or  post-degree professional experience requirements. Nothing
16    in this paragraph shall prohibit a corporation,  partnership,
17    or  association  from contracting with a licensed health care
18    professional to provide services.
19        (d)  Nothing in this Act shall prevent the employment, by
20    a professional counselor or clinical professional  counselor,
21    person, association, partnership, or a corporation furnishing
22    professional  counseling  or clinical professional counseling
23    services  for  remuneration,  of  persons  not  licensed   as
24    professional  counselors  or clinical professional counselors
25    under this Act to perform services in various  capacities  as
26    needed if these persons are not in any manner held out to the
27    public  or  do  not  hold themselves out to the public by any
28    title or  designation  stating  or  implying  that  they  are
29    professional counselors or clinical professional counselors.
30        (e)  Nothing  in this Act shall be construed to limit the
31    services of a person, not licensed under  the  provisions  of
32    this  Act,  in  the  employ  of  a federal, State, county, or
33    municipal  agency   or   other   political   subdivision   or
34    not-for-profit  corporation  providing  human services if (1)
 
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 1    the services are a part of the duties in his or her  salaried
 2    position,  (2) the services are performed solely on behalf of
 3    his or her employer, and (3) that  person  does  not  in  any
 4    manner  represent  himself  or herself as or use the title of
 5    "professional counselor", "licensed professional  counselor",
 6    "clinical  professional  counselor",  or  "licensed  clinical
 7    professional counselor".
 8        (f)  Duly    recognized    members   of   any   religious
 9    organization shall not  be  restricted  from  functioning  in
10    their  ministerial  capacity  provided  they do not represent
11    themselves  as  being  professional  counselors  or  clinical
12    professional  counselors,  or  as   providing   "professional
13    counseling"  or  "clinical professional counseling". This Act
14    shall not apply or  be  construed  so  as  to  apply  to  the
15    employees  or agents of a church or religious organization or
16    an organization  owned,  controlled,  or  affiliated  with  a
17    church   or   religious   organization,  unless  the  church,
18    religious organization, or owned, controlled,  or  affiliated
19    organization  designates  or  holds these employees or agents
20    out to the public  as  professional  counselors  or  clinical
21    professional  counselors or holds out their services as being
22    "professional   counseling"   or    "clinical    professional
23    counseling".
24        (g)  Nothing  in  this Act shall prohibit individuals not
25    licensed under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  who  work  in
26    self-help  groups or programs or not-for-profit organizations
27    from  providing  services  in  those  groups,  programs,   or
28    organizations, as long as those persons are not in any manner
29    held  out to the public as practicing professional counseling
30    or  clinical  professional  counseling,  or   do   not   hold
31    themselves  out  to  the  public  by any title or designation
32    stating or implying that they are professional counselors  or
33    clinical professional counselors.
34        (h)  Nothing  in this Act shall be construed to limit the
 
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 1    activities and use of the  official  title  of  "professional
 2    counselor"  or  "clinical professional counselor" on the part
 3    of a person not licensed under this Act who  is  an  academic
 4    employee  of a duly chartered institution of higher education
 5    and who holds  educational  and  professional  qualifications
 6    equivalent  to  those  required for licensing under this Act,
 7    insofar as such activities are performed in the person's role
 8    as an academic employee, or insofar as such person engages in
 9    public speaking with or without remuneration.
10        (i)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
11    licensure  under  this  Act or limit the services of a school
12    counselor certified by  the  Professional  Teacher  Standards
13    Board  State  Teacher  Certification  Board  and  employed as
14    authorized by Section 10-22-24a or any  other   provision  of
15    the  School  Code as long as that person is not in any manner
16    held out to the  public  as  a  "professional  counselor"  or
17    "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his or
18    her  services as being "professional counseling" or "clinical
19    professional counseling".
20        (j)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
21    any  hospital,  clinic, home health agency, hospice, or other
22    entity that provides health care to  employ  or  to  contract
23    with a person licensed under this Act to provide professional
24    counseling  or  clinical  professional  counseling  services.
25    These  persons  may  not  hold  themselves  out  or represent
26    themselves to the public as being licensed under this Act.
27        (k)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
28    licensure  under  this  Act or limit the services of a person
29    employed by a private  elementary  or  secondary  school  who
30    provides counseling within the scope of his or her employment
31    as  long  as that person is not in any manner held out to the
32    public   as   a   "professional   counselor"   or   "clinical
33    professional counselor" or does  not  hold  out  his  or  her
34    services  as  being  "professional  counseling"  or "clinical
 
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 1    professional counseling".
 2        (l)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  require
 3    licensure  under  this  Act  or  limit the services of a rape
 4    crisis counselor who is an employee or volunteer  of  a  rape
 5    crisis organization as defined in Section 8-802.1 of the Code
 6    of  Civil  Procedure  as  long  as  that person is not in any
 7    manner held out to the public as a  "professional  counselor"
 8    or "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his
 9    or   her  services  as  being  "professional  counseling"  or
10    "clinical professional counseling".
11        (m)  Nothing in this Act shall be  construed  to  prevent
12    any  licensed social worker, licensed clinical social worker,
13    or   licensed   clinical   psychologist    from    practicing
14    professional  counseling as long as that person is not in any
15    manner held out to the public as a  "professional  counselor"
16    or "clinical professional counselor" or does not hold out his
17    or   her  services  as  being  "professional  counseling"  or
18    "clinical professional counseling".
19        (n)  Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit  the
20    activities  and  use  of  the official title of "professional
21    counselor" or "clinical professional counselor" on  the  part
22    of  a  person  not licensed under this Act who is a physician
23    licensed to practice medicine in all of  its  branches  under
24    the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
25        (o)  Nothing  in  this  Act shall be construed to require
26    licensure under this Act or limit the services of a  domestic
27    violence  counselor  who  is  an  employee  or volunteer of a
28    domestic violence program as defined in Section  227  of  the
29    Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
30    (Source: P.A.   87-1011;  87-1212;  87-1269;  88-45;  88-424;
31    88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

32        (105 ILCS 5/21-0.01 rep.)
33        (105 ILCS 5/21-13 rep.)
 
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 1        (105 ILCS 5/21-26 rep.)
 2        Section 25.  The School  Code  is  amended  by  repealing
 3    Sections 21-0.01, 21-13, and 21-26.

 4        Section  99.   Effective  date.   This  Act  takes effect
 5    January 1, 2000.
 
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 1                                INDEX
 2               Statutes amended in order of appearance
 3    105 ILCS 5/2-3.11         from Ch. 122, par. 2-3.11
 4    105 ILCS 5/10-21.9        from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9
 5    105 ILCS 5/10-22.20a      from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.20a
 6    105 ILCS 5/10-22.24a      from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.24a
 7    105 ILCS 5/10-22.34       from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34
 8    105 ILCS 5/14-1.09.1
 9    105 ILCS 5/14-8.05        from Ch. 122, par. 14-8.05
10    105 ILCS 5/14C-2          from Ch. 122, par. 14C-2
11    105 ILCS 5/21-0.05 new
12    105 ILCS 5/21-1           from Ch. 122, par. 21-1
13    105 ILCS 5/21-1a          from Ch. 122, par. 21-1a
14    105 ILCS 5/21-1b          from Ch. 122, par. 21-1b
15    105 ILCS 5/21-1c          from Ch. 122, par. 21-1c
16    105 ILCS 5/21-2           from Ch. 122, par. 21-2
17    105 ILCS 5/21-2.1         from Ch. 122, par. 21-2.1
18    105 ILCS 5/21-2b          from Ch. 122, par. 21-2b
19    105 ILCS 5/21-3           from Ch. 122, par. 21-3
20    105 ILCS 5/21-4           from Ch. 122, par. 21-4
21    105 ILCS 5/21-5           from Ch. 122, par. 21-5
22    105 ILCS 5/21-5a          from Ch. 122, par. 21-5a
23    105 ILCS 5/21-5b
24    105 ILCS 5/21-5c
25    105 ILCS 5/21-5d
26    105 ILCS 5/21-7.1         from Ch. 122, par. 21-7.1
27    105 ILCS 5/21-9           from Ch. 122, par. 21-9
28    105 ILCS 5/21-10          from Ch. 122, par. 21-10
29    105 ILCS 5/21-11          from Ch. 122, par. 21-11
30    105 ILCS 5/21-11.1        from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.1
31    105 ILCS 5/21-11.2        from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.2
32    105 ILCS 5/21-11.3        from Ch. 122, par. 21-11.3
33    105 ILCS 5/21-11.4
34    105 ILCS 5/21-12          from Ch. 122, par. 21-12
 
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 1    105 ILCS 5/21-14          from Ch. 122, par. 21-14
 2    105 ILCS 5/21-16          from Ch. 122, par. 21-16
 3    105 ILCS 5/21-17          from Ch. 122, par. 21-17
 4    105 ILCS 5/21-19          from Ch. 122, par. 21-19
 5    105 ILCS 5/21-21          from Ch. 122, par. 21-21
 6    105 ILCS 5/21-21.1        from Ch. 122, par. 21-21.1
 7    105 ILCS 5/21-23          from Ch. 122, par. 21-23
 8    105 ILCS 5/21-23b         from Ch. 122, par. 21-23b
 9    105 ILCS 5/21-24          from Ch. 122, par. 21-24
10    105 ILCS 5/21-25          from Ch. 122, par. 21-25
11    105 ILCS 5/34-18.5        from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5
12    105 ILCS 5/34-83          from Ch. 122, par. 34-83
13    110 ILCS 947/65.20
14    225 ILCS 15/4             from Ch. 111, par. 5354
15    225 ILCS 107/15
16    105 ILCS 5/21-0.01 rep.
17    105 ILCS 5/21-13 rep.
18    105 ILCS 5/21-26 rep.

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