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91_HB1812eng HB1812 Engrossed LRB9103828NTsb 1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section 2 10-17a. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing 6 Section 10-17a as follows: 7 (105 ILCS 5/10-17a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-17a) 8 Sec. 10-17a. Better schools accountability. 9 (1) Policy and Purpose. It shall be the policy of the 10 State of Illinois that each school district in this State, 11 including special charter districts and districts subject to 12 the provisions of Article 34, shall submit to parents, 13 taxpayers of such district, the Governor, the General 14 Assembly, and the State Board of Education a school report 15 card assessing the performance of its schools and students. 16 The report card shall be an index of school performance 17 measured against statewide and local standards and will 18 provide information to make prior year comparisons and to set 19 future year targets through the school improvement plan. 20 (2) Reporting Requirements. Each school district shall 21 prepare a report card in accordance with the guidelines set 22 forth in this Section which describes the performance of its 23 students by school attendance centers and by district and the 24 district's use of financial resources. Such report card 25 shall be presented at a regular school board meeting subject 26 to applicable notice requirements, and such report cards 27 shall be made available to a newspaper of general circulation 28 serving the district and shall be sent home to parents. In 29 addition, each school district shall submit the completed 30 report card to the office of the district's Regional 31 Superintendent which shall make copies available to any HB1812 Engrossed -2- LRB9103828NTsb 1 individuals requesting them. Beginning with the 2000-2001 2 school year and each school year thereafter, the State Board 3 of Education shall make available on its World Wide Web Site 4 report cards submitted from each school district. 5 The report card shall be completed and disseminated prior 6 to October 31 in each school year. The report card shall 7 contain, but not be limited to, actual local school 8 attendance center, school district and statewide data 9 indicating the present performance of the school, the State 10 norms and the areas for planned improvement for the school 11 and school district. 12 (3) (a) The report card shall include the following 13 applicable indicators of attendance center, district, and 14 statewide student performance: percent of students who 15 exceed, meet, or do not meet standards established by the 16 State Board of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.25a; 17 composite and subtest means on nationally normed achievement 18 tests for college bound students; student attendance rates; 19 chronic truancy rate; dropout rate; graduation rate; and 20 student mobility, turnover shown as a percent of transfers 21 out and a percent of transfers in. 22 (b) The report card shall include the following 23 descriptions for the school, district, and State: average 24 class size; amount of time per day devoted to mathematics, 25 science, English and social science at primary, middle and 26 junior high school grade levels; number of students taking 27 the Prairie State Achievement Examination under subsection 28 (c) of Section 2-3.64, the number of those students who 29 received a score of excellent, and the average score by 30 school of students taking the examination; pupil-teacher 31 ratio; pupil-administrator ratio; operating expenditure per 32 pupil; district expenditure by fund; average administrator 33 salary; and average teacher salary. 34 (c) The report card shall include applicable indicators HB1812 Engrossed -3- LRB9103828NTsb 1 of parental involvement in each attendance center. The 2 parental involvement component of the report card shall 3 include the percentage of students whose parents or guardians 4 have had one or more personal contacts with the students' 5 teachers during the school year concerning the students' 6 education, and such other information, commentary, and 7 suggestions as the school district desires. For the purposes 8 of this paragraph, "personal contact" includes, but is not 9 limited to, parent-teacher conferences, parental visits to 10 school, school visits to home, telephone conversations, and 11 written correspondence. The parental involvement component 12 shall not single out or identify individual students, 13 parents, or guardians by name. 14 (d) The report card form shall be prepared by the State 15 Board of Education and provided to school districts. 16 (Source: P.A. 89-610, eff. 8-6-96.) 17 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 18 becoming law.