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Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson
Filed: 3/19/2014
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2793
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2793 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section |
| 5 | | 2-3.160 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/2-3.160 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 2-3.160. Student discipline report; school discipline |
| 8 | | improvement plan. |
| 9 | | (a) On or before October 31, 2015 and on or before October |
| 10 | | 31 of each subsequent year, the State Board of Education, |
| 11 | | through the State Superintendent of Education, shall prepare a |
| 12 | | report on student discipline in all school districts in this |
| 13 | | State. This report must be posted on the Internet website of |
| 14 | | the State Board of Education. The report shall include both of |
| 15 | | the following: |
| 16 | | (1) Data on the issuance of out-of-school suspensions, |
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| 1 | | expulsions, and removals to alternative settings, |
| 2 | | disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, age, grade |
| 3 | | level, limited English proficiency, incident type, and |
| 4 | | discipline duration. |
| 5 | | (2) Data on the use of arrests or criminal citations, |
| 6 | | disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, and age. |
| 7 | | (b) The State Board of Education shall analyze the data |
| 8 | | under subsection (a) of this Section on an annual basis and |
| 9 | | determine the top quartile of school districts for the |
| 10 | | following metric: total number of instructional days on which |
| 11 | | students were excluded, divided by the total student |
| 12 | | population. The State Board of Education shall determine the |
| 13 | | top quartile of school districts for racial disproportionality |
| 14 | | in this metric. The State Board of Education shall require each |
| 15 | | of the school districts identified in this quartile to submit a |
| 16 | | school discipline improvement plan identifying the strategies |
| 17 | | the school district will implement to reduce the use of harsh |
| 18 | | disciplinary practices. This plan must be approved at a public |
| 19 | | school board meeting and posted on the school district's |
| 20 | | Internet website. Within one year after being identified, the |
| 21 | | school district shall post a progress report describing the |
| 22 | | implementation of the school discipline improvement plan and |
| 23 | | the results achieved on the school district's Internet website.
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| 24 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
| 25 | | 2014.".
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