SB 855 — EDUCATION-TECH

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Kimberly A.

Lightford - Emil Jones, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

ILCS 5/26-1 from Ch.

122, par.

26-1 concerning the compulsory school age.s a technical change in a Section LRB094 04499 NHT 34528 b A BILL FOR SB0855 LRB094 04499 NHT 34528 b AN ACT concerning education.

The School Code is amended by changing Section 26-110-20.12a as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/26-1)5/10-20.12a) (from Ch.

26-1)10-20.12a) Sec.

26-1.10-20.12a.

CompulsoryTuition schoolfor age-Exemptions.non-resident pupils.

WhoeverTo hascharge custodynon-resident orpupils controlwho ofattend any child between the theschools ages of 7 and 17 years (unless the childdistrict hastuition alreadyin graduatedan fromamount highnot school)exceeding shall110% causeof suchthe childper tocapita attendcost someof publicmaintaining school in the districtschools whereinof the childdistrict residesfor the entirepreceding time it is in session during the regular school term,year. except as provided in Section 10-19.1, and during a required summer school program established under Section 10-22.33B;

provided,Such thatper capita cost shall be computed by dividing the followingtotal childrencost shallof notconducting beand requiredmaintaining tothe attendschools of the publicdistrict schools:by the average daily attendance, including tuition pupils.

1.Depreciation on the buildings and equipment of the schools of the district, and the amount of annual depreciation on such buildings and equipment shall be dependent upon the useful life of such property.

AnyThe childtuition attendingcharged ashall privatein orno acase parochialexceed school110% whereof childrenthe areper taughtcapita thecost branches of educationconducting taughtand tomaintaining childrenthe schools of correspondingthe agedistrict andattended, gradeas indetermined thewith publicreference schools,to andthe wheremost therecent instructionaudit ofprepared theunder childSection in3-7 thewhich branchesis ofavailable educationat isthe incommencement of the Englishcurrent language;school year.

2.Non-resident pupils attending the schools of the district for less than the school term shall have their tuition apportioned, however pupils who become non-resident during a school term shall not be charged tuition for the remainder of the school term in which they became non-resident pupils.

AnyUnless childotherwise whoagreed isto physicallyby orthe mentallyparties unableinvolved toand attendwhere school,the sucheducational disabilityservices beingare certifiednot tootherwise theprovided countyfor, oreducational districtservices truantfor officeran byIllinois student under the age of 21 in a competentresidential physicianprogram designed to correct alcohol or aSB0855 ChristianEngrossed Science- practitioner2 residing- inLRB094 this04499 StateNHT and34528 listedb other drug dependencies shall be provided by the district in which the Christianfacility Scienceis Journal;located and financed as follows.

orThe whocost isof excusededucational forservices temporaryshall absencebe forpaid cause by the principaldistrict orin teacherwhich of the schoolstudent whichresides in an amount equal to the childcost attends;of providing educational services in a treatment facility.

thePayments exemptionsshall inbe thismade paragraphby (2) do not apply to any female who is pregnant or the motherdistrict of onethe orstudent’s moreresidence children,and exceptshall wherebe amade female is unable to attendthe schooldistrict duewherein to a complication arising from her pregnancy and the existencefacility of such complication is certifiedlocated tono theless countythan oronce SB0855per -month 2unless -otherwise LRB094agreed 04499to NHT 34528 b district truant officer by athe competentparties. physician;

3.Through the 2010-2011 school year, any restriction on the amount of tuition a school district may charge a non-resident pupil does not apply to a school district that, during February 2005, requested a 5-year mandate waiver or modification with respect to this restriction in accordance with Section 2-3.25g of this Code and for which the General Assembly approved only one year of the 5-year request.

Any child necessarily and lawfully employed according to the provisions of the law regulating child labor may be excused from attendance at school by the county superintendent of schools or the superintendent of the public school which the child should be attending, on certification of the facts by and the recommendation of the school board of the public school district in which the child resides.

In districts having part time continuation schools, children so excused shall attend such schools at least 8 hours each week;

4.

Any child over 12 and under 14 years of age while in attendance at confirmation classes;

5.

Any child absent from a public school on a particular day or days or at a particular time of day for the reason that he is unable to attend classes or to participate in any examination, study or work requirements on a particular day or days or at a particular time of day, because the tenets of his religion forbid secular activity on a particular day or days or at a particular time of day.

Each school board shall prescribe rules and regulations relative to absences for religious holidays including, but not limited to, a list of religious holidays on which it shall be mandatory to excuse a child;

but nothing in this paragraph 5 shall be construed to limit the right of any school board, at its discretion, to excuse an absence on any other day by reason of the observance of a religious holiday.

A school board may require the parent or guardian of a child who is to be excused from attending school due to the observance of a religious holiday to give notice, not exceeding 5 days, of the child’s absence to the school principal or other school personnel.

Any child excused from attending school under this paragraph 5 shall not be required to submit a written excuse for such absence after returning to school;

and 6.

Any child 16 years of age or older who (i) submits to a school district evidence of necessary and lawful employment pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Section and (ii) is enrolled in SB0855 - 3 - LRB094 04499 NHT 34528 b a graduation incentives program pursuant to Section 26-16 of this Code or an alternative learning opportunities program established pursuant to Article 13B of this Code.

93-858,89-397, eff.

1-1-05.)8-20-95;

90-649, eff.

7-24-98.) Section 99.

Effective date.

This Act takes effect upon becoming law.