Bill Text: IL HB0254 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Chaptered


Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that, no later than January 31, 2021, and annually thereafter, the State Board of Education must make available on its website information about actively employed teachers within each school district, pupil-teacher ratios for each school district, class instructors by grade level and subject in each school district, and class size in each school; defines terms. Requires each school district to report the information required for the State Board's report no later November 16, 2021, and annually thereafter, and also make that information available on its website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-23 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0451 [HB0254 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0254-Chaptered.html



Public Act 101-0451
HB0254 EnrolledLRB101 00365 AXK 45369 b
AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Sections
2-3.136a, 10-20.69, and 34-18.61 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.136a new)
Sec. 2-3.136a. Class size report.
(a) In this Section:
"Class" means a setting in which organized instruction of
academic course content is regularly provided to a group of
students for a given scheduled period of time.
"Class instructor" means a teacher who has been assigned to
teach students in a class at a public school.
"Class section" means a single class where a class
instructor is assigned to teach more than one class per school
day.
"Class size" means the number of students in a class who
appear on the class roster and for whom the class instructor is
primarily responsible and accountable.
"Pupil-teacher ratio" means the total number of students in
a school divided by the total number of teachers working in
that school.
"Teacher" means an individual instructing students at a
public school.
(b) No later than January 31, 2021, and annually
thereafter, the State Board of Education must make available on
its website all of the following information:
(1) The total number of teachers actively employed
within each school district, listed by individual school.
(2) The pupil-teacher ratios for each school district.
(3) The number of class instructors, by grade level and
subject, in each school district.
(4) The class size for each class and class section at
each school in a school district and the total number of
classes or class sections in each school that exceeds the
class size guidelines under paragraph (2) of subsection (b)
of Section 18-8.15.
(105 ILCS 5/10-20.69 new)
Sec. 10-20.69. Class size reporting. No later than November
16, 2020, and annually thereafter, each school district must
report to the State Board of Education information on the
school district described under subsection (b) of Section
2-3.136a and must make that information available on its
website.
(105 ILCS 5/34-18.61 new)
Sec. 34-18.61. Class size reporting. No later than November
16, 2020, and annually thereafter, the school district must
report to the State Board of Education information on the
school district described under subsection (b) of Section
2-3.136a and must make that information available on its
website.
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