Bill Text: IL HB4070 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that in consultation with education stakeholders, the State Board of Education shall develop a comprehensive literacy plan for the State that at a minimum, addresses specified areas. Provides that the State Board shall develop and adopt a comprehensive literacy plan for the State on or before January 31, 2024. Provides that the State Board shall adopt rules necessary to implement this Section. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony M. McCombie [HB4070 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4070-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4070 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Severin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/2-3.196 new
Amends the School Code. Provides that in consultation with education stakeholders, the State Board of Education shall develop a comprehensive literacy plan for the State that at a minimum, addresses specified areas. Provides that the State Board shall develop and adopt a comprehensive literacy plan for the State on or before January 31, 2024. Provides that the State Board shall adopt rules necessary to implement this Section. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Section
2-3.196 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/2-3.196 new)
Sec. 2-3.196. Comprehensive literacy plan.
(a) In consultation with education stakeholders, the State
Board of Education shall develop a comprehensive literacy plan
for the State that at a minimum, addresses the following
areas:
(1) developing goals for the optimal number of
students assigned to each kindergarten through grade 6
classroom.
(2) developing a comprehensive reading teacher content
area test that shall be taken by any candidate for an
endorsement as a reading teacher or reading specialist
that addresses the following foundations:
(A) phonological and phonemic awareness;
(B) concepts of print and the alphabetic
principle;
(C) the role of phonics in promoting reading
development;

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(D) word analysis skills and strategies;
(E) vocabulary development;
(F) linguistics;
(G) morphology;
(H) application of reading comprehension skills
and strategies; and
(I) methods for assessing reading development;
(3) establishing a grant program that makes funding
available to school districts to hire reading teachers,
reading specialists, literacy specialists, or reading and
literacy coaches; and
(4) establishing a grant program that may be used by a
school district to provide additional bonuses to any
educator that has achieved or is seeking a Reading Teacher
or Reading Specialist Endorsement on their Professional
Educator License.
(b) The State Board of Education shall develop and adopt a
comprehensive literacy plan on or before January 31, 2024.
(c) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules
necessary to implement this Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.