Bill Title: Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall make available a content area test for applicants seeking a State license to teach in any of grades one through 6. Provides that the test shall include foundational teaching skills and methods that are developmentally and educationally appropriate for students in grades one through 6. Provides that, subject to vendor availability, for all content area tests that include content area questions for college algebra, college statistics, and music theory, contracts entered into after the effective date of the amendatory Act with applicable testing vendors shall allow for questions regarding college algebra, college statistics, and music theory to be removed from the content area test. Provides that if those questions cannot be removed by any available vendors, then, subject to vendor availability, the State Board of Education shall allow for the overall score for the content area test to not include the scores for college algebra, college statistics, and music theory. Provides that the State Board of Education shall allow for the retaking of only the subsections of the test that were failed previously. Provides that the subsections with the highest score each time the content test is taken shall count on the overall score.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-24 - Referred to Assignments [HB5057 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

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