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105 ILCS 5/27A-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-2.     Legislative declaration.(a) The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:(1) Encouraging educational excellence is in the best     interests of the people of this State.(2) There are educators, community members, and     parents in Illinois who can offer flexible and innovative educational techniques and programs, but who lack an avenue through which to provide them within the public school system.(3) The enactment of legislation authorizing charter     schools to operate in Illinois will promote new options within the public school system and will provide pupils, educators, community members, and parents with the stimulus to strive for educational excellence.(b) The General Assembly further finds and declares that this Article is  enacted for the following purposes:(1) To improve pupil learning by creating schools     with high, rigorous standards for pupil performance.(2) To increase learning opportunities for all     pupils, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for at-risk pupils, consistent, however, with an equal commitment to increase learning opportunities for all other groups of pupils in a manner that does not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, ancestry, marital status, or need for special education services.(3) To encourage the use of teaching methods that may     be different in some respects than others regularly used in the public school system.(4) To allow the development of new, different, or     alternative forms of measuring pupil learning and achievement.(5) To create new professional opportunities for     teachers, including the opportunity to be responsible for the learning program at the school site.(6) To provide parents and pupils with expanded     choices within the public school system.(7) To encourage parental and community involvement     with public schools.(8) To hold charter schools accountable for meeting     rigorous school content standards and to provide those schools with the opportunity to improve accountability.(c) In authorizing charter schools, it is the intent of the General Assembly  to create a legitimate avenue for parents,  teachers, and community members to take responsible risks and create new,  innovative, and more flexible ways of educating children  within the public  school system.  The General Assembly seeks to create opportunities within the  public school system of Illinois for development of  innovative and accountable  teaching techniques.    The provisions of this  Article should be interpreted liberally to support the findings and goals of  this Section and to advance a renewed commitment by the State of Illinois to  the mission, goals, and diversity of public education.    (Source: P.A. 89-450, eff. 4-10-96; 90-548, eff. 1-1-98.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-3. Definitions. For purposes of this Article:"At-risk pupil" means a pupil who, because of physical, emotional,  socioeconomic, or cultural factors, is less likely to succeed in a conventional  educational environment."Authorizer" means an entity authorized under this Article to review applications, decide whether to approve or reject applications, enter into charter contracts with applicants, oversee charter schools, and decide whether to renew, not renew, or revoke a charter."Commission" means the State Charter School Commission established under Section 27A-7.5 of this Code."Local school board" means the duly elected or appointed school board or  board of education of a public school district, including special charter  districts and school districts located in cities having a population of more  than 500,000, organized under the laws of this State."State Board" means the State Board of Education.  (Source: P.A. 97-152, eff. 7-20-11.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-5.5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-5.5. Charter school truancy.(a)  A charter school shall comply with all applicable absenteeism and truancy policies and requirements applicable to public schools under the laws of the State of Illinois.(b)  A charter school shall define a truant as a child who is subject to compulsory school attendance and who is absent without valid cause from such attendance for a school day or portion thereof.(c)  A charter school shall define a chronic or habitual truant as a child who is subject to compulsory school attendance and who is absent without valid cause from such attendance for 5% or more of the previous 180 regular attendance days.(d)  A charter school shall define a truant minor as a chronic truant to whom supportive services, including prevention, diagnostic, intervention, and remedial services, alternative programs, and other school and community resources have been provided and have failed to result in the cessation of chronic truancy or have been offered and refused.(e)  A charter school shall define a dropout as any child enrolled in grades 9 through 12 whose name has been removed from the charter school enrollment roster for any reason other than the student's death, extended illness, removal for medical non-compliance, expulsion, aging out, graduation, or completion of a program of studies and who has not transferred to another public or private school and is not known to be home-schooled by his or her parents or guardians or continuing school in another country.  (Source: P.A. 99-596, eff. 6-22-16.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-6. Contract contents; applicability of laws and regulations.(a) A certified charter shall constitute a binding contract and agreement  between  the charter school and a local school board under the terms of which the local  school board authorizes the governing body of the charter school to operate the  charter  school on the terms specified in the contract.(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, the certified  charter  may  not waive or release the charter school from the State goals, standards, and  assessments established pursuant to Section 2-3.64a-5 of this Code.  Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, the certified charter for a charter  school operating in a city having a population exceeding 500,000 shall  require the charter school to administer any other nationally recognized  standardized tests to its students that the chartering entity administers to  other  students, and the results on such tests shall be included in the  chartering entity's assessment reports.(c) Subject to the provisions of subsection (e), a material revision to a  previously certified contract or a renewal shall be made with  the approval of both the local school board and the governing body of the  charter school.(c-5) The proposed contract shall include a provision on how both parties  will address minor violations of the contract.(d) The proposed contract between the governing body of a proposed charter  school and the local school board as described in Section 27A-7 must be  submitted to and certified by the State Board before it can take effect.  If  the State Board recommends that the proposed contract be modified for  consistency with this Article before it can be certified, the modifications  must be consented to by both the governing body of  the charter school and the local school board, and resubmitted to the State  Board for its certification.  If the proposed contract is resubmitted in a form  that is not consistent with this Article, the State  Board may refuse to certify the charter.The State Board shall assign a number to each submission or resubmission in  chronological order of receipt, and shall determine whether the proposed  contract is consistent with the provisions of this Article.  If the proposed  contract complies, the State Board shall so certify.(e) No renewal of a previously certified contract is effective unless and until the State Board certifies that the renewal is consistent with the provisions of this Article.  A material revision to a previously certified contract may go into effect immediately upon approval of both the local school board and the governing body of the charter school, unless either party requests in writing that the State Board certify that the material revision is consistent with the provisions of this Article. If such a request is made, the proposed material revision is not effective unless and until the State Board so certifies.  (Source: P.A. 98-972, eff. 8-15-14; 98-1048, eff. 8-25-14; 99-78, eff. 7-20-15.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-7.10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-7.10. Authorizer powers and duties; immunity; principles and standards.(a) Authorizers are responsible for executing, in accordance with this Article, all of the following powers and duties:(1) Soliciting and evaluating charter applications.(2) Approving quality charter applications that meet     identified educational needs and promote a diversity of educational choices.(3) Declining to approve weak or inadequate charter     applications.(4) Negotiating and executing sound charter contracts     with each approved charter school.(5) Monitoring, in accordance with charter contract     terms, the performance and legal compliance of charter schools.(6) Determining whether each charter contract merits     renewal, nonrenewal, or revocation.(b) An authorizing entity may delegate its duties to officers, employees, and contractors.(c) Regulation by authorizers is limited to the powers and duties set forth in subsection (a) of this Section and must be consistent with the spirit and intent of this Article.(d) An authorizing entity, members of the local school board, the State Board, and the Commission, in their official capacity, and employees of an authorizer are immune from civil and criminal liability with respect to all activities related to a charter school that they authorize, except for willful or wanton misconduct.(e)  The State Board, the Commission, and all local school boards that have a charter school operating are required to develop and maintain chartering policies and practices consistent with recognized principles and standards for quality charter authorizing in all major areas of authorizing responsibility, including all of the following:(1)  Organizational capacity and infrastructure.(2)  Soliciting and evaluating charter applications     if applicable.(3)  Performance contracting.(4)  Ongoing charter school oversight and evaluation.(5)  Charter renewal decision-making.Authorizers shall carry out all their duties under this Article in a manner consistent with nationally recognized principles and standards and with the spirit and intent of this Article.  (Source: P.A. 101-543, eff. 8-23-19.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-10.5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-10.5. Educational or charter management organization.(a) In this Section:"CMO" means a charter management organization."EMO" means an educational management organization.(b) All authorizers shall ensure that any charter school established on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly has a governing body that is separate and distinct from the governing body of any CMO or EMO. In reviewing charter applications and charter renewal applications, authorizers shall review the governance model proposed by the applicant to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest.(c) No charter school may employ a staff person who is simultaneously employed by an EMO or CMO.  (Source: P.A. 98-783, eff. 1-1-15.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-10.10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-10.10. Closure of charter school; unspent public funds; procedures for the disposition of property and assets.(a) Upon the closing of a charter school authorized by one or more local school boards, the governing body of the charter school or its designee shall refund to the chartering entity or entities all unspent public funds. The charter school's other property and assets shall be disposed of under the provisions of the charter application and contract. If the application and contract are silent or ambiguous as to the disposition of any of the school's property or assets, any property or assets of the charter school purchased with public funds shall be returned to the school district or districts from which the charter school draws enrollment, at no cost to the receiving district or districts, subject to each district's acceptance of the property or asset. Any unspent public funds or other property or assets received by the charter school directly from any State or federal agency shall be refunded to or revert back to that State or federal agency, respectively.(b) Upon the closing of a charter school authorized by the Commission, the governing body of the charter school or its designee shall refund all unspent public funds to the State Board of Education. The charter school's other property and assets shall be disposed of under the provisions of the charter application and contract. If the application and contract are silent or ambiguous as to the disposition of any of the school's property or assets, any property or assets of the charter school purchased with public funds shall be returned to the school district or districts from which the charter school draws its enrollment, at no cost to the receiving district or districts, subject to each district's acceptance of the property or asset. Any unspent public funds or other property or assets provided by a State agency other than the State Board of Education or by a federal agency shall be refunded to or revert back to that State or federal agency, respectively.(c) If a determination is made to close a charter school located within the boundaries of a school district organized under Article 34 of this Code for at least one school year, the charter school shall give at least 60 days' notice of the closure to all affected students and parents or legal guardians. (Source: P.A. 100-179, eff. 8-18-17.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-12
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-12. Evaluation; report. On or before September 30 of every odd-numbered year, all local school boards with at least one charter school, as well as the Commission, shall submit to the State Board any information required by the State Board pursuant to applicable rule.  On or before the second Wednesday in January of every even-numbered year, the State Board shall issue a report to the General Assembly and the Governor on its findings for the previous 2 school years. The State Board's report shall summarize all of the following:(1) The authorizer's strategic vision for chartering     and progress toward achieving that vision.(2) The academic and financial performance of all     operating charter schools overseen by the authorizer, according to the performance expectations for charter schools set forth in this Article.(3) The status of the authorizer's charter school     portfolio, identifying all charter schools in each of the following categories: approved (but not yet open), operating, renewed, transferred, revoked, not renewed, voluntarily closed, or never opened.(4) The authorizing functions provided by the     authorizer to the charter schools under its purview, including the authorizer's operating costs and expenses detailed in annual audited financial statements, which must conform with generally accepted accounting principles.Further, in the report required by this Section, the State  Board (i) shall  compare the performance of charter school pupils with the performance of  ethnically and economically comparable groups of pupils in other public schools  who are enrolled in academically comparable courses,  (ii) shall review information regarding the regulations and policies from  which  charter schools were released to determine if the exemptions assisted or  impeded  the charter schools in meeting their stated goals and objectives, and (iii)  shall  include suggested changes in State law necessary to strengthen charter schools.In addition, the State Board shall undertake and report on periodic  evaluations of charter schools that include evaluations of student academic  achievement, the extent to which charter schools are accomplishing their  missions  and goals, the sufficiency of funding for charter schools, and the need for  changes in the approval process for charter schools.Based on the information that the State Board receives from authorizers and the State Board's ongoing monitoring of both charter schools and authorizers, the State Board has the power to remove the power to authorize from any authorizer in this State if the authorizer does not demonstrate a commitment to high-quality authorization practices and, if necessary, revoke the chronically low-performing charters authorized by the authorizer at the time of the removal.  The State Board shall adopt rules as needed to carry out this power, including provisions to determine the status of schools authorized by an authorizer whose authorizing power is revoked. (Source: P.A. 96-105, eff. 7-30-09; 97-152, eff. 7-20-11.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-13
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

Sec. 27A-13.     Rules.     The State Board of Education is authorized to adopt  any rules not inconsistent with this Article that it deems necessary to  implement and accomplish the purposes and provisions of this Article.    (Source: P.A. 89-450, eff. 4-10-96.)
105 ILCS 5/27A-14
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 27A - Charter Schools

(105 ILCS 5/27A-14)Sec. 27A-14. (Repealed).  (Source: P.A. 96-105, eff. 7-30-09. Repealed internally, eff. 1-10-10.)
105 ILCS 5/Art. 28 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

 ARTICLE 28.      INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
105 ILCS 5/28-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

 (from Ch. 122, par. 28-1)Sec. 28-1. Copies and prices filed - Bond. No publisher or retail dealer shall offer any school instructional materials for  adoption, sale, or exchange in the State until it has complied with the  following conditions:1. The publisher or retail dealer shall publish on     its website by July 15 each year a sworn statement of the usual list price, the lowest net wholesale price, and the lowest net exchange price at which the material is sold or exchanged for old material on the same subject of like grade and kind but of a different series taken in part payment thereof.2.  The publisher or retail dealer shall obtain a     bond payable to the People of the State of Illinois with a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Illinois as surety thereon  of not less than $2,000 nor more than $10,000 conditioned as follows:(a) That the publisher or retail dealer will         furnish annually any of the materials listed on the sworn statement on its website to any school district and any school corporation in this State at the lowest net prices contained in the statements and that it will maintain said prices uniformly throughout the State.(b) That the publisher or retail dealer will         reduce such net prices in Illinois whenever they are reduced elsewhere in the United States, and shall publish on its website a sworn statement of reductions made elsewhere, so that at no time shall any instructional material so filed and listed by the publisher or retail dealer be sold in this State at a higher net price than is received for such material elsewhere in the United States.(c) The publisher or retail dealer shall not         enter into any understanding, agreement or combination to control the prices or to restrict competition in the sale of instructional materials. (Source: P.A. 101-17, eff. 6-14-19.)
105 ILCS 5/28-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

 (from Ch. 122, par. 28-2)Sec. 28-2.     Approval of bond-Duration.         The bond required by Section 28-1 shall be approved by the Attorney  General and shall continue in force for 5 years after its filing, at or  before the expiration of which period a new bond shall be given or the  right to continue business within the State shall be forfeited.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
105 ILCS 5/28-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

Sec. 28-3. (Repealed).        (Source: P.A. 81-1508. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
105 ILCS 5/28-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

 (from Ch. 122, par. 28-4)Sec. 28-4. Notice of violations - Proceedings for forfeiture of bond. The school board of each district wherein the instructional materials  listed under the provisions of this Article have been adopted shall  notify the State Board of Education  of any violation of any  of the conditions contained in said bond. The State Board of Education may   thereupon notify the person  guilty of the violation  and if such person disregards the notification and fails to comply with  the requirements of the contract, the State Board of Education may   institute legal proceedings for the forfeiture of the  bond.  (Source: P.A. 101-17, eff. 6-14-19.)
105 ILCS 5/28-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

 (from Ch. 122, par. 28-5)Sec. 28-5.     Inducement to teacher or officer forbidden.No person shall secure or attempt to secure the sale of any school  instructional materials in any school district by rewarding or promising to  reward any teacher or by securing for him any position in any other school.  No person shall offer to give any emolument, money or other valuable thing,  promise of work or any other inducement to any teacher or school officer  for any vote or promise of vote or for the use of his influence for any  school instructional materials to be used in this State.This section does not prevent any person from submitting, or any school  officer or teacher from receiving, a reasonable number of copies of printed  instructional materials for examination with a view to obtaining  information as to the book or series of books for which such officer shall  give his vote.    (Source: P.A. 77-2180.)
105 ILCS 5/28-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

Sec. 28-6. (Repealed).        (Source: P.A. 96-1403, eff. 7-29-10. Repealed by P.A. 97-570, eff. 8-25-11.)
105 ILCS 5/28-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 28 - Instructional Materials

 (from Ch. 122, par. 28-7)Sec. 28-7. Retail prices of books. It is unlawful for any retail dealer in textbooks to sell any books  listed on the sworn statement published on the retail dealer's website at a price to  exceed a 15% advance on the net prices as so listed.  (Source: P.A. 101-17, eff. 6-14-19.)