2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 110 - HIGHER EDUCATION › 110 ILCS 40/ - Educational Partnership Act.

(110 ILCS 40/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 2201)
Sec. 1. 
		
		This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Educational Partnership Act.
(Source: P.A. 84-712.)
(110 ILCS 40/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 2202)
Sec. 2. 
		
		The General Assembly finds that there is a need for greater
cooperation between all levels of the educational system of this State in
order to encourage students to complete and realize maximum benefit from
their elementary and secondary education.
(Source: P.A. 84-712.)
(110 ILCS 40/3) (from Ch. 144, par. 2203)
Sec. 3. 
		
		To facilitate such cooperation, each public institution of
higher education as defined in "An Act creating a Board of Higher Education,
defining its powers and duties, making an appropriation therefor, and
repealing an Act herein named", approved August 22, 1961, as amended, is
authorized to establish programs under which qualified students of such
institution provide tutorial services to elementary and secondary school
students who are in need of such
services, as determined and requested by
their respective school districts.
Each public institution of higher education is encouraged to work in
partnership with public schools in this State maintaining any of grades 9
through 12 in order to help assure that all students entering 9th grade in
the 1989-90 school year and thereafter are offered, during their years of
enrollment as high school students, all coursework required to satisfy
statewide minimum admission requirements and standards established by the
Board of Higher Education pursuant to Section 9.07 of "An Act creating a
Board of Higher Education, defining its powers and duties, making an
appropriation therefor, and repealing an Act herein named".
(Source: P.A. 86-787.)
(110 ILCS 40/4) (from Ch. 144, par. 2204)
Sec. 4. 
		
		Students selected by a public institution of higher education
to furnish tutorial services:  (i) shall meet basic requirements
established by the State Board of Education pursuant to Section 2-3.49 of
The School Code, as now or hereafter amended; and (ii) shall be assigned by
such institution to a specific school district or districts, on a regularly
recurring basis, and to a particular representative of such district who
shall be responsible for providing any necessary supervision and direction
to the student furnishing such tutorial services.
(Source: P.A. 84-712.)
(110 ILCS 40/5) (from Ch. 144, par. 2205)
Sec. 5. 
		
		Public institutions of higher education shall, whenever
possible, make arrangements for awarding academic credit to students
furnishing tutoring services, and in addition shall provide for appropriate
full or partial waiver of its tuition or fees to students furnishing
tutoring services.
(Source: P.A. 84-712.)
(110 ILCS 40/5.5)
Sec. 5.5. Tutorial services by pre-service teacher candidates. Public and private institutions of higher education that have approved teacher education programs may engage pre-service teacher candidates in the tutorial services provided for in this Act.  Students furnishing tutorial services under this Section may receive compensation for such services while also receiving academic or clinical experience credit or both.
(Source: P.A. 95-39, eff. 8-10-07.)