Illinois Administrative Code › Title 20 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Part 2405 - SCHOOL DISTRICT #428 › Section 2405.17 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Achievement test" means a nationally normed instrument, which
				has been approved by the Superintendent of School District #428, that measures
				an individual's educational grade level.
"Associate level courses" means academic and CTE courses that
				are approved by a college or university as meeting the requirements for an
				award of an Associate's Degree.
"Baccalaureate level courses" means academic and CTE courses
				that are approved by a college or university as meeting the requirements for an
				award of a Bachelor's Degree.
"Billable course work" means course work in which the committed
				youth is enrolled, or that begins on or after January 1, 1997 while in custody,
				that is necessary for a degree.
"Chief Administrative Officer" means the highest ranking
				official of a youth center.
"CTE" means career and technical education.
"Degree" means an academic title awarded by a college or
				university upon the completion of an approved course of study. Types of degrees
				awarded are associate's, bachelor's, etc.
"Diploma" means an academic title awarded by School District
				#428 upon the completion of an approved course of study. Types of diplomas
				awarded are eighth grade, high school, special education and the General
				Education Development (GED) Certificate.
"Department" means the Department of Juvenile Justice.
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Juvenile
				Justice.
"Educational programs" means courses of academic and CTE
				instruction offered to committed youth or persons 21 or under who have not yet
				earned a high school diploma or GED as approved by School District #428; or
				courses of academic and CTE instruction offered in the free community; or CTE
				work training programs offered by the Department or outside resources.
"Full-time student" means a committed youth who is enrolled in
				an educational program that has classes that are normally scheduled to meet a
				minimum of 15 hours a week; or a committed youth who is enrolled in college
				academics for a minimum of six credit hours per module or 12 credit hours per
				semester.
"90 instructional day program" means a period of 90 days of
				remedial education, excluding days of absence or days in which no instruction
				was offered.
"Instructional day" means a day in which instruction is
				provided.
"Sexually dangerous person" means any person as defined in
				Section 1.01 of the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act [ 725 ILCS 205 ].
"Superintendent" means the Superintendent of the Department of
				Juvenile Justice School District #428.
"Technical violator" means a committed youth who has been
				returned to a youth center due to a violation of the conditions of his or her
				parole, aftercare release or mandatory supervised release, but does not include
				a committed youth who has been adjudicated of a new offense.
"Unified Code of Corrections" means 730 ILCS 5.
"Working days" means Monday through Friday, excluding State
				holidays.