Bill Text: IL HB1479 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, each school district must provide a parent or guardian of an at-risk student information about appropriate and available community-based or in-school academic support services; defines "at-risk student" and specifies what those services may include. Provides that a school district shall not be responsible for any costs or transportation associated with a student's participation in community-based academic support services. Effective July 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-31 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1479 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1479-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1479 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/10-20.85 new
105 ILCS 5/34-18.82 new
Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, each school district must provide a parent or guardian of an at-risk student information about appropriate and available community-based or in-school academic support services; defines "at-risk student" and specifies what those services may include. Provides that a school district shall not be responsible for any costs or transportation associated with a student's participation in community-based academic support services. Effective July 1, 2024.
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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 Sections
10-20.85 and 34-18.82 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/10-20.85 new)
Sec. 10-20.85. Academic support services; at-risk student.
(a) In this Section, "at-risk student" means a student who
is at risk of dropping out of school because of his or her
individual academic needs and who requires temporary or
ongoing academic support services to achieve success in
school.
(b) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, each school
district must provide a parent or guardian of an at-risk
student information about appropriate and available
community-based or in-school academic support services. The
academic support services may include, but are not limited to,
any of the following:
(1) Individual or small-group tutoring.
(2) A summer school program.
(3) A mentoring program.
(4) Meeting with an academic advisor.
A school district shall not be responsible for any costs

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or transportation associated with a student's participation in
community-based academic support services under this
subsection.
(105 ILCS 5/34-18.82 new)
Sec. 34-18.82. Academic support services; at-risk student.
(a) In this Section, "at-risk student" means a student who
is at risk of dropping out of school because of his or her
individual academic needs and who requires temporary or
ongoing academic support services to achieve success in
school.
(b) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, the school
district must provide a parent or guardian of an at-risk
student information about appropriate and available
community-based or in-school academic support services. The
academic support services may include, but are not limited to,
any of the following:
(1) Individual or small-group tutoring.
(2) A summer school program.
(3) A mentoring program.
(4) Meeting with an academic advisor.
The school district shall not be responsible for any costs
or transportation associated with a student's participation in
community-based academic support services under this
subsection.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,

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2024.