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| | 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB4047 Introduced , by Rep. Esther Golar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 110 ILCS 48/5 | |
110 ILCS 48/95 new | |
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Amends the Grow
Your Own Teacher Education Act. Deletes language that provides that the goal of the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative is to add 1,000 teachers to low-income, hard-to-staff Illinois schools by 2016. Repeals the Act on January 1, 2017.
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| | HB4047 | | LRB097 16720 NHT 61894 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Grow
Your Own Teacher Education Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 5 and by adding Section 95 as |
| 6 | | follows:
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| 7 | | (110 ILCS 48/5)
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| 8 | | Sec. 5. Purpose. The Grow Your Own Teacher preparation
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| 9 | | programs established under this Act shall comprise a major new
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| 10 | | statewide initiative, known as the Grow Your Own Teacher
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| 11 | | Education Initiative, to prepare highly skilled, committed
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| 12 | | teachers who will teach in hard-to-staff schools, including |
| 13 | | within the Department of Juvenile Justice School District, and
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| 14 | | hard-to-staff teaching positions and who will remain in these
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| 15 | | schools for substantial periods of time. |
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The Grow Your Own Teacher Education Initiative shall
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| 17 | | effectively recruit and prepare parent and community leaders
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| 18 | | and paraeducators to become effective teachers statewide in |
| 19 | | hard-to-staff schools serving a substantial percentage of |
| 20 | | low-income students and
hard-to-staff teaching positions in |
| 21 | | schools
serving a substantial percentage of low-income |
| 22 | | students.
Further, the Initiative shall increase the diversity |
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teachers, including diversity based on race and ethnicity.
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