HB 4688

Abstract

Amends the School Code. Provides that, for one year beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, requirements related to completing professional development activities for the renewal of a Professional Educator License do not apply, except that the number of professional development hours required is reduced by 20% for any renewal cycle that includes the 2021-2022 school year. In provisions related to the content of evaluation plans, allows a school district to waive, for the 2022-2023 school year only, the evaluation requirement of any teacher in contractual continued service whose performance during the last school year in which the teacher was evaluated was rated as either "excellent" or "proficient". With respect to rules adopted by the State Board of Education concerning educator evaluations, for the 2022-2023 school year only, provides that factors related to methods of measuring student growth may not be used in any educator evaluation. With respect to the development of an evaluation plan for principals and assistant principals, allows a school district to waive, for the 2022-2023 school year only, the evaluation requirement of any principal or assistant principal whose performance during the last school year in which the principal or assistant principal was evaluated was rated as either "excellent" or "proficient". Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/21B-45 105 ILCS 5/24A-5 105 ILCS 5/24A-7 105 ILCS 5/24A-15 Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/19-1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the debt limitations of school districts, provides that, in addition to all other authority to issue bonds, Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District 3 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $97,900,000, subject to specified conditions; New Berlin Community Unit School District 16 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $23,500,000, subject to specified conditions; Highland Community Unit School District 5 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $40,000,000, subject to specified conditions; Sullivan Community Unit School District 300 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25,000,000, subject to specified conditions; Manhattan School District 114 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $85,000,000, subject to specified conditions; and Golf Elementary School District 67 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $56,000,000, subject to specified conditions. Effective immediately.