Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Makes changes to a Section concerning transition goals, supports, and services. Removes certain provisions concerning transition goals and supports. Provides instead that beginning no later than the first individualized education plan (IEP) in effect when the student turns age 14 1/2 (or younger if determined appropriate by the IEP Team) and updated annually thereafter, the IEP must include (i) measurable postsecondary goals based upon age-appropriate transition assessments and other information available regarding the student that are related to training, education, employment, and, where appropriate, independent living skills and (ii) the transition services needed to assist the student in reaching those goals, including courses of study. Makes changes concerning additional IEP Team members, the IEP identifying each person responsible for transition services, the involvement of a public or private entity outside of the school district in transition services, the limit on a public school's responsibility for delivering educational services, and submitting a summary to the local Transition Planning Committee. Effective immediately.
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Amends the School Code. Adds a Section concerning a pilot reading project for students ages 7 through 13. Contains only a caption.
Encourages the General Assembly to promptly review and evaluate the Report on Waiver of School Code Mandates filed by the State Board of Education to determine if the Report should be disapproved in whole or in part.
In addition to any other amounts appropriated for this purpose, appropriates $24,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Children and Family Services to fund an increase in the cost of care reimbursement rate for foster parents of wards of the State. Effective July 1, 2008.
Creates the Invest in Excellence Economic Development in Education Reform Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Encourages the General Assembly to promptly review and evaluate the Report on Waiver of School Code Mandates filed by the State Board of Education to determine if the Report should be disapproved in whole or in part.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions relating to co-payments for child care services for TANF recipients, provides that the co-payment shall not exceed the following amounts: (1) $1 per week for a family whose countable income is not more than 50% of the federal poverty level; (2) 3% of all of the family's countable income for a family whose countable income is more than 50% but not more than 100% of the federal poverty level; (3) 7% of all of the family's countable income for a family whose countable income is more than 100% but not more than 150% of the federal poverty level; and (4) 12% of all of the family's countable income for a family whose countable income is more than 150% but not more than 200% of the federal poverty level. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to allow a parent to observe the classroom instruction that his or her child is receiving as long as the parent does not pose a threat to the safety of any person in the school and the parent's presence is not disruptive to classroom learning. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2011, the minimum wage shall be annually increased by the Department of Labor using the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, and employees shall be paid the State minimum wage or the federal minimum wage, whichever is higher.