Illinois Compiled Statutes 105 Schools: Article 34 - Cities Of Over 500,000 Inhabitants - Board Of Education

• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-1
  Application of article; Definitions. This Article applies only to cities having a population exceeding 500,000. "Trustees", when used in this Article, means the Chicago...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-1.01
  Intent. The General Assembly has previously established that the primary purpose of schooling is the transmission of knowledge and culture through which children learn...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-1.02
  Educational reform. The General Assembly hereby finds and declares that educational reform in school districts organized under this Article shall be implemented in such...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-1.05
  The Chicago Educational Governance Task Force. (a) The General Assembly makes the following findings: (1) City of Chicago School District 299 is one of the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-1.1
  Definitions. As used in this Article: "Academic Accountability Council" means the Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council created under Section 34-3.4. "Local School Council" means a...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2
  City to constitute district-Corporate status of board. Each city having a population exceeding 500,000 shall constitute one school district which shall maintain a system...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.1
  Local School Councils - Composition - Voter-Eligibility - Elections - Terms. (a) A local school council shall be established for each attendance center within the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.1b
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.1c
  Multi-Area Schools - Establishment of Voting Districts. (a) On or before September 1, 1991, the Board shall establish a voting district for each multi-area...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.2
  Local school councils - Manner of operation. (a) The annual organizational meeting of each local school council shall be held at the attendance center....
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.3
  Local school councils - Powers and duties. Each local school council shall have and exercise, consistent with the provisions of this Article and the powers...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.3a
  Recommendations of the Principal. The principal of each attendance center shall be encouraged to make recommendations to the appropriate local school council concerning all...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.3b
  Local School Council Training. The board shall collaborate with universities and other interested entities and individuals to offer training to local school council members...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.4
  School improvement plan. A 3 year local school improvement plan shall be developed and implemented at each attendance center. This plan shall reflect the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.4a
  Professional personnel leadership committee. (a) At each attendance center operated pursuant to this Article, a professional personnel leadership committee consisting of (i) up to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.4b
  Limitation upon applicability. The provisions of Sections 34-2.1, 34-2.2, 34-2.3, 34-2.3a, 34-2.4 and 34-8.3, and those provisions of paragraph 1 of Section 34-18 and paragraph...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.4c
  Whistle Blower Protection. (a) In any case involving the disclosure of information by an employee of the board of education or a local school...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-2.5
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-3
  Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees; new Chicago Board of Education; members; term; vacancies. (a) Within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-3.1
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-3.2
  Board training. After January 1, 1990 all board members shall participate in training provided by board employees or not-for-profit organizations, including without limitation the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-3.3
  Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees; powers and duties; chief operating, fiscal, educational, and purchasing officers. The General Assembly finds that an education crisis...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-3.4
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-622, eff. 8-19-99. Repealed internally, eff. 6-30-04.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-3.5
  Partnership agreement on advancing student achievement; No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. (a) The General Assembly finds that the Chicago Teachers Union, the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-4
  Eligibility. To be eligible for appointment to the board, a person shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be a registered voter as...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-4.5
  Chronic truants. (a) Office of Chronic Truant Adjudication. The board shall establish and implement an Office of Chronic Truant Adjudication, which shall be responsible for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-5
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-6
  Superintendent of schools. After June 30, 1999, the board may, by a vote of a majority of its full membership, appoint a general superintendent of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-6.1
  The president or general superintendent shall report any requests made of the district under provisions of The Freedom of Information Act and shall report...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-7
  Establishment of departments. The board of education shall establish such general departments as it may deem necessary or appropriate and determine the duties and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8
  Powers and duties of general superintendent. The general superintendent of schools shall prescribe and control, subject to the approval of the board and to other...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.05
  Reporting firearms in schools. On or after January 1, 1997, upon receipt of any written, electronic, or verbal report from any school personnel regarding...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.1
  Principals. Principals shall be employed to supervise the operation of each attendance center. Their powers and duties shall include but not be limited to the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.1a
  Waiver of collective bargaining agreement provisions. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or collective bargaining agreement to the contrary, the principal, with the concurrence...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.1b
  Exemption from bargaining unit membership. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any employee of the Chicago public schools system whose job description or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.3
  Remediation and probation of attendance centers. (a) The general superintendent shall monitor the performance of the attendance centers within the district and shall identify attendance...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.3a
  Financial supervision of attendance centers. (a) A fiscal advisor that has been appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 34-2.1 of this Code shall,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.4
  Intervention. The Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council may recommend to the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees that any school placed on remediation or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.5
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-3, eff. 2-27-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.6
  Short title. Sections 34-8.6 through 34-8.19 of this Act may be cited as the Chicago Learning Zone Implementation Law. (Source: P.A. 89-3, eff. 2-27-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.7
  Findings. The General Assembly observes that the Chicago Learning Zone Advisory Committee has issued its report and recommendations. The General Assembly finds, after due...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.8
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.9
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.10
  Applications for Learning Zone designation. The board shall evaluate applications from attendance centers within Chicago. Applications shall be in the form prescribed by the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.11
  Evaluation criteria. In determining whether to grant Learning Zone designation, the board shall consider the following factors: (1) The extent to which the application...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.12
  Attendance center support. Applications for Learning Zone designation must include evidence that the application is supported by the principal of the attendance center and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.13
  Learning Zone designation principles. In performing its duties under this Law, the board shall be guided by the following additional principles: (1) Learning Zone...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.14
  Non-waivable provisions. Notwithstanding anything in this Code to the contrary, statutes, regulations, rules, and policy provisions concerning the following shall not be waivable: (1) student...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.15
  Reports. The board shall file reports describing statutory waivers encompassed in the Learning Zone designations it grants under Section 34-8.10 with the House of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.16
  Disapproval or amendment of reports. The General Assembly may disapprove the report of the board in whole, or amend it within 30 calendar days...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.17
  Lump-sum allocation; key centralized functions. Final designation as a Learning Zone under this Law shall entitle the participating attendance centers to receive funds in...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.18
  The board shall revoke Learning Zone designation and the attendance center or centers involved shall return to their prior status upon a finding of:...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-8.19
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-9
  Report and estimates. On or before December 1, 1972, on or before December 1, 1973, on or before August 1, 1974 and on or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-10
  Revised report-Amendments-Excessive appropriations. Within the first 15 days of each fiscal year the general superintendent of schools may submit to the board a revised...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-11
  Duties of general counsel; assistants. The board by a majority vote of its full membership shall appoint a general counsel who shall have charge...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-12
  Participation in meetings by superintendent and attorney. The general superintendent of schools and the general counsel may be present at all meetings of the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-13
  Appointment, removal or suspension of attorney and assistants. The appointment and removal of the general superintendent of schools, heads of general departments now in...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-13.1
  Inspector General. (a) The Inspector General and his office in existence on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995 shall be transferred...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-14
  Section 34-15 Not limited by Sections 34-6 To 34-13. Nothing contained in Sections 34-6, 34-7, 34-8, 34-9, 34-10, 34-11, 34-12, or 34-13 of this...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-15
  Other officers and employees. The board may appoint, or provide for the appointment of, such other officers and employees as it deems necessary. (Source:...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-15a
  Active military service. Any certificated or non-certificated employee of the Board of Education who is a member of any reserve component of the United...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-16
  Powers of board respecting officers and employees. The board shall, subject to the limitations in this Article, prescribe the duties, compensation and terms of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-17
  Powers not exercised by city council. No power vested in the board or in any of its officers, agents or employees shall be exercised...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18
  Powers of the board. The board shall exercise general supervision and jurisdiction over the public education and the public school system of the city, and,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.1
  Protection from suit. The board shall insure or indemnify and protect the board, Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council, former School Board Nominating Commission, Local...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.2
  Bilingual programs. The Board of Education may provide programs in a language other than English for those children whose first language is other than...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.3
  The Board of Education is authorized to establish and implement peer assistance, tutorial programs whereby qualified, able students assist less able students with their...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.4
  Before and after school programs. The Board of Education may develop and maintain before school and after school programs for students in kindergarten through...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.5
  Criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database. (a) Certified and noncertified...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.6
  Child abuse and neglect - detection, reporting and prevention. The Board of Education may provide staff development for local school site personnel who work...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.6a
  Orders of protection. The board of education may prohibit the disclosure by any school employee to any person against whom the school district has...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.7
  Adolescent and teen mental illness and suicide detection and intervention. School guidance counselors, teachers, school social workers, and other school personnel who work with pupils...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.8
  AIDS training. School guidance counselors, nurses, teachers and other school personnel who work with pupils may be trained to have a basic knowledge of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.9
  Electronic paging devices on school property. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the educational development of all persons to the limits of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.10
  Minority recruitment policy. The board of education shall, by 1991, develop and implement a policy of recruitment and hiring of minority teachers, other certificated...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.10a
  Transfer of employees. The employment of an employee of the Illinois Chapter I 89-313 special education program transferred from the DuPage County Superintendent of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.11
  Tobacco prohibition. The Board of Education shall prohibit the use of tobacco on school property when such property is being used for any school...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.12
  Inspection for drugs. The Board of Education is empowered to authorize school officials to request the assistance of law enforcement officials for the purpose...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.13
  Infectious disease policies and rules. The Board of Education shall develop policies and adopt rules relating to the appropriate manner of managing children with...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.14
  Cellular radio telecommunication devices. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the educational development of all persons to the limits of their capacities...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.15
  Recycled paper and paper products and solid waste management. (a) Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.16
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.17
  No pass-no play policy. Beginning with the 1998-99 school year, the board of education shall establish, implement, and enforce a uniform and consistent policy...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.18
  Occupational standards. The Board shall not require a student to meet occupational standards for grade level promotion or graduation unless that student is voluntarily...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.19
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01. Repealed by P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.20
  Time out and physical restraint. Until rules are adopted under Section 2-3.130 of this Code, the use of any of the following rooms or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.21
  Medicaid-eligible children; health care resources. As authorized by federal law, the school district may access federally funded health care resources if the school district...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.22
  Unfilled teaching positions list. The school district must post a current list of all unfilled teaching positions in the district on its Internet web...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.23
  Medical information form for bus drivers and emergency medical technicians. The school district is encouraged to create and use an emergency medical information form for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.24
  (3) Any attendance center if the transfer would prevent the school district from meeting its obligations under a State or federal law, court order,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.25
  Psychotropic or psychostimulant medication; disciplinary action. (a) In this Section: "Psychostimulant medication" means medication that produces increased levels of mental and physical energy and alertness...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.26
  Sharing information on school lunch applicants. The board shall, whenever requested by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Department of Public Aid), agree...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.27
  Summer kindergarten. The board may establish, maintain, and operate, in connection with the kindergarten program of the school district, a summer kindergarten program that begins...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.28
  Prison tour pilot program. The board shall establish a pilot program to prevent crime by developing guidelines to identify students at risk of committing crimes....
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.29
  Provision of student information prohibited. The school district, including its agents, employees, student or alumni associations, or any affiliates, may not provide a student's name,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.30
  Dependents of military personnel; no tuition charge. If, at the time of enrollment, a dependent of United States military personnel is housed in temporary housing...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.31
  Highly qualified teachers; No Child Left Behind Act funds. If the school district has an overall shortage of highly qualified teachers, as defined by the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.32
  Healthy Kids - Healthy Minds Expanded Vision Program. Because 80% of a child's learning is felt to be through the visual system, the board shall...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.33
  Principal mentoring program. Beginning on July 1, 2007, and subject to an annual appropriation by the General Assembly, the school district shall develop a principal...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.34
  Student biometric information. (a) For the purposes of this Section, "biometric information" means any information that is collected through an identification process for individuals based...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.35
  Use of facilities by community organizations. The board is encouraged to allow community organizations to use school facilities during non-school hours. If the board allows...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.36
  Wind and solar farms. The school district may own and operate a wind or solar generation turbine farm, either individually or jointly with a unit...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.37
  Veterans' Day; moment of silence. If a school holds any type of event at the school on November 11, Veterans' Day, the board shall require...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.38
  Administrator and teacher salary and benefits; report. The board shall report to the State Board of Education, on or before October 1 of each year,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.39
  Radon testing. (a) It is recommended that every occupied school building of the school district be tested every 5 years for radon pursuant to rules...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.40
  Compliance with Chemical Safety Acts. The Board of Education must adopt a procedure to comply with the requirements of the Lawn Care Products Application and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.41
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10. Repealed by P.A. 97-256, eff. 1-1-12.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.42
  Press boxes; accessibility. The board does not have to comply with the Illinois Accessibility Code (71 Ill. Adm. Code 400) with respect to accessibility to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.43
  Establishing an equitable and effective school facility development process. (a) The General Assembly finds all of the following: (1) The Illinois Constitution recognizes that a...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.44
  American Sign Language courses. The school board is encouraged to implement American Sign Language courses into school foreign language curricula. (Source: P.A. 96-843, eff. 6-1-10;...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.45
  Minimum reading instruction. The board shall promote 60 minutes of minimum reading opportunities daily for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade whose reading level is...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.46
  Student athletes; concussions and head injuries. (a) The General Assembly recognizes all of the following: (1) Concussions are one of the most commonly reported injuries...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.47
  Youth program. The board may develop a plan for implementing a program that seeks to establish common bonds between youth of various backgrounds and ethnicities,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-18.48
  Bring Your Parents to School Day. The board may designate the first Monday in October of each year "Bring Your Parents to School Day" to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-19
  By-laws, rules and regulations; business transacted at regular meetings; voting; records. The board shall, subject to the limitations in this Article, establish by-laws, rules and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-19.1
  Comment at meetings. At each regular and special meeting which is open to the public, members of the public and employees of the district...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-19.2
  Mailing list. To establish and maintain a mailing list of the names and addresses of persons who each year request inclusion thereon, and to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-20
  Acquisition of real estate-Condemnation proceedings-Title-Conveyances. The board may acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, real estate for any school purposes. Condemnation proceedings shall be...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-20.1
  Limitation on use for school purposes. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article or this Act, no building or other structure owned by the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21
  Rentals and leases - Sale of real estate - Engagement of real estate broker - Indirect and participating ownership interest - Conveyance, payment and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.1
  Additional powers. In addition to other powers and authority now possessed by it, the board shall have power: (1) To lease from any public building...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.2
  Playgrounds. The board shall take control and management of all public playgrounds owned or acquired by the city which are adjacent to or connected...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.3
  Contracts. The board shall by record vote let all contracts (other than those excepted by Section 10-20.21 of The School Code) for supplies, materials, work,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.4
  Full year feasibility study - grant - transitional expenditure reimbursement. The Board of Education may file an application with the State Board of Education...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.5
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1221. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.6
  Waiver of fees. (a) The board shall waive all fees assessed by the district on children whose parents are unable to afford them, including but...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.7
  Racial reports. Beginning July 1, 1994, all forms used by school boards and school districts to collect information within racial categories and all reports...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-21.8
  Chicago public schools violence prevention hotline. (a) In consultation with the Chicago Police Department, the Board must establish a hotline for the purpose of receiving...

Bonds and Tax Anticipation Warrants

• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22
  Buildings. The board may erect, purchase or otherwise acquire buildings suitable for school houses, for school administration, and for deriving revenues from school lands,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.1
  Issuance of bonds. For the purpose of erecting, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring buildings suitable for school houses, erecting temporary school structures, erecting additions to,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.2
  Issuance of bonds. For the purpose of erecting, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring buildings suitable for school houses, erecting temporary school structures, erecting additions to,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.3
  Issuance of bonds. For the purpose of erecting, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring buildings suitable for school houses, erecting temporary school structures, erecting additions to,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.4
  Issuance of bonds. For the purpose of erecting, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring buildings suitable for school houses, erecting temporary school structures, erecting additions to,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.5
  Issuance of bonds. For the purpose of erecting, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring buildings suitable for school houses, erecting temporary school structures, erecting additions to,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.6
  Issuance of bonds. For the purpose of erecting, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring buildings suitable for school houses, erecting temporary school structures, erecting additions to,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.7
  For the sole purpose of rehabilitating and accomplishing the deferred maintenance of present school buildings the board, with the consent of the city council...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.8
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 78-200. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.9
  Termination of authority to issue bonds for rehabilitation and deferred maintenance of school buildings. Effective July 1, 1984, the board shall not subsequently issue...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-22.10
  Issuance of bonds. For the sole purpose of purchasing or otherwise acquiring school buildings and related property and facilities for an agricultural science school...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-23
  Tax anticipation warrants. When there is not sufficient money in the treasury to meet the ordinary and necessary expenses for educational and for building...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-23.5
  Issuance of notes, bonds, or other obligations in lieu of tax anticipation warrants. (a) In lieu of issuing tax anticipation warrants in accordance with...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-24
  Numbering of warrants - Setting apart taxes - Interest. Warrants drawn and issued under Section 34-23 shall be numbered consecutively in the order of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-25
  Use of special funds to purchase tax anticipation warrants - Payment. Any board holding in its treasury any fund set aside for use for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-26
  Resale of tax anticipation warrants-Sale of new warrants. If it is deemed necessary or expedient to convert into money any tax anticipation warrants issued...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-27
  Use of special funds to purchase outstanding bonds. If the board has in its treasury any fund set aside for some particular purpose that...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-28
  Investment of school funds. Investments of school funds shall be made by the board of education only in Federal Government, State or municipal securities...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-29
  Audit of accounts. The board shall for each fiscal year and may as often as necessary, appoint certified public accountants to examine the business...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-29.1
  General obligation notes - Limitations - Issuance - Tax levy - Tax rate - Reimbursement to working cash fund. The board may incur an...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-29.2
  Debt service funds for obligations. (a) The board shall establish debt service funds, each to be maintained by a corporate trustee (which may be...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-29.3
  Transfer of excess funds. When bonds are issued under Sections 34-22 through 34-22.7, and the purposes for which the bonds have been issued are...

Working Cash Fund

• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-30
  Establishment of fund authorized-Purpose. The board may, by resolution, establish a fund to be known as a "working cash fund" which shall be maintained...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-31
  Bond issue to increase fund. (a). Where the board has created and is maintaining such a working cash fund for the purposes above mentioned,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-32
  Resolution for bond issue-Signature-Sale. Before issuing any bonds under Section 34-31, as amended, the board shall adopt a resolution designating the purpose and fixing...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-33
  Tax for payment of bonds. Before or at the time of issuing bonds under Sections 34-31 and 34-32, as amended, the city council, upon...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-34
  Bond moneys set apart-Use and reimbursement of fund. All moneys derived from the issuance of bonds under Sections 34-31 and 34-32, or from any...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-35
  Resolution for transfer from fund-Amount transferred. Moneys shall be transferred from the working cash fund to the educational purposes fund only upon the authority...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-36
  Violations of provisions-Liability. Any member of the board or any officer thereof or of the city, or any other person holding any other trust...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-37
  Abolishment of working cash funds. The board may abolish its working cash fund, upon the adoption of a resolution so providing, and directing the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-38
  Re-creation of working cash fund. Nothing in this Article prevents a board which has abolished its working cash fund from again creating a working...

Budget and Appropriations

• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-42
  Fiscal year. The period commencing January 1, 1974 and ending August 31, 1974 shall be a fiscal year. Beginning September 1, 1974, each fiscal...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-42.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 77-2734. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-42.2
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 78-497. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-43
  Adoption of budget and resolution. The board shall, within the first 60 days of each fiscal year, adopt a budget and pass a resolution...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-43a
  Post annual budget on web site. The school district shall post its current annual school budget, itemized by receipts and expenditures, on the district's...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-43.1
  (A) Limitation of noninstructional costs. It is the purpose of this Section to establish for the Board of Education and the general superintendent of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-44
  Budget estimates. The budget shall set forth estimates, by classes, of all current assets and liabilities of each fund of the board as of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-44.1
  Supplemental budget estimate. When the value of the taxable property in the school district is increased either by the establishment of a new multiplier...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-45
  Budget appropriations. The budget shall specify: 1. the several organization units, purposes, and objects for which appropriations are made; 2. the amount appropriated for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-45.1
  The amount appropriated in any annual, additional or supplemental school budget adopted pursuant to this Article and specified in such budget to be for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-46
  Public participation. The budget shall be prepared in tentative form by the board and in such form shall be made available to public inspection...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-47
  Revision of items - Amendment - Publication. Subsequent to the public hearing provided for in Section 34-46 and before final action on the budget,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-48
  Supplemental budgets - Emergencies. After the effectiveness of the budget (other than an interim budget), the board shall not make any other appropriations prior...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-49
  Contracts, expense and liabilities without appropriation. No contract shall be made or expense or liability incurred by the board, or any member or committee...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-50
  Transfers between appropriations - Delay. The board may, at any time by a two-thirds vote of all the members authorize the making of transfers...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-51
  Appropriation not to be construed as approval of board of liabilities. The appropriation resolution or budget, including the amounts for the payment of contract...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-52
  Wilful violation of budget provisions. Any member of the board, or any officer thereof or of the city or any other person holding any...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-52.1
  Form of ballot and notice. Whenever any proposition to authorize or to levy an annual tax, or to increase the annual rate of tax...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-53
  Tax levies; Purpose; Rates. For the purpose of establishing and supporting free schools for not fewer than 9 months in each year and defraying...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-53.1
  Supplemental tax levy. When a supplemental budget has been adopted by the board of education under Section 34-44.1 the board of education may levy...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-53.2
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-53.3
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-53.5
  Capital improvement tax levy; purpose; maximum amount. (a) For the purpose of providing a reliable source of revenue for capital improvement purposes, including without...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-53A
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95. Repealed by P.A. 89-698, eff. 1-14-97.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-54
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-1477. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-54.1
  Tax levies and extensions. The annual tax rates and the several tax levies authorized to be made shall be: (i) for each fiscal year...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-54.2
  Taxes levied in 1989 and 1990. (a) All real property taxes levied by the board in 1989 and 1990 are confirmed and validated, and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-55
  Expenditures in excess of receipts. The board shall not add to the expenditures for school purposes anything above the amount received from the State...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-56
  Amount to cover loss and cost of collecting tax not added. In ascertaining the rate per cent that will produce the amount of any tax...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-57
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-58
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-59
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-60
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-61
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-62
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-63
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 89-15, eff. 5-30-95.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-64
  Numbering warrants-Contents-Interest. Warrants issued under Sections 34-24, 34-59, and 34-63 shall be numbered consecutively in the order of their issuance and shall show upon...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-65
  Refunding bonds authorized - Interest. Whenever any school district described in this Article has outstanding bonds which are binding and subsisting legal obligations, and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-66
  Resolution for refunding bonds - Name in which issued - Signatures. Whenever the board desires to issue refunding bonds under Section 34-65, it shall...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-67
  Sale or exchange of bonds - Use of proceeds. Refunding bonds issued under Section 34-65 may be exchanged on the basis of par for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-68
  Issuance without submission to voters. The board may provide that the resolutions authorizing issuance of refunding bonds issued under Section 34-65 shall be effective...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-69
  Tax for payment of refunding bonds. Before or at the time of issuing refunding bonds authorized by Section 34-65 the board shall provide for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-70
  Tax for payment of refunded bonds-Reduction of levy. If the proceeds of the refunding bonds authorized by Section 34-65 have been used for the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-71
  Authority cumulative. The authority granted in Sections 34-65 through 34-70, is cumulative authority for the issuance of bonds and shall not be held to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-72
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-1477. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-73
  Certain taxes additional to maximum otherwise authorized - not reducible. Each of the taxes authorized to be levied by Sections 34-33, 34-39, 34-53.2, 34-53.3, 34-54.1,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-74
  Custody of school moneys. Except as provided in Article 34A and Section 34-29.2 of this Code, all moneys raised by taxation for school purposes, or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-75
  Duties of city treasurer as to school moneys. The city treasurer shall, as school treasurer, secure and safely keep all school moneys and shall...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-76
  Unpaid warrants for wages. When a warrant issued for the wages of a teacher or other employee is presented to the school treasurer and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-77
  Depositories. The school treasurer may be required to keep all moneys in his hands belonging to the board in such places of deposit as...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-78
  Money kept separate-Unlawful use. The school treasurer shall keep all moneys in his hands belonging to the board separate from his own moneys, and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-79
  Annual account of treasurer. The school treasurer shall annually, between the first and tenth of March 1973, between the first and tenth of March...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-80
  Liability on treasurer's bond. The school treasurer shall be liable on his official bond as city treasurer for the proper performance of his duties...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-81
  Interest on fund. Neither the treasurer nor any other officer having the custody of public school funds is entitled to retain any interest accruing...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-82
  Designation of person to sign for president. The president of the board, with the approval of the board, may designate one or more persons...

Teachers--employment and Retirement

• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-83
  Board of examiners - Certificates - Examinations. A board of 3 examiners shall examine all applicants required to hold certificates to teach and the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-83.1
  Residence Requirements. Residency within any school district governed by this Article, if not required at the time of employment as a qualification of employment,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-84
  Appointments and promotions of teachers. Appointments and promotions of teachers shall be made for merit only, and after satisfactory service for a probationary period of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-84a
  Maintenance of discipline. Subject to the limitations of all policies established or adopted under Section 14-8.05, teachers, other certificated educational employees, and any other...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-84a.1
  Principals shall report incidents of intimidation. The principal of each attendance center shall promptly notify and report to the local law enforcement authorities for inclusion...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-84b
  Conviction of sex or narcotics offense, first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, or Class X felony as grounds for revocation of certificate. (a) Whenever...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-84.1
  Teachers employed in Department of Defense overseas dependents' schools. By mutual agreement of a teacher and the board of education, the board may, but...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-85
  Removal for cause; Notice and hearing; Suspension. (a) No teacher employed by the board of education shall (after serving the probationary period specified in Section...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-85b
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 95-510, eff. 8-28-07. Repealed by P.A. 97-8, eff. 6-13-11.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-85c
  Alternative procedures for teacher evaluation, remediation, and removal for cause after remediation. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the board and the exclusive representative...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-87
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-88
  District and school report cards. The board shall, in accordance with Section 10-17a of the School Code, annually present and disseminate the school district and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-128
  The Board shall provide free bus transportation for every child who is trainable mentally disabled, as defined in Article 14, who resides at a...

School Action and Facility Master Planning (Source: P. A. 97-473, Eff. 1-1-12; 97-474, Eff. 8-22-11.)

• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-200
  Definitions. For the purposes of Sections 34-200 through 34-235 of this Article: "Capital improvement plan" means a plan that identifies capital projects to be started...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-205
  Educational facility standards. (a) By January 1, 2012, the district shall publish space utilization standards on the district's website. The standards shall include the following:...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-210
  The Educational Facility Master Plan. (a) In accordance with the schedule set forth in this Article, the chief executive officer or his or her designee...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-215
  Capital improvement plans. (a) The district shall develop a capital needs review process and one-year and 5-year capital improvement plans. (b) By January 1, 2012,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-220
  Financial transparency. (a) For fiscal year 2012, the chief executive officer shall provide the Board with an annual capital expenditure report within 90 days after...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-225
  School transition plans. (a) If the Board approves a school action, the chief executive officer or his or her designee shall work collaboratively with local...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-230
  School action public meetings and hearings. (a) By October 1 of each year, the chief executive officer shall prepare and publish guidelines for school actions....
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-232
  Proposed school action announcement and notice; 2012-2013 school year. The following apply for school actions proposed during the 2012-2013 school year: (1) On or before...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 34-235
  Emergencies. Nothing in Sections 34-200 through 34-235 of this Code prevents the district from taking emergency action to protect the health and safety of students...

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