Illinois Compiled Statutes 105 Schools: Article 10 - School Boards

• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-1
  Board of school directors. (a) School districts having a population of fewer than 1000 inhabitants and not governed by any special act shall be governed...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-2
  Corporate powers. The directors of each district shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name of "school directors of district No. ....,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-3
  Eligibility of directors. Any person who, on the date of his or her election, is a citizen of the United States, of the age of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-4
  Election of directors. (a) In all districts, directors shall be elected in each odd-numbered year, each for a term of 4 years. (b) In...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-5
  Organization of board - Report to treasurer and regional superintendent of schools. Within 28 days after the regular election of directors, the directors shall meet...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-6
  Regular and special meetings. The directors shall hold regular meetings at such times as they may designate, and special meetings at the call of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-7
  Secretary or clerk to record official acts - yeas and nays on expenditures. The secretary or clerk shall keep in a punctual, orderly and reliable...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-8
  Report by secretary or clerk to treasurer. On or before July 7 annually, the secretary or clerk shall report to the treasurer having the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-9
  Interest of board member in contracts. (a) No school board member shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in his own name or in the name...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-10
  Board of education; term; vacancy. All school districts having a population of not fewer than 1,000 and not more than 500,000 inhabitants, as ascertained by...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-10.5
  Community unit school district or combined school district formation; school board election. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Section, for community...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-11
  Vacancies. Elective offices become vacant within the meaning of the Act, unless the context indicates otherwise, on the happening of any of the following events,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-12
  Quorum. A majority of the full membership of the board of education shall constitute a quorum. Unless otherwise provided, when a vote is taken...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-13
  President of board of education. The president of the board of education shall be elected by the members thereof from among their number and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-13.1
  Vice-President of the board of education. A vice-president of the board of education shall be elected by the members thereof from among their number...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-14
  Secretary of board of education. The secretary of the board of education shall be elected by the board of education and may be a...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-16
  Organization of Board. Within 28 days after the consolidated election, other than the consolidated elections in 1999 and 2001, the board shall organize by electing...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-16a
  School board member's leadership training. (a) This Section applies to all school board members serving pursuant to Section 10-10 of this Code who have been...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-16.5
  Oath of office. Each school board member, before taking his or her seat on the board, shall take an oath of office, administered as determined...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-16.7
  School board duties with respect to superintendent. In addition to all other powers and duties enumerated in this Article, the school board shall make all...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-16.9
  Bank reconciliation reports. School districts on the financial watch or warning list that are required to submit deficit reduction plans pursuant to Section 17-1 of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-16.11
  Payment of outstanding obligations of a Financial Oversight Panel. The school board of a district subject to a Financial Oversight Panel pursuant to Article 1H...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-17
  Statement of affairs. (a) In Class I or Class II county school units the school board may use either a cash basis or accrual system...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-17a
  State, school district, and school report cards. (1) By October 31, 2013 and October 31 of each subsequent school year, the State Board of Education,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-18
  Orders. Every order issued by the school board shall state for what purposes or on what account it is issued, and shall be in...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-19
  Length of school term - experimental programs. Each school board shall annually prepare a calendar for the school term, specifying the opening and closing dates...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-19.1
  Full year school plan. (a) Any school district may, by resolution of its board, operate one or more schools within the district on a full...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-19.2
  Full year feasibility study - grant - transitional expenditure reimbursement. Any school district, including special charter districts, may, by resolution of its board, file...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-19.3
  Advertisements for employees during strikes. No school board shall advertise seeking to hire employees to replace employees on strike without stating in such advertisement...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20
  Powers of school board. The school board has the powers enumerated in the Sections of this Article following this Section. This enumeration of powers...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.1
  Records to be retained. To maintain records to substantiate all district claims for State aid in accordance with regulations prescribed by the State Board...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.2
  Report of teachers employed. To report to the county superintendent within ten days after their employment the names of all teachers employed, with the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.2b
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 85-611. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.3
  Revenue to be provided. To provide for the revenue necessary to maintain schools in their districts. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.4
  District in two or more townships - Treasurer to receive taxes. To determine, in case of a district which is situated in a Class...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.5
  Rules. To adopt and enforce all necessary rules for the management and government of the public schools of their district. Rules adopted by the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.5a
  Access to high school campus. (a) For school districts maintaining grades 10 through 12, to provide, on an equal basis, access to a high...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.5b
  Tobacco prohibition. Each school board shall prohibit the use of tobacco on school property by any school personnel, student, or other person when such...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.6
  Maintain schools. To maintain the public schools under their jurisdiction as the good of the schools may require and in conformance with the code authorized...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.7
  Appoint teachers and fix salaries. To appoint all teachers and fix the amount of their salaries, subject to limitations set forth in this Act....
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.7a
  Minority recruitment policy. To develop and implement, by 1991, a policy of recruitment and hiring of minority teachers, other certificated employees and non-certificated employees,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.7b
  Active military service. Any certificated or non-certificated employee of a school board who is a member of any reserve component of the United States...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.8
  Branches of study, textbooks and apparatus. To direct what branches of study shall be taught and what apparatus shall be used. Subject to Article...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.9
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.9a
  Final grade; promotion. (a) Teachers shall administer the approved marking system or other approved means of evaluating pupil progress. The teacher shall maintain the responsibility...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.12
  School year - School age. To establish and keep in operation in each year during a school term of at least the minimum length required...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.12a
  Tuition for non-resident pupils. (a) To charge non-resident pupils who attend the schools of the district tuition in an amount not exceeding 110% of the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.12b
  Residency; payment of tuition; hearing; criminal penalty. (a) For purposes of this Section: (1) The residence of a person who has legal custody of a...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.13
  Textbooks for children of parents unable to buy them and other fees. (a) To purchase, at the expense of the district, a sufficient number of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.14
  Student discipline policies; Parent-teacher advisory committee. (a) To establish and maintain a parent-teacher advisory committee to develop with the school board policy guidelines on...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.14a
  Meal breaks for noncertificated employees. To provide each noncertificated employee who works 7 1/2 continuous hours or longer with at least 30 minutes duty...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.14b
  Medications policy. To develop a policy for administration of medications in schools, to furnish a copy of the policy to the parents or guardians...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.15
  Payment of teachers. To pay no public money to any teacher unless the teacher at the time of his employment held a certificate of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.15a
  Federal Social Security or Medicare withholdings. To the extent that federal law allows such coverage, school districts shall make Social Security or Medicare withholdings,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.16
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.17
  Water supply. To provide for the schools in their districts an adequate, clear, palatable, and safe supply of water for drinking purposes and for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.17a
  Hazardous materials training. To enhance the safety of pupils and staff by providing in-service training programs on the safe handling and use of hazardous...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.18
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.19
  Payment of orders. Subject to the provisions of Article 1B in the case of a school district receiving emergency State financial assistance, the school board...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.19a
  Kindergartens. After July 1, 1970, to establish and maintain kindergartens for the instruction of children in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.19b
  Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly....
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.19c
  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 10-20.20
  Protection from suit. To indemnify and protect school districts, members of school boards, employees, volunteer personnel authorized in Sections 10-22.34, 10-22.34a and 10-22.34b of this...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.21
  Contracts. (a) To award all contracts for purchase of supplies and materials or work involving an expenditure in excess of $25,000 or a lower amount...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.21a
  Contracts for charter bus services. To award contracts for providing charter bus services for the sole purpose of transporting students regularly enrolled in grade 12...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.22
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 77-530. Repealed by P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.23
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 77-533. Repealed by P.A. 94-600, eff. 8-16-05.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.24
  Part-time Attendance. To accept in part-time attendance in the regular education program of the district pupils enrolled in nonpublic schools if there is sufficient...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.25
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1508. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.25a
  Report of student statistics. To report to the State Board of Education the annual student dropout rate and number of students who graduate from,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.26
  Report of teacher dismissals. To send an annual report, on or before October 15, to the State Board of Education which discloses the number of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.27
  To file with the regional superintendent a list of all unfilled teaching positions in the district by August 1 of each year, and to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.28
  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 10-20.29
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-71. Repealed by P.A. 96-734, eff. 8-25-09.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.30
  No pass-no play policy. Beginning with the 1998-99 school year, the school board of each school district that maintains any of grades 9 through...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.31
  Occupational standards. A school board shall not require a student to meet occupational standards for grade level promotion or graduation unless that student is...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.32
  (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 10-20.33
  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 10-20.34
  Medicaid-eligible children; health care resources. As authorized by federal law, a school district may access federally funded health care resources if the school district...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.35
  Medical information form for bus drivers and emergency medical technicians. School districts are encouraged to create and use an emergency medical information form for bus...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.36
  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 10-20.37
  Summer kindergarten. A school board may establish, maintain, and operate, in connection with the kindergarten program of the school district, a summer kindergarten program that...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.38
  Provision of student information prohibited. A 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 10-20.39
  Highly qualified teachers; No Child Left Behind Act funds. If a school district has an overall shortage of highly qualified teachers, as defined by the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.40
  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 10-20.41
  Use of facilities by community organizations. School boards are encouraged to allow community organizations to use school facilities during non-school hours. If a school board...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.42
  Wind and solar farms. A 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 10-20.43
  School facility occupation tax fund. All proceeds received by a school district from a distribution under Section 3-14.31 must be maintained in a special fund...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.44
  Report on contracts. (a) This Section applies to all school districts, including a school district organized under Article 34 of this Code. (b) A school...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.45
  Pay for performance. (a) Beginning with all newly-negotiated collective bargaining agreements entered into after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.46
  Veterans' Day; moment of silence. If a school holds any type of event at the school on November 11, Veterans' Day, the school board shall...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.47
  Administrator and teacher salary and benefits; report. Each school board shall report to the State Board of Education, on or before October 1 of each...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.48
  Radon testing. (a) It is recommended that every occupied school building of a school district be tested every 5 years for radon pursuant to rules...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.49
  Compliance with Chemical Safety Acts. Each school district must adopt a procedure to comply with the requirements of the Lawn Care Products Application and Notice...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.50
  (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 10-20.51
  Press boxes; accessibility. A school board does not have to comply with the Illinois Accessibility Code (71 Ill. Adm. Code 400) with respect to accessibility...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.52
  American Sign Language courses. School boards are encouraged to implement American Sign Language courses into school foreign language curricula. (Source: P.A. 96-843, eff. 6-1-10; 97-333,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.53
  Minimum reading instruction. Each school board shall promote 60 minutes of minimum reading opportunities daily for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade whose reading level...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-20.54
  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 10-20.55
  Bring Your Parents to School Day. A school board may designate the first Monday in October of each year "Bring Your Parents to School Day"...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21
  Additional duties of board. Boards of education in addition to the duties enumerated above shall have the additional duties enumerated in Sections 10-21.1 through...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.1
  Employment of teachers. To examine teachers by examinations supplemental to any other examinations and to employ teachers and fix the amount of their salaries...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.2
  Schools of different grades. To establish schools of different grades and to adopt regulations for the admission of pupils into them; however, in any...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.3
  Attendance units. To establish one or more attendance units within the district. As soon as practicable, and from time to time thereafter, the board...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.3a
  Transfer of students. (a) Each school board shall establish and implement a policy governing the transfer of a student from one attendance center to another...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.4
  Superintendent - Duties. Except in districts in which there is only one school with less than four teachers, to employ a superintendent who shall have...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.4a
  Principals and assistant principals - Duties. To employ principals and assistant principals who hold valid supervisory or administrative certificates. The principal, with the assistance of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.5
  Establishment of high schools. The board of education of any community high school district, township high school district, consolidated high school district, or community...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.6
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-795. Repealed by P.A. 97-256, eff. 1-1-12.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.7
  Attacks on school personnel. (a) In the Section, "school" means any public or private elementary or secondary school. (b) Upon receipt of a written...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.8
  Correspondence and Reports. In the absence of any court order to the contrary to require that, upon the request of either parent of a...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.9
  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 10-21.10
  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 10-21.11
  Infectious disease policies and rules. To develop policies and adopt rules relating to the appropriate manner of managing children with chronic infectious diseases, not...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-21.12
  Transfer of teachers. The employment of a teacher transferred from one board or administrative agent to the control of a new or different board or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 76-2268. Repealed by P.A. 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.1
  Book for records. To purchase a suitable book for their records. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.2
  Compensation of clerk or secretary. To allow the clerk or secretary a reasonable compensation for services, payable out of money not otherwise appropriated. (Source:...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.3
  Liability insurance for school board members, school board employees and student teachers. To insure against any loss or liability of the school district, members...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.3a
  To provide for or to participate in provisions for insurance protection and benefits for its employees and their dependents including but not limited to retirement...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.3b
  Health insurance for retired teachers. To make health insurance premium payments to the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois for those costs...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.3c
  Orders of protection. To prohibit the disclosure by any school employee to any person against whom the school district has received a certified copy...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.3d
  Woman's health care provider. Insurance protection and benefits for employees are subject to the provisions of Section 356r of the Illinois Insurance Code. (Source:...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.3e
  Post-parturition care. Insurance protection and benefits for employees shall provide the post-parturition care benefits required to be covered by a policy of accident and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.3f
  Required health benefits. Insurance protection and benefits for employees shall provide the post-mastectomy care benefits required to be covered by a policy of accident and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.4
  Dismissal of teachers. To dismiss a teacher for incompetency, cruelty, negligence, immorality or other sufficient cause, to dismiss any teacher on the basis of performance...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.4a
  Arbitration of disputes. The school board may enter into agreements with employees or representatives of employees to resolve disputes and grievances by binding arbitration...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.5
  Assignment of pupils to schools - Non-resident pupils - Tuition - Race discrimination. To assign pupils to the several schools in the district; to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.5a
  Attendance by dependents of United States military personnel, foreign exchange students, and certain nonresident pupils. (a) To enter into written agreements with cultural exchange organizations,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.6
  Suspension or expulsion of pupils; school searches. (a) To expel pupils guilty of gross disobedience or misconduct, including gross disobedience or misconduct perpetuated by electronic...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.6a
  To provide by home instruction, correspondence courses or otherwise courses of instruction for pupils who are unable to attend school because of pregnancy. Such...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.6b
  Non-disclosure of information. Except as otherwise provided in the "Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act" or other applicable State or federal law, to permit...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.7
  Repairs and improvements. To repair and improve schoolhouses and furnish them with the necessary fixtures, furniture, apparatus, libraries, and fuel, to receive and review...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.8
  Sale of personal property. To sell at public or private sale any personal property belonging to the school district, and either not needed for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.9
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.10
  Control and supervision of school houses and school grounds. To have the control and supervision of all public schoolhouses in their district, and to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.10a
  Inspection for drugs. School boards are empowered to adopt a policy to authorize school officials to request the assistance of law enforcement officials for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.11
  Lease of school property. (a) To lease school property to another school district, municipality or body politic and corporate for a term of not...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.12
  Lease of property for school purposes. To lease, for a period not exceeding 99 years, any building, rooms, grounds and appurtenances to be used...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.13
  Necessity, suitability or convenience of site or building. To decide when a site or building has become unnecessary, unsuitable or inconvenient for a school....
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.13a
  Zoning changes, variations, and special uses for school district property. To seek zoning changes, variations, or special uses for property held or controlled by...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.14
  Borrowing money and issuing bonds. To borrow money, and issue bonds for the purposes and in the manner provided by this Act. When bond...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.15
  Flag and flag staff. To furnish each school with a flag and a staff as provided by law. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.16
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 83-1362. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.17
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.18
  Kindergartens. To establish kindergartens for the instruction of children between the ages of 4 and 6 years, if in their judgment the public interest...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.18a
  Child care and training centers - Charges - Public aid payments for certain children). To establish Child Care and Training Centers for children under...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.18b
  Before and after school programs. To develop and maintain before school and after school programs for students in kindergarten through the 6th grade. Such...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.18c
  Model day care services program. Local school districts may establish, in cooperation with the State Board of Education, a model program for the provision...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.18d
  Parental institutes. A school district may utilize up to two days allowed by law for teachers' institutes to conduct parental institutes for the parents...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.19
  Sidewalks, bridges, culverts and other approaches. To appropriate school funds for the construction of such sidewalks, bridges, culverts and other approaches leading to the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.19a
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-830, eff. 7-1-00. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.20
  Classes for adults and youths whose schooling has been interrupted; conditions for State reimbursement; use of child care facilities. (a) To establish special classes for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.20a
  Advanced vocational training program, and career education. To enter into joint agreements with community college districts and other school districts for the purpose of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.20b
  To appoint a person, who meets the standards of qualification and certification established by the Illinois Community College Board, as director of adult education...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.20c
  Tutorial programs. To establish and implement peer assistance, tutorial programs whereby qualified, able students assist less able students with their studies and course work,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.21
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.21a
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1967, p. 2186. Repealed by P.A. 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.21b
  Administering medication. To provide for the administration of medication to students. It shall be the policy of the State of Illinois that the administration...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.22
  Transportation for pupils-Tuition. To provide free transportation for pupils, and where in its judgment the interests of the district and of the pupils therein will...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.22a
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1508. Repealed by P.A. 95-793, eff. 1-1-09.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.22b
  (a) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the deactivation of a high school facility under subsection (c). Where in its judgment the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.22c
  (a) Subject to the following provisions of this Section two or more contiguous school districts each of which has an enrollment in grades 9 through...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.22d
  Pilot cooperative elementary school and pilot cooperative high school. (a) Subject to the provisions of this Section, 2 contiguous school districts that are (i) located...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.22e
  Science and mathematics partnership school. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary and subject to the provisions of this Section, 2 or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.23
  School Nurse. To employ a registered professional nurse and define the duties of the school nurse within the guidelines of rules and regulations promulgated...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.23a
  Chief school business official. To employ a chief school business official and define the duties of the chief school business official. Any chief school...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.24
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 89-159, eff. 1-1-96.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.24a
  School counselor. To employ school counselors. A school counselor is a qualified specialist who holds a School Service Personnel certificate endorsed in school counseling...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.24b
  School counseling services. School counseling services in public schools may be provided by school counselors as defined in Section 10-22.24a of this Code or by...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.25
  Purchase and rent of textbooks. To purchase textbooks and rent them to the pupils. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.25a
  To obtain personal property, when authorized by an affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members of the board, by lease, with or without an...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.25b
  School uniforms. The school board may adopt a school uniform or dress code policy that governs all or certain individual attendance centers and that...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.26
  School Lunch Program - Purchase of Equipment. To maintain and operate a school lunch program in accordance with applicable regulations of the State Board...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.27
  Schools outside district for exceptional children. To rent suitable facilities outside of the district and maintain classes therein for the instruction of children from...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.28
  School safety patrol. To establish and maintain a school safety patrol and with the written consent of the parents of individual pupils to appoint...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.28a
  To acquire, install, operate and maintain traffic signals relative to school crossing protection and school crossing stop signals and to employ persons for the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.29
  Outdoor education. To offer, if deemed appropriate, outdoor education, and to use school funds for the expenses of the outdoor education program, within the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.29a
  To authorize the establishment of an investment club, in any high school within the district, to be organized on a purely voluntary basis. The...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.29b
  Educational tours. As a supplement to a particular course of instruction, to conduct educational tours, within or without the district, the State of Illinois...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.30
  Television and radio programs. To enter into contracts, either alone or in cooperation with other school boards, for the purpose of participating in or...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.31
  Special education. (a) To enter into joint agreements with other school boards to provide the needed special educational facilities and to employ a director and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.31a
  Joint educational programs. To enter into joint agreements with other school boards or public institutions of higher education to establish any type of educational...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.31b
  Joint building programs. To enter into joint agreements either under this Act or under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act with other school boards to acquire,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.31c
  Meetings; notice. The elected board members serving either as an administrative district or as a governing board under Section 10-22.31 or Section 10-22.31a shall...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.31.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-241, eff. 7-22-99. Repealed by P.A. 96-783, eff. 8-28-09.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.32
  To authorize the advancement to school board members the anticipated actual and necessary expenses incurred in attending the following meetings: 1. Meetings sponsored by...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.33
  Interfund loans. To authorize the treasurer to make interfund loans from (1) the operations and maintenance fund to the educational fund or fire prevention...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.33A
  Summer school. During that period of the calendar year not embraced within the regular school term to provide and conduct courses in subject matters...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.33B
  Summer school; required attendance. To conduct a high quality summer school program for those resident students identified by the school district as being academically...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.34
  Non-certificated personnel. (a) School Boards may employ non-teaching personnel or utilize volunteer personnel for: (1) non-teaching duties not requiring instructional judgment or evaluation of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.34a
  Supervision of non-academic activities. To designate non-certificated persons of good character to serve as supervisors, chaperones or sponsors, either on a voluntary or on...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.34b
  Utilization of noncertificated personnel. To utilize noncertificated persons, under the direction of a certificated teacher, for providing specialized instruction related to a course assigned...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.34c
  Third party non-instructional services. (a) A board of education may enter into a contract with a third party for non-instructional services currently performed by any...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.35
  Civil defense shelters. A school board shall make school buildings available for use as civil defense shelters for all persons; cooperate with the Illinois Emergency...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.35A
  School sites and office facilities. To buy sites for buildings for school purposes with necessary ground, including sites purchased under Section 10-22.31b, or to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.36
  Buildings for school purposes. To build or purchase a building for school classroom or instructional purposes upon the approval of a majority of the voters...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.36A
  Access Roads. To lay out and construct any access road necessary to connect school grounds, on which a new school is being or is...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.37
  Agreements with Teacher Training Institutions. To enter into agreements with teacher training institutions to provide facilities for student teaching in the schools of the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.38
  Preschool children with disabilities. Establish and maintain, or to cooperate with other educational, governmental, social and volunteer agencies in the establishment and carrying out...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.38a
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1508. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.39
  In-service training programs. (a) To conduct in-service training programs for teachers. (b) In addition to other topics at in-service training programs, school guidance counselors, teachers,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.40
  Membership dues. To pay State and national association membership dues to school associations which benefit students by participation or accreditation. Any association subject to...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.40a
  Where a collective bargaining agreement is entered into with an employee representative organization, the school board may include in the agreement a provision requiring...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.41
  Placement of eligible children into corrective curriculum. To place or by regulation to authorize the director of special education to place, pursuant to procedures...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.42
  To contract with the corporate authorities of any municipality or the county board of any county, as the case may be, to provide for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.43
  Credit for Proficiency in Foreign Language. To grant one year of high school foreign language credit to any student who has graduated from an...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.43a
  Foreign language credit. To award or provide for the awarding of high school credit to high school students who have studied a foreign language...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.44
  To transfer the interest earned from any moneys of the district in the respective fund of the district that is most in need of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-22.45
  To establish an audit committee, and to appoint members of the board or other appropriate officers to the committee, to review audit reports and...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23
  Additional powers of board. Boards of education have the additional powers enumerated in Sections 10-23.1 through 10-23.12. (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.1
  Residence for superintendent, principal or teachers. To purchase a site, with or without a building or buildings thereon, to build a house or houses...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.2
  Nursery schools. In all districts maintaining grades 1 to 8 or 1 to 12, to establish nursery schools for the instruction of children between...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.3
  Real estate for vocational and other training. After provision has been made for the payment of all school expenses, to appropriate from the educational...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.3a
  Conduct of business for vocational training. To independently operate or cooperate with existing companies in the operation of a business or businesses for the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.4
  Purchase of school bus. To purchase, maintain, repair and operate school buses and by resolution of the board to enter into a contract for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.4a
  To enter into a lease for a period of not to exceed 5 years for such equipment and machinery as may be required for...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.5
  Educational support personnel employees. (a) To employ such educational support personnel employees as it deems advisable and to define their employment duties; provided that residency...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.6
  Sites out of district. A school district, including any special charter school district, having 100,000 or more inhabitants and maintaining grades 1 through 12...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.7
  Special Charter district - Adoption of Article 10. This Article may be adopted by the electors of any special charter school district, in the...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.8
  Superintendent contracts. After the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 and the expiration of contracts in effect on the effective date of...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.8a
  Principal, assistant principal, and other administrator contracts. After the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 and the expiration of contracts in effect on...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.8b
  Reclassification of principals and assistant principals. Upon non-renewal of a principal's or assistant principal's administrative contract, the principal or assistant principal shall be reclassified pursuant...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.9
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1508. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.10
  (a) To sell or market any computer program developed by an employee of the school district, provided that such employee developed the computer program...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.11
  To accept payment for student fees and expenses through the use of credit cards and to negotiate and execute such contracts as may be...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.12
  To provide staff development for local school site personnel who work with pupils in grades kindergarten through 8, in the detection, reporting and prevention...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-23.13
  Policies addressing sexual abuse. To adopt and implement a policy addressing sexual abuse of children that may include age-appropriate curriculum for students in pre-K through...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-27.1A
  Firearms in schools. (a) All school officials, including teachers, guidance counselors, and support staff, shall immediately notify the office of the principal in the event...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-27.1B
  Reporting drug-related incidents in schools. (a) In this Section: "Drug" means "cannabis" as defined under subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Cannabis Control Act,...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-28
  Sharing information on school lunch applicants. A school board shall, whenever requested by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly Department of Public Aid),...
• Illinois School Code. - 105 ILCS 5, Section 10-29
  Remote educational programs. (a) For purposes of this Section, "remote educational program" means an educational program delivered to students in the home or other location...

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