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1 AN ACT concerning education.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
5 24A-4 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/24A-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 24A-4)
7 Sec. 24A-4. Development of evaluation plan.
8 (a) As used in this and the succeeding Sections, "teacher"
9 means any and all school district employees regularly required
10 to be certified under laws relating to the certification of
11 teachers. Each school district shall develop, in cooperation
12 with its teachers or, where applicable, the exclusive
13 bargaining representatives of its teachers, an evaluation plan
14 for all teachers.
15 (b) Until July 1, 2025, each school district shall, in
16 good faith cooperation with its teachers or, where applicable,
17 the exclusive bargaining representatives of its teachers,
18 incorporate the use of data and indicators on student growth
19 as a significant factor in rating teaching performance, into
20 its evaluation plan for all teachers, both those teachers in
21 contractual continued service and those teachers not in
22 contractual continued service. The plan shall at least meet
23 the standards and requirements for student growth and teacher
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1 evaluation established under Section 24A-7, and specifically
2 describe how student growth data and indicators will be used
3 as part of the evaluation process, how this information will
4 relate to evaluation standards, the assessments or other
5 indicators of student performance that will be used in
6 measuring student growth and the weight that each will have,
7 the methodology that will be used to measure student growth,
8 and the criteria other than student growth that will be used in
9 evaluating the teacher and the weight that each will have.
10 (b-5) Beginning July 1, 2025, each school district may, in
11 good faith cooperation with its teachers or, where applicable,
12 with the exclusive bargaining representatives of its teachers,
13 incorporate the use of data and indicators on student growth
14 as a factor in rating teaching performance, into its
15 evaluation plan for all teachers in contractual continued
16 service and teachers not in contractual continued service. The
17 plan shall at least meet the standards and requirements for
18 teacher evaluations established under Section 24A-7.
19 To incorporate the use of data and indicators of student
20 growth as a factor in rating teacher performance into the
21 evaluation plan, the district shall use a joint committee
22 composed of equal representation selected by the district and
23 its teachers or, where applicable, the exclusive bargaining
24 representative of its teachers.
25 Beginning July 1, 2026, if the parties cannot reach
26 agreement over the decision on whether to incorporate a
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1 student growth component into the teacher evaluation plan and
2 there is no collective bargaining agreement that includes or
3 incorporates by reference the use of a student growth
4 component in the teacher evaluation plan, then the student
5 growth component shall be removed from the teacher evaluation
6 plan.
7 Nothing in this subsection (b) shall make decisions on the
8 use of data and indicators on student growth as a significant
9 factor in rating teaching performance mandatory subjects of
10 bargaining under the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act
11 that are not currently mandatory subjects of bargaining under
12 the Act.
13 The provisions of the Open Meetings Act shall not apply to
14 meetings of a joint committee formed under this subsection
15 (b-5) (b).
16 (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection
17 (b-5) (b) of this Section, if the joint committee referred to
18 in that subsection does not reach agreement on the plan within
19 90 calendar days after the committee's first meeting, a school
20 district having 500,000 or more inhabitants shall not be
21 required to implement any aspect of the model evaluation plan
22 and may implement its last best proposal.
23 (d) The joint committee referred to in subsections (b-5)
24 (b) and (c) of this Section shall meet no less than one time
25 annually to assess and review the effectiveness of the
26 district's evaluation plan for the purposes of continuous
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1 improvement of instruction and evaluation practices.
2 (Source: P.A. 104-20, eff. 7-1-25.)
3 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record.