Chapter 105, SCHOOLS

(105 ILCS 5/34-43a) Sec. 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 Internet web site. The school district shall notify the parents or guardians of its students …

(105 ILCS 5/34-44) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-44) Sec. 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 the beginning of the fiscal year, and the amounts of such assets estimated to be ava…

(105 ILCS 5/34-44.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-44.1) Sec. 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 by the Department of Revenue or the availability of a later ass…

(105 ILCS 5/34-45) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-45) Sec. 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 each organization unit, purpose or object; and 3. …

(105 ILCS 5/34-45.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-45.1) Sec. 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 workers' compensation, workers' occupational diseases compensati…

(105 ILCS 5/34-46) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-46) Sec. 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 for at least 15 days prior to final action thereon, by having at least 5 copie…

(105 ILCS 5/34-47) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-47) Sec. 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, the board may revise, alter, increase, or decrease the items contained ther…

(105 ILCS 5/34-48) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-48) Sec. 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 to the adoption or passage of the next succeeding budget. Th…

(105 ILCS 5/34-49) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-49) Sec. 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 thereof, or by any person for or in its behalf, notwithstanding …

(105 ILCS 5/34-50) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-50) Sec. 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 within any fund under its jurisdiction, of sums of money appropriated for one o…

(105 ILCS 5/34-51) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-51) Sec. 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 liabilities or to defray the expense of any project or purpos…

(105 ILCS 5/34-52) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-52) Sec. 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 trust or employment under the board or city who wilfully violates any of the provisions …

(105 ILCS 5/34-52.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-52.1) Sec. 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 levied by any school district, for any school purpose is submitted to the voters of suc…

(105 ILCS 5/34-53) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-53) Sec. 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 their expenses the board may levy annually, upon all taxable property of such d…

(105 ILCS 5/34-53.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-53.1) Sec. 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 supplemental taxes which shall not exceed the amount of the increase …

(105 ILCS 5/34-53.5) Sec. 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 limitation (i) the construction and equipping of a new school building or bu…

(105 ILCS 5/34-54.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-54.1) Sec. 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 through and including the 1995-96 fiscal year, for a fiscal year commencing Septembe…

(105 ILCS 5/34-54.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-54.2) Sec. 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 are declared to be and are valid, in all respects as if they had been timely and proper…

(105 ILCS 5/34-55) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-55) Sec. 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 common school fund, the rental of school lands or property, funds otherw…

(105 ILCS 5/34-56) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-56) Sec. 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 levied pursuant to the authority granted by Section 34-53, the county clerk shall not add…

(105 ILCS 5/34-6) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-6) Sec. 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 schools to serve pursuant to a performance-based contract for a term ending on…

(105 ILCS 5/34-6.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-6.1) Sec. 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 the status of the district's response. (Source: P.A. 85-942.)…

(105 ILCS 5/34-64) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-64) Sec. 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 their face that they are payable solely from t…

(105 ILCS 5/34-65) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-65) Sec. 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 the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of th…

(105 ILCS 5/34-66) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-66) Sec. 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 adopt a resolution designating the purpose and fixing the amount of the …

(105 ILCS 5/34-67) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-67) Sec. 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 par for the bonds being refunded and described in the authorizing resolution, or may be sold …

(105 ILCS 5/34-68) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-68) Sec. 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 without the submission thereof to the voters of the sc…

(105 ILCS 5/34-69) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-69) Sec. 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 the collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property of the school…

(105 ILCS 5/34-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-7) Sec. 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 functions of each. The heads of such departments shall be appo…

(105 ILCS 5/34-70) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-70) Sec. 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 payment of any outstanding bonds of the board, or the refunding bonds have been…

(105 ILCS 5/34-71) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-71) Sec. 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 repeal any laws with respect thereto. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)…

(105 ILCS 5/34-73) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-73) Sec. 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, 34-57, 34-58, 34-60, 34-62, and 34-69 of this Code, a…

(105 ILCS 5/34-74) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-74) Sec. 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 received from the state common school fund, or from any other source for s…

(105 ILCS 5/34-75) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-75) Sec. 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 maintain a separate bank account for capital project funds and process only tr…

(105 ILCS 5/34-76) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-76) Sec. 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 is not paid for want of funds, the school treasurer shall endorse it over his signature…

(105 ILCS 5/34-77) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-77) Sec. 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 may be ordered by the city council but he shall not be required to deposit such moneys …

(105 ILCS 5/34-78) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-78) Sec. 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 shall not use, either directly or indirectly, the school moneys or warrants…

(105 ILCS 5/34-79) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-79) Sec. 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 1974, between the first and tenth of November 1974 and between the first and…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-8) Sec. 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 provisions of this Article, the courses of study mandated by St…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.05) Sec. 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 a verified incident involving a firearm in a school or on school owned or leased property, …

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-8.1) Sec. 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 authority (i) to direct, supervise, evaluate, and suspend wi…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.10) Sec. 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 board. The board shall, upon majority vote, grant Learning Zone designa…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.11) Sec. 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 demonstrates that improved student learning will be the paramount priority an…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.12) Sec. 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 by a majority vote of the Local School Council and attendance center staf…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.13) Sec. 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 designations should be effective for an initial period of no less than 3 and no mo…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.14) Sec. 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 civil rights; (2) staff civil rights; (3) health and …

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.15) Sec. 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 Representatives, the Senate, and the Secretary of State before October 1, 1995 and…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.16) Sec. 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 after each house of the legislature next convenes after the report is filed, by adoption of a resoluti…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.17) Sec. 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 lump-sum allocations, to budget and spend those funds, and to operate in a…

(105 ILCS 5/34-8.18) Sec. 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: (1) A material violation of conditions, standards, or procedures established in the designation …