Chapter 105, SCHOOLS

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.22c) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.22c) Sec. 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 12 of less than 600 students may, when in their judgment the i…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.22d) Sec. 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 all or in part in Vermilion County; (ii) have an enrollment in grades 6-…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.22e) Sec. 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 more contiguous school districts with all or a portion of their territory located …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.23) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23) Sec. 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 by the State Board of Education. Any school nurse first …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.23a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.23a) Sec. 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 business official first employed on or after July 1, 1977…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.24a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.24a) Sec. 10-22.24a. School counselor. To employ school counselors. A school counselor is a qualified specialist who holds a Professional Educator License with a school support personnel endorsement in the area of school counseling…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.24b) Sec. 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 individuals who hold a Professional Educator License with a school support perso…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.25) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.25) Sec. 10-22.25. Purchase and rent of textbooks. To purchase textbooks and rent them to the pupils. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.25a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.25a) Sec. 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 option to purchase, for a period not to exceed 5 years or by purchase under a…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.25b) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.25b) Sec. 10-22.25b. School uniforms. (a) In this Section, "religious hairstyles, hair-related religious practices, or facial hair" means hair length, hair arrangement, head hair, or facial hair maintained, worn, or displayed in ac…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.26) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.26) Sec. 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 of Education and agencies of the United States government. …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.27) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.27) Sec. 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 any home for orphans, dependent, abandoned, …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.28) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.28) Sec. 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 such pupils to participate as members thereof for the purpose of i…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.28a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.28a) Sec. 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 purpose of directing traffic upon school grounds a…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.29) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.29) Sec. 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 State of Illinois, or adjacent States, whether within th…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.29a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.29a) Sec. 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 State Board of Education may, however, promulgate reasonable standa…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.29b) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.29b) Sec. 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 or the United States, for the pupils or employees, o…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.3) Sec. 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 of school boards, employees, volunteer personnel auth…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.30) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.30) Sec. 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 the procuring of television or radio broadcasts or both, for …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.31) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.31) Sec. 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 other professional workers as defined in Section 14-…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.31a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.31a) Sec. 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 program which any district may establish indiv…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.31b) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.31b) Sec. 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, build, establish and maintain sites and building…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.31c) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.31c) Sec. 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 fix a time and place for regular meetings. Spec…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.32) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.32) Sec. 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 the State Board of Education or by the regi…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.33) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.33) Sec. 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 and safety fund, or (2) from the educational fund to the …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.33A) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.33A) Sec. 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 normally embraced in the program of the schools during the re…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.33B) Sec. 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 at risk in such critical subject areas as language arts (reading and writ…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.34) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34) Sec. 10-22.34. Nonlicensed 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 pupils; and (2) supervis…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.34a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34a) Sec. 10-22.34a. Supervision of non-academic activities. To designate nonlicensed persons of good character to serve as supervisors, chaperones or sponsors, either on a voluntary or on a compensated basis, for school activities…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.34b) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.34b) Sec. 10-22.34b. Utilization of nonlicensed personnel. To utilize nonlicensed persons, under the direction of a licensed teacher, for providing specialized instruction related to a course assigned to the licensed teacher on a r…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.34c) Sec. 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 employee or bargaining unit member or lay off those educational support p…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.35) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.35) Sec. 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 Management Agency, local organizations for civi…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.35A) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.35A) Sec. 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 buy sites and facilities for school offices. Th…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.35B) Sec. 10-22.35B. Title to school sites and buildings. (a) On January 1, 1994 (the effective date of Public Act 88-155): (i) the legal title to all school buildings and school sites used or occupied for school purposes by a school district located in a Class …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.36) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.36) Sec. 10-22.36. Buildings for school purposes. (a) To build or purchase a building for school classroom or instructional purposes upon the approval of a majority of the voters upon the proposition at a referendum held for such pu…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.36A) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.36A) Sec. 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 about to be constructed, with an improved road or highway. Such access road shall…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.37) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.37) Sec. 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 district. (Source: P.A. 76-620.)…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.38) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.38) Sec. 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 of programs designed to ident…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.39) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-628) Sec. 10-22.39. In-service training programs. (a) To conduct in-service training programs for teachers, administrators, and school support personnel. (b) In addition to other topics at in-service training pro…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.3a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.3a) Sec. 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 annuities, medical, surgical and hospitalization …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.3b) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.3b) Sec. 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 of participating in the health benefit program establish…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.3c) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.3c) Sec. 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 of an order of protection the location or address of the petitio…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.3d) Sec. 10-22.3d. Access to obstetrical and gynecological care. Insurance protection and benefits for employees are subject to the provisions of Section 356r of the Illinois Insurance Code. (Source: P.A. 103-718, eff. 7-19-24.)

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.3e) Sec. 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 health insurance under Section 356s of the Illinois Insurance Code. (Sou…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.3f) (Text of Section from P.A. 104-531) Sec. 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 health insurance under Section 356…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.4) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.4) Sec. 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 and to dismiss any teacher whenever, in its …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.40) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.40) Sec. 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 Article 23 of this Act must be in …

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.40a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.40a) Sec. 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 employees covered by the agreement who a…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.41) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.41) Sec. 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 required in Article 14 of this Act and rules and…

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.42) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.42) Sec. 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 the regulation of traffic in parking areas of property used for school purposes …