Chapter 105, SCHOOLS

(105 ILCS 5/11E-10) Sec. 11E-10. Definitions. In this Article: "Affected district" means any school district with territory included in a petition for reorganization under this Article that encompasses (i) 25% or more of the total land area of the district, (ii) more than 8% of t…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-100) Sec. 11E-100. Timing of extension of tax levies. (a) If the election of the school board of the new district occurs at a regular election and the board of education makes its initial levy or levies in that same year, the county clerk shall extend the levy or …

(105 ILCS 5/11E-105) Sec. 11E-105. Assets, liabilities and bonded indebtedness; tax rate. (a) Subject to the terms and provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this Section, whenever a new district is created under any of the provisions of this Article, the outstanding bonded ind…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-110) Sec. 11E-110. Teachers in contractual continued service; educational support personnel employees. (a) When a school district conversion or multi-unit conversion becomes effective for purposes of administration and attendance, as determined pursuant to Section…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-115) Sec. 11E-115. Limitations on contesting boundary change. Neither the People of the State of Illinois, any person or corporation, private or public, nor any association of persons shall commence an action contesting either directly or indirectly the dissolutio…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-120) Sec. 11E-120. Limitation on successive petitions. (a) No affected district shall be again involved in proceedings under this Article for at least 2 years after a final non-procedural determination of the first proceeding, unless during that 2-year period a pe…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-125) Sec. 11E-125. Districts not penalized for nonrecognition. Any school district included in a petition for reorganization as authorized under this Article shall not suffer loss of State aid as a result of being placed on nonrecognition status if the district co…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-130) Sec. 11E-130. Unit district formation and joint agreement vocational education program. (a) If a unit district is established under the provisions of this Article and more than 50% of the territory of the unit district is territory that immediately prior to i…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-135) Sec. 11E-135. Incentives. For districts reorganizing under this Article and for a district or districts that annex all of the territory of one or more entire other school districts in accordance with Article 7 of this Code, the following payments shall be mad…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-15) Sec. 11E-15. School district conversion. (a) One or more unit districts and one or more high school districts, all of which are contiguous, may, under the provisions of this Article, be converted into a dual district through the dissolution of the unit distric…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-20) Sec. 11E-20. Combined school district formation. (a)(1) The territory of 2 or more entire contiguous elementary districts may be organized into a combined elementary district under the provisions of this Article. (2) Any 2 or more entire elementary districts t…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-25) Sec. 11E-25. Unit district formation. (a) Any contiguous and compact territory, no part of which is included within any unit district, may be organized into a unit district as provided in this Article. (b) The territory of one or more entire unit districts tha…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-30) Sec. 11E-30. Partial elementary unit district formation. (a) One or more entire high school districts and one or more entire unit districts, all of which are contiguous, may be organized into a combined high school - unit district as provided in this Article. …

(105 ILCS 5/11E-35) Sec. 11E-35. Petition filing. (a) A petition shall be filed with the regional superintendent of schools of the educational service region in which the territory described in the petition or that part of the territory with the greater percentage of equalized as…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-40) Sec. 11E-40. Notice and petition amendments. (a) Upon the filing of a petition with the regional superintendent of schools as provided in Section 11E-35 of this Code, the regional superintendent shall do all of the following: (1) Cause a copy of the petition t…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-45) Sec. 11E-45. Hearing. (a) No more than 15 days after the last date on which the required notice under Section 11E-40 of this Code is published, the regional superintendent of schools with whom the petition is required to be filed shall hold a hearing on the pe…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-5) Sec. 11E-5. Purpose and applicability. The purpose of this Article is to permit greater flexibility and efficiency in the reorganization and formation of school districts for the improvement of the administration and quality of educational services and for the …

(105 ILCS 5/11E-50) Sec. 11E-50. Approval or denial of the petition; administrative review. (a) Within 14 days after the conclusion of the hearing under Section 11E-45 of this Code, the regional superintendent of schools shall take into consideration the school needs and conditio…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-55) Sec. 11E-55. Holding of elections. (a) Elections provided by this Article shall be conducted in accordance with the general election law. The regional superintendent of schools shall perform the election duties assigned by law to the secretary of a school boar…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-60) Sec. 11E-60. Ballots. (a) Separate ballots shall be used for the election in each affected district. If the petition requests the submission of a proposition for the issuance of bonds, then that question shall be submitted to the voters at the referendum on a …

(105 ILCS 5/11E-65) Sec. 11E-65. Passage requirements. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this Section, if a majority of the electors voting at the election in each affected district vote in favor of the proposition submitted to them, then the proposit…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-70) Sec. 11E-70. Effective date of change. (a) Except as provided in subsections (a-5) and (a-10) of this Section, if a petition is filed under the authority of this Article, the change is granted and approved at election, and no appeal is taken, then the change s…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-75) Sec. 11E-75. Map showing change. Within 30 days after a new school district has been created or the boundaries of an existing district have been changed under the provisions of this Article, the regional superintendent of schools of any county involved shall m…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-80) Sec. 11E-80. Specification of taxing purposes and rates. Whenever taxing purposes and rates are required to be specified or described under this Article for petition, hearing, notice, or ballot requirements, the purposes and rates shall be specified or describ…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-85) Sec. 11E-85. Tax levy and borrowing authority, bonds, and working cash funds; districts other than partial elementary unit districts. The school board of any district involved in a school district conversion or the school board of any new district created unde…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-90) Sec. 11E-90. Classification of property, taxes, bonds, and funds for combined high school - unit districts. (a) All real property included within the boundaries of a combined high school - unit district created in accordance with this Article shall be classifi…

(105 ILCS 5/11E-95) Sec. 11E-95. Classification of property, taxes, bonds, and funds for optional elementary unit districts. (a) All real property included within the boundaries of an optional elementary unit district created in accordance with this Article shall be classified in…

(105 ILCS 5/12-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-10) Sec. 12-10. Territory constituting - Board of education. All the territory of each county not included in a district maintaining a recognized four year high school is a non-high school district for the purpose of levying a tax to pay …

(105 ILCS 5/12-11) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-11) Sec. 12-11. Duties of board of education. The board of education of a non-high school district shall perform the duties prescribed in sections 12-11.1 through 12-11.5. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)

(105 ILCS 5/12-11.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-11.1) Sec. 12-11.1. Tax levy. Levy a tax annually upon all the taxable property of the district not to exceed 1% of value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, for the purpose of paying the tuition of all eighth-grade g…

(105 ILCS 5/12-11.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-11.2) Sec. 12-11.2. Orders for payment of tuition. Issue orders on the county treasurer for the payment of the tuition of eighth-grade graduates residing within the non-high school district attending a recognized high school, provided s…

(105 ILCS 5/12-11.3) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-11.3) Sec. 12-11.3. Reports. Make such reports as may be required by the State Board of Education and by the regional superintendent of schools. (Source: P.A. 81-1508.)

(105 ILCS 5/12-11.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-11.5) Sec. 12-11.5. Transportation of pupils. If in the discretion of the board of education sufficient moneys of the district are available after payment of the other expenses of the district, including tuition, may provide free transp…

(105 ILCS 5/12-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-12) Sec. 12-12. Anticipation warrants. When there is no money in the treasury of any non-high school district to defray the necessary expenses of the district, including amounts necessary to pay maturing principal and interest of bonds, t…

(105 ILCS 5/12-13) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-13) Sec. 12-13. Bond issue - Resolution - Election. If there has been a delay in the extension and collection of taxes levied by the governing body of any nonhigh school district caused by a reassessment of real property therein, the dist…

(105 ILCS 5/12-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-14) Sec. 12-14. Resolution authorizing issue - Interest - Maturity - Taxes - Sale or exchange. Any non-high school district which has complied with the provisions of Section 12-13 and which is authorized to issue bonds thereunder shall ad…

(105 ILCS 5/12-15) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-15) Sec. 12-15. Bonds to pay tuition or judgments - Resolution - Election. Any nonhigh school district may issue bonds for the purpose of paying unpaid tuition claims or judgments which have been obtained by any school district against th…

(105 ILCS 5/12-16) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-16) Sec. 12-16. Resolution authorizing issue - interest - maturity - taxes - sale or exchange. Any non-high school district which has complied with Section 12-15 and which is authorized to issue bonds thereunder shall adopt a resolution a…

(105 ILCS 5/12-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-17) Sec. 12-17. Clerk to extend taxes. The County Clerk shall extend taxes to pay principal and interest of any outstanding bonds of a non-high school district issued to fund and pay unpaid tuition claims or judgments obtained by any scho…

(105 ILCS 5/12-18) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-18) Sec. 12-18. Winding up of affairs of Non-High School District. Upon the elimination of any non-high school district, as provided by Section 12-24 of this Article, the Regional Superintendent of Schools, the County Treasurer and the Co…

(105 ILCS 5/12-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-19) Sec. 12-19. Treasurer. The county treasurer shall be the treasurer of the non-high school district of the county. He shall: (1) receive and hold all moneys belonging to the district and disburse them upon lawful orders issued by the b…

(105 ILCS 5/12-20) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-20) Sec. 12-20. Attendance in other districts. If a recognized two or three year high school is conducted in a non-high school district, any eighth grade graduate residing in the district, upon the approval of the county superintendent of…

(105 ILCS 5/12-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-21) Sec. 12-21. Attendance in adjoining state. Upon a determination by the State Board of Education and of the regional superintendent of schools of the region in which a high school student or an eighth grade graduate resides that no hig…

(105 ILCS 5/12-22) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-22) Sec. 12-22. Computation of tuition - audit of claims. The tuition paid shall in no case exceed the per capita cost of maintaining the high school attended, which tuition shall be computed by dividing the total cost of conducting and m…

(105 ILCS 5/12-23) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-23) Sec. 12-23. Detachment of territory from non-high school district. When all of the territory of the non-high school district is annexed to one or more districts, the funds remaining to the credit of the non-high school district and pr…

(105 ILCS 5/12-24) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-24) Sec. 12-24. Elimination of non-high school district. The territory of the non-high school district or unit district not maintaining a high school in existence on January 1, 1950 of any county having a population of 500,000 or less sha…

(105 ILCS 5/12-25) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-25) Sec. 12-25. Non-high territory surrounded by water or possessing an ancient grant. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Article for the elimination of non-high school territory and in addition to the exemptions provided in th…

(105 ILCS 5/12-26) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-26) Sec. 12-26. Transferred territory liable for indebtedness-Levy of tax. If any non-high school district or protectorate high school district has outstanding debts and obligations other than bonded indebtedness the territory constitutin…

(105 ILCS 5/12-9) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-9) Sec. 12-9. Application of laws of community high school district to other districts. All high school districts shall be governed by the provisions of this Act for the operation of a community high school district. (Source: Laws 1961, p.…

(105 ILCS 5/13-40) (from Ch. 122, par. 13-40) Sec. 13-40. To increase the effectiveness of the Department of Juvenile Justice and thereby to better serve the interests of the people of Illinois the following bill is presented. Its purpose is to enhance the quality and scope of ed…