Ill. Admin. Code tit. 23, § 205.20 - Purpose
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 15, April 8, 2022
a) This Part
establishes the procedure and criteria for approval of applications, submitted
by eligible applicants to the State Board of Education, for grants to assist
the applicants in establishing truants' alternative and optional education
programs as authorized in Section 2-3.66 of the School Code. [105
ILCS 5/2-3.66 ]
b) Programs funded under this grant shall
serve students identified as one of the following:
1) a truant, as defined in Section 26-2a of
the School Code [105 ILCS 5/26-2a ]; or
2) a chronic or habitual truant, as defined
in Section 26-2a of the School Code; or
3) a dropout, as defined in Section 26-2a of
the School Code; or
4) a potential
dropout, which is any student subject to compulsory attendance as defined in
Article 26 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5 /Art. 26] and whose school absences
or pattern of school attendance impedes the student's learning or contributes
to the student's failure to meet State and/or district learning standards.
Attendance problems may include chronic truancy, truancy, selective absences,
excessive absences or a pattern of absences or tardiness. In assessing whether
marginal school attendance problems would place a student within the definition
of "potential dropout," consideration shall be given to a student's personal
involvement in the education process, apparent motivation to receive an
education, or any continued and obvious apathy or disaffection for education,
particularly, when indications of uninvolvement, lack of motivation or
disaffection are coupled with currently known individual or family
circumstances that, if they remain unresolved, would be reasonably expected to
result in escalating attendance problems.
Notes
Amended at 25 Ill. Reg. 2399, effective January 25, 2001
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