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- Jurisdiction
- Illinois State Board of Education; State level · Illinois
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 105 ILCS 5/2-3.6; 5 ILCS 100/5-45
- Issued
- 2020-03-27 Mar. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-27 (emergency, maximum 150 days); Remote Learning Days declared statewide from March 31, 2020 (Ex. 033) (read as 2020-03-27)
- End
- 150 days (emergency); the statutory remote-learning-day provisions were later codified by Public Act 101-643 (June 12, 2020) (read as 2020-06-12)
- In force
- Mar. 27, 2020 to June 12, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureSchools and child careOther
- Addressees
- every school district and school, grades pre-kindergarten through 12
- the State Superintendent
- Functions reached
- IN in-person instruction replaced by mandatory remote instruction
- RL remote learning (plans, accessibility, special populations)
- HR work under Remote Learning Day Plans 'mutually agreed upon' with bargaining units
- WF parents' workforce
- CB families
- Collection
- State education and higher-education authorities AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED
Operative words
Section 5.10 Remote Learning Days EMERGENCY a) Notwithstanding the provisions of 23 Ill. Adm. Code 1, when a Gubernatorial Disaster has been proclaimed or when any other exigent circumstance exists, as deemed by the State Superintendent, the State Superintendent may declare a requirement to use Remote Learning Days for a district, multiple districts, a region, or the entire State. During Remote Learning Days, schools must conduct instruction remotely. Once declared, Remote Learning Days will be implemented in any of grades pre-kindergarten through 12 as days of attendance, and shall be deemed pupil attendance days for calculation of the length of a school term under Section 10-19 of the School Code.... c) For any school or district that does not implement an e-learning program under Section 10-20.56 of the Code, the school or district must adopt a Remote Learning Day Plan
Enforcement
105 ILCS 5/2-3.25 and 23 Ill. Adm. Code 1.20 (recognition); 105 ILCS 5/18-8.15 (general State aid tied to attendance days, which the rule deems satisfied)
Notes
The legal mechanism of Illinois's spring 2020 school closure at the agency level; the State Superintendent's declaration (Ex. 033) invoked it the same day
Retrieval noteIllinois Register notice of emergency rule read in full (capture of April 1, 2020); the Register page and effective-date blanks are as filed.