IL SB2091

Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the State Board of Education must annually collect data on school discipline, student seclusion, and student restraint using all data elements from the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection, including out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, transfers to alternative schools, referrals to law enforcement, and school-based arrests.

Starting in 2021-2022, the State Board must collect data on disciplinary incidents resulting in office referrals that do not lead to out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, transfers, law enforcement referrals, or arrests, disaggregated by demographic categories, grade level, disciplinary offense type, and duration.

The State Board must annually publish a list of school districts with an out-of-school suspension rate greater than 4.2, expulsion rate greater than 0.05, or out-of-school suspension racial disproportionality rate greater than 1.5, and require those districts to submit a school discipline improvement plan.

The State Superintendent must convene an Equitable and Restorative School Discipline Advisory Council including teacher union representatives, school district management, restorative discipline experts, and youth and parent representatives to advise on school discipline policy implementation.

The student discipline report must include data on total school days and semesters missed due to out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, with all categories allowing for cross-tabulation by demographic categories and other disaggregation methods.