Illinois Code § 34-1.1

§ 34-1.1.

Definitions. As used in this Article: "Academic Accountability Council" means the Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council created under Section 34-3.4. "Local School Council" means a local school council established under Section 34-2.1. "School" and "attendance center" are used interchangeably to mean any attendance center operated pursuant to this Article and under the direction of one principal. "Secondary Attendance Center" means a school which has students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 (although it may also have students enrolled in grades below grade 9). "Local Attendance Area School" means a school which has a local attendance area established by the board. "Multi-area school" means a school other than a local attendance area school. "Contract school" means an attendance center managed and operated by a for-profit or not-for-profit private entity retained by the board to provide instructional and other services to a majority of the pupils enrolled in the attendance center. "Contract turnaround school" means an experimental contract school created by the board to implement alternative governance in an attendance center subject to restructuring or similar intervention. "Parent" means a parent or legal guardian of an enrolled student of an attendance center. "Community resident" means a person, 18 years of age or older, residing within an attendance area served by a school, excluding any person who is a parent of a student enrolled in that school; provided that with respect to any multi-area school, community resident means any person, 18 years of age or older, residing within the voting district established for that school pursuant to Section 34-2.1c, excluding any person who is a parent of a student enrolled in that school. "School staff" means all licensed and nonlicensed school personnel, including all teaching and administrative staff (other than the principal) and including all custodial, food service and other civil service employees, who are employed at and assigned to perform the majority of their employment duties at one attendance center served by the same local school council. "Regular meetings" means the meeting dates established by the local school council at its annual organizational meeting. (Source: P.A. 102-894, eff. 5-20-22.)